How Do Nonautistic People Think and Perceive Things?
Question by stickyshoes: How do nonautistic people think and perceive things? I’m diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. I was just wondering how different my brain was from everyone else’s, I mean how differently do other people think? Could you give me contrasts and comparisons? I’m on the lighter extreme of the spectrum, and light autism is more like ADD than regular autism- I was just wondering if just having a dash of autism would make me that much different. Best answer: Read more... ...
Any Ideas on How to Be Most Helpful to Someone With an Eating Disorder?
... It’s so scary to watch her laboring to breathe, be unable to walk very far, and not know how to help her. Her mother is a weight watcher leader and has not been successful in helping her either. We love her and want her to live and it seems like she doesn’t care if she lives. Her thoughts and conversations are always about food and the next meals that she’s going to eat. She’s bright and manipulative and knows what foods will help her lose weight, control her blood sugar levels, and knows about portion sizes. If any of you have any suggestions that family members can do to help her, they will be so welcome. She takes multiple meds for her multiple health problems, has to use a ventilator, a C-PAP machine, and is now on insulin. Her doctors tell her it’s mandatory that she lose weight and she thinks she’s being picked on. Read ...
Holiday Guide: Do Diabetes and Alcohol Mix?
by Álvaro Rivas Holiday Guide: Do Diabetes and Alcohol Mix? Filed under: alcohol medicine “Moderate amounts of alcohol consumed along with something to eat, does not significantly raise our blood sugar or insulin levels,” says Dr. J. Jacques Carter, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess … Read more on WCVB Boston INTERNAL MEDICINE: Toast the benefits of moderation Filed under: alcohol medicine Read ...
Prostate Patients Suffer as Money Overwhelms Best Therapy
Prostate Patients Suffer as Money Overwhelms Best Therapy Filed under: low cost drug rehab centers Calderon had just turned 77 and wasn't an ideal candidate for the treatment, according to national guidelines established by 21 U.S. cancer-research centers. Lab tests showed a high … to questions. The Calderon case has drawn attention to incentives … Read more on Businessweek Marijuana's Recreational, Medical Use on Ballots in Six States Filed under: low cost drug rehab centers Read more... ...
Drug and Alcohol Detox for Texas Rehabilitation
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Depression/anxiety – “unreal” Feeling?
by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library Question by RockNRollUK: Depression/anxiety – “unreal” feeling? Hey guys, I suffer from depression/anxiety and I’ve been taking Citalopram for about five weeks now. Sometimes I don’t feel like things are real – for example, I’ll do something and then a second later, it just doesn’t feel like it happened. It’s just like everything is “unreal” around me. It feels awful. I can’t think of any other way to explain it – it’s just the feeling that reality isn’t real or something – everything is unreal. Read more... ...
Alcoholic Clinic: Ways We Can Help Rehabilitate an Alcoholic
There are different ways we can help an alcoholic to get rid of alcoholism or excessive drinking. Left alone, he is helpless, hooked on alcohol and does not know what to do to help himself; but with our concern, sympathy and intervention we could really do much to deliver such a one from heavy drinking and possibly from the complications that could come with it by referring him/her to the appropriate source of help. Some of the sources of help include: Read more... ...