Holistic pain management

  We are often unable to draw the connection between depression, anger and how it physically affects us but various researches and studies have proven that mental illness can really hurt and torment us. We often pair up depression, anxiety, stress and anger with emotional challenges like despair, sadness, crying and dejection but it’s proven that it can also cause us severe physical distress that makes things worse and is often undiagnosed. One of the common physical pain that is often associated with depression and anxiety is lower back pain. In fact, lower back pain can be the early symptoms of depression. Sometimes the situation is also reversed, due to chronic lower back pain some people go into depression as it meddles with their normal life. How Does Depression Cause Back Pain? Studies and researches have proven that people who suffer from depression, anxiety and anger issues feel lower back pain more intensely and powerfully than others. In depressed and disturbed people...

  Depression and anxiety disorders are plaguing our youth and adults which is a serious concern to the society and its stability. In the US alone, one in every ten adults suffer from some kind of depression. There are many treatments for depression like medication, magnetic therapies, light therapy and psychotherapy. But research and trials prove that exercise is also a great way to combat depression and evade the effects of it. When exercise is merged together with medication and natural supplements for anxiety the overall treatment becomes very effective. Although when depression and anxiety get the best of you, exercise is the last thing you might want to do, in fact the mere thought of getting up from the bed takes a lot of courage and will power. There isn’t a speck of doubt about the numerous benefits of staying physically fit and active. Exercise or any physical activity that draws your heart rate up results in various health benefits. It helps regulate your blood sugar l...

When we talk about obsessive compulsive disorder, we mainly emphasize on the compulsions that the person has no control over. Actions like repetitive hand washing, bathing, cleaning, putting things in symmetry or checking if they are in order, is mainly associated with OCD. While these compulsions are a more prominent and more explored aspect of OCD, the obsessive thoughts are often overlooked. These intrusive thoughts are the first link of the chain that leads to the compulsions as well. Sometimes people only suffer from these obsessive thoughts and not from the compulsions and this form of OCD is known as Purely Obsessional OCD or Pure O. The best OCD medication like serotonin reuptakes can be effective in the treatment of this. A sufferer of Pure O is imprinted with unwanted, uncontrollable and meddlesome thoughts. A person may not engage in the physical compulsions but that doesn’t mean that this kind of OCD is any less distressing or disruptive. Another complication of Pure O i...