Don't go to bed with makeup on. Makeup left on overnight seeps into your pores, clogs them, and congests your skin. Make sure that you wash your face twice at the end of the day. Once to get the makeup off.
Don't go to bed with makeup on. Makeup left on overnight seeps into your pores, clogs them, and congests your skin. Make sure that you wash your face twice at the end of the day. Once to get the makeup off. A second time to wash the skin itself.
* Exfoliate daily. After washing your face at night, be sure to exfoliate. Use a delicate scrub. If you don't have one on hand, a tablespoon of sugar or oatmeal will work just fine.
* Use facial masks regularly. If possible, everyday is ideal. Again, if you don't have one on hand, make your own. Mashed banana or avocado is good. Plain yogurt also works well.
* Keep a treatment and moisturizer on your face, day or night. Put your skin first. After you wash it at night, put on some kind of skin treatment, whether it's alpha hydroxy acids, vitamin A or C, or any kind of special cocktail treatment. Let that sink in, then put a moisturizer over that. In the morning, do the same.
* Don't use the cheapest or most expensive cosmetics. Mom tells me that moderately priced cosmetics are the best. They get the job done, and the ingredients are usually pretty good. You have to keep trying various brands until you find something that works well for you.
* Hydrate your face throughout the day. Whether it's a commercial product, or one you make yourself (fill a spray bottle with distilled water, add a few drops of chamomile or rose essential oil, shake it gently before each use, and spray it on) hydrate your face, even over makeup, frequently throughout the day.
* Treat your face gently. Never pull, tug, or scrub your facial skin. Be very gentle when you clean it, moisturize it or makeup on it. This will lessen the chance that you'll damage your skin and get wrinkles.
* Keep your face covered when you're in the sun. As beautiful as she is, my mom never lets anyone see her face when she's in the sun. She'll slather on a high factor sunscreen, put on sunglasses, and a wide brimmed hat.
* Eat fresh foods and drink lots of water. My mom tells me to stay away from "dead food" food that's basically not fresh. She always eat lots of veggies, fruits, nuts, and drinks tons of water.
* Let go of stress. Stress can show up on your face, no matter how well you take care of your skin. Do something your enjoy everyday, whether it's watching TV or going shopping. Your face reflects what's going on inside of your mind.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Depression
Most patients suffering from depressive illness feel that they have some kind of ‘‘psychological stress’’. On the other hand, a certain degree of anxiety and depression is to be expected and is perhaps even desirable among members of a modern society that provides them with many schedules for their daily life. This was discussed by Hinkle [1] when summarizing the concept of stress after 50 years. The most common complaints by persons seeking psychotherapy seem to be stress-related symptoms such as anxiety and depression [2]. The chemical substances often used as ‘‘anti-stress medication’’ are alcohol and related psychoactive substances. However, these have the obvious disadvantage of impairing ability to carry out the many activities of modern daily life. As emphasized by Hinkle, only tobacco provides a feeling of well-being without creating drunkenness. However, both alcohol and tobacco create dependency, and tobacco has the other great disadvantage of causing cancer or myocardial infarction.
Depression, like many other mental disorders, is characterized by the presence
of a number of symptoms which are changeable over time. These
symptoms cluster together in several combinations and they present an
infinite variability at the individual patient level. Grouping these symptoms
and signs together, according to their shared features, is a necessary
step to understanding their psychopathological substrate, to uncovering
their underlying consistencies and eventually their common mechanisms, as
well as to accomplishing our clinical responsibility to predict their course
and effectively control them. Up to now no common causes for depressive
disorders are known that would allow for an etiologically based (true) classification.
Neither are there any biological markers available, which would by
themselves reliably and validly secure a biologically based diagnostic classification.
