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Prevention from Lifestyle Diseases through Yoga Asana (Part-8 Thyroid)

Introduction Yoga is one of the best thing that, India gifted to the humanity. Yoga have so many benefits that we have discussed in our previous articles. Yoga balances your energy level, helpful in your mental tension and increases your flexibility. Now, we will talk about how you can prevent yourself or cure your thyroid disease with the help of yoga. Several studies have shown that yoga is helpful in improving your thyroid disease (weather it is a Hypothyroidism or Hyperthyroidism). Some Information on Thyroid disease Well, now-a-days, thyroid is very common in people across the world. The thyroid is a small gland in the body, specifically in throat which secrets hormones, these hormones help in maintaining metabolism, temperature and growth of the body. These hormones are also important for a child's brain development. Thyroid disease affect the patient's physical and mental health. This disease is more common in women than men.  Mainly thyroid disease are of two types: Hyp...

Mental health: Introduction to different types of mental disorders.

 Mental Health

Mental health refers to the state of mind, that helps you to handle stressful situations of life, helps to do your daily tasks, so you can contribute to your society and country.

It refers to cognitive behaviour and emotional well being. Mental health also includes how you feel, think and behave with other peoples. Some people thought that if they are free from any kind of mental disorder than they are mentally fit. 

If you are a short tempered person, anyone can make you angry very easily and if you are crying at small things then your mental health is not in a good condition.

Types of mental health disorders:

A) Anxiety Disorders: Whenever you feel stressed or any potential dangerous is ahead of  you, you feel anxious. Sometimes feel anxious is not a big deal because anxiety is normal emotion, everyone feel anxious whenever there is a situation of stress or any other kind of danger. In some situation feeling anxious is OK but in anxiety disorder the individual who suffers don't have the feeling that there anxiety has stopped, they always have a feeling of anxiety. They are anxious everyday and in just small situation of life. Without any proper treatment this disorder can get worse. This disorder can progress upto the point that individual feel anxious all the time.

Types of Anxiety Disorders:

1) Journalised anxiety disorder

2) Panic disorder

3) Social anxiety disorder 

4) Specific phobias and many more.

Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders:

1) Panic, fear 

2) Feeling of danger 

3) Sleep problems 

4) Shortness of breath 

5) Not being able to stay come and still

Causes of Anxiety Disorders:

1) Trauma

2) Stress

3) Drugs or Alcohol

4) Genetic Transfer

5) Any damage Brain Functioning

B) Mood Disorders: In mood disorders, you can experience long period of extreme happiness, extreme sadness or both. The individual who suffer from this disorder also have an instant emotional change like he/she will get angry very easy and can be irritated by small things. These instant mood changes happens because mood disorder affects your emotional state. It is normal for your mood to change depending on the situation but, mood disorder can affect your daily life such as you can't focus on your daily routine task, like work or school.

Some of the Mood Disorders are:

1) Depression

2) Bipolar Disorder

3) Dysthymia Disorder

Symptoms of Mood Disorders:

1) Low self-esteem

2) Fatigue or low energy

3) Poor Concentration

4) Trouble in decision making

5) Trouble in concentration

Causes of Mood Disorders:

1) Genetics

2) Isolation

3) Stress

4) Medical illness

5) Any mis-happening occurs in life.

C) Psychotic Disorders: In Psychotic disorder you can't think clearly. This mental disorder causes distorted thinking. These disorders are the group of serious illnesses that affects your mind and make it hard for you to think clearly, communicate effectively, respond emotionally and behave appropriately. Any person who suffer from these disorders is always live in his/her imagination. Patients of psychotic disorder are always have trouble in staying touch with reality and often are unable to handle daily life situations. They always experience hallucinations and delusions due to lost in touch with reality. They often distrust those persons who are around them and make decision that put themselves or others in danger, but the treatment for the psychotic disorder is available. A person can get treatment through medication or psychotherapy or combination of both. Psychotherapy is a type of counselling.

