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 'beginning'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:19:27 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4992757&cid=t_110862_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F01%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-july-1-2011%2F Once I got to college, I began to love school. The feeling of working hard and then the instant gratification from all that hard work was awesome! One professor told me I’d be a professional student forever. Of course in the real world, you can work as hard as you want and still feel like you haven’t quite made it. And it’s not just your career, but that gnawing, frustrating feeling could also apply to friendships and romantic relationships too. I realized that the formulas that seem to work in school, working hard = A’s, just didn’t have a place in real life. Sometimes you could drive yourself crazy trying to force pieces of a puzzle that just didn’t go together. In the whole process of going to school and finally getting out of it, I realized it wasÂ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4992757 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:10:08 +0100 4992757 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4207335&cid=t_110862_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F11%2F29%2Fits-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas%2F Okay, I admit it, I can’t get that darned song out of my head after Thanksgiving. There’s something about “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” that seems appropriate to put me into the Christmas spirit. But then I have to stop at a store to buy something. And quickly my Christmas spirit dissipates as I’m enveloped by the never-ending barrage of Christmas displays, scents and music. Oh, the endless loops of Christmas music! And I think to myself, “Who likes this stuff?” Not surprisingly, the answer is, “Christians.” At least according to Schmitt et al. (2010) when they looked at the effects of Christmas displays on people’s well-being. In an experiment that employed two studies, the researchers examined the effects... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4207335 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:01:03 +0100 4207335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3740655&cid=t_110862_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F07%2F09%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-july-9-2010%2F Is it just me or is anyone else feeling the “after holiday blues?” Yep, memories of fireworks and the waft of the grill are slowly fading away. I’m already thinking about the next big thing, a vacation, a birthday, another holiday. My mind starts to dream about the end of the summer and the beginning of fall and what that will bring. I let myself get carried away into the future and then a wave of worries take over. Money, family, career, you name it. I’ve thought about it and indulged in it. Before I know it, the day is gone. How unfortunate that we let time get the best of us and how easy it is to succumb to things like stress, worrying and negative thinking. Although it’s quite normal, it would be wonderful to catch myself in the act and stop the thoughts b... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3740655 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:21:00 +0100 3740655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3733125&cid=t_110862_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F07%2F07%2Fa-not-so-random-act-of-kindness%2F “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” – Anne Herbert Penn Station, New York City, noon, the beginning of summer. Eighty degrees: A perfect day. Everyone who can be outside is outside. But I have to go in to catch the train back to Jersey. I am not at full sprint, but I am moving, hungry. No breakfast, no lunch. A morning consult brings me in once a month to YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities. I’ve done it hundreds of times. Winters, summers, I know my way around Penn Station. I have it down to a science. I get a sandwich – make the train. There is a deli near the Seventh Avenue exit that has the best grilled vegetable panini sandwich I’ve ever had. I swear I would do the consult just to buy this sandwich. The staff at YAI/NIPD... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3733125 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:30:50 +0100 3733125 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3629763&cid=t_110862_129_f&fid=36035&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Flife-with-chronic-pain%2Fnew-beginnings-in-your-heart-and-head%2F There is a great tendency to be discouraged when you have pain everyday. It’s like a slippery slide in our Oregon rain. If you just sit there on that slick slope, you’re going to slide down and probably land in the gooey mud. Sliding through this life is easy. You don’t really have to do anything in particular. Just embrace your depression, know life today and again tomorrow, will be terrible and there you have it; the slow descent into a life of hellish pain and suffering. It’s an interesting fact about suffering that it is not all in the physical realm. Suffering is highly contagious and can infect our hearts, out minds and our attitudes…big time. It spews and oozes over into our social lives, our family lives and our financial existence. All of us know what it is to wallow, we... Life with Chronic Pain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3629763 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:06:31 +0100 3629763 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3545632&cid=t_110862_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fabstinence-is-only-one-part-of-recovery-2%2F The spirituality of recovery is about a new way of life As John Mac Dougall, manager of Spiritual Care at Hazelden, points out, abstinence is but one element in recovery from addiction. Many people quit drinking or another addiction only to start practicing it again. They don’t realize that quitting is merely the beginning of recovery, and they treat the symptoms of the disease and not the disease itself. "The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous only mention alcohol once, in Step One," reminds Mac Dougall. "The Twelve Step model of recovery that we suggest is spiritual. It’s about getting honest, finding a higher power, and admitting that you can’t do it alone." Spirituality, says Mac Dougall, is three-dimensional and deals with the quality and n... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3545632 Thu, 06 May 2010 16:51:00 +0100 3545632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2210417&cid=t_110862_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2009%2F02%2F23%2Fhealthbolt-quiz-time-are-they-identical%2F Got a few minutes to spare? Then check out this National Geographic Channel quiz which challenges you to compare twinned photos to find 10 differences in each, and learn facts about identical twins, particularly how they may not actually be fully identical. Sure hope you do better than me… The National Geographic Channel created this quiz as part of their In the Womb series. By the way, the next episode of In the Womb screens this Saturday 28th February on National Geographic Channel. Tags: beginning of life, being pregnant, embyros, growth, health documentary, in the womb, national geographic channel, national geographic videos, pregnancy, wombShare This (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2210417 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:47:42 +0100 2210417 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=730625&cid=t_110862_151_f&fid=35799&url=http%3A%2F%2F12steps1journey.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fbeginning.html Every moment is a beginning. A dear friend and fellow traveler in recovery said to me "it's never too late to start your day over." How those words have stayed with me. Here, at this moment, I made a decision to share my journey with fellow twelve step travelers on the road to recovery. I hope to reach out and find you on the Web and share our experience, strength and hope with each other. So it begins with this post.Twelve Steps, One Journey - Recovering from addiction one moment at a time. (Source: Twelve Steps, One Journey) Twelve Steps, One Journey blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=730625 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:46:00 +0100 730625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=620643&cid=t_110862_140_f&fid=35457&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBattling-schizophrenia%2F%7E3%2F115326448%2F By Groshan Fabiola Even in this days general knowledge about mental illness is very little, and because of these people with schizophrenia suffer greatly. They are very marginalized and not understood. On top of the fact that they have to deal with an incurable, chronic brain disease they must also put up with the ignorance and discrimination from the rest of the normal people. People with mental problems have to be real fighters because after learning to deal with all the problems they also must learn to deal with possible difficulties from friends, finding a suitable job and a place to live. Because of the way they are locked at and treated mental patients feel left apart from society, different and disrespected. Many of us fear that mentally ill persons are violent, fact witch is very u... Battling-Schizophrenia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620643 Wed, 09 May 2007 12:11:31 +0100 620643 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=493371&cid=t_110862_136_f&fid=35332&url=http%3A%2F%2Fyouainthearditfromme-rice.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fmad-dash-to-my-biopsy.html My Dr's name is Dr. Leslie Montgomery. She is a godsend. She was not my first choice. My great friend Jess drove me into the city to a different hospital. They were o.k. but sometimes I do actually follow my instincts. Jess wasn't impressed either and we talked about it. I needed to get this biopsy done ASAP or I was going to lose it. There was just no way to make an easy decision about whether I should get the biopsy at this hospital.I went through with the biopsy there. For some reason all of the medical jargon eludes me right now. Again, I needed to lay down on my fat tummy and stay still.My boob is put in a hole cut out of the table I was so scared for this. They take some loud machine and they have it going in and out of your breast removing the suspected villain, through a small shar... You Aint Heard It From Me blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=493371 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:26:00 +0100 493371