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POPSFlu Alert: 10 Warning Signs to Call the Doctor People at higher risk for severe illness include pregnant women, young children, and adults with chronic illnesses or weak immune systems. Those of us caring for older adults feel particularly worried, because seniors are generally at high risk for getting very sick from seasonal influenza. The H1N1 strain is a little different in this respect; adults over 60 seem to be somewhat protected from it. Still, when older adults get sick, we need to watch them carefully to make sure it’s not developing into something more serious.
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POPSEar probe may solve mental illness mystery "Through that probe, and by the person sitting in a chair which can be tilted to slight degrees on either side, we found that there are signals that come back in the form of evoked potentials and so on which are like squiggly lines which we are able to separate and show different patterns for different psychiatric illness such as schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder.
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POPSOnion Jokes About "Bipolar" <<<Some people will say that I just don’t have a sense of humor. I do, but not when the joke is at someone else’s expense. The media keeps undermining the efforts of many of us and there is no way that we can effectively reduce the stigma associated with bipolar disorder, or any mental illness, when the media keeps using the term to ridicule others >>> (from source). Perhaps all illnesses can be sources of humour, by the sufferers and others. Often it is 'innocent' enough. Nevertheless, I do feel the general point made above is worth thinking about.
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POPSMedical bills cause most bankruptcies More: The study data, published online Thursday in The American Journal of Medicine, likely understate the full scope of the problem because the data were collected before the current economic crisis. In 2007, medical problems contributed to 62.1 percent of all bankruptcies. Between 2001 and 2007, the proportion of all bankruptcies attributable to medical problems rose by about 50 percent. “The U.S. health care financing system is broken, and not only for the poor and uninsured,” the study authors wrote. “Middle-class families frequently collapse under the strain of a health care system that treats physical wounds, but often inflicts fiscal ones.” The data on medical bankruptcy, compiled by researchers at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University, is based on a survey of 2,314 randomly selected bankruptcy filers during early 2007.
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POPS5 Mental Health Myths Myth #3: Studies show that most mentally ill people have average or above-average intelligence. Mental illness, like physical illness, can affect anyone regardless of intelligence, social class or income level. Myth #4: A mental illness is not a personal weakness or a character flaw. It is an actual illness, and it has nothing to do with being weak or lacking will-power. Although people with mental illness can play a huge role in their own recovery, they did not choose to become ill -- and they are not lazy because they cannot just "snap out of it." Myth #5: Contrary to popular belief, mental illness is not a single disease but a broad classification for many disorders, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders, eating disorders and organic brain disorders.
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POPSThe links between mental illness and creativity continues (long article at source): Mental illnesses have been around for thousands of years. Evolutionary theory suggests that in order for them to be still here, there must be some kind of survival advantage to them. If they were wholly bad, it's argued, natural selection would have seen them off long ago. In some cases the advantage is clear. Anxiety, for example, can be a mental illness with severe symptoms and consequences, but it is also a trait that at a non-clinical level has survival advantages. In healthy proportions, it keeps us alert and on our toes when threats are sensed.
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POPSIs Motherhood a Mental Illness? When new mothers need advice and assistance their best bets for help are their own moms and grammas -- not Uncle Sam. He's the funny uncle parents warn kids about.
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POPSPrimer for Pessimists More: "If you still aren't convinced that your doomsaying ways can ever be changed, consider this: only about 25% of a person's optimism may be hardwired in his genes, according to some studies. That's in contrast to the 40% to 60% heritability of most other personality traits, like agreeableness and conscientiousness. Science suggests that the greater part of an optimistic outlook can be acquired with the right instruction."
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POPSAcai Berry for Depression The world of health and wellness has recently been shook-up by a marble sized fruit. Harvested in the rain forests of the Amazon, the acai (pronounced ah-cye-EE) berry is the latest health phenomenon. A lack of vital nutrients could cause a chemical imbalance resulting in depression, insomnia and other mental illnesses. The acai berry is chalked full of many nutrients to improve stability of the mind and body.
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