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You are beautiful. 💗

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It's important for us, as dog owners to always keep our doggo's healthy, did you know? You'll keep your dogs Mentally Healthy

It's even worse if you're a pet parent who has to work all day, leaving them at home. Playing with your dog really helps with the mental aspect of boredom and stimulates their brain. Interactive games like throwing a ball and having them fetch helps to build their focus and discipline. So dont forget to play fetch with your dog! Have a great weekend!

#mental health #dog owner #love live

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As the weekend start in the Philippines, no one can deny the fact that we are still in quarantine due to this pandemic. This pandemic changed our lifestyle and also to our kids/students. Now what we need to understand is how to spend our time teaching and growing with our families? The picture above are numerous ways for us to help our little ones cope up during this pandemic, it will help them grow mentally and emotionally, and of course the best part, their personal relationship with us. One of the best thing that I have learned during this pandemic that after all the negativity that happened last year, somehow i felt closer to my family. It is now the perfect time to bond with the people we love and learn to grow with them both mentally and emotionally. Stay healthy!

#mental health #mental breakdown #mental awareness #pandemic #lockdown #family

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When it comes to human emotionspecially happiness we have the chemical called, Endorphins and Dopamine the purpose of this chemical is to give happiness or laughter in our life. Menaing to say it is essential for us to understand what we feel and to figure out what actions we can do during this emotional breakdown. The wheel above is what we call "The feeling wheel" in the middle part we see the six main emotions we feel from time to time. Most often some of us find a hard time understanding what we feel or that certain emotion we want to let out. The picture above will help us identify what certain emotions we feel, if you want, you can save the picture above and when you feel certain emotion try to look it up and see what you really feel for you to avoid misinterpretation in your emotion. Have a good one!

#mental health #mental breakdown #mentalhealthawareness

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Often we hear that being "tough" or "brave" means we do not let any emotions out. In most society, they see sadness as weakness. But we have to understand that it is a common emotion for us. This what makes us humans, and it is our job, the teachers, parents and adult to teach the young generations that it is not okay to keep all our deep emotions to ourselves. At some point we need to let them know that it is normal to feel that way, so they may not grow having this secret destructive actions towards to others and to themselves. Let us teach them as young as they are, what are the healthy options they can do when they are frustrated or sad.

#mental breakdown #mental health awareness

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An End in Sight

- by Andrzej Krauze

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As we go through 2021, this is the perfect opportunity to grow and to help others be more productive. Specially our little ones, I am sure some of the kids these days are having a hard time filling up the gap inside the house. Encourage them to grow holistic, the picture above can help us learn what are the things we can improve and what are the habits we can acquire during this pandemic.

#mental health #spring 2021 #neverstopgrowing

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Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Promise in Small Trial

Participants with the disease still declined, but much more slowly than those receiving a placebo, investigators say.

In a small clinical trial, an experimental Alzheimer’s drug slowed the rate at which patients lost the ability to think and care for themselves, the drug maker Eli Lilly announced on Monday.

The findings have not been published in any form, and not been widely reviewed by other researchers. If accurate, it is the first time a positive result has been found in a so-called Phase 2 study, said Dr. Lon S. Schneider, professor of psychiatry, neurology and gerontology at the University of Southern California.

Other experimental drugs against Alzheimer’s were never tested in Phase 2 trials, moving straight to larger Phase 3 trials, or failed to produce positive results. The Phase 3 studies themselves have repeatedly had disappointing results.

The two-year study involved 272 patients with brain scans indicative of Alzheimer’s disease. Their symptoms ranged from mild to moderate.

The drug, donanemab, a monoclonal antibody, binds to a small part of the hard plaques in the brain made of a protein, amyloid, that are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Patients received the drug by infusion every four weeks.

Participants who received the drug had a 32 percent deceleration in the rate of decline, compared with those who got a placebo. In six to 12 months, plaques were gone and stayed gone, said Dr. Daniel Skovronsky, the company’s chief scientific officer. At that point, patients stopped getting the drug — they got a placebo instead — for the duration of the study.

The small study needs to be replicated, noted Dr. Michael Weiner, a leading Alzheimer’s researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. Still, “this is big news,” he said. “This holds out hope for patients and their families.”

Eli Lilly did not release the sort of pertinent data needed for a thorough analysis, Dr. Schneider said. For example, the company provided only percentages describing declines in function among the participants, not the actual numbers.

