[This is the third installment in my series on anxiety as a defense against depression.] QuixoticBlues has a number of videos on YouTube. One of them is titled: “Yeah I’m a bit crazy.” The following is a transcript of some of his opening thoughts (expletives omitted). “I’m sure that everyone who watches these things [his …
When we left off, it was with Donovan Campbell, in Joker One, trying to establish measures to deal with the stress faced by 150 Marines trying to gain control over an Iraqi city of 350,000. As a refresher, he was trying to act as a calm leader. As he phrases it: “Frantic-sounding lieutenants lose everyone’s …
[A quick administrative note. I recently entered into an agreement with MentalHelp.net to provide blog posts for them. Some of the entries made here will also appear in their blog. This is the first such post.] Back in March of this year, I was listening to NPR while driving around town doing errands. Terry Gross …
The Examiner has an article addressing the treatment of dogs that are fearful of the noises accompanying fireworks. It’s called, appropriately enough,: Does your dog dread July 4th? The top tips are: “melatonin…the most likely non-pharmaceutical product to help” [though she does not mention dosages]. “contact their vet and consider anti-anxiety medications to provide their …
My first internship was very interesting. I was with a mobile crisis team for Gouverneur Hospital in New York City’s Lower East Side. Basically, relatives, friends or even strangers would call us if they noticed that someone was acting bizarrely. And in New York, it took a lot to fall into that category. Our job …
The Medical News recently posted and article entitled: Research suggests potential new treatment for anxiety disorders and depression. The article reviews the study A New Role for FGF2 as an Endogenous Inhibitor of Anxiety, which was published by The Journal of Neuroscience on May 13, 2009. The article reminds us that “(p)revious human studies…showed that …