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  • Key genes and prototype predictive test for schizophrenia identified

    ScienceDaily: Schizophrenia News
    15 May 2012 | 6:04 am
    Medical researchers have identified and prioritized a comprehensive group of genes most associated with schizophrenia that together can generate a score indicating whether an individual is at higher or lower risk of developing the disease.

  • 1 in 3 autistic young adults lack jobs, education

    msnbc.com: Mental health
    14 May 2012 | 12:27 am
    One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds. That's a poorer showing than those with other disabilities including those who are mentally disabled, the researchers said.

  • Science News » Awake Mental Replay of Past Experiences Critical for Learning

    NIMH | Recent Updates
    Jules Asher
    4 May 2012 | 5:36 pm
    Awake mental replay of past experiences is essential for making informed choices, suggests a study in rats. Without it, the animals’ memory-based decision-making faltered, say scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health.

  • Reduction In Deaths After The Painkiller Co-Proxamol Withdrawn In The UK

    Mental Health News From Medical News Today
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. These are the findings of a study by Keith Hawton of the University of Oxford, UK and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine...

  • Misuse of Prescription Pain Killers Peaks in Mid-Adolescence

    Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health Headlines
    8 May 2012 | 9:10 am
    The extramedical use of prescription pain relievers among youth peaks at age 16, suggesting prevention programs that start in the senior year of high school are "too little, too late." Medscape Medical News
 
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    Mental Health News From Medical News Today

  • Reduction In Deaths After The Painkiller Co-Proxamol Withdrawn In The UK

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. These are the findings of a study by Keith Hawton of the University of Oxford, UK and colleagues and published in this week's PLoS Medicine...

  • Kids Born After 42 Weeks Have Higher Behavioral Problems Risk

    4 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood...

  • Tackling Childhood Disabilities Through Environment

    3 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines...

  • Dopamine Response Influences How Hard We Work

    2 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    People with a greater dopamine response in the reward and motivation areas of the brain - the striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex - tend to try harder, even when the odds are stacked up against them, compared to those with low dopamine response, researchers from University reported in The Journal of Neuroscience. The authors believe that dopamine influences cost-benefit analyses...

  • Psychoactive Medication Use Among Children In Foster Care

    2 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    A few months after the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on the use of psychoactive drugs by children in foster care in five states, a national study from PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia describes prescription patterns over time in 48 states...
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  • 1 in 3 autistic young adults lack jobs, education

    14 May 2012 | 12:27 am
    One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds. That's a poorer showing than those with other disabilities including those who are mentally disabled, the researchers said.

  • Concussion crisis growing in girls' soccer

    9 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    The number of girls suffering concussions in soccer accounts for the second largest amount of all concussions reported by young athletes, according to the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Kate Snow reports for Rock Center.

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  • Addicted to your cellphone? Nomophobia on the rise

    8 May 2012 | 2:47 am
    The fear of being apart from your cellphone -- or nomophobia -- is on the rise, according to a study by SecurEnvoy.

  • Psychopaths show signs of brain abnormalities

    7 May 2012 | 5:16 pm
    Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains.
 
 
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  • What My Mom Taught Me: Real Health Advice From Real Mothers

    Hanna Brooks Olsen
    10 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    It’s easy to point fingers at “bad” mothers who make questionable choices about the health of their kids (ahem, Tanning Mom), but the truth is that many of us learned what we know about nutrition, fitness, and taking care of our amazing female bodies from none other than our own mother. And even if you didn’t have a mom full of great advice, it’s never too late to hear what other great mamas have to say. So, as Mother’s Day approaches, here’s some really valuable, real-world health advice from Mom. Often, we get bogged down in the negative and blame…

  • Why You Shouldn’t Have Sex When You Don’t Want To

    TheGloss
    9 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Go take a look inside a few women’s magazine on the newsstands right now, and I guarantee that in at least one of them, you will find the following admonishment: to have sex even when you don’t want to, because it’s good for you. The more insulting versions of this sentiment are that you should have sex when you don’t want to because it’s good for your partner (they’re typically referring to your male partner), or because it’s good for your relationship. Well, I’m here to tell you this: Having sex when you don’t want to isn’t good for anyone. Not your partner, not your…

  • Confessions Of Motherhood: 10 Unhealthy Things I Swore I Would Never Do (But Did Anyway)

    Deborah Dunham
    8 May 2012 | 10:29 am
    Before having kids, I had very idealist visions of what our lives would be like. Our family would be the perfectly healthy family. What we ate would be carefully scrutinized. Fresh fruits, tons of veggies, lean meats and whole grains would be on the table at every meal. What we did during our leisure time would also be closely mapped out and monitored. Lots of fresh air, exercise and family outings like picnics, hiking and biking together would consume our weekends. And of course, things like keeping the kids spotless and myself looking hip and put-together every day made the list too. Yes, I…

  • Mom’s Disturbing Face Makes Us Wonder: Does Excessive Tanning Mean Mental Health Issues?

    Deborah Dunham
    3 May 2012 | 10:07 am
    Yesterday’s story about the New Jersey mom who was accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth had a lot of you enraged. Aside from questioning what type of parent Patricia Krentcil must be, some questioned her state of mind–just look at her, right? She’s only 44, but could easily pass for decades older. Clearly she is not taking good care of her skin–and possibly her daughter’s, but does excessive tanning mean she must have mental health issues? You tell us. One dermatologist, Doris Day, told ABC News that she likely suffers from…

  • My Postpartum Depression: From Feeling Like A Horrible ‘Monster’ To Empowering Women

    Deborah Dunham
    2 May 2012 | 9:08 am
    Katherine Stone will be the first person to tell you that most people don’t know enough about postpartum depression. In fact, she admits she didn’t know much about it either. That’s why, when it hit her after the birth of her first child nine years ago, she was completely caught off guard. She went from feeling “normal” before her pregnancy to feeling like a horrible “monster” afterward. She even admits to having thoughts about being so inadequate that she worried she may drown her son. Now, Stone is on a mission to help remove the societal stigma…
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    World of Psychology

  • Is Comfort Food Causing Your Depression?

    YourTango Experts
    15 May 2012 | 2:45 pm
    This guest article from YourTango was written by Nicole Burley.  Well, it’s official. There is now absolutely zero reason to be eating fast food whatsoever! For those of you who always knew that fast food wasn’t healthy but ate it anyway because it made you feel happy, I have some unfortunate news. A recently published study in the Journal Of Public Health Nutrition showed that people who ate hot dogs, hamburgers, and pizza were 51% more likely to suffer from depression than those who rarely or never ate the stuff. Yikes! Do you get what that means? It means that your Happy Meal…

  • Introducing Sorting Out Your Life

    John M. Grohol, PsyD
    15 May 2012 | 10:15 am
    We all face problems and difficulties in our lives. What often differentiates a person from being able to cope with the challenge or not is understanding what’s really going on. Why did we overreact to that comment from our boss? Why can’t we let that painful end of a relationship go 5 years later? Sometimes gaining perspective and psychological insight means looking beyond the surface, and digging a little deeper. And we hope that our new blog, Sorting Out Your Life, will help you do just that. This blog will be focused on helping people sort out their lives. Blog topics may include tips…

  • Best of Our Blogs: May 15, 2012

    Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A.
    15 May 2012 | 5:30 am
    A lot of suffering comes from things we don’t have control over. It’s all that worrying about the state of our health, our normalcy, our lack. Spend a minute listening to your thoughts and you might even hear it. How many times have I caught myself worrying about the weather, or whether I offended a friend, or over the potential of negative outcomes (bad health/career/relationship)? Too many. You can get sucked into the things you will never be able to control or you can stop that tape, focus on what you can control and get on with your life. This week you’ll read about the…

  • An Epidemic of Mental Disorders?

    John M. Grohol, PsyD
    14 May 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Every month, I run across a newspaper or online article about how such-and-such mental disorder is an “epidemic.” I can rattle off the disorders that have been paired with this word so far this year — bipolar disorder in children, ADHD, depression and anxiety, a lesser form of schizophrenia… and the list goes on. In fact, it makes me wonder whether there’s really any journalism done any more, or if it’s just, “Let’s pair one expert’s opinion with the word ‘epidemic,’ and there’s our story!” The problem with a word…

  • The Moment I Knew I Was Depressed

    Therese J. Borchard
    14 May 2012 | 10:29 am
    I have stopped describing what depression feels like to the person with no experience of this “black dog,” as Winston Churchill called it, or even an occasional bout of melancholy, because my inability to express the physical and mental deterioration, the frustration at trying to articulate my madness, tends to make my black dog growl and attack strangers. I agree with the ever-wise William Styron who wrote in his classic, Darkness Visible: Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self — to the mediating…
 
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    All About Life Challenges

  • Single Parent Video

    9 May 2012 | 1:32 am
    Shawna shares how God worked through her situation as a single parent. What was her hope?

  • Why Me God Video

    9 May 2012 | 1:32 am
    Tyrone Flowers shares how his life changed drastically. What became his source of strength and hope?

  • Single Woman Video

    9 May 2012 | 1:32 am
    Shawna shares about the struggles of being a single woman and the struggles that came with marriage.

  • Sexual Addiction Video

    9 May 2012 | 1:32 am
    Nate Larkin shares his struggles with addiction and how he found victory. What was the reason for his healing?

  • Sexual Abuse Survivor Video

    9 May 2012 | 1:32 am
    Karen Green shares of her abuse and how she found hope through the struggle. What's the key?
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    Depression News From Medical News Today

  • Study Suggests Nature Walks Improve Cognitive Abilities For People With Clinical Depression

    15 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    A walk in the park may have psychological benefits for people suffering from depression. In one of the first studies to examine the effect of nature walks on cognition and mood in people with major depression, researchers in Canada and the U.S. have found promising evidence that a walk in the park may provide some cognitive benefits...

  • 10-Year Roadmap To Prevent, Fight Depression

    15 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Major depressive episodes can be prevented, and to help ensure that they are, the health care system should provide routine access to depression-prevention interventions, just as patients receive standard vaccines, according to a new article co-authored by UCSF researcher Ricardo F. Munoz, PhD...

  • Post-Traumatic Stress After ICU

    14 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Women are more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress than men after leaving an intensive care unit (ICU), finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care. However, psychological and physical 'follow-up' can reduce both this and post-ICU depression...

  • Quality Of Life And Symptoms Rapidly And Significantly Improved By Non-Drug Depression Treatment

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    New data released at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association show that patients with unipolar, non-psychotic Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with NeuroStar TMS Therapy® achieved significant improvements in both depression symptoms and in quality of life measurements...

  • Depression - How Effective Is Collaborative Care Intervention?

    9 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    A study published in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, reveals that individuals with depression and poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, or both, can benefit from a collaborative care intervention...
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    ScienceDaily: Depression News

  • Sleepwalking more prevalent among U.S. adults than previously suspected, researcher says

    14 May 2012 | 3:16 pm
    What goes bump in the night? In many U.S. households: people. About 3.6 percent of US adults -- or upward of 8.4 million -- are prone to sleepwalking, new research shows. The work also showed an association between nocturnal wanderings and certain psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety. A large number of people reported sleepwalking in childhood or adolescence making the lifetime prevalence of sleepwalking 29.2 percent.

  • A walk in the park gives mental boost to people with depression

    14 May 2012 | 12:43 pm
    In one of the first studies to examine the effect of nature walks on cognition and mood in people with major depression, researchers in Canada and the US have found promising evidence that a walk in the park may provide some cognitive benefits.

  • Blood test could show women at risk of Postnatal Depression

    9 May 2012 | 11:37 am
    Researchers have discovered a way of identifying which women are most at risk of postnatal depression (PND) by checking for specific genetic variants. The findings could lead to the development of a simple, accurate blood test which checks for the likelihood of developing the condition.

  • Midlife and Late-Life Depressive Symptoms Associated with Dementia

    7 May 2012 | 3:42 pm
    Depressive symptoms that are present in midlife or in late life are associated with an increased risk of developing dementia, according to a new report.

  • Dopamine impacts your willingness to work

    1 May 2012 | 5:27 pm
    Slacker or go-getter? Everyone knows that people vary substantially in how hard they are willing to work, but the origin of these individual differences in the brain remains a mystery. Now the veil has been pushed back by a new brain imaging study that has found an individual's willingness to work hard to earn money is strongly influenced by the chemistry in three specific areas of the brain.
 
 
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    ScienceDaily: Anxiety News

  • Mystery gene reveals new mechanism for anxiety disorders

    15 May 2012 | 12:17 pm
    A novel mechanism for anxiety behaviors, including a previously unrecognized inhibitory brain signal, may inspire new strategies for treating psychiatric disorders, researchers report. By testing the controversial role of a gene called Glo1 in anxiety, scientists uncovered a new inhibitory factor in the brain: The metabolic by-product methylglyoxal. The system offers a tantalizing new target for drugs designed to treat conditions such as anxiety disorder, epilepsy, and sleep disorders.

  • Emotion reversed in left-handers' brains

    2 May 2012 | 5:48 pm
    The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains, according to a recent study. Motivation, the drive to approach or withdraw from physical and social stimuli, is a basic building block of human emotion.

  • Blood pressure drugs linked with lower PTSD symptoms

    1 May 2012 | 3:27 pm
    Traumatized people who take a class of common blood pressure medications tend to have less severe post-traumatic stress symptoms, researchers have found. The finding suggests that ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors or ARBs (angiotensin receptor blockers) could be valuable tools for treating or preventing post-traumatic stress disorder.

  • Being left out puts youths with special needs at risk for depression

    29 Apr 2012 | 7:54 am
    The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a new study.

  • Big girls don’t cry: Overweight teens who are satisfied with their bodies are less depressed, less prone to unhealthy behaviors

    27 Apr 2012 | 11:01 pm
    A new study finds overweight teens who are satisfied with their bodies are less depressed, less prone to unhealthy behaviors.
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    Psych Central News

  • Downside to Court-Ordered Child Support

    Janice Wood
    15 May 2012 | 8:37 am
    Children of unmarried parents who live with their mothers and receive court-mandated financial support from their fathers exhibit more aggressive behavior than those who don’t get any formal support at all, according to a new Rutgers University study. Researcher Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, also found that 5-year-old children have increased cognitive skills when there is an informal agreement between the mother and father to provide some financial support. “This is definitely a puzzling result that needs to be examined further,” said…

  • When Mr. Wrong Looks Like Mr. Right

    Janice Wood
    15 May 2012 | 8:17 am
    Why do nice guys finish last? It’s all about hormones, according to a new study. Research from Kristina Durante, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Business, shows that hormones associated with ovulation influence women’s perception of men as potential fathers. “Previous research has shown in the week near ovulation women become attracted to sexy, rebellious and handsome men like George Clooney or James Bond,” said Durante. “But until now it was unclear why women would ever think it’s wise to…

  • Many Autistic Youth Struggle Right After High School

    Traci Pedersen
    15 May 2012 | 7:57 am
    Compared to young people with other disabilities, youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle more as they navigate through work and higher education after high school. Paul Shattuck, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, said that “[T]hirty-five percent of the youth with ASDs had no engagement with employment or education in the first six years after high school. Rates of involvement in all employment and education were lower for those with lower income.” For the study, Shattuck examined data from the National Longitudinal…

  • Walk in the Park Can Benefit Those with Depression

    Janice Wood
    15 May 2012 | 7:37 am
    A walk in the park may have psychological benefits for people suffering from depression, according to researchers in Canada and the U.S. “Our study showed that participants with clinical depression demonstrated improved memory performance after a walk in nature, compared to a walk in a busy urban environment,” said Marc Berman, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute in Toronto. Berman conducted the research with scientists at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. The researcher was quick to caution that nature walks are not a…

  • Study Finds No ‘God Spot’ in Brain, But Welter of Spiritual Connections

    Janice Wood
    14 May 2012 | 6:30 am
    While scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” a distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality, researchers at the University of Missouri say spirituality is a more complex phenomenon, with multiple areas of the brain contributing to spiritual experiences. “We have found a neuropsychological basis for spirituality, but it’s not isolated to one specific area of the brain,” said Dr. Brick Johnstone, professor of health psychology in the university’s School of Health Professions. “Spirituality is a much more dynamic concept that uses…
 
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    Bipolar News From Medical News Today

  • New Genetic Findings: Gifts Of The MAGI In Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder

    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    These findings are not about the classic story of gift-giving, although the MAGI genes (officially named membrane associated guanylate kinase, WW and PDZ domain containing proteins) do influence brain function in important ways. MAGI1 and MAGI2 are genes that code for the MAGI proteins...

