People of different wisdom traditions have recognized that natural spaces can affect their own energy in particular ways. Are you sensitive enough to recognize the subtle changes in energy as you walk from one area to another, such as across a meadow or along a beach? Are you able to identify spots that have healing… Continue reading Energy Healing with the Help of Nature
Category: Mental & Emotional Health
Your mental health, including your psychological & emotional health, impacts our daily life. Learn more about the most common mental disorders.
Mobile Device Addiction Linked to Depression & Anxiety
Is cellphone use detrimental to mental health? A 2016 study from the University of Illinois in Champaign finds that addiction to, and not simply use of, mobile technology is linked to anxiety and depression in college-age students. Here at thifAge.com, we suspect that this addiction issue extends to older adults as well.The study was published… Continue reading Mobile Device Addiction Linked to Depression & Anxiety
10 Ways Stress Is Written All Over Your Face
Stress is written all over our face and can result in looking years older when stressed for prolonged periods of time. My expertise is in understanding neural pathways as they respond to anxiety, stress and trauma explains that how we think directly impacts how we age and how youthful we appear. The routine stressors in… Continue reading 10 Ways Stress Is Written All Over Your Face
What Events Do We Recall Best?
When it comes to memory, we’re likelier to recall the things that may help us in the future, according to new research from the University of California, Davis, Center for Neuroscience. The finding was published in the journal Neuron. “Rewards help you remember things, because you want future rewards,” said Professor Charan Ranganath, a UC… Continue reading What Events Do We Recall Best?
Combo Drug May Help Relieve Treatment-Resistant Depression
A clinical trial of an experimental drug for treatment-resistant major depression finds that modulation of the endogenous (inner) opioid system may improve the effectiveness of drugs that target the action of serotonin and related monoamine neurotransmitters. In their paper published online in February 2016 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a multi-institutional research team reports… Continue reading Combo Drug May Help Relieve Treatment-Resistant Depression
The Anger Epidemic: How It Affects Mental and Physical Health
Irate people seem to be everywhere these days, on airplanes, in cars, at school, on social media platforms and at political rallies across the country. In fact, voter rage often makes more headlines than the candidates seeking office. Has anger reached a fever pitch in America? According to a November 2015 national survey conducted by… Continue reading The Anger Epidemic: How It Affects Mental and Physical Health
Discrimination Increases Risk for Mental-Health Problems
People who are the victims of chronic discrimination, whether on the basis of race, ethnicity or sexual orientation, can develop risk factors for mental disorders, experts say. “We now have decades of research showing that when people are chronically treated differently, unfairly or badly, it can have effects ranging from low self-esteem to a higher… Continue reading Discrimination Increases Risk for Mental-Health Problems
5 Tips for Battling the Winter Blues
Estimated to affect millions of Americans during late fall and subside in sunnier months, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is depression, causing mood and appetite changes, lethargy, and irritability. But, these symptoms can also occur in men with ‘borderline’ androgen deficiency (low testosterone) and a decline in estrogen in menopausal women. So, don’t misunderstand this annual… Continue reading 5 Tips for Battling the Winter Blues
A Technique to Tap into Your Creative Muscle
Imagination is the difference between the problems plaguing our every day and the future solutions to those issues. Imagination is step one for answers that work. Imagine that you could work on an app that better informs financial decisions to help users get out of debt; imagine working with technology that helps patients and doctors… Continue reading A Technique to Tap into Your Creative Muscle
Seven Bad Habits to Leave Behind in 2016
Life is built on routines. It’s easy to go years—or even decades—without consciously assessing what’s working and what’s not. As a result, many of us are surrounded by people, obligations, objects, and habits that aren’t exactly making our lives better (far from it!). Well, no more. With a new year upon us, it’s the perfect… Continue reading Seven Bad Habits to Leave Behind in 2016
Wage Gap Could Explain Why Women Are More Anxious and Depressed Than Men
The odds of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder were markedly greater among women who earned less than their male counterparts, with whom they were matched on education and years of experience, according to research conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Results of the study were published online in January 2016… Continue reading Wage Gap Could Explain Why Women Are More Anxious and Depressed Than Men
The “Sixth Sense” for Danger
Findings by French researchers show that the brain devotes more processing resources to social situations that signal threat than those that are benign. The results published in December 2015 in the journal eLife may help explain the apparent “sixth sense” we have for danger. This is the first time that specific regions of the brain… Continue reading The “Sixth Sense” for Danger
10 Tips to Guarantee New Year’s Resolution Success
The New Year 2016 has begun, and that means people everywhere will be trying to stick to their annual New Year’s resolutions. Yet for most, by February these goals will be nothing more than a memory to revisit at the beginning of next year. How can you make your 2016 resolutions a reality? As a psychological… Continue reading 10 Tips to Guarantee New Year’s Resolution Success
Older Adults May Be Confused by Visual Stimuli
Older adults may have difficulty in combining what they see and hear – and that could have an effect on quick decision needed in situations like driving. A recent study from the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, found that seniors have a harder time distinguishing the order of events than younger adults. When researchers presented… Continue reading Older Adults May Be Confused by Visual Stimuli
How To Reprogram Yourself For Success In 2016
Some people start each day with an early morning jog. Others begin with a cup of coffee and a donut. Everyone knows that people are creatures of habit. But too often, the habits we nurture are laziness, procrastination, self-serving biases, justification and rationalization. Such behaviors put people on a path to destruction, all the while… Continue reading How To Reprogram Yourself For Success In 2016
Happiness and Unhappiness Have No Direct Effect on Mortality
As we head into the holidays and the new year, many people find themselves feeling less than merry because of life events or loneliness. The good news, however, is that being unhappy is not a threat to health and longevity. A study of 700 000 women with an average age of 59, published on December… Continue reading Happiness and Unhappiness Have No Direct Effect on Mortality
When Unwanted Thoughts Take Over: Recognizing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Do you feel the need to check and re-check things over and over? Do you have the same thoughts constantly? Do you feel a very strong need to perform certain rituals repeatedly and feel like you have no control over what you are doing? If so, you may have a type of anxiety disorder called… Continue reading When Unwanted Thoughts Take Over: Recognizing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Live Together or Get Married? Study Finds Similar Emotional Benefits
When it comes to emotional health, couples — especially women — do just as well moving in together as they do getting married, according to a national study done at Ohio State University in December 2015. The team studied young people, but here at thirdAGE we’re guessing the results would be similar for older people.… Continue reading Live Together or Get Married? Study Finds Similar Emotional Benefits