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Resolutions bad for your health? Can making a commitment to change in 2009 be bad for your health? The mental health charity "Mind" seem to think so according to this article published on the BBC News website.
The charity said: "resolutions which focus on issues such as the need to lose weight or job worries create a negative self-image and if the plans fail to materialise, that could trigger feelings of failure and inadequacy."
Paul Farmer, Mind's Chief Executive, says: "We chastise ourselves for our perceived shortcomings and set
unrealistic goals to change our behavior, so it's not surprising that,
when we fail to keep resolutions, we end up feeling worse than when we
started."
Image copyright BBC News Online 2009.