  • Brain Structure Affected By Psychiatric Medications

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    It is increasingly recognized that chronic psychotropic drug treatment may lead to structural remodeling of the brain...

  • Broadening Bipolar Disorder Criteria Could Do More Harm Than Good For Patients

    26 Apr 2012 | 2:00 am
    A Rhode Island Hospital psychiatrist and researcher explains the negative impact of broadening the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder in the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). In a newly published commentary in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Mark Zimmerman, M.D...

  • 2nd Generation Anti-Psychotic Drugs Publication Bias

    22 Mar 2012 | 4:00 am
    According to a study published in PLoS Medicine, trials of second-generation anti-psychotic drugs, i.e. newer forms of medications for the treatment of psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia, that have been published in medical journals, may embellish their apparent clinical effectiveness. This selective reporting of trials is a phenomenon called publication bias...

  • Circadian Rhythm May Hold Key For Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder

    15 Mar 2012 | 2:00 am
    Scientists have gained insight into why lithium salts are effective at treating bipolar disorder in what could lead to more targeted therapies with fewer side-effects. Bipolar disorder is characterised by alternating states of elevated mood, or mania, and depression. It affects between 1% and 3% of the general population...
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    ScienceDaily: Bipolar Disorder News

  • Research explores the positives of bipolar disorder

    3 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    The problems of living with bipolar disorder have been well documented, but a new study has captured the views of those who also report highly-valued, positive experiences of living with the condition.

  • Evidence of familial vulnerability for epilepsy and psychosis

    2 May 2012 | 10:27 am
    Although the two disorders may seem dissimilar, epilepsy and psychosis are associated. Individuals with epilepsy are more likely to have schizophrenia, and a family history of epilepsy is a risk factor for psychosis. It is not known whether the converse is true, i.e., whether a family history of psychosis is a risk factor for epilepsy.

  • Body clocks may hold key for treatment of bipolar disorder

    13 Mar 2012 | 9:39 am
    Scientists have gained insight into why lithium salts are effective at treating bipolar disorder in what could lead to more targeted therapies with fewer side-effects.

  • Does Borna disease virus cause mental illness?

    31 Jan 2012 | 4:56 pm
    Over the past 30 years, numerous studies have linked Borna disease virus with mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder and dementia, but study results have been inconsistent. Now, the first blinded, case-control study to examine this issue finds no association between the virus and psychiatric illness.

  • PCE in drinking water linked to an increased risk of mental illness, study suggests

    20 Jan 2012 | 5:30 pm
    The solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) widely used in industry and to dry clean clothes is a neurotoxin known to cause mood changes, anxiety, and depression in people who work with it. To date the long-term effect of this chemical on children exposed to PCE has been less clear, although there is some evidence that children of people who work in the dry cleaning industry have an increased risk of schizophrenia.
 
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    Schizophrenia News From Medical News Today

  • Key Genes And Prototype Predictive Test Identified For Schizophrenia

    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    An Indiana University-led research team, along with a group of national and international collaborators, has identified and prioritized a comprehensive group of genes most associated with schizophrenia that together can generate a score indicating whether an individual is at higher or lower risk of developing the disease...

  • Link Between Anxiety Disorders And Cellular Metabolism

    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Anxiety disorders, ranging from social phobia to post-traumatic stress disorder, are the most common psychiatric diseases in the United States. Research in mice suggests a link between the gene that encodes Glyoxylase 1 (GLO1) and increased anxiety; however, the mechanism underlying this association has remained unclear...

  • New Genetic Findings: Gifts Of The MAGI In Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder

    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    These findings are not about the classic story of gift-giving, although the MAGI genes (officially named membrane associated guanylate kinase, WW and PDZ domain containing proteins) do influence brain function in important ways. MAGI1 and MAGI2 are genes that code for the MAGI proteins...

  • Cortical Abnormalities In Schizophrenia Disturb The 'Tuning' Of Brain Circuits

    11 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    In 1619, the pioneering astronomer Johannes Kepler published Harmonices Mundi in which he analyzed data on the movement of planets and asserted that the laws of nature governing the movements of planets show features of harmonic relationships in music. In so doing, Kepler provided important support for the, then controversial, model of the universe proposed by Copernicus...

  • Brain Structure Affected By Psychiatric Medications

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    It is increasingly recognized that chronic psychotropic drug treatment may lead to structural remodeling of the brain...
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    ScienceDaily: Schizophrenia News

  • Key genes and prototype predictive test for schizophrenia identified

    15 May 2012 | 6:04 am
    Medical researchers have identified and prioritized a comprehensive group of genes most associated with schizophrenia that together can generate a score indicating whether an individual is at higher or lower risk of developing the disease.

  • Glial cells supply nerve fibres with energy-rich metabolic products

    10 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Around 100 billion neurons in the human brain enable us to think, feel and act. They transmit electrical impulses to remote parts of the brain and body via long nerve fibres known as axons. This communication requires enormous amounts of energy, which the neurons are thought to generate from sugar. Axons are closely associated with glial cells which, on the one hand, surround them with an electrically insulating myelin sheath and, on the other hand support their long-term function. Scientists have now discovered a possible mechanisms by which these glial cells in the brain can support their…

  • The music of the hemispheres sheds new light on schizophrenia

    9 May 2012 | 12:59 pm
    In 1619, the pioneering astronomer Johannes Kepler published Harmonices Mundi in which he analyzed data on the movement of planets and asserted that the laws of nature governing the movements of planets show features of harmonic relationships in music. In so doing, Kepler provided important support for the, then controversial, model of the universe proposed by Copernicus.

  • How cannabis use during adolescence affects brain regions associated with schizophrenia

    8 May 2012 | 10:27 am
    New research has shown physical changes to exist in specific brain areas implicated in schizophrenia following the use of cannabis during adolescence. The research has shown how cannabis use during adolescence can interact with a gene, called the COMT gene, to cause physical changes in the brain.

  • Fewer suicides after antidepressive treatment for schizophrenia

    8 May 2012 | 9:39 am
    Antidepressive drugs reduce the mortality rate of schizophrenic patients, while treatment with bensodiazepines greatly increases it, especially as regards suicide. Giving several antipsychotics simultaneously, however, seems to have no effect at all. This according to a new study examining different drug combinations administered to patients with schizophrenia.
 
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  • Living with Depression Book Giveaway

    14 May 2012 | 4:31 pm
    In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, I'm hosting a "Living with Depression" book giveaway at Goodreads.com. Go check it out! Goodreads Book Giveaway Living with Depression by Deborah Serani Giveaway ends May 20, 2012. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win

  • May is Mental Health Awareness Month

    1 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    May is Mental Health Awareness Month.   The designation of Mental Health Awareness Month was created more than 60 years ago by Mental Health America to raise awareness about mental health conditions and the importance of mental wellness and promoting good mental health for all. During Mental Health Awareness Month professionals, organizations, schools, communities, hospitals and even media outlets will join together in an effort to raise the awareness about mental health and attempt to decrease the stigma that prevents people from getting the help they need. If you have a…

  • Book of the Year Awards: Living with Depression

    17 Apr 2012 | 9:01 am
    ForeWord Magazine announced its list of 2011 Book of the Year Awards, and "Living with Depression" was named a finalist in the Psychology category. I'm so thrilled.ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards program was designed for booksellers and librarians to share in the process of discovering distinctive books across a number of genres with judgments based on their own authority and on patron interests. After months of winnowing down the award finalists' list, the editors at ForeWord are confident in their selections, and our judges agree, saying this year's titles are the…

  • Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

    7 Apr 2012 | 5:53 pm
    Author, Bronnie Ware, took her experiences working with dying patients and wrote a beautiful book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. The wisdom she imparts from helping people die with dignity is inspiring, poignant and apt to make you think twice about how you are leading your own life.Here is an excerpt of the Top Five Regrets:1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how…

  • Overcoming Depression Interview at HealthyPlace.com

    15 Mar 2012 | 11:06 am
    HealthyPlace Mental Health TV Show. Depression information here.Many thanks to host, Gary Koplin, for a great television interview on America's Mental Health Channel: Healthy PlaceHealthyPlace.com is the largest consumer mental health site, providing comprehensive, trusted information on psychological disorders and psychiatric medications from both a consumer and expert point of view. The website is an active mental health social network for support, online psychological tests, breaking mental health news, mental health videos, a live mental health TV and radio show, unique tools like a "mood…
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    Mental Health Blog

  • A Locked Front Door and a Wide Open Web: Unlimited Access

    1 May 2012 | 12:20 pm
    It's interesting what we let into our homes and our lives and what we keep out. It's interesting what we consider dangerous or a threat. Rarely do we know our neighbors anymore. We don't let our kids walk home by themselves from school or play unsupervised in our neighborhoods.

  • Portrait of an Emotional Abuser: The Preacher

    18 Apr 2012 | 11:35 am
    Carl knew it was coming. The real question was how long it would last. Depending on what kind of day his dad was having, it could be a few minutes or a half hour. If he didn't have to bring back his progress report signed by a parent, he wouldn't even have showed him his grades.

  • Portrait of an Emotional Abuser: The Stand-Up Comic

    2 Apr 2012 | 5:34 pm
    "Jane's such an airhead, it's a wonder she doesn't float away completely!" "Did you hear what Bob over in engineering did the other day?

  • Portrait of an Emotional Abuser: The One Who Is Always Right

    24 Mar 2012 | 3:01 pm
    Hand in glove with the overbearing opinion is the person who is always right. Overbearing-opinion abusers have an idea or opinion about everything.

  • Heart Sick: How Stress Destroys Health

    12 Mar 2012 | 1:08 pm
    Study after study shows that stress is a destroyer of health, causing disease and disability. The emotional toll of abuse is manifested in physical stress. Anger, guilt, and fear produce specific physiological reactions that wear down the body.
 
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    Beyond Meds

  • Thoughts about thinking

    giannakali
    16 May 2012 | 2:20 am
    Sometimes people think that the point of meditation is to stop thinking — to have a silent mind. This does happen occasionally, but it is not necessarily the point of meditation. Thoughts are an important part of life, and mindfulness practice is not supposed to be a struggle against them. It’s more useful to be [...]

  • Information and inspiration for the chronically ill

    giannakali
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    This one is for folks living with chronic illnesses of all kinds. I was struck physically ill from the brain-injury and systemic insult incurred by long-term and excessive (prescribed) psychiatric drug use and the subsequent withdrawal from the drugs (iatrogenesis). Many of my symptoms are like that of all sorts of auto-immune and other long-term chronic illness. (CFS, fibromyalgia, etc) These are articles about learning to cope with being seriously ill and also learning to heal from such illness.

  • the only way out of suffering is to move toward it

    giannakali
    15 May 2012 | 12:48 am
    Looking back, I can see that my biggest obstacle at the time was that I thought of meditation as something that would help me get rid of the parts of myself that I didn’t like. I sincerely hoped that meditation would lead me to happy, peaceful states of mind where panic and fear could not [...]

  • Befriend your fear

    giannakali
    14 May 2012 | 1:19 pm
    This teaching is in keeping with my practice of being with all that arises within. Fear here can be translated to "anxiety," which is the clinical term for fear which everyone at one time or another experiences with or without a diagnosis of some sort of anxiety "disorder." Psychiatry pathologizes much of the normal human experience and fear and/or anxiety often referred to in Buddhism as such. Normal. There are techniques to learn how to be with these normal feelings, whether they're very intense or not.

  • The body releases trauma and restores goodness

    giannakali
    13 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    In a lifetime of working with traumatized individuals, I have been struck by the intrinsic and wedded relationship between trauma and spirituality. With clients suffering from a daunting array of crippling symptoms, I have been privileged to witness profound and authentic transformations. Seemingly out of nowhere, as with Nancy from Chapter 2 who was held [...]
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    Bipolar Burble | Natasha Tracy | Writer

  • Under the Influence of Drugs – I Can Think Just Fine

    Natasha Tracy
    14 May 2012 | 3:06 pm
    I’m on Twitter. Not a surprise there. And I have a pretty active following there. Most of the people are fans, but a few aren’t. A few quite disagree with me and what I have to say. Which is fine. People can have their views. And recently, I was tweeting along, minding my own business when someone said this to me: and have you been on antidepressant, mind altering drugs all these years. Making choices while under the influence My first reflex was to reply, and have you been making choices all this time while being an ignorant, sanctimonious ass? Sigh. But I’ve heard through the…

  • What to Do if You Start to Feel Suicidal

    Natasha Tracy
    10 May 2012 | 1:53 pm
    If you feel that you may hurt yourself or someone else please get help now. People want to help you. You are not alone. Often people with bipolar disorder, depression and other mental illnesses feel suicidal. And people often feel suicidal knowing that they aren’t, actually, going to commit suicide. And while the knowledge that you likely aren’t going to commit suicide might be comforting to some, it sure doesn’t make feeling suicidal any more fun. Starting to Feel Suicidal And starting to feel suicidal can begin with little things like feeling crushing depression, unstoppable…

  • Compassion for Those Who Love People with Mental Illness

    Natasha Tracy
    7 May 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Rarely, if ever, do people accuse me of having a lack of compassion for people with a mental illness. This is probably because I am a person with a mental illness so I kind of know where other mentally ill people are coming from. Nevertheless, this is exactly what one commenter recently did: This is a tragic post because the writer is incapable of honoring the struggle of a human being who is in pain. Rather than muster empathy, compassion and problem-solving, she shuts out the people who need her most. There is something wrong with America when families send their loved ones to prison or…

  • Why Do Bad Diseases Happen to Good People?

