Category Archives: Mental Health

With today’s hectic and increasingly busy lifestyles it’s easy to feel like there are not enough hours in the day to get everything that needs to be done, done.

Individuals that genuinely feel like they are caught in a continual grind of always trying to get caught up often find that it is increasingly difficult to find time solely for themselves. This lack of “free time” often manifests itself in the inability to regularly exercise, inconsistent dietary habits, and a feeling of being mentally overwhelmed.

In instances like this many individuals reach for herbal remedies for stress relief, believing that they’ll be safer than (and just as effective as) pharmaceutical medications prescribed for the same symptoms. But exactly how safe are herbal remedies?

In addition, how much evidence has been gathered proving the efficacy of each of the herbal remedies? And finally, do some herbal remedies tend to be more effective when compared to others herbal remedies when it comes to short-term and long-term stress relief?

Despite the proliferation of devices such as smart phones and tablet PCs designed to streamline and simplify our lives, modern living only seems to be getting more stressful, busy and hectic. This being said, between trying to balance work, family and the responsibilities and obligations that come with both, has become more challenging than ever.

Living under constant stress can obviously wear on your mental wellness, focus, and concentration, however, can work stress actually make you physically sick? When you feel that you are under pressure at work, and hence, stressed out, does it have the possibility of increasing your chances of actually becoming physically ill? Health and fitness researchers have been asking that very question for decades, and more and more clinical studies are beginning to come to the same conclusion.