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 'bitterness'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4060623&cid=t_163826_93_f&fid=34787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegirlwiththebluesteth.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Ftesting-for-old-bitterness.html I looked up my old high school on Wikipedia today. Just for fun. It had the usual drivel about mission statements and mottos, which was probably cut and pasted directly from the school website. It also had a list of Notable Students. The list reveals a lot about what the school values, and why many of us could not take it seriously or had our egos crushed as we grew up within its confines.The list includes a car salesman, a lawyer and a couple of mid-level athletes. It also includes a journalist who recently wrote some home truths about school life in the public sphere, and has been removed from the official school website listed as a source for Wikipedia. He has been blacklisted, I guess, for not representing the school's ideals. Who else doesn't represent the school's ideals? The medical... The Girl with the Blue Steth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4060623 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:04:00 +0100 4060623 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862165&cid=t_163826_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fbroken-china-is-still-china.html "In the darkness of despair and the prison of pain, we often say things that we later regret, but God understands all about it and lovingly turns a deaf ear to our words but a tender eye to our wounds." ~ Pause for Power, Warren W. WiersbeMy mother brought me a china plate for my collection of mismatched china (we eat off beauty every day) and I promptly broke it.  The very next day.  My first reaction, unfortunately, is still to throw a tantrum.  I remember her warning me, as a teenager, that I if I chose that agitated state of heart in the quiet of my room and privacy of my brain, it would settle in and become a habit that was nearly impossible to break.  And, I regret to say, I went on heedlessly...nay, obstinately...and let it settle in.  Now I struggle with th... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862165 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:55:00 +0100 3862165 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3721934&cid=t_163826_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fcarrying-on-family-name.html Robert Charles was born 19 minutes after his parents walked through the front doors of the hospital.He has Daniel's nose, and the rest seems to be Seiler or Garver (Melissa's side).He is the first baby to carry on the Holmen name - the first Holmen boy of our generation.Melissa's heartache is the joy kind.  What excitement - birthing so quickly!My heart - literally aching physically from the pacemaker inserted just 24 hours before - aches with joy and pain as I see this little one who will always be my link to the baby I won't meet until I get to heaven.A big sister...at last!  Susan has been wishing for a playmate for a long time now!As our family grows, there are just more and more in the circle to welcome each new little face.Cousins, cousins, and more cousins! (Source: Turquo... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3721934 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:34:00 +0100 3721934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3794807&cid=t_163826_93_f&fid=34787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegirlwiththebluesteth.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fenough-already.html I am so exhausted right now. I feel like I just want to lie down and sleep for months. I am happiest when I'm busy and have a list of things to do, but right now I just get to sit back and watch the anaesthetist do most things, and when the surgery is happening, I am pretty much watching somebody watch somebody else, which is the most exhausting kind of watching of all. I would jump in and assist the surgeon, except there are third-year medical students on prac who should be doing it before me.I would jump in and help intubate or put lines in, except there is a paramedic student there who takes precedence. I can sort-of see the point of this, except she is only in her second year out of four and is not very keen to touch a real patient, and I am in my last year and almost a doctor and will... The Girl with the Blue Steth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3794807 Tue, 11 May 2010 06:43:00 +0100 3794807 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3794812&cid=t_163826_93_f&fid=34787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegirlwiththebluesteth.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fent-and-long-story-old-timer-style.html We have spent this week in ENT. It has been interesting, and the staff are really nice and keen to teach.This is fortunate, as it isn't really an area that I'm interested in, and I am feeling like I'm disinterested in all things study-related right now. You know how it is - some weeks you feel like hitting the books, other weeks you open a book and close it again and walk away.I also have a couple of weaknesses in medicine - one is the neck area, the other is phlegm/drool, and ENT is filled to the brim with both things. I haven't actually dry-retched yet, which is nice, and I tend to feel really bad for the patients. Seeing something that you aren't comfortable withon somebody else is nothing compared to having that actually be something that you have to go through yourself.The nice thing ... The Girl with the Blue Steth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3794812 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:55:00 +0100 3794812 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3435254&cid=t_163826_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fbedtime-stories-for-grown-ups%2F Is Goldilocks a manipulator? Do Hansel and Gretel have abandonment issues? And what happens after “happily ever after” anyway? Therapist Sue Gallehugh and her son Allen adapt classic fairy tales to illustrate the fundamental principles of self-love through mental health and psychological growth. Through wit and humor, these tales tackle serious issues such as anger, isolation, taking responsibility, bitterness, labeling, emotional boundaries, staying connected, abandonment, manipulation, fear and forgiveness. This little gem of a book cuts through the dreary mire of conventional self-help books to help you discover real solutions to the common problems that prevent us from growing. You’ll laugh out loud while reading “The Low Self-Esteem Duckling,&#822... