How to Channel Your Anger into Productive Action
We tend to see anger as an awful thing. We see it as aggressive and explosive. We associate it with being completely out of control and seething with rage.
According to clinical psychologist Mitch Abblett, Ph.D, “Most of us have memories of times when either we’ve unleashed our anger and/or had someone do so to us, and those memories stick.”
Clinical psychologist and lifestyle wellness coach Schekeva Hall, Ph.D, noted that anger is the most misunderstood and invalidated emotion (besides anxiety).
While anger can be fiery and volatile, it also can be productive and effective. It can be an asset. In fact, when harn...
Source: World of Psychology - October 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Anger Family Friends General Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Relationships Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Anger Management Temper Source Type: blogs
Part 5 - Why Do We Lump the Non-Cancer Pain Syndromes Together?
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.This is the 5th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and a Hand-Crafted Graph.Part 2 – We Were Wrong 20 years Ago, Our Current Response to the Opioid Crisis is Wrong, But We Should Still Be Helping Most of our Long-Term Patients Reduce Their Opioid DosesPart 3 – Opioids Have Ceiling Effects, High-Doses are Rarely Therapeutic, and Another Hand-Cr...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 6, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: opioid pain rosielle The profession Source Type: blogs
Chronic Lyme arthritis: A mystery solved?
In 1975, researchers from Yale investigated an epidemic of 51 patients with arthritis who lived near the woodsy town of Lyme, Connecticut. The most common symptom was recurrent attacks of knee swelling. A few had pain in other joints, such as the wrist or ankle. Many had fever, fatigue, and headache. Some remembered a round skin rash before the onset of knee swelling.
We now know that Lyme disease is an infection acquired from tick bites, caused by a spiral bacterium named Borrelia burgdorferi. After a tick bite, Borrelia bacteria wriggle through the skin away from the bite site. This leads to a circular red rash, known as...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Arthritis Bones and joints Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
If you have migraines, put down your coffee and read this
During medical school, a neurologist taught me that the number one cause of headaches in the US was coffee.
That was news to me! But it made more sense when he clarified that he meant lack of coffee. His point was that for people who regularly drink coffee, missing an early morning cup, or even just having your first cup later than usual, can trigger a caffeine withdrawal headache. And considering how many daily coffee drinkers there are (an estimated 158 million in the US alone), it’s likely that coffee withdrawal is among the most common causes of headaches.
Later in my neurology rotation, I learned that caffeine is a ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Headache Health Source Type: blogs
The Mind and Body Connection; How Posture Affects Your Mood
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We all have heard the phrase, Mind, Body, and Soul, but very few people understand how they all work together. Most people believe the phrase "I can achieve anything I put my mind to". In some cases this is true, however, when it comes to physical well-being and posture, the body plays a huge role in how we feel. The body sends messages known as "somatic markers" through neurotransmitters in your br...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: IndySummers Tags: featured health and fitness psychology self improvement confidence posture Source Type: blogs
A man in his 70s with chest pain during a bike ride
Case written and submitted by Ryan Barnicle MD, with edits by Pendell MeyersWhile vacationing on one of the islands off the northeast coast, a healthy 70ish year old male presented to the island health center for an evaluation of chest pain. The chest pain started about one hour prior to arrival while bike riding. It was a constant ache on the left side of his chest that forced him to stop cycling and call for an ambulance. It was radiating to his bilateral upper arms. It was associated with nausea but he denied dyspnea, dizziness, and headache.He explained that he had the same chest pain the day prior as well, on and off....
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - September 29, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Does Botox reduce the frequency of chronic migraine?
Doesn’t it seem like Botox is showing up everywhere as a medical treatment? Botox is a brand of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), a protein substance originally derived from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. In its original form it was the toxin responsible for botulism, the paralyzing illness often caused by eating contaminated food.
