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             Ways to cope up with DEPRESSION   WHAT IS DEPRESSION??    Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness  and loss of interest. Four main types of depression are : 1. MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER 2 . BIPOLAR DISORDER 3.PERSISTENT DEPRESSIVE DISORDER(Dysthymia) 4. SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER CAUSES OF DEPRESSION:     There are various causes of depression like family history, illness and health history, medication, drugs, alcohol, imbalance of chemicals in brain, hormonal imbalance, personality, events like losing your job, isolation, dysfunctional relationship, stress at work, being unemployed for long time, death of loved ones, etc. BUT WAIT  LET'S TAKE A DOSE OF POSITIVITY AND HOPE!!!! WHERE THERE IS A PROBLEM, THERE IS ALWAYS A SOLUTION 😉 We can deal with our depression in various ways as listed below, do try them and feel the result but remember place ...

  Why relaxation therapy is important for women?   Women is strong pillar of family and society. Women is symbol of patience. It is seen that women suppress their feelings in order to maintain peace in family. Women always care about others needs and forget about her own needs. For women there is no break from her duties. Though women have started raising high but it has also raised her stress as well. Family and work along traveling lead to physical and mental stress.  Suppressing of feelings leads to more behavior issues in women. Women are so busy that they do not understand that they are going through stress.  Due to stress women are facing many physical problems. Stress is physical response to daily life events. Women dual stress about family and work lead to more mental disturbance. Why relaxation therapy is important for women? Stress affects physically, emotionally, mentally, occupational, social and spiritual. There is various cause of stress in wom...

     Overcome your phobia without drugs. Excellent ways to overcome your fear.   1, Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy can help to identify the main cause of the fear and helps the individual to manage fear in more calm way. It also helps to form new habits and reduce overthinking over the fear. Hypnotherapy makes reaction calmer in fearful situation. 2, Observe to reduce the power of thoughts. This exercise is useful when that thought is affecting too much. Just seat in comfortable position with eye close.   Thoughts not only impact your mind but also body. Just observe the physical sensations without any judgement. Sit with your fear without running from it.      3, Breathing techniques. Panic attack affect breathing pattern and have physical symptoms. Breathing exercise can ease the symptoms. Try this: ·        Breath in slowly and deeply as you can through your nose. ·    ...

                    Drugless treatment for depression.                 Depression is medical condition and not just sadness. Its more than being sad or lazy. Due to lack of awareness its difficult for many people to differentiate sadness and depression. Some people end up without any treatment or suffer alone. Common depression symptoms: ·       Sleep disturbance. ·       Mood swings ·       Excessive guilt ·       Change in appetite ·       Low energy ·       Low motivation and interest ·       Low concentration ·       Suicidal thoughts   WARNING – Do not stop medications without talking to your doctor. Hypnotherapy is effective way to overcome with depressive sympt...

                Are you worried about overthinking?   How overthinking affects your life? Overthinking is common among humans unless and until it affects your sleep, moods and work. In simple terms overthinking is thinking of something too much and for too long. People who overthink is usually very difficult to get rid of. Overthinking happens to all of us at some point of life due to various reasons like relationship issue, stress, work load etc. Problem starts when you can’t stop it. Its when you think to much till headache. Unable to make decision or action and keep of thinking without any full – stop. Sleep at night with overthinking and feel tired at morning. Feel like mind was working while sleeping as well. Overthinking creates anxiety and depression. Negative thinking patterns become noticeable. Overthinking impact memory as well. Overthinking is not disorder but it can lead to mental disorder. Continuous overthinking can ...

  Overcome panic attack without drugs. Yes you heard it right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Panic attack is intense fear that triggers severe physical reaction. When you have panic attack you might feel that you losing control and might die due to heart attack. Fear not only changes mind response but also affect physically. Its extreme anxiety with physical sensations. Physical symptoms like breathing problem, fast heart beat or heart pain, muscle tension and trembling. Its feels like heart attack. During panic attack it’s difficult to breath and heart pounding increase.   Panic attack strike is so sudden that its lead to more disturbance. There is various cause of panic attack. The more prominent one is stress. Panic attack comes due to anxious thoughts but this anxiety is higher than usual. It happens due to certain fear. How does hypnotherapy work with panic attack? Hypnotherapy is state in which person feels more relax and calm. It’s a simple stage of concentration. Mind is op...

       Are you afraid of hypnotherapy?   A short story of our patient. Shanaya 25-year-old lady came to us with symptom of anxiety. She was from north basically but migrated to Mumbai for her job. Before consultation, she was totally unaware that she was going through anxiety.   She stated that everything started after 2 months of shifting to Mumbai. Constipation issue was worst for time being. It was difficult to sleep at night. Sudden increase in heart palpitation and sweating. I was totally unaware what was going with me. After few days my mom visited me for few days and I was totally fine during those days. It all started again when my mom left back to home. I use to get restless while sleeping. It was my first time coming all alone to new place. I was born and bought up at north with too caring and protective parents. They use to be with me all the time. It was my comfort zone and I came to Mumbai for this job. I was fine before nothing...

