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Tips for Developing Greater Psychological Health
In human life six qualities are considered “mature defences,” or qualities of a psychologically well-off person. While most of us harbour some neurotic, immature, or narcissistic tendencies, we can focus on the following traits to cultivate a well-lived and healthier life:
• Altruism
• Anticipation
• Asceticism
• Humar
• Sublimation
• Suppression
People with these qualities meet demands while satisfying personal needs. They are adaptable, resilient, and can take on challenges and form solid relationships.
In psychoanalysis, we distinguish life goals, such as a particular career, from psychological goals, such as greater resilience. The hope is that a strengthened psyche (internal life) will breed a better external life. The development of “mature defenses” is useful both psychologically and practically. Who you are motivates what you do, achieve, and acquire, whether a position or a person to love. Though much of disposition is innate, inherent tendencies can be honed and existence-enhancing behaviours learned.
These characteristics foster a more harmonious way of living, interpersonally and otherwise. Happy moments are more frequent when you are psychologically fortified. Altruism, anticipation, asceticism, humour, sublimation, and suppression foster positive outcomes and even inner peace.
Let’s look at the six qualities more closely.
1. Altruism
Self-sacrifice is healthy unless you deplete yourself or become resentful. This latter situation, called “altruistic surrender,” can be a masochistic choice and cause more harm than good. Your exhaustion and your subject’s guilt are non-deal outcomes.
Tip: Understand where to draw the line between giving and surrendering.
2. Anticipation
Anticipation steadies and readies. Healthy pessimism is a positive quality. Considering what could go wrong prepares you both psychologically and practically. Blows, setbacks, obstacles, and competitors won't blindside you. Although optimism can motivate, and negativity deflates, blind optimism leads to hard falls.
Tip: Stay the course with confidence, awareness, and good reality testing.
3. Asceticism
“Gratification is derived from renunciation.” Self-mastery is empowering. The ability to resist temptation was studied in the famous Stanford Marshmallow Test. Young children were told that if they did not eat a marshmallow put in front of them they would get two later. Those that delayed gratification turned out to be more successful adults. Asceticism is often associated with religion, but psychologically speaking, it represents the self-control that conjures happiness. This is not to say that indulgences are not necessary; they are.
Tip: The bottom line is to balance the pleasure principle (hedonistic drive) and the reality principle (ability to assess circumstances and choose discomfort to achieve a superior result.)
4. Humour
“Humour allows one to bear, and yet focus on, what is too terrible to be borne, in contrast to wit, which involves distraction or displacement from the affective (emotional) issue.” Tragedy and comedy can stem from the same source. Humour is a way to deal with a problem while staying connected to the source of pain, whereas wit can be an attempt to dismiss or detach from it.
Tip: Be with a person who makes you laugh because this provides both connection and distraction. You may have to sit in the sadness for a while, but that is far better than fighting it. In order to be free from heartache, you first have to feel it. Denial interferes with moving on because your energies are used (unsuccessfully) to battle truth rather than accepting it, working through it, and letting go.
5. Sublimation
Sublimation involves channelling raw instinct into refined production. Powerful energies that might otherwise cause chaos or destruction are directed into positive situations, people, projects, or goals. Trying to repress or rid intense drives, can lead to torturous inner states and uncomfortable symptoms, such as anxiety.
Tip: Know and accept what is in your core and employ it rather than running away. Follow your passion/desire/wild side, but direct it, rather than letting it direct you.
6. Suppression
Sometimes you have to put things on the back burner. Suppression is different from repression in that the matter is within reach of consciousness but is not immediately addressed. It floats about in the back of the mind. The ability to hold back and live with the nagging discomfort of non-resolution is a skill. Suppression allows for the ripening of the solution. Sometimes you just can’t deal with it right now—and it is better that you don’t.
Tip: Wait until the solution comes to you rather than taking premature action, which can interfere with a natural course and a desired result. Timing matters. Also, if something is too overwhelming, maybe you should wait till you have support.
Everyone has something to work on, psychologically speaking. We all have healthy and less healthy qualities. If change interests you, here are 6 more tips for psychological change:
• Gather insight
• Be curious
• Practice rational self-critique
• Get comfortable with discomfort
• Remove unnecessary guilt
• See which of the six traits are already within you and build upon them. Starting with a fragment is just fine
As far as healthy traits go, I would add self-knowledge. Good-fit decisions (choices that best match the healthier side of your authentic personality) with regard to work, love, school, community, and environment can elude you if you are not self-aware. Insight protects saves, liberates, and even leads to happiness.

Tell your daughter to be powerful
Tell your daughter to be fearless
Tell your daughter don't be too shy and be more confident
Tell your daughter to be more lively rather be introvert
Tell your daughter find the solution on _her own of her problems_
Tell your daughter she is the master of her life and _all the keys to her locks are there in her hands_
Tell her to be more courageous
Tell her to be _the motivation for others_
Tell her she is unique and _b'ful in her own way_
Tell her to stay fit rather than be _confined in_ Zero figure
Tell her she is the one who can take all the decision of her life
Because she is fearless , outstanding and _flawless_