    Natasha Tracy
    30 Apr 2012 | 1:49 pm
    Or, am I a bad person? Some people believe that if you do “bad” things then “bad” things will happen to you. If you don’t help the little old lady across the street, then a car splashes a puddle over your brand new shoes. That sort of thing. Conversely, if you do help the lady across the street, doing “good,” then something good will happen to you like getting your favorite table at a restaurant. It’s the basic concept of karma (religious underpinnings notwithstanding). "Good" and "Bad" People are Convenient This is a very convenient view of the world suggesting that things…

  • The Mind-Brain Split and Enlightenment in Mental Illness

    Natasha Tracy
    22 Apr 2012 | 9:43 pm
    I wrote a rather popular piece a while back called A Damaged Brain and a Mind Trying to Deal with It. If you follow me on Twitter, you might have seen this before as it’s part of my bio. If not, then it might be the first time you’ve heard that turn of phrase. Commenter Reply And recently a commenter replied: I do not believe in this mind/body duality. I believe that you are your body. OK, no problem. I don’t expect everyone to agree on such things. I have nothing invested in making the world agree with me. But the thing is, I know there is a brain-mind separation. And how do I know…
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    Seaneen / The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive

  • The fate of my first (and only) suicide note

    Seaneen
    10 May 2012 | 4:07 pm
    Reblogged from Seaneen / The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive: I’ve never composed a proper suicide note. The one time I tried to was when I was fifteen and I didn’t really understand what death was. I thought I’d be there to read my own obituary and wanted to make sure they had something poetic to put in it. Adrift in agonising over words that rhymed with “loneliness”, I put on a CD to help me channel some of the pain and became rather distracted. Read more… 1,893 more words

  • I miss Prozacville!

    Seaneen
    30 Apr 2012 | 4:50 pm
    Where have you gone, dude?  We have to content ourselves with your wonderful archives.  You may recognise this image from my other website, only I have replaced, "FUCK!" with, "HELLO!" because I'm nice. Filed under: Bipolar Disorder

  • BBC 3 Want Young People With Mental Health Problems for a Documentary

    Seaneen
    27 Apr 2012 | 11:22 am
    Hello all! This is a programme idea I discussed with the BBC, so I’m putting it out here for anyone who might like to take part!   I know it’s a bit silly to say it but it is a little bit different in the sense that it will be (I think) entirely narrated by the actual people taking part. Do contact Hannah if you are interested! Hi everybody, I work at the BBC and am looking for people to contribute to an exciting new documentary for BBC Three on mental health. We hope to shed a light on the daily experiences of young people with mental illnesses. To do this we will be…

  • The Trouble with Seroquel/Celebrity Mental Health Awareness Week

    Seaneen
    24 Apr 2012 | 1:55 pm
    This is a brilliant (and old) video from Liz Spikol about coming off Seroquel. And man, I hear her.  I’ve taken myself down to 50mg now and I can’t sleep properly unless I take more.  So that’s not working out too well.  And it has been the drug that has worked so well for me, but I can no longer tolerate the side effects.  I am really well at the moment, I have been for a long time.  But the sedation, the fog, the lack of feelings are now too much of a compromise to live with.  I’m missing university lectures often enough that I could be booted out of university…

  • Getting married while mental

    Seaneen
    11 Apr 2012 | 1:46 pm
    There are lots of things a bride-to-be has to consider.  What will I wear? Are people going to fight?  How on earth will I be able to wee in a giant dress?  Is it acceptable to be drunk at your own wedding? But with our wedding day speeding towards us, there are things I have to consider which, quite frankly, I wish I didn’t have to.  Mentalism.  Butt out!  Can’t you just go one day without bothering me? The first big piece of advice I got about wedding planning was, “Make sure the excitement and stress doesn’t make you ill!”  Well meaning, of course, but…
 
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    Finding Optimism

  • Review of the MyPlate Calorie Tracker

    james
    7 May 2012 | 5:22 am
    If you want to watch what you eat and lose a little weight, you may be interested in Livestrong’s MyPlate Calorie Tracker. MyPlate is available on the web and iPhone, for Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 (whatever that is). You set up your profile on their website, including some basics like how much you weigh, how tall you are, what your activity level is, and what your weight goal is (gain, maintain, or lose). Based on this information, the program gives you a daily calorie allowance for meeting your weight goal over time. During the day you can quickly and easily add the foods you eat…

  • Fooducate App Review

    james
    30 Apr 2012 | 12:25 am
    Think you know your healthy foods?  Think again. I consider myself a pretty healthy eater, but the Fooducate iPhone app has definitely educated me  about what I keep in my kitchen cupboards.  Sure, we all know that candy and potato chips are unwelcome in a healthy diet, but even the things I thought were healthy have hidden additives, trans-fat (even when not on the label!) and other intriguing bi-products that I never imagined were in my food.  Thanks to the Fooducate app, I now better understand what it is I’m bringing in the house -even when I’m at the grocery store!

  • A Special Announcement

    james
    25 Apr 2012 | 3:46 am
      We will shortly be releasing a new platform for clinicians, to help them collaborate closely with their clients who use Optimism. There will be a choice of plans for using this platform, including a free option for use with a small number of clients and paid options for a larger number. The existing Optimism apps will now be free, regardless of whether they are used with a clinician. And despite being free, we are committed to their continual improvement and releasing new versions for other devices. If you have purchased a license in the past, we want to express our gratitude again.

  • I Can Never Get To Bed On Time

    james
    7 Mar 2012 | 6:37 pm
    The reason is I don’t have a bedtime. Between 12 and 2 is the norm, but any time 6 hours either side isn’t unusual. Here’s a video by Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project, with a challenge to take bedtimes seriously. She expands on the video at Psych Central, with 7 tips for getting to bed “on time”. Give yourself a specific bedtime (really, it’s the key) Don’t wait until you’re sleepy Stay away from the internet for at least an hour beforehand No caffeine for several hours beforehand (that’s 8 hrs for me) Remind yourself how great it feels…

  • 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy

    james
    28 Feb 2012 | 9:10 pm
    Is happiness the goal of life? Personally I don’t think so – my Christian faith points me elsewhere – but there is a big overlap between what makes us happy and what is useful for dealing with mental illness. So I find research on happiness to be helpful. Following on from the Happiness Advantage post, YES! Magazine has an article about the 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy. In summary they are: Savor everyday moments Avoid comparisons with others Put money low on the list Have meaningful goals Take initiative at work Make friends and treasure family Smile even when…
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    Postpartum Progress

  • Join Me Next Week In A Free Postpartum Depression Webinar

    Katherine Stone
    14 May 2012 | 4:11 pm
    I’m happy to be one of the guest speakers at the Hudson Valley Birth Network’s Spring Conference tomorrow. Already in my hotel room in Elmsford, NY, and almost took a nap after my super busy day yesterday with the Mother’s Day Rally for Moms’ Mental Health. But the computer calls! I hope many of you were [...]You're reading Join Me Next Week In A Free Postpartum Depression Webinar from Postpartum Progress. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

  • Frelle: On The Variety of Symptoms of Postpartum Depression

    Katherine Stone
    13 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Dear New Mom, “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” ~Vera Nazarian One of the most misunderstood parts of motherhood is the emotional roller-coaster you’re on right after giving birth. Everyone expects you to be settling in blissfully while [...]You're reading Frelle: On The Variety of Symptoms of Postpartum Depression from Postpartum Progress. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

  • Lindsay Maloan: On Why A Mother’s Arms Are Home

    Katherine Stone
    13 May 2012 | 8:00 pm
    Dear New Mom, Those shiny sitcoms and commercials that are flashing before you right now? They aren’t real. You are real. These waves of emotions rushing over you, pulling you along like a current…happy, sad, overwhelmed, uncomfortable, tired, elated, lonely, conflicted. They are real. They are normal. Darling, I wish you well On your way [...]You're reading Lindsay Maloan: On Why A Mother’s Arms Are Home from Postpartum Progress. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

  • Jenni Chiu: On Replacing the Judgy Pants With Talky Pants

    Katherine Stone
    13 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Dear new mom, Your world is officially rocked. You have been handed a squishy, little, mewling babe.  This baby is probably angelic and terrifying at the same time.  Along with this baby, you have unknowingly been handed “judgy pants.”  Unfortunately, you may find that these pants fit very well.  Try your damndest not to wear [...]You're reading Jenni Chiu: On Replacing the Judgy Pants With Talky Pants from Postpartum Progress. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

  • Robin Farr: On Being Worthy of Celebration This Mother’s Day

    Katherine Stone
    13 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Dear new mom, Mother’s Day is a very tough day when the last thing you want to do is celebrate your mothering. I know, because last year I wanted Mother’s Day to pass me by completely. I couldn’t bear to be celebrated for something I felt so profoundly bad at. I’ve never really thought I’m [...]You're reading Robin Farr: On Being Worthy of Celebration This Mother’s Day from Postpartum Progress. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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    A Splintered Mind

  • Clear: The ADD Friendly ToDo List

    12 May 2012 | 6:48 pm
    Recently I have fallen in love with a ToDo list. I hope this won't be too embarrassing for you, but I have taken it out on dates. In fact, I take it everywhere with me. I even sleep with it. Now, now. I realize I can't marry it…yet…but we are truly inseparable.A good ToDo list gets out of your way and just lets you write things down. Anything that tries to improve too much beyond the pen and paper paradigm becomes a different beast entirely. That's not to say that ToDo apps with recurring ToDos and alarms and Swedish foot massage are bad. I like getting my feet rubbed, but sometimes I…

  • Musing Monday - Let's Try This Again

    10 May 2012 | 3:35 pm
    Gorgeous day today. Sure wish I had spent it on the side of a river with a hayseed in my mouth and wind in my hair. Instead, I spent it either indoors or en route to another location indoors. Errands are the new R&R.Back when I was insane and thought having two blogs was a good idea, I tried different ways to attract other authors and writers. I posted Monday Musings for a while, but somehow life and stuff and stress got in the way and I stopped doing them. Isn't that a shame? One of them is even in my top ten pages. Baffling, but flattering. No, wait. It features Miley Cyrus in her…

  • Thinking Deeply Again

    10 May 2012 | 3:35 pm
    The Goblin Brownie is in happy Netflix Land in the other room, and in a few moments the Leprechaun & Elf will be home. My time alone will be over. I've been rethinking how I spend my time lately and wishing I had tighter control of it. Of course, my brain's a freely spinning frisbee heading to parts unknown, but perhaps with a bit of effort I can rein it in and have more to show for my day—other than errands and work. I need to live with greater purpose. I'm not as distracted as I am unfocused at the moment. I have goals, but I have to admit that my depression and this divorce have buried…

  • Misplaced Items and Memory Glitches

    4 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    No matter how often I pat myself down or mentally go over my list of belongings, all I need is one crucial distraction to send me on my way without a precious item. I still pine for my favorite pair of Ray-Bans from years ago, lost on a bus somewhere. Or was it at that friend's house? Wait, no. She had my favorite mix tape. Wait, no she didn't, and I asked her if she had it so many times she isn't talking to me. I was certain she had it. Good thing I didn't ask her about the Ray-Bans.Sometimes it is like that. We have an image in our mind of where we lost an item and we can't shake it. We…

  • Writing Interrupted

    1 May 2012 | 7:54 pm
    There I was all excited to start researching anecdotal stories for my ADHD eBook when I slipped into a time vortex. I thought I was careful about those sort of things, but here I am two weeks later, dazed and more than a little confused. I saw a blur of pink, some bling coated jeans, and hair spray, then I woke up this morning. What was I supposed to be doing again? Yes, my girls are with their mother for the next two weeks, and my time with them is over. Now I must adjust to life again without them. After seven months of this you might think that I would be accustomed to it, but when you…
 
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    Anxiety, Panic & Health

  • 4 Great Articles for You: Your Occasional Reader

    Mike Nichols
    19 Apr 2012 | 3:33 pm
    After a long hiatus, I’m back with four more interesting articles for you to read. Sunbeams, rainbows and bluebirds! Nothing to bring you down, and everything to lighten your mood. Here’s a list. To read them all, just click the “Read the entire article” link: FDA Approves Generic Lexapro for Depression, Anxiety Mentoring scheme helps anxiety sufferers Panic in Paradise — Honeymoon Ruined by Agoraphobia and Panic Mobile app lets you "Tweet-A-Beer" — Perfect for agoraphobic beer lovers! FDA Approves Generic Lexapro for Depression, Anxiety Many…

  • Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder: Its Roots and Branches – Ryan Rivera

    Mike Nichols
    16 Apr 2012 | 3:14 am
    'Couple' by Mary Neighbor Articles on Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder have drawn large numbers of comments on Anxiety, Panic & Health. People are confused and hurting, with lives disrupted or even destroyed by the disorder. There is no consensus among mental health care professionals about Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder. In fact, despite the millions of people suffering, it is not even recognized by the American Psychological Association. There has been some tentative research in the past two decades, but there have been few studies compared with other Anxiety Disorders. Ryan Rivera,…

  • Anxiety, Panic & Health Is Alive!

    Mike Nichols
    23 Sep 2010 | 8:12 pm
    It’s been a long time since the last post on Anxiety, Panic & Health. Some people thought I had abandoned it for good. I even had offers to purchase it. Well, I’m back, but where have I been? Long-time readers will know that I don’t like to talk about myself on this blog, so I won’t go into a long tale of woe. Suffice it to say that I’ve had a bad time with my bipolar disorder, and I’ve started a new business as well. I’ve managed to hold my head above water, and now I’m ready to return to AP&H. You may expect regular posts in the…

  • Exposure Therapy: Eliminating Anxiety Disorder’s Fear, Part 2

    Mike Nichols
    20 Aug 2009 | 3:36 pm
    You have a fear of spiders, or of flying, or of crowds. Are you just sitting there suffering? It’s time to try Exposure Therapy! Exposure therapy is a type of Behavioral Therapy used to help the patient confront a feared situation, object, thought, or memory and dispel its power to produce fear and anxiety. It involves reliving a traumatic experience in a controlled, therapeutic environment. The Anxiety Disorders can paralyze the sufferer with ever-mounting avoidance behaviors. While successful for the moment, avoidance just sets aside the fear and anxiety triggered by a situation. They…

  • Exposure Therapy: Eliminating Anxiety Disorder’s Fear, Part 1

    Mike Nichols
    17 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am
    The neighbor’s dog barks night and day. If you have gotten used to it, you have used one of the root principles of Exposure Therapy. Exposure therapy is a type of Behavioral Therapy used to help the patient confront a feared situation, object, thought, or memory and dispel its power over them. It involves reliving a traumatic experience in a controlled, therapeutic environment. In a way, Exposure Therapy is related to the old maxim “face your fears,” but instead of jumping into a terror-inducing situation with both feet, therapy usually advocates a carefully planned, gradual…
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    Storied Mind

  • Dreams of Depression and Healing

    John Folk-Williams
    14 May 2012 | 3:54 pm
    Dreams of Depression and Healing Dreams of depression have often marked moments of crisis or breakthrough to recovery in my experience, but it has been many years since I’ve written about them. Here is a revised version of a post – actually a journal entry – that reminded me how mysterious the cycles of the illness can be. Depression comes, depression goes, and I have no idea why. Sometimes, I suddenly break out of it through mysterious dreams that shock my spirit awake. Those are the unexpected blessings, no more to be explained than the unpredictable recurrence of the…
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    Fighting the Darkness: My Secret Battle with Depression

  • It's been awhile

    1 May 2012 | 10:43 pm
    I just realized it's been a full month since I posted last! I have been trying to post more regularly, but I guess life got away from me this month. So what has been keeping me busy? First of all, my mole biopsy came back with abnormal cells. So in May I am getting a larger hole cut out of my face so they can remove all the abnormal cells. The good news is that it isn't cancer. I also hosted a

  • Rough Week

    2 Apr 2012 | 12:02 am
    I had a rough week this past week. On Monday I went to the dermatologist to have him look at a mole that's been changing. We've been monitoring it for about six months now. I've been feeling very comfortable about it and didn't think it had been changing too much. But I guess I was wrong. During my appointment, he surprised me by saying it needed to be biopsied. I could do it right then or come

  • Shared Stories of Depression - Laura's Depression

    21 Mar 2012 | 8:22 pm
    Through my Facebook group I have had many people share their stories with me. Today I would like to share Laura's story with you. Laura's Story: I am a twenty one year old college student, who appears to have everything going for me. I am going to graduate with honors and I have always been the one to succeed in my family. However, I feel like there is a hole inside, no rather I feel like I am

  • Shared Stories of Depression - Trisha's Recovery Journey

    1 Mar 2012 | 10:00 pm
    Through my Facebook group I have had many people share their stories with me. Today I would like to share Trisha's story with you.  Trisha's Story: I am a 42-year old woman who has struggled with depression all of my life. Most of it in denial or partial-denial. I have finally accepted and have embraced my illness due to a major crash last February. I ended up hospitalized because I tried to

  • Shared Stories of Depression - Michael's Depression

    26 Feb 2012 | 1:31 pm
    Through my Facebook group I have had many people share their stories with me. Today I would like to share Michael's story with you.  Michael's Story: I  haven't had depression in a very long time but since xmas 2011 I am in a dark place and can't seem to shake it. A few triggers may have started it, my first xmas without my mum and not having a good relationship with the rest of my family.
 
