Signs and Symptoms of Childhood Insomnia (Cathryn Harper)

Nothing contributes more to a good day than a good night's sleep. Sometimes, however, you just cannot fall asleep. Worse yet, sometimes your children just cannot fall asleep. And when mom and dad don't get rested, the rest of the crew usually pays for it as well.

When children have difficulty falling asleep, sometimes parents are aware, sometimes they are not. Symptoms are not always conclusive, but take a variety of forms. The most common symptoms include:

Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep
Waking too early
Sleepy during the day
Anxiety
Error or accident prone
Trouble at school (academic or social)
Mood swings
Depression
Hyperactivity
Difficulty remembering things
Aggression

Children sometimes work to avoid bedtime any way they can, including asking for things to eat or drink, asking for another story, or to play one more video game. If a particularly entertaining environment, such as a parent's party or a good movie, is beckoning from another room, that may further aggravate the situation.

It is hard to diagnose whether a child has insomnia since the symptoms are so general and could be caused by so many things. Keeping a sleep diary for a few weeks may help decide whether this is just a temporary problem or turning into a permanent one.

Talking with your pediatrician may also shed light on the situation, helping to eliminate other issues and isolating the true problem. A physical exam to rule out other possibilities is also a good idea, helping to identify whether a child has primary or secondary insomnia. Secondary insomnia is due to a distinct cause such as an underlying disease or condition, where primary is not.

Insomnia may be either of the short-lived acute variety, or the long-term chronic type. The acute type lasts only a few nights or a few weeks and may not require treatment. Chronic insomnia, however, rears its ugly head three or more nights a week for a month or more.

Some patients are referred to a sleep center, where they spend the night with observers and electrodes attached at vital points to set some baselines and provide some insight for doctors in assessing the condition.

Causes are many, from stress, to medication side effects, ADHD, asthma, allergy and muscle cramps. More serious causes running from autism and Asperger's, to neurodevelopmental and bipolar disorders, may also be the culprits. Simpler causes may be too many caffeinated drinks, colas, or energy drinks.

Treatment ranges from initiating a good sleep regimen and some options when sleep is hard to come by, to behavioral therapy and indirect hypnotic suggestions, such as guided fantasy stories embedding a personal fairy tale that helps to put the child in control, giving a feeling of security and relaxation. Other solutions include teaching children how to relax, and providing quiet things for them to do when they wake, like reading, that may, in turn, send them back to their pillow, happily snoozing till dawn.

Cathryn is a working mother of three. A self-professed health and fitness nut, Cathryn loves to research and write about health and wellness related topics. For further inquiries please visit at http://www.cathrynharperpress.com/

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Is Depression Built in Stages? (globalcompliancepanel.com)

Depression, in simplistic terms, is the situation of being in a state of sadness over a lengthy period of time. Of course, it is already mentioned that this is a simplistic definition, because if it were that simple; the world would have been a happier place to live in for many people with depression! Depression is not something similar to a cold or a headache. It is not something that appears quickly and goes away as quickly.

Symptoms are not exclusive
Depression is a deeply rooted psychological malady that is difficult to understand in simple terms. Of course, people who have depression do exhibit a few common symptoms like sadness, listlessness, anxiety, moroseness, disinterest in matters of daily living and the like; but so do normal people. We all experience what may be called a bad day in office (not literally speaking though, because we should include home too here).

Difficult parameters
So, how is a person who has depression different from the rest if these symptoms and behaviors exist in all kinds of people? It is said that depressed people are in this state of mind over a long period of time. But how long? That should be the defining parameter. The medical profession is not clear if a person who has been through a low for a couple of weeks should be called a depressed person and be bracketed with someone who has been though it for a couple of years. And how does it feel to 'graduate' from the two-week period to the two-year period? Is the behavior the same over this period of time, or it is graded? These are the real challenges psychiatrists encounter while treating people with depression.

Some stages
Based on the pace at which depression builds up in a person's mind; medical science usually classifies depression according to the following stages:
oMajor;
oManic or bipolar;
oDysthymic;
oCyclothymic;
oPostpartum;
oSeasonal.

What are these stages for?
These are what may be called the various phases, but we have to be clear about what these stages really mean: These are more of a frame of reference for doctors than something that is irrefutable. This is certainly not a watertight compartmentalization of the condition. There is no reason to believe that one could be less treatable or more severe than another.

