Self-Care Guidelines for a Kinder Relationship with Yourself

Have you ever thought about how you get along with yourself? Self-love is a quality I encourage you to cultivate, and here I’ll share how we can work on it to foster it: Most of the time, when we go through vulnerable situations, we aren’t particularly kind to ourselves. In fact, we tend to get stuck on those thoughts that cause us the most pain.

Here’s something I want to share with you: These thoughts are completely natural and happen often to everyone. But it’s important to learn how not to get hooked on them.

Memory

Memory is a dynamic process that allows us to store information, data, or experiences that will be useful for our future decisions.

Memory is a complex brain function. It is a cycle that consists of receiving external or internal signals, encoding them, storing them, and retrieving them. This process does not have a unique location in the brain; it is a system that works in the form of a network. The memory code is relational. Each experience forms a new connection, and a single neuron in memory can be connected to more than one network.

Nutrition and Mental Health

If you’ve ever found yourself absentmindedly digging into a tub of ice cream after a bad day, you’re already aware that there’s some kind of link between food and mood. Beyond that cinematic moment, we now know there is indeed a relationship between what we eat and how we feel.

This gut-brain connection starts with serotonin — a neurotransmitter that helps regulate sleep, appetite, mood, and also plays a role in pain inhibition. Around 95% of the body’s serotonin is produced in the digestive tract, which is lined with millions of nerve cells, or neurons.

What is Binge Drinking?

Binge drinking is defined as heavy episodic drinking — the consumption of the largest possible amount of alcohol in the shortest possible time. The goal is to achieve the desired effects of alcohol (intoxication) as quickly as possible.

According to Spain’s National Plan on Drugs, binge drinking is defined as the consumption of five or more alcoholic drinks by men, and at least four by women, within a two-hour period.

This pattern of excessive alcohol consumption is often encouraged by the widespread practice of “botellón” — public street drinking — a behaviour that has become normalised among young people in recent years.

What to Take for a Headache: Treatments and Tips to Stop It

The term cephalalgia refers to pain or discomfort localised in any part of the head. In reality, it is only a symptom that may be caused by a range of factors (constitutional, tension-related, tumorous, inflammatory, etc.).

In this article, we will focus on a specific type of headache that affects around ten per cent of the population: migraine headaches.

Can a child or teenager be depressed?

Statistics show that around 2–3% of children and adolescents may suffer from depression. The characteristics and symptoms they present vary and are different depending on their age.

The presentation of depression in childhood and adolescence differs in some ways from what we are used to seeing in adults, although some of the indicators may be the same.