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    Perinatal Pro Weekly Blog

  • Presidential Proclamation National Women’s Health Week

    dickens3927
    15 May 2012 | 8:47 pm
    President Barack Obama Presidential Proclamation — National Women’s Health Week NATIONAL WOMEN’S HEALTH WEEK, 2012 - – - – - – - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Women have guided our country toward prosperity and progress, and our Nation’s success depends on their well-being. While women often play a leading role in making medical decisions for their families, their own health care needs have too often gone unmet. During National Women’s Health Week, we recommit to making health care more accessible and affordable…

  • National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition to offer Educational Webinar during National Women’s Health Week!

    dickens3927
    11 May 2012 | 6:53 am
    Susan Dowd Stone, MSW, LCSWThe National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition joins the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health in celebrating National Women’s Health Week with a Webinar on the mental health needs of moms before, during and after pregnancy. HMHB was the first major maternal-infant health organization to include the issue of maternal mental health among their priorities. Their acclaimed TEXT4BABY program includes – among its messages related to mother/baby well-bring throughout pregnancy and the first year of life –…

  • Hudson Valley Birth Network Conference to focus on establishing continuum of care in perinatal mental health

    dickens3927
    1 May 2012 | 9:05 am
    The Hudson Valley Birth NetworkFrom the Hudson Vally Birth Network: As advocates and professionals concerned with perinatal mental health, a current issue of major concern is how to connect the life-saving services of all perinatal professionals and support systems in a way that will provide a continuum of care of new mothers, their infants and families. The Hudson Valley Birth Network invites you to attend a one-day conference on this critical topic on May 15, 2012. The conference will be held from 9 AM to 4 PM at The James House Mansion at Phelps Memorial Hospital 701 North Broadway, Sleepy…

  • PPD Research Group Seeks Study Participants

    dickens3927
    20 Apr 2012 | 8:41 am
    Received the following update from Hiltrud Dawson who is Health Promotion Consultant for Best Start Resource Center, a reputable Canadian organization that has long targeted postpartum depression. You do not need to live in Ontario to participate! On behalf of Lori Ross: “Are you dealing with stress? Do you struggle with your emotional health? We need YOU to fill out this survey!” The “Pathways Study” is a community-based research project that seeks to understand women’s* experiences with depression as well as their use of mental health services. We are recruiting 900…

  • Military Services Pioneer Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen among Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in the World!

    dickens3927
    18 Apr 2012 | 9:12 am
    Dr. Barbara Van DahlenDr. Barbara van Dahlen founded Give an Hour in 2005 to encourage the utilization of mental health services among returning veterans. As a member of Give an Hour, mental health professionals provide a minimum of 1 hour per week of free counseling to soldiers and their families. Give an hour has helped thousands and thousands of servicemen/women and their families to recover from the wide spectrum of mental health issues and challenges they confront upon return to civilian life – or during deployment. Barbara Van Dahlen has worked tirelessly to recruit mental health…
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    Anxiety and OCD Exposed

  • Obsessing About Your Body

    Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D.
    15 May 2012 | 5:34 pm
    Most people can find one thing or another that they don’t like about their bodies. For example, maybe you feel you have a few unwanted pounds, perhaps you don’t like the size or the shape of your nose, or maybe you struggle to deal with your complexion. If so, your concerns fall within a normal range. There’s no reason to think you have a serious problem. In fact, if you saw your face and body as totally, wonderfully, gorgeous and without flaws, many people would think you were narcissistic. But there’s a problem called Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) that takes normal, minor…

  • Through the Looking Glass: Social Anxiety and Self-Absorption

    Laura L. Smith, Ph.D.
    10 May 2012 | 11:32 am
    Mirror mirror on the wall, why is everyone always looking at me? Some people believe that others are always looking at them and judging them quite harshly. It’s like there are mirrors everywhere and they all reflect imperfections. People have social anxiety when this feeling becomes overwhelming and interferes with daily life. Symptoms of social anxiety include fears of: public speaking going to parties meeting new people speaking up to authority figures eating in pubic Anxiety in those with social phobia usually includes physical symptoms such as sweating, rapid heart rate, upset…

  • Are Anxiety and OCD the Same Thing?

    Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D.
    8 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) involves feelings, thoughts and behaviors. For the vast majority of people with OCD, the feeling of anxiety stands out as prominent. For example, a man with OCD might have an obsessive thought that a doorknob is contaminated and the thought of touching the doorknob causes him great anxiety. He takes a spray bottle of disinfectant and sprays the doorknob, which decreases his decreases. Then he reaches for a Kleenex to give him a barrier from any possible remaining germs. He feels relieved. And that momentary relief feels pretty good; well, that is until the…

  • The ABC’S of Behavior

    Laura L. Smith, Ph.D.
    1 May 2012 | 1:57 pm
    Most days I think about how dog training has influenced my therapeutic style. If you are a client, you have probably heard some of my favorite dog stories. I often talk about how I forgot my training and turned my dog Sadie into a frightened mess of fur whenever a thunderstorm rolled through. It was pretty cute when she was a puppy and would cuddle up next to me for protection. I’d pet her and say whatever silly dog stuff you say to your dog when she’s scared. Now, she weighs well over 60 pounds and when she gets too close between her fur, dog breath, and weight—it’s not quite as…

  • Health Anxiety

    Charles H. Elliott, Ph.D.
    23 Apr 2012 | 2:15 pm
    About ten days ago, Laura and I came down with the plague. Well, OK, not the plague. More like the flu actually. We experienced energy draining fatigue, headaches, fever, chills, a constant cough and even back pain. We spent close to two days in bed and have just now overcome our symptoms with the sole exception of a lingering, but dissipating cough. Of course we wondered if we could have done something to prevent this malady from occurring. When we saw our doctor, he suggested that we might have gotten our flu shots too early this year (apparently, they reformulate the shots as the year goes…
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    Lawyers With Depression

  • The Moment I knew I was Depressed

    Dan
    6 May 2012 | 3:07 pm
    From the blog Beyond Blue, Therese Borchard writes, “Coping your way through life is not a way to live.”  Read the Blog

  • Defining Attorney Well-Being

    Dan
    6 May 2012 | 3:01 pm
    From the blog Balancing the Bar, a piece that asks an important question: What would a lawyer life defined by well-being, rather than unhappiness or depression, look like?  Read the Blog

  • The Five Principles of a Profound Workday

    Dan
    6 May 2012 | 2:53 pm
    From the blog Zen Habits, five things to think about during your workday to make it better.  Read the Blog

  • No Jerks: Some Firms Argue that Collegiality Pays

    Dan
    5 May 2012 | 8:59 am
    From The ABA Journal, Becky Beaupre Gillespie writes that research suggests that people who consistently demean colleagues significantly reduce overall performance.  Read the Story

  • It Gets Worse: Organization Underestimated Law School Debt

    Dan
    5 May 2012 | 8:51 am
    From The National Law Journal, Karen Sloan writes that the cost of going to law school for this Fall’s first year class will total $210,796 by the time they get their diploma three years later.  Read the Story
 
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    Scientific Dream Interpretation

  • Your Psychological System Reflected in Dreams – The Meaning of The Nail

    admin
    15 May 2012 | 9:47 pm
    Dreams work like free psychotherapy, besides helping you solve all problems. Most dreams reflect your psychological system. In order to understand the meaning of dreams you have to learn the meaning of the most important dream symbols, which were discovered by Carl Jung and by me, who continued his research. You also have to understand the unconscious logic. The unconscious mind produces your dreams giving you symbolic messages that follow another reasoning system. The dream logic is totally different from the logic of your conscious mind. I will give you an example using a sentence for a…

  • Discovering The Powerful Unconscious Wisdom and Finding Sound Mental Health

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 6:37 pm
    Dream translation according to the scientific method of dream interpretation helps you discover the hidden messages of the unconscious mind that produces your dreams. All dreams contain precious messages that give you precious information about everything that is important for you. Carl Jung’s discoveries about the powerful unconscious wisdom and my discoveries after continuing his research give you a powerful tool in life. Today you can be helped by the unconscious mind because you can clearly understand the unconscious messages in the dream images and therefore, understand what to do. The…

  • What is Homosexuality? Should We Accept Homosexual Relationships?

    admin
    11 May 2012 | 8:30 pm
    Today I will write an answer to the attitude of the president Obama, who believes that we must transform homosexuality into a legally acceptable phenomenon. I’m Brazilian and Greek (because my parents are Greek) but I’m working online for years. Thus, I feel I’m somehow living in the US for being in contact with many Americans online. This is why the attitude of the president of the United States is important for me. I was glad with his existence only because he is a black president in a racist country, even though I never cared about his political views. I hate politics. I believe that…

  • Who Is The Unconscious Mind that Produces Your Dreams? Discover An Amazing Truth

    admin
    10 May 2012 | 8:29 pm
    The unconscious mind that produces our dreams is God’s mind. This is an amazing truth that is gradually changing our destiny. Who is God? God is the biggest victim of the existence of terror. He discovered the meaning of sanctity and the power of wisdom and goodness. However, God cannot put an end to terror and violence alone. He needs help. This is why He created our planet and He gave you a human conscience. You receive free psychotherapy from the wise unconscious mind in your dreams because the biggest part of your brain is absurd and your conscience is under-developed. You have to learn…

  • The Interpretation of Dreams and The Importance of Your Attitude

    admin
    9 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    The interpretation of dreams based on the scientific method accurately translates the unconscious messages. This means that through dream translation you learn what the divine unconscious mind is showing you in the dream images. The unconscious mind that produces your dreams has a divine origin. It knows everything about you and your life because it is God’s mind. This is a scientific and religious truth that only now is enlightening the ignorant world. The unconscious mind works like a psychotherapist because you are absurd from birth. You have inherited an absurd wild conscience into the…
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    Beyond Blue

  • Label Me, Please

    Beyond Blue
    15 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    For a long while I was afraid to write things such as "I am mentally ill" or "I am bipolar." I was afraid of labels. By calling myself a manic-depressive would I trap my psyche in "sick" mode? By accepting my diagnosis of bipolar disorder, would I prevent healing? By writing the words "I am mentally ill," was I holding...Read the full post here »

  • In Sickness and In Health

    Beyond Blue
    15 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    "On Wednesday, I will leave my husband of twelve years. He is a depressive. He uses prescribed medication and has available to him a phalanx of good therapists. But he also self-medicates with alcohol. He disdains therapy. He refuses to confront his disease."She communicated this partly as a response to my

  • The Cracked Pot

    Beyond Blue
    14 May 2012 | 5:03 am
    I love this tale from India, retold here by Mary Dessein. What a beautiful way of thinking about our illness, frustrating life situations, or crosses we bear. A water-bearer carries two large pots on a yoke across his shoulders up the hill from the river to his master's house each day. One has a...Read the full post here »

  • Therapy Thursday: Imagine the Worst

    Beyond Blue
    10 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    I have decided to dedicate a post on Thursday to therapy, and offer you the many tips I have learned on the couch. They will be a good reminder for me, as well, of something small I can concentrate on. Many of them are published in my book, "The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional...Read the full post here »

  • Give Up on Being Perfect

    Beyond Blue
    8 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    In "Being Perfect," bestselling author Anna Quindlen advises high school and college graduates to work from a clean slate ... to give up on being perfect. I keep the gift book beside my computer (with Miguel Ruiz's "
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    Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD

  • [HIFA2015] International Nurses Day, May 12 "Closing the gap: From evidence to action"

    Peter Jones
    12 May 2012 | 6:17 am
    Dear Colleagues / collaborators, Nurses worldwide under the umbrella of the International Council of Nurses celebrates the International Nurses Day yearly on May 12. This is to pay tribute to the millions of men and women who put their lives to the service of humanity, in accordance with convention 149 of the ILO (Nursing Personnel Convention) passed in 1997. This celebration however has not yet gained the recognition it should, for how can one explain the fact that this day may even go by unnoticed in some countries, or are we therefore saying it is not worth it and why is this day not even…

  • International Nurses Day - Closing the gap: My Project for a Global Conceptual Framework for Nursing

    Peter Jones
    10 May 2012 | 6:06 pm
    As International Nurses Day is celebrated tomorrow on the 12th May the emphasis and work here at W2tQ lies with Hodges' model. The project is to publicise h2cm's international potential in providing an avenue to help unify nursing theory, practice and assure future research. Fawcett wrote of the metaparadigm of nursing - namely the inclusion of the concepts of person; environment; health; and nursing. These concepts are incorporated into Fawcett's criteria on model validation which are listed in bold-italic below. I have also ventured some reflections on the current status of h2cm when…

  • Visual Methodologies Doctoral Training Workshop 26 - 27 June 2012

    Peter Jones
    3 May 2012 | 5:17 pm
    Developing Theory & Practice in Visual Methodologies The School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences and Durham University’s School of Education are holding a two-day workshop for doctoral students on the development and use of visual methodologies. The workshop will take place on Tuesday, 26 June and Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at Newcastle University. Further information about the workshop and how to register can be found at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/education/postgraduate/visualmethodologies/ The workshop is part of the North East Doctoral Training Centre’s (NEDTC) annual…

  • Conceptual Space Markup Language (CSML): Towards the Cognitive Semantic Web

    Peter Jones
    30 Apr 2012 | 6:40 pm
    I'll start May hopefully in tune with plans towards the month's end and attending Conceptual Spaces at Work. The SCIENCES domain page has included Markup Languages (ML) for a great many years. In the early versions of the h2cm website there were just two 'resource' pages. When the ongoing four page format arrived then markup languages had a place. Looking at the programme for next month's Conceptual Spaces at Work the first session listed includes this reference: Adams, B., Raubal, M. (2009). Conceptual Space Markup Language (CSML): Towards the Cognitive Semantic Web. ICSC '09 Proceedings of…

  • Personal Health Records: Part II - revisiting Kim and Johnson 2002

    Peter Jones
    28 Apr 2012 | 4:46 am
    Part I continued ... What Kim and Johnson reveal is a level of transience that can be quite scary in this context. True, electronic health records can be archived and printed, but the latter surely defeats the purpose of the 'e'. Printing undermines the credentials. The virtual landscape presented in part I by checking the current status of these domains highlights the issue of ownership of data in a way that has provoked much debate in social media and the transferability of a person's data - information. If I want to move to another vendor, system, company (however the 'entity' is…
 
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    Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist

  • I Move My Fingers, Nose and Eyebrows a Lot; Do I Have OCD or ADD?