For whose benefit?
These gradations are made to give doctors a kind of benchmark with which to approach the problem. To the patient himself, absolutely no difference is made. A person with chronic depression has more things to worry about and feel down than to estimate the stage he is in. For the patient, his family and the lay public alike; there is no serious sense out of these stages. They do serve a limited, academic purpose, which is to help doctors slot the patient and use as an assessment tool, nothing more; nothing less.

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Emigrar no es tan fácil

No sé cómo me he hecho de una página de Facebook, españoles en Costa Rica, y sin querer, voy leyendo, las fatigas que están pasando los que se vinieron un poco a la aventura, valga como muestra lo que sigue:
Aguien desde España dice: Estoy cansado del consumismo y de los políticos de este país, y me gustaría que me contarais que posibilidades tengo de trabajar en el sistema sanitario costarricense.
A lo que, entre otros, le contestan: uffff ja ja ja ese es otro cantar.. yo llevo 3 años de turista ja ja saliendo cada 3 meses.
También leí el de una residente española, que decía que ganaba 2000 $ y que no le llegaba al día quince del mes. ¿Dónde coño se cree esta que está?, me pregunté. Un albañil, los que tanto ganaron en España, trabajando diez horas diarias, no llega a 20€ (el domingo no cuenta).
Lees las noticias, de los medios oficiales, llámese EL País o El Mundo, y dan por hecho que la única salida que le queda, en especial a la juventud, es emigrar. No digamos nada de TVE, que ya que estamos en Costa Rica y con el dichoso programa españoles por el mundo o algo parecido, ponen la cosa como para engatusar al más listo. Míralo aquí.
No soy yo solo el que lo digo, porque en otro blog, encuentro: Cualquiera diría que en toda España hay una campaña para que todos aquellos que pueden hacerlo emigren. Tenemos a españoles por el mundo mostrándonos que bien les va en cualquier lugar exótico, a políticos recomendando que nos vayamos de España y ahora a la Junta de Andalucía ofreciendo puestos de trabajo fuera de España.
No es tan fácil. Baste decir que yo para renovar la residencia por haber estado fuera del país más tiempo del que la ley te permite, y habiéndome traído todos los justificantes, he tardado más de un año en renovarlo (aun no lo tengo en el bolsillo como explico dos entradas más abajo). Otra muestra.
Explicar lo que me costó conseguirla, habría para escribir un bloc temático sobre el asunto, y eso que yo tenía todo lo necesario para conseguirla.
La ley de Migración en Costa Rica se cambió hace poco, como es lógico endureciéndola. Está en el mismo caso que estaba España con las pateras de los negrillos, solo que los nicas aquí lo tienen más fácil para pasar la frontera, es cuestión de volar machete por los bosques para abrirse camino.
Lo voy a decir tal y como nos lo dijeron a nosotros en Migración: para estar legal en el país, solo se pueden coger uno de estos tres caminos: Casarse con una tica, tener un hijo tico, o tener contrato de trabajo (con los dos primeros casos, se puede obtener la residencia, con el último no).
¿Qué hacen la mayoría de los que residen aquí, en especial los gringos? Estar como turistas tres meses, salir fuera del país (Nicaragua o Panamá) un mínimo de tres días y volver a entrar. De todas formas lo mejor es lo que yo hice, seguir lo que decía la página de Migración, porque esa es otra, como no caigas en manos de un mal abogado, te estafará.
Estamos hablando de Latinoamérica, que tiene la gran ventaja de no tener que saber hablar, checo, ruso o alemán.
No he mencionado los costes de todo esto.

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How to Handle Drug Abusing Teen As a Parent (Drugteststrips)

It is shocking to know that your teen is using drugs. It is an unpleasant experience for you when you think of the future of your kid. As you already know that your kid is using drugs, think of finding a way out by personally speaking to him about the consequences of drugs on his health and career. This article discusses on how to handle a drug abusing teen as a parent.

Watch out for any changes, for example, change in friends, change in appetite, unruly attitude, stealing things, drop in academic performance, lack of interest in grooming and social isolation. If you find any of these, don't ignore, try to find out the reason behind the sudden change. If you find for sure that your teen is using drugs, this is how you should handle the situation:

Don't panic, don't be harsh:

As a parent, it is really scary for you to face the truth and you may panic, not knowing what to do. Wait a second, this is not the way to react when such situation arises. It's time to take action, by being calm and patient while talking to your teen.

