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Do you take care of someone in your family with a chronic medical
illness or dementia? Have you felt depression, anger or guilt? Has your
health deteriorated since taking on the responsibility of caregiving?
If your answer is yes to any one of these, you may be suffering from
caregiver stress.
This condition is increasingly being referred
to as "caregiver syndrome" by the medical community because of its
numerous consistent signs and symptoms. In the pamphlet, "Caring for
Persons with Dementia," Dr. Jean Posner, a neuropsychiatrist in
Baltimore, Maryland, referred to caregiver syndrome as, "a debilitating
condition brought on by unrelieved, constant caring for a person with a
chronic illness or dementia."
An increasing number of Americans
are finding themselves taking care of someone who's aging or ill or
both. According to the American Academy of Geriatric Psychiatrists, one
out of every four American families cares for someone over the age of
50. As America's population ages, that number is expected to skyrocket.
In 2000, the Census Bureau reported, just under 35 million Americans
were 65 or over; by 2030, the number is projected to more than double,
to more than 71 million.
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The definition of "addiction" is the state of being
enslaved to something that is psychologically or physically
habit-forming (such as narcotics),
to such an extent that to discontinue the habit or practice can
lead to severe trauma. In other words, you love something so much
that you have developed a habit of using it or playing it, to such
an extent that not doing so leaves you feeling cranky or
nervous; and you are becoming rather inept in other areas of
life.
World of Warcraft can be this
addictive. Here's a way to break your WoW addiction.
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Q. Every day after
lunch, you find yourself overcome by drowsiness, and you can’t get any
work done because you just want to crawl under your desk and go to
sleep. Why does this happen?
A. This universal phenomenon, known as the “post-lunch dip,” represents a collision of biology and economics.
It is entirely natural for humans to want to go to sleep about
seven hours after they have awakened. But as the internal rhythms of
the body call out for rest, the efficiency of the modern workplace
demands continued exertion.
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Making good on a promise to trim the state budget, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger eliminated a $55-million program Friday that advocates
say has helped thousands of mentally ill homeless people break the
costly cycle of hospitalization, jails and street life.
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Schwarzenegger apparently doesn't see the connection between lack of funds for rehabilitation and the fact that the California prisons are so overcrowded, he is considering sending inmates out of state to other prisons. Brilliant.
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A free public online database
launched recently may help speed efforts to identify genes associated with
an increased risk of bipolar disorder, a mood disorder commonly marked by
alternating bouts of depression and manic behavior.
The Bipolar Disorder Phenome Database -- a joint project of the U.S.
National Institute of Mental Health and Johns Hopkins Psychiatry -- offers
detailed descriptions and symptoms and course of disease in more than
5,000 people with bipolar disorder.
DNA samples are also available from this group of patients, which will
enable researchers to match specific bipolar symptoms with sequences of
genetic material.
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