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 'babble'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:48:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036222&cid=t_107524_87_f&fid=36941&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mazecordblood.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1451         Sometimes, people just say the wrong thing, other times they say nothing at all.  Giving advice to a pregnant woman is never, ever, a good idea, even if you have the best of intentions.  People mean well, but there are times during pregnancy that we just want to make the  important decisions that are right for us.  Topics from having pain medications during labor and delivery, to breast feeding are very personal indeed.   Read here for one woman’s take on getting advice from other new moms, and people who think their advice is the last word.. {Click here for a free information packet and special coupon for MAZE Cord Blood Laboratories! } (Source: Cord Blood News) Cord Blood News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036222 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:29:33 +0100 5036222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3460137&cid=t_107524_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fformer-sex-bloggers-confront-mommyhood-%25e2%2580%2593-and-blogging-about-it%2F This article originally appeared on our sister site, TheGloss. The sex column has mutated mightily since the earliest days of “Ask Anka” in Details. Once banished to the back section of alt-weeklies, right by the classified ads, frank first-person sex writing has spread to college newspapers and blogs. And ad as this world has matured, so have its participants. So what happens when writers decide that they want to focus their erotic energies on one person, or just that they need to take a break from chronicling their intimate exploits? Some writers go the eminent-sage route, moving into a position where they dole out advice to the needy. But others, including the acid-tongued New York City dating columnist Amy Sohn and the pioneering sex website Nerve, are moving on to a step t... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3460137 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:03:09 +0100 3460137 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1045153&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Ftry-to-praise-the-mutilated-world%2F Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, you’ve heard the [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1045153 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:11:57 +0100 1045153 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1041575&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F21%2Fbugs-animals-and-literally-like-rats%2F Excerpted, via CBS4: A controversial practice regarding the treatment of the mentally ill in Florida’s maximum security prisons has some attorneys and mental health experts raising concerns over its use. “Here they are just gassing him. You can see they are just spraying him in the face,” said Miami attorney Leon Fresco. “I would describe it as [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1041575 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:27:59 +0100 1041575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966967&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F21%2Fyour-weekender-thingamajig%2F QUOTATION: “Today’s patients, discontented, unhappy, fragmented and confused by an increasingly frantic, alienating and violent society, come to psychiatrists for help, only to have their illusions shored up by an increased dose of a technologic fix. They are told they have illnesses that are biologic and can be fixed, instead of being allowed to speak about [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966967 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:33:57 +0100 966967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=965274&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F20%2Fsofter-times-will-be-had-by-all%2F I went to 2 policy meetings today, which usually leads to the cussing, not-safe-for-work diatribe you’ve come to expect following these forays into the lions den. But institutional mental health is being re-organized in Texas, on the local, state and federal levels, and some demonstrable, incremental changes have happened since just last [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965274 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:33:21 +0100 965274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=957347&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fbecause-enduring-ennobles-we-wont-be-discussing-that%2F I’m still having a hard time recovering from mental illness awareness week, migraines, can’t sleep and nightmares when I can, plus waking up crying. I woke up and hollered “Molly!” a few hours ago, and I’ve been drinking a bit to take the edge off, which is nothing to me but a clue. Molly Ivins [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957347 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:59:50 +0100 957347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=944645&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F11%2Fdear-god-your-sockpuppets-are-calling%2F That would be the self-named Chosen who speak as icons of lucidity, praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster on behalf of the crazy folk. Included in this week’s devotion to exploiting the children they deny they drove insane, NAMI held their National Day of Prayer for Those with Mental Illness on Tuesday. Though [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=944645 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:39:21 +0100 944645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=908673&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F27%2Fthe-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed%2F I’m back from the SHAC. My first impression is that the consumers are infantilized, they didn’t want to engage the medical director, they wanted to squabble with each other about soda and pizza. Not much dialogue, lots more when is the pizza coming? God! One consumer asked if there could be MORE [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=908673 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:29:08 +0100 908673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=906160&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F26%2F374%2F Someone asked me if I believe in the biopsychosocial model of illness and recovery. This is the wrong direction to take regarding the previous post. It’s not important what I believe. I don’t need you to believe what I do. What’s important is what policy makers and mental health providers believe. I personally work to [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=906160 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:27:54 +0100 906160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=894279&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F23%2Fwhat-i-spurned-on-my-summer-vacation%2F For the last few years I’ve been holding off on buying Nick Cave’s double-CD Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus until I do