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• Kafkaesque Bureaucratic Nightmare

  
  Vicarious Therapy — Authority: 121
  My life already feels like a bad dream. Today, trying to get the care I need, in the manner I need it made me feel like I must be a character in a Kafka novel. My provinces (BC) Mental Healthcare systems rigid and top down dictatorial, rule bound, and unsympathetic, inflexible bureaucracy seems to forget that ...
  2 days ago

• Thank You

  
  Vicarious Therapy — Authority: 121
  Despite not sleeping and still being almost unbearably depressed I woke this morning with a clearer head. The comments people made on my last post both reinforced my clearer thinking and gave me some new ideas about how to help myself. Thank you so much for being so caring and supportive. It really helps me feel less ...
  4 days ago

• is God faithful, does He meet my needs?

  
  OnlyGrace — Authority: 121
  I keep begging God to meet my needs. I don’t have my journal right now, but I wish I did so I could remember exactly what it was that I was praying to God. I was frustrated. I keep asking God, “please, meet me right here. Right now. Please meet me in my physical ailments. Please meet me in my physical pain. Please ...
  5 days ago

• Grasping Games

  
  connect. create. question. — Authority: 110
  I’ve recently been reading quite a bit about games in education. The ECT program at Steinhardt has an entire course on games, and I have to admit I’m not all that keen on them (simulations are, in my mind, a different but related genre, by the way). It’s not because I don’t think they have value; I ...
  1 week ago

• watercooler

  
  LarsonsWorld | just another persons waste of time — Authority: 120
  So You Want to Be Famous ... - Newsweek How to become a celebrity without any talent or skills whatsoever. Once upon a time, it took actual talent to become a celebrity in America. Whether you achieved fame in arts and letters, athletics, or politics, it was necessary to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The ECT Experience…

  
  Into the system... — Authority: 110
  Whilst I was having ECT I never really wrote about it. I was in hospital with only mobile access to the Internet. I was exhausted, often in pain and not really in the mood for writing. Recently though I’ve been inspired by this blog and Seaneen’s appeal for ECT info to document my experience. I’m worried ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nail Polish Collection, Organization, and Storage

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 180
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  3 weeks ago

• When Antidepressants Fail to Work: Brain-Stimulating Techniques for Treatment Resistant Depression

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 500
  How do you recover from treatment-resistant depression? Possibly ECT, TMS, or VNS? Brain-stimulating techniques.
  3 weeks ago

• 4 Kinds of Brain-Stimulating Techniques

  
  Beyond Blue — Authority: 500
  Here is a concise summary of four brain-stimulating techniques being used today to treat severe chronic depression. The summary appeared in the Fall 2006 Issue of the Johns Hopkinss Bulletin.  1. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the oldest and the...
  3 weeks ago

• Blogging About ECT, Hands on Experience

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 428
  The best information in health care is from patients who have been there. Those who underwent treatment, suffer from a certain illness. It’s the kind of hands on experience physicians can’t deliver. On this blog I have collected some examples of these “hands on experiences”. Some recent posts were written ...
  3 weeks ago

• Depression Symptoms: Disease or State of Mind? Learn How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Can Help

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  A major survey on depression symptoms from the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), released in July 2004, revealed a dramatic degree of progress in public understanding. Yet even amid this promising trend, the survey sheds light on the difficultiesThe NMHA survey shows a major shift in public opinion in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• watercooler

  
  LarsonsWorld | just another persons waste of time — Authority: 120
  Nov. 5, 1955: A Flux of Genius   Google releases Dashboard privacy tool - CNN Ever wonder what information Google knows about you? With a click or two, now you can find out. Google released a feature Thursday that lets users see and control data that the ...
  4 weeks ago

• ECT & Media Portrayals of Depression Treatment Options

  
  Vicarious Therapy — Authority: 121
  Dr Shocks blog is a wonderful mix of informative articles, videos and analysis of a variety of things from music, travel and art, to psychiatry and back. Of course, his focus is psychiatry, but the renaissance man in him shines through in his blog. In one of his recent posts... "Illuminate Depression" he has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Discovery Channel to Feature Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Depresssion

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  The Discovery Health Channel?s Medical Incredible series will air a segment about a new FDA-approved Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy treatment for chronic depression on June 26th at 9 p.m. EDT. I am featured in the segemnt, a former sufferer of chronic depression and patient in the study of vagus nerve stimulation ...
  4 weeks ago

• US News & World Report Discusses Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  The February 20th issue of U.S. News & World Report features Miracles of Brain Repair on its cover. The article is a very good resource for learning more about vagus nerve stimulation therapy as a treatment for depression.Welcome to the new science of brain repair notes the author, Josh Fischman. Doctors are now ...
  4 weeks ago

• Latte Links (11/1)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 142
  Some miscellaneous links for you to check out on a beautiful Sunday evening (warm here in Des Moines). Galyn Wiemers: Blame Pastors and Parents, Not Schools and Sitcoms Dan Riehl: Clueless Republicans Clapham Community: What Happened To The Public Servants? Out of Ur: On Virtual Churches In ...
  4 weeks ago

• Psychiatrist Begin Training About Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  The manufacturer of the vagus nerve stimulator has begun face-to face meetings with psychiatrists nationwide to educate them about vagus nerve stimulation therapy, how it works and for whom this treatment is indicated. It is very important that both you and your psychiatrist fully understand vagus nerve stimulation ...
  5 weeks ago

• Coming Out Crazy wins blog award

  
  Coming Out Crazy — Authority: 116
  I was crying and shaking in Dr. Bobs office this morning after an overly long hiatus between psychotherapy sessions when an announcement went out onto the Internet and into my email mailbox. Had I known at the time, I would have saved my psychiatrist half a box of Kleenex.  But I didnt. Instead, I made a months ...
  5 weeks ago

• Patient Registry Started for the Medical Breakthrough Treatment of Vagus Nerve Stimulation

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  In an effort to further understand why vagus nerve stimulation therapy is more effective than anitidepressants with patients who suffer from chronic depression, the manufacturer of the vagus nerve stimulator, Cyberonics, Inc., announced the launch of the first treatment-resistant depression(TRD) patient registry. ...
  5 weeks ago

• Men, Women and Depression: Uniting Mind and Body in Our Healthcare Sytem

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Men and depression, women and depression, it doesn’t matter. Depression crosses all genders, ethnic groups and economic classes. The Centers for Disease Control studied the importance of integrating the mind with the body in our healthcare system. It is a fabulous study. I want to share the key points as they affect ...
  5 weeks ago

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