Some of the most common psychotic disorders:

1) Schizophrenia

2) Schizopactive disorder 

3) Delusion disorder

Symptoms of Psychotic Disorders:

1) Hallucination 

2) Confused thinking 

3) Less interest in activities 

4) Mood swings 

5) Behave very strange

Causes of Psychotic Disorders:

1) Stress, drug abuse 

2) Brain injury 

3) Imbalance in brain chemicals 

4) Genetic transfer

D) Eating Disorders: Eating disorders are extremely serious and required professional care. It is group of condition marked by an unhealthy relationship with food. Today 7 to 9% of the global population has some form of an eating disorder. Eating disorders are much common in girls and women as compared to boys and men. The chance of developing eating disorder is more during the teenage and young adult years.

Types of eating disorder:

1) Anorexia Nervosa

2) avoidant restrictive food intake disorder 

3) Bulimia nervosa

4) Binge eating disorder 

6) Rumination disorder

Symptoms of Eating Disorders:

1) Dramatic weight loss 

2) Exercising excessively 

3) Stopping menstruiting 

4) Regular complaining about constipation

5) Regular stomach pain

Causes of Eating Disorders:

There is no specific cause of eating disorders but, these disorder can exist side-by-side with psychological and medical issues such as so low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and any other emotional issues.

E) Dementia: Dementia is a condition where a person forget about their past. It is serious mental condition where memory loss can become so extreme that makes it challenging for people to take care for themselves. Patients who suffer from dementia can also lose their ability of concentration, logical reasoning and other mental abilities, these changes are enough to affect person social and occupational life. About 8 to 10% adults over the age of 65 have some form of dementia. This percent doubles every 5 years after 65. Between 58% to 80% of people with dementia have Alzheimer problem. People who are affected with Alzheimer disease having high chance to get dementia.

Types of Dementia:

1) Alzheimer disease 

2) Vascular dementia 

3) Dementia from Parkinson's disease 

4) Cortical Dementia 

5) Subcortical dementia

Symptoms of dementia:

1) Getting lost 

2) Short term memory problems

3) Communication problems 

4) Personality changes like depression, aggression 

5) Instant mood swings

Causes of Dementia:

1) Alcohol aur drugs

2) Tumors 

3) Metabolic disorder such as vitamin B12 deficiency

4) Low blood sugar level

5) Brain damage

6) Personality Disorders: Personality disorder disrupts the pattern of your thinking, functioning and behaving. A person who suffer from personality disorder has trouble in recognising people and situation related to him/her. Personality disorder requires psychotherapy for treatment. In personality disorder, patient may have an negative approach towards reality, abnormal behaviour and always distress across various aspect of life including work, relationship and social functioning. Person of personality disorder may not recognise that their troubling behaviour have and negative impact on others.

Some of the most common personality disorders are:

1) Border line personality disorder 

2) Anti social personality disorder

3)Dissociative identity disorder

4) Narcissistic personality disorder

Symptoms of Personality Disorders:

1) Lack of interest in social and personal relationship 

2) In ability to take pleasure in most activities

3) Little range of emotional expression

4) Always prefer to be alone

Causes of Personality Disorders:

1) Genetics 

2) Brain changes 

3) Childhood trauma 

4) Verbal abuse 

5) Brain damage

7) Autism Spectrum Disorder: It is a disorder that affects development and social skill development. The person with ASD does not interect with other people. It starts in childhood and remain lifelong. There are various forms of this disorder many different symptoms are found in children. In case of country like USA every child in 68 children is affected from ASD. This disorder is more profound in girls as compared to boys. If it's symptoms and signs are identified at early stage, then it can be treated effectively. Normally, 14 year children are mostly affected by ASD. ASD effects life of a child in three ways. First in social interaction, 2nd is communication skills and third is behaviour and interest. In this disorder we find different patterns in each effected child. Some children face difficult in understanding, some have fear of interaction with others and some have both. Children with a ASD behave differently or repeat some actions over and over again. They avoid eye contact and sensitive to taste, smell and sound.

Symptoms of ASD:

1) Difficulty in communication 

2) Do not express emotions 

3) Repetitive behaviour 

4) Avoid eye contact

5) Don't make friends

Causes of ASD:

1) Over usage of medicine

2) Lack of care and concerned from others

3) Environmental related 

4) Family disruptive environment 

5) Genetic reasons

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