something sufficiently awful that I don’t have to but probably should if I’m to get along with my better self. I’ve met my share of challenges since the CD came out, and each [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=894279 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:41:21 +0100 894279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=874637&cid=t_107524_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F156887320%2F You’re at a children’s music class, or maybe a gymnastics one, or in the line at the grocery store or at a Thanksgiving dinner with family. You have an autistic child, which means that you know the DSM-IV criteria for autism spectrum disorder like a mantra; you’ve been through your share of stranger stares, stranger cluelessness, and stranger indifference; you have a track record of IEP meeting attendance and a laundry basket and several boxes of files, binders, and random papers about your child from birth to the present; you are tired of explaining “stimming.” You see a child like this: . He wasn’t following along with the teachers like the other children. Instead, he spun wildly to the music, or ran in happy circles around the room. Sometimes he would... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=874637 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:33:32 +0100 874637 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=843921&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F05%2Fremember-the-children-they-remember-you%2F Calling all NAMI! Yoo-hoo! Hi! ((((((HUGS!!!1!!)))))) Read the LA Times this week? Gonna pull on your coat a second, k? Thanx! Dr. Gabrielle A. Carlson, a psychiatrist at Stony Brook University, said only 1 of every 5 children referred to her with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder actually has it. Carlson, who has studied the increase in bipolar diagnoses, said some parents seemed to prefer a diagnosis of the disorder because the illness, thought to be largely genetic, absolves them of blame. “They don’t have to deal with their chaos, their psychiatric disorder, their marital troubles or abuse.” Won’t somebody please think of the children? Yes, indeed, one of these days I believe we will. via. (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=843921 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:31:49 +0100 843921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=801465&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F15%2Fwhats-more-loaded-than-a-skid-row-bum%2F TAC rhetoric! Hands down the most mind-blown example of Orwellian doublethink going on in the national discourse. Alison Hymes correctly identifies TAC as a political action committee that promotes wicked discrimination while claiming itself a leading advocate for the mentally ill. The following is from her post about TAC’s Craig’s List ad for a new director. Here I attempt to unpack their language and get to the bottom of it: The Treatment Advocacy Center seeks a dynamic and passionate leader who can continue a commanding track record of success into its second decade. The Treatment Advocacy Center (www.TreatmentAdvocacyCenter.org) is a national nonprofit based inside the Washington Beltway (Arlington, VA). TAC has an expert legal, communications, and support staff in place ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=801465 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:46:00 +0100 801465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=794244&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F12%2Fprocess-entails-stages-we-can-see-ourselves-in%2F Wait, work with me here. From A Fragile Revolution, a book about our little niche liberation movement: Lord and Hutchison (1993) found that the process of empowerment usually begins with individuals getting angry or, more properly stated, becoming aware of their anger. In the context of their new awareness, they also have to have the opportunity to try out new behaviours and, paradoxically, the freedom to fail. Further, it is critical that they are supported by the external material resources that constitute the most basic of human needs, secure housing and an income, so that they can have at least some measure of control over their public, as well as private, selves. Finally, Lord & Hutchison insist that no one can become empowered on their own. They must have the company of their pee... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=794244 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:54:24 +0100 794244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=781452&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F05%2Fdesperate-times%2F I just read this paper by Shery Mead, describing what’s become of alternative support systems in the age of accreditation. It resonates totally with my own experience, for which I’m grateful, as I’m still trying to get my bearings in understanding how mental health took such a bad turn, and why the old models, which do exist and to put it mildly, have not been officially discredited, are, nevertheless ignored in making policy. In the past 25 years I’ve been a client, paraprofessional, support group member, paid direct care staffer and worked in all types of mental health agencies and settings. The difference in how things were 20 years ago compared to today are stupifying, more so because the blatant devolution is touted as progress. The origins of peer support is ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=781452 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:32:48 +0100 781452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=716710&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F05%2Ffound-a-punk-rock-pro-science-critical-psychiatrist%2F No shit, and I will not sleep tonight. Anyone heard of the Candid Psychiatrist? He’s got articles, a blog, forum and a mission statement! And he’s nice! I’m gonna do some reviewing here while reading his articles. Mission Statement: I believe that too much of contemporary psychiatric practice indulges in half-truths, often avoiding the sort of frank [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=716710 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:26:08 +0100 716710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687081&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F21%2Fscience-medicine-and-the-gullible-left%2F An op-ed by cool observer Mickey Z in Online Journal, January/2007: In a recent National Football League game, Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Chris Simms suffered a ruptured spleen. Simms was rushed to the hospital, his spleen was removed, and he is now on the road to recovery. This much talked about injury inspired Robert N. Jenkins [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687081 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:40:30 +0100 687081 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687082&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F21%2Fpissed-off-psychiatrist-calls-bullshit%2F And fingers Joseph Biederman, kingpin of the Harvard bipolar child mafia, which directs child psychiatry the world over. Biederman is of course a pharma whore and therefore arrogant prick and major mouthpiece for biopsychiatry, the