How I Healed My Inner Child
Growing older does not mean we’ve actually grown “up.” Aging chronologically and mentally are two very different things, as my young adult life so brilliantly demonstrated.
I was completely out of control: alcohol abuse, depression, and if I didn’t get my way, throwing temper tantrums that would make a three year old blush. Well into my twenties, I had the mentality of a rebellious child.
And while I was well aware that my dysfunctional childhood was at the root of my behavior, I had no idea how to rectify this part of me that had been around for almost as long as I had been.
Growing up with abuse, neglect, and aba...
Source: World of Psychology - April 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: L.K. Elliott Tags: ADHD and ADD Anxiety and Panic Brain and Behavior Depression Inspiration & Hope Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Personal Self-Help Spirituality Trauma Abandonment abuse Alcoholism Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Source Type: blogs
5 Happy Hacks to Set Tech Boundaries in the Digital Age
You're reading 5 Happy Hacks to Set Tech Boundaries in the Digital Age, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Welcome to the Digital Era. Technology is flooding into our lives, seeping into every crevice from the moment we wake up to our smartphone alarms to the second we try (and fail) to fall asleep next to…our smartphones. We’re drowning, but it’s mostly because we fail to set healthy tech boundaries for ourselves. I dedicate an entire chapter to this phenomenon in my book The Future of Happines...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amy Blankson Tags: happiness self improvement best self-improvement blogs digital sabbatical happy hacks pickthebrain tech hacks technology Source Type: blogs
The Jittery Patient
A 22-year-old woman with no past medical history presented to the emergency department with palpitations. She reported that she had ingested a handful of caffeine tablets with a large glass of wine two hours earlier. She reported feeling "stressed out" and wanting to hurt herself. The patient was alert but appeared anxious on arrival at the ED.Her blood pressure was 90/49 mm Hg, heart rate was 115 beats/min, respiratory rate was 20 breaths/min, and SPO2 was 100% on room air. An ECG showed sinus tachycardia at 120 beats/min with normal intervals. Shortly after arrival, her blood pressure dropped to 83/42 mm Hg,...
Source: The Tox Cave - March 31, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Study: Parents ’ educational and income levels (not breastfeeding per se) account for the brain development gains in breastfed children
CONCLUSIONS: Although 1 positive benefit of breastfeeding was found by using propensity score matching, the effect size was modest in practical terms. No support was found for statistically significant gains at age 5 years, suggesting that the earlier observed benefit from breastfeeding may not be maintained once children enter school.
To learn more about lifelong brain development:
What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them?
How learning changes your brain (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - March 30, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness brain breastfeeding cognitive-abilities cognitive-development noncognitive noncognitive development Source Type: blogs
ADHD and Adults: How to Create a Routine When You Don ’t Have a 9 to 5
Maybe you’re an entrepreneur. Maybe you’re a real estate agent or writer. Maybe you’re an artist or a photographer. Maybe you’re a graphic or web designer. Maybe you’re a coach or consultant. Maybe you’re an attorney with your own practice.
Whatever your profession, you aren’t tied to a desk and you don’t have specific work hours — like 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. And you also have ADHD, which makes not having a built-in structure challenging.
For example, people with ADHD tend to hyper-focus on things they find interesting, while other tasks fall through the cracks — such as invoicing and filing taxes, sa...
Source: World of Psychology - March 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders General Habits Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Success & Achievement Treatment ADHD challenges Adults With Adhd attention Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder daily tasks Source Type: blogs
My Favorite Coping Skills for Dysregulated Children
As a therapist, I am frequently working with children who are emotionally dysregulated. This means, I see a lot of behavioral issues, difficulties containing behaviors, emotions, and reacting instead of responding to difficult situations.
My favorite example is when a parent makes a grilled cheese sandwich when the child really wanted turkey and the child throws a fit and ends up on the floor, crying, thrashing, and believing it is the worst day of their life. Yes, this is truly how they feel. They have little to no ability to cope with small (or big) stressors and instead they act out.
ADHD, Oppositional and Autistic ch...
Source: World of Psychology - March 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marianne Riley Tags: ADHD and ADD Aspergers Autism Children and Teens Parenting Self-Help Acting Out Attention Deficit Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Coping Skills Emotional Dysregulation Emotional Outburst Emotional Regulation Emotional se Source Type: blogs
Is ADHD overdiagnosed and overtreated?
Pieter Cohen, M.D., Michael Hochman, M.D., M.P.H., Rachael Bedard, M.D.
