it says stop. so one move bangladesh, a goes facing the country to the guessing pushed back in from their own families and showed done by seems those who loans seeking his self determines life, list of goals from drudgery and abuse. the oldest 5th on dw. ouch. a broken leg is never good news bus as mice at least attract some attention and sympathy. root canal treatment is painful and unpleasant. but he'll be relieved when it's over and maybe even have a man at the tone. but what about mental health problems like depression,

anxiety, and other disorders? oh, strange habits and compulsions people often keep quiet about them because they scared of teasing or has tennessee. but talking is the 1st step to recovery, which we're going to do now on in good shape. the some people need to have things precisely arranged or tied to each other's panic. if a knife points towards them at the table or they constantly fight the name of all these people mentioned they do. scientists agree that as long as someone has their habits under control and isn't controlled by them, that's perfectly healthy. everyone has of it's like, procrastination,

most people are at least a little familiar with that one lena and low hanging should be writing their batch or theses instead of drinking coffee. lots of us are familiar with this problem. you just can't muster up the energy to get on with that unpleasant job. instead you do the laundry or get out your smartphone for even clean the house, anything but the dreaded task. the fact of putting things off is called procrastination. psychotherapist museum hoff says it's a very common phenomenon, but making a habit of procrastinating can become a vicious circle. veneer costing you when you procrastinate, you avoid doing an activity and that's maybe the bill is a pining pull. your tax return doesn't get done. you don't pay things, don't do the dishes, don't do your laundry. and the amount of vision as you might as well which of these

unpleasant activities are things that need to be done and you procrastinate. so they can pull up so much that they become incredibly difficult on the system victories one, hampshire they have yet. the problem arises when things are left on done for so long that procrastinators get into real trouble. for example, with friends, family or at work. and that's when it's worth investigating what's on my problem? the, i'll still self if you'll make today took for the task and it's not why not, which is yet. thank you may be think you can't do the activity because you're not capable enough. then you don't have the skill levels opened up as soon as the phase tried that. so have a what i will do you think it so much it's going to overwhelm? yes. what happens? well, maybe you don't have what we call the necessary impulse control. mia? you get an idea or impulse to do something else instead, which you follow and you can't let it go so. so you,

i really need to think about because if you, procrastination and how to address them, test diesel. again, procrastination is even detectable in the brain. neuroscience has so found that the brains of procrastinators have a larger emotional center, the mic deluxe, and the area that controls planning and organization is less active. this could explain why some people avoid tasks and why this eventually becomes a habit. but how do you change that pattern? that's my go to mine does what festival, if possible, you should eliminate the words later or tomorrow from over a copy, larry, and really get things going on. yes, i'm be mindful of the positive feelings you'll have when the task is done by the end date. it's important to give yourself an immediate reward. it can be a small reward like a cup of coffee or reading a magazine when the task is done, medicaid is cut off because you don't have a whole so good is arranging to do it with all those corporate so much stuff. and

then you have that group pressure, so you're more likely to do it then if you sit down the line, i want to create routines. if you do something regularly, then you don't have to debate with yourself. should i do the task now or like to the see thing? they ended up part of precise planning to do lists and 6 through teams can also help to finally start tackling things instead of putting them off. and it will make the reward that much sweeter. these are all 5 hacks, just stop procrastinating. number one does focus on the whole project just on the very 1st step. for example, opening your laptop number 2 stops right now. not in 5 minutes, but now no excuses, no making coffee because the chance that you'll start at old increases a minute, 5 minute. number 3,

no distractions. turn off your phone and computer when you don't need them. maybe put a do not disturb sign on the door to stop people at home from bothering you. number 4 followed the 50s, the central. everything takes twice as long as you think service plan, realistically. and number 5, do the unpleasant task straight away, you get them out of the way. first, the rest of the day will be like every telling yourself with the stuff. how good you'll feel limits done. achieving things do self self esteem, which makes us happier. and then the end, you will just want to be as we can't see it, but we can feelings. everyone is looking for it. happiness. what makes people happy varies from person to person. my friend,

my boyfriend mostly makes me happy. uh uh, on my whole stick both my kids, the best with my children, my wedding finished. so i mean, when i can spend time doing things, i really like lock but things happen in life, but don't make it easy to be happy. a twist of fate can change everything. to h 45 gabby both had a serious accident and the higher i the house couple of i just slipped out as far so my cellphone and the mirror, my daughter stormi finds the house i saw. i said coolly. ambulance that need, i was excited to try and next to me and that's where i hit my back and broke my 12 sor sync back to birth. mm hm. awesome. so months gabby was dependent on working aids and it wasn't clear if she'd ever walk easily again during that time she told a lot about her life. well then obviously just so i so sorry. what was not supposed to show you that 5, why did this happen?

