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 'demons'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:41:33 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4975944&cid=t_284040_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F27%2Fmarsha-linehan-acknowledges-her-own-struggle-with-borderline-personality-disorder%2F Dr. Marsha Linehan, long best known for her ground-breaking work with a new form of psychotherapy called dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), has let out her own personal secret — she has suffered from borderline personality disorder. In order to help reduce the prejudice surrounding this particular disorder — people labeled as borderline often are seen as attention-getting and always in crisis — Dr. Linehan told her story in public for the first time last week before an audience of friends, family and doctors at the Institute of Living, the Hartford clinic where she was first treated for extreme social withdrawal at age 17, according to The New York Times. At 17 in 1961, Linehan detailed how when she came to the clinic, she attacked herself habitually, cut her arms legs a... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4975944 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:12:20 +0100 4975944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747922&cid=t_284040_180_f&fid=38609&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidSeah-BetterLivingThroughNewMedia%2F%7E3%2Fk_138xFszcQ%2F Years ago, my friend Ashish introduced me to Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, which opened my eyes to the common struggle that creative overthinkers like myself face every frickin’ day. I keep a spare copy on my bookshelf for times of creative crisis, when doubt is bombarding our position from all sides, like an extra magazine of ammunition. Because, as Pressfield will tell you, being creative is war and your enemy is malevolent manifestation of resistance that actively seeks to tear you down. In terms of creative endeavor, I’m but an amateur ghost namer and demon hunter; Pressfield has written the canonical book on the subject, as far as I’m concerned. Colleen Wainwright has a spiffy review of the book, if you need more convincing. Pressfield’s recent boo... David Seah - Design, Development, Inspiration, Empowerment blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747922 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:15:15 +0100 4747922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074487&cid=t_284040_180_f&fid=38609&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidSeah-BetterLivingThroughNewMedia%2F%7E3%2FBpqR4E8OSCQ%2F Is there a correlation between the drive for self-empowerment and procrastination? It seems counter-intuitive, but this just may be the case. I wanted to make some pancakes last night, but this wasn’t going to happen unless I cleaned up the kitched. I felt the familiar surge of resistance rise in me as I contemplated the oily sheen on the half-dozen plates heaped in the sink. As I’ve been mindful of resistance in myself this week (see here and here), I acknowledged the resistance and then proceeded to ignoredit. Pancakes were soon frying on the skillet just a few minutes later. As I watched the bubbles form in frying batter, I facetiously wondered why I bothered with having resistance in the first place if I was just going to ignore it later. Wouldn’t it save time to j... David Seah - Design, Development, Inspiration, Empowerment blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074487 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:31:09 +0100 4074487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3149113&cid=t_284040_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F07%2Fintroducing-therese-borchards-new-book-beyond-blue%2F Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past year, you probably noticed that one of our regular contributors here has been Therese Borchard. However, she blogs more often and more regularly on her beliefnet.com blog, Beyond Blue. It was actually her wonderfully witty and touching writing there that led me to invite her to blog more regularly here. Therese is a rare find, combining a love of prose with a wealth of personal experiences with depression and other concerns to make for always engaging reading. So it’s no wonder she was able to bundle up that wisdom and publish her first book, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes. If you’ve enjoyed Therese’s posts either here or on her regular blog at beliefnet.com, then yo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3149113 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:08:24 +0100 3149113 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2943866&cid=t_284040_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F29%2Fthe-homeless-highway-gentleman%2F The homeless highway gentleman walks as if he’s on a mission. He walks alongside a busy stretch of highway in southern New Hampshire every day, roughly at the same time, wearing the exact same clothes. You can tell he’s a gentleman because he wears a faded, outdated tan sports jacket. It’s seen better days, but so has the gentleman. He’s older, balding, and very much on his own. And yet, when you see him, you notice he has a sense of civilized purpose and dignity about him. It’s how and where he walks that gets people’s attention. He doesn’t walk on the grassy berm next to the four-lane highway, he walks right in the gutter on the road, often in the right-hand most lane. If you were a distracted driver and were fiddling with your cell phone or radi... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2943866 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:03:23 +0100 2943866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2836164&cid=t_284040_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fhealthbolt-reading-room%2F What I’ve been reading this week… Healing through writing is the theme of Writing Away The Demons: Stories of Creative Coping through Transformative Writing edited by Dr. Sherry Reiter. The book is a collection of stories written by those who took up a pen and paper during their crisis -  be it alcoholism, domestic violence, cancer, and addiction.  