    Dr Misty Hook, PhD
    15 May 2012 | 7:14 am
    Q: I am a 19-year-old girl from California and I am not sure if I have OCD, ADD or both, or if I am just overreacting. I have hypermobility in my fingers and thumbs and I always do that with my fingers and thumbs, most of the time without realizing it. I also have a [...]Tags: ADHD, anxiety and stress, OCD, self awareness

  • He’s 45; She’s 20 — Is That Wrong?

    Dr Misty Hook, PhD
    14 May 2012 | 7:13 am
    Q: I have a concern for a friend of mine. He is 45 years old and is starting a relationship with a 20-year-old woman. I keep telling him this is wrong. My therapist says it is wrong. His therapist tells him to “be careful” and “take your time.” He tells me that he feels it’s [...]Tags: love, relationships

  • He’s Bisexual; Does That Affect His Behavior?

    Dr Misty Hook, PhD
    11 May 2012 | 7:21 am
    Q: I’m very confused and I just want to understand a little more. I started dating a guy and he was everything I needed at that point in time. Eventually we moved in together and I realized that he’s not acting like a man. He can’t handle stress well, he does not take responsibility, and [...]Tags: relationships, responsibility, sexuality

  • I Want to Raise Our Children Together

    Dr Shailagh Clarke, PhD
    10 May 2012 | 7:31 am
    Q: My boyfriend and I have a 19-month-old boy and soon we’ll be having a little girl. He says I changed after I had my son. I did, but mostly for the better, except that I became really insecure and I developed major trust issues — but he gave me reason for that. I know [...]Tags: parenting and children, relationships, responsibility

  • Why Am I So Sensitive?

    Dr Misty Hook, PhD
    9 May 2012 | 6:32 am
    Q: Why am I so sensitive? I take comments so seriously. If I don’t like someone, their comments don’t matter at all, but when I start seeing someone as a friend, even the smallest negative thing they say about me hurts me, even if I know they are joking. I am really tired and feel [...]Tags: relationships, self-esteem
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    If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going

  • Depression-taking hostages

    3 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    Holly on the fridge They say depression can leak out to family members, much like the way it's noticed that female college roomates often synchronize periods. It makes total sense, if you are around someone who is sad and depressed you try to cheer them up. You do everything you can in your bag of tricks. When nothing works, and your loved one/friend/family member is the same or worse, it

  • Occupy the APA- May 5, 2012

    2 May 2012 | 9:46 pm
    Occupy APA by Amy Smith On Saturday, May 5, 2012, as thousands of psychiatrists congregate in Philadelphia for the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting, individuals with psychiatric labels and other supporters will converge in a global campaign to oppose the APA's proposed new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), scheduled for

  • Fear and loathing

    30 Apr 2012 | 9:22 am
     I've been remiss in blogging for a bit. This bothers me, concerns me. It's not like me. I can say things have gotten hectic in the Casa de Susan, but that's not entirely true. The truth - the whole truth and nothing but the truth- I'm not only too depressed to write-I am afraid to write. I've been writing in my private journal, a nice leather bound book I've had for several years. But to write

  • Present and accounted for

    30 Apr 2012 | 6:43 am
    Has it been really almost two months since I blogged last? I'm so sorry. It was not my intention. Here's the scoop. After I posted my last piece, I came down with a very bad strep throat. I usually get one strep throat every winter, so it's not a big deal. This one was no different. I saw the doctor, got a dose of antibiotics, and just basically slept for a week straight, having the alarm

  • Over-medicated America: the result of pharmaceutical companies directing medicine (infographic)

    19 Feb 2012 | 6:22 pm
    This gem comes directly from Gianna Kali, author of the Beyond Meds blog. I loved it so much I had to reprint it.  Thank you Gianna! Created by: MedicalBillingandCodingOnline.org
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    Una Vita Bella

  • Savor It!

    Abeeliever
    22 Apr 2012 | 11:36 pm
      For several months I have felt, well, um, oppressed. Truly, I have been depressed (at times, even earlier this week, very much so). It has been oppressive and sad and all of the dark things that you think about depression. I don’t know if this weekend is some kind of breakthrough or if it is just a moment of reprieve. Either way, I’ll take it. I have enjoyed a couple of days of not feeling so heavily weighted by life, more like a couple of days filled with more moments of relief as well as some more moments of motivation, and as I realize this I am over-joyed. I feel some…

  • Just a Whisper

    Abeeliever
    26 Feb 2012 | 1:08 am
    For the first time, not the first time ever, but for the first time in a very long time, I am afraid to write. I am scared to write about the topics I am most passionate about and scared to expose myself to this big and scary world. Before now, I was safe as a health activist surrounded by other health activists. I was safe in my blogging community, in the arms of others who lived and wrote about similar topics as I… I was comfortable addressing the challenges of my life with those who understood. I took for granted how easy it was to write and speak out when I was embraced and welcomed…

  • I Haven’t Forgotten

    Abeeliever
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:46 pm
    You may or may not know that I am now working full-time. I am a single parent now and I am living a busy and hectic life. I have fibromyalgia, but I certainly don’t look the picture, if there is one. What I think is amazing is how I have been able to do so much more than I thought I could even a year ago, it truly does feel miraculous… but what I sometimes wonder is “how long can I keep this up?” or sometimes I just selfishly wish people knew that things were hurting and difficult, sometimes I wish people knew that things might be harder for me. But mostly, I am simply…

  • Tug of War

    Abeeliever
    7 Jan 2012 | 6:20 pm
    Life feels so messy today… like that build up of laundry that somehow multiplied over night into an enormous heap, things sometimes feel insurmountable. I know I am not alone in juggling all of the many things entailed in raising children as a single mother, working full-time, paying bills, buying groceries, doctors appointments, social obligations, etc. All of us cope with these things on some level. I don’t want to play the fibromyalgia and depression cards either. While not everyone copes with those issues, we all have something, don’t we? For some of us it is just more…

  • Hello Good Friend

    Abeeliever
    7 Dec 2011 | 8:19 pm
    Image by Big Grey Mare via Flickr It has been so long since I have written, I am unsure of whether or not to even try… I am unsure of who I will write for anymore. I suppose, as it all began, I am writing for me. My absence has felt so long, but all the while I have thought of my blog like a good friend that I let down by disappearing into the whirlwind of this life. I have thought of you, my readers, I have thought of myself, the pieces of me that I left here open, breathing, sometimes seeming lifeless but always still alive in my words. I have wondered if I could ever return, for what…
 
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    How To Live Happily

  • “The Secret” Revealed – Watch a Thought Becoming a Thing

    howtolivehappily
    8 May 2012 | 8:18 pm
    Are you one of those people who don’t believe that thoughts become things? Then watch. You’ll be manifesting a hand within seconds. Read more …

  • My Inner Perfectionist Is Screaming: “Don’t Do This!”

    howtolivehappily
    24 Apr 2011 | 1:58 pm
    Hello everybody! It’s been quiet here for a while. I didn’t post anything new in the last three weeks. Life has been crazier here than you could ever imagine. I could have easily given up on my blog – but I didn’t. Something has been brewing all the time. I went through a very steep learning curve – and am not finished yet. I won’t be finished any time soon. But there’s something I can’t wait to share with you. Here’s the deal: I’m moving to my own domain. This may sound trivial to some of you, but to me it was quite a challenge.

  • Fred Kofman – Verbal Aikido

    howtolivehappily
    1 Apr 2011 | 7:33 pm
    Today, my friend Jonas made me aware of Fred Kofman by posting a comment. Thank you Jonas for adding value to my blog! Now I can’t wait to share this info with you. The ideas presented here are very much in line with Nonviolent Communication, but from a slightly different angle. The theory is a bit simplified, and application could be a bit easier. I suggest that you immerse yourself in both – then start practising this one. Read more …

  • I Finally Found a Great Way to Monetize My Blog!

    howtolivehappily
    1 Apr 2011 | 7:33 am
    This will be a really short post. You can read about the solution here. Have a great day, and watch out where you are clicking! “I disagree. This is wrong. I feel offended.” I am sorry about that. Your opinion is important to me, so please write down all your objections in a comment below.  Thank you. BTW, I also love praise, so be sure to give me some If you feel like it. Thank you for reading this far. Did you find this article helpful in any way? If you did, maybe you could think of somebody else who could benefit from it, too. Be sure to help them out by bringing them here. Thank…

  • I Had a Dream as a Child

    howtolivehappily
    28 Mar 2011 | 5:42 pm
    Hello everybody! Today I’d like to share with you a dream I had some 20 years ago. Even though it’s been such a long time since, I can still remember some of the scenes vividly. This has been a dream that I’ve remembered throughout my life, a dream that has left a deep impression on me. Here it goes: Read more …
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    Therapy Blog

  • Early Adolescent Stressors Increase Depression and Anxiety in Rats

    15 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    A study involving rats showed that stressful stimuli in early adolescence resulted in increased anxiety and depression....

  • The Pros and Cons of Staying Involved With an Ex-Spouse

    15 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    For some people, sexual conduct with an ex-spouse soon after a separation can help ease the psychological adjustment and improve acceptance....

  • Heaven or Hell?

    15 May 2012 | 12:37 pm
    Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT - People who fear they are lacking inner strength may idealize others in an effort to borrow from their strength. If the person being idealized is not comfortable with the position of "guru" in the relationship, problems may ensue. ...

  • CBT for Communication and Language Problems

    15 May 2012 | 10:29 am
    A recent look at combining cognitive behavioral therapy with communication therapy has found some benefits in children with Asperger's, autism, and anxiety....

  • Do School Counselors Have LGBTQ Competence?

    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    A recent analysis found that school counselors have lower competency levels on issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth as compared with community counselors....
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    CogniFit's blog

  • Neurons Are An Essential Part Of Life

    CogniFit
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Neurons are cells which perform specialized tasks. They are the basic building blocks of the nervous system. They are similar to other cells in the body but they possess the unique ability to transmit information between them. We will explain more about these cells and what they do. Neurons can communicate between each other through electrical and chemical processes. There are also several different kinds of neurons which do special tasks. For example sensory neurons can transmit information from sensory receptor cells to the brain. It is these kinds of cells which can allow you to experience…

  • Mental Health – Happy And Balanced

    CogniFit
    14 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    A healthy brain is essential in controlling your body properly and performing many functions.  But mental health can also be concentrated on higher level functions which can affect how to respond to the world around you and how you feel. Let’s explore this topic further. The human brain is an amazingly complex organ. But it does much more than control our bodies. We possess higher level functions including the ability to respond to the world around us in very interesting ways. Mental health has to do with the way in which we feel about things and ourselves. Good mental health generally…

  • Mental Training - What Do You Know About It?

    CogniFit
    13 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    A world class athlete certainly understands the importance of training to keep his body fit and functioning in the best possible manner. Well mental training is also something which can be implemented and it can have important long lasting results. Let’s explore this interesting topic further. The brain responds to stimuli and if applied correctly, it can have very beneficial results. So mental training can consist of a number of targeted techniques and exercises to challenge how it handles information and stimuli. There are targeted takss a person can pursue to achieve desired results. For…

  • Do You Face Memory Problems?

    CogniFit
    12 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Memory problems can occur with just about anyone at some time in their lives. You have probably experienced it yourself when you suddenly forget the name of the person you were just introduced to or cannot recall the address of a frequently visited spot. Our memory is controlled in the brain but there are many factors which can impact memory. Our brain provides us with the ability to receive information, process it, store it and then later retrieve it. Changes in our brains can have a profound effect on our memory. However there are many other factors involved which can impact our memory and…

  • Neuroscience & Cognition

    CogniFit
    11 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Neuroscience & cognition is also referred to as cognitive neuroscience. It is a specialized field of study which focuses on the biological mechanisms which affect cognition. Specifically it focuses on how the brain, neurons and mental processes.  It seeks to better understand how the biological processes in the brain affect higher level thinking and cognition. We will explore this topic in more detail. Cognitive neuroscience is a combination of study which involves both psychology and neuroscience. Its theories and practices apply results from cognitive science as well as…
 
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    justAna

  • FDA to approve buying Rx drugs without prescription

    5 May 2012 | 8:56 am
    "The FDA says over-the-counter distribution would let patients get drugs for many common conditions without the time and expense of visiting a doctor, but medical providers call the change medically unsound and note that it also may mean that insurance no longer will pay for the drugs.“The problem is medicine is just not that simple,” said Dr. Matthew Mintz, an internist at George Washington University Hospital. “You can’t just follow rules and weigh all the pros and cons. It needs to be individualized.”Under the changes that the agency is considering, patients could…

  • Jim Gottstein fighting to stop the drugging of children

    5 Apr 2012 | 1:16 pm
    At the video Jim Gottstein, PsychiatryRights, discuss the psychiatric drugging of children and youth.Drugging the children and teenagers is the most heinous crime that medicine is committing.

  • Charles Medawar talk in 2008 Adverse Psychiatric Side-effects Conference

    5 Mar 2012 | 7:22 am
    "Charles MEDAWAR Co-founded Social Audit Ltd in 1972, aiming to develop and apply methodologies for social accounting; now a specialist on medicines policy and drug safety issues and on matters of corporate, governmental and professional accountability relating thereto."Always doing brilliant remarks Charles Medawar raises many issues.Sometimes it is amazing that what those who are explaining the harms that medicine is promoting have to explain some obvious facts.I just think that Medawar is very kind to doctors. 

  • Feb. 7, 2004 In memory of Traci Johnson - Cymbalta victim

    7 Feb 2012 | 9:20 am
    This is the forth year I publish this post at the same date.Traci Johnson, a healthy volunteer, joined Cymbalta's Eli-Lilly urinary incontinence clinical trial in early January, 2004 in a clinic at Indiana University Medical Center.In February, 7 her body was found. She hung herself with a scarf from a shower rod at Eli-Lily's facilities.I added her picture at the right-top.RIP Traci Johnson (your candle is still burning)

  • Psychiatric drug-induced suicide attempt: how to differentiate real suicide from drug-induced (repost)

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:27 pm
    "Drug-induced suicide ideation should be explained by those who are in charge of taking care of heath. However little is said about this fact that has been experienced by many people. I'm reposting it because some people can doubt that what they are feeling is really drug-induced.There is a huge difference between wanting to die and just the act of killing oneself that is planted in the mind when we are dealing with drug-induced suicidal ideation. Trust your instincts and, please, search for help if you feel you are suicidal because of an antidepressant or any other…
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    chipur

  • Foods for Depression? Ya’ Gotta’ Skip the “Junk!”

