Blue Monday, labelled the most depressing day, highlights the need for year-round mental health awareness. Instead of focusing on a single day, we should promote ongoing support and consider tools like hypnosis to enhance well-being.
Never underestimate the power of a smile. It’s a simple, cost-free, and accessible tool that has the potential to transform your mood and the world around you.
If you’re concerned about feeling down this winter, you can go into the season with a game plan to get through it with a smile.
As the clocks go back on Sunday, thousands of local people will be dreading the effect the darker nights will have on their mood and overall wellbeing. Reduced exposure to sunlight results in them feeling depressed and lethargic – and in extreme cases can severely affect everything from their work performance to their relationships with others.
Plenty of people experience a hint of the winter blues as harsh weather keeps us shut up indoors, but seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a more serious form of depression. Fortunately, there are effective forms of treatment.
Stress is the most common culprit for mood swings. Lifestyle choices massively impact the internal chemistry your body is running on.
Although mood swings are common, we aren’t always sure why they happen and how to control them exactly. Sometimes the intensity of our current emotions doesn’t have an explanation, and we find ourselves questioning everything that surrounds us. By understanding your feelings better you can steps towards establishing control over them.
If you are feeling the winter blues why not try a little escape with a free “virtual” holiday and find your happy place. Escape is key to our mental self-care, and it can be good to seek a happy escape when things are blue – that feeling of “I just need to get away”.
Depression is a real illness with real symptoms – it hijacks the mind and body, and it can affect individuals in many different ways, physically and emotionally.
If you employ these four brain hacks and focus on your goals, you can take back control of your life.