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The Other OCD
This site discusses those strange, bizarre and disturbing OCD thoughts, sometimes called Purely Obsessional Compulsive Disorder (or “Pure-O”). Things like: “Is that cop following me?”, “Is my breathing weird?”, or “Have I hurt someone and not known it?” Most people consider the whole OCD issue, but this group has mainly just the obsessions and hardly any of the compulsions. This website also includes help for family and friends, books and articles, downloadable audio, and information for therapists. (Source: PsychSplash)
Source: PsychSplash - June 23, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Anyone Articles Books Collaborative News Features For Group Management Information Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Topics OCD Source Type: blogs

Hands Free
I'm trying something new. Rather than use a keyboard, I'm going to compose this with my voice rather than with my fingers. My new phone has hands free capability. My old phone did as well, but I never used it because I didn't think I could. Also, I didn't realize the phone had it until it finally died. The only thing that I'm having trouble figuring out is how to insert carriage returns or extra spaces or any specific punctuation. I know that if I say certain words like the word "period" or "comma" they will insert automatically. However, I don't know how to plug in other types of punctuation or anything that is spec...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - April 8, 2014 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs

Ketamine - A Professor Writes
For the past six months, I've fielded increasingly more questions about ketamine.My patients: "Will ketamine help me?" My colleagues: "Is ketamine safe for my patients?"Ketamine is an FDA- (Food and Drug Administration) approved drug for anesthesia during surgery and for pain relief -- in adults and children. Several studies (including one report published recently) have shown its rapid, positive effects in depression as well as rapid effects in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) -- a persistent and often disabling disorder in which individuals have repetitive thoughts and behaviors.Because ketami...
Source: PharmaGossip - March 24, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Prescription Drugs May Cause Forgetfulness
Most of us have had moments of forgetfulness at one time or another throughout our lives. Memory loss is commonly associated with the signs of getting older and is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Alcohol and illicit drug abuse have also been shown to impair memory. What many people are not aware of is that certain commonly prescribed medications can impair memory too. Being aware that a prescription drug may cause memory problems is important information that needs to be shared with patients. “Scientists now know that memory loss as you get older is by no means inevitable,” writes Dr. Armon B. Neel, a geriat...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - January 28, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Richard Taite Source Type: blogs

Going Deep: Surgery For Addiction?
Controversial DBS technique shows early promise for Parkinson’s, Tourette’s.Bielefeld, Germany—The third in an irregular series of posts about a recent conference, Neuroplasticity in Substance Addiction and Recovery: From Genes to Culture and Back Again. The conference, held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University, drew neuroscientists, historians, psychologists, philosophers, and even a freelance science journalist or two, coming in from Germany, the U.S., The Netherlands, the UK, Finland, France, Italy, Australia, and elsewhere. The organizing idea was to focus on how changes in t...
Source: Addiction Inbox - January 28, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

What is This Thing Called Neuroplasticity?
And how does it impact addiction and recovery?Bielefeld, Germany—The first in an irregular series of posts about a recent conference, Neuroplasticity in Substance Addiction and Recovery: From Genes to Culture and Back Again. The conference, held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University, drew neuroscientists, historians, psychologists, philosophers, and even a freelance science journalist or two, coming in from Germany, the U.S., The Netherlands, the UK, Finland, France, Italy, Australia, and elsewhere. The organizing idea was to focus on how changes in the brain impact addiction and reco...
Source: Addiction Inbox - January 16, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

Beyond OCD
, the leading provider of consumer-friendly resources to help sufferers cope with and conquer Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), works to increase public and professional awareness of OCD, educate and support people with OCD and their families, and to encourage research into new treatments and a cure. We are a small organization with a big heart. A resource for individuals, families, mental health professionals, educators, clergy and the media across the country, we are dedicated to improving the lives of people who suffer with OCD. (Source: PsychSplash)
Source: PsychSplash - January 13, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Psych Central Resource Editor Tags: Abnormal Anyone Articles Assessment Instruments Behaviour Management Clinical Psychology Clinical Tools Collaborative News Consumers Depression e-learning Features For Foundation Website General Psychology Information Lifes Source Type: blogs

7 Ways to Stop Obsessing
Mason Cooley once wrote: “The cure for an obsession: get another one.” That’s about as good advice as any that I’ve heard on how to quiet the annoying voices inside your head. They nag, persist, harass, and endure longer than your patience or composure. I haven’t been very successful at managing mine, as I’m usually processing three obsessions at a time. But a few of my strategies have helped me from time to time. Here they are. 1. Get back on track. One of the most helpful visualizations for me to employ when I’m obsessing is to imagine that my mind is a car driving along the highway. When I get going on a...
Source: World of Psychology - December 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness OCD Psychology Bruce M Hyman Gordon Livingston Obsessions Obsessive Compulsive Disorder stuck throughts Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: December 13, 2013
I used to have a life coach and whenever I would unsuccessfully attempt to muster sympathy for an unsympathetic friend or relative, she would challenge me to rethink my perspective. In other words, she called me on my victim playing. This happened particularly during the holiday season when love, parties and gift giving were all squished into a month long of forced happiness and joy. She would always tell me the same thing. You can’t keep going to the fish market to get chicken. Meaning I had to stop trying to get support from the unsupportive person and compassion from the un-compassionate. To continue to do so was ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Addiction Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Chronic Pain Compulsive Shopping Creativity Distraction exercise benefits Mindfulness & Psychotherapy Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Retail therapy Suffering Source Type: blogs

