Understanding PTSD and its Effects on Marriage
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that occurs following a life-threatening event such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or physical or sexual assault. Approximately eight percent of all people will experience PTSD at some point in their life. That number rises to about 30 percent for combat veterans.
Those suffering with PTSD may experience several different types of symptoms:
Reliving. Becoming emotionally or physically upset when reminded or triggered. Nightmares and flashbacks are extremely common.
Avoidance. Staying away from places or peop...
Source: World of Psychology - July 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Staci Lee Schnell, MS,CS,LMFT Tags: Addiction Anger Disorders General Marriage and Divorce Medications Psychology Psychotherapy PTSD Relationships Trauma Anxiety Disorder Counseling Medicine Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Psychological Trauma Source Type: blogs
Facial expressions of intense joy and pain are indistinguishable
Eyes shut tight, face contorted into a grimace. Are they ecstatic or anguished? Ignorant of the context, it can be hard to tell. Recent research that involved participants looking at images of the facial expressions of professional tennis players supported this intuition – participants naive to the context were unable to tell the difference between the winners and losers.From a scientific perspective, the problem with the tennis study is that the findings might have been affected by the players' physical exertion or their awareness of being on public display. To test the similarity of facial expressions of joy and pain m...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Research Digest Source Type: blogs
JellyBean 040 with a man called Rusty
Sometimes Jellybeans are very bloody serious. I am a big supporter of paramedics. BIG. They do a difficult job in an unpredictable environment. Bad things can happen. Bad things do happen. Let me introduce Rusty; a brave paramedic that has something important to say. It is relevant to us all.
Expect the unexpected in this Brave Jellybean recorded at SMACC in Dublin. There are so many different types of bravery. Big and obvious or small and subtle. Different flavours. Different arenas.
This is one for the Paramedics, the EMS Providers and everyone else in critical care too.
Rusty and I talk about that curious and sometimes...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 6, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Kate Granger Paramedic PTSD Rusty Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Healthcare Wearables For A Healthy Lifestyle
There are thousands of devices and gadgets on the healthcare wearable market which could help you live a healthier and better life, although it is not easy to choose. Let me show you my top choices when it comes to health wearables and trackers.
I started measuring details of my life in 1997 and have been doing so without missing a day for the past 7000 days. I log the times when I go to bed or wake up; projects I worked on and a score between 1 and 10 for my mental, physical and emotional status. By now, I have tested and used about 40 devices and gadgets that measure health parameters or vital signs.
Thus, I know that...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 1, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Diagnostics gc3 Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine technology wearable wearables Source Type: blogs
Johnie’s Story
This post first appeared in The Odyssey Online in June 14, 2016.
Children in foster care often remain voiceless so I decided we need to start listening.
Trigger Warning: Child and/or sexual abuse. The following story is from the point of view of a fictional five-year-old boy named Johnie. His voice represents the voice of thousands of children in foster care and thousands of children with no agency as they are victims of child abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect.
My teacher Ms. Jackson is so pretty. She wears dresses every day when she teaches us. I like learning about math and counting. I think I’m pretty good at count...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Young Adults Source Type: blogs
Johnie ’s Story
This post first appeared in The Odyssey Online on June 14, 2016.
Children in foster care often remain voiceless so I decided we need to start listening.
Trigger Warning: Child and/or sexual abuse. The following story is from the point of view of a fictional five-year-old boy named Johnie. His voice represents the voice of thousands of children in foster care and thousands of children with no agency as they are victims of child abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect.
My teacher Ms. Jackson is so pretty. She wears dresses every day when she teaches us. I like learning about math and counting. I think I’m pretty good at count...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Young Adults Source Type: blogs
Confession of a Liberal
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE
TRIGGER WARNING: Long read, Trump
Reason #1: Feeling the Bust. I am a woman and I am an immigrant to this country. I am Jewish by birth and atheist by faith. I am fairly well educated, borderline socialist and straight Democratic ticket voter. I have no use for guns, I despise hunting, and I believe the death penalty is state sponsored murder. I think abortions are perfectly fine and I think everybody should be free to choose how they use their own body for their own happiness and joy. I have no respect for authority, strength, power or large wads of cash. Come to think of it, I have no respect for a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
We stand at the brink. Together on the dance floor. We are Pulse.
