Techniques on Time management

Let me take you through different techniques when it comes to time management
Technique #1: Make and use lists. There is not a single time management discipline or system on earth that doesn’t revolve around making and using lists. You cannot carry it all in your head. For years, I’ve operated with four basic lists:
1. My Schedule. This is for the entire year, day by day.
2. Things-to-Do List. This is a basic “Things-to-Do” list organized by month, week, and day, prioritized as As, Bs and Cs.
3. People-to-Call List. My third list is a “People-to-Call” list, also prioritized alphabetically.
4. Conference Planner. This is just a page for each person I interact with a lot, where I jot down things I need to talk to them about as they occur to me in between meetings or conversations.
You have to get some sort of regimented, regularly used list-making system working for you. If you aren’t making lists, you probably aren’t making a lot of money either.

STRESS!! STRESS!!!......How to cope with it.

Stress is inevitable. It walks in and out of our lives on a regular basis. And it can easily walk all over us unless we take action. Fortunately, there are many things you can do to minimize and cope with stress. Here are 10 ideas for handling stress without causing more strain and hassle.

 

THE EFFECTS OF EPILEPSY ON THE BODY

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition. The main symptom is unpredictable seizures.

  The Effects of Epilepsy on the Body

Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain that causes recurring seizures. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, almost three million Americans are living with epilepsy. Epilepsy can be triggered by illness or injury, but most of the time, there is no known cause. Because it is a disorder of the central nervous system, effects can be felt throughout the body. Due to the unpredictability of seizures, there can also be a great emotional toll.

Central Nervous System

The brain is the central hub for all voluntary and involuntary movements in your body. Electrical activity running through nerve cells help your brain tell your body what to do. When abnormal signals interrupt the brain’s normal functioning, you can have a seizure. There are several different types of seizures.

Focal/Partial Seizures

Focal seizures, also called partial seizures, are when abnormal electrical functions happen on only one side of the brain. Some people feel an aura, or a feeling of euphoria or doom, right before having a seizure. Other pre-seizure symptoms include changes to sight, hearing, or smell perception.

In a simple focal seizure, symptoms depend on which area of the brain is involved. The seizure may be accompanied by nausea or sweating. A complex focal seizure happens in the temporal lobe, which affects memory and emotion. This type of seizure usually involves loss of consciousness or lack of awareness of what’s happening. Symptoms may include screaming, crying, laughing, or lip smacking. There’s usually a feeling of sleepiness following a complex focal seizure.

Generalized Seizures

When both sides of the brain are involved, it’s called a generalized seizure, which may cause loss of consciousness. Absence seizures, or petit mal seizures, are short, usually lasting half a minute or less. A person having an absence seizure may appear to be staring and will have no awareness of what happened. There may be some facial twitching or rapid blinking. In atonic seizures, or drop attacks, there’s a sudden loss of muscle tone, causing you to fall without warning.

In a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, or grand mal seizure, the body and limbs contract and extend. This is followed by tremor, after which the muscles relax. Other symptoms include fatigue, severe headache, and body aches. Sometimes there are speech and vision disturbances. People who have numerous tonic-clonic seizures are at increased risk of sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Myoclonic seizures involve sudden, jerky muscle movements. This type of seizure usually happens multiple times a day over several days.

Status epilepticus describes a seizure that lasts for an extended time – usually from 5 to 30 minutes. It can also mean you’re having multiple seizures without coming to consciousness in between. Status epilepticus increases the risk of permanent damage to the brain.

According to the Epilepsy Foundation Michigan, about 30 percent of people with epilepsy eventually develop clinical depression. Epileptic seizures can also make you more prone to falls and injuries. There’s a common misconception that you can swallow your tongue when you’re having a seizure, but that’s not possible.

where to seek mental health help

within the public health system, mental health care in Kenya is very hospital-based. There are some outpatient treatment conducted through provincial hospitals.

Here are the support and information centers dealing with mental health

BasicNeeds Kenya began its first pilot project in Nairobi in 2005 and has since initiated mental health programmes in the Central, Eastern and Rift Valley Province including reaching out to specific target groups including nomadic communities, coffee smallholders and vulnerable     children and young people in both urban and rural areas


 Contact information
BasicNeeds Kenya
Mai Mahiu Road, Hse 21,
Nairobi West,
P.O Box 14590-00100
Kenya
Email: info.kenya@basicneeds.org
Tel No.: + 254 20 2426606

 My Mind My Funk is a mental health information and support hub that helps Kenyan people with mental health conditions and their families access relevant information and appropriate support!

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 contact information
+254707633692
+254733656262
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All district hospitals in Kenya  
 If you are within Nairobi you call seek help in the following areas, Woodley Trauma clinic,Lower Kabete Health center,Kangemi Health center,Langata health center, Ngong Health Center

Mental ilness linked to increased heart disease, stroke

People with mental health disorders may be at much higher risk of heart disease or stroke than the general population. This is according to a new study recently presented at this year's Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Vancouver, Canada.

Mental Illness Is a Global Crisis, Not Just a Disease of Rich Nations

Mental illness is not simply a “Western issue”: almost three quarters of sufferers live in low and middle-income countries. They face a lack of understanding about their condition and discrimination; they receive very little evidence-based treatment. The scale of the problem is immense and places a huge strain on communities and families, as well as being detrimental to development.

Hard to convince people that mental health matters

Given the complexity and size of the problem, when I started BasicNeeds 14 years ago it seemed almost impossible that we could make a change. We were faced with the challenge, and still are, of convincing people - including donors, policy makers and development workers - that mental health is a serious issue and that people with mental illness and epilepsy should be treated the same way as people with other illnesses or diseases. Today I am happy to say that BasicNeeds has helped more than half a million people in the 12 low and middle-income countries where we work.

Our holistic and community-based approach enables people like Francis to regain their sense of self-worth and dignity. With the support of BasicNeeds, Francis now has his psychosis under control. He is a respected teacher, and advocates for a better understanding of mental illness in his community. Our approach goes beyond simply treating people, because treatment alone isn't enough to make a sustained change in an individual's condition. Important aspects of our holistic approach include: