Mothers who are deeply stressed during pregnancy may mar their babies’ growth in the womb, while those who go on with joyful attitude, their chances of giving birth to a healthy baby increase manyfold. This fact has been exposed by a new study. During stress, adrenal gland secretes a hormone known as Cortisol, which plays and important role in the stunted growth of the baby in the womb. Researchers examines about 98 women who were pregnant and found that the mothers who were stressed their fetus was smaller than the pregnant women who were not stressed. Therefore, it is important for a mother to keep away from stress, depression and anxiety, especially during pregnancy. So, all to-be-moms out there, keep smiling.
Early Puberty Linked To Stress?
As we know, children are stepping into puberty earlier and a new report claims that stress is the key factor behind this. Although some experts believe that good medical facilities and good nutrition are responsible for early puberty, yet this new report is bending upon proving that is also due to stress that that crept into our lives and children are also engulfed by it. Children’s stepping into puberty earlier than normal age may lead to damaging consequences and coming out with the same idea study author says: The results can be ill-informed health damaging behavior including unprotected sex, substance abuse, self-harm, violence and bullying, with disadvantaged communities likely to hit the hardest. So now, all of us will have to think about this problem, which is by now saving itself from our eyes but growing on slowly but steadily.
Antidepressant drugs may lower sperm count to zero!
No doubt, antidepressant drugs lessen your depression, but do you know that they can also lower sperm counts in men. Dr. Peter Schlegel of the Cornell Medical Center in New York and colleagues were treating two men for infertility and found that when both these patients stopped taking antidepressant drugs their sperm counts increased amazingly. On the contrary, when they again started taking antidepressant drug their infertility problem once again returned back. These doctors are seeing, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), means these antidepressant drugs as the main culprit behind the drop of sperm count. However, this conclusion is too preliminary therefore; it would be too early to make an opinion about it. Coming out with the same idea Allan Pacey, senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield says: There does seem to be a major correlation. Maybe this is an unknown side effect of these drugs that is only just coming to light. However, before taking any kind of antidepressant drugs it would be better to take counsel of a reliable doctor.
Is it true that untreated depressive disorders during Pregnancy effect infant?
It’s true that if antidepressants are taken during pregnancy, they have direct effect on fetus but the fact that we generally ignore and are not aware of is that depression during Pregnancy affects the baby as well. Study done by American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry shows: Babies born to women with untreated major depressive disorder had significant changes in neurobehavioral function, were born at an earlier gestational age, and had elevated stress hormones… The conclusion of the study shows that infants of high risk women will have: (1) Poorer quality of movement (-0.36 versus -0.26 low risk, P=0.07) (2) More hypotonia (0.49 versus -0.22 low risk, P>0.01) (3) Higher stress scores (0.56 versus 0.13 low risk, P>0.003).
Abortion: Linked to Depression?
A new study has disclosed the fact that Abortion may make women more prone to depression. The severity of depression can be 2 times higher in those women who move to abortion than the women who are already wrapped by depression. This new finding has also revealed that the severity of depression may be three times higher in the women who turn to abortion than the women who never bear a child. It would also not be wrong that this depression may later on branch out in various other psychological as well as health related problems too. Now, it is you who has to decide what way you want to tread on.
Ads of Skinny Models might make you anxious!
Watching slim-trim figure of the beautiful models on television may fill women with inferiority complex and they may start hating themselves that sometimes may also lead to depression and other physiological problems. Researcher Gayle Bessenoff, PhD, has come out with this fact after studying about 112 college women. Another fact that came to light is that those women who are not so beautiful or have negative image about themselves have more chances of being engulfing by problems such as depression and anxiety. In the words of Bessenoff: Women who already have low opinions of their physical appearance are at an even greater risk for negative effects from media images.
Depression Can Make your Bones Brittle!
Whereas depression leads to various psychological problems, it can also turn your bones fragile. A new Israeli study has floated out this fact after conducting some tests on rats. When researchers gave some drugs to these rats to induce behavior similar to human depression then the bones of these rats turned fragile and at the same time when these rats were given anti-depressant drugs then their bones’ density increased. So, it means anti-depressant drugs may strengthen your bones too. Actually, due to depression, our body’s mechanism releases a chemical compound known as noradrenaline, which is responsible for harming the bone-building cells. However, anti-depressant drugs embank the release of noradrenaline and as a result keep our bones away from turning fragile. Really, this fantastic disclosure has carved out interesting as well as important information.
Music Therapy: An effective medicine against Depression!
Music has hidden power; once again, British scientists have given vent to this idea by evincing that music therapy may play a vital role in treating patients with depression, anxiety and emotional disorders due to schizophrenia. According to an estimate, there is a big percentage of people engulfed by schizophrenia in UK and US. So, it means doctors may find it easy to treat such patients easily with music therapy. In the words of Dr. Mike Crawford, the author of the study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry: This study shows that music therapy provides a way of working with people when they are acutely unwell. Now the time has come to entwine the power of music with medical science for treating patients suffering from such psychological disorders.
Higher IQ wards off mental stress!
Believe it or not, but it is true! The higher is your IQ the less you are susceptible to stress. It was found during a research that brainpower might play a vital role in keeping you away from stress and various other mental and psychological disorders. Moreover, researchers believe that people with higher IQ are less likely to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which may even include act of violence, life-threatening illness. The researchers gave vent to this idea when they examined IQ of some people and came to the conclusion that people with higher IQ were less prone to stress and anxiety in the later years of their lives. On the contrary, people with lower IQ were found more susceptible to stress and other mental and psychological disorders.
Anger, depression, hostility and anxiety leads to heart diseases!
Negative traits like anger, depression, hostility and anxiety may higher up the chances of coronary heart disease, according to a new study by a team of researchers that included Edward Suarez, PhD, a Duke University associate professor of psychiatry. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in US. Therefore, this disclosure is somewhat more important for the people in US. The most important thing that came to light through this study is that anger, anxiety, depression, and hostility each independently predict heart disease. However, just to blame all these traits would also not be right because some other factors like smoking, diabetes, obesity also play a key role in promoting heart diseases. But with this finding, once again it has become clear that our feelings, emotions and psychology plays an important role in keying up our health. So always, keep in mind, where the mind goes the body follows it.