June 23, 2008

What are the long-term effects of being out of balance?

Filed under: mind — cgc @ 4:43 pm

I can attest to the long-term effects of having a life out of balance—and they aren’t pretty. The effects on health are the most noticeable, generally starting with headaches, skin con­ditions and an upset stomach, often accompanied by a general feeling of being unwell. Some people have a permanent cold or flu, get bags under their eyes or start to hear the comment, ‘Gee, you look tired’, a lot more often.

Along with the physical symptoms come the emotional ones. We start to get more irritable, we don’t sleep as well as we used to, perhaps we start to get anxiety and even panic attacks, and we are irritable and generally highly strung. Under these conditions we can find (more…)

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June 3, 2008

What is the future of health psychology?

Filed under: global health — cgc @ 6:39 am

Health psychology is an expanding area in the UK, across Europe, in Australia and New Zealand and in the USA. For many students this involves taking a health psychology course as part of their psychology degree. For some students health psychology plays a part of their studies for other allied disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, health studies and dentistry. However, in addition to studying health psychology at this preliminary level, an increasing number of students carry out higher (more…)

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