Ebola: Why We Must Not Be Fearful

 

“WHO warns 10,000 new cases of Ebola a week are possible …“

“Why Ebola is so dangerous”

“Ebola airborne: A nightmare that could happen” – CNN.com

The news of Ebola is everywhere. Ebola appears to be threatening humankind and no one is deemed safe. Or so it seems reading between the big headlines. There is a fuel of fear that is breeding because the experts tell us that we cannot be anything else but worried. Not being worried, is akin to being plain irresponsible.

There seems to be a saturation of ebola news bringing fear

The rumours and news are certainly spreading at an accelerating and ‘overtaking’ rate of the disease itself. Not only are we dealing with the epidemic of the disease, but there is also another epidemic of Ebola ‘information overload’ that is creating anxiety and dread all around.

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Get Rid of Regret

Do you say any of these? If so, perhaps you are living in regret. Aim to eliminate these from your vocabulary and get rid of regret in your life once and for all. 

 

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Guest Blog: Dealing with Depression

by Monika Ribeiro

 

Along the other symptoms, which drain the blood out of your face and take the spring out of your walk, depression arrives with the lack of hope, positive vision and with fears instead of faith.

Once a mind is fully handed over to the Most High, depression becomes a distant memory

There may be medical reasons fuelling the incapacity described above which too many are forced to face these days. I believed that my experience of it was a result of a medical condition, initially. Yet looking back, I am convinced that a combination of untamed and not always legitimate desires paired with constant negative confessions had been momentous in bringing it to my doorstep.

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Overcoming Addiction

Addiction often comes like a compelling, driving force, a compulsive behaviour. Those challenged with addictions are always looking for ways in overcoming addiction. This is because addictive behaviour is often harmful to the individual concerned and also their relationships. 
 

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With addictive behaviour there is extreme self-focus. In other words, people challenged with addictions can have a tunnel vision, thinking of themselves and not the impact they have on others.

Compulsive behaviour feeds on itself. It attracts all sorts of other compulsive behaviour. For example, (and this is an example), someone addicted to gambling may also find themselves lying to their spouse, making high risk financial decisions and so on.

Addictions however, are not always something extreme like overindulgence in alcohol, gambling or smoking, which we know are harmful. One can be addicted to coffee., to sugar, cakes and so on. One can be also addicted to the internet or addicted to the television. On the face of it, none of these are necessarily wrong or evil. But where its constant use or indulgence begins to control your life or even harm your health, then there may be an addictive behaviour developing!

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Feelings on a Psychiatric Ward

I was recently admitted to a psychiatric ward for about ten days.

My first response was disbelief. It had been a year since my last admittance. I had been well and bipolar disorder had not got the better of me. So disappointment and disbelief were my initial emotions.

I basically slept on and off for the first three days. The medications enabled my behaviour and mind to calm down, I guess.

So on day four or five, I decided to enter the open ward and leave my room. I had decided that I did not want to interact with anyone, and initially kept to myself. By this time, I had accepted the situation, and was keen to get better, so that I could go back home.

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Life on a Mental Health Ward: First few days

One never gets used to being in a mental/psychiatric hospital.  Every stay is a new experience.  It is also another detour in one’s desperate escape from the enemy of mental illness.

The insane asylum, loony bin, nuthouse, cuckoo house, padded palace, crazy house – alternative names used to refer to mental hospital!

All types of mental health ailments are represented in the ward with people at various stages of recovery (or at least were in those times).  There were patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act and voluntary patients like myself. 

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When Mental Illness strikes a marriage – Walking in my shoes

It is said there is an elevated risk of divorce when a spouse is challenged with mental illness.   The cycle of emotions that the caring spouse endures make this risk pronounced, as sentiments towards the other run high and scorch desert dry.  Everyone and thing gets affected.  The kids, the extended family, the friends, the pets et al.

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Defying Mental Illness - Put a full stop
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Defying Mental Illness

Put a full stop
www.defyingmentalillness.com

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