Monthly Archive for May, 2006
Anti Stigmatization | By May 13, 2006 | By Elise Stobbe | 5 Comments
Severe Psychiatric Disabilities and Employment
There are many people with common neurotic anxiety disorders who continue to work despite their condition, depending on severity. However, people with more serious psychiatric disabilities such as schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder, often drop out of the workplace when their mental condition reaches a critical level. Those with such severe psychiatric disabilities usually have difficulty just trying to get through the day! Without being able to work, they often deplete their assets and must either rely on government programs for assistance, if they can qualify, or may have nowhere to live unless family or friends will take them in. Read more →
- A Westerner’s Pilgrimage - The Professional Sector
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Linked to Exaggerated Perception of Error in Brain
- The Bane of Pain Is Plainly in the Brain
- Living with a Brain Disorder: Debbie, 31-35, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, OCD, Dysautonomia
- A Westerner’s Pilgrimage - The Popular Sector
Last week we discussed the Popular Sector of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This week we continue to trace my pilgrimage through the Chinese medical system as I leave the Popular Sector and move to the Professional Sector. The Professional Sector is populated by those healing professions that have organized... Read more →
Most people are familiar with the detective who has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) appearing in the television series “Monk“. OCD is an anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for 1 in 50 adults in the USA. Read more → Read More →
Pain is generally considered a symptom of disease. The uniqueness of the disease of pain, of course, is that it cannot be seen by the physician. It is experienced and reported by the patient. Understanding how pain is generated and more importantly, how to treat pain, is the focus of this lecture. Among... Read more →
Interviewee: Debbie, age 31-35, from new Jersey was diagnosed with “Chronic Pain/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia - April 2000 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - about 10-12 years ago suspect Dysautonomia Brain Injury - June 15, 2002 - suspect post concussion syndrome Carpal Tunnel Syndrome -... Read more →
The Chinese medical philosophy is at once alien and similar to the system of Western medicine. Superficially, the systems seem to have very little in common with regard to history, diagnostic approach, evaluation of information and most glaringly, treatment regimen. In an effort to examine Chinese medical... Read more →
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- The Bipolar Trend
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- Are You Vegetarian? How Do You Get Enough Protein?
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- Is War A Psychosis?
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Health Care and Politics II - The Democrats
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Sleeping on the Job - A Program Director’s Take on IOM Recommendations
- Work and Mental Health
- Why a Smartphone is a Dumb Idea
- Sometimes It’s Good to Be Cold - Therapeutic Hypothermia
- Recognizing the Man in the Mirror
- Brain Blogging, Forty-Second Edition
- Happiness is Contagious, If Not For a Fleeting Moment
- Look Me in the Eyes - From Eye Contact to “Fear Blindness”
- The Doctor Can’t See You Right Now, He’s Napping
- Suicide Rates Could Rise
- Gingko Study Proves Nothing
- Exercise to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Increase Cerebral Blood Flow
- Personal Health Records and Mental Health
- New Option for the Management of Acute Pain
- Depression and the Risk for Cardiovascular Events
- Beating the Biological Clock - Clinical Trials of Tasimelteon
- Ginkgo Biloba Ineffective for Preventing Dementia
- A Special Thanks - Remembering a Man Who Remembered No One
- Psychiatric Conditions and Alcohol Abuse in the College-Aged
- Drugs and Pharmacology, Twelfth Edition
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