Mar 23
Please check out the below link:
http://www.discoveryhealthcares.org/health-fitness/10-tacky-behaviors-doctors-have-that-can-cost-you-your-health.html
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Mar 17
Please see the following link:
http://www.naturalnews.com/025750.html
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Mar 16
Consider getting regular exercise but not 3 hours or less before sleeping.
Avoid heavy meals at least 2-3 hours before bedtime.
See Healthmonitor: Guide to Better Sleep, page 15.
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Mar 15
Feeling depressed? It may be more than a passing mood or a reflection of our times, and you may be suffering from clinical depression. If so, there are a couple of websites you may find useful. Firstly, there’s UK based ‘Netdoctor.co.uk’, which offers a thorough explanation of what depression is, and what it means here. The website also allows you to discuss issues in forums with others and ask for advice, create and join support groups, browse an extensive list of questions regarding depression and treatment answered by a doctor (available here) create diaries, and browse a long list of the medicines relating to depression, with summaries and discussions on each.FamilyDoctor.org also offers some information about Anxiety Disorders. It explains what they are and how they might affect you, and provides more information on explaining the different sorts of anxiety causing disorders, all available from here.
If you worry that you may be suffering from an anxiety disorder, there is a free questionnaire available online (drawn from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, used by Psychiatrists to determine illnesses) here.
These tests are guidelines which you may find helpful; but if you feel you may need immediate help you can visit this website, which offers information on depression and a toll-free helpline if you simply need to talk about it. If you want or need to begin seeing a Psychologist, you may use the American Psychological Association’s ‘locator service’, which provides the listings of different treating psychologists in your area, available here.
The above links were drawn from a recent web article, published here.
Recently we published a blog with some web resources concerning depression, with links drawn from FindingDulcinea.com’s e-article. Among the links was a self-test for anxiety. However, one link we omitted in our post was the self-test for depression. When we visited the “confidential depression-screening test”, we found something discomforting - that the test the test is copyrighted by Pfizer Inc.
In other words, a standard test for depression, officially enough called Patient Health Questionnaire “PHQ-9″, is copyrighted by the world’s largest pharmaceutical company specializing in three of the major antidepressants, such as Zoloft (which earned Pfizer 3.5 billion dollars in 2005). This conflict of interest doesn’t seem like any cause for concern when you see the website. But Googling showed that the basic searches such as “am I depressed?” or “depression screening” yields as the first results sites which bring you directly to this site for self testing. In fact, Mental Health America, “the country’s leading nonprofit dedicated to helping ALL people live mentally healthier lives” sponsors this website, and hosts the exact same test on their own page. So chances are if you’re trying to do a self test and see if you’re depressed, you’ll stumble upon this seemingly authoritative test.
One of our researchers took this test and advised us :
“Answering honestly it found I was moderately depressed and should seek treatment. Who knows? Maybe I am. So I made up a scenario: A perfectly healthy, cheerful and optimistic go getter has a neighbor whose dog won’t shut up, barking at odd hours for the past two weeks. I then answered the nine question test according to this ideal but very annoyed human being. I answered the questions indicating no depression or feeling down etc. However, I admitted to having sleep problems and some gastrointestinal problems.
The test resulted in a diagnosis consistent with moderately severe depression
This isn’t to say you can’t be depressed. And a visit to the psychiatrist might benefit us all. But caution and suspicion of tests such as these can’t hurt; and the fact that a drug company has copyrighted the means of determining need for the drug is quite suspicious.
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Mar 14
Stress seems to go hand in hand with a recession; and both the recession and ensuing increases in work related stress are becoming difficult to ignore. The employment agency Adecco USA recently surveyed 1068 employed adults, finding 215 of those surveyed reported the recession has had a negative impact on their mental health. More, 359 workers of the surveyed reported their stress levels at work have increased.While this seems inevitable given the economic climate, the implications of this increase in stress should not be underestimated. According to Los Angeles based psychologist and stress specialist Dr. Elisha Goldstein, “stress is a precursor to anxiety and panic”, and an economic recession risks becoming “more of an emotional and mental recession.” A word of caution then to workers, be wary of developing anxiety and panic problems at work. If you think you may be suffering, discuss it with a family member or friend, and even seek counseling if you are able to.
If you employ anyone else, keep in mind that it is essential, particularly now, to show appreciation for employees; and consider the advice of chief career officer of Adecco USA’s, that “employees can handle workplace anxiety better if a company is frank about how it is faring and if managers are visible”.
This posting was drawn from a Reuters article, available in full here.
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