Your Walking Style Make You Depressed?

  The new  study, published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry had 39 participants wearing motion capture suits. Unbeknown to themselves, they were coaxed into walking in either a happy or depressed style by altering the way they walk in order to increase the level of a gauge on a biofeedback monitor […]

DSM 5 – Fully expalined -Task Force Members

  Darrel A. REGIER Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H. Director, APA Division of Research Executive Director, APIRE Vice-Chair, DSM-V Task Force American Psychiatric Association Virginia, USA Email: [email protected] Regier, M.D., M.P.H has served for the past ten years as Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE), as well as Director, […]

وماذا بعد انتحار روبين ولييم؟

  الرجل الذي أضحك الملايين في الشرق و الغرب على السواء و أدخل البسمة و السرور عليهم لم يجد من يفرح قلبه و يجعله يبتسم للحياة الدنيا فيأخذ القرار في غاية الصعوبة و الاستحالة وبكل اتلصميم للخلاص من حياته كان عبقريا بكل المقاييس ليس فقط في القدرة على التمثيل و تجسيد الشخصيات بل كان عنده […]

Ketamine is a safe drug and will revolutionalise the treatment of depression

      First UK study of ketamine for people with severe depression Health | Science 03 Apr 14 Ketamine had a rapid antidepressant effect in some patients with severe depression The first UK study of the use of ketamine intravenous infusions in people with treatment-resistant depression has been carried out in an NHS clinic by researchers […]

Psychiatric Mnemonics in Depression

Psychiatry Mnemonics Psychiatry Mnemonics                       Reinforcement schedules: variable ratio SLOT machines show SLOwesTextinction.     Depression: major episode DSM-IV criteria · First, of course depressed mood is one. Then: SIG E CAPS: Sleep disturbance Interest loss Guilt (or intense worthlessness) Energy loss Concentration loss Appetite changes Psychomotor agitation or […]

Tips and Hints on depression

Challenging and diagnosis of depression, a brief words selected from a full lecture given by professor Dr. Ahmed Saad , March 2014 in Jeddah SA Professor Ahmed Saad, is a professor of Psychiatry, faculty of medicine , Ain Shams University,Cairo, Egypt. At the present time He is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist , Erfan Hospital in […]

FOR MORE ENERGY

4 simple ways to boost your energy Some days, do you feel like the Energizer Bunny with a weak battery? You start strong, but by midafternoon you can’t quite keep going and going. Fatigue afflicts everyone at one time or another. Assuming your doctor has ruled out serious medical causes, there are a few basic […]

Your balance affected by medication= Keep erect Posture!

  Medications make a difference — generally a positive one — in the lives of many people. Insulin keeps blood sugar under control, cholesterol-lowering drugs can reduce the chances of having a heart attack, and thyroid medication can restore a normal hormone level. These are but a few examples. At the same time, all drugs […]

Best time of the day for best brain power

We fluctuate over the course of a day. Did you know that your brain obeys its own rhythm too? It’s based largely on your human clock, sleep pattern, exposure to light, and genetic makeup — and getting in a groove with its tempo can make you healthier, happier, and have more energy. You can burn […]

Bad Habits=Bad life. How to get rid of unwanted habits

The Formation of a Habit We all have things that we habitually do throughout the day. These are things we’ve done time and again over the course of many weeks, months and years. They are the things that no longer require any conscious thought or attention. We do them because they are familiar, they feel […]

Fight to relief your stress

Are You Feeling Stressed? All of us experience stress of one form or another throughout our lives. It’s often an uncomfortable and overwhelming feeling resulting from a lack of control we feel we have over our environment and/or circumstances. There’s just so much going on, there’s just so much to do, time is running out, […]

steps to stop panic attack

Important Information For Overcoming Panic Before describing some of the more effective panic prevention strategies, it’s important to discuss some of the issues that stand in the way of recovery. You need to be aware of these issues before you can expect your panic attacks to stop. Make sure you’re aware of the following: Hypersensitivity – […]

Career Success

How to Achieve Career Success Do you have high aspirations for your life? Do you dream about moving up the career ladder but don’t know what to do or how to begin? Or maybe you’re feeling a little overwhelmed because every time you take a step forward, you seem to be pushed two steps back. […]

Fight against Panic attacks

Help! I’m Having a Panic Attack! Panic attacks are sudden uncontrollable bouts of fear that can be experienced at any time. They are brief surges of intense anxiety often enhanced by stress and worrisome thoughts. This anxiety can quickly get out of hand and turn into an uncontrollable panic attack. Within this state-of-mind we tend […]

Are You Last minute man? avoid being stuck!

Are You Feeling Stuck?         So you’re feeling kind of stuck at the moment. Your life is stagnating and you’re going nowhere fast. Yes, of course you have all these goals you would desperately like to achieve, however for one reason or another nothing is happening. Somewhere along the track you’ve lost […]

The most 15 common negative unhelpful way of thinking

Cognitive Distortions Aaron Beck first proposed the theory behind cognitive distortions and David Burns was responsible for popularizing it with common names and examples for the distortions. 1. Filtering. We take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. For instance, a person may pick out a single, […]

Your Negative thoughts? What to do?

Exploring Your Unhelpful Thoughts       Whenever you experience any kind of emotion, this emotion is always accompanied by a set of thoughts. These thoughts are constructed of words and statements that often manifest in the form of questions. You ask these questions in order to make sense of your emotions and your circumstances. […]

Make More Control

How to Take More Control Like money or nuclear power, control can be used for good or evil. You can use it to harm, suppress or destroy lives. Or you can use it to help people, increase your income and improve the world around you. Negative, destructive control gives control a bad name. Yet positive, […]

seclusion guidlines

You can find here  the seclusion criteria in PDF file , how ,why,when to manage  an aggressive or excited patient by seclusion.   seclusion-guidelines-feb10

Negotiate Better

The Negotiator’s Mindset The mindset you bring into each and every negotiation is just as important as the techniques, tactics and tools you use throughout the negotiation process. For this reason we will break down the essential mindset that is required for effective negotiation. Later we will analyze the strategies and tools that will support […]

Treating Depression in Patients With Diabetes : Quick Hints

(1) Psychological symptoms of depression in patients with diabetes are more specific to depression than their somatic counterparts (2) Specificity of the somatic symptoms of depression is increased when the somatic symptoms are severe, start concomitantly with depressed mood or anhedonia, are unrelated to diabetes, or appear out of proportion to what is expected (3) […]

Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It)

Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had one hour to save the world he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. This quote does illustrate an important point: before jumping right into solving a problem, we should step back and invest time and effort to improve […]

Simply to sleep better

10 tips that will make everybody sleep better   It’s estimated that an average 80 year old man sleeps 25 years, just under one third of his life. There is no satisfying answer to why the human organism needs to disconnect from reality during sleep, but one thing’s for sure: it’s one of the most […]

The 6 hats thinkers

The Managerial Blue Hat Thinker An effective problem solver has to have a means of managing and directing their thought process in a proactive way. Likewise, they must have a way of processing and guiding each of their thoughts in a neutral and unbiased manner that’s focused on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the […]