MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'accept'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:29:09 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489986&cid=t_113298_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2FZa0qJUk3-VE%2F Stop Enabling the AlcoholicDiscontinuing “enabling,” along with putting the onus for the drinker’s behavior and its consequences on the drinker.Do not cover up for them. Let them be responsible for their actions.Accept your responsibility, if any, for enabling, and then transfer 100 percent of the responsibility back to the alcoholic once you have talked it over.He or she is then unable to use you as an excuse.Enabling includes protecting the problem drinker from the negative consequences of alcohol use. After all, if someone makes excuses when you miss appointments because of drinking too much, reheats dinner because you’ve missed it after stopping at the bar on the way home from work, readily has sex with you even if you’re drunk, or lends you money every time you lose your job... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489986 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:17:00 +0100 4489986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3480937&cid=t_113298_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2Fwx9F-5Xn6E8%2F “Once I accept things as they are I can create things as they might be.”  – Mike O. Nothing so ties us to the past as regret.  Think about it. It is almost impossible to venture forth while facing backward. But today’s reality is what we must accept and work with.  What was is gone.  All we can do in the here and now is accept it as it is without rage or blame, without regret or resentment.  All the voting has already been done that made today what it is. Ah, but the future!  Tomorrow! That’s quite a different matter..  Today we vote for what tomorrow will be.  Today’s seeds are tomorrow’s harvest, today’s struggle is tomorrow’s victory. When we accept today as it is without regret, we shuck off the terrible burden of self-pity wit... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3480937 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:00:43 +0100 3480937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3316250&cid=t_113298_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2FoomtlmPBrTg%2F Let go, let ... There’s a story sometimes told by members of Alcoholics Anonymous. A mountain climber stumbles off the edge of a cliff. He manages to break his fall by grabbing a branch on a tree that overlooks the ravine. Hanging for his life, he calls up to heaven. “If there’s anybody up there, help me-please!” A thunderous voice booms from the clouds: “Let go, and I will protect you.” The man pauses for a moment to think. Finally he shouts, “Is there anyone else I can talk to?” Paradoxical Program AA offers a program based on the paradox of personal change-that transformation comes only when we let go of our futile efforts to control what we cannot control. Unlike the man hanging from the tree, we can learn to accept direction from outside ourselves. Over the years, AA m... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3316250 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:40:27 +0100 3316250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298610&cid=t_113298_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2Fin4Rkogn-SQ%2F Who me? “When the idea was first presented to me that I was an alcoholic, my mind simply refused to accept it. Horrors! How disgraceful! What humiliation! How preposterous! Why, I loathed the taste of liquor – drinking was simply a means of escape when my sorrows became too great for me to endure. Even after it had been explained to me that alcoholism is a disease, I could not realize that I had it. I was still ashamed, still wanted to hide behind the screen of reasons made up of unjust treatment, unhappiness, tired and dejected, and the dozens of other things that I thought lay at the root of my search for oblivion by means of whiskey or gin. In any case, I felt quite sure that I was not an alcoholic.” (A Feminine Victory; Personal Story from the First Edition of the book Alcoho... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298610 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:21:50 +0100 3298610 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3189414&cid=t_113298_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2F6yp9ytTXQ5I%2F It is important to put the responsibility for dealing with the alcohol problem squarely on the person in question while continuing to love him or her. What works depends on the individual. Doing the “right” thing can depend on how severe the alcohol problem is and on how in touch with it the person in question seems to be. What works for someone who is highly functional in daily life and who knows that alcohol is causing trouble, for instance, may not be the solution for someone who denies that there is a problem. Don’t make it easy for the drinker to keep on drinking Discontinuing “enabling,” along with putting the onus for the drinker’s behavior and its consequences on the drinker. Do not cover up for them. Let them be responsible for their actions. Accept yo... