Self esteem is the way you hold yourself; it means how you think about yourself. Folks who have a healthy self pride live a happy and prosperous life. On the other hand, individuals with low esteem live a miserable and poor life. If you believe that you are not important, your life will be meaningless. Moreover, you won’t be able to attract the best things in life by thinking low about yourself. Poor self pride has numerous side effects on the life of any individual. Besides work and social life, low self esteem can take a heavy toll on your relationships. Continue reading “How Can Low Self-esteem Take A Toll On Your Relationships”


Each one of us feels miserable or sad sometimes, but this sort of feeling should be there only for a few minutes or hours. After sometimes, we should be able to enjoy the things around us without worrying. On the other hand, if this type of feeling is disturbing you most of the time and even prevent you from concentrating on things, you may have depression. When there is depression, you might not be able to hang out with your friends and family members or may not be in a position to do well in your school or work. In other words, you will lose interest in everything around you. You might experience that there is a reduction in the level of your self esteem. Now, let us dwell into some details about depression: Continue reading “Effect Of Major And Minor Depression On Your Self Esteem”


Problems with anxiety are common and a record shows that at least one in every six people face this condition at some point in their lives. It is nothing but a feeling of panic or fear. Some people will have this sort of feeling for some specific situations in their life. Like for instance, for some, the exams might be fearful, while for some handling money will be fearful. But, they will become calm once the situation is over. But, in some people, this sort of feeling will bring about an impact on their relationships too. These people should be careful that their anxiety issues should not bring about any problems with their friends or family members. Continue reading “Don’t Let Your Relationships Suffer Due To Your Anxiety Issues”


If you observe that your child has difficulty in making in keeping friends or is unable to conduct himself in an appropriate manner at places like school and parties, which require social interaction, or if he avoids eye contact when conversing, it could mean that your child’s social skills are not up to the mark. You could consider enlisting the help of a children’s social skill group to help your child improve his social skills. Continue reading “What to Look for in Children’s Social Skill Groups”


Sleep disorders is a serious problem in both adults and children. It is more serious if detected in a child due to various reasons. First and foremost night time sleep is the time when body gets to rest, any physical damage also gets repaired during this time, regeneration of cells and growth is also dependent on it. There is no doubt that a child deprived of normal amount of sleep is going to be drowsy and less energetic the next day. This would mean missed classes and game sessions. Less concentration in lessons and over all, less productivity. How do you avoid this? Read on to know if your child is one of the children with anxiety who suffer from sleep disorders? Continue reading “Sleep Disorders in Children with Anxiety”


You are not daydreaming if you see yourself walking hand in hand with your spouse even in the sunset years of life. Making a marriage last for years together is not very difficult, though it does require effort from both of you. But make a commitment to yourself and to your spouse that you will make it work, no matter what it takes, and you will see yourself fulfilling it. Keeping a marriage going strong is no rocket science. All you need is love and honesty, and read up these amazingly simple secrets to keep your married life healthy and rocking! Continue reading “Secret of Healthy Marriages”


It has been long suspected that Migraine and depression has some sort of a connection. The fact that it really does, got substantiated in a recent study conducted by researchers from Toronto University. The study which was conducted by experts have shown that while only 3% of men without migraine suffer depression, almost 8% of those with migraine have fallen prey to depression. Even the women candidates confirm to this findings. 12% of women migraineurs have depression while less than 6% of non sufferers have it. The even more appalling fact is that teen patients of migraine are at even greater risk of having teen depression. Continue reading “Relationship Between Teen Depression and Migraine”


Depression has remained a played down disease for long; till the time its strong ability to affect the quality of life has came into consideration. It is not only a psychological disorder but affects the body physically as well. More than one in every ten adults are targets of depression; the case of teenagers is worse with one in every five, having faced the pangs of depression at least once in their lives. There are many adverse effects of depression. It may lead to sleeplessness and overeating, obesity, unexplained pains and aches and off course it is a major blow to self esteem. Continue reading “Regain Your Self-Esteem By Identifying Symptoms Of Depression”


Does your child end up in tears and tantrums even if you have just left him to go to the toilet? Does he find it unbearable to be away from you even if you are only in the next room? It may be then, that your child is not ‘just’ a clingy child. He could be suffering from Separation Anxiety Disorder. Separation anxiety is found in almost all toddlers, but if it continues past age five, it could cause severe parenting concerns. Continue reading “Parenting Tips for Helping Your Child in Dealing with Separation Anxiety”


Stress is so common these days that it borders on the edge of being inevitable in everyone’s life. The triggers or causes of stress are many. It can be financial or work related stress. Hard deadlines, intense completion and petty remuneration, work place politics could lead to professional stress. It can also be experienced because of any unsolved physical problem or sickness or simply because one is not being able to reach a long desired goal. It could be due to issues relating to family members, children, spouses or other relationships. Whatever it is, worrying too much over any issue and being under constant pressure is a condition of stress. This causes an individual to lose focus and concentration and become impatient. Continue reading “How Stress Influences Your Relationships”