7 Common Types of Depression

When people think about depression, they often divide it into one of two things—either clinical depression which requires treatment or "regular" depression that pretty much anyone can go through. As a condition, depression can be a difficult concept to grasp since we refer to it as both the symptom of a condition and a condition itself.
From a medical standpoint, depression is defined as a mood disorder which causes a persistent feeling of depressed mood or sadness and the often profound loss of interest in things that usually bring you pleasure.
It affects how you feel, think, and behave and can interfere with your ability to function and carry on with daily life. There are many different causes of depression, some of which we don't fully understand. Seven of the more common types include the following.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
When people use the term clinical depression, they are generally referring to major depressive disorder (MDD).1 Major depressive disorder is a mood disorder characterized by a number of key features:
• Depressed mood
• Lack of interest in activities normally enjoyed
• Changes in weight
• Changes in sleep
• Fatigue
• Feelings of worthlessness and guilt
• Difficulty concentrating
• Thoughts of death and su***de1
If a person experiences the majority of these symptoms for longer than a two-week period, they will often be diagnosed with MDD.
Persistent Depressive Disorder now known as persistent depressive disorder, refers to a type of chronic depression present for more days than not for at least two years. It can be mild, moderate, or severe. People might experience brief periods of not feeling depressed, but this relief of symptoms lasts for two months or less. While the symptoms are not as severe as major depressive disorder, they are pervasive and long-lasting.
Symptoms include:
• Feelings of sadness
• Loss of interest and pleasure
• Anger and irritability
• Feelings of guilt
• Low self-esteem
• Difficulty falling or staying asleep
• Sleeping too much
• Feelings of hopelessness
• Fatigue and lack of energy
• Changes in appetite
• Trouble concentrating
Treatment for persistent depressive disorder often involves the use of medications and psychotherapy.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 1.5% of adults in the U.S. had persistent depressive disorder in the past year. The disorder affects women (1.9%) more than men (1%) and researchers estimate that around 1.3% of all U.S. adults will have the disorder at some point during their lives.
Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder characterized by periods of abnormally elevated mood known as mania. These periods can be mild (hypomania) or they can be so extreme as to cause marked impairment with a person's life, require hospitalization, or affect a person's sense of reality. The vast majority of those with bipolar illness also have episodes of major depression.2
In addition to depressed mood and markedly diminished interest in activities, people with depression often have a range of physical and emotional symptoms which may include:1
• Fatigue, insomnia, and lethargy
• Unexplained aches, pains, and psychomotor agitation
• Hopelessness and loss of self-esteem
• Irritability and anxiety
• Indecision and disorganization
The risk of su***de in bipolar illness is about 15 times greater than in the general population. Psychosis (including hallucinations and delusions) can also occur in more extreme cases.
Postpartum Depression
Pregnancy can bring about significant hormonal shifts that can often affect a woman's moods. Depression can have its onset during pregnancy or following the birth of a child.
Currently classified as depression with peripartum onset, postpartum depression (PPD) is more than that just the "baby blues."1
Mood changes, anxiety, irritability, and other symptoms are not uncommon after giving birth and often last up to two weeks. PPD symptoms are more severe and longer-lasting.
Such symptoms can include:
• Low mood, feelings of sadness
• Severe mood swings
• Social withdrawal
• Trouble bonding with your baby
• Appetite changes
• Feeling helpless and hopeless
• Loss of interest in things you used to enjoy
• Feeling inadequate or worthless
• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Thoughts of hurting yourself or your baby
• Thoughts of su***de
PPD can range from a persistent lethargy and sadness that requires medical treatment all the way up to postpartum psychosis, a condition in which the mood episode is accompanied by confusion, hallucinations or delusions.
If left untreated, the condition can last up to a year. Fortunately, research has found that treatments such as antidepressants, counseling, and hormone therapy can be effective.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
Among the most common symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are irritability, fatigue, anxiety, moodiness, bloating, increased appetite, food cravings, aches, and breast tenderness.1
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) produces similar symptoms, but those related to mood are more pronounced.
They may include:
• Extreme fatigue
• Feeling sad, hopeless, or self-critical
• Severe feelings of stress or anxiety
• Mood swings, often with bouts of crying
• Irritability
• Inability to concentrate
• Food cravings or binging
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
If you experience depression, sleepiness, and weight gain during the winter months but feel perfectly fine in spring, you may have a condition known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD),1 currently called major depressive disorder, with seasonal pattern.
SAD is believed to be triggered by a disturbance in the normal circadian rhythm of the body. 3 Light entering through the eyes influences this rhythm, and any seasonal variation in night/day pattern can cause a disruption leading to depression.
Prevalence rates for SAD can be difficult to pinpoint because the condition often goes undiagnosed and unreported. It is more common in areas further from the equator. For example, estimates suggest that SAD impacts 1% of the population of Florida, which increases to 9% in Alaska.4
SAD is more common in far northern or far southern regions of the planet and can often be treated with light therapy to offset the seasonal loss the daylight.
Atypical Depression
Do you experience signs of depression (such as overeating, sleeping too much, or extreme sensitivity to rejection) but find yourself suddenly perking up in face of a positive event?
Based on these symptoms, you may be diagnosed with atypical depression, (current terminology refers to this as depressive disorder with atypical features) a type of depression which does not follow what was thought to be the "typical" presentation of the disorder. Atypical depression is characterized by a specific set of symptoms related to:1
• Excessive eating or weight gain
• Excessive sleep
• Fatigue, weakness, and feeling "weighed down"
• Intense sensitivity to rejection
• Strongly reactive moods
It is actually more common than the name might imply. Unlike other forms of depression, people with atypical depression may respond better to a