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My favorite way to put people to sleep is Aromatherapy. To help a person sleep, the requisite molecules have to get to the brain. They certainly to not have to drag around the circulation of the entire body. The sense of smell is perhaps the most sensitive of all senses. You need to smell only a few molecules of something, compared to how much it takes to see and hear, they say. I have heard it said many times, although it does sound a bit like comparing apples and oranges. Read more on A Sweet Way To Go To Sleep…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Brain, News, prescription drugs by on May 13th, 2017. Comment.
Sleep is a complex function. it is not just biological, but also psychological and social. Your “daily residue;” everything that happened at work or whatever that day, combines with past traumas (which may have been dragged around since childhood) to create what may be disturbing dreams. Read more on Ways I Get Patients Off Of Sleeping Pills…
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Filed under Alternative Medicine, Brain, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, medicine, Mental Illness, News, Nutrition, Research by on May 7th, 2017. Comment.
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He said he ate very reasonable “balanced” (which is not what obese people need) meals during the day, but every night he got “crazy hungry” and “snacked” on everything imaginable, mostly sweets, from the minute he finished after-work dinner until his late bedtime, while in front of the television. He said his doctor was irate and told him to stop eating at night because eating in the evening and before bed made people fat and sick. Read more on Meats or Sweets For Weight Loss…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Brain, Doctors, eating disorders, Education, News, Nutrition, weight by on Apr 15th, 2017. Comment.
“I don’t like other women. They gossip. I hate gossip. I think they should all go pound sand.” No, it is not a patient who said this. It was my (Great-) aunt Etta, who wore her hair like “Bride of Frankenstein.” She had been militant about her disdain for “gossip,” and certainly wore a bitter expression on her face most of the time. But she would not tell the little girl I was then any more of her story.
Filed under Alternative Medicine, depression, Mental Illness, News by on Apr 1st, 2017. Comment.
Sometimes, in practical everyday life, I get lost or disoriented. Like in one of the busy discount department stores we frequent.
My husband is always there in the store. Read more on Mapping Out Life…
Filed under life, News by on Mar 31st, 2017. Comment.
I love snails. After the rain in California, the damp earth drives them to the sidewalk. Usually in twos — they move along in parallel, but slowly. They are hermaphrodites. That means that each one has the requisite sex organs to function as both sexes. It must be very hard for them to get together as a couple. First they have to decide which one is going to be which sex that day.
I had a patient once who tenderly explained to me what that situation could be like for humans. Last I heard, I am pleased to report they are a most excellent couple. People really can find happiness. Some people do not know the road until they are already on it.
Filed under Family, Gender Identity Disorder, News by on Mar 30th, 2017. Comment.
My husband will drive me a bit to go see a patient, closer to his home. I may nod off briefly, although I have had enough sleep. Only to wake up again briskly when he slams on the brakes, which he will a few times, at least. I continue to be shocked by the total lack of empathy drivers have for each other.
Filed under Family, Mental Illness, News by on Mar 29th, 2017. Comment.