Category Archives: Resiliency

Can You Hear This Hissing Noise? Tinnitus and How To Live With It

23 Feb 2016

Any ailment can be frustrating and upsetting, but tinnitus sufferers will tell you the constant humming sound goes beyond that. Tinnitus is the term for hearing sounds that come from inside your body, rather than from an outside source. It is usually described as a ringing, hissing, buzzing, roaring or humming sound where there is no external sound source. It can lead to clinical depression. There may be a single sound or two or more, and the noise may be there all the time or come and go. It can be heard in one or both ears or in the head.”

 

Living with Clinical Depression

18 Feb 2016

Clinical depression is normally described as a common clinical mental health illness that affects one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Depression has symptoms related to feelings such as intense sadness, anger, and guilt, hopelessness and constant pessimism. Behaviors symptoms include withdrawing socially, lack of energy, low motivation, sleep problems, poor concentration and changes in appetite causing either significant weight gain or lose. Symptoms in thoughts include poor self-esteem, recurrent thoughts of suicide and loss of interest in regular activities.

Man’s Lost Therapy Dog Found After Two Months Thanks to Social Media

17 Feb 2016

In the six years since Nik Glaser adopted a golden doodle puppy named Kramer, the animal has become more than a pet. He’s become a therapy pet. “I have clinical anxiety, and I go through phases where it can be overwhelming,” Glaser, 30, explained. “With Kramer around, I rarely get to the stage of having panic attacks. He’s very intuitive. If he sees I’m getting agitated, he’ll put his head on my lap or reach out with his paw. “It’s a subtle thing, but it calms me.”

A Fascinating, Heartbreaking Sequence about Bipolar Disorder in ‘Touched With Fire’

15 Feb 2016

It’s not easy to depict the complicated relationship between mental illness and the creation of art in a way that doesn’t either trivialize the suffering caused by the former or flatten the complicated interplay between the two into a trite story line. That was the task faced by Paul Dalio, the writer and director of Touched With Fire, a new film starring Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby as Carla and Marco, a pair of bipolar poets who fall in love.

Chinese Scientists Working on Autism Cure

14 Feb 2016

Chinese scientists have created monkeys with a version of autism that could eventually help in the cure for this complex spectrum of brain disorders that affects millions of children worldwide. Autism has been identified in approximately 1 in 68 children in the U.S., and its characteristics are only now becoming better known.

The Science Behind Facebook Sadness

13 Feb 2016

More than 1 billion people log onto Facebook every day. Facebook remains the world’s most popular social networking site, where users can post duck-face selfies, get into feuds over the presidential campaign and read the headlines from their favorite news outlet.

Dad Who Fights for Son With Autism Says He Never Gives Up

12 Feb 2016

Since Bill Davis’ son, Chris, was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Pennsylvania dad has learned to modify his expectations, often making changes where needed in order to help his son succeed.

I Have Autism. Here are Five Things I Want You To Know

10 Feb 2016

I was diagnosed with classic autism when I was 4. I found the word a terrifying place. In some ways, it’s still a frightening place for me. But I have reached a point where I am a professional public speaker on autism.

Parents often ask me to give them advice for their children who are on the autism spectrum. There are many things parents don’t understand about their children with autism. Here are things I wish parents of children with autism would understand.