Best of Our Blogs: July 29, 2016
You’re here to learn how to cope, deal, or manage a problem. You might be stuck in the thick of it and trying to feel your way through. You’ve dealt with this your whole life or maybe this issue is new.
You’re focused on finding a solution. Sometimes you beat yourself up for not figuring things out. But of all the things that filter through your mind, I bet you don’t think about this. But you should.
Everyone has problems. But you’re not just reveling in it, you’re searching for support and solution. That makes you, dear reader, a warrior.
It’s not easy to deal with what you’...
Source: World of Psychology - July 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs ADHD and women ADHD women and effects Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Boundaries and narcissistic parent boundaries and narcissists Dysfunctional Family False guilt Fighting in relationship Narcissism Narciss Source Type: blogs
Adult ADHD: 5 More Tips for Managing Technology
Psychotherapist and ADHD coach Terry Matlen, MSW, ACSW, believes that technology is a double-edged sword for adults with ADHD. It helps you be efficient. But it also distracts you from your work. Because before you know it, you’ve spent one hour surfing the web for something you can’t even remember. Or you find yourself sending just one more text when an important project requires your attention. And, inevitably, just one more leads to 20.
“Technology is like a drug, providing that dopamine hit after dopamine hit. It’s really stimulating,” said Eric Tivers, LCSW, also a psychotherapist and ADHD coach. And th...
Source: World of Psychology - July 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders General Habits Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Technology attention Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention management Distraction Dis Source Type: blogs
Adult ADHD: 5 Tips for Managing Technology So It Doesn’t Manage You
Technology for ADHD can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it helps adults with ADHD stay productive. After all, you can use technology to remind yourself of important appointments, meetings and deadlines. You can use technology to keep track of your tasks and help you structure your day.
On the other hand, technology can be incredibly distracting. ADHD coach and therapist Eric Tivers, LCSW, finds it to be a big challenge for his clients, who often don’t realize that it’s actually making things harder for them. They don’t “realize that every time they shift their attention, they’re killing their pro...
Source: World of Psychology - July 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders Habits Industrial and Workplace Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Technology Adult Adhd Apps Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Computers Emotional well-being executive functioning Helpful Tool Source Type: blogs
Adult ADHD: 5 Tips for Managing Technology So It Doesn ’ t Manage You
Technology for ADHD can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it helps adults with ADHD stay productive. After all, you can use technology to remind yourself of important appointments, meetings and deadlines. You can use technology to keep track of your tasks and help you structure your day.
On the other hand, technology can be incredibly distracting. ADHD coach and therapist Eric Tivers, LCSW, finds it to be a big challenge for his clients, who often don’t realize that it’s actually making things harder for them. They don’t “realize that every time they shift their attention, they’re killing their pro...
Source: World of Psychology - July 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Disorders Habits Industrial and Workplace Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Technology Adult Adhd Apps Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Computers Emotional well-being executive functioning Helpful Tool Source Type: blogs
7 Strategies for Thriving with ADHD
Having ADHD can be incredibly frustrating. You want to get things done. But because of the nature of ADHD, you have a tough time with organizing, prioritizing, planning, initiating and completing tasks. This is why it’s so important to have your ADHD properly treated, whether it’s with medication, therapy, ADHD coaching or all three.
Specifically, it’s vital to have systems and tools in place. Because even the smallest strategies can make a big difference in helping you thrive with ADHD. In the book Wacky Ways to Succeed with ADHD, ADHD coach Laurie Dupar compiled all sorts of valuable tips and strategies for succee...
Source: World of Psychology - July 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: ADHD and ADD Books Disorders Habits Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement ADHD strategies ADHD tips Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder overwhelm Reminders self-compassi Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: July 15, 2016
Death is an obvious reason to grieve. But after reading, “3 Kinds of Grief Nobody Talks About,” I was reminded of the less discussed sorrow we go through.
There is the loss of the person you knew before mental illness and addiction. There is the grief that comes from realizing your parents were not there for you the way you needed them to be. There is also the loss of the you before your diagnosis.
Although we don’t give attention to these changes, they deserve to be mourned too.
Whether you’re grieving a toxic relationship, your anxious child or a recent diagnosis, take time to process how you&#...
Source: World of Psychology - July 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs ADHD and anxiety Anxious child Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder How to calm anxious child Interpersonal relationship Meaning Of Life Pain Psychology Signs of alcoholism Silent Treatment Silent treatment and Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs’ July Issue: ACA Coverage, Health Spending, And More
The July issue of Health Affairs, a variety issue, covers a broad range of topics: the Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage provisions; improvements in emergency department care; trends in health spending by different income groups; efforts by accountable care organizations (ACOs) to improve behavioral health care; and others.
