Reasons why people are open to complementary, alternative, or integrative approaches to health.
Yes I would recommend journaling to a patient because, in recent times, health issues and especially those related to lifestyle have been on the rise. And in response to this, health experts have come up with several strategies that can help patients to overcome the challenges that lead to lifestyle diseases. One of the health tools that is used to reduce lifestyle disease is journaling. Journaling refers to the recording of one’s daily feelings and undertakings. Some of the health benefits of journaling include; First, recording one’s everyday feelings and activities reduces stress. Putting down one’s stressful events enables him/her to deal with them better. Secondly, journaling helps a patient to solve life problems effectively. Practical problem solving requires a well functioning and planned to reason and therefore writing the problem down will enable a patient to come up with an effective solution to the problem.
Reasons why people are open to complementary, alternative, or integrative approaches to health.
Many people are open to complementary, alternative, and integrative approaches because; First, the strategies aim at improving the health and wellbeing of patients. Secondly, the procedures help to reduce mood disorders. Some mental disorders, for instance, anxiety and stress, require the combination of both medical and non-medical treatments to reduce the symptoms and also improve the quality of life. Thirdly, all approaches, when used together, serves as strategies to manage pain in chronic disease. For instance, they are useful to cure and reduce the symptoms of cancer.
Within the last two months, I discussed complementary, integrative, and alternative approaches with cancer patients. In the discussion, we highlighted that the use of complementary, alternative, and integrative approaches; for instance, the use of acupuncture helps to reduce cancer treatment side effects. Secondly, the use of immunotherapy as an alternative method to treat cancer is better because it boosts the patient’s body immunity. Educating myself on these approaches is my responsibility because the methods help to reduce the risks of mental disorders such as stress and also to improve the well being of a person