Archive for November, 2006

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Types of Abuse
  Abuse refers to harmful or injurious treatment of another human being that may include physical, sexual, verbal, psychological/emotional, intellectual, or spiritual maltreatment. Abuse may coexist with neglect, which is defined as failure to meet a ...
• The Differences Between Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder
  Sometimes people confuse three mental disorders, only one of which could be referred to as "common" within the population -- bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depression), schizophrenia, and multiple personality disorder (also known by its ...
• Denial is a Powerful Impediment to Treatment
  Many people are still turned off by seeking help for a mental health concern, like depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, an eating issue, or anxiety. While a man will think nothing nowadays of asking his doctor ...
• Paroextine may help treat compulsive hoarding
  New research has found that certain antidepressants work well to reduce symptoms of compulsive hoarding. It's very common to have a collection of some kind — acquiring and retaining nonessential objects is nearly universal and found ...
• Marijuana may help delay Alzheimer’s symptoms
  A new study suggests that compounds related to marijuana may help limit memory loss in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is the leading cause of dementia among the elderly, and with the ever-increasing size of this population, cases ...
• Severity and Remission in Major Depressive Episode
  When major depression is diagnosed in an individual, additional characteristics of the depression are specified. These characteristics are called "specifiers." These specifiers apply to the most recent Major Depressive Episode in Major Depressive ...
• Symptoms of Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder
  Recurrent depression is a form of Major Depression, where the depressive episodes recur on a regular basis, with intervals of no depression present in the individual. The specific diagnostic critera for recurrent depression are: A. ...
• What is a Manic Episode?
  A Manic Episode is defined by a distinct period during which there is an abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood. This period of abnormal mood must last at least 1 week (or less ...
• Intermittent Explosive Disorder
  The essential feature of Intermittent Explosive Disorder (312.34) is the occurrence of discrete episodes of failure to resist aggressive impulses that result in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property (Criterion A). The degree of ...
• Chronic Major Depression
  Chronic major depression can be diagnosed as a form of Major Depressive Disorder. This specifier applies to the current or most recent Major Depressive Episode in Major Depressive Disorder and to a Major Depressive ...
• 12 Tips for Choosing Toys for Your Child
  A reporter called me the other day to ask for my opinion about the new toys on the market for this holiday season. I'm certainly not an expert on every toy that beckons from store ...
• Celebrating June: How to Enjoy Your Children’s End-of-Year Events
  Only another parent will understand. Every year I have the same June fantasy: The whole town assembles at the local football stadium. The ancient public address system wheezes to life. An animated voice fills the ...
• Intradiscal Electrothermal Therapy: A New Treatment for Low Back Pain
  Mr. Swanson has been suffering from low back pain for many years. When his pain began, his doctor gave him medications and ordered physical therapy. When there was no improvement after several months, he was ...
• The Two-Paycheck Family: Balancing Jobs, Kids, and Household Tasks
  It's been over a decade since the publication of Arlie Hochschild's book Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (Avon Books, Reprinted 2003). A well-researched book on the two-earner family and the distribution ...
• Both Sides Now: Tips on Caring for the Person with Cancer
  Laura has experienced both sides (and more) of the cancer caregiving relationship. As a social worker, she spent 20 years working directly with people who were medically ill. As the daughter, sister, and wife of ...
• Toys for the Holidays: Buying Gifts for Other People’s Children
  Holiday time. For many of us, shopping in the toy aisle is our chance to reenter the world of childhood. The old joke about the father who buys a train set "for the children" and ...
• The 15 Myths about Pet Loss
  "I didn't know anyone else felt as deeply as I do towards animals" a number of people have confided in me. When it comes to your love of animals, you may not be as alone ...
• The 3 Myths of Grief and Children
  Sometimes adults minimize the depth or complexity of emotions that children of various ages can experience, especially when it comes to the loss of a loved one. Grief is just as real for a child ...
• You’re on the Phone Again? Helping Children Learn Relationship Skills
  One parent writes: My daughter spends all day with a friend. She no sooner gets home than she is on the phone or online to the same friend! For hours! What can they possibly have ...
• Helping a Loved One Cope with Loss
  Before the Funeral... Offer to notify his family and friends about funeral arrangements ...
• Your Health and Grief
  The loss of a loved one is a life-shattering experience. But unbeknownst to many, it affects us physically as well as emotionally. The grief a person experiences is felt on an emotional level. The resulting ...
• Making the Best of a Bad Situation
  "Making lemonade out of lemons" was an adage I had heard all of my life, but until I was faced with what looked like the worst nightmare of my life, it really had no meaning ...
• New Year’s Resolutions: Role-Modeling the ‘How’ of Making Change
  There's something in the human condition that likes new beginnings. Diets always start after the holidays. Birthdays are a great time to quit smoking. Every week gives us a Monday to start some new project. ...
• Brain Imaging: A Technological Breakthough in the Assessment of Pain
  In the early nineteenth century, physicians treating pneumonia did not recognize its cause (germs) and so did not know how to provide appropriate treatment. Two hundred years later, physicians treating chronic pain are in pretty ...
• The Turkey Trail: Which ‘Home’ for the Holidays?
  When we were in our early 20s, a friend of mine called it "the turkey trail:" Thanksgiving dinner at 2:00 at her mother's house, another full holiday meal at his mother's at 6:00. Each mother ...