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Our own version of normal
Seattle writer Naomi Steinberg, who lives with bipolar disorder, posted about living with mental illness yesterday. I read an article in The Seattle Times recently about the kids, who, while toddlers, survived the Oklahoma City ...
Ouch
A loss is a loss, and it hurts, but damn, our boys gave us a game and it was a good time. ‘Til next year boys, and thanks for the season. My heart appreciates the ...
Bowl Forecast: 58 and cloudless
So we have come to it at last! I’m blogging to you from my sister’s living room in Atlanta, where last night Richard and I watched NCSU alum Philip Rivers punk the Denver Broncos 52-21 ...
Extreme Measures
Sometimes people ask me why I can’t just “get over it,” and I can understand if people voice, or think and do not voice, this opinion when it comes to child abuse sufferers into their ...
PTSD from Car Accidents, or why left turns and stoplights are a bit tricky
While few studies have been done on the link between car accidents and PTSD, the last study sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 2000 found that as many as 40% of ...
Elevated Heart and Respiration Rates Seen in PTSD Sufferers: Study
The December 2008 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has published research by an Australian team that found two definitive risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): elevated heart rate and elevated respiration (breathing) ...
5 Ways to Survive Suicide
According to the World Heath Organization (WHO), for every suicide there may be 20 suicide attempts, and in 2000 there were one million suicide deaths. This represents a mortality rate of one person dying every ...