Mental Health

Orthorexia Nervosa: When ‘Healthy’ Eating Turns Dangerous

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The condition also overlaps with obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, and somatoform disorders. During the session, two case reports were presented. The first patient was a 72-year-old white Buddhist nun who presented with extreme weight loss. “You get afraid of eating because you don’t know what it’ll do to you,” said the patient in a video clip. “Eventually I was afraid to do anything, so I did nothing.”

Source: Orthorexia Nervosa: When ‘Healthy’ Eating Turns Dangerous

Some time ago I developed a fear of what would happen to me if I stopped drinking alcohol.  So I did nothing.

Chill

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The photo credit belongs to an Instagram feed from Aspen Well Being.  I follow several Aspen CO related feeds for the pictures.  It only took me years to discover the tiny button in Instagram that saves photos to your phone.

Years.

Rock climbing envisioned as new treatment for depression — ScienceDaily

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“You have to be mindful and focused on the moment. It does not leave much room to let your mind wonder on things that may be going on in your life — you have to focus on not falling,”

Source: Rock climbing envisioned as new treatment for depression — ScienceDaily

Sounds promising and for some people a better alternative than drugs.

Yeah, I had to Google it too.

 

IBM’s Remote Work Reversal Is A Losing Battle Against The New Normal

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In both a 2014 white paper by IBM’s Smarter Workplace Institute and in a conference panel the company hosted just weeks ago, its own experts suggested that remote workers tend to be happier, less stressed, more productive, more engaged with their jobs and teams, and believe that their companies are more innovative as a result of flexible work arrangements.

Source: IBM’s Remote Work Reversal Is A Losing Battle Against The New Normal

Memo to IBM:

Why?

The #1 Problem Among College Students Is Now Anxiety – Business Pundit

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“They can’t tolerate discomfort or having to struggle,” Dan Jones, director of counseling and psychological services at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, told the New York Times. “A primary symptom is worrying, and they don’t have the ability to soothe themselves.” In 2010, a national study showed that nearly half of college students seeking counseling had serious mental illness. Those students outnumbered a 2000 study by 100%.

via The #1 Problem Among College Students Is Now Anxiety – Business Pundit.

Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers – NYTimes.com.

More Venlafaxine please.

Daily Pill? No Thanks, I’ll Take Early Death | Medpage Today

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About half of patients in the U.S. don’t take their medications as prescribed, including patients who have had heart attacks.

Daily Pill? No Thanks, I’ll Take Early Death | Medpage Today.

I actually started to write something really, really snarky but better judgement prevailed.  Why even mention people who discontinue statin use without their physician’s knowledge, have a myocardial infarction and two drug eluting stents all while denying the MI ever occurred and maintaining belief that the second stent was not necessary?

Why write about the Standard offer for life coverage?  I was asked to review the medical records for my opinion.

Standard?  I think not.