Holistic Approach to Mental Illness Therapy
Mental illness once occupied the harsh frontier of medicine. In the past, mental health patients were often treated with disregard for their whole person. Physicians went after their symptoms, hoping to extinguish their symptoms with radical therapies and strong drugs. Studies show that current mental health patients are still receiving substandard care. Individuals with mental illness are much more vulnerable to developing health problems than the general population. In fact, a recent UK study found that mental health patients were five times more likely to develop diabetes, and twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, than the general population. Mental health patients often lack lifestyle management advice and training, as well as the social interaction that is key to maintaining good health.
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Topic: Mental Illness
Why Scents Makes Sense as an Alternative Therapy
The word “scented” appears on everything from perfumes to household cleaning products. Increasingly, people are aware of the benefits that can be achieved through our sense of smell and are incorporating aromatherapy into their beauty and holistic health care regimens.
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Topic: Aromatherapy Information
Holistic Lifestyle through Aromatherapy
In the day and age where our lives have become much like that of going through a drive-in window, we begin to find we don’t have time to do the things we enjoy, or find that time to have a quality relationship with ourselves, others in our lives and hence flowing over into our spiritual relationship. When we look at what the definition of holistic living, the American Heritage Dictionary says it is the belief of emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. People who want to live holistic lifestyles spend time working on the whole picture of themselves including the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social parts of their person. Holistic lifestyles not only emphasize the common parts of good health including maintaining a good physical being, they also suggest examining and changing a person’s nutrition, environment, and social values to ensure the person is living up to his or her potential. A huge part of any good holistic lifestyle can be aromatherapy.
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Topic: Aromatherapy Information
