Disabilities Articles

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• 8 Tips for Working from Home with Mental Illness
  People with mental illness struggle with the same time management troubles, distraction dilemmas and isolation issues as others ...
• The Challenge of Children with Special Needs
  Labels abound, some of them distasteful, some inaccurate, some just in vogue, others useful to understanding and planning. I ...
• Dispelling Myths about Dissociative Identity Disorder
  Dissociative identity disorder (DID), known previously as multiple personality disorder, is not a real disorder. At least, that’s what you ...
• Is Using Technology To Treat OCD a Good Idea?
  For people who are suffering for any reason, the Internet can offer ready-made support. Those with OCD, for ...
• The Quest for Mental Health
  One thing about getting older is that history feels more relevant. I grew up in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Cognitive-behavioral therapy was in its infancy, and dialectical behavior therapy had not yet been ...
• Music Therapy May Aid Brain-Damaged Patients
  A review of the evidence to date suggests that music therapy can help patients recover their movements after experiencing brain damage. ...
• How to Help a Loved One with Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 2
  When your loved one has borderline personality disorder (BPD), you might feel like you’re already ...
• Responding To Mental Illness in Your Workforce: Following the Law
  In Part 1 of this series, Leading a Culture Change, we talked about specific steps ...
• The Way of the Comedian
  This article has been excerpted from Humor’s Hidden Power: Weapon, Shield and Psychological Salve by Nichole Force, M.A. According to a tale in the ...
• Navigating College with Borderline Personality Disorder
  I was recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) after spending two weeks in a mental hospital following two failed ...
• Teens with Intellectual Disability Have it Harder
  Trudy is 16 and attends the local high school. Her mother tells me she’s always been an affectionate, optimistic ...
• A Dog Named Slugger: How Service Dogs Improve the Lives of Many
  Consider these surprising studies concerning the benefit of trained service dogs to help all kinds of ...
• 15 Ways To Support a Loved One with Serious Mental Illness
  Supporting a loved one with mental illness presents many challenges. But one of them ...
• Help Your Intellectually Disabled Child Handle Bullying
  “Sticks and stones will break my bones But words will never hurt me.” ~Children’s chant The chant is a lie! It may ...
• Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Conversation with Dr. Frank Ochberg
  Thanks to generous gifts from a new donor, Gift From Within and the Dart Society are collaborating to better serve the needs of veterans, members of the Armed Forces, and military families who carry the ...
• End of the Trail
  Dan Rice is rather less famous than Michael Moore, Flint, Michigan’s other disgruntled native, but he’s less upset by what happened to his hometown while growing up. So, interspersed between chapters of the story ...
• Childhood Bad Behavior Linked to Adult Chronic Pain
  Researchers have found a significant link between childhood behavioral problems and chronic pain in adulthood. Dr. Dong Pang of Aberdeen University, ...
• Homeopathy: Less Is More
  Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician, developed homeopathy in the late eighteenth century. He did so because of his dissatisfaction with the conventional medicine of his time. Hahnemann suggested two key principles. First, he asserted that ...
• Job Stress Linked To Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Researchers have found new links between stress at work and risk of rheumatoid arthritis. It seems that low levels of job-related control may increase the risk, but high demands may actually be protective. A ...
• Girls Can Do Math: A Mathematical Memoir
  If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how fast is the ...
• An Overview of Depression and Money Issues
  Being in debt, broke, and unemployed can lead to depression but the converse is also true: Depression can precipitate financial meltdown. There is ...
• Three Faces of Depression
  Is depression a single thing? It seems to me that depression has many faces. One of the fascinating segments of my job as a private tutor ...
• Treating Depression and Physical Illness
  People with physical illness are at an increased risk of depression, which is linked with a worse prognosis and reduced adherence to ...
• Meeting the Needs of Special Needs Kids
  “I wish the system didn’t force me to be mean.” Jyl, the mom of a child with special needs, is in anguish. Not only is she managing her challenged – and challenging ...
• Caffeine’s Effect on ADHD Symptoms
  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is now one of the most common children's mental health conditions. It involves symptoms of ...