plus it for me, every single wife has at least 2 size license and i understood, but i just start this and often live for years i was constantly running doing some of the, you know, i have to start skin, but gabby quit her old job, make changes to her life and started doing regular exercise to improve her ok to help the mac. that was something happened to me and my physical awareness, the guns i stood on my feet differently, my self esteem was totally different. i just felt so much back to me. that was really nice. i made me really happy, should i on how exactly does a feeling of happiness like this arise in the brain and how can we influence it? that's the research and you're right, biologist, mountain quote, to appease distinguishes between brief moments of happiness and prolonged happiness . so stephen, i kind of unhappiness, can be a long term feeling. it's like immersing your life and a certain color and tall, whereas sudden feelings of happiness are short bursts of color and that light up

briefly and then fade away. effect. limon, we feel especially good when we're completely absorbed in a task will help a for example, playing sports. so listening to our favorite music, scientists cool this a flu state, the said leaving the done. then we experience flow when we immersed ourselves in an activity for at least 10 or 15 minutes without interruption. you get just the right and bio chemical cocktail. you need to be productive, but also to feel a deep sense of satisfaction and finish human brain. so why a to be social? so we also got long lasting happiness from shad experience. that is not how it is the most lasting happiness we get is with other people through other people when you do something for other people and at 1st but how much of our happiness is in all right, comes in 2007 us psychologist sonya you missed k, developed

a formula hypothesizing that's about 10 percent of happiness is down to tom's. for example of social circumstances. it goes on to state that we can actively shape around 40 percent with intentional activity, but that's up to 50 percent of all happiness as down to one teams. says how accurate is this for me to? we all stuck to unhappiness, reset you to be as, as actuated student, god, for recent studies from just last year. lead us to believe in genes account for more like a 3rd, but the beginning was ma, a o genes determine how much happy hormones to 40 releases and how receptive on that cells all to them. that's why some people find it a little easier to be happy. cottage tots, can you still be happy if you're not at the upper end of the scale is i to be definitely yes. all i'll genes can also change things to neuro plasticity. the

number of neurons and the happiness regions can change the brain as a whole can change in the box. so helping us come below, perhaps that's one of the reasons people tend to become happier in old age. studies show that happiness follows that you come after high phase in childhood and adolescence. it drops deeply in mid life and then shoots up again. it's in decline. it's the little things that make us happy, especially in older age months. but sometimes just the feeling of being there of feeling that inner peace from what we've seen just being able to pass something on is often enough or else small and helping others. also, it makes us happy by both experience this when she set to appoint associations, accident victims to work together towards that recovery lindsey mat. and when you give something to people and it helps them and it makes them happy, that's the most beautiful thing. there is,

the shortest of us is another to try writing down all the good things you've experienced in a day. because nice memories can also get the help, you know, school minds, clothing. sadly, these days it's sometimes hard to find time for happiness. millions of people worldwide suffer from stress. you want to get the best degree from university. your boss wants to see results immediately. all your structural cash again. stress makes us 6. how come our body's reaction to stresses linked to an age old mechanism? more than a 1000000 years ago, our ancestors reacted in the same way. for them, it was often a case of life and death. when you feel threatened to go to the nervous system instructs the body to produce stress hormones, adrenal glands attached to a kid. these release a cocktail of hormones, especially adrenalin and cortisol,

your blood pressure and pulse increase the blood rushes to your arms and legs. non urgent functions like that. justin are put on hold, and the body sensitivity pain is also reduced. it's all for one purpose to survive the threat either through the flight or fight. once the challenge has been made, your body needs to arrest. that was the case even with the earliest. a part of the brain known as the hipaa campus is key here. it shows the body to rain in the flood of hormones. the body relax is, and the park rates slows. endorphins are released and the brains reward center registers that the threat has been successfully dealt with. the same biochemical processes are also at work in modern humans. but stress researchers are concerned about the effect that time pressure, performance, anxiety, employment, do security,

