Blogs Posts on "Mental Health"

Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig Part Two by ...salted lithium on Nov 19, 2009My girlfriend is home. After four weeks of living on the high-risk pregnancy ward of the Ottawa General Hospital, including six days in quarantine with H1N1, she’s back downstairs in her apartment. We came home Tuesday night. On Monday we were...

New Location for A.J. Mahari's Ask the BPD Coach Interactive Blog by Ask The BPD Coach on Nov 18, 2009A.J. Mahari, BPD Coach and Life Coach, now has a new location for her Ask The BPD Coach A.J. Mahari, Interactive Blog. Mahari shares her substantial in depth expertise when it comes to Borderline Personality Disorder with those with BPD and loved one...

The M & Ms of Obesity Assessment by Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes on Nov 18, 2009Most textbooks on obesity will tell you that assessing someone for obesity should start with a careful exploration of weight history, eating habits and lifestyle. I disagree! For reasons that I will outline below, I believe that the proper assessment...

Mental Health – Causes and Symptoms by Home Suite Home on Nov 18, 2009Our mental health can vary according to our circumstances and can change across our lifetime, in the same way as our physical health does. Mental health problems are among the most common of all health conditions, directly affecting about a qu...

Shift Work and Divorce – Does the Work Schedule Really Make a Difference? by Working Nights on Nov 16, 2009Studies have found that people working shift work tend to experience greater marital instability. This post gives some ideas about why and what to do about it.

The discipline of nursing by Medical Care - healthy living for health on Nov 16, 2009The discipline of nursing is concerned with how nurs¬es interact with people in relation to their health and within their total environment. Nursing at its core is caring for people within their health experience. The effec¬tive nurse is able to th...

Change A Mind About Mental Illness by Mario Piperni dot Com on Nov 15, 2009We do not need a health care debate for all of us to become better aware of an illness of which most of us have little understanding. . . Glenn Close… What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about il...

A Parent’s Search For Options by 4alldads.com on Nov 15, 2009Sometimes our ability to reach out to our children with regards to certain personal issues may not always be as successful or effective as we would like. This is not necessarily a reflection of our failure as parents, but rather an indication that we...

No Post Day | First Tune by ...salted lithium on Nov 14, 2009When we escaped from my father, we moved into a small two-bedroom apartment over a gas station. My memory on this is a little sketchy, but one of the things we ended up with was a cabinet record player: it was about six-feet long, the top tilted upwa...

Mental illnesses affect all ages by Home Suite Home on Nov 14, 2009Mental illness is widespread in all countries. They are old, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 26 percent of Americans over 18 years with a diagnosed mental disorder each year. This corresponds to almost 60 million p...