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Linking Medications and Mood: Could Your Prescription be Causing Depression or Mania?
Understanding the relationship between medications and mood disorders is important for anyone taking prescriptions. For some, treatments...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Dec 14, 20245 min read
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DBT - what is it and how can it help?
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, is an evidence-based treatment originally developed by Marsha Linehan for people diagnosed with...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Jan 12, 20242 min read
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Let go of negative thoughts to a more positive new year
The way we perceive, think, and feel impacts the way we react and can develop into a pattern of negative thought and behaviour. Often we...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Jan 1, 20242 min read
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the holiday season
Let's chat about the holiday season. Regardless of your religious affiliation, many people see holidays such as Christmas as a time for...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Depression
Depression can happen to any of us as we age, regardless of our background or achievements. And the symptoms of depression in older...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20235 min read
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Being your best self
Honesty, kindness, curiosity, leadership, bravery? Most of us go through our days not giving a thought as to what it is that makes us...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20231 min read
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Anxiety
Anxiety is the most common mental health condition in Australia. Up to one-third of women and one-fifth of men will experience anxiety at...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Loneliness
Let's chat about loneliness. A lack of social inclusion, connections, and a perception of valuelessness can often become internalised...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Light therapy
Many people around the world suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD typically presents in countries with low light for many...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20231 min read
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Here comes the sun
Eighty percent of our vitamin D comes from sunlight conversion. In my previous post I discussed how a lack of sunlight (and hence)...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Let's chat about exercise 2
Though there are often many factors involved with decreased balance as we age, a lot of this decline is simply due to our inactivity....
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20231 min read
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Let's chat about exercise
No, not exercise to lose weight, Exercise that increases, or maintains brain volume, and may help to prevent age-related disease such as...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20233 min read
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Trauma
Let's chat about trauma. Just as we are all individual, different events affect people in different ways. What one person perceives as a...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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The benefits of laughter
Let's chat about laughter. A happy disposition has been shown to guard against heart attacks, strokes and early death. Optimists have a...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20231 min read
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Stress
Stress affects people in different ways and everyone has different stress thresholds. What one person finds exhilarating another finds...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Sleep
Some people believe as we get older we require less sleep. Not so! Older people still need 7 - 9 hours sleep per night. Recent studies...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Self-esteem
Let's chat about self-esteem. Your sense of self-worth will impact every arena of your life. Your job, your relationships, and even your...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20233 min read
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Preventing falls
According to a new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the rate of head injuries to older adults has nearly...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 31, 20232 min read
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Pre or pro biotics?
27 September 2019|Diet, Self help We often hear a lot about probiotics and one can find a myriad of pills and supplements on supermarket...
Donna Schwarz-Nielsen
Oct 29, 20231 min read
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