The company will provide those data at a subsequent meeting and in an article in a medical journal, Dr. Skovronsky said. Eli Lilly got the results on Friday and was required to report them immediately, he said, because the results can affect Lilly’s stock.

Dr. Schneider, who served on an independent data safety and monitoring board for the study, said he was not permitted to reveal any more data than the company provided.

The trial served as a test of the so-called amyloid hypothesis. The idea is that Alzheimer’s is intimately linked to the accumulation of amyloid in the brain; if amyloid accumulation can be prevented or reversed, the disease may be prevented or cured.

Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars testing anti-amyloid drugs to no avail, leading many experts to believe that the hypothesis is wrong — or that the only way to treat Alzheimer’s is to start very early, before there are any clinical signs of disease.

The Eli Lilly trial recruited patients not based on symptoms but on scans showing significant accumulations of amyloid in their brains. The researchers also performed scans for a protein, tau, that forms spaghetti-like tangles in the brain after the disease gets started.

“We needed mild to moderate tangle pathology, but not so many tangles that perhaps the disease is beyond hope,” Dr. Skovronsky said.

The primary endpoint, or goal of the trial, was a measurement that combined performance on mental tests of reasoning and memory with assessments of how well the participants performed in activities of daily living, like dressing themselves and preparing meals.

The main side effect was one regularly seen in patients given experimental monoclonal antibodies to treat Alzheimer’s: an accumulation of fluid in the brain. It occurred in close to 30 percent of patients, Dr. Skovronsky said, but most had no symptoms. The effect was seen on brain scans.

While the trial was going on, Eli Lilly started a second Phase 2 trial, Trailblazer 2, hoping that the initial effort would produce results. Those results are expected in 2023.

Dr. Skovronsky said Eli Lilly would be talking to the Food and Drug Administration and regulatory authorities in other countries about helping patients gain access to the drug.

“Certainly the data are exciting,” he said. “But we will have to see what the regulators say.” He has been hoping for 25 years for definitive evidence that the amyloid hypothesis is correct. “This is what we’ve been waiting for,” Dr. Skovronsky said.

By Gina Kolata (The New York Times). Image: Three scans of the brain of a 62-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, four years after diagnosis (Credit Zephyr/Science Source).

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Have you ever wondered what are the things you can control, and what are the things you can't? In our life it is normal for us to grow, to continue to know who we are. In order for us to grow healthier, we must first know our bounderies. Things that we cannot control, and things that we can control. And the moment we are aware on the things that we can control, it will make a huge difference when problems comes are way. The way we think, the way we feel, and the way we act. Focus on the things we can control, so when a problem appear we can handle it well. I remember my mientor Dr. Vic Bitoon would always remind me that "The problem itself is not the problem, but it is how we handle the problem."

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Hello, I’m in a really bad place right now. I really want to get better. But I have had horrible experiences with the mental health industry. Do you have any advice that doesn’t involve seeking a professional? -manni

Hey there Manni,

I’m so sorry that you have had such a bad experiences with the local mental health industry. Unfortunately some mental health professionals aren’t the greatest but this does not mean that all of them are like this. Personally I have seen some horrible counsellors and therapists over the years but I have also seen some amazing ones too which I have been able to get really far in with my recovery. So even though you have had some bad experiences in the past please don’t give up on this option of seeking help altogether.

Other ways that you can seek help that doesn’t involve seeing a professional may be joining an online mental health forum where you can speak to other people like yourself and support each other through tough times. Just be very careful with these online forums with not giving out any personal information and things like that. One good forum that I have found helpful over the years is psych central which you can access by clicking here. There are also other good forums out there that specialise in particular mental health illnesses but psych central offers support for anything and everything mental health related, so I definitely encourage you to check that one out.

I really hope that this has been helpful and that in time and when you are ready you are able to give professional help another go!

I’m thinking of you!

Take care,

Lauren

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As the weekend start here in the Philippines, always remember that one of the most greatest strength we can do to others is to lift them up emotionally. NOT PHYSICALLY. have a great weekend!

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/experiences/readexp1a.html

Ever wonder what it feels like when you have dyslexia? How about the kids who actually have that sickness? By clicking the link above, you will experience how kids with dyslexia and what they see and feel. Don't be too stubborn! Get a therapy for your little ones!

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Hi! As you can see on my latest post, it is a series of children's story books that can help them have a healthy coping mechanism! All of them are available in Amazon and Ebay. Thanks! Have a nice day!

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