Informative, enlightening, and inspiring, each story offers encouragement and insight to readers who might be in similar circumstances. Deborah King suggests that what you hide can hurt you in Truth Heals, a book that focuses on the relationship between the suppression of truth and how this can later manifest into pain or illness. Using her own personal journey as well as client and celebrity profiles, Deborah offers a roadmap for people w... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2836164 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:02:44 +0100 2836164 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487647&cid=t_284040_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D18 Lisa Helt writes, in an Amazon review of Strange Son: I can’t believe anyone could write such cruel things about any human being, much less a child with a disability. She uses the words, “beast-like”, “alien”, “possessed by a demon”, “like a wild beast”. Only someone who has no compassion whatsoever could write this, much less be the founder of Cure Autism Now. I know one thing, they will never ever get my money again. Portia Iverson tries to say she never wrote that, and Lisa Helt points out the passages, saying at the end: To me it seemed you were embarrassed by autism, embarrassed that they ruin your dinner parties that were so painfully planned with their “French country patterned napkins”. I hope that one day you can ac... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487647 Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:34:16 +0100 487647 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487648&cid=t_284040_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D17 Someone sent me a used copy of Portia Iversen’s Strange Son on CD. I only just got through the first track, and this is what I heard: It was his mind they came for. They came to steal his mind. Before anyone gave it a name, even before I knew what it was, I knew it was in our house. I can’t say exactly how I knew, except that I could feel it. Not that I wanted to, believe me. They were very very dark things and there was no way to get rid of them. Sometimes I could hear them late at night when the house was very quiet. A creaking sound, an inexplicable hiss, a miniscule pop, a whistle out of nowhere. And when I closed my eyes, I felt their shadows passing over me as they floated through the house and drifted invisibly with the smoke of the fireplace chimney out into space back to G... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487648 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:22:34 +0100 487648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487651&cid=t_284040_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D13 Now I’m going to look at The Siege, by Clara Claiborne Park. This is the book that Catherine Maurice found inspiration for battle metaphors in. It’s another classic in autism literature by parents, and was originally written in 1967. The version I have here is a 1982 version with a newer epilogue. The first chapter of the book is called “The Changeling”. From page 5: Once a friend, seeing for the first time her pale skin and straight yellow hair, her clear blue eyes and the dancing grace of her body, called her a fairy child. And there was a fairy lightness in her movements, a fairy purity in her detached gaze. As time passed and she grew taller, leaner, older, her face seemed not to record time’s passage. She carried none of the stigmata of the defective; not... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487651 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:54:32 +0100 487651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487652&cid=t_284040_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D12 , by Catherine Maurice, is considered a classic in narratives by parents of autistic children. Page 57: I was in a race against time, and either I found someone or something that truly helped or I had lost Anne-Marie forever. It was as simple as that. There is something about autism that to me gave meaning to the phrase “death in life.” Autism is an impossible condition of being there and not being there; a person without a self; a life without a soul This is more of what’s becoming almost standard in the entries on this blog. Autism as death. Autism as soullessness. Autism as being lost. Later on, Maurice describes her daughter in the following way on page 63: Anne-Marie was so far gone by this point that she spent the evaluation period curled on the floor in a fetal po... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487652 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:12:36 +0100 487652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487655&cid=t_284040_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D9 This one jypsy mentioned, part of a blurb for a book (or something, I can’t quite tell what it is) called Fear and Autism. A spirit of autism has held them since childhood. An antichrist alcoholic occultic bind. What devastation it brings to a child to a marriage sometimes to all communication. Well… that’s certainly fear of autism. I can’t say that I’ve ever heard autism called “antichrist” before. The quote stands on its own. (Most autistic Christians would disagree with the above sentiments, I suspect.) (Source: Autism Demonized) Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487655 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:16:00 +0100 487655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487656&cid=t_284040_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D8 Excerpts from Autism Research: A Legacy of Neglect, an Opportunity for New Discovery by Jonathan Shestack, co-founder and president of Cure Autism Now. No formula can tell me: Will he be whole or will he be mysteriously, tragically broken like his older brother? The brother who hardly seems to know he exists. The brother who has autism. … This is the special curse of autism. You have your child, and yet you don’t have him. You have a shell, a ghost of all the dreams and hopes you ever had. … No matter how much time goes by, we never quite get over it, we never get used to it. Every lost tooth, every birthday, is a reminder that all too soon the autistic child will become the autistic adult, and the moment of opportunity may be lost. So autism is a state of being “my... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487656 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:43:00 +0100 487656