We have, therefore, to rely mainly on symptoms and the clinical
and familial characteristics of the patient in order to formulate a typological
diagnostic categorization. The assessment of symptoms, on the other hand,
is judgment-based, since there are no pathognomonic symptoms or categorical
cut-off points on depression measurements that would adequately
define and diagnose a ‘‘case’’ of depression.
Historical Background
Descriptions of depression and depression-related mental disorders date back to antiquity (Summerian and Egyptian documents date back to 2600 BC). However, it was Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and his disciples who first studied these conditions systematically and introduced the term ‘‘melancholia’’ to describe the symptoms and to provide a physiological explanation of their origin. The Hippocratic School attempted to link the balance of the postulated four humors (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) with the temperament and personality, and the latter two with the propensity to develop one of the four diseases (mania, melancholia, phrenitis and paranoia). It is interesting that Hippocrates considered symptom duration as a diagnostic criterion for melancholia by stating in one of his aphorisms that ‘‘if sorrow persists, then it is melancholia’’. Subsequent eminent authors of antiquity (Aretaeus of Capadokia, Galen and others) continued using the term melancholia and elaborated further on its symptomatology, its causation and its delineation from related disorders. The essentials of the traditional views on melancholia were retained during the middle ages and long after. The publication of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy in 1621, in addition to presenting an excellent description of a sufferer’s feelings, provided an informative review of the prevailing concepts on the nature of the illness at the time. The term ‘‘melancholia’’ survived as the only specifier of morbidmood and disposition until Kraepelin, at the end of the nineteenth century, introduced the term ‘‘manic-depression’’ to separate nosologically mood disorders from dementia praecox, known after Bleuler as schizophrenia.
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Depression, like many other mental disorders, is characterized by the presence
of a number of symptoms which are changeable over time. These
symptoms cluster together in several combinations and they present an
infinite variability at the individual patient level. Grouping these symptoms
and signs together, according to their shared features, is a necessary
step to understanding their psychopathological substrate, to uncovering
their underlying consistencies and eventually their common mechanisms, as
well as to accomplishing our clinical responsibility to predict their course
and effectively control them. Up to now no common causes for depressive
disorders are known that would allow for an etiologically based (true) classification.
Neither are there any biological markers available, which would by
themselves reliably and validly secure a biologically based diagnostic classification.
We have, therefore, to rely mainly on symptoms and the clinical
and familial characteristics of the patient in order to formulate a typological
diagnostic categorization. The assessment of symptoms, on the other hand,
is judgment-based, since there are no pathognomonic symptoms or categorical
cut-off points on depression measurements that would adequately
define and diagnose a ‘‘case’’ of depression.
Historical Background
Descriptions of depression and depression-related mental disorders date back to antiquity (Summerian and Egyptian documents date back to 2600 BC). However, it was Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and his disciples who first studied these conditions systematically and introduced the term ‘‘melancholia’’ to describe the symptoms and to provide a physiological explanation of their origin. The Hippocratic School attempted to link the balance of the postulated four humors (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) with the temperament and personality, and the latter two with the propensity to develop one of the four diseases (mania, melancholia, phrenitis and paranoia). It is interesting that Hippocrates considered symptom duration as a diagnostic criterion for melancholia by stating in one of his aphorisms that ‘‘if sorrow persists, then it is melancholia’’. Subsequent eminent authors of antiquity (Aretaeus of Capadokia, Galen and others) continued using the term melancholia and elaborated further on its symptomatology, its causation and its delineation from related disorders. The essentials of the traditional views on melancholia were retained during the middle ages and long after. The publication of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy in 1621, in addition to presenting an excellent description of a sufferer’s feelings, provided an informative review of the prevailing concepts on the nature of the illness at the time. The term ‘‘melancholia’’ survived as the only specifier of morbidmood and disposition until Kraepelin, at the end of the nineteenth century, introduced the term ‘‘manic-depression’’ to separate nosologically mood disorders from dementia praecox, known after Bleuler as schizophrenia.
article taken by:.rolagola.com/Health/depression.html
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