US emergency department death rates reduced by 48 percent, 1997-2011
Despite a wealth of literature about the relationship between emergency care and subsequent mortality for selected conditions, little is known about overall mortality trends in the emergency department (ED). In what is believed to be...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 6, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured ACA Marketplaces Health Affairs journal medical marijuana tobacco Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 4th 2016
In conclusion, therefore, I can say with confidence that the future of aging research is extremely bright, both scientifically and medically. The pace of progress must now be sharply accelerated, via the injection of the funds that should for many years have been allocated at far higher a level than has actually occurred.
LATEST HEADLINES FROM FIGHT AGING!
AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURA DEMING OF THE LONGEVITY FUND
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/06/an-interview-with-laura-deming-of-the-longevity-fund/
Laura Deming has worked with the SENS Research Foundation and others on the molecular biology ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 3, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Alkaline Water Very Modestly Slows Aging in Mice
There are any number of ways to make mice live a little longer by slowing the accumulation of cell and tissue damage that causes age-related degeneration. Processes such as the cellular repair mechanisms of autophagy, for example, influence life span, and anything that causes a little damage so as to provoke greater levels of repair tends to make shorter-lived species like mice live somewhat longer. Since all of the mechanisms of cellular metabolism influence one another directly or indirectly, there are countless ways to increase the level of cellular housekeeping. This is true of any of the other processes thought to inf...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 29, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Meta-Analytic Comparison of Brain Abnormalities in ADHD and OCD
Importance Patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) share impaired…Read it on FlipboardRead it on archpsyc.jamanetwork.com (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - June 9, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
How Does Vaccinated Children’s Health Compare to Unvaccinated Children?
Conclusion
While government groups maintain that no studies have been done to compare the health of vaccinated to unvaccinated, the reality is that several comparative studies have been completed by independent researchers in the US and in other countries.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to conduct such studies, claiming they would be unethical to perform. In reality, these studies could easily be performed, since many educated parents choose to not vaccinate their children.
The evidence is overwhelming. Studies completed in New Zealand, Germany, Africa, Great Britain and the United States have come ...
Source: vactruth.com - June 3, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Picks Top Stories truth about vaccines vaccinated vs. unvaccinated Source Type: blogs
How Does Vaccinated Children ’s Health Compare to Unvaccinated Children?
Conclusion
While government groups maintain that no studies have been done to compare the health of vaccinated to unvaccinated, the reality is that several comparative studies have been completed by independent researchers in the US and in other countries.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to conduct such studies, claiming they would be unethical to perform. In reality, these studies could easily be performed, since many educated parents choose to not vaccinate their children.
The evidence is overwhelming. Studies completed in New Zealand, Germany, Africa, Great Britain and the United States have come ...
Source: vactruth.com - June 3, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Picks Top Stories truth about vaccines vaccinated vs. unvaccinated Source Type: blogs
We’re Failing Adolescents And Families Coping With Behavioral Health Issues
During my twenty-five years as president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), I have learned how to help people navigate the health care system. But I have struck out miserably when it comes to helping people facing behavioral health issues. I’ve had the pleasure of watching many talented staff members start and raise families of their own. One employee of the foundation, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—let’s call her Amy—is a doting single parent to Joe, a towering teenager with a wry sense of humor and dyed, technicolor hair. Images of Joe—from football games, camping trips, and long-ago schoo...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 31, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Karen Wolk Feinstein Tags: Featured GrantWatch Quality Access adolescents Behavioral Health behavioral service needs Effectiveness Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Help Convince BC Pharmacare to Cover Long Term ADHD Medications for ADHD Adults And Children
Please tell BC Pharmacare and health minister Terry Lake why they should cover long-acting ADHD medications vs just the short acting ones.
Deadline is June 1st, 2016.
If you live in BC and have a family member with ADHD or have ADHD yourself and already know why this is important, have your say here now .
Scroll down to “Therapeutic Review of ADHD Drugs” and chose “Patient Questionnaire” or “Caregiver Questionnaire.” Please follow the instructions carefully.
If you are unsure why this is important, please read on.
I called for BC Pharmacare to cover long-acting (10-13 hour) medicati...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Advocacy ADD / ADHD Medication BC Pharmacare Source Type: blogs
Please Help Convince BC Pharmacare to Cover Long Term ADHD Medications for ADHD Adults And Children
Please tell BC Pharmacare and health minister Terry Lake why they should cover long-acting ADHD medications vs just the short acting ones. CADDAC, CADDRA and some BC Psychiatrists and doctors are organizing this.
Deadline is June 1st, 2016.
If you live in BC and have a family member with ADHD or have ADHD yourself and already know why this is important, have your say here now .
Scroll down to “Therapeutic Review of ADHD Drugs” and chose “Patient Questionnaire” or “Caregiver Questionnaire.” Please follow the instructions carefully.
If you are unsure why this is important, please read ...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Advocacy ADD / ADHD Medication BC Pharmacare Source Type: blogs
