by Andrea Southern | Apr 22, 2017 | All Health, Mental Health
Every year, about one in 25 Australian adults meets the criteria for being diagnosed with depression, with women more likely to be diagnosed compared to men (9.9% for women compared to 5.6% for men) More than 1 in 10 people are currently taking anti depressants, with...
by Andrea Southern | Mar 7, 2017 | All Health, Mental Health
As with depression and other mental health issues, anxiety has a rather chequered past. The Ancient Greek philosopher Plato described anxiety (coined as hysteria) as being caused by the female uterus, which would travel around the body “…blocking passages, obstructing...
by Andrea Southern | Jan 30, 2017 | All Health, Mental Health
Would you like to be free of negative emotions and thoughts such as anger, frustration, resentfulness, regret, bitterness, anxiety, worry, stress? Are you a compulsive thinker, your mind going over and over problems? Would you like to learn how to clear your mind, how...
by Andrea Southern | Aug 29, 2016 | All Health, Mental Health, Thyroid Health
In this final part to the series on stress and its impact on your body, I will be looking at the impact of stress on your adrenal glands and hormones. Adrenal health: The adrenal glands are 2 small glands located on the top of your kidneys. They are made up of 2 parts...
by Andrea Southern | Aug 9, 2016 | All Health, Mental Health, Weight issues
The first 3 parts of this series on stress covered the impact on the digestive and immune system, skin conditions, migraines, headaches, insomnia and cardiovascular health. It should now be obvious just how far reaching stress is with regards to negative impacts on...
by Andrea Southern | Jun 7, 2016 | All Health, Mental Health
In Part 1 and 2 of this series on the impact of stress on your body, I looked at the impact of stress – both high levels and chronic low levels – on the Digestive and Immune systems, on skin conditions, headaches and migraines. Part 3 of this series will...