OCD & Living Without False Hope
When one has a breakthrough in therapy or in life, one experiences a feeling of aliveness. As a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), these moments have been few and far between over the course of my 33 years. It is natural for human beings to want to give other human beings hope. I am not trashing exposure therapy and the therapeutic process. These things work for a lot of people with OCD. You’ve probably heard that people with OCD get intrusive thoughts. A simple question is: How many intrusive thoughts go away with exposure therapy? Joseph Heller’s classic book Catch-22 tells the story of a wartime bomba...
Source: World of Psychology - December 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Keith Fraser Tags: Books Brain and Behavior Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Military OCD Personal Psychology Army Catch 22 Closing Time False Hope Human Intrusive Thoughts Joseph Heller Novel Obsessive Compulsive Disorder off Source Type: blogs

A brief history of the 12 steps
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) started in 1935 in Akron, Ohio, USA as a result of the meeting between a New York stockbroker and an Akron surgeon who were both hopeless alcoholics. They realized that alcoholism was a disease that could be treated by a system of applying spiritual values to daily living. Both men began working with themselves and with other alcoholics. In four years, there were three groups and 100 sober alcoholics. In 1939, based on their experiences (both the failures and the successes), the fellowship published its basic textbook, Alcoholics Anonymous, describing the AA philosophy and methods, and establishin...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - December 7, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Adult Children of Alcoholics Al-anon Alateen Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism Debtors Anonymous Emotions Gamblers Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous Sobriety Spirituality Wisdom Bill W Dr Bob incest mental O Source Type: blogs

Affirmative Action for the Mentally Ill
After reviewing most of what I’ve written about my obsessive-compulsive disorder in the last year, I came to the conclusion that vocational rehabilitation systems that succeed in putting recovering mentally ill people back to work are rare. Some would say this is too complicated and costly for the government. I say this is ridiculous. I have been through many vocational rehabilitation scenarios — job coaches, agencies or programs that send me leads. All of these have led nowhere. The real problem is finding people who actually care about getting you a job. They are few and far between. Or they don’t want you to ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 22, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Keith Fraser Tags: Disorders General Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness OCD Personal Policy and Advocacy affirmative action Congress Employment Financial Crisis Finding A Job Inflation Mental Illness Mentally Ill recession un Source Type: blogs

OCD & Trying to Catch Every Last Detail
Last Christmas, I received as a gift Deepak Chopra’s book, Super Brain. As a person with a mental illness, I wasn’t sure if this was good news or bad news. A majority of my prior Christmases have been lackluster because I relive the same year, in and out, without seeming to make the progress I desire in my life. It’s kind of like the movie Groundhog Day , only for years and years. I wasn’t sure if analyzing my brain any further would be a good idea. So how does OCD relate to all the books, paintings, and movies that a society produces? Essentially, these supposedly give us hope that our lives will get bett...
Source: World of Psychology - November 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Keith Fraser Tags: Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media OCD Personal Psychology Self-Help Treatment Christmas Christmases Cognition Deepak Chopra details Film Groundhog Day Obsessive Compulsive Disorder obsessive-c Source Type: blogs

A New, and Huge ($2.2 Billion) Settlement for Johnson and Johnson, but "No Individuals were Charged with Wrongdoing"
The march of legal settlements made by big health care organizations has resumed with a bang. As reported in most major media outlets, giant drug/ device/ biotechnology company Johnson and Johnson has made a big settlement with the US Department of Justice.The Basics of the SettlementAs reported by Bloomberg / Businessweek, Johnson & Johnson agreed to resolve criminal and civil probes into the marketing of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug, and other medicines by paying more than $2.2 billion, one of the largest U.S. health-fraud penalties. J&J’s Janssen unit will plead guilty to a misdemeanor criminal ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception kickbacks Johnson and Johnson impunity crime marketing legal settlements Source Type: blogs

Johnson & Johnson to Pay More Than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations
Despite the FDA warnings and increased health risks, from 1999 through 2005, Janssen aggressively marketed Risperdal to control behavioral disturbances in dementia patients through an “ElderCare sales force” designed to target nursing homes and doctors who treated the elderly. Allegations Include Off-label Marketing and Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists. +Alzheimer's Reading Room Global health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiaries will pay more than $2.2 billion to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from allegations relating to the prescription drugs Risperdal, Invega and Natr...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 5, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs