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 'breakdown'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:24:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4714748&cid=t_188872_88_f&fid=35612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheknifeman.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F04%2F19th-nervous-breakdown.html I'm afraid it has all caught up with me. Maybe you do have to hit rock bottom. I think I may have done just that.Whether I can climb back up again... Time will tell.For now, I have been fired in the crucible, and found wanting.I'm sorry.I hope it doesn't end this way... (Source: The KnifeMan) The KnifeMan blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4714748 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:25:00 +0100 4714748 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4522091&cid=t_188872_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FY3HgFcLujvQ%2F By David BoazYou know you're really wrong when Mike Huckabee can call you out. But that's the situation Mitt Romney finds himself in, as Michael Cannon points out below.  Huckabee says Romney's government-run health care plan with an individual mandate is a bad idea, Romney says he's still proud of his plan, which is totally different from President Obama's government-run health care plan with an individual mandate. But really, what can he do? In 17 years of seeking high political office, he is known for two things: changing his position on a surprisingly large number of issues, and his Massachusetts health care program. Which was of course the forerunner of Obamacare, as Michael Cannon and I pointed out in the video that Michael linked. So Romney is still defending a position I think we'... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4522091 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:23:03 +0100 4522091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4436751&cid=t_188872_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fa-new-twist-on-food-allergies-in-kids%2F2011.02.04 The current New Yorker unfolds an engaging story on childhood food allergies. As related by Dr. Jerome Groopman, there’s a shift in how some doctors think about how these conditions  are best managed and, even better — might be prevented. The article feeds into recent discussion that medical science, and even dogma, too-often turns out to be incorrect. Groopman interviews Dr. Hugh Sampson, director of the Jae Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York: …“This increase in the incidence of food allergy is real,” Sampson said when we spoke recently. He cannot say what is causing the increase, but he now thinks the conventional approach to preventing food allergies is misconceived. For most of his career, he believed, like most allergists, that children are... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4436751 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:00:01 +0100 4436751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4230119&cid=t_188872_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fupcoming-conference-focus-technology-solutions-ageold-surgical-dilemmas%2F An upcoming conference sponsored by the University of Chicago Department of Surgery and organized by Dr. John Alverdy will bring together prominent surgeons and several techonology companies and incubators to try to solve age-old surgical problems like anastomotic breakdowns. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4230119 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 13:55:08 +0100 4230119 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3822920&cid=t_188872_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-a-68-chevy-impala-can-tell-us-about-primary-care%2F2010.08.04 When I was a much younger man I had a 1968 Chevy Impala. I loved its V-8 engine and spaciousness, but I paid a steep price for it. It consumed gas like a drunk on a binge. It was prone to breakdowns, usually in the left lane of a busy highway. Even as it consumed my limited financial resources, I couldn’t count on it to reliably get me to where I wanted to be. Yet I held onto it. One day, though, its transmission gave out, and I finally had to resign myself to buying a new, more reliable, more modern, and efficient vehicle. Yet to this day, I miss my clunker. I am reminded of this when I think about the state of primary care today. Many of us are attached to a traditional primary care model that may no longer be economically viable — for physicians, for patients, and for purcha... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3822920 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0100 3822920 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3621755&cid=t_188872_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F06%2F01%2Fhelp-im-having-a-nervous-breakdown%2F “Help! I’m having a nervous breakdown!!” We’ve probably all have heard these words at least one point in our lives. But what does it mean? As we noted last year, a nervous breakdown is just a general, layperson’s term for a bout of mental illness. But Benedict Carey over at The New York Times examines the history of this phrase, as new phrases have entered the popular vocabulary trying to takes its place. These new phrases include “burnout syndrome” (or just plain “burnout”) and “vital exhaustion.” I don’t think any of these will catch on than the all-inclusive “nervous breakdown,” though, because of its longevity and history (since 1900!). What gives the “nervous breakdown” phrase such power? ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3621755 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:49:14 +0100 3621755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3271199&cid=t_188872_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2FK5E52s0vYus%2F Julianne Moore A wonderful video from ‘Face The Issue’ narrated by Julianne Moore. This is an anonymous quote from an anorexic. So…I kind of had a breakdown the other day, and I wrote this on a piece of paper: I’m not ready for the holidays…I’m not sure what I’m going to do. All I know is I can’t handle it. There’s no way. I have my two boxes of laxatives for Christmas day…and I still don’t think that’s going to be enough. See also; Overeater? A Woman’s Spirit A Woman’s Way Through The Twelve Steps Mindfulness for Recovery Related Reading: (Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com) Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3271199 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:59:00 +0100 3271199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2812540&cid=t_188872_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aspieweb.net%2Fpain-breakdown%2F Lately Kate has been going through a breakdown and its so painful to watch.  Now I know what its like from the other side of the fence.When I was breaking down earlier this year after I lost my job and things starting sliding with other things in my life Kate was at my side the [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2812540 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:58:09 +0100 2812540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405855&cid=t_188872_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspieweb%2F%7E3%2Fycwk5u9xdeg%2F */ WARNING, THIS POST MAY CONTAIN GRAPHIC MATERIAL */ So this has been a shitty week, and I’m still trying to get the blood out of my apartment.As some of you know I was engaged to a girl who had a mother who was extremely abusive, well this week she had a breakdown.  Monday I woke [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405855 Sun, 10 May 2009 23:09:35 +0100 2405855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1543149&cid=t_188872_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F25%2Fbreaking-down-the-breakdown%2F As a mental health writer from Canada I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to The Globe and Mail’s feature series Breakdown: Canada’s Mental Health Crisis. They present over a dozen articles and videos on stigma, workplace issues, information on some disorders, and the newspaper is also publishing many reader stories (which they are still welcoming). During the weeklong series, there are also online Q&A sessions with a handful of experts. The series began with an interview and Q&A with Dr. David Goldbloom, a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto with an active Physician-in-Chief clinical practice, serving as a director on the year-old Mental Health Commission of Canada. Its mandate is to advise government on forming a national mental health care ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1543149 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:44:59 +0100 1543149 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=551456&cid=t_188872_140_f&fid=35440&url=http%3A%2F%2Fspiritualemergency.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F01%2Fvisionary-experience-in-myth-ritual.html ... we are beginning to realize that we cannot fix on the outside what is broken deep within the human heart and psyche.- John O'DeaJohn Weir PerryThe initial disordered state that I am describing contains two distinct elements. The first is an experience of dying or of having already died, which symbolizes a dissolution of the accustomed self. The second element, closely related to the first, is a vision of the death of the world. In an acute psychosis individuals undergo a profound reorganization of the self, effected by a thoroughgoing reintegration through utter disintegration. Life cannot be repaired, it can only be re-created by returning to the sources. And the 'source of sources' is the prodigious outpouring of energy, life and the fecundity that occured at the Creation of the Worl... Spiritual Emergency blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=551456 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:19:00 +0100 551456