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Having diabetes does not automatically suffer from depression. However, it is found that diabetics are more prone to feel depressed than those without diabetes. Why? Here we have the possible causes.

After you’re diagnosed with diabetes, you feel that the world is coming at you with all its changes: exercise, diet, medical tests. Feel you must control every aspect of your life: what you eat, what time, how much, the exercise you do, how you travel, what to do when you’re dining out, etc.. Besides, now that you are diabetic you have to establish a close relationship with your doctor and you should mark your calendar the dates for your visits. The words glucose, blood sugar, diet, carbohydrate, complications, weight, lurk all the time in your head. Besides, you’re wondering “why me?” Definitely, having diabetes is not easy to assimilate.

However, remember that the shock of diagnosis, is normal. Then when you informed and understand what it’s about having diabetes and the important role you play you in control, you will feel more relieved or alleviated. But this does not mean that you have factors that increase your risk for depression.

Depression is a disorder whose dominant symptom is a deep sadness. A harrowing intense sadness that translates into individual behaviors such as immobility, slowness in thinking, self-absorption, avoidance of contact with others, difficulty finding pleasure in something. In this box adds a momentum towards decreased activity: people complain about their inability to return, they feel a deep disgust as sensation in the chest and body and see before them a gray world, indifferent and disconsolate.

From what they perceive as unfavorable draw, how unhappy; Unfortunately this only offers the future is frightening to them. They show beyond a set of physical ailments such as fatigue, insomnia, digestive and cardiovascular ailments, and so on. His appearance comes after an emotional shock that produces feelings of loss (abandonment, infidelity of spouse, death of a family, job loss or social status) and who acts as the main trigger.

Because the physical signs that accompany all depression is becoming a complete clinical examination but not abusive, because if not, the patient walking for years by various specialists’ offices looking for the cause of “sick body” and a recipe that will help alleviate their suffering. Read the rest of this entry »

Now we want to give a twist to understand a little better this disease that affects mood and does not obey, in general, to a single source. With this, we wonder how to treat depression?

First you have to make very clear that if you suffer from depression treatments exist to combat it. There are many symptoms characteristic of depression (lack of desire to do things, sadness, apathy, pessimism, anxiety, lack of motivation, tiredness, etc), but you should know that by being too deep you can go.

The main thing is to change the chip and think positive. To do this, start by promoting optimal quality of life, doing things they enjoy the patient, who likes to try to be comfortable with himself. Arguably, the key is precisely this change of routines that blur the patient by others which is fine.

To do so, to rest and face the day with energy. It should be motivated and occupy the mind with pleasurable activities. We must also hold the line, nothing to eat less or binge eating, and that the ends are not advisable. Also, keep a full sexual activity is another factor that may help the patient to reconstitute an optimal quality of life, and there is nothing better than an orgasm to combat depression. Read the rest of this entry »

Exercising during the day can keep you awake at night, instead of providing more sleep obtained by fatigue, according to new research from the United States.

It was believed that a good exercise helps to relax more at night, due to natural to get tired with him, but now it seems that the opposite result.
A study of fourteen participants who wore armbands to monitor their movements for 23 days, showed that the most active were least napped.

Surprisingly, total sleep time increased by an average of 42 minutes each night after days of low activity.

The findings, presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Illinois, suggests that exercise and sleep have a more complicated than was known hitherto.

It has long been recommended as part of the exercise prescription to improve sleep, but this new study do not support this idea, because the longer and deeper sleep occurred after days with low effort.

Sleep is very important because it allows the brain to recover from the rigors of the day and not getting enough can increase the risk of obesity, heart disease and depression.
However, moderate physical exercise is always recommended for optimal health, which in turn includes proper sleep quota, so for those with sleep problems should consult with specialists who know how to find the personal balance that leads to this unhealthy condition.

6 strategies to avoid falling into the depression. The best advice is to avoid it. How? Just behave and gestures that will surely all the difference:

1. Sleep 7 or 8 hours per day for your body recover.

2. Do not let anyone or anything that disturbs the view of herself. They can tell you what you want but is that whether it is going to give them credit or not.

3. Reinterpretation situations in their favor. Sometimes it seems like a drama, it is not. Is tired or irritated and any word to disturb. Ask yourself if what you said is so important. Read the rest of this entry »

Much is said about the mental state of the mother after giving birth. May suffer a slight depression also called baby blues to a very marked depression in which sometimes is not able or take charge of their own baby.

There are diverse research on postpartum depression but not as much about the period of pregnancy, as being equally important at this point are already known the effects of emotional state on the baby’s mother is brewing.

A study by the University of Hong Kong published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology has demonstrated that feelings of anxiety and depression in the mother can have serious consequences for the woman and baby, and it is also one of the factors that prone to suffer depression after childbirth. Read the rest of this entry »

An American study shows the possible link between depression may suffer the mother and the sleeping patterns of your future baby during its early years. Apparently, these problems affect children by altering the pattern of sleep and trouble falling creándoles.

It seems that there is a relationship between hormones suffer resulting from stress, anxiety, etc.., With the development of unborn baby’s brain, in theory these hormones that are blamed for some babies have more problems than others to sleep properly. Read the rest of this entry »