BoNT is now used to treat a number of medical conditions including muscle spasms, excessive sweating, overactive bladder, and some eye muscle conditions. However, one of its most common uses is in the preventive treatment of chronic migraine. Chronic migraine, defined as headache occurring mo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Paul Rizzoli, MD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Headache Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Working With Schizophrenia
Everyone complains about work. Having to go to work every day, working too much, not getting paid enough- working can be challenging for so many reasons. Today’s episode focuses on working while having schizophrenia.
Host Rachel Star Withers, a diagnosed schizophrenic, and co-host Gabe Howard share antidotes from their own work lives and speak with fellow schizophrenic Michelle Hammer. Michelle, an award-winning graphic designer and entrepreneur, discusses her struggles working full time and transitioning to working for herself. Cheryl Wallace the Vice President of Programs at Rose Hill Center, a psychiatric treatm...
Source: World of Psychology - September 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Employment life with schizophrenia Living With Schizophrenia mental illness at work Psychology working working and schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Do Virtual Simulations Prepare For Medical Realities?
How do you study organs and complex living structures
in two dimensions? It’s like trying to piece together life on the planet in the
age of the dinosaurs from fossils – almost impossible. So why do medical
schools require students to learn the tricks of the trade from densely written
books and PowerPoint presentations? Luckily, the advancement of technology
brought in another dimension: virtual reality. So, we looked around to what
extent VR as a three-dimensional teaching tool can support medical education. Let’s
dive into virtual laparoscopy, simulated empathy, and co.
Can simulated
realities trick your senses...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 7, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Education Virtual Reality doctor Health Healthcare medical student nurse study surgeon Surgery technology VR Source Type: blogs
A new drug for low sexual desire in women: Bremelanotide
Women who feel distressed by a lack of sexual desire may have some help on the way. Recently the FDA approved bremelanotide (Vyleesi), a new medication for premenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). HSDD is a term coined to describe low sexual desire without a clear cause. So, women who might like to try this new drug need to know that it is not intended to help in situations where desire diminishes due to
a medical or psychiatric illness
interpersonal or relationship problems
side effects from another treatment or medication.
What does research tell us?
The physiology of sexual arousal and desir...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Toni Golen, MD Tags: Health Relationships Sex Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Siblings Won't Help With Mom's Care, Abuse Caregiver
Photo credit Claudia Soraya
Dear Carol: I’m retired, divorced, and was in decent health and looking forward to some travel in my future until my widowed 93-year-old mother’s health began to deteriorate dramatically. I moved across the country and away from my kids and grandkids to temporarily live with Mom so that I could get her health on track. But that hasn’t happened. She can barely walk, she’s chronically confused, and she needs oxygen for COPD. After living with her for nearly a year, my own health is shot. I’ve gained a lot of weight from stress eating. My knees are screaming at me, my blood pressure...
Source: Minding Our Elders - August 31, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
It is wrong to exploit physicians ’ compassion
When a patient comes to see me for a migraine headache, I know that they will leave feeling 100 percent better. They will finally be rid of that pounding, nauseating pain in their head, and they will be happy. And that makes me happy. Doctors derive great joy from helping their patients. In addition to […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/tom-belanger" rel="tag" > Tom Belanger, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
5 things I wish I had known earlier about chronic pain
I ’ve been living with chronic pain for more than a decade. It began in 2009 with nerve damage after emergency groin surgery. Four years later, I fell and hit my head. That fall led to a constant headache, a whistling sound in my ear, back and hip pain, tingling and numbness in my hands and […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 27, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/tom-bowen" rel="tag" > Tom Bowen < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Concussion at the Bledisloe Cup, a big headache?
Dr Tane Eunson Concussion at the Bledisloe Cup, a big headache?
Player welfare is the number one priority in World Rugby, which has driven the development of evidence-based protocols for the identification and management of concussion (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 26, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Tane Eunson Tags: Sports Medicine concussion concussion in sport HIA SCAT Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 291
Dr Neil Long Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 291
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 291 (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 23, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF chest pain David Rytand DHE dihydroergotamine headache Henri Huchard JB Murphy migraine precordial catch Raskin protocol Rytand Law Rytand murmur Surgery Texidor texidor twinge video games Source Type: blogs
