Sentences with phrase «increased feelings of hopelessness»

Attempts to fix things only led to getting trapped deeper in a cycle of confrontation, standoff and increased feelings of hopelessness.

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Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

The report goes on to say that «without adequate access to play, children are deprived of the opportunity to develop important emotional skills, leading to an increase in anxiety levels, depression and feelings of hopelessness.»

Symptoms most often include: (1) a feeling of hopelessness and seeing no reason to live; (2) anxiety, anger, rage, sleeplessness and mood swings; (3) increased alcohol or drug use; (4) withdrawing from family and friends; and (5) thoughts of hurting yourself or others.

After a period of anxiety, which they may refer to as stress, people become at increasing risk for feeling angry, blaming others for their dilemma, for depression with hopelessness about finding solutions, or for self - injurious habits like drinking and smoking, and for relationship problems.

Overinvolved parenting may promote internalizing problems by increasing levels of psychological distress and feelings of depression and hopelessness in offspring (McKee et al., 2007), or it may socialize youth to use coercive and hostile behaviors in family interactions and outside of the family (i.e., externalizing problems; Dodge, Coie, & Lynam, 2006).