A lady with many faces.  A short story of 22 year varsha, she came to Mumbai after completing her education. She is only child to her parents. Her parents started noticing behavior changes like her way of talking, eating and walking.  She was shy since her childhood but sudden change in her behavior was seen after coming back to Mumbai. She use to forget her way and her belongings too. Her aggression was scary. One incident in which I just asked her to avoid doing mess in kitchen after eating and her reaction to which was extreme. She throw away glass bottles and food and was shouting with abusive words. She was shy girl and introvert. Her talking style was very soft and slow. It was her first time that she reacted on me. I didn't responded to her because I could feel something was wrong. Same day  while dinner her father  asked about her reaction and she started laughing that I didn't do anything like that, i was sleeping whole day because i was not feeling well. We...

A girl in a city. Meghna (Name changed) very bold, extrovert, smart, tall and with attractive personality. She came to Mumbai from south India for work. She always wanted to stay at big, sparking City. She was fed-up with remote and local life of very small village. So after completing her education she convenience her parents and brother to stay at Mumbai for job. Because of her rigid behavior, they gave her permission to stay at Mumbai.  She came to Mumbai and started working at BPO. This new city was like magical world for her. Meghana use to travel,explore each and every famous part of Mumbai. She was enjoying her life and was very happy with her job and this new life. At first to travel alone in this new big city was difficult. But as the time pass,  she was getting use to crowds and streets of Mumbai. She use to go out every night with her office friends for night parties. In influence of friends she started drinking and smoking. After few months she started drinking alc...

  Stress related Asthma  Mayuri (named changed) 25 year female. Came to clinic with reference from her physician. she stated that her physician asked her to visit psychologist for psychosomatic asthma. During her session she stated that her asthma attack started when she was in 8th std. She was in her class and suddenly she was not able to breath. So her teacher took her to the doctor. That was her first attack. she started treatment for asthma.  She stated that her father and mother fights and abuse each other. Its difficult to sleep at night because '' my father abuse mother". I can't breath when they start fighting. "what will happen to me after their divorce?'',  My friends will tease me etc etc all such thoughts disturb me. I am afraid to talk with my father.  She stated she avoid any conversation with her father. She hates her for being such a bad husband and father. She told about her one incident that she was at home with her parents and suddenly ...

Complaining and negative thinking pattern can lead to depression. Our thinking patterns plays and important role for emotions and behaviors. We all do many complains on our daily life. It's our reaction. By expressing complains we feel relief and gets sympathy from others. It's fine to complain sometimes but excess can be really harmful to mental health. Complains rewire your brain for negativity. Brain don't like to work harder and finds a efficiency in work When you repeat a behavior, such as complaining, your neurons branch out to each other to ease the flow of information. This makes it much easier to repeat that behavior in the future. And it becomes habit to complain. That's the reason complains are easy then thinking positive. It's easy to complain but it as bad impact on mental health and body. In research it was found that complaining damage some parts of brain too. When you complain it release stress hormones in your body. Stress hormones increase your blo...

Prevention is the best cure!! Sheetal is an energetic, beautiful and Smart woman.  Use to work with private companies. Sheetal was a workaholic woman. She used to stay alone in Mumbai due to work. After her Master's, she shifted to Mumbai for Job and a good salary package. She was happy with her job and her lifestyle. Her daily routine was fixed, morning to evening office and at night home or sometimes clubbing with friends. There was no fixed time for working. Though her daily life was mechanical still she used to like it because of her paycheck. It has been 5 years since she was working with this company. Due to the sudden rise in the number of covid patients, the government decided to lockdown. The company decided to stop working for 1 month and later everything will be fine. She was quite disturbed at home alone due to the habit of going out and attachment toward work. It was suffocating for her to be alone at home. But one fine day most of the people received a mail from the c...

           February 2022 Want to know why social media is escaping window for emotions ? Social media is effective way to connect with people with just one click. Social media provide you with all news going around the world. It is very easy to reach out to the people with just one click. Everything in limit is fine until it leads to extreme obsession or a medium to hide from their own problem or negative emotions.  Social media affect your life. Social media not only impact your work but it affects your subconscious mind as well. This social media design to be addictive. It is so engaging that it make you to scroll down and down without conscious attention.  Phone is a medium to connect with people but now a days people use phone to avoid interaction with other. Sometime even they don’t realize that they are not avoiding them it’s just their social anxiety avoiding people.  Social media increases the risk of depression, anxiety, stress ...