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Dear Diary: Who Am I?
“What do you wish you could tell your 13-year-old self?”
This is a common parlor-game sort of question, leading to warm and fuzzy discussions about how difficult adolescence is and how we wouldn’t want to be teenagers again. Pink has even turned it into a song, “Conversations With My Thirteen Year Old Self.”
But in a twist on that, I am finding that my 13-year-old self has some things to tell me.
I kept a diary from the age of 12 until I was 35, which is more years ago than I care to admit. I wrote at least a few sentences every night, missing only a day or two here and there, until my 30s, when I tapered off a...
Source: World of Psychology - August 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Sophia Dembling Tags: Aging Children and Teens General Memory and Perception Personal 10 Years Adolescence Bad News Compassion Conversations Dear Diary Formative Years Hindsight Joys And Sorrows Mainstay Memories Parlor Game Poof Psychothera Source Type: blogs
Acid Attacks in Pakistan
The Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF) predicts that 150 acid attacks occur in Pakistan each year, with many more going unreported. This is a disturbing practice of throwing battery acid onto someone, 74 percent of the time a woman, with the attempt of killing them or at the very least leaving them with severe skin deformities. The reasoning behind these heinous attacks is even more disturbing. Frequently, they occur because a woman wants a divorce from an abusive husband and he seeks to bring shame upon her for taking action against him. Steps are being taken to improve laws and prosecution for these crimes yet acid attack...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Body Image Global Health Publc Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: August 2, 2013
We know the mind and body are absolutely connected.
Depression can lead to physical pain, weight loss or gain, and hair loss. Likewise, cancer often brings depression, anxiety, and even paranoia.
The real struggle comes when we try to take care of our bodies when we’re dealing with mental illness, or nurture our mental well-being when we’re battling a disease.
Within this edition’s “Best of Our Blogs,” you’ll find information about obtaining a balance between a healthy body and a healthy mind, and you might even have some of your own experiences to share with the bloggers.
What Is a P...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Best of Our Blogs anxiety body Body Image Cellular Level Character Strengths Depression Depression Anxiety Discoveries Elisha Goldstein Hair Loss Happiness Heart Disease Mental Health Mental Illness mental well-being mind Source Type: blogs
5 Tips for Finding the Right Therapist
Admitting we need help to face life’s issues is sometimes one of the hardest things we’ll ever have to do.
Once we have made the decision to reach out and seek psychotherapy, we want to find someone that we feel we can connect with — someone we feel can truly understand not only where we are, but who we are. Most importantly, we want to find someone we can trust with our innermost thoughts and feelings.
Finding a therapist should not be a rushed decision. It should take a little bit of time and effort. If you choose a therapist that you do not feel connected with, chances are you won’t make much progres...
Source: World of Psychology - July 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Donna M. White, LPCI, CACP Tags: Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Psychotherapy Treatment Cancer Consultations Couples Therapy Finding A Therapist Group Therapy Innermost Thoughts Insurance Little Bit Oncologist Ophthalmologist Opportunity Rese Source Type: blogs
What are Some of the Physiological Manifestations of PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a result of severe trauma. The trauma experienced is usually one that has threatened a person’s safety. PTSD is seen in people returning from fighting in a war, or people who have been victims of violence or a natural disaster.
It’s normal to feel traumatized by significant life events such as surviving a severe car accident. It becomes pathological when the feelings of trauma, anxiety, panic, or sadness don’t fade with time. People who experience PTSD may feel like they are forever changed and suffer constant panic attacks, loss of sleep and social isolation.
Trauma an...
Source: World of Psychology - June 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Joanna Fishman Tags: Antidepressant Anxiety and Panic Brain and Behavior Disorders General Medications Mental Health and Wellness Military Psychology Psychotherapy PTSD Stress Treatment Anxiety Panic Arousal States Blood Cell Count Coronary Hea Source Type: blogs
Can Music Tame Your Inner Beast? Music Therapy for Mental Health
Music can affect a person’s thoughts, feelings and behavior and has been shown to assist with managing stress, expressing emotion and improving communication.
Music therapy — the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals — helps people with understanding and developing self-identity, promoting quality of life and maintaining well-being.
So how does music therapy work to help someone with their mental health concerns?
Music therapy can be used with children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs as well as seniors affect...
Source: World of Psychology - June 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Saakshi Arora Tags: Creativity Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Psychotherapy Self-Help Treatment Adults With Developmental Disabilities Being Music Creating Music Health Music Improving Communication Improvisation Inner Bea Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: June 14, 2013
I don’t know what you’re going through now. Maybe you’re disheartened from work, a new diagnosis, or a challenge in your relationship. We all encounter problems every once in awhile. Although we may try to hide behind it, life inevitably sends us tumultuous waves to throw us off-balance. From afar, they may appear to be dangerous, overwhelming and intimidating. But up close, they may be consistent, yet manageable. The key is to learn to ride them with as much flexibility and openness as possible.
When difficulty hits, we automatically tense up. Fearing rejection, disappointment and pain, we resist what is...
