A single story
Tom and I watch very little television...at least not what's offered by regular broadcasting. Instead, we subscribe to Netflix streaming which allows us to pick and choose our programming sans commercials. Last night we wanted something brief and so chose an 18-minute TEDTalk titled "The Danger of a Single Story" presented by the storyteller and author, Chimamanda Adichie. It's the first talk in a compilation called "On Life's Lessons & Confessions"
Adichie, referring to herself as a "chocolate skinned" Eastern Nigerian, opens by telling how as a very young reader (around age two to four) all she read were Britis...
Source: Advice for Parents - August 16, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: Doris Smeltzer Source Type: blogs
4th Annual Brain Development And Learning Conference 2013 Dr. Gabor Mate’s Presentation The Biology of Loss: Early Life Stress as the Template for Addiction, Mental Illness and Physical Disease
4th Annual Brain Development And Learning Conference 2013 Dr. Gabor Mate’s Presentation The Biology of Loss: Early Life Stress as the Template for Addiction, Mental Illness and Physical DiseasePost from: Adult ADD Strengths
I’m getting my dopamine fix on by learning and information at the great 4th Annual Brain Development And Learning Conference 2013. Twitter hashtag #bdl13 I’ve been to all 3 past Brain and Learning Development conferences that are run by Dr. Adele Diamond and her staff & volunteers at her Development Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at UBC.
If you’ve never been to one and you like...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - July 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Addictions ADD / ADHD Awareness Source Type: blogs
Feeling versus Being
Here’s a mistaken belief I hear all
the time from clients and Food and Feelings message
board members: Because I feel a certain way, it must be true. I feel fat, I feel unlovable, I
feel unsuccessful, I feel inadequate, I feel defective. Hello,
feeling isn’t being.
I’m all for connecting with emotions
and skillfully using them to navigate life, but when you say I’m feeling any of the above, what does
that really mean? Do the preceding statements equal I am fat, I am unlovable, I am unsuccessful, I
am inadequate, I am defective? Because that’s what you’re
telling yourself. Where’s the proof? When pe...
Source: Normal Eating - July 26, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs
Connecting the 5-Year Journey to Discovering You
Photo credit Lyssa Vang
[Today's guest post is by my good friend and co-host of The Shut Up Show, Berni Xiong. As The Shin Kicking Life Spark, Berni helps solopreneurs spark people and spark movements.]
It’s hard to believe I almost let myself whittle away to nothing nearly five years ago. Literally. Two weeks after I kicked my corporate sales job to the curb and started my first entrepreneurial venture in coaching, I got sick with a mystery diagnosis. I was hospitalized for seven days. Unable to work on building the new business. Uninsured. Unemployed. On top of that, I was forced into involuntary anorexia by four docto...
Source: Phil Gerbyshak - June 28, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Berni Xiong Tags: Blogs Change Coaching Entreprepeneur Guest Posts Lifelong Learning Networking and Connecting Passion Perseverance Phil Gerbyshak Podcasts Public Speaking Relationship Building Self Awareness Self Improvement Servant Leadershi Source Type: blogs
Don’t Like Anything to Do with Sex? You May Have Sexual Anorexia
Do you hate anything sexual? Do you avoid sex or any type of sexual feelings? You may have sexual anorexia.
Sexual anorexia is an aversion to being sexual. Sexual anorexics sometimes will go to extreme measures to avoid being sexual with others. Some symptoms of sexual anorexia include, but are not limited to:
• Rigid, judgmental attitudes
• Dread of sexual pleasure
• Despair after sexual contact
• Avoidance of anything connected with sex
At times, the sexual anorexic can follow a binge/purge cycle, engaging in sexually promiscuous or addictive behaviors f...
Source: World of Psychology - June 27, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CST, CSAT Tags: Addiction General Marriage and Divorce Psychotherapy Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Sexuality Treatment Addictive Behaviors Anorexic Anorexics Binge Purge Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Source Type: blogs
Anorexia
I will be writing about Anorexia. My main paragraphs will be what Anorexia is, What causes it, warning signs/symptoms, and how to help.Contributor: Cory ElliottPublished: Jun 13, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - June 13, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Your Wounded Spirit
Symptoms of a Wounded Spirituality
The relationship within our ‘self’ of body, mind and emotions shapes our ability to relate to other people, and to the spiritual power in the universe.
Depression, addictions, compulsive behaviour and low self-esteem are but symptoms, signs of a broken relationship within our ‘self’. They are symptoms of a ‘wounded spirit’.
When this connection between our body, mind and emotions is broken, our ability, our ‘response-ability’, to respond healthily to life’s circumstances is limited.
