What's new in midwifery - 16th August 2018
A day late, but some recent things you might need to know about. Genetic testingGenetics Home Reference: What is noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and what disorders can it screen for? (American website, so check that what is discussed applies here).ResearchLabor Induction versus Expectant Management in Low-RiskNulliparous Women (NEJM)Intravenous remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia versusintramuscular pethidine for pain relief in labour (RESPITE): an open-label,multicentre, randomised controlled trial (Lancet)Reported in theGuardian and theBMJ.In the news (all in the Guardian)Postnat...
Source: Browsing - August 16, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Grief and the Healing Property of Time
This article will not begin to address the complexities presented in suicidal, homicidal, child or antepartum, perin atal, or postpartum bereavement.)For most adults who experience the death of a loved one, they will move through normal grief reactions without any pathology.[11] What I try to reframe are the expectations we have regarding what ’s “appropriate coping”. Sometimes I get called to a family because the patient or family is crying too much; other times it’s because they aren’t crying at all. What I want everyone to know is either response is acceptable. Grief can cause you to withdraw from people and a...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 10, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: bereavement grief latimer Source Type: blogs
6 Natural Remedies to Help Overcome Depression
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When you hear the word ‘depression’ the first thing that may come to your mind is sadness.
In reality, depression is different to and much more than sadness. Sadness is normal and is a part of human behavior whereas depression is a mental health issue.
Various factors can cause depression including deprived sleep and a feeling of overload.
University students undergo depression because of the transition c...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: arkyadey Tags: depression featured pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
Omega-3 fatty acids for mood disorders
Omega-3 fatty acids are found primarily in fish oil and certain marine algae. Because depression appears less common in nations where people eat large amounts of fish, scientists have investigated whether fish oils may prevent and/or treat depression and other mood disorders. Two omega-3 fatty acids — eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) — are thought to have the most potential to benefit people with mood disorders.
How might omega-3s improve depression?
Different mechanisms of action have been proposed. For example, omega-3s can easily travel through the brain cell membrane and interact w...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 3, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David Mischoulon, MD, PhD Tags: Anxiety and Depression Behavioral Health Drugs and Supplements Mental Health Source Type: blogs
The Most Damaging Myths about Motherhood
You should be able to get pregnant right away. It’s what women’s bodies are designed to do. You should love being pregnant—or at least embrace it. After all, you’re growing a child! Pregnancy is when you get to enjoy all those feel-good hormones flowing through your body—and after you give birth, you should be thrilled to hold that baby in your arms. You’re supposed to instinctively bond with your newborn, and know exactly what they need. There’s a right way to give birth—and it doesn’t involve an epidural or a hospital.
Myths about motherhood are so powerful, so prevalent and so salient that they start w...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Children and Teens Family Friends General Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress Women's Issues Motherhood Pregnancy Stigma Source Type: blogs
How to Declutter When You Don ’t Have the Time or Energy
You have a hard time finding important items–umm like your keys, driver’s license, birth certificate, that stack of bills, and those old family photos. Maybe you also have stuff in all sorts of nooks, crannies and corners, and much of this stuff overshadows the significant stuff. And it’s largely become invisible.
As writer Brooke McAlary noted, “We don’t see it, we don’t use it, we don’t like it, and in many cases, we don’t even remember that we own it. And yet it takes up physical, mental, financial and emotional space.”
You know you need to declutter. Desperately.
But you also have a deman...
Source: World of Psychology - July 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Habits Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Source Type: blogs
Postpartum Anxiety: How to Get the Support You Need When You Are Feeling Overwhelmed
There is tremendous social and cultural hype around the joys, excitement, and wonder of pregnancy, birth, and raising children. Baby showers, parenting classes, and the array of pre-birth activities often convey the implicit and explicit message to parents-to-be that having kids is exclusively a magical albeit stressful experience.
This mythology does us a grave disservice by creating the sense that there is something shameful or abnormal about postpartum depression and/or anxiety. The truth is, negative emotional postpartum experiences are very common and tragically underreported as new mothers in particular often feel th...
Source: World of Psychology - July 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julie K. Jones, Ph.D., LPC Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Depression Parenting Psychology Women's Issues postpartum anxiety Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 009 Humongous HIV Extravaganza
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The diagnosis of HIV is no longer fatal and the term AIDS is becoming less frequent. In many countries, people with HIV are living longer than those with diabetes. This post will hopefully teach the basics of a complex disease and demystify some of the potential diseases you need to consider in those who are severely immunosuppressed. While trying to be comprehensive this post can not be exhaustive (as you can imagine any patient with a low ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 7, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Amanda McConnell Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine AIDS art cryptococcoma cryptococcus HIV HIV1 HIV2 PEP PrEP TB toxoplasma tuberculoma Source Type: blogs
When You Feel Like Your Body Has Betrayed You
You couldn’t get pregnant easily, and needed fertility treatments. You had a miscarriage. Or several. You developed complications during your pregnancy. You delivered your baby preterm.