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3435254 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:52:00 +0100 3435254 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3267177&cid=t_163826_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fnothing-on-my-tongue-but-hallelujah.html I did my best, it wasn't muchI couldn't feel, so I tried to touchI've told the truth, I didn't come to fool youAnd even thoughIt all went wrongI'll stand before the Lord of SongWith nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah~ written by a sinner like me::Leonard Cohen, 1981Today I am comforted by other struggling sinners, and the Word that washes away fear and doubt. Fullers' soap strips me bare: scours, scrubs, bleaches, and beats me. But leaves me clean.But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wi... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3267177 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:08:00 +0100 3267177 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3262861&cid=t_163826_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fwhacked.html Remember the game Whack-a-Mole? I feel like the mole. Every time I stick my head out, it gets beaned.Just in the last few days, drive to town: WHACK. Car dies. Work on your marriage. WHACK. People fail. Go to your cancer appointment with hope. WHACK. You still have cancer. You crushed down old memories and stubbed out the pain in a pile of ashes. WHACK. Memories never die.When I am about to drift out into the abyss, when the Rock that is the object of my faith seems like just another iceberg in a rough sea, something has to tether me. This day, it was my daughter's hand. She - innocent, eager, trusting - tethered me, bitter, worn, weary. As the King says, I can guarantee this truth: Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3262861 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:57:00 +0100 3262861 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2705174&cid=t_163826_109_f&fid=35451&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jung-at-heart.com%2Fjung_at_heart%2Fbut_is_it_a_disorder.html Stephen Diamond, in his Psychology Today bloghas been writing for some time about anger and his support for inclusion in the upcoming DSM V a new diagnostic category for embitterment: Posttraumatic Embitterment Disorder (PTED) was first proposed by German psychiatrist Dr. Michael Linden in 2003, based on his clinical work with troubled immigrants from East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall. That profound cultural change proved to be quite traumatic for those whose lives were directly affected by it, and the repercussions of this life-changing event--seen almost universally by the rest of the world as a positive development--was felt for years. We in this country are going through some significant social changes of our own. As Linden (2003) observes, some of the debilitating emo... Jung At Heart blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2705174 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:18:41 +0100 2705174 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452690&cid=t_163826_109_f&fid=35451&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jung-at-heart.com%2Fjung_at_heart%2Fis_bitterness_a_mental_illn.html There have been stories here and there about the upcoming DSM V for several months now. The most recent, in the LA Times, takes a somewhat optimistic view -- "Over the next 18 months, psychiatrists will hammer out a draft of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Assn.'s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more commonly called DSM-V. Nowhere have the discussions been more heated, the ramifications most vividly foretold, than here at the organization's annual meeting.  Some psychiatrists warn that the tome runs the risk of medicalizing the normal range of human behaviors; others vehemently argue that it must be broad enough to guide treatment of those who need it.  But all agree that the so-called bible of psychiatry is expected to be considerably more nuanc... Jung At Heart blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452690 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:41:18 +0100 2452690 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1625857&cid=t_163826_129_f&fid=36035&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fchronic-pain%2Flife-with-chronic-pain%2Fgot-chronic-pain-let-go-of-resentment%2F I’m revealing my age when I admit I remember the Good Humor Man ice cream trucks. I also recall, as a little girl, when the Helms Bakery trucks used to drive around the neighborhoods in California, selling their freshly baked goods. My dad had his upholstery and custom built furniture shop behind our house, so I knew I could always run out there when I heard the whistle from the bakery truck and knew Dad was always a soft touch for their goods. They sold freshly baked cream puffs, cookies and donuts, freshly baked bread and at Christmas, the best fruitcake known to man. It’s the reason I love fruitcake. It had none of that bitter citron or fruit peel but was, instead, filled with candied cherries, candied pineapple and large raisins and pecans. I’ve come very close, over the years, t... Life with Chronic Pain blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1625857 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:53:06 +0100 1625857