    Bill White, Licensed Counselor
    29 Apr 2012 | 3:11 pm
    “Confronting and defeating depression is Job1 on this side of the fence, Bill. So I want to make sure I have all of my prevention bases covered. Any tidbits of wisdom?” Hmmm. ‘Course there’s no way I’d know what strategies and techniques you’re using (and tried) – what’s worked and what hasn’t. But when it comes to what to do about depression, have you considered depression and diet? Could well be that tidbit of wisdom you’re looking for. According to an article published on medscape.com last week, a study published in the March…
 
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    Nurse Educator |Burnout Nurses| Nurses Voice| Mental Health Social Media Nurse

  • Nurse Mom Mother’s Day

    Angela Brooks
    14 May 2012 | 4:45 am
    Nurse Mom Mother’s Day by Angela Brooks Being a mother and a nurse I have missed several actual mother’s day celebrations but not once have I missed out on being a mother. I must say in all the things I have accomplished in my life no matter how hard I have worked being a mom has been the most rewarding. I love watching my children grow and achieve goals they set for themselves. As a daughter I was influenced by a strong mother. There were several years that we did not see eye to eye but she was always there when I needed something. No matter what the something was I knew she…

  • Thank You “I’ll have another”

    Angela Brooks
    10 May 2012 | 4:44 am
      Thank You “I’ll have another” by Angela Brooks May 5th 2012 the 138th Kentucky Derby race begins on a sunny warm Kentucky day. The horses load the gates and they are off. Horses run the race with such grace after months and weeks of practice. The jockey on top of the high strung animal melts into the saddle and becomes one with the horse. As the race comes to the final corner a horse begins to pull away from the middle of the pack and gives just a little more than the rest. I’ll have another wins the race. The jockey begins to cry as the reporter ask what he was…

  • What Makes People Hesitate from Using Their Own Skills and Talents

    Angela Brooks
    7 May 2012 | 4:45 am
      What Makes People Hesitate from Using Their Own Skills and Talents?   by Angela Brooks As we grow up we trust the people around us to be honest with us, when an adult tells a child they cannot do something they believe them. Even if the adult meant no harm or did not realize how deep those words would sit in that small person’s mind. However, through out your life you have a burning passion that you keep hidden because you can hear that voice in your head that says you can’t or you’re not good enough. Most of the things that happen to us as people are between the…

  • Nation’s Leading Moms in Business

    Angela Brooks
    4 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   StartupNation.com Honors Nation’s Leading Moms in Business   AngelaBrook.com Wins Top Honors in Mom Business Competition   Kentucky – May 2, 2012– From among thousands of contestants, AngelaBrook.com has been ranked 110# in StartupNation.com’s 2012 Leading Moms in Business competition I got an email that said "The winners are in, and you are one of them! You are officially a leading mom in the world of business. KUDOS!!!" I had to read it twice before I realize how large of a contest this was. With over 350,000…

  • Workplace Burnout: Thinking Patterns that Contribute to Healthcare Worker Burnout

    Angela Brooks
    3 May 2012 | 4:44 am
    My friend, Lisa Birnesser who has 25 years experience as a healthcare professional, has studied stress relief techniques. When I read her article I asked her if she would please be a guest blog for the nurses who read this publication. I think you will agree.   Workplace Burnout: Thinking Patterns that Contribute to Healthcare Worker Burnout by Lisa Birnesser The chances of experiencing workplace burnout in a healthcare setting are quite possible in a helping career profession. New technologies, increasing job demands and staff shortages add pressure to job performances daily. Doctors,…
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    Armstrong Coaching

  • homage to my hips

    Jennifer
    26 Apr 2012 | 12:40 am
    Lucille Clifton Reads ‘homage to my hips from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. Celebrating the wonderfulness of hips, both yours and mine! Thursday, April 26th, is Poem In Your Pocket Day.  What poem (and thoughts) are you carrying today?

  • The Weighting Room

    Jennifer
    23 Mar 2012 | 12:40 pm
    Are you in the weighting room of weight loss? For a long time, I would fantasize about the post-thin me. My hair would swing back and forth, the sun catching the highlights of my hair at just the right angle, a big smile on my face, while I lived my perfect life. And the fat, pre-weight loss, me? She would have evaporated, along with the feelings of unworthiness. Although you may believe losing weight is the answer to your problems and fat holds you back from the life you were meant to live, it is a lie. You already hold the ticket to your best life, no waiting required. Here are three steps…

  • Weight Stigma Awareness Week

    Jennifer
    26 Sep 2011 | 8:30 am
    PRESS RELEASE September 22, 2011 For Immediate Release Contact: Chevese Turner Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) 855.855.2332 BEDA Launches First Annual National Weight Stigma Awareness Week Severna Park, MD (September 21, 2011) – The Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) announced today that it will launch its first annual National Weight Stigma Awareness Week, September 26-30, 2011. The objectives of this event are to build awareness of what weight stigma is, the harmful effects weight stigma can have on people of all ages in all environments, and what can be done to stop…

  • Synchronicity

    Jennifer
    20 Sep 2011 | 10:00 am
    I love synchronicity. Whether it is in a movie, a book, or a tale from a love one, it never fails to fill my heart with joy and appreciation. Now I will share a synchronicity that involved me.  I have no eloquent words about what I was feeling in the spring 2009 when I wrote an email to Jennifer Voss.  I was scared to death about taking a step forward but I was even more afraid about sticking with the status quo. I didn’t realize it at the time, but this synchronicity changed the trajectory of my life. Jennifer wrote a beautiful blog post about it, which you will also find below:…

  • Shame Memories

    Jennifer
    21 Jun 2011 | 1:47 pm
    Bennie: “Shame memories…raking over…and leaving gashes.” Sasha: “Not bad. They’re titles, right?” A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Elvis Presley was my uncle. For a good length of time in 1974, Elvis Presley was the best part of my family.  My depiction of my relationship to him knew no bounds.  My kindergarten teachers and aides were convinced, so passionate and detailed my telling of our relationship.  Now, since he had no siblings, I am not sure if they thought he was an honorary part of my family or an in-law, but when my mother went to the parent-teacher…
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  • What I Want To Say To All Victims of Abuse

    Prozacblogger
    15 May 2012 | 7:34 am
    I’ve been receiving a lot of e-mails lately, from all over the world. Cries for help and questions. Hell, I even talked a man off the ledge a few weeks ago. I noticed similarities in all the letters. People with different experiences and different surroundings one similar worry: shame. Some were ashamed of what happened to them and needed someone to talk to, others were ashamed of how they were handling their life after the abuse. So I wanted to take this opportunity to speak to those who somehow haven’t gotten the opportunity to speak out, or to those who are afraid.Let me start…

  • Trying to Treat My Own Depression

    Katie
    2 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    This is a guest post by Katie who has attempted to fight her depression and anxiety through lifestyle changes, or as she calls it “keep from descending into the darkness”. She shared this story with me hoping it might be of use to the readers of this blog. Thank you, Katie. I have often felt myself pulled towards the “darkness.” I don’t know if it’s part of my personality or if it is a result of the high-stress lifestyle I have and the Type A personality I have never been able to shake. What I do know is that I don’t handle stress well. When given the option between an…

  • Health effects of addiction

    Myra Lemmons
    29 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    This is a Guest Post from Myra Lemmons. Drugs is a topic that I rarely discuss at this blog, but since I have a few experiences with it myself. I thought I’d help her in her quest to raise awareness of the health effects of Drug Addiction. The health effects of addiction come in many forms. People young and old experience health effects of addiction whether they are suffering from an addiction to alcohol or even an addiction to prescription drugs.  All of the health effects of addiction can become deadly if they are left untreated, and without proper care, a person may no longer be…
 
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  • Revolution in Swedish Mental Health Care: Brief Update

    scottdm
    14 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    In April 2010, I blogged about Jan Larsson, a Swedish clinician who works with people on the margins of the mental health system.  Jan was dedicated to seeking feedback, using the ORS and SRS to tailor services to the individuals he met.  It wasn't easy.  Unilke most, he did not meet his clients in an office or agency setting.  Rather, he met them where they were: in the park, on the streets, and in their one room aparments.  Critically, wherever they met, Jan had them complete the two measures--"just to be sure," he said.  No computer. …

  • Revolution in Swedish Mental Health Practice: The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Monopoly Gives Way

    scottdm
    13 May 2012 | 2:42 pm
    Sunday, May 13th, 2012 Arlanda Airport, Sweden Over the last decade, Sweden, like most Western countries, embraced the call for “evidence-based practice.”  Socialstyrelsen, the country’s National Board of Health and Welfare, developed and disseminated a set of guidelines (“riktlinger”) for mental health practice.  Topping the list of methods was, not surprisingly, cognitive-behavioral therapy.  The Swedish State took the list seriously, restricting payment for training of clinicians and treatment of clients to cognitive behavioral methods.  In…

  • A Handy "Little Helper" for the Outcome Rating Scale: A Freebie from the ACE Conference Committee

    scottdm
    24 Apr 2012 | 12:00 pm
    This last week the planning committee for the upcoming Achieving Clinical Excellence (ACE) conference meet once again in Horsholm, Denmark.  In the picture from left to right: Liz Plutt, Bill Andrews, myself, Rick Plutt (Conference Chair), and Bogdan Ion.  Taking the photo was Susanne Bargmann. The agenda for the three day event is now set: (1) one day pre-conference on feedback informed treatment (FIT); (2) two days of plenaries and presentations by an international group of clinicians, researchers, and educators.  On day one, the conference kicks off with a keynote address by…

  • Mental Health Practice in a Global Economy

    scottdm
    17 Apr 2012 | 2:25 pm
    Did you feel it?  The seismic shift that occurred in field of mental health just a little over a month ago?  No?  Nothing?  Well, in truth, it wasn't so much a rip in the space-time continuum as a run.  That "run," however, promises to forever alter the fabric of clinical practice--in particular how clinicians earn and maintain a certain standard of living. For decades, licensing statutes have protected behavioral health professionals from competing with providers living outside of their state and local jurisdiction.  In order to bill or receive…

  • The Outcome and Session Rating Scales: Support Tools

    scottdm
    29 Mar 2012 | 6:06 pm
    Japan, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, Israel, Poland, Chile, Guam, Finland, Hungary, Mexico, Australia, China, the United States...and many, many more.  What do all these countries have in common?  In each, clinicians and agencies are using the ORS and SRS scales to inform and improve behavioral health services.  Some are using web-based systems for administration, scoring, interpretation and data aggregation (e.g., myoutcomes.com and fit-outcomes), many are accessing paper and pencil versions of the measures for free and then administering and scoring by hand. …
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  • 14 May 2012 | 3:46 pm

    Julie
    14 May 2012 | 3:46 pm
    I'm a little behind on blogging, so in the meantime, here's a tune for ya.I've had this in my head ever since we sang it in Celebrate Recovery on Friday. Love this.

  • Mommy's Little Booger

    Julie
    6 May 2012 | 7:42 pm
    My Cat is Freakin' Awesome Because:-She uses 2 litter boxes. One is for pee, one is for...the other thing. It would figure that I have an OCD cat.-She watches TV and has an affinity for Animal Planet.-She will only sleep on my side of the bed.-She shares string cheese with me.-She showed up on my doorstep as a kitten and obviously has impeccable taste.-She always smells good. Somehow. I don't know how she does it.-We have conversations and I understand what she's saying...and it's not because I'm bipolar, either.-She's afraid of children. It's hilarious.-She eats houseflies.I'm pretty sure I…

  • Yes, Please!

    Julie
    5 May 2012 | 3:56 pm
    Found this website on Pinterest today. My shirt is soaked with drool!

  • All Over Again

    Julie
    5 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Happy birthday to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I'm 33 today. I don't really feel any different, but then again I never do. Turning 30 sort of felt like a milestone, but it didn't bother me. In my heart of hearts I'm at least 10 years younger than I really am.Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of my salvation. OK, that sentence looks weird. Rephrase: I've been a Christian for 20 years. I remember everything about the day I asked Jesus into my heart. Twenty years of faith is a far bigger milestone than turning 30, if you ask me. I'm pretty psyched about it, but you know what? I miss my cousin, Jay.

  • In This Together

    Julie
    5 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    I like being able to stand next to someone who has bipolar disorder and say "I understand." I hate the disease and I hate that other people have it, but I like that I can empathize. Especially when that someone is another follower of Jesus Christ. Christians don't always know how to relate to someone with a mental illness. If they did, I wouldn't be blogging right now.It means a lot to me when I find a fellow believer who understands the need for sleep and how hard it can be to fall asleep. It means a lot when they understand that a bad mood isn't personal. It means a lot when they pray for…
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    children and anxiety disorder | anxiety disorder in children | behavioral therapy for children

  • What to Do When Your Child Is Being Bullied at School

    Pavol
    29 Apr 2012 | 1:22 pm
    Some of us remember the pain of being bullied at school. Bullying can range from name-calling and teasing to physical violence. Most children find themselves the victim of name-calling or teasing at some point, and this can be quite devastating. Other kids may actually find themselves being shoved, hit or worse. Being bullied can stick [...] No related posts.

  • Parent’s Practical Guide To Depression Disorders

    Pavol
    27 Apr 2012 | 12:52 am
    Depression Debunked The majority of people personally know someone who is/has struggled with depression. Did you know that depression has been cited as the most widespread mental disorder? It is much more common in women than men and also affects more teenagers than adults – so, chances are that at some point in your life [...] No related posts.

  • 7 Tips to Reduce Your Kid’s Anxiety Fast

    Pavol
    24 Apr 2012 | 11:14 pm
    Anxiety is one of the common issues that children experience. It is a part of childhood — often temporary and harmless. However, if a kid’s anxiety level is above average, the anxiety may start affecting the kid’s behavior and normal activities. As a concerned parent, you will definitely look for ways on how your child [...] No related posts.

  • News: Autistic Child Bullied and Called Names by His Teacher

    Pavol
    24 Apr 2012 | 10:30 am
    This story is just unbelievably disturbing. I just hope this is an exception, not the rule. Please watch the video. And then SHARE it! Spread the word. Together we can help stop this kind of abuse. Please – don’t be the silent majority. Thank you. Introduction: My name is Stuart Chaifetz, and my son, Akian, [...] No related posts.

  • Panic Attacks – Medication, Treatment, and Prevention

    Pavol
    20 Apr 2012 | 12:46 am
    Panic disorder is considered to be an illness.  Symptoms include feeling suddenly terrorized, feeling faint, pain in the chest or feeling smothered.  Panic attacks fall under the panic disorder condition and are prone to some of these same symptoms, plus others.  When someone is having a panic attack, there are thoughts that are unrealistic or [...] No related posts.
 
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    HSP Health Blog

  • The Wound Of Materialism

    Maria
    14 May 2012 | 7:57 am
    Oiled Bird - Black Sea Oil Spill 11/12/07 © by marinephotobank Materialism destroys our environment as this picture shows. It also destroys so much more. It destroys our humanity. Every society defines its purposes and priorities.  There was a time when the material side of life was extremely lacking and improving the human standard of living was a necessary and important goal. So the Western world, starting in Europe,  created an economic system to rectify an existing problem. So far all is well. Unfortunately. at some point, the goals of society went beyond rectifying existing needs.

