Category: Mental Health

We all know that physical exercise is good for your body. But it can play a really important role in mental recovery too. When you exercise feel-good endorphins are released into your brain. This improves your mood. At the same time, levels of adrenaline and cortisol (which cause stress) are reduced. This combination of mental changes brought on by physical exercise can really improve your mental health. Here are seven more ways physical exercises are good for your mental recovery: Mindfulness When you’re engaged in physical activity that requires concentration, you don’t have the head space to think of anything else. Negative or destructive thought patterns have to move aside so you can focus on the physical task at hand. Pilates and yoga are both great low-impact forms of exercise that demand your full concentration. You focus your mind on your breathing and on individual parts of your body, rather than your worries or stresses. Improved Self Esteem When you exercise regularly your fitness level will start to rise and you may lose some weight. You could advance from a short jog around the block to completing a 10k run. Seeing the progress you make can give you a real […]

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People who have mental illness are often stigmatized and discriminated against because companies and employees do not understand how serious the illness can be. Early diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses can alleviate problems in the workplace and in general. If overlooked, they can lead to severe issues, including death. If you are an employer, you want to be sure you are knowledgeable about mental health disorders and how to deal with it in the workplace. Mental health challenges in workplace can also cause severe consequences not only for the employees, but for performance and productivity of the organization. This means organizational performance, staff turnover, employees’ rate of illness and absenteeism are possibly at risk. Despite if people believe mental illness is important or not, it is still constantly overlooked, here’s why: Afraid of Mental Illnesses Many people are afraid of mental health issues, or don’t even believe them as real problems because they have never experiences them first hand. This causes different reactions to mental illness situations – 47 percent of Americans feel uncomfortable even living next door to someone who has a mental illness. It’s common in families to avoid the “mental illness” topic completely, because certain families […]

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