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Stress-Related Injuries. Stress related injuries are extremely high in public service and the medical field here in California. PTSD (post traumatic stress syndrome) is a common mental injury as well. Soldiers in the service experienced it during fire fights and is dated as far back as the civil war in the mid 1860s. Public service and medical staff do witness conditions that are inhumane because of shortstaffing, long hours, inhumane treatment of each other and the folks they're supposed to take care of. These conditions are created because of insufficient training due to low budgets. In these stress cases, injured workers are "encouraged" to file stress claims, then get denied by the insurance companies and then one's life is an open book to be used against the injured to diminish their claims. It's called the nut and slut game. Stress claims are also used to diminish the injured workers credibility. Stress claims also are used to diminish any other injuries such as orthopedic and chemical exposure.

Exercise – It Works For Depression. I’m currently reading with great pleasure Tony Schwartz’s new book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working – The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance. Schwartz’s main premise is that we need balance — between activity and rest on the physical level, between performance and renewal on the emotional level, between left and right brain on the mental level, and between inner and outer work on the spiritual level. If we don’t have this balance, we tread water — we may look like we’re high performers but compared to what we are capable of when we have balance, we don’t produce much, are not very creative, and don’t have as much fun, or as much impact, as we could have.

One chapter of the book is dedicated to movement. What Schwartz does not mention is that a follow-up study went even further. In the initial study, participants exercised for 16 weeks and were then given a depression test four months later. Is exercise the solution to depression, then? References. The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin Boing Boing. Gretchen Rubin spent a year studying books and research reports about happiness and then tested out the ideas on herself to find out if they would make her happier. She wrote about her experiments in a highly-entertaining memoir called The Happiness Project, which came out last week. Rubin was actually pretty happy before starting the project. She is a wife and mother of two children, and a successful author. They have a nice apartment in New York.

Rubin was a little concerned that focusing so intently on her own happiness was selfish, but she learned from her research that happy people are "more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, are interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. One thing Rubin learned while researching happiness studies was that "people are more likely to make progress on goals that are broken into concrete, measurable actions, with some kind of structured accountability and positive reinforcement. " Links to online CBT resources « HealthSkills Weblog. I have occasion to look for online resources from time to time – this week it’s been anxiety and CBT self-help, so I’ve been strolling through the internet and located some really great, evidence-based sites with excellent resources. First one GET.gg – here Over 100 downloadable worksheets, all pdf documents, including ACT, Vicious Flower circle, formulation worksheets, sheets for challenging core beliefs – and I have hardly started listing!.

Definitely worth going to if you’d like some well-designed, clear worksheets you can save onto your own computer. For a sample, click here for the Pain and Fatigue worksheet e-couch is a free online site for anxiety and depression, and other mood combinations. You do need JavaScript to use the site. Living Life to the Full is a UK-based site, once again it’s free, supported by the Glasgow and Clyde NHS. www.stressandanxietyinteenagers.com is a site for teens and their parents – nicely interactive, and once again, supported by the NHS Like this: GET.gg Free Downloads - Therapy Worksheets.