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 'girlfriends'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:23 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050713&cid=t_153615_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F21%2Fthe-5-types-of-girlfriends-you-need-in-your-life%2F In her classic book, Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh articulates the process of gathering girlfriends. She writes, “I shall ask into my shell only those friends with whom I can be completely honest. I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.” Girlfriends are as unique as the shells Lindbergh describes in her pages. Some have the gift of empathy and compassion, while others challenge us in ways that lead to growth; some friends listen, while others dole out smart advice. Women need different kinds of friendships at different points in their lives. I have compiled these five types of girlfriends, drawing from the examples in Robert Wick’s book, Bounce: Living the Res... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050713 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:36:13 +0100 5050713 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893553&cid=t_153615_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F04%2Fwhen-should-you-consider-hospitalization-for-depression%2F I wish psychiatrists sent people with depression home with instructions on when to go to the hospital similar to the ones obstetricians give to pregnant women once they reach 37 weeks of gestation: when your contractions last for a minute each and are five minutes apart, start the ignition! “How did you know it was time to go to the hospital?” a friend asked me the other day. “I didn’t,” I replied. “My friends did.” Each psych ward experience is different. And no doctor judges the decision to enter one in the same way. In hindsight, I wonder why my therapist didn’t urge me to commit myself months before I did. I talked about wanting to die most of my hour with her. Because it was all I thought about. That idea, alone, gave me relief. But I ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893553 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:02:02 +0100 4893553 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3534055&cid=t_153615_135_f&fid=35274&url=http%3A%2F%2Facidrefluxweb.com%2F%3Fp%3D4435 The very first thing that struck me about Mark was his openness, and his sense of humour. Then when I saw the video clip (you can see in this post below) of him winning a car on The Price is Right with Bob Barker, the deal was sealed, I really liked this guy. This is a PositiveLite.com feature interview: I first got to know Mark through his blog on The Body (there is a link to it at the end of the post). When launching this site we began chatting on Facebook, and thought he was the perfect person with which to start off the PositiveLite.com interviews. Mark has been doing what I’ve been aspiring to do for quite some time, and that is use multi-media (i.e. video, writing, images) in a blog format covering all sorts of great topics, and with his flare for writing and wit. Mark’... acidrefluxweb.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3534055 Wed, 05 May 2010 13:30:51 +0100 3534055 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395093&cid=t_153615_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fwhat-the-hell-are-you-talking-about%2F My most intellectually stimulating conversations happened in college. Over bottles of wine and (let’s be honest) bongs, my idealistic friends and I discussed the meaning of life, world peace, and the evils of capitalism. Nowadays? Most adult women are lucky if they can catch up about their boyfriends, husbands, exes, kids, mortgages, and jobs over one drink during happy hour. In a recent New York Times blog post by Roni Caryn Rabin, “Talk Deeply, Be Happy?“, according to a recent study of 79 college students, “people who spend more of their day having deep discussions and less time engaging in small talk seem to be happier.” Hmmn. The problem with this small test group is that it excludes several demographics, and surveys people who, like my younger self and her dorm-... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395093 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:39:15 +0100 3395093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2691551&cid=t_153615_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F08%2F11%2Ffacebook-reinforces-relationship-jealousy%2F In a study of 308 Facebook users, researchers discovered that people who are more prone to jealousy will find Facebook just reinforces that jealousy. The researchers created their own specialized quiz for the study, called the Facebook Jealousy scale. The scale is composed of 27 items that are measured on a 7-point scale from “very likely” to “very unlikely” that assess Facebook-related jealousy. According to the study, sample items include “How likely are you to become jealous after your partner has added an unknown member of the opposite sex?” and “How likely are you to monitor your partner’s activities on Facebook?” The researchers (Muise et al., 2009) collected the data for this study as a part of a larger study being conducted on Faceb... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2691551 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:30:07 +0100 2691551 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2354146&cid=t_153615_177_f&fid=38134&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbabybound.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F21%2Fcan-we-talk-about-something-else-now%2F Hey is anyone else as sick of hearing me bitch as I am?  Waa my husband left.  Bla bla he lied, bla bla he took money blech.  I’m sorry but there is only so much pitty I can take on myself before it starts to sound like one of those long ass parties that everyone wont leave from, but you are sick of and want to just go to bed.  I know there is still much more to come of this craptasticle situation, but for now, let’s move on shall we?  We’ll come back to it I assure you. Want to hear something funny?  Well, its funny to me.  In fact it gets me gigglin just thinkin about it right now. For the past couple of months I have been hangin out with a new crew.  A group of girls that get together every Monday night to have a “ladies night” away from their husba... B a b y B o u n d blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2354146 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:18:47 +0100 2354146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=974234&cid=t_153615_93_f&fid=34899&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mexicomedstudent.com%2F2007%2F10%2F698 I was reading this article about a PHP developer’s love affair with Ruby, an increasingly popular scripting language. Like “love affair” implies, it was intense, passionate, difficult, but ultimately ended. Ruby’s greatest asset is that it was developed from the ground up to be strictly object-oriented (that’s way too huge a topic to go into here) in the face of “bastard” scripting languages like Perl and PHP that borrow from several “standard” languages (making them more flexible, IMO). Ruby has received the most exposure via a Ruby-based web-creation framework called Rails, and people swear it’s the best thing since man invented fire. Whatever–I know better and I’m not drinking the Kool-Aid. Ok, background done&#82... Mexico Medical Student blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=974234 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:47:44 +0100 974234