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3189414 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:14:00 +0100 3189414 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2382790&cid=t_113298_137_f&fid=35426&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheAlzheimersReadingRoom%2F%7E3%2FKJOdCUrON1k%2Fhow-do-you-get-family-to-accept.html I saw this question over on DxJunction.How do you get family to accept Alzheimers is an illness?How do I get my husband's brother to accept Alzheimer's is an illness. He keeps telling him he should do more reading, walking etc, he calls in to see us every couple of weeks for 5 minutes, doesn't stop for a cup of tea, it is almost like he is embarrassed by the repetitive questions. However now my husband has also been diagnosed with Asbestosis all of a sudden he is ringing all the rest of the family and telling them. He is more concerned with the Asbestosis than the Alzheimers. While I am concerned with both as they are both horrible diseases it is the Alzheimer's that I need the help with.Subscribe to The Alzheimer's Reading Room--via EmailThis dovetails nicely with Are Alzheimer's Caregiv... Alzheimer's Reading Room, The blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2382790 Fri, 01 May 2009 17:20:41 +0100 2382790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1316816&cid=t_113298_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fthings-i-can-and-cannot-change%2F The Serenity Prayer of recovery from alcoholism,addiction, codependency, gambling. God grant me the serenityTo accept the things I cannot change,The courage to change the things I can,And the wisdom to know the difference.–Reinhold Niebuhr Some things I cannot change: my age, who my relatives are, my eye color, my height, my childhood experiences, my inborn talents, my nature, someone else’s abuse of alcohol or other drugs, whether the sun will shine, the universe (see picture) my job history, what I will inherit, how my parents feel, yesterday’s lost opportunities, how long I will live, who forgives me, how my parents treated me, how much I am loved, the past. Some things I can change: the youthfulness of my spirit, who my friends are, my hair co... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1316816 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:05:45 +0100 1316816 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1054808&cid=t_113298_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F11%2F27%2F5-tips-for-dealing-with-guilt%2F It’s amazing how quickly guilt can kick in for the smallest, most meaningless things in our lives. Guilt is an emotional warning sign that most people learn through their normal childhood social development. Its purpose is to let us know when we’ve done something wrong, to help us develop a better sense of our behavior and how it affects ourselves and others. It prompts us to re-examine our behavior so that we don’t end up making the same mistake twice. How can we help combat our guilty feelings, and accept them when they’re important, but let them go more easily when they’re not? 1. Recognize the kind of guilt you have and its purpose. Guilt works best to help us grow and mature when our behavior has been offensive or hurtful to others or ourselves. If ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1054808 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:50:12 +0100 1054808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=737539&cid=t_113298_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F16%2Fsfda-official-executed-for-accepting-bribes%2F Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Adult Onset, Daily News, Opinion, SupportFormer head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), was executed for taking bribes in return for approving the use of certain medicines. No, you didn't miss anything. The SFDA to which the news story refers is in China. At ease, boys- you're all safe (for now). Mike Adams of NewsTarget explains in his cartoon that the FDA is a clear and present danger to the health and safety of the American people. The agency is so deeply entangled in protecting drug company profits and corporate interests that it has utterly abandoned its mission of protecting the people. In fact, bribery is routine in the United States drug approval process. A policy exists that allows FDA decision panel experts -- the people who ... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=737539 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 737539 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=552118&cid=t_113298_140_f&fid=35457&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBattling-schizophrenia%2F%7E3%2F106860115%2F By Groshan Fabiola People generally call for the doctor if they see strange behaviors in one of their family members. Such episodes can occur only once in a life time or might be more frequent. Pay attention to all the strange things you see because they might be the symptoms of schizophrenia. People suffering of schizophrenia will have an important change in their personality, they will be terrified about the fact that they hear voices or see things that are not real and they will have difficulties of controlling their own thoughts because of all these. They will sense that something is wrong with them and so they will become withdrawn persons, they will refuse any contact with society and strangers. Even with family members they will act strange, sometimes they will act with anger and s... Battling-Schizophrenia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=552118 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:03:52 +0100 552118