HABITS TO BREAK TO BUILD A BETTER YOU

H.A.B.I.T.s TO BREAK TO BUILD A BETTER YOU.

Health Hints by Alexandra Nicole Torres (HealthCare Magazine)

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Breaking free from an unhealthy routine to build a good one requires time, patience and commitment - it's a process. Let's face it, we all have our guilty pleasures that are really difficult to depart from.

To Guide us on our Journey, let's remember the acronym H-A-B-I-T:

1. (H)AVE A GOAL. In order for you to be successful, you must learn to KNOW WHAT YOU WANT. The key to building a solid plan is knowing yourself and knowing what you really want to do and what you want to achieve.

Schizophrenia

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Important Terms

• Schizophrenia
• psychotic mental disorder characterized by profound disturbances in thinking, feeling and behaviour
• one of the most studied, but remains one of the least understood of all the psychopathological disorders
• diagnosis is based on the presence of a set of signs and symptoms
• if patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia and is symptomatic then he is in a psychotic state; if there are no delusions/halllucinations then he is in remission.

How Bizarre

Kendra Campbell, MD, Psychiatry/Mental Health, 08:05PM Dec 22, 2010

One of the more intriguing concepts in psychiatry is that of “bizarre delusions.” Delusions are fixed, false belief, and psychiatrists are taught to categorize these delusions as being either bizarre, or non-bizarre, as this can help with diagnosis.

Bizarre delusion is one that is simply 100% impossible. An example of a non-bizarre delusion would be that one is pregnant with President Obama’s child. This is certainly not likely, but it’s not 100% impossible, either. A bizarre delusion would be that one is an alien from another planet and can shoot laser beams out of one’s eyes. Perhaps this is still only 99% impossible. And therein lies the problem with defining a bizarre delusion.

The Forsaken Specialty

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Abstract and Introduction
Introduction

As a medical student I found that most other students thought that psychiatry was not a true profession—the consultants sit and sip tea, talk nonsense, and nobody ever seems to gets better. No blood test confirms what is wrong. No imaging shows the diagnosis. Simply put, ward rounds that consist of sitting in a room and chatting just didn't seem like "real medicine" to most of my peers. Psychiatric patients were people to be mocked, feared ("you were left alone with them?"), or ignored. Revision for objective structured clinical exams and written papers was left to the last minute because it was "only psych."

I don't know why I thought this would be different when I qualified. Perhaps the "doctor" title would equate to being surrounded by those who understand, appreciate, and respect psychiatry? Goes to show that a label does not define how you act.