  • Motivation And Your Brain: What You May Not Know

    Maria
    11 May 2012 | 7:48 am
    Brain Hemispheres © by topgold Do you seem to have different motivations that others? Do you have respond differently than others to similar events and stimuli? Check your brain. It may hold an important clue. Motivation is an important subject, one that has been the subject of intense interest for thousands of years. Human societies tend to create a profile of “normal behavior”, which drives expectations, rules and the reward/punishment system used to control the population. It also drives the economy. So definitions about what people are like have important consequences.

  • Turmeric: 18 Ways To Good Health

    Maria
    9 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    Turmeric © by Steven Jackson Photography It is amazing how great health can be as close as our kitchen spice rack. For thousands of years, food and herbs have been used for their healing properties. Some herbs are almost worshipped for their healing gifts.  Turmeric is one such herb. Some herbs are valued solely for their medicinal properties. Neem would be an example of a plant used primarily for medicinal purposes. Turmeric is different, however. It is an important cooking herb as well as a medicinal remedy.  In India, curry is one of their most common dishes and it usually includes…

  • Naysayers And HSP’s

    Maria
    7 May 2012 | 7:01 am
    JUST SAY NO © by marc falardeau Do naysayers drive you up the wall? Highly sensitive people can have difficulty with naysayers. Particularly if they consider themselves wiser than the naysayers – which, frankly, can be quite often. Extroverts can be hard for highly sensitive people to understand because they often seem brash and aggressive but not necessarily insightful. Highly sensitive people tend to seek insight. HSP’s inevitably include in their decision making all of the information that they have no choice but to deal with.  If you take in huge amounts of information which…

  • Bullying Increases Self Harm

    Maria
    4 May 2012 | 7:42 am
    bullying-739607 © by Chesi - Fotos CC   Is there a relationship between bullying and self-harm? The British Medical Journal has published the findings on a study about the relationship between bullying and self-harm behaviors in children. According to Medical News Today, “The study, conducted by researchers at King’s College in London, involved over 1000 sets of twins, ages 5, 7, 10 and 12 who were born in Wales and England between 1994 and 1995. The data showing the results of the self harm tests collected on 2141 kids, 6 months before their 12th birthday, showed that 237…
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  • An Often Underestimated Tool In Anger Management

    Ugo Uche
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    I am a problem solver, I believe it's an attribute fundamental to who I am as a person. However, ever since I began working on my anger, I am routinely reminded about the most potent ingredient  to anger management. That is to surrender. Admittedly, I seldom use this word in my counseling sessions, because most of my clients (particularly males) despise it. I use another word instead, and that word is acceptance. Some clients still have a problem with this tamer sister to surrender. "What do you mean? I should just take it?" No, I will usually respond, acceptance is about acknowledging…

  • Forgiveness and Personal growth.

    Ugo Uche
    10 May 2012 | 1:09 pm
    Today I have selected an email exchange I had with someone on issues over forgiveness and personal growth. His question is a good one, how do you forgive someone who continues to harm you? It may sound complicated, but it's not. It's a matter of recognizing how you sub consciously continue to enable the person to continue causing you harm, and putting a stop to the enabling. The email reads below.Message:I recently came upon something you wrote on the internet about how on a individual level one must seek personal growth before seeking justice towards one that may have harmed them.

  • Humiliation Is Relative (Getting Past Shame)

    Ugo Uche
    7 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    I remember years ago when I was stationed in Afghanistan, I read a touching story about a Pakistani woman who had the courage to report to local authorities that she had been sexually assaulted by a group of men.The assault took place at the command of the chief of her local village,  after she had been found guilty of a petty offense. She alleged that false charges had been leveled against her, after a disagreement between her family and the chief's family . Not that it makes a difference.According to the local customs, to save her family from bearing  her "shame", she was expected…

  • How to Rein in Aggression

    Ugo Uche
    30 Apr 2012 | 3:45 pm
    Aggression is addictive, be it being verbally abusive or being physically abusive towards others. It is both a true negative and a false positive.It is a learned attitude towards problem solving that most likely may have served a useful purpose in one’s childhood but becomes problematic in one's adolescent and adulthood years.When someone experiences problems in reining in aggressive urges, that person struggles with problem solving. Too often when we encounter obstacles in matters we are passionate about, the urge to respond with some type of aggression comes up.As a therapist, I…

  • How to Deal with a Passive Aggressive Boss

    Ugo Uche
    23 Apr 2012 | 9:00 am
    My first job coming out of  the military, I had an interesting supervisor. Every Monday morning she would place some candy and snacks on the desks of select workers. I found myself being one of the few whose desk she would skip. Some of those whose desks where skipped, would become distressed for the rest of the week. The actions of my supervisor where surprisingly powerful. It was like she was trying to send a message to certain caseworkers. "You ticked me of last week,  because of X, Y and Z and you need to be aware of your every move this week,  cause I am gonna get you."Out…
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    Living With Anxiety

  • Living with Anxiety: Death Sentence or Revival?

    yazzie
    9 May 2012 | 12:58 pm
    When I had my anxiety attack, my first thought was that life as I knew it was over for me. I envisioned a life of misery in which all my dreams were shattered with no place for hope. I was devastated! At the height of my terror, I even pictured myself in a psychiatric ward, heavily sedated and lifeless. I was completely lost as to what to do about anxiety until I started educating myself about it and, more particularly, learning to keep a critical mind. I am even going as far as asserting that while knowledge is power, if not handled by a properly critical mind, it can…

  • Living with Anxiety: About Self-Medicating

    yazzie
    26 Apr 2012 | 4:47 pm
    Living with anxiety can be difficult and at times even unbearable. The anxious person’s mood seems completely unpredictable triggering panic attacks from one minute to the next. As a survivor, I know how it feels to wake up every morning wondering how I am going to go through the day without giving up or running back home where I felt safe. What to Do About Anxiety In order to take on the everyday challenge of controlling anxiety I resorted to a very strict routine of mental and physical exercises that aimed at keeping my anxiety at a low level – I remember one slogan from…

  • Living with Anxiety: The Problem with Concentration

    yazzie
    5 Apr 2012 | 3:05 pm
    Since my anxiety attack it has been an exciting journey filled with self-discovery and growing self-awareness which has led me to realize that I had been living in a fog for so many years. This is the positive side of living with anxiety (as long as anxiety is under control) because you are constantly keeping yourself in check and in the process you tend to compare the person you are now with the person you were before anxiety hit you, and then you find out all the things that were wrong with you. In my case, all the signs of an imminent breakdown were there and among them was my failing…

  • Living with Anxiety: Instant Anxiety Relief Techniques

    yazzie
    13 Mar 2012 | 2:56 pm
    Controlling anxiety is a must first step toward recovering from anxiety and regaining a sense of self-agency (a psychological term that simply refers to the concept of being in control of your actions and decisions). More particularly, it is important to lower your anxiety at the moment of an attack in order to be able to function normally and think rationally. I also found that reducing anxiety on a daily basis helped me lower the frequency of my panic attacks until they disappeared completely. Thus I decided to put together for you a short list of a few relaxation exercises that I found…

  • Living with Anxiety: Snoozing during meditation

    yazzie
    5 Mar 2012 | 10:05 pm
    Controlling anxiety requires constant work on the self until the brain has relearned positive ways to process information and deal with stress. Remember that an anxious brain is like an injured limb, as the latter requires physical therapy to relearn basic movements, the former needs “mental therapy” to learn how to make positive response in place of anxiety. One method of mental therapy that I have been advocating on my site is the regular practice of meditation as a way to enhance self-awarness and eventually bring  postive thinking (to learn more about the benefits of…
 
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  • Neurons Are An Essential Part Of Life

    CogniFit
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Neurons are cells which perform specialized tasks. They are the basic building blocks of the nervous system. They are similar to other cells in the body but they possess the unique ability to transmit information between them. We will explain more about these cells and what they do. Neurons can communicate between each other through electrical and chemical processes. There are also several different kinds of neurons which do special tasks. For example sensory neurons can transmit information from sensory receptor cells to the brain. It is these kinds of cells which can allow you to experience…

  • Mental Health – Happy And Balanced

    CogniFit
    14 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    A healthy brain is essential in controlling your body properly and performing many functions.  But mental health can also be concentrated on higher level functions which can affect how to respond to the world around you and how you feel. Let’s explore this topic further. The human brain is an amazingly complex organ. But it does much more than control our bodies. We possess higher level functions including the ability to respond to the world around us in very interesting ways. Mental health has to do with the way in which we feel about things and ourselves. Good mental health generally…

  • Mental Training - What Do You Know About It?

    CogniFit
    13 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    A world class athlete certainly understands the importance of training to keep his body fit and functioning in the best possible manner. Well mental training is also something which can be implemented and it can have important long lasting results. Let’s explore this interesting topic further. The brain responds to stimuli and if applied correctly, it can have very beneficial results. So mental training can consist of a number of targeted techniques and exercises to challenge how it handles information and stimuli. There are targeted takss a person can pursue to achieve desired results. For…

  • Do You Face Memory Problems?

    CogniFit
    12 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Memory problems can occur with just about anyone at some time in their lives. You have probably experienced it yourself when you suddenly forget the name of the person you were just introduced to or cannot recall the address of a frequently visited spot. Our memory is controlled in the brain but there are many factors which can impact memory. Our brain provides us with the ability to receive information, process it, store it and then later retrieve it. Changes in our brains can have a profound effect on our memory. However there are many other factors involved which can impact our memory and…

  • Neuroscience & Cognition

    CogniFit
    11 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Neuroscience & cognition is also referred to as cognitive neuroscience. It is a specialized field of study which focuses on the biological mechanisms which affect cognition. Specifically it focuses on how the brain, neurons and mental processes.  It seeks to better understand how the biological processes in the brain affect higher level thinking and cognition. We will explore this topic in more detail. Cognitive neuroscience is a combination of study which involves both psychology and neuroscience. Its theories and practices apply results from cognitive science as well as…
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    Social Work Career Development

  • Best in Mental Health (wk of 5/7/2012)

    13 May 2012 | 8:07 pm
    I'm watching twitter, google+ and the web so you don't have to... This post is part of a weekly series, Best in Mental Health, featuring the best posts of the week, in social work, psychology, evidence-based practice/healthcare, non-profit and private practice concerns on Social Work Career Development. To get a quick idea of the topics covered in this week's round-up, please see the above word cloud :) Evidence Based Practice/Healthcare: CBT is no better than other psychosocial therapies for people with schizophrenia The Mental Elf (Andre Tomlin) "A new systematic review from the Cochrane…

  • The Box in Art Therapy: Inside and Outside of Self

    9 May 2012 | 10:20 pm
    Have you ever been asked to design a box to represent yourself? In one of my classes for art therapy for clinical social work, we were asked to do so. This is the fifth post in the art therapy** series. The outside of the box was to be decorated (painted, glued, drawn on etc) in such a way that it reflects how you see yourself (or how you think others see you) from the outside.   Conversely, the inside of the box was to be adorned or filled with objects that portray what you don't show others, the feelings/emotions that you tend to hold/hide inside. Above is a picture of the outside of…

  • Best in Mental Health (wk of 4/30/2012)

    6 May 2012 | 11:25 am
    I'm watching twitter, google+ and the web so you don't have to... This post is part of a weekly series, Best in Mental Health, featuring the best posts of the week, in social work, psychology, evidence-based practice/healthcare, non-profit employment and private practice concerns on Social Work Career Development. To get a quick idea of the topics covered in this week's round-up, please see the above word cloud :) Evidence Based Practice/Healthcare: Internet-based programmes can help problem drinkers The Lifestyle Elf (Sarah Chapman) "The two programs were both based on cognitive behavioral…

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Acceptance and Change

    3 May 2012 | 8:05 pm
    Today, I attended Marsha Linehan's wonderful half-day training on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) "Where We Were, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going." Below are my some of my key take-aways: * Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a treatment that was developed by Marsha Linehan in order to help people with high suicide risk and multiple suicide attempts and/or self-harming behaviors.  The combination of an invalidating environment during childhood plus biological factors are common contributing factors. * She developed the dialectical approach balancing both change and radical…

  • Best in Mental Health (wk of 4/23/2012)

    29 Apr 2012 | 4:30 pm
    I'm watching twitter, google+ and the web so you don't have to... This post is part of a weekly series, Best in Mental Health, featuring the best posts of the week, in social work, psychology, evidence-based practice/healthcare, non-profit employment and private practice concerns on Social Work Career Development. To get a quick idea of the topics covered in this week's round-up, please see the above word cloud :) Evidence Based Practice/Healthcare: NICE publish draft public heath guidance for social and emotional wellbeing in young children The Mental Elf (Andre Tomlin) "for ensuring the...
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  • Q&A: Isolation

    Henk
    12 May 2012 | 3:56 am
    In Questions and Answers I try (as a true ExpEx, Expert-by-Experience) to answer some of your questions, as brief as possible. Question that was asked yesterday: “Why do we isolate ourselves when we are depressed?” Answer: In my view there are four main factors that can make us isolate ourselves when in a depression: (1) [...]

  • One With The Honeybees

    Henk
    10 May 2012 | 8:48 am
    Making a big change in your life can be unsettling. For some of us, it can even be so disorienting that it triggers a depression. I hope and trust that will not happen to me, this time.     If you decide for a big change wisely, in a well-considered way, it can also have huge advantages. [...]

  • The Bright Side

    Henk
    6 May 2012 | 4:06 pm
    One of the many problems of depression is that we can think clearly only in hindsight, while during those dark episodes when clarity of thought might be most helpful, we cannot get a grip on it. This means that often, we can see the good reason of well-meant advice only in retrospection, when such advice [...]

  • Beating Depression: Florence Nightingale

    Henk
    2 May 2012 | 6:54 am
    You probably know Florence Nightingale as the “The Lady With The Lamp”: the almost mythical, near-saintly nurse who in the 1850s saved many wounded soldiers by setting up the first modern hospital for them. In many ways, she laid the foundations for professional nursing.     She also was a great mathematician (the first one to use [...]

  • Generic Whiskey

    Henk
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:20 am
    • tip: Stupidity can be more dangerous than depression. Filed under: Lame Joke Tagged: alcohol, antidepressants, depression, joke, medication, pills, sigmund freud
 
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  • for me the bells toll – taking a break, getting married

    nochnoch
    4 May 2012 | 10:45 am
    [16 May 2012 update: I know I said I won’t be online these few weeks and I have been doing quite well keeping my promise. However, May is Mental Health Awareness Week and I would like to offer my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • inspiring blog posts for recovery from depression (part II of II)

    nochnoch
    30 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    Cutting to the chase, here is the second half of excerpts from blog posts that have helped my recovery from depression (again, they are in no particular order: 1. “What to do when being a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • inspiring blog posts for recovery from depression (part I of II)

    nochnoch
    21 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    Prompted by my readers, I decided to consolidate specific quotes from blog posts – not just websites – that have helped me rearrange my depressed thoughts, and in one way or another inspired me to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • why “work-life” balance? advocating a 3.5 day weekend

    nochnoch
    16 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    A question: why do we talk about “work-life balance”? Should work / job / career etc not simply be part of life instead of life’s equal? It seems somewhat a misdemeanor to segregate finding a job... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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    9 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    Type A personalities have it rough with depression. A friend made an acute observation the other day. “Noch, you are recovering from depression by trying to take things easy and release all the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • The History of Your Treatment

    A Piece of My Mind
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:38 pm
    For this blog, I decided to do something a little differently. Because I am a research analyst by trade, I really enjoyed looking up this information and learned SO MUCH from this blog post! For anybody whom has not toured Williamsburg, Virginia’s Asylum for the mentally ill, it is very enlightening and I highly recommend the visit. In 1773, known as the Eastern State Hospital, the first public building in colonial Williamsburg Virginia, devoted to treatment of mentally ill, opened. On October 12, 1773, the first patient was admitted. The "Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and…

  • All About Me!

