Medical students experience depression, burnout, and mental illness at a higher rate than the general population, with mental health deteriorating over the course of medical training. Medical students have a higher risk of suicidal ideation and suicide, higher rates of burnout, and a lower quality of life than age-matched populations. Students may worry that revealing their depression will make them less competitive for residency training positions or compromise their education, and physicians may be reluctant to disclose their diagnosis on licensure and medical staff applications.
Author Archives: R. Marc Andrews
Everyone Should Be in Therapy
Like all things humane and full of soul, in a mechanistic society people prefer pills and behavioral techniques — and maybe a little electricity — to talk. It’s popular in some circles today to pooh-pooh therapy as mere yakking, branding it laughably simplistic compared to pharmacology and hardware. Yes, talk is simple and yet sometimes more difficult than making a pill.
Thomas Moore makes a great point that we are not as rational as we might believe or act and can all use Therapy.
Gay Parents Have Well-Adjusted Kids | Psych Central News
A new study suggests children of gay parents are not only psychologically healthy, but often appear to exhibit better social and academic adjustment and a significantly lower incidence of social problems than their peers.
via psychcentral.com
I bet this is pissing some groups off.
gay.com Daily Lifestyle: Loving the Man in the Mirror
Recent studies have shown that heterosexual men are the most satisfied with their bodies, followed by lesbian women, followed by heterosexual women, and the ones who are the toughest on their appearance are gay men
via daily.gay.com
Save a life and support local Not-For-Profits
I don’t sell things through my post or even advertise for clients for my private practices, but rather use my blog as a way to get important info that I find out to people. That is what I am doing with this phone Application. As a person who had a car accident as a result of speeding to yet another meeting and talking to my staff on my cell phone. I know what a life saver TextNoMore can be.
Once one downloads the app then activates (before you get into the car to drive) TextNoMore the user receives a reward coupon from a business that supports safe driving. The user can choose how long to activate the app increments of 10 minutes or choose the manual time, the phone is then silenced: no ring,light or vibrate. The user while driving isn’t distracted by incoming texts or calls because they don’t know that anything new has arrived on their phone. This prevents the user from taking their eyes off the road to look at the phone or to reply.
If the user receives a text while the app is activated an auto-reply message is sent, “I’m driving and can’t respond to your text” the hyper-link for the texter to receive their reward coupon for helping the driver be safe and not distracted. When the app is deactivated all missed texts/calls have been held in a queue and then allows the user to reply to the missed messages.
Using a cell phone use while driving, whether it
The Adonis Complex: Insight from Body Image Expert Roberto Olivardia | Weightless
According to Olivardia,
Gmail – Gay Student Suicides; Death Row Clemency; Craigslist
Check out this website I found at mail.google.com
Yesterday I posted a youtube video with Daniel Radcliffe for the Trevor project and this today. It is shocking how the “Parents Action League” rather have students commit suicide than be gay. Again please send the youtube video out to as many people as you can. http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/thetrevorproject/44111/
Daniel Radcliffe PSA for The Trevor Project
via youtube.com
sent this to every one and any one. It can save a life!
Depression on the Rise in Colleges?
Aug. 12, 2010 — Some mental health problems, including moderate and severe depression, are more common among college students today than in the past, according to a study that looked back 12 years.
via webmd.com
I have seen this trend in my own work with gay and lesbian collage students. I think it is important to point out that the increased mental health problems are not so much the result of being gay on collage campuses as was the case 5 years ago, there still remains as constant percentage where this is the case. But as the article points out more early diagnoses and I would add the increased stress that collage students face with a very different job market to face after graduation.
I Fought Fate, and Fate Won | Guideposts to Happiness
Fate is stronger than me. It may also be wiser. When I quit fighting fate, I find that my life is better than it seemed. There is more to enjoy than I realized, and I learn it is possible to tolerate considerable discomfort and still feel basically happy.
A good article on how to enjoy the life you have as you work towards the life you want. some thing i think we often forget in all our efforts to become some thing other than where we are. how much more life can be if we enjoy where we are and where we want to go.
