Sunday, 16 April 2017

10 Easy Everyday Tips for Keeping a Healthy Mental State



These 10 steps can help you keep your mental balance even in stressed situations:

1. Be Self-compassionate

Being self-compassionate means giving priority to self and taking care of one’s own needs and liking. In our busy life we forget to get time for ourselves. Simple things like learning your favorite dance or just taking out time to roam around your favorite park alone. Each day make it mandatory to get out at least an hour from your daily routine to give time to yourself.

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Why Elderly Suicide Rates are Highest Among Others

Depression and Suicide in Elderly

In recent time the elderly people suicide rates are highest among other age groups. It is evident from the figure where, about 18% of total suicidal deaths in US consisted of elderly people who make up only 12% of the population. Generally we take depression to be affecting middle age people and younger generations. But little we know that it is as deadly as in young generation as in the older generation. In old age people tend to ignore the fact that they can be highly depressed and even turn suicidal. There have been many cases of suicides among older people over the years and