and sensory overload all have on our bodies. many of us experience one stress inducer after and other doctors are finding increase levels of stress hormones that hang around in the body. in some cases that impacts normal activity in the hippo campus, the very part of the brain that normally induces relaxation after stress, doctors are finding growing evidence that they're normally beneficial to stress hormones can actually make a sick. they can lead to heart disease, depression, and depression sees in the immune system, studies into diabetes, arthritis, and even cancer, all show evidence of the harmful influence of stress. so the advice is to interrupt the cycle of stress as early as possible. explore different ways to relax and to make sure you get plenty of exercise. that will help you store

a healthy balance between stress and relaxation, which have always been part of the human experience. here all 3 s o s trips full stress grieves deeply and slow stress automatically makes your breath boston shut a counter at that by consciously breathing deeply and distractions. dunghill face an ice cold water or vice into a chilly have a strong stimuli. demand your full attention and can help to calm you down again. hit the stop button when say it's got to be too much, say it out loud. it might sound silly, but give it a try and it could help you to reset. of course, these measures and a health acute momentary stress. if you're stressed all the time, it's important to find the causes and eliminate them. because the constant,

psychological pressure can make you really ill. martine agrees to be filmed, but doesn't want to get his last name on tv. he's 37 years old and a social worker with a high school. he enjoys it, but it also made him sick. shut the estimates. i 1st had problems with dizziness and 2012 and they went on for a long time. when does it work? i had medical examinations to find out where it had come from to the constant dizziness and issues with my balance is but nothing came of it was locked in so help with a special clinic because of to 7 years of unexplained dizziness. he also started to get nothingness in his limbs and sense to read the stuff. and it says when it was too cold, when the math and english and that's when the whole marathon really started. orthopedists and the physical therapists were looking into it is because i also had

several hospital stays in neurology and wish to quote more how they were trying to figure out what was wrong with my nurses on them. but they didn't find any things done. some stuff thinking yeah, the solution was so close to right on the hospital grounds. dr. thomas feedback was working with a team of specialists, the cases just like mountains. after a year and a half has failed therapy, he was sent to the outpatient clinic for psycho semantics. i'm trying to get close to the content with no doctor, no diagnostician could really figure out the cause of his symptoms. skips this and he was full of skepticism at 1st the i'm just very tense. very unhappy with the previous treatment. and also very desperate because no one had been able to help them in content for the 1st time examiners. one looking separately at what the mountain had physical or psychological issues. hey, they take

a holistic approach. this therapists develop to disease profile, especially for him or some concept to help people to stand behind those plans. the treatment plan then develops from this profile. and today we had information about the areas that are affected by the disease and the factors that sustained the disease. and the treatment was then developed by a cross disciplinary team into the multiple of a 17. they decide what everyone does, the doctor, the psychologist, the special therapist and the nurses. it was the exercise program and conversations with therapists helped marketing find the truth cause of his symptoms. it was the stress he was placing on himself to be perfect and nothing make mistakes. he was ignoring warning signs from his body. mindfulness training helped him start listening more to the needs of his body in mind. when to come, relax i shutting down folk with changing my focus to be out,

but also changing my evaluation of the situation. so changing my perspective and that's that's the thing that helped me the most of my matthews treatment at the clinic last to 10 weeks today. just symptoms of almost completely disappeared. why do we always tell children not to be such good fit is completely normal. it helps protect us from danger, from recklessness and risks of all kinds. but as long as it can occur in situations that's viewed objectively, a completely safe, then it's an anxiety disorder. one of the most common mental illnesses that's so i thought i'm, it sounds so simple and the say is it is i just drive without a 2nd. thought i to sit down dr. ops view the car up there as well, but it wasn't like that before. and as soon as i left the front door,

my thoughts were full of fear that something would happen to me. so i just said, no, i won't drive, i won't go for a walk because i'll just stay at home and sleep all day calls. but the engine light on me since i was on slots. so the gunston tag, anxiety disorder, couldn't affect anyone. 27 year olds, nico and pen as a teacher and also play soccer to local club. you can sorry, t was triggered by the cardiac arrest of denmark's national today. i christiane ericsson, in 2021. after that, he lived in constant sit on my desk long as we were at a restaurant. and i had this tugging in my check. some i'm fine, who is right at the start of our relationship. and this feeling in my chest gave me a panic attack. so i went to the bathroom. i told her i didn't feel well. so we left and i think it was around 6 pm and i just lay down in bed and slept, which is often because girlfriend, laura was his greatest support during that time to technical difficulties today was

