Health and Psychology

CHILD ABUSE

I come from a horrific history of child abuse.  I've had some therapists refer to my history as child torture.  It started from the day I was born and adopted out, until the time 3 days later when I went to a neonatal intensive care unit with ruptured ear drums, and my adoptive parents said they didn't want me any longer.  To the adoption agency lying about my background, history, ethnicity, religious background and medical condition to the physician signing o...

Before 1957 in the United States, measles was a common infection.  About 5,000 people out of the 500,000 or so people that caught the infection died each year.  The first measles vaccine came out in 1963.  It was updated in 1968.  In 1971 the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine came out.  In 1970 there were about 47,000 cases of measles with 89 deaths.  By 1978 there were about 27,000 cases.  In 2007 there were 43 cases.  Measles was almost eliminated. &...

I often evaluate people requiring oxygen for psychological issues of memory problems, anxiety or depression.  So I want to talk about how memory problems, anxiety and depression are related to lung function.  The chest contains two lungs.  One on the right side and one on the left side.  Each is made up of four parts called lobes.  Lungs are protected by the ribcage.  The lungs are like balloons and are soft and inflate and expand with breathing.  The functi...

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A friend of mine Geborah, was avoiding her mamogram.  When she was finally talked into ot she was found to have stage one breast cancer.  She has since had radia...

Apart from the topics of sex, religion, politics, or money, nothing generates more controversy than food.  At this time of year lots of people have food "issues."  I visited in-laws for the annual Christmas party, with the vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, raw, non-dairy, plant only, fruit only, nut free, chocolate heavy, alcohol free, alcohol included, the e-cig and "I can't eat anything post bariatric surgery" group of relatives gathered.  The difference between the success of ...

Asthma is a common medical condition in whichthe airways become inflammed.  This is caused by a variety of triggering stimuli that result in partially or completely reversible constriction of the bronchi and smaller airways.  Asthma depends on both genetic and environmental factors.  Genetic factors include genes responsible for parts of the immune system (T-helper cells and cytokines and the ADAM33 gene).  Environmental components include dust mites, cockroaches, pet dand...

There are moments in history were you realize that something important is taking place. A woman being knocked unconscious and dragged out of an elevator. A football player beating his 4 year old with a switch. And now with the backdrop of 15 women indicating they had been drugged and raped by Bill Cosby in the 1980’s, and the abduction, rape and murder of Hannah Graham, the Rolling Stone article on rape on college campuses Rolling Stone article,

So I was on a social networking site for mental health professionals and a colleague mentioned he just got iPads for testing and wondered what was available.  So here goes.

Let me start with simple things that don't require an iPad and can work on an iPhone.  They may be on Google or Android as well but I don't have those.

1.  PAR Toolkit.  This includes the Normal Curve, a Conversion Chart, an Age Calculator, a Stop Watch, a Compliancy Calculator, ...

Ebola is one of several viruses that cause fever and spread infection from exposure to bodily fluids.  The problem is that the disease causes the bodily fluids to leak out from the body in the forms of hemorrhagic bleeding, vomitting, and diarrhea.  There are 4 classes of hemorrhagic fevers all are zoonotic-meaning the initial vector is an animal host.  Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fevers are four viruses that can be transmitted between people.  All...

Ebola, the flu, enterovirus, these are infectious illness tht are inn the news recently and are causing some people to become alarmed.  

Ebola is a rare hemorragic virus (it causes bleeding) that is spreading out of control in parts of Africa.  A person who travelled from Liberia, Africa to Dallas, Texas is now a confirmed case and several people are being monitored for signs of infection.  The disease is spread by direct contact with contaminated body fluids....