Recently, a patient of mine died of cancer, whom I loved very much. She had a special way of enjoying life; a half, wise smile that after our many years together did not take me too seriously and reflected her deep inner strength. She taught me about joy; I will miss her always. Her husband, understanding my loss, said that it was alright, that I had done my best, that he would pray for me. He empathized more with my pain, my loss, than with his own.
This same morning, I learned of the slaughter at the Pulse. I was mourning the death of one person of a terrible, but natural disease, while at a night club, a plac...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: James C. Salwitz, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Source Type: blogs
Ask D'Mine: Night Terrors Thanks to Diabetes
Hey, All -- if you've got questions about life with diabetes, then you've come to the right place! That would be our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D'Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and clinical specialist Wil Dubois.Fluctu... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - May 14, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Wil Dubois Source Type: blogs
Infant Paralyzed and Brain-Damaged After 6-Month Vaccinations, Doctors Threatened Parents to Further Vaccinate Their Daughter
Conclusion
There are many legitimate reasons why parents don’t want their child subjected to what is in any vaccine. We are outraged at the disregard for Cerenity’s life and what her family is going through. In a situation such as what happened to Cerenity, it is absurd doctors would blatantly ignore Cerenity’s vaccine reactions and tell her parents to continue vaccinating her.
We hope Cerenity will get the necessary treatment to heal from these vaccine-related injuries. If you have experienced a similar situation and have helpful advice to offer, please reach out to VacTruth, to get in touch with Cerenity’s mother...
Source: vactruth.com - April 2, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories adverse reactions Cerenity Escamilla chiari malformation hypertonic dystonia infant paralysis transverse myelitis truth about vaccines vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Women, Children and Water
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: February 2016 reports that 64% of Americans have closely followed the news about the lead contamination of Flint, Michigan’s water supply, its likely effects on public health in that city, and the long road ahead as Flint struggles to restore a safe water supply. The same survey found nearly eight in 10 Americans are concerned about the safety of the water in low-income communities across the U.S.
But even the challenges facing one mid-sized American city pale when we see World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.2 billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water, with an a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Global Health Publc Health Source Type: blogs
Louisiana Mother Knows 8 Vaccine Doses Killed Her 2 Month-Old Son
Two month-old Reid Thomas Englehart was vaccinated on May 20, 2015. He was given eight vaccine doses, which included the DTaP, Hib, polio, pneumococcal, hepatitis B and the oral rotavirus vaccines. These are the routine vaccines given to two month-old babies, even premature babies, in the United States and elsewhere. [1]
At the time of his appointment, Reid was still wheezing from a previous infection and still had a residual cough, but his doctor insisted it was fine to vaccinate him, after a test came back that Reid was negative for pertussis.
Nine days later, without a struggle and without any obstruction of his airways...
Source: vactruth.com - March 7, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Case Reports on Vaccine Injury Human DTaP vaccine Hepatitis B vaccine HiB Pneumococcal conjugate (PCV7) Polio Vaccine Reid Thomas Englehart Rotavirus Vaccine Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
I was unprepared to deal with a homeless patient today. I won’t be tomorrow.
I met a woman today who was well-groomed, articulate, insightful and undeniably intelligent. She provided succinct responses and understood the matter at hand. Our ability to treat her, though, will likely be derailed in two weeks when she will once again become homeless.
In the midst of a booming job market in my area lies a cluster of people who are unable to find work — either due to transportation issues, not having a home address or living with circumstances that envelop and suffocate their ability to thrive in our society.
She wakes up every morning on a quest to find a place to sleep that night. She knows abo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Seema Khosla, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
We need to demand technology that lets doctors be doctors
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … what an uncannily accurate description of how it feels to practice in our very own “modern” health care system. In a world brimming over with exponential tech advances — supercomputer smartphones with user interfaces an embryo could master, an open Internet backbone that connects us across continents and cultures — our health care universe languishes with software that’s the clinical equivalent of a Death Star. Overwrought, highly complex, and insanely expensive, yet ultimately foiled by the simplest weakness: a complete neglect of the Force, that mystic...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 1, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Zubin Damania, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