In recovery our task is to identify and undo the broken parts of ourselves and learn to r...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - June 9, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Adult Children of Alcoholics Alcoholism Codependency Drugs Emotions Gambling Recovery Sexuality Spirituality compulsive behaviour and low self-esteem depression spiritual power wounded spirituality Source Type: blogs
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks:
Social media for health professionals at a glance http://buff.ly/10Gopxy
Online Professionalism Investigations by State Medical Boards: First, Do No Harm http://buff.ly/10GozFe
Social media in vascular surgery. [J Vasc Surg. 2013] http://buff.ly/10L5kdJ
Study finds rampant envy on Facebook http://buff.ly/10sCUzo
Eight Questions About Physician-Rating Websites - JMIR 2013 http://bit.ly/12ifjXA
Preserving Science News In An Online World - NPR discussion. How can journalists and bloggers avoid some of...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - June 7, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: #HCSM Source Type: blogs
Harvard Student Chances for Johns Hopkins Med
by Brady Kinesia (Posted Sun May 26, 2013 4:50 am)I just wanted to know if my stats are good enough to be competitive. I am not whining, nothing. I am just honestly worried.Statistics-wise, the answer is yes, that it's good enough to be "competitive" at almost all schools. But the stats are not the part that you should worry about There were depression issues, found out I had ADHD, coupled with the fact that I was a recovering anorexic There is sort of an issue in that you may be asked to explain why you took a year off from college, and, all things considered, they would probably rather see someone who went straight throu...
Source: Med Student Guide - May 26, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Self Injury Video
Demi Moore
This is a wonderful video about Self Injury from Face The Issue narrated by Demi Moore.
The following is a quote from a self injurer who trying to find freedom from their addiction.
I really sorta want to start cutting again.
the urges have come back…
i mean, i dont particularly enjoy passing out or being that weir lightheaded feeling,
and lord knows i dont need more scars,
but lately ive just really wanted to start cutting again,
and since i have refained from cutting i end up hurting myself in other ways, like almost breaking bones,
or when i have them, losing myself in an opiate fog and taking half a bo...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - May 24, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Adult Children of Alcoholics Men Sexuality Women Youth cutting Demi Moore scars self injury Source Type: blogs
Harvard Student Chances for Johns Hopkins Med
by PreMedStruggs (Posted Tue May 21, 2013 8:04 pm)I am a Harvard Senior who is looking to apply soon. I have a the following statistics.Freshman Year GPA: 3.085Sophomore Year GPA: 4.0Junior Year GPA: 4.0Senior Year 4.0Overall: 3.77 I have a 39 on my MCATI really had a bad freshman year. There were depression issues, found out I had ADHD, my mom's cancer came back... I also went to a terrible high school and never even took AP classes before, so the rigor at Harvard really caught me off guard. Coupled with the fact that I was a recovering anorexic, freshman year was a mess for me. I took a year off between freshman and soph...
Source: Med Student Guide - May 22, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Link feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week:
1. Love this - "Neuroscience may be sexier than psychology right now, and it certainly has a lot more money and celebrity. But they really cannot get along without each other." Alison Gopnik in the Wall Street Journal.
2. New Scientist has started a new column written by people with "mysterious neurological conditions". The first is by Heather Sellers who has a severe form of prosopagnosia (AKA face blindness).
3. There's been lots of coverage this last week about NIMH director Thomas R. Insel's announcement that his organisation - the wo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 10, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
Deep Brain Stimulation for Anorexia Nervosa
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In Toronto, Canada six women were treated for anorexia nervosa with deep brain stimulation. They had a long period of many years of unsuccessful conventional management. Their average BMI were 11 to 15 in the years before the study.
The electrodes were placed just beneath the corpus callosum.
Complications
One woman had a self limiting panick attack during the procedure. One developed a cardiac air embolus that resolved within 5 minutes during the procedure. One patient had a seizure after the operation when switching the device on. After switching it off and restarting again after one week seizures didn’t r...
Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - May 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr Shock Tags: Shrink Life in General Source Type: blogs
“We Should Reopen It.” BC Conservative Party Leader John Cummins on the Closed BC Adult ADHD Clinic
“We Should Reopen It.” BC Conservative Party Leader John Cummins on the Closed BC Adult ADHD ClinicPost from: Adult ADD Strengths
6 Years ago in 2007, the BC Liberal government under then health minister George Abbott shut down the only provincial adult ADHD clinic in BC at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver after a 12-14 month long wait list for an entire year.
In May 2011 I asked Christy Clark during her by election campaign at her town hall meeting if she would re open the BC adult ADHD clinic. She said
“I don’t have enough information about the specifics of the program that you’re talking about, ...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Advocacy Politics ADHD related newtag Source Type: blogs
Can We Stamp Out Thinspiration on Twitter? Torri Singer Thinks We Can
Pro-anorexia (or “pro-ana”) groups have been around online for over a decade, and we first discussed them here five years ago. More recently, with the rise of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, these groups have found a new life. Often associated with the label “thinspiration,” these groups elevate the idea of being thin to a virtual religion.
People who are all about thinspiration engage in disordered eating in order to be as thin as possible — a common symptom of anorexia. But they don’t see it as a disorder or a problem, making this an insidious problem.
Noneth...
Source: World of Psychology - April 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Anorexia Bulimia Disorders Eating Disorders General Health-related Interview Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Policy and Advocacy Women's Issues Adult Life Bandwagon Beautiful Girls Broadcast Journalism D Source Type: blogs
