When You ’re Overwhelmed with Being an Adult
Working, paying bills, making meals, managing a household, running errands, making important decisions….adulthood isn’t for the faint of heart. Responsibilities regularly pile up. And it becomes a lot to juggle and handle on a regular basis.
And there isn’t exactly a class we take that prepares us for the nitty gritty of the day to day.
In fact, many of us go off to college with little to no training about how to handle the basics—like bills, budgeting and taxes. Psychotherapist Alyson Cohen, LCSW, works with many young adults who have a hard time “adulting.” In particular, her clients struggle with money: ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Habits Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Adulthood anxiety overwhelm Responsibility Worry Young Adulthood Source Type: blogs
Doctors, don ’t be scared. Here’s why.
It was a twilight summer game, and I was parked as usual in right field among the weeds and snake holes. There was no outfield fence, so muffed balls could roll forever. Not gifted with athletic skills, I also had a secret problem. I was blind as an especially myopic mole rat and couldn’t even see the second baseman. This would be discovered five years later. I knew one thing with certainty every game. Eventually, a ball would be hit my way, and I would miss it. I would then have to chase it for about a century and bring it back to the howls and snarls of my pack after the other team scored precisely 94 runs. I exper...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 29, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/scott-younkin" rel="tag" > Scott Younkin, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
From my window
It ’s kind of dreary here today. Chilly. Raining off and on. Weary of winter as I am, I am glad the snow has melted and it is rain, not snow falling. Down at the bottom of the hill, the remainder of the mountain of snow left there by the plows to keep sledding kids from running into the street is now a heap of dirty snow and ice and road dirt. No signs of green yet — that is at least 2 or 3 weeks away. This is mud season — the time between winter and spring. The time of pot holes and dirty snow piles and mud everywhere. Out of the Bay this morning I hear loons. The view from my window today as I get ready to do my t...
Source: Jung At Heart - April 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs
A new anti-myeloma substance: andrographolide
Discussion: andrographolide also inhibits angiogenesis, which is so important for the survival and wellbeing of myeloma cells, so that’s good to know, too.
Now we get to the above-mentioned importance of the TLR4 protein. TLR4 is apparently involved, not in a good way!!!, with a tumor’s microenvironment and has a lot of power over immune cells. So, if its activity can be blocked, that’s very good news. With andrographolide, this can be accomplished…
I mentioned TLR4 in one of my earliest posts, written in 2007: TLRs, or toll-like receptors, play a key role in the immune system. Back then, I was interested i...
Source: Margaret's Corner - February 13, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll andrographolide anti-myeloma extract Source Type: blogs
Obstacles That Stop Us from Decluttering —And How to Overcome Them
Years ago, Cas Aarssen would spend hours looking for lost items, cleaning and tidying, and dusting items she didn’t even like.
Sound familiar?
Sometimes, we get so entrenched in our routines that we don’t see the belongings that no longer belong in our homes. Or we feel too busy, too overwhelmed, too exhausted to tackle a big project such as decluttering. We think it’ll require energy and effort we just don’t have.
Another obstacle to decluttering is actually letting items go. “We are especially reluctant to declutter things that were expensive, have sentimental value, or things that we perceive as being useful ...
Source: World of Psychology - February 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Habits Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress clutter Clutterers Anonymous decluttering Organization Procrastination sentimental Source Type: blogs
Easy Life Hacks for Better Organization
You're reading Easy Life Hacks for Better Organization, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Organization and productivity hacks are a hot topic right now. From best sellers like Kingston’s “Clear your Clutter with Feng Shui” to the Marie Kondo “Bringing You Joy” method, there seem to be almost as many ways to ditch your clutter as there are plans to lose weight. While studies show that one in four Americans would like to, it’s not always the easiest thing to do.
There are scientific studies that b...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: karlijaenike Tags: featured happiness productivity tips self improvement clutter declutter life hacks organization organization tips organize your life pickthebrain success Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 223
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 223.
Question 1
Puskar Nepal set a Guinness World record for doing what 134 times in 60 seconds?
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Kicking himself in the forehead
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 26, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five bungee jumping exophthalmos Graves disease Graves orbitopathy haemorrhoids kicking menstruation Puskar Nepal retinal detachment retinal haemorrhage St Fiacre Stellwag's sign subconjunctival haemorrhage Wal Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 222
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 222.
