By Dr. Gaby Cora - Executive Health & Wealth

The taboo of suicide prevails. People avoid what is hard to understand and try to make sense of what may have little sense when people feel cornered, embarrassed and frustrated to the point of no return.

As stress increases during times of recession, so does the potential for violence toward others or self.

Although suicide is connected to depression in many ways, impulsiveness plays a large role in these other situations related to company officials: suicide seems to be the only way out of what seems to be a road of no return.

To learn more about suicide prevention, please visit: Healthy Minds - American Psychiatric Association

For more information, visit my other blog: Screen for depression during financial stress and economic crisis.

By Dr. Gaby Cora - Executive Health & Wealth

In an ideal world, we would spend eight hours of our day at work, another eight in recreational activities and the last eight hours asleep. The true question is how many of us live in the ideal world? Click here download as podcast/MP3: Maximize Health & Wealth

By Dr. Gaby Cora - Executive Health & Wealth

Have you ever wondered why you feel so great during vacation? While you may think it’s because you are not at work, how about this other explanation? You are having a great time with people you care about in a nice place, you enjoy good food, you sleep well and you exercise or simply relax. Download this blog as an MP3: The Power of Wellbeing Tip of the Day: Exercise

By Dr. Gaby Cora

Executive Health & Wealth: The Power of Wellbeing

By Dr. Gaby Cora

Many still struggle keeping the holiday flame alive this season. Employers are asking the best of their employees while employees fear that they may lose their jobs unless they give it all.

How can we find some positive balance between working hard and keeping our sanity? How to handle increasing demands in the workplace and at home, staying in good shape and living up to the family’s expectations for gifts and favors?

By Dr. Gaby Cora

Business owners and corporate warriors struggle to keep their companies afloat. Many were already working sixteen hour days and it now seems like an endless working day. Most of us try our best to row the rough waters till the crisis subsides. Most executives and entrepreneurs who were already stretched are now finding strength within to produce at their maximum capacity. At the same time, their families are not immune to the stress. Even children know of their friends’ parents losing their job or struggling to keep their teenager in college. How can you handle your own business needs as well as your stress and your family’s?

Dr. Gaby Cora

October 10^th is National Depression Screening Day.

The current economic and financial crisis has created increased pressure on all of us. As many struggle with the uncertainty of whether or not they will continue to have a job, others deal with the challenges of laying people off, many of whom may have been colleagues and friends. With stress reaching epidemic numbers, many struggle with staying healthy during rough times. Stress affects the most vulnerable systems: some people will experience frequent migraine headaches, whereas others will develop gastrointestinal problems, and others will have high blood pressure. Stress may trigger panic attacks in some people and will affect others with clinical depression.

By Dr. Gaby Cora

According to today’s article, herd mentality rules during a financial crisis because people are wired to follow the crowd when times are uncertain (Herd Mentality Rules in Financial Crisis, Reuters). Studies show that when there is little information but the threat seems to be imminent, people will tend to look around to see what others are doing rather than follow their own conclusions based on their own rational abilities and logical thought process.

By Dr. Gaby Cora

We are constantly worrying these days. Counting the domino effect of the state of our economy, the increasing financial instability, natural catastrophes, and the back-to-school craze, stress in the workplace has reached epidemic numbers. People worry about losing their homes or paying for their groceries, they are concerned about giving their kids the education they didn’t have, but they also fear whether their business is still afloat or if they still have a job. Corporate warriors and business owners are equally stressed because they face increasing competition and the unpredictability of our overall financial situation.