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What Does Your Handwriting Say About You? What Does Your Handwriting Say About You?

What Does Your Handwriting Say About You?

Graphology Graphology is the study of handwriting, especially when employed as a means of analyzing a writer's character, personality, abilities, etc. How you write can indicate more than 5,000 different personality traits. In the medical field, it can be used to refer to the study of handwriting as an aid in diagnosis and tracking diseases. size large letters. Mental Health Matters.

SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Human Face. Depression - a Buddhist view. When we forget the real reason we are living for, the worldliness of life becomes like quicksand that sucks you into a spiritual vacuum.

Depression - a Buddhist view

When that happens, we live less and less; we merely stay alive. Shian (TheDailyEnlightenment@yahoogroups.com) Depression can come in various forms, from a passing blue mood to a severe psychological condition like major depression or manic-depressive illness, which require extensive treatment. The more serious conditions require professional help with for example intensive therapy or medication, there seems to be no easy way to avoid that.

General psychology has determined that depressive disorders are often caused by a combination of genetic, psychological and environmental factors, but can also be caused by other illnesses. Buddhism generally approaches depression from a quite different viewpoint than modern Western psychology. Three Things You Can Do to Stop Being Haunted by Regret. The human mind’s capacity to work in the abstract is a tool and, just as a hammer can pound a nail or your thumb, your mind can work for you or against you.

Three Things You Can Do to Stop Being Haunted by Regret

Being able to ruminate, ponder, remember, compare and fantasize allows you to pursue goals beyond those just necessary for physical survival, momentary pleasure, and reproduction and to derive deep psychological and emotional satisfaction from achieving them. However, left to run amok, these tools can do more harm than good in the long run. Regret is a good example of an abstract process with a dual nature. On one hand, when you screw up, your well-intentioned mind hopes that the nasty feeling of reliving and kicking yourself for something in the past—along with emotions like sadness, guilt, and shame—will be sufficient to keep you from repeating the same mistake.

What your mind doesn’t realize is that it’s beating a dead horse. Acceptance and commitment therapy. Noam Shpancer describes acceptance and commitment therapy as getting to know unpleasant feelings, then learning not to act upon them, and to not avoid situations where they are invoked.

Acceptance and commitment therapy

Its therapeutic effect is according to him a positive spiral where feeling better leads to a better understanding of the truth.[6] Basics[edit] ACT is developed within a pragmatic philosophy called functional contextualism. ACT is based on relational frame theory (RFT), a comprehensive theory of language and cognition that is an offshoot of behavior analysis. What Happens When Someone Breaks Down Your Walls. It will be unexpected.

What Happens When Someone Breaks Down Your Walls

It will take you by irresistible force, and gently incinerate inside of you, simmering until the brutal heat of its nature pierces the very core of your being. The masonry surrounding your heart is impeccable, is impenetrable…or, at least, it used to be, until this unforeseen power dismantled your defenses. You have ceded your prize from the most dangerous war that you previously waged and won—the war against yourself.

You have ceded your walls. The blanket of darkness rises ever so slightly from your soul, and then the wind blows upon it, and it scatters into parts unknown, like seeds of life twinkling in the summer air. Your heart creaks, worn and dusty from lack of use. And you feel. It will not be a simple feat to tread upon this new soil. 10 Truths About Depression And Self Love Nobody Talks About. Depression isn't logical.

10 Truths About Depression And Self Love Nobody Talks About

You can't reason with it. When I was 16, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. After the diagnosis, my uncle slapped me on the back and said, "Welcome to the family kid," while my family all compared drugs around the kitchen table. Depression In Women: It Will Break Your Heart. For far too long, mental illness has been seen as a weakness, a choice, a fault of one’s own.

Depression In Women: It Will Break Your Heart

The day is still yet to come when there will be bumper stickers with sayings such as “Mental Illness Awareness” or “Let’s Find a Cure for Depression!” There are no charity walks nor are there fundraisers or t-shirts. Despite the fact that it has been shown that one’s mood has direct impact on health, seeking treatment, taking medication or speaking out is still stigmatized. We know that depression can destroy relationships, careers, and even the individual themselves through suicide and other forms of self-harm. 9 Surprising Signs Of Depression. The Definitive Guide to Guilt. When it comes to guilt, Freud was the expert, but he certainly didn’t have a corner on the market.

The Definitive Guide to Guilt

Guilt comes in many forms, but when all is said and done, it can be boiled down to a set of five basic types. You’ll learn what those five types are, but first let’s take a look at how psychologists define guilt. Causes, Symptoms & Natural Treatment For Depression. What is Depression?

Causes, Symptoms & Natural Treatment For Depression

Depression is characterized by feelings of low self-esteem, pessimism, and despair. Clinical depression is more than feeling depressed. The official definition of clinical depression is based on the following eight primary criteria: Poor appetite accompanied by weight loss, or increased appetite accompanied by weight gainInsomnia or excessive sleep habits (hypersomnia)Physical hyperactivity or inactivityLoss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, or decrease in sexual driveLoss of energy; feelings of fatigueFeelings of worthlessness, self-reproach, or inappropriate guiltDiminished ability to think or concentrateRecurrent thoughts of death or suicide The presence of five of these eight symptoms definitely indicates clinical depression; an individual with four is probably depressed.

What causes Depression? Depression can be the result of psychological as well as physiological factors. What dietary factors are important in Depression? The Difference Between Guilt and Shame. And Depression Blog. How to Use St.

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John’s Wort At this point, you may be thinking, “St. John’s wort sounds great. It can help me sleep better an it can lift my mood, all with minimal side effects. So how do I get started?” In this chapter, I will describe the various forms available, with their individual advantages and disadvantages. There are many ways to take St. In the case of St. Extracts from as low of 0.125 percent up to 0.3 percent hypericin content have yielded positive results. The recommended daily dose will vary from individual to individual. Not all products utilize the same part of the herb. Psych Central - Trusted mental health, depression, bipolar, ADHD and psychology information . Guilt and Shame. Christmas and New Year Group Closures Monday Support & Recovery Group: Closed 22, 29 December.

Re-opens 5 January 2015 Tuesday Structured Recovery Group: Closed 16, 23, 30 December. Re-opens 6 January 2015 ..as far as the patient is concerned this sense of guilt is dumb; it does not tell him he is guilty; he does not feel guilty, he feels ill. (Freud 1923) Putting shame into words with a trusted companion enables one to step outside it – it no longer seems to permeated one’s entire being – and allows some self-forgiveness to emerge. Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

There is nothing more effective in breaking any person than to give him the conviction of wickedness. Believing in ‘free will’…is like believing in Santa Claus; it leads to disappointment.