Talk to the teen and help out:

You need to openly talk to your teen about drugs. By doing so, you can strengthen your relationship and communication will be much easier. First, listen to what he says about drugs and you can then tell him about how it ruins his life. This will help him understand better.

Explain about the harmful effects of drug abuse:

Explain to your teen about the negative consequences of drugs. Drug abuse causes damage to vital organs such as heart, lungs, kidneys and liver. Drug abuse causes significant changes in normal functioning of the brain.

Keep your teen busy. For this, you could assign him a piece of job, for example, gardening. Such activities are likely to instill confidence in them.

Tell him that healthy life leads to better performance in academics and consequently there will be better prospects in career. Take examples of your friends, relations who are healthy and successful by staying away from drugs.

Consider taking to rehabilitation center:

Contact a health counselor to make a plan on how to proceed, and make necessary follow up. If your teen has gone to an advanced state of addiction, take him to a good rehabilitation center. These centers will take adequate and necessary measures to prevent him from using drugs in future.

Taking care of these things will make sure that your teen would recover as a normal individual soon.

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Detox Your Negative Emotions and Learn How To Manage Stress (Suzanna Kauai)

Being human means feeling emotions. (E) motion = energy in motion. To stay healthy, let emotional energy wash through you like a wave. Do not hold on, resist or deny the energy. Welcome it as a response to life and let it move through by expressing it in the moment it arises.
You may argue that there are negative emotions that should not be expressed. From our early childhood, we have been taught to be nice and polite. So the idea of expressing all our so-called negative emotions seems foreign and impossible. We fear disapproval or abandonment if we dare speak the truth about what we are thinking or feeling.

Instead of thinking of emotions as either negative or positive, let us view them as energy that moves at different speeds. We call the speed of moving energy its frequency. If an energy moves at a slow speed, it has a low frequency. If it moves at a faster speed, it has a high frequency.

The emotional energy of anger, for example, moves slowly and has a low frequency and it does not feel good. When anger arises and you do not express it, it is trapped in your body and affects you physically and mentally. If you do not express your emotions, they start accumulating in and around you body. You may not feel them all the time, but these accumulated emotions can burst out from you during adverse conditions. Often these accumulated toxic feelings change your genetic structure, causing illness and toxic thinking.

You learned how to deal with your emotions as a child, by observing your family. Everything you observed and absorbed in your early childhood went into to your subconscious mind. Since this programming is subconscious, you do not have control of yourself. You respond automatically in a way that is not aligned with what you truly think and feel. Constantly reacting in a way that is unnatural for you causes you to feel stressed out. Unexpressed accumulated anger can turn into depression. You may try coping with depression, but all your efforts go in vain. For this, you actually need to know how to manage stress.

One of the best ways of managing stress and coping with depression is emotional detoxification. The process involves the detoxification of low frequency emotions and thought-patterns that depress your immune system, causing illness.

Apart from this, these toxins do not allow you to express your true emotions. You often live a pretending life being nice and happy to others. There is anger within you but the desired social attitude makes you to suppress it, which often converts into feelings of hatred, stress and depression.

The principle of emotional detoxification:

Emotional-mental detoxification process involves a unique combination of breathing, relaxation and guided visualization. The process is in the form of a guided meditation. So all you have to do is listen to a recording and follow along. There are 8 recordings; each one addressing a different set of toxic thoughts and emotions. The recordings come with an instruction manual, that will guide you step-by-step through the process. You can go through the process at your own pace.

After going through the process of emotional-mental detoxification, you will return to a state of balance and well-being with a better ability to focus and feel confident. You will behave as the real YOU leaving, behind that artificial life imposed by other people.

The day when you will complete the process, you will live your TRUE LIFE.

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Identifying The Warning Signs Of Depression In NYC (George Schae)

Depression is something that has an effect on a great part of the population all around the globe. It can appear to be more prevalent in bigger cities, for example NYC. One key to acting on and treating depression in NYC is the ability to recognize the signs. Whether you have a good sense that you have depression or someone close to you does, taking the time to learn what the signs of depression are is a big help to anyone. We now know that depression is manageable, and in present-day times, there's no reason anyone needs to try to suffer through it without help. Keep reading to learn more about the signs of depression.