very open with me because of course you noticed the changes that came in to the us didn't want to do much anymore. so be, that's awesome. i usually like now we do a lot together, but he was just withdrawing more may as to what we think it's after i saw help, i was sent pretty quickly to the outpatient clinical but not the so it's like school. we go there for 8 hours and then you come home. if i lost a lot of weight, then i didn't need much. i slept a lot. i was exhausted in the was very noticeable, dismantling until now. he also let his teammates know before he went to the clinic for 6 weeks to have no soccer training for several months. while he worked on his anxiety. then came a slow return to everyday life. back to teaching at the elementary school. in fact, to training about the on off switch me, it was still difficult. it wasn't like i came out of the clinic and flicked my

fingers and the anxiety was on the table was still there, but i could cope with it better into the normal best of them. and once again, it all gets out of the sites. you can really tell how much has changed since he had the treatment since he went to therapy and worked on himself. if you compare that with 10 years before he's a totally different person, for them was much more reflective, much more cautious for your district to utah. you can really tell only 60 guy a controlling mental illness and diety disorders or is common even in elite sports as they are across society. and the easily treatable says frank ho, make about 20 athletes. come to his clinic. every yeah. to keep such relief style home up on it depends on whether you let it look around or blame it on the other illnesses or if you take the step like in this case, to be honest about what it is and how you want it to be. we should talk about mental illness the same way we talk about any other illness. i can kind of invite you to, i'm gonna ask how a year and

a half off to his time at the clinic because i'm pun, still has regular sessions with his therapist. when in my ma'am, it is and shouldn't do the step by step let's by confronting that, i'm making my way up to the staircase ones. yes, i can't say on the top or something, but i've come a long way and i'm really proud of sports and grateful and thankful with this open approach the athlete wants to encourage others. suffer as to understand that seeking help is not a sign of weakness, but of strength. being open about mental health problems is crucial for treatment and recovery. that's why conversations are usually a key pos of therapy. many people have begun to talk about the mental health on social media to fight against prejudice and false information. for example, bipolar disorder. the condition awesome causes, rollercoaster emotions. when someone fluctuates between depression and listlessness and manic episodes full of energy and drives,

everything needs to be securely in place to make sure that no rivaling disturbs the silence. when eco runs a podcast that discusses the many facets of bipolar disorder today she's interviewing and a ok. let's do this finding pharmacies. this episode is about delusions that can occur with the condition. it's been long, you know, i've been ill for yes. and it's really important to me to explain how it says that it's not 5 and can happen to anyone with mental illness. that'd be good enough to chicago have kind of on the floor. so who is a trained decorator? she 1st encountered it 8 years ago in the face of euphoria. she suddenly wanted to get a tattoo on a sunday with 5 bureaus in her pocket. she wandered around, getting more and more lost in fun hobbies cuz at some point i felt like something was very wrong with me and i needed to get to

a psychiatry board. i'm supposed to get enough to see someone called the police, i think, and they came and really had to grab me by som. i was going on with mr. affliction by the parking alexander a guy. and peter's is a psycho therapist, bipolar disorder. it can be very stressful for those affected not only during depression, but also during manic phases. steiger to 6, so i that can be increased sexual desire spending impulsive behavior. someone can cause a loss of destruction during a manic face. and relatives, friends and partners need to be able to deal with doctor as well. how and deep missing done alternative to all of them at only income. psychotherapy helps people to cope with the disorder and recognize symptoms for who keeps a so called mood diary to which stuff up to start direct questions about sleeping time. so if i took medication, did i have any positive experiences that day, whether any optimality these early warning signs? what social contact did i have?

physical tags and what tasks did i do? and to bubble, how was my mood to me? a name tag? back at the pod cast, they are recording the interview for episode 13 of 5 polar disorder, living with extremes. the pod cast isabel home because way of coping. what we'd like to take margin baloney, con. nicole. nita lorraine andre. everyone else for sharing their stories on in good shape. we have very grateful practice and gratitude is also good for you mental health. by the way, by and see you next week, the,

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