Category: Health

How stress affects your brain – Madhumita Murgia

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-affects-your-brain-madhumita-murgia Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can affect brain size, its structure, and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes. Lesson by Madhumita Murgia, animation by Andrew Zimbelman.

Stop Anxiety from Stopping You

In this #1 bestseller, a psychologist shares “excellent ideas” to stop the anxiety that holds you back from a happy life (Psych Central). Our pace of life has increased exponentially, and we’re often too busy or preoccupied to attend to our emotions—until they hit with the strength of a tornado. When signs of anxiety and panic appear, they ravage our lives, our dreams, and our spirit. Dr. Helen Odessky, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who runs a private practice in Chicago focused on anxiety, OCD, and panic treatment. In this book, Dr. Odessky gives you a six-step framework and practical real-life strategies that work, drawn from her years of clinical experience. You will learn about: Understanding the process of anxiety Recognizing the signs of anxiety How to overcome anxiety How to stop panic attacks How to treat anxiety for lasting results

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Husband Arranges The Perfect Valentine’s Surprise For Wife, And It’ll Have You In Tears

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Some people really have a knack for pulling off romantic surprises and Dave is one of those folks.

Unfortunately, ladies, he’s happily taken. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Dave has been feeling a lot of pressure to show his wife Kristy just how much he loves her. Why all the anxiety to make it perfect? Well, he’s been known to pull off some crazy romantic gestures in the past. The couple’s love story has been anything but all sunshine and happiness…there were dark times. But just watch as Dave walks us through their past, present, and future. Oh, and you should grab some tissues!

Kristy is one lucky woman.

These two are the ultimate in relationship goals. This is what true soulmates look like. Share this with others to spread the love!

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How To Relieve Stress – Scientifically Proven Stress Relief Techniques

How To Relieve Stress – The absolute best ways to reduce your stress permanently and how to avoid gimmicks that don’t work. The Ultimate Life Purpose Course – Create Your Dream Career: http://www.actualized.org/life-purpose-course Leo’s Top 140 Self Help Books http://www.actualized.org/books Full Video Transcript Here: http://www.actualized.org/articles/how-to-relieve-stress Video Summary: Up to a point, stress is an unavoidable part of living. It has become more problematic as our modern world becomes more complex and frantic. To fail to acknowledge your role in creating the stress in your life will simply amplify it. Review what choices you’ve made, and whether you want to retract any of them for the sake of reducing your stress exposure. Stress tends to be reduced once we simply accept our choice to live with the stress-inducing situation, rather than pursue some alternative action. Positive, constructive ways to deal with stress include most notably meditation, sports, music, reading, and creative hobbies. Self-destructive, unhealthy methods for dealing with stress are easy to identify. Even innocuous-looking methods of stress relief can become a crutch that steals your quality of life and creates guilt and recrimination. Less obviously destructive diversions such as video games, the internet, and TV create a low consciousness that disengages you from your mission in life. Proactively exam what is causing the greatest stress in your life. If you choose to “just live with it,” identify positive ways to mitigate that stress. Evaluate what negative stress reducing technique to eliminate to improve the quality of your life.

Helicopter Makes Harrowing Landing On A Boat In The Middle Of A Storm

I’m no expert on boats or helicopters, but I imagine it’s difficult to operate them even under the best conditions.

After all, if it were easy we would all be able to do it! Recently, though, the Royal Danish Air Force had a chance to show off just how skilled they are during a harrowing landing that could have gone very wrong. During a storm in the Atlantic Ocean, the pilot of a Seahawk MH-60R helicopter made the landing of a lifetime on a boat as both the ship and the helicopter were tossed around by wind and waves.

This landing must have had the pilot and the boat captain on edge the whole time.

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Wow! They make it look easy, but I’m wishing them only clear skies from here on out.

Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/helicopter-landing-storm/

Boy’s Chocolate Pudding Tantrum Reveals How Uncomfortable OCD Treatment Can Be

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They say you shouldn’t judge a person until you walk a mile in their shoes. But many are rushing to conclusions about one mom’s parenting tactics. Andrea Lunsford’s son Rafael has obsessive-compulsive disorder and high functioning autism.

Recently, she filmed one of her son’s episodes and demonstrated how she deals with them. While many think her reaction to his emotional response is cruel, she argues that it’s a form of treatment. According to the Daily Mail, “she first came across exposure therapy, the method of treatment she uses in the video while watching British television show ‘Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners.'” She commented, “We are choosing exposure therapy to make him face his fears and expose him to things that would cause him anxiety, so he can overcome it and realize it will not control his life if things are not perfect.”

Andrea appears to laugh and consistently pokes holes in Rafael’s logic concerning his pudding wrapper. After considerable back and forth, Rafael does something amazing.

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The reaction to the video has been mixed. Some say her method creates distrust and dismisses his mental illness as something he can be talked out of.

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YouTube commenter Mc Kenna wrote, “I work with kids like this. You are constantly working towards goals. Sure there are and will be bumps in their road ahead. But egging on the issues when he is showing success is just cruel.” Others say her method is successful and that exposure therapy is legitimate for treating OCD, as evidenced by the fact that Rafael does eat the pudding. Another commenter, Larissa Gaines, revealed she also has Asperger’s and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. She writes, “She is trying to show him that he doesn’t need to obsess over it, and it’s possible for him to move on from the problem (the wrapper).”

It’s important to remember that mental illness is never straightforward, and treatments that work for one person may not work for another. Here’s hoping Rafael’s doctors and his family have found a treatment that works for him.

What do you think? Cruel or logical? Let us know!
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/ocd-treatment-controversy/