Every single one of Parijat Deshpande’s clients feels like their bodies have betrayed them because of the above reasons. Deshpande, MS, is a perinatal mind-body wellness counselor and high-risk pregnancy expert, who helps women navigate stress so they can manage pregnancy complications and give their baby a strong start to life.
Psychologist Julie Bindeman, PsyD, works with women struggling with reproductive challenges, depression, anxi...
Source: World of Psychology - July 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Addiction General Grief and Loss Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Women's Issues Betrayal Fertility miscarriage Parenthood Pregnancy Source Type: blogs
My depression won ’t defeat me
Announce to friends that you have cancer, and they will probably react with sympathy and compassion. Tell them that you’ve broken your leg, and they’ll offer to get your groceries and drive you to medical appointments.
Share that you suffer from depression — and the sound of silence will fill your head.
Depression has been my companion for as long as I can remember. My maternal grandmother, who immigrated to this country from Romania, spent her days struggling to raise four children in a land whose customs and language she never learned. Her husband, my grandfather, rarely stayed home; when not traveling ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ronna-edelstein" rel="tag" > Ronna Edelstein < /a > Tags: Patient Patients Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Study suggests your adulthood self-esteem has its roots in the way you were raised as a child
By Christian Jarrett
Studies of identical and non-identical twins indicate that our self-esteem is influenced by the genes we inherited from our parents, but also, and perhaps slightly more so, by environmental factors. And according to a new study in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, these environmental influences started playing a lasting role very early in life.
Ulrich Orth at the University of Bern has reported evidence that, on average, the higher the quality of a person’s home environment when they were aged between 0 and 6 years – based on warm and responsive parenting; cognitive stimulation; and...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Mental health Personality The self Source Type: blogs
Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence -This guideline covers recognising, assessing and treating mental health problems in women who are planning to have a baby, are pregnant, or have had a baby or been pregnant in the past year. It covers depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, drug- and alcohol-use disorders and severe mental illness. It promotes early detection and good management of mental health problems to improve women ’s quality of life during pregnancy and in the year after giving birth.Guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 26, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs
A Serious Postpartum Disorder You Probably Haven ’t Heard About
Within 24 hours of her second daughter’s birth, Dyane Harwood felt elated. From the moment she came home from the hospital, she started writing. Furiously. She wrote while nursing her daughter and going to the bathroom. She wrote on her hands, on the bathroom mirror, inside books and on tabletops. She yearned to write down every thought she was having. She wrote so much that her wrists ached—her carpal tunnel returning—and she was in constant pain.
She also had endless energy and a newfound enthusiasm for life. She felt like she could run a long race. She couldn’t sit still, and her speech was fast and frenetic. Sh...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Bipolar Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Sleep Women's Issues Johns mood disorder Motherhood Parenting postpartum bipolar disorder postpartum depression Postpartum Disorder Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 007 Mega Malaria Extravaganza
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When you think tropical medicine, malaria has to be near the top. It can be fairly complex and fortunately treatment has become a lot simpler. This post is designed to walk you through the basic principals with links to more in depth teaching if your niche is travel medicine, laboratory diagnostics or management of severe or cerebral malaria. If you stubbled on this post while drinking a cup of tea or sitting on the throne and want a few basi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine malaria Plasmodium plasmodium falciparum plasmodium knowles plasmodium malariae plasmodium ovale plasmodium vivax Source Type: blogs
Genealogy in the Psyche Department
Perhaps a psychological mapping of the human genome would tell us the future odds of being bullied in school, or of becoming a priest.
Genes inherited from the “family tribe” contribute to the formation of self through a complicated process that incorporates a fusion of interrelated factors: genetic traits, familial relationships, societal interactions, educational opportunities, random influences, etc.
Perhaps the results of male and female parenting could be likened to so-called strands of “psychological” inheritance — the maternal and paternal branches — replicated through each gene...
Source: World of Psychology - February 11, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John DiPrete Tags: Brain and Behavior Family General Mental Health and Wellness Personal Personality genealogy Genes heritable disease humane genome Inheritance Nature Versus Nurture Source Type: blogs
