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Archive for March, 2007

Alcohol & ADHD

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

A couple new studies on alcohol dependence and ADHD were reported on by the CBC. Essentially, the new research links parental alcohol use and family stress to child ADHD and alcohol problems. "We found that ...

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How to Assess Therapy Effectiveness

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

For people in therapy, an important part of the process of change is assessing what has been accomplished. There are a variety of methods to do this, although few are scientific approaches. Instead, patients/clients need ...

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Healthy Love Notes

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Here's something to consider when updating your personal blog. Affectionate Writing Can Lower Cholesterol is a post in PsyBlog summarizing some recent psychology research on expressing affection. Seems that writing about your positive ...

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Making Psychiatric Advance Directives

Friday, March 30th, 2007

A Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) is a legal document with instructions about exactly what type of mental health treatments you prefer in an emergency. If you have an episode involving psychosis, lack of insight, and/or ...

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I’m Not Just a Biochemical or Gene, I’m a Human Being

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

I disagree with GNIF Brain Blogger Shaheen's assertion that the only way to understand mental health issues is through the medicalization and organic markers for mental disorders and tests derived from such markers. Psychology ...

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Antidepressants and Bipolar Disorder

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Many people with bipolar disorder are prescribed a mood stabalizer and an antidepressant as their medication treatment. However, a new study has shown some evidence that the antidepressant does not have much benefit in ...

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Why Should a Second Opinion Be So Much Work?

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Doctors who are friends of empowered patients are also doctors who understand and emphasize the power of second opinions. A second opinion gives an individual the information to make a more informed decision about their ...

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Lighting

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Reader Hank Roberts left some terrific comments on my earlier post about light and dark and how they affect sleep and bipolar cycles. Light is used as treatment [free reg req'd], ...

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How To Stay Stressed

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

A few tongue-in-cheek pointers on How To Stay Stressed: Are you worried now about how to stay stressed? You'll have no trouble if you practice the following clinically proven methods: NEVER EXERCISE. Exercise wastes ...

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Is it okay to treat mental health patients like unruly cows?

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Apparently aversive conditioning techniques are still used in some states, including Illinois, where a couple uses a cattle prod device to handle the violent outbursts of their 48-year-old Autistic son. In an article ...

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A Live Webcam Suicide

Monday, March 26th, 2007

On March 23 2007, a father of two in the UK went into a live chat room online (one where insults are traded for fun), and setup a live webcam and proceeded to hang ...

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Telephone Therapy & Depression

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

There have been a handful of studies examining the effects of other therapy delivery mechanisms besides traditional face-to-face work. Telephone based therapy has been one of the primary focuses, and a new study has ...

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