theory that dysfunctional home environments are irrelevant in the cause of bi-polar disorder, which he maintains can start “from [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687082 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:32:28 +0100 687082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=683525&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F19%2Fthird-times-a-charm%2F I wrote 2 long and demoralizing posts today that made me loopy. I’m arguing with another commenter at Amanda’s blog and can’t make heads or tails of what’s going on. I see some folks are here today, I tell you what, I’ll just download the chat function so we can talk in real time when things [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=683525 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:20:41 +0100 683525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676770&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F13%2Fstart%2F This is a cut and paste of the usual fare here. I collect these pieces, in anticipation of the disappearing. I have to say reading it scared me, not because of what it says, but that it needs to be said at all. These are new times. Mind over medicine Guardian UK Mental health professionals should look beyond [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676770 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:02:13 +0100 676770 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676774&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F10%2Fwhoopsie%2F Time to have a go at the do-gooders, the latest critique on the anti-stigma campaigns finds a few bugs in the system. Who asked for an anti-stigma campaign, anyway? No one I know, everyone I know says nothing about us without us, good day. I swear to god this is the edited version. A definitive worldwide [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676774 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:23:04 +0100 676774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676775&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F09%2Fdont-believe-what-hype%2F This hype, silly wabbit, at Mixing Memory, via Dr. X.: About a year ago, there was an article in Seed Magazine titled “Seduced by the Flickering Lights of the Brain,” in which Paul Bloom argued that people are too easily seduced by neuroscience, believing that it made for good science, even when it doesn’t. At the [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676775 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:03:29 +0100 676775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=629462&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F20%2Fsbd-sociology-beats-drugs%2F Only thing I have to say about this new Subthreshold Bipolar Diagnosis is labeling theory really needs to make a comeback. Meanwhile it’s good to see the lot of us shaking our heads, none but the innocents at crazyboards appear to be taking this SBD thing seriously. As Big Pharma’s base grows increasingly jaundiced I wonder how they’re gonna keep us down on the farm, what marketing plans they’re gonna pull out of their ass upon reading entries like this in Furious Season’s contest to name the newly discovered bipolar illness: NPN: No placebo Necessary PRD: Pharmaceutical Rep Disorder PNLTD: Psychiatrists Need Love Too Disorder DUMBASS-$ (Diagnosing Usually Mundane Behavior As Seroquel Scripts $oar) and my favorite: “Capitalism.” Yes, more like t... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=629462 Tue, 22 May 2007 22:05:06 +0100 629462 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=623913&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F19%2Fthe-war-on-sentience%2F This calm, sensible post from Salon, Getting blown up, again and again, doesn’t mention the word “biopsychiatry”, so let me be the first to say it. At face value it’s a *good story* of an innovative approach to what is correctly identified as trauma induced mental illness. Give it a closer reading to see how trauma models have been all but crushed under the boot heel of biological psychiatry. I’ve highlighted some words in red to contrast and highlight the inhumanity of biopsychiatry, the words in red being the particular aspects of humanity this model serves to erase. Note its worthless twin devils CBT and psychopharm as the initial psychological interventions offered a combat veteran, for fucks sake. Few people living with trauma-induced mental illness hav... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=623913 Sun, 20 May 2007 15:35:32 +0100 623913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=620673&cid=t_107524_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F12%2Falas-a-clue%2F I got involved in a thread again. I swear to god. These are liberals by the way. Feminists and liberals. I don’t know where to start, you have to start where people are, ok, but I’m just saying, pre-school is maddening. “Maybe psychiatric survivors are people, too, just like you and Johnny and Jane.” At least they’re talking, right? Out of their ass, for the most part, but it’s a start. (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620673 Sat, 12 May 2007 06:01:12 +0100 620673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=535435&cid=t_107524_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F108165556%2F A few years ago I came across a newspaper article whose title was something like “What Happens When the Yellow School Bus Stops Coming?” My heart froze and I wondered if I could read the article, and knew that I should: Its subject was about developmentally disabled 21-year-olds who had finished high school and were not able to work, or, rather, not yet ready to work. A mother whose son had Down mentioned the yellow school bus no longer coming; I had just seen Charlie off on his, peering back at me with his big brown eyes. I did force myself to read the article, which was about putting together a special needs trust and considering living options (group homes in particular) and the possibility of employment and other activities. I suppose it is the hope that they will not hav... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=535435 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:46:14 +0100 535435 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=504424&cid=t_107524_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F104721550%2F Are parents of young children worried about vaccines? Yes, writes Liza Featherstone in Shot Down: Why so many parents won’t vaccinate—-and what it means to our kids on Babble. And on the top of the list of why they are worried is……..autism. Featherstone’s article opens with a description of a group of parents and their infants at a playgroup in a baby-proofed apartment with “a lovely view of the Hudson River” and plenty of organic applesauce. The parents are talking about pediatricians and the discussion soon turns to what the doctors’ “stance” on vaccines is: After an uncomfortable silence, the hostess revealed that her sister had “a lot of education” about vaccines, and she herself was not planning to inject her chil... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=504424 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:02:31 +0100 504424