Source: World of Psychology - June 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Anger Anticipation Determinant Diagnosis Differences Between Men And Women Disappointment Doctors Encounter Problems Expressing Anger Fear And Panic Flexibility Huge Wave June 14 Letting Go Manic Depression Source Type: blogs
Did the NIMH Withdraw Support for the DSM-5? No
In the past week, I’ve seen some incredibly sensationalistic articles published about the upcoming DSM-5 and a letter recently released by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In the letter by Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the NIMH, wrote in part, “That is why NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories.”
Some writers read a lot more into that statement than was actually there. Science 2.0 — a website that claims it houses “The world’s best scientists, the Internet’s smartest readers” — had this headline, “NIMH Delivers A Kill Shot T...
Source: World of Psychology - May 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Professional Psychiatry Psychology Biology Genetics Brain Circuits Categorization System Classification System cognitive science Criteria Project Diagnostic Source Type: blogs
Hyundai Thinks Suicide Should Help Sell Cars: The Pipe Job Ad
Hyundai, the world’s fourth largest automobile manufacturer in the world, apparently believes showing a man trying to kill himself in one of their vehicles is good marketing. The ad, called “Pipe Job” and created by the ad agency Innocean Europe, depicts a man taping a hose from a Hyundai ix35‘s exhaust pipe into the cabin, trying to commit suicide.
It then shows the man sitting in the cabin, waiting to die.
A few frames later, the garage lights come back on, and the man opens the garage door. The tag line is, “The New ix35 with 100% water emissions.”
Yes, very tasteful. Maybe if you w...
Source: World of Psychology - April 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: Depression General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Ad Agency Automobile Manufacturer Cancer Patient Clinical Depression Commit Suicide Cupped Hands Depiction Disability Discrimination And Prejudic Source Type: blogs
The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry – Neurophilosophy
This article will be freely available, with registration, until September 23. See the Table of Contents for more information on this Blog Focus, and read the other blog posts: Serotonin, Psychedelics and Depression (by Neuroskeptic) Ketamine for Depression: Yay or Neigh? (by The Neurocritic) Visions of a psychedelic future (by Vaughan Bell) Update: I summarize all four posts in this article for The Guardian, and there’s more coverage of the Blog Focus at 3 Quarks Daily, The Atlantic (Alexis Madrigal and Andrew Sullivan), Boing Boing and The Great Beyond. ___________________________ ON August 15th, 195...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 7, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Why me ? A guide for the infertile couple searching for answers !
Why do bad things happen to good people ? Why do good people suffer ? This question arises in our mind many a time , but most frequently when we are suffering ourselves. Most infertile couples ask themselves - ‘Why is this happening to me?’ I am a good person. I haven’t done any harm to anyone. I am fond of children. When everyone around me has children so easily, why am I doomed to suffer physically, financially , socially and emotionally ? Did I do something wrong ? Is it a punishment from God ? Why is the natural happiness of having children denied to me ?” Most of the time , there are no answers to ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - January 16, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Health In vitro fertilisation Pain Shopping Human Bhagavad Gita Child Infertility Source Type: blogs
Hurricane Sandy: Gratitude, Empathy & Evolution
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~ John F. Kennedy
I live on the water at the Jersey shore and the reports about Hurricane Sandy were not to be taken lightly. I caught the last train out of Washington D.C. and headed back to the home. Everything on the dock had to be secured or removed and it was already raining. From the Amtrak station I raced down the Garden State Parkway.
The rain was relentless.
I went straight through the house to the back prepared to work in the rain to save my stuff. I had only moved into my hous...
Source: World of Psychology - January 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. Tags: General Grief and Loss Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Proof Positive Psychology Psychotherapy Stress Act Of Kindness Altruism Amtrak Station Biblical Proportions Cushions Edward O Wilson Empathy Garden Source Type: blogs
A Parent ’s BSD Challenge
Raising children is a rewarding journey with a most steep learning curve. Any new parent ’s notion that since they are older than their child means they are wiser soon learns that it is the child who teaches the parent many things. Think of the journey of a parent of a child who for no apparent reason engages in aggressive anti social behavior, angry unending tantrums, or a child who is ultra sensitive to all stimuli and overreacts to ordinary things in life, or a child who acts out in school seeking to always be the center of attention. This is the life of a parent whose child has possible BSD disorder. The word possi...
Source: Weird Cake: Myopic musings from a bipolar survivor - November 17, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Healing Instead of Dealing With: Getting Back in the Driver ’s seat With Mental Illness
We get visitors who know very little about bipolar disorder and so why not educate and arm readers with some basic information? Bipolar disorder is a mental condition that affects both mood stability and cognitive functioning. The condition is characterized by extreme variations in mood from elation and high functioning to depression and withdrawal. Those extreme variations are cyclical in nature. Some doctors have named the condition bipolar spectrum disorder(BSD) because of the continuum of characteristics. There is a genetic predisposition to BSD, it tends to run in families. Research has uncovered certain genes that ...
Source: Weird Cake: Myopic musings from a bipolar survivor - November 4, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