    A Piece of My Mind
    26 Apr 2012 | 10:27 am
    Unfortunately, 15 years ago I received a diagnosis of bipolar, which happened to be the type of bipolar which is the most difficult to treat. In 1998, three years after initial symptoms developed, the diagnosis of bipolar I, mixed state, ultra rapid cycling, with psychotic features was made. Having mixed state bipolar is different from being diagnosed with “bipolar” or “major depression.” The reason is a mixed state involves being in a polar opposite symptomatic state. With bipolar and depression, a person is either happy or sad. Being in a mixed state, equates to being happy and…

  • HELP IN NEED OF LAWYER

    A Piece of My Mind
    18 Apr 2012 | 6:12 pm
    I'm in the process of trying to get my long term disability benefits continued. My lawyer has been working on this case for almost a year, and our final appeal is done. I'm looking for a pro bono disability lawyer. The next step of this case is to go to Federal Court. I can no longer afford the legal fees! If anybody out there has any connections or referrals to somebody who can listen to my case and consider taking it on pro bono please leave information in the comments box or email me at:  4apieceofmymind@gmail.com THANKS!!https://www.facebook.com/Bettybipolar

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    11 Apr 2012 | 3:32 pm
    Have not forgotten about ALL OF MY FOLLOWERS....I'm working on more topics as we speak.....keep checking back I plan on finishing some of them over the next few days!!!https://www.facebook.com/Bettybipolar

  • To Tell or Not To Tell?

    A Piece of My Mind
    1 Apr 2012 | 1:18 pm
    The reason a pseudonym was created, is due to the fact there are folks I have told about my mental illness, and some I have kept my mental Illness secret from. Unfortunately, the latter I have found is the easiest route. It is risky, extremely risky, to tell folks who will judge you from that day on. If you cannot see it, it is not there. Obviously, the choice is personal and the decision to tell has to be an individual one.  However, the question is whom should we tell and whom not? In what situations should we tell? Why should we tell and what will happen if we tell? Is there a right…
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  • Puzzle takes second fiddle to "sitting and smoking"

    Jennifer
    1 May 2012 | 6:48 pm
    (I would suggest reading my April 22 post before reading this post so you have some context about the dentist)Brian's dentist appointment is scheduled for May 10th.  In preparation for Brian's dreaded trip to see the man he fears the most, Brian has been busy gearing up for his 20 mile car ride to the dentist's office.  Just to get in the car- and ride 20 miles- is a big deal for Brian due to his fear of riding in cars.  So Brian has been taking some time away from his jigsaw puzzles this week to prepare for his journey.Like most people with schizophrenia,…

  • Another puzzle completed and a trip to the emergency room

    Jennifer
    22 Apr 2012 | 12:08 pm
    Brian holding puzzle 483Brian completed puzzle #483 this week.  According to Brian, this was an unusually difficult puzzle— the pieces were extremely small and very odd-shaped.  So when Brian finished this challenging puzzle, my mom was ready to celebrate his accomplishment.  But the irony was that Brian was not able to celebrate— his teeth were bothering him and this agonizing pain was interfering with his enjoyment and celebration of completing another puzzle to add to his amazing puzzle collection.  Brian's teeth are in awful shape.  He has been…

  • The big day: out of routine and delusional thoughts

    Jennifer
    9 Apr 2012 | 8:18 pm
    Yesterday was a big day for Brian. No not because he completed another puzzle to add to his amazing puzzle collection— although he is almost finished with puzzle #483! (I will post a picture of it when it’s completed).It was a big day because Brian went to my Aunt’s for Easter dinner. Most people, including myself, don’t give much thought to hopping in a car to head to a social function— or to any destination for that matter. But for Brian, anything that disrupts his daily routine (centered around his jigsaw puzzles and gardening) is a big deal.  This Easter outing was a…

  • He's just my brother

    Jennifer
    3 Apr 2012 | 7:45 pm
    I always say that Brian is just my brother.  He's just like you and me except that he just happens to have Schizophrenia.  Brian is a gentle soul; he has a huge heart.  Brian is caring, smart, creative, and VERY funny.Brian and the lamp shade!My mother was changing the lightbulb in a lamp the other day and asked Brian to hold the lamp shade while she changed the bulb.  She turned away for a minute and when she turned back to Brian, she was greeted by Brian with the lamp shade covering his head!  Needless to say, they both got a good chuckle out of this and…

  • Celebrate life's simple gifts

    Jennifer
    31 Mar 2012 | 7:52 pm
    There was a small celebration at my mom's house today.  As a family with a loved one with a mental illness, we have learned to celebrate the small joys that life brings— my brother Brian has taught us that.  Brian's daffidolToday we celebrated Brian's first daffidol of the season!  And what a beauty it is!  My siblings, as well as myself all received a phone call from my mom and Brian with the news—  as well as this photo that you see here. See what joy can be had by celebrating the simple gifts in life?  You just have to be willing to…
 
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    Therapy Consumer Guide

  • This Confusing Word “Forgiveness”..

    Marina
    15 May 2012 | 5:03 pm
    Someone whom I follow on Twitter tweeted a quote on forgiveness that I loved and that made me reflect on my own experience with this subject. I don’t know who said those words but here is the quote “Forgiveness has never been advocated by shelters for battered women, only by therapists who patholologize victims of abuse.” I felt huge relief when I read it because I felt for a long time that there is no other concept so largely misunderstood and exploited than forgiveness. Forgiveness is one of the fundamental moral concepts of the Christian culture that we live in. We are…

  • A Damaging Quest for Help

    S.T.
    13 May 2012 | 1:02 am
    My story begins when my life went into a crisis following a number of devastating events that happened within about a year of each other-including the death of my father and a divorce from a ten-year marriage. I ended up in the hospital after I experienced suicidal thoughts and feelings that were unrelenting. I knew that I was reacting from the despair I felt from the loss of loved ones but I was also aware that there were other factors involved. Although the suicidal thoughts were relatively new I had struggled throughout my life with depression, anxiety, nightmares and a sense…

  • What Do You Need Therapy For?

    Marina
    30 Apr 2012 | 3:42 pm
    Seriously, why do you think you need therapy? Everyone, I assume, will have their own answer. Here is what my answer would have been at the time I started seeing my first therapist.  I decided to do that because I realized that there were some things in my attitudes toward myself, others and toward life that were preventing me from living the life I wanted to live. Before that moment I didn’t see any reason for seeing a therapist. I believed that other people were causing all the problems in my life and on some level I was right. At the time I was surrounded with people who were…

  • Intimacy in Therapy: Reality or Dangerous Illusion? (Part 3)

    Marina
    27 Apr 2012 | 6:43 pm
    So, why is “intimacy” in therapy harmful? Even if it’s an illusion, so what, you may ask, as long as it feels good? Good question. It may be perfectly ok for you to be “intimate” with your therapist, if a “good” feel that it gives you is all you need from your therapy. The reason why I put “good” in quotes is because the “good” feeling that we get from the illusion that attempts to substitute for something real is not the same as the good feeling that we get from the real thing. We all know the difference between feeling…

  • Why Am I Doing This?

    Marina
    26 Apr 2012 | 4:25 am
    This is going to be an elaboration of what I said in the “About” page but on a more personal level. I have been abused in therapy and have also been harmed in therapy in ways that may not be qualified as abuse as the therapists were honestly trying to do their job, but their ignorance and incompetence caused much damage that I am still trying to heal from. While doing my healing work I have been helped by other people who have also been harmed in therapy and, on rare occasions, got some help from other therapists whom I saw just for several sessions regarding my previous harmful…
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  • Social Anxiety Disorder-The Fundamentals

    nurse3766
    25 Apr 2012 | 6:20 am
    Social Anxiety Disorder – The Fundamentals Social anxiety disorder is additionally characterized as social phobia. This is an anxiety disorder in which a person is abnormally fearful of social events. The anxiety and extreme self-consciousness arise from the fear of being closely watched, evaluated, and/or belittled by other people. Individuals with this classification of disorder is concerned that he or she will do something to shame or humiliate themselves in front of others. A lack of social skills or not being comfortable to social settings can make matters even worse. Sometimes…

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    Lumosity Brain Games

  • Take the 12 day challenge for Free!

    isaac
    8 May 2012 | 3:17 pm
    – See a drastic improvement in your memory in just 12 days – 1. The Better Brain Clinic is offering a 12 Day Challenge in conjunction with Lumosity to prove that you can improve your memory in only 12 days. Through our partnership offer you can use the service completely free and cancel before 30 days with no cost. Clinical trials have shown positive results and 80% of our members have continued on with the program after their 12 day challenge was complete. 2. Though numerous studies have proven many games on Lumosity have a direct impact on memory functions, we’ve found…

  • Why I use brain games

    isaac
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:04 pm
    In today’s world of high-tech gadgets and computers I started to worry about how little I needed to actually memorize anything, and I found myself wondering what kind of impact that would have on my mental abilities as I aged. I know I’m not alone in this line of thinking and I was relieved to hear a friend of mine, Mike, raise the subject when he was doing some carpentry at my place of business. “I’m afraid my brain is getting rusty,” he said. “I used to have to memorize phone numbers and when I went on a road trip I’d learn the route by studying maps. Now, with speed dial and…

  • Five Easy Moves for a Better Brain

    isaac
    13 Apr 2012 | 4:34 pm
    1. Eat the Rainbow! Foods with bright or deep colors hold the secret to keeping your mind clear. These foods are full of antioxidants, which neutralize free radicals. Free radicals can damage brain cells, so eat the rainbow for a healthy brain. Purple: plums, red cabbage (which is purple when raw) Blue: Blueberries Red: strawberries, raspberries, cherries, red bell peppers, tomatoes, pomegranates Yellow: yellow bell peppers, peaches Orange: oranges, tangerines, yams, carrots Green: peas, broccoli, spinach, kale 2. Join the Circus! Juggling grows both white matter and grey matter in the brain,…

  • Considering Dementia: From Fear to Hope

    isaac
    24 Mar 2012 | 12:38 pm
    ‘Dementia’ — what a scary word that is, conjuring up fears of becoming increasingly unable to remember, think, make decisions, and care for oneself. The good news is there are many things you can do to stay mentally young. We’ll cover those in a minute — but first, a few points about dementia. The word ‘dementia’ refers to a variety of neurological disorders that affect the brain. The loss of nerve cells in the brain and/or the decline in communication between cells happens in all forms of dementia. People with dementia experience memory loss, but memory loss alone is not a sign…

  • Do Brain Games Really Work?

    isaac
    13 Mar 2012 | 10:47 pm
    You may have heard controversy about whether or not playing brain games really does improve your overall mental abilities. Some media sources and experts have claimed that while, with practice, you may get better at playing specific brain games, that doesn’t mean that your brain will function better when you’re trying to solve a problem in real life, or that you will remember where you put your glasses. So just because you practice a game and get better at playing it, maybe even much better, it doesn’t mean that you can do anything else better, smarter or faster. This criticism of brain…
 
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    A Bipolar Journey Through The Rabbit Hole

  • Could Be True?

    songtothesirens
    4 May 2012 | 10:04 am
    Filed under: Hope

  • In The Immortal Words Of Fight Club…..

    songtothesirens
    4 May 2012 | 8:46 am
    I am Jennifer’s rejected self. I think that sums it up. Filed under: depression, hurt, rejection

  • Blind Faith ~ Can’t Find My Way Home

    songtothesirens
    4 May 2012 | 8:24 am
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  • Not So Sure About This Marriage Counseling Thing

    songtothesirens
    3 May 2012 | 4:01 pm
    A couple of 14-carat gold wedding rings. Picture taken in Brazil, where 14-carat is the most common kind of gold used in jewelry. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I came out of that counselor’s office so angry the other day, I thought I was going to break something, so I went for a bike ride instead. I can easily see this type of counseling making me relapse. It was so confrontational and stressful that I ended up triggered which is not a good sign. This would be why managing my illnesses is of utmost importance. Especially the bipolar disorder, because if it is going to be like this every…

  • Starting Marriage Counseling Today

    songtothesirens
    1 May 2012 | 3:47 pm
    We are finally about to start marriage counseling today. I really do not know how I feel about this. I am very apprehensive about the whole endeavor because he has this tendency to blame everything on me. Like he walks on water. Everything that is wrong with the marriage is my fault because I am mentally ill, therefore, everything must be my fault. What he doesn’t understand is that his own problem with depression makes me sicker. He withdraws into this dark world of Internet porn, and he thinks that’s okay. When in reality, he is paying no attention to me whatsoever, and he…
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    Effective Psychotherapy

  • Can we predict our behavior from the comfort of an armchair?

    michelle
    25 Apr 2012 | 9:01 am
    Dan Ariely researches the irrationality of our decision making in various areas in our life. From the realm of business, shopping, dating, to intimate behavior. His books are accessible and he writes with a keen sense of humor. While the books are easy to read, his conclusions are based on careful experimental work that is well documented. The conclusions he reaches from his research are many times surprising. One area of his research is the influence of sexual excitation on our decision making. In order to use a reliable state of excitation he decided to compare questionnaires that people…

  • …Some Like it Seven Days Old

    michelle
    4 Mar 2012 | 5:19 pm
    In an experiment designed to research the influence of envioremntal cues on our behavior, two groups of particiapnts got popcorn in a movie theatre. One group got  fresh popcorn. The other group got popcorn that was seven days old. They ate the same amount. When presented with fresh and stale popcorn in a different environment, a conference room, the two groups did not exhibit the same mindless eating. The moral is that when you try to change habits, pay close attention to environmental cues and plan ahead,  rather than trying to rely on will power alone. More about effective ways to…

  • A New Approach to Stress Management

    michelle
    8 Jan 2012 | 7:20 am
    Stress is often portrayed in the media as the bane of modern life, a source of many of our ills and difficulties. There is no doubt that excessive stress is not good for us and can affect both our mental and physical well-being. Stress management is a set of skills used to reduce stress in our daily life.  A recent study by Dr. Epstein sheds new light on this concept. Dr. Epstein looked at different skill sets associated with stress management. These skills are commonly taught in courses, coaching or psychotherapy. Dr. Epstein looked at three broad sets of skills. 1 .Preventing and…

  • The Ultimate Link for Computer Addicts

    michelle
    7 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pm
    The last page of the internet.

  • The Rashomon effect- the psychology of relationships

    michelle
    6 Nov 2011 | 5:12 pm
      The Rashomon effect is defined as the way in which different people may describe the same observed event in very different ways. This may happen while all observers of the event believe that they are being completely honest. We are all familiar with this phenomenon to some degree, yet we are often uncomfortable when confronted with the extent  to which our personal perception is subjective, a lens through which we view reality. This term originated in a movie by Kurosawa, a renowned Japanese director. In the movie four people meet in the forest; a young samurai, his beautiful…
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