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Gretchen LeFever, a clinical psychologist at Eastern Virginia Medical School, wanted to understand how many children had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at elementary schools in Virginia communities. Her findings among the 30,000 children she studied in the 1990s foreshadowed a national pattern: rates of ADHD varied widely among districts, and the rates in some communities were much higher than predicted. In some school districts, by the fifth grade one in five white boys had bee...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Updates in Slow Medicine Tags: Behavioral Health Children's Health Drugs and Supplements Parenting Source Type: blogs
ADHD Is NOT Just An Excuse For Bad Behaviour
Physical evidence in the brain found for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Dr Jeremy Dean's ebooks are:
The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic
Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attention Source Type: blogs
Misconceptions About Hyperactivity: How Hyper Is Too Hyper for Young Boys?
Every day, millions of parents wonder if their son’s hyper behavior is a normal product of age and gender, or if it’s something that needs to be addressed with a doctor. If you’ve been wondering the same thing, you’re not alone. Indeed, it can be difficult for even the most conscientious parents to tell what is typical, and what is not.
A lot of the behaviors listed as symptoms of ADHD are also normal child-like behaviors, such as impatience, difficulty listening, and being frequently “on the move.” The way your son sometimes behaves may be frustrating, exhausting, even a little worrisome, but y...
Source: World of Psychology - February 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tyler Jacobson Tags: ADHD and ADD Children and Teens Parenting Research Students Success & Achievement Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attentiveness Concentration Education Source Type: blogs
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reverse Fructose Damage: Study Shows How
...Diseases such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s have been linked to a high amount of fructose, which is used as an inexpensive sweetener in many ready-to-eat foods. "DHA changes not just one or two genes; it seems to push the entire gene pattern back to normal, which is remarkable," Xia Yang, a senior author of the study and a UCLA assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology. "And we can see why it has such a powerful effect."
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Read full article on HealthCentral about how Omega-3 fatty acids can reverse f...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 31, 2017 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Physical Health and Mental Health, Part 2: Exercising Regularly
This is Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here: “Physical Health and Mental Health, Part 1: Eating Healthfully“.
The relationship between Physical Health and Mental Health plays a significant role in our lives. It has been found that staying physically fit actually helps our mental health as well. When our physical health is poor it puts a great strain on our mental health.
Eating healthfully, exercising regularly and getting a good night’s sleep are all important elements in a mentally and physically healthy life. Lifestyle interventions with a combination of psychotherapy and medications are all important in...
Source: World of Psychology - January 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Staci Lee Schnell, MS,CS,LMFT Tags: ADHD and ADD Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Anxiety and Panic Depression Habits Health-related Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Healthy Eating Major Depressive Disorder Mental Health Disorders Omega-3 fatty acid Source Type: blogs
Graphene Sensor Detects Individual Brain Cancer Cells
A team of scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) managed to use graphene as a sensor capable of differentiating between healthy astrocyte brain cells and their glioblastoma doppelgängers. The technique works on individual cells that are placed in contact with graphene, which is just a lattice of carbon only one atom thick.
The carbon atoms composing the graphene share their electrons, allowing the charge to move around freely across the surface. When the material is placed in contact with a cell, the graphene’s charge distribution changes depending on the nature of the cell. Cancer cells have h...
Source: Medgadget - January 5, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
Physical Health and Mental Health, Part 1: Eating Healthfully
Mental health and physical health are closely related. Keeping physically fit actually helps our mental health too; because it is very hard to stay psychologically healthy when our physical health is poor. If we are physical functioning poorly it takes an emotional toll on us as well.
Caring for your body and mind may mean you’ll not only live longer, but better. Eating healthfully, exercising regularly and getting a good night’s sleep are all important aspects to both the health of our mind and body. Just as there are many effective treatments for physical illnesses, besides therapies and medications, lifestyle inter...
Source: World of Psychology - January 5, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Staci Lee Schnell, MS,CS,LMFT Tags: ADHD and ADD Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Anxiety and Panic Depression Health-related Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Healthy Eating Major Depressive Disorder Mental Health Disorders Omega-3 fatty acid Source Type: blogs
Research Byte: Learning Disabilities, Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Executive Functioning: Contributions from Educational Psychology in Progressing Theory, Measurement, and Practice via BrowZine
Intro to a special issueLearning Disabilities, Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Executive Functioning: Contributions from Educational Psychology in Progressing Theory, Measurement, and PracticeNewton, Kristie J.; Sperling, Rayne A.; Martin, Andrew J.Contemporary Educational Psychology: Articles in pressUniversity of Minnesota Users:http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X16300637Non-University of Minnesota Users: (Full text may not be available)http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X16300637Accessed with BrowZine, supported by Univ...
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