Question 1
What was the Great Singapore Penis Panic of 1967 all about?
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The false belief one’s male appendage was shrinki...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 19, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five barbie burbulance great singapore penis panic haemorrhoids hypoparathyroidism angiomas Intracranial calcification koro Midge pregnancy ring of fire tuberous sclerosis Source Type: blogs
Weekend Poem
RakeEarly November and the trees are all done.Time to gather the leaves, let the dog runSome wait too long---Let the leaves lie, scattered across the lawn,Clumped in cornersAnd up against walls---Which the winter rains and sleet changeInto a heavy black sludgeYou can ’t rake.Others start too earlyWhen their lawns are first dappled orange, yellow and red,Before the trees have emptied.You wouldn ’t start to clean the pansUntil everyone ’s been fed---You have to be patient.I wait for a day when the sky lowersAnd the trees stand like skeletonsIn the dim gray afternoon, when the world seems domed,Hemmed in and colorless.I...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 14, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
8 Small Ways to Declutter That Make a Big Difference in Your Space and Mood
Motherhood coach Denaye Barahona, Ph.D, started decluttering her home by decluttering her closet. After she was done, her closet actually became a place she wanted to be. It became a space of solitude, quiet and calm—a feeling she “quickly came to love.” Which inspired her to declutter her entire home “in search of this calm feeling that I wanted to bring to my entire family.”
It’s hard to feel calm when you’re surrounded by clutter: surfaces with piles resembling the leaning tower of Pisa; toys strewn all over the floor; clothing jam-packed in your closet; random receipts, paperwork and coupons in random pl...
Source: World of Psychology - January 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Habits Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Source Type: blogs
What ’s Ahead for Medtech in 2018: An Interview with CNBC’s Christina Farr
CNBC‘s Christina “Chrissy” Farr is one of the industry’s best-known health technology reporters. She’s been the first to break the news on many important health-related announcements from Apple, Amazon, and other firms over the past several years, and Medgadget often refers to her excellent reporting as part of our own coverage.
As 2017 was winding down, Chrissy was kind enough to share what medtech topics caught her eye, what 2018 might have in store, and how she became interested in medical technology in the first place.
Scott Jung, Medgadget: Tell us a little bit about your backgro...
Source: Medgadget - January 2, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Back from retreat
I had the week off -- the university was closed -- and I suppose I could have spent it madly blogging but instead I wound up contemplating. It has been difficult for me this past year to keep up a blog that ' s supposed to be about public health when the sorts of subjects I might write about from the standpoint of my expertise are overwhelmed in importance by the crisis facing our democratic polity. And that is also a crisis facing all of humanity.Ezra Klein describes the evident derangement of the person who 47% of the electorate thought should be president, andCharlie Pierce piles on. But it is not his dementia, or even ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 1, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
You Can Choose to Not Be Depressed for the Holidays
I posted something on Facebook this past weekend that didn’t have the effect I wanted.“My recent timeline is filled with baking cookies, reviewing children’s picture books, and now I’ve discovered I’m spending tonight& New Year’s Eve home alone reading a book. Something is terribly wrong with my life. 😜 ”I had intended it to be snarky. That’s what the emoji was for. I wasn’t feeling sorry for myself. It’s nobody’s fault but my own that I don’t have a special somebody to spend New Year’s Eve together. I’m not logged into online dating sites d...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Family Goodreads Suicide Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published!
First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, the wonderful sponsors of our contest, that make the coolest and most advanced digital stethoscopes out there.The winner of our contest will receive an Eko CORE stethoscope that is both acoustic and electronic, has all the features of both, can amplify sound, record audio waveforms, and connect to your phone. Thank you, Eko!
Since we announced our Medical Sci-Fi Writing Contest i...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 27th 2017
We examined associations between mortality and accelerometer-measured PA using age-relevant intensity cutpoints in older women of various ethnicities.
The results support the hypothesis that higher levels of accelerometer-measured PA, even when below the moderate-intensity threshold recommended in current guidelines, are associated with lower all-cause and CVD mortality in women aged 63 to 99. Our findings expand on previous studies showing that higher self-reported PA reduces mortality in adults aged 60 and older, specifically in older women, and at less than recommended amounts. Moreover, our findings challenge th...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 26, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
