We aim to enrich your life with articles about your mental health. Tips for everyday living and arranging your work to be stress-free, reports of personal experience and helpful advice from psychologists.
Self-esteem
Quite often, strong women make life difficult for themselves. Why not change your modus operandi and discover how easy many things can suddenly can? Here we sing the praises of multifaceted femininity, where women are allowed to be strong and weak.
Anxiety and phobias
“Suddenly I feel dizzy and sick. My knees give in and I fear I might fall over and lose consciousness. I might have a brain tumour. My heart is racing, my chest feels tight and I fear I’m having a heart attack.” This is how a client described her experience, which points to panic attacks.
Stress
“I can’t take it anymore” – A thought that not many people in our performance-oriented society tell others about. We are used to be fine all the time, not showing weakness and even less we say, “It is just too much for me”. As an answer to the question “How are you?”, we expect “Thanks, fine. How are you?” This is how it had been in Gerhard’s life for too long. He gave more than he got back until he could not do it anymore at a certain point – he was mentally and physically burned out. His diagnose burnout. Looking back on those times, he would handle many things in a different way. In this article, you find 5 tips, if you feel overwhelmed by your life.
Compulsions
Michael’s life is controlled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder – day by day. He must repeat each action again and again and must think each thought repeatedly. Therefore he, for example, is controlling day by day, if he had locked the door. However, this action is not voluntary, his compulsory control is controlling of his life. But he is not alone with his diagnose. About two to three per cent of the German population suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Men and women on the same percentage. What are the causes for this disease and how it influences daily life?
Relationship
A frequent reason given for splitting up is “I don’t love you any more”. What actually lies behind that? And: can you get it back? We discussed this with Mag. Erwin Jäggle, a psychotherapist who also deals with couples.
Job and carreer
The topic of preventive health care is a particularly important concern for Knapp Industry Solutions and ivii GmbH. This is reflected in the great commitment to their employees. With their own KNAPP Campus, KNAPP Industry Solutions and ivii GmbH stand for the development of new and innovative technologies – they are now also taking new, innovative paths in the topic of mental health.
Job and carreer
Are you in a leading position and did you ever think: “What do I care about the (mental) problems of my employees?” This thought could have expensive consequences for companies. In Germany, psychological problems in the job cause about 147 billion euros per year (DGGPN, 2018). Fortunately, there are measures for companies to reduce, or even avoid such effects. A good opportunity is psychological online counselling. We show you actual numbers about the efficacy and the benefit of online treatments.
Job and carreer
More and more employees in companies see themselves confronted with work stress and pressure to perform. This could develop into burnout, reduced efficiency, and in the worst-case into an inability to work. Diagnosis: Burnout. For companies, healthy employees are the greatest asset. Therefore, burnout prevention is an important factor. Because the long-term consequences of burnout could be expensive. In this article you read why individual burnout treatment is so important and which are the costs for your company in the case of burnout(s).
Depression
People, suffering from depression describe it as a black hole and a vicious circle of negativity. Society describes it as an excuse and laziness. Hardly any other psychological disease is more stressful and at the same timeless accepted than depression. About 350 million people worldwide suffer from it. Many people do not talk about it, so the number of unreported cases is probably high. Did you ever ask yourself: “Am I depressive”? Then this article could probably answer this question.
Death and grieving
The anticipation about the childbirth, plans about life with the baby, dreams about having a family. All of this goes along with being pregnant, but there are also scenarios, in which the unborn baby does not survive. It comes to a miscarriage: The child dies before it is survivable. Medics call it miscarriage until a weight of 500 gram, but emotional pain cannot be weighted in gram, because his heaviness is endless. What remains is grief, pain, and the feeling of isolation. Why do miscarriages happen? And how to get back to psychic well-being?
Depression
Burned out, weak and powerless, alive, but used up inside: This is how people suffering from burnout feel. Exhaustion, overload, and psychic stress are the words, which are now the centre of attention in the life of burnout patients. The increase of the pressure to perform in our society goes hand in hand with more and more diagnoses. More and more people feel physically and psychologically burned out. What is the reason for it? Are there signs, that someone is about to get lost in complete burnout? And how can it be avoided?
