Posts Tagged ‘mental health’

Smokers are Susceptible of Getting Mental Disorder

Monday, August 16th, 2010

You do not smoke but you are in the middle of smokers then it still can endanger your health. Not only from the physical side, other horrific effect is that the risk of getting mental disorder. It is said that passive smoker has risk of 50 percent of getting psychological disorder rather than someone who smokes. This risk will increase three times for six years if not it is not treated in the hospital.

smokers are swa Smokers are Susceptible of Getting Mental DisorderResearchers said that although the explanations about mental disorder on the passive smoker are very limited, researchers believe that this effect is caused by excessive consumption of the smoke of the cigarette. To obtain further information, Hamer and his colleagues are recruited 5560 individuals of non-smoker and 2595 individuals of smoker. Both groups do not have medical records which are experiencing a mental disorder.

Researchers then give questions about psychological disorders and check the visiting record to a psychiatrist for six years. In order to know the level of smoke exposure among the non-smokers, researchers using saliva that mixes with Cotine, a separated compound of nicotine in the body. From various tests that are performed, the researchers found that 14.5 percent of the participants are experienced psychological disorder by 62 percent the risk of disruption.

Meanwhile, based on their medical records for six years, 41 participants are recorded visiting psychiatrist. Researchers also found that non-smoker participants are having risk of 2.8 times to get into hospital while the smokers are having risk of 3.7 times to get into the hospital.

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Managing Mental From Stress

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

manage stressStress that experienced by someone, truly something that is difficult to avoid. Stress about life. Stress at work or stress due to other causes. The problem is how to manage stress correctly to avoid negative impact on mental health and body. Uncontrolled stress will trigger the rise of blood pressure and getting a heart attack. Stress can also raise blood cholesterol levels so that patients susceptible to stroke.

When you experience stress, such as irritability, increased of heart pressure, increased of blood pressure, feeling sweaty or often shivering, sleeplessness, headaches, indigestion, pain in the neck, lower back pain, experiencing unusual pain, go to the toilet more often than usual, much more smoking and drinking, feeling nervous for no reason, appetite loss for food, pleasure or even sex, always in distress, become forgetful, or other unusual symptoms.

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Lack of Sleep and Potential of Insane

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Sleep disorderSleep disorder that caused lack of time to sleep apparently can affect on mental health. This thing was determined by researchers from Harvard University, United States. According to these researchers, lack of sleep resulting directly on someone’s mental. Side effect that commonly happen is depression. But there also many experienced the difficulty to concentrate.

Besides that, stress and depression can also be experienced by someone who is not getting enough sleep. Further research revealed that when someone is less sleep, then fluctuations changing occur in the body’s hormones. Hormones that arrange someone’s psychological condition is also going to change. So that mental and psychological conditions can be affected as well.

Unfortunately, there is no clear data about the patient that mentally disturbed because of lack of sleep. The researchers were only told not to belittle about sleep disorders. You should immediately consult that situation with your doctor.

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