Some people think that depressed people are merely being lazy or they simply need more sleep. This isn't far from the truth, as many people who suffer from depression do, in fact, feel tired. A depressed person may be more forgetful and inattentive of things they are usually more mindful of. Depression sufferers usually have sleep disturbances that keep them from getting good sleep and they may sleep more than usual. Depression may cause a person to sleep much longer than the usual seven to eight hours, and despite the extra sleep, they will often still be very tired when they wake up. Depressed people might likewise suffer from insomnia and sleep very little to not at all. While a depressed person may sleep longer because they choose to in order to try to feel better, they will typically continue to be tired and forgetful.

Irritability is an additional indication of depression. You might notice a person getting quite upset over something which seems rather trivial. Their irritation or anger can seem to happen in a split second or out of nowhere. If being easily annoyed seems out of place for you or a person that you know, it could be a sign of depression, especially if it seems to be occurring more and more often.

Loss of interest in activities that a person once enjoyed is a huge sign of depression in NYC. When a person loses the capacity to enjoy things that they typically like, this is a big flag. If you notice someone not being able to enjoy things that they normally would enjoy, you might inquire about them or encourage them to get some help from a medical professional.

Although many people are aware of the symptoms shared above, not every person realizes that some depression systems can look like something else entirely. Headaches and various other bodily pains that do not ease from being treated may be a sign of depression. Even digestive problems like acid reflux can occasionally indicate depression. It is important to pay attention to what the body is trying to tell us.

Depression sufferers often state they feel empty, lost or that they are living in a darkness. Some may even think about suicide. Even if someone is only thinking about suicide, it's important that they get help immediately. Don't ignore it if a person mentions suicide.

Anyone in NYC who is struggling with depression shouldn't have to go through it on their own. A wide range of treatments is available for any depression sufferer, and there's no one-size-fits-all treatment method, so the treatment will be different for each individual. It is essential to know the signs of depression to enable you to encourage a loved one to get help or so that you can get help personally. Don't ignore the warning signs of depression. Making an effort to pay attention to the symptoms, letting someone know you're there for them and encouraging them to obtain help can mean everything to someone's life.

People that have problems with depression in NYC can seek out help by visiting TMS Medical Associates of New York. For more info on TMS Medical Associates of New York are obtainable on the business' web page, tmsproviders.com.

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Refugio de bichos. Ahora le toca a una ardilla

Ya en su día escribí que esto se había convertido en un refugio de iguanas, pero la cosa se va agravando.
Pichi, ya ha abandonado a Carlos, y aquí está de guardia las veinticuatro horas del día. Si le hecho comida ya es mío, me digo, así que esperaré a que tenga hambre y ya se ira, pero cuando pasan tres días, acabo comprándole pienso y se sale con la suya.

Pichi se debía encontrar demasiado solo y se ha echado un amigo. Tres cuartos de lo mismo, ya se ira, pero no hay forma de que lo hagan, ni el uno ni el otro. Aquí no acaba la cosa, hoy van a Cóbano, y cuando vuelven lo hacen con una ardilla, se la ha dado Randall, me dicen. Muy bonita, me digo, pero pienso que Randall ha sabido lo que ha hecho.
Ya tuve una, que también compré en Sudamérica, entre otras cosas, me hizo un destrozo de libros de narices. Me enteré que al igual que los conejos, no para de crecerle los dientes y se los tienen que afilar/desgastar con lo que sea. Aquella lo hizo con los libros, pero no con uno, sino que hacia un hueco y cogía otro, así hasta no dejar uno sin mutilar.
La verdad es que esta es de lo más nervioso que uno se pueda imaginar. No para. Va de persona en persona y se sube hasta la cabeza, supongo que en su instinto busca lo más parecido a los árboles, porque doy por hecho de que esta se ha criado desde pequeña en una casa. Se han ido todos, y observo que cada vez que me muevo, viene detrás de mí como si de un perro se tratara. Ahora mismo la tengo en mis hombros me imagino que durmiendo.
Veremos a ver en que queda la cosa. La primera putada es que tenemos que tener la puerta cerrada, porque aunque creo no se fuera, ahí están, como dije, Pichi y su compa que no la tratarían como un juguete, sino como un bocado especial.

A ver si mi hermano, se entretiene y le hace una jaula como la de sus pajarracos, aunque lo difícil va a ser mandarla, así que ya sabes, te vienes, se la haces y después te vuelves.

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