Podcast: Improve Your Mental Health with Super Powers
Life is tough. Life with mental illness is tougher. Life with mental illness on top of other conditions and life experiences can seem too tough. Today’s guest shares how she dealt with Tourette Syndrome, OCD, anxiety, depression, and many other things, by tapping into her own super powers. Perhaps you can, too.
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Everyone has challenges but some people have more than others. Brett Francis knows this from personal experience. Only now she turns those challenges—her own and other people’s—into assets. Her mantra is “no one is bro...
Source: World of Psychology - March 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General OCD Self-Help The Psych Central Show anxiety Gabe Howard Tics Tourette Syndrome Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 266
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 266
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 11, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: FFFF ACS alcohol withdrawal anticholinergic delirium Brick dust urine Charles Bonnet syndrome claudication Coprolalia coronary artery constriction Gilles de la Tourette Gulliver's travels Jonathan Swift Lilliputian hallucinations Source Type: blogs
Transcranial Magnetic Brain Stimulation to Treat Depression and OCD: Interview with Stanford ’s Dr. Nolan Williams
Chances are, someone you know has been affected by mental health problems. With an estimated world-wide burden of 300 million people, depression can be a severely debilitating condition. In fact, in the past year alone, more than 16 million adults in the US have experienced a major depressive episode.
While many of those who seek help are able to find solace in therapy or medication, treatment-resistant depression is not uncommon. Clinicians like Stanford’s Dr. Nolan Williams have been studying the applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation (or TMS) for a variety of neurological conditions. We sat down with Dr. W...
Source: Medgadget - December 11, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
ADHD: On Time, but Half an Hour Late
Sometimes you can do everything right and still get it all wrong.It seems the only thing I can count on reliably is myADHD tendency to embarrass myself. It’s even more reliable than death and taxes. I make plans. I execute them. Then they execute me.My regular hairstylist is out on maternity leave, so I’ve been seeing a colleague of hers. She does a good job, and I am intensely thankful to get a professional cut on my schedule at the same location. She’s a nice girl and very courteous, too, which makes me want to return the favor by being on time.You can probably guess where this is going.Between ADHD, To...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - December 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs
What Do I Get out of Blogging about Mental Health?
I was recently contacted by a college student who requested an email interview. I share the answers below because the interviewer asked excellent questions.If you follow my blog, then you’ll already know that I have been diagnosed withClinical Depression (Major Depressive Disorder),Adult ADHD, andChronic Tic Disorder (Tourette’s). What you may not know is what I get out of blogging about my experiences with these conditions. This was the one of the questions the interviewer asked that made me think.Why on earth do I do this?My family resents my writing or is horrified by it. My friends don’t read it. It&#...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - October 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Journaling Suicide Writing Source Type: blogs
Best Depression Blog Three Years Running
Duringmy whirlwind Spring, I noticed that I received another award fromHealthline.com. That’s the third year in a row. I was, and still am, greatly honored. I posted about it onTwitter, but haven’t had a chance to share the news with you here.I don’t expect my advice on this blog to be helpful for everybody, but maybe something I write is just what somebody else needed to read that day. It’s all I can hope for, and I am humbled that Healthline recognizes my efforts. My journey here is a personal one. I am not an expert with a degree. I just share my experiences in a humorous and earnest way that I h...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Too Proud to Have ADHD?
Are you too proud for ToDo lists? Don't like to admit you have ADHD memory issues? You aren't alone.I have afamily member who has ADHD. They never write anything down. They don’t make reminders. They insist that they have to remember everything on their own, and of course, they seldom do. I’m so glad I don’t have that hangup anymore.It reminds me of the hard time we had with my daughter in middle school. Her teacher —supposedly trained to teach learning disabled children—insisted my daughter had to remember to complete all her homework assignments on her own. She wouldn’t tell me what the assign...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - April 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Family Goodreads Journaling Writing Source Type: blogs
Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Effective for Children and Adolescents with OCD?
There is no question that having a child with obsessive-compulsive disorder affects the whole family. I’ve written before about how pediatric OCD results in disrupted routines, stressful social interactions for children, and poor job performance for parents. Elevated stress and anxiety levels, as well as feelings of frustration, anger, and sadness become the norm in a household dictated by OCD.
I’ve also written about how important it is to get the right help as soon as possible. Even if parents or other caregivers think things are “not that bad,” the situation is likely worse than they imagine. Because children (a...
Source: World of Psychology - February 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janet Singer Tags: Children and Teens OCD Psychology Psychotherapy Research Treatment Adolescence CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Comorbidity Exposure and Response Prevention Obsessive Compulsive Disorder tic disorder 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
Beating Off Depression with Distractions
Comorbid is an icky word. Say it with me.“Ko-’Mor-Bid”. It means people with mental health issues usually have to carry more than one condition on their backs. I lug aroundADHD,Major Depressive Disorder, and Adult Tourette’s. It’s a lot of fun, and you should see the muscles on my legs. Atlas would be jealous.Last Saturday, Tourette ’s was the issue that ruled my day. I had so much work to be done, including posting an article on this blog, but instead I was in slow motion. Everything was harder to do than usual—as it usually is when my brain feels as if popcorn was leaping to life underne...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 30, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs
ADHD: Writer's Roadblock
Sometimes Writer’s Block is due to Road Work Ahead.I wish the roadblocks of life would announce themselves better. Then I could chart my detours in time to avoid them. Maybe they could have mechanized arms to wave at me, catching my attention as I rocket from Point A to Point B. Most roadblocks in life do give me advance warning. It’s the ones that family members throw up in my way that catch me off guard. It is as if they announce the upcoming construction by standing on the side of a road with a postcard filled with tiny hand scratchings that somewhat resemble English. They don’t even so much as nod the...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - November 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Family Goodreads Writing Source Type: blogs
Down in the Dumps? Here Are Seven Steps To Beat Depression
I knew I was in trouble when I looked at the time. It was 12:30 already. Half past noon, and I was still in bed. I was just lying there feeling as if a giant weight was on top of me. I couldn’t move. I didn’t want to. Eat? Nah, too sad. Go to the bathroom? Too much effort. Even social media seemed tiresome. I put my iPhone down and thought in stunned, heavy silence,“I’m depressed.”Savage bouts of depression can still jump out at me and catch me off guard.I have clinical depression, yet I manage my depression on a daily basis. It doesn’t often get the better of me anymore. There was a tim...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - October 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Source Type: blogs
Proving You Can't Even Give a Book on Suicide Away for FREE? #StopSuicide #NSPW17
During#NSPW17, my ebook for the suicidal (& their families) is FREE for iBooks, Kobo, B&N& Kindlehttps://t.co/qkcmqt8PkC#suicide Plz RTpic.twitter.com/JsFVDEy7T5— Douglas Cootey (@SplinteredMind)September 14, 2017Another year; anotherNational Suicide Prevention Week has passed. This year I thought it would be a good service to the community if I offered my ebook,Saying“NO” to Suicide, for FREE throughout the week. Since I’d never made my ebooks FREE before, I had no idea what an ordeal this would become. I started last Saturday, and soon Kobo reflected the new price. Yes! Excitement! By ...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 15, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Suicide Writing Source Type: blogs
