June 22, 2019
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【情緒健康】關心別人的同時先照顧自己
#夏天的煩躁感容易把壓力放大
#為情緒找個適當的出口
#星期六放輕鬆
適時減壓疏肝解鬱
人人都關注生理健康問題，心理健康出問題卻不容易察覺，活在生活步伐急速的香港，壓力可以來自四面八方，包括家庭、學校、工作、朋友、經濟、社會等等，加上現今媒體資訊發達，電話不斷接收爆炸性資訊，也有可能對自己添加了壓力而不自覺！中醫理論認為情志不舒有損五臟，會引致肝氣鬱結、脾失健運、心失所養等等，會直接影響身體健康。如果你最近有以下症狀，是時候關心一下自己的心理健康，適時減壓，情況未能改善就要尋求專業協助。
我有壓力的部份症狀：
▢ 情緒容易波動，易怒易哭
▢ 容易發脾氣，事後卻很後悔
▢ 感到悶悶不樂
▢ 不想與人交流
▢ 睡眠質素變差，多夢易醒，甚至難以入眠
▢ 健忘，不時忘東忘西
▢ 胸脅肋骨間脹痛
▢ 食慾減少或增加
紓減壓力方法：
– 少吃高油脂、高鹽份、高糖份、刺激性辛辣食物，否則容易令情緒繃緊
– 少喝咖啡及濃茶，以免影響睡眠質素
– 遠離煙酒
– 找人傾訴
– 寫寫畫畫，透過紙筆描繪自己的內心世界
– 暫時遠離媒體及資訊來源
– 選擇一種運動定期持續進行
– 適量飲用花茶，有助疏肝解鬱
洋甘菊茉莉花茶
功效：寧神鎮靜、疏肝解鬱，紓緩壓力情緒，有助安眠。
材料：洋甘菊、茉莉花各1茶匙、蜂蜜隨意
做法：所有材料洗淨，放入保溫瓶，用熱開水沖洗一遍，再注入熱開水泡5分鐘即可，可按個人喜好在茶放涼後加入適量蜂蜜調味。此茶可反覆沖泡至味淡，建議一星期飲用2-3天，連續兩星期為一個療程。
注意：孕婦不宜飲用。
Reduce stress accordingly
Everyone is concerned about physical health problems. However, mental health problems are not easy to detectw. Living in Hong Kong where life is fast-paced, pressure can come from all directions like family, school, work, friends, economy, society, etc. Moreover, with rapid technological developments, you can easily access large amounts of information quickly, some of the information may create stress for you without you knowing too. Chinese medicine believes that emotional discomfort can damage the five organs, which can lead to liver qi stagnation, negatively affect the transport function of the spleen, loss of heart nourishment, etc., which will directly affect your health. If you have the following symptoms recently, it is time to take care of your mental health, decompress at the right time, and seek professional assistance if the situation fails to improve.
Symptoms of stress:
▢ Sudden mood change, irritability and easy to cry
▢ Loss of temper that you later regret
▢ Depression
▢ Do not want to communicate with people
▢ Deteriorating sleep quality, frequent dreams and easy to wake up, and even difficulty falling sleep
▢ Forgetfulness, forgetting things all the time
▢ Chest pain between the ribs
▢ Reduced or increased appetite
Method to relieve stress:
– Eat less high-fat, salty, high-sugar and spicy food, as they can worsen your mood
– Drink less coffee and tea to avoid impact on your sleep quality
– Stay away from tobacco and alcohol
– Find someone to talk to
– Express your inner world through writing and drawing
– Temporarily distance yourself away from the media
– Choose an exercise to do regularly
– Appropriate consume floral tea to relieve stress
Jasmine tea with chamomile
Effects: calms the mind, relieves stress and improves sleep
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon chamomile, 1 teaspoon jasmine, appropriate amounts of honey
Preparation: rinse all ingredients thoroughly and place into thermos, rinse with hot water once. Then add in hot water again and steep for 5 minutes and add honey to taste. You can re-brew until its flavor weakens. For best results, drink consecutively for 2-3 days. Two weeks for a treatment.
Note: not suitable for pregnant ladies
