INPUT ARTICLE: Article: It is helpful to wear long-sleeved clothing to protect against rubbing or chafing. Your pants should fit your body, rather than being loose.  Loose clothing can cause injury when riding because it may get caught in the saddle or on other things along the trail. Wear riding pants, if you can. These are stretchy pants without an inseam. They also have suede patches along the inner knee area to help with grip. Jeans are comfortable options for horseback riding. Wearing shoes with heels is helpful because you can keep your foot securely in the stirrups.  You can wear riding boots, hiking boots, winter boots, and boots that come above your ankle. If you don’t have boots, you can use closed-toed shoes like running shoes or sneakers. A helmet is one of the most critical pieces of riding equipment because it protects you any time you get hit or your horse takes off. Measure the size of your head with a tape measure to find your helmet size. Most helmets have padding inside, which help the helmet fit snug around your head. Place the helmet on your head, and try a new size if it is wobbly or too tight. When you  find a helmet that fits, buckle the chin strap and adjust the strap to hold the helmet in place.  If you are taking lessons, most stables provide helmets. The brim of your helmet should sit about 1 inch (2.5 cm) above your eyebrows and level across your face. If you don’t have a riding helmet, put on a bicycle helmet. You must wear a helmet to prevent head injuries when riding. Horseback riding requires good overall fitness, strength, and endurance because you will be using many muscles as you ride. Build your muscles with exercises like sit ups, push ups, planks, and lifting weights. Do aerobic exercises for 30 minutes a day to  help you develop endurance.   Try aerobic exercises like walking, running, biking, and swimming. If you can't do get aerobic exercise every day, aim to exercise at least 3 times a week. You should also practice good posture and stretch regularly.

SUMMARY: Wear long pants to protect your legs from rubbing against the saddle. Wear boots with a small heel to keep your feet in the stirrups. Put on a riding helmet before you get on the horse. Work out 5-6 days a week to get in shape to ride a horse.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Tell your mental health professional how you are feeling in response to the medication. If you have been using a mental health application, use the data you have gathered from monitoring your response to the antidepressant.   If you use a diary, review your diary prior to visiting your mental health practitioner. By reviewing your diary, you will have a better sense of your moods, emotions, and responses to the medication.  If you have been using the same antidepressant for a long time and it isn’t working like it once did, you should tell your doctor.  Over time, your body may develop a tolerance to your antidepressant. This may cause your symptoms of depression to return.  If you believe this is happening, talk to your doctor.  They may adjust your dosage or change your medication. Using the information you gather from monitoring your mood while on the antidepressant, your doctor should be able to determine whether or not your antidepressant is working. Be sure to tell your doctor about any benefits you experience as well as any side effects that you are experiencing.   Tell your doctor if you skipped any doses. Skipping doses is one cause of a faulty antidepressant, so you need to communicate that information to your doctor.  If you are taking other drugs or alcohol while on medication, you need to tell your doctor. This can be another reason for an antidepressant to stop working. If you are experiencing severe side effects, you may need to switch medications. Do not change your dosage or stop taking your antidepressant without consulting your doctor.  Suddenly quitting the medication could worsen your depression or cause withdrawal symptoms.  Your doctor can help you by slowly and safely decreasing the dose, if needed. According to a large study, only 37% of people got better after trying just one antidepressant. Your doctor should be able to determine whether or not your current antidepressant is working or whether you need to try a different type of medication.   The most popular antidepressants are SSRIs and SNRIs. Another common medication is bupropion, which belongs to a class of antidepressants known as NDRIs. Bupropion is used for depression, seasonal affective disorder and quitting smoking.  In addition, there are older types of depression medications such as tricyclics, monoamine oxidase inhibitors and tetracyclics. People respond differently to depression medication so you need to work out a treatment plan with your doctor for your specific condition. You might need to try a different type of antidepressant if your current one is not working. Combining antidepressant drug therapy with mental health counseling like psychotherapy is usually more effective than taking the drug alone. There are multiple forms of psychotherapy that might help. These include:   Cognitive Behavior Therapy: this form of therapy helps you change your way of thinking by identifying how you currently perceive the world and yourself. The therapist will help you create healthier patterns of thinking.  Interpersonal Therapy: this form of therapy helps depression caused by family conflict, loss, relationship problems, social isolation, and major life events such as giving birth.  Psychodynamic Therapy: the therapist helps you resolve unconscious conflicts, like childhood trauma.
Summary: Communicate your experience of the antidepressant. Ask your mental health professional. Inquire into alternative antidepressants. Consider psychotherapy.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: There are many types of meditation, so finding the one that works for you is important. Meditation has been shown to lower blood pressure, lessen anxiety, and much more.  If you’re looking for a way to rest without actually sleeping, meditation is a rewarding and mindful way of achieving that goal. Rather than laying on the coaching tossing and turning trying to feel rested, practicing meditation can actively improve your quality of rest. Work breaks into your day before you start to feel exhausted or overtired. If you keep pushing yourself until you actually start to feel awful, it will make it much harder to recover and feel rested. Work breaks into your life on a daily basis, a weekly basis, a monthly basis, and a yearly basis. Everyone needs time to recoup and recharge. This can be as easy as sitting outside for a few minutes before going back to work, taking one day to yourself a week, or a relaxing vacation. We all have a strong habit of discursive thinking, which means one thought flows to the next and then the next. This can be exhausting, and if you practice not thinking you can give your mind a valuable break.  Open your senses to what is happening around you and pay attention, but don't think about them. Just experience them. When you find yourself drifting back into a line of thought, notice this and go back to paying attention to what you are experiencing. Sleeping is the one time when we are really able to give our minds a rest. Although meditation can help, sleeping is absolutely necessary to feel rested. Don't sacrifice sleep for other activities because the odds are they won't benefit your well being and happiness nearly as much as those extra hours will. Sounds like running water, birds chirping, and even storms can help you relax and stop stressing about whatever is going through your head. You can find playlists of these online. Other great options include gongs, chimes, or whatever instrumental music you might like. The brain always wants some sort of sensory input , and by supplying these sounds you might be able to let go of the more stressful input that you are supplying.

SUMMARY:
Meditate. Take incremental breaks on the micro and macro level. Practice not thinking. Try to get an appropriate amount of sleep. Listen to instrumental music or ambient noise.