People often refer to those caring for a spouse or parent with dementia as heroic, but not everyone is cut out to be that kind of hero. Like they say in the military: If this kind of courage was easy, they would not give out medals for it.
Realistically, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s Disease is going to dramatically increase over the next decade or so as the Baby Boomer generation ages into the high-risk category. This means many more families will be coping with the stresses of care giving and making difficult decisions about nursing homes or other care options.
Whenever you read something on the Internet, you need to consider what agenda the writer might have. Therefore, as an occasional blog post writer for AMWA, I feel I owe it to you to disclose my agenda: friendship.
A handful or recent studies have implicated damage to the pineal gland and/or a reduction in melatonin
production with certain types of clinical depression and other mental health diagnoses.
I highly recommend the novel Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, both as a reader and as a
neuroscientist.
Capitalism is based on
the presumption that people will work harder, more creatively, or in ways that benefit society more
when they can personally enjoy the rewards of their efforts. But what if the rewards are not rewarding?
It’s comforting to parents to think mental illness is the fault of bad parenting, when reality is mental illnesses are just a matter of chance.
I could see from her eyes that my patient was in pain. You become a doctor because you want to help people, and seeing one of your patients suffering and not being able to do anything about it tugs at your conscience.
An Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), a neurologist, and a psychiatrist walk into a bar.
In this time when once again COVID-19 deaths are rising, the toll from yet another hurricane and wildfires are just being tallied, and the bodies of 13 American servicemen and women were just returned from Afghanistan, I would like to offer these words about grief: grief lies to you.
