Blink Spoken Here is a powerful tale of a family’s rare twenty-seven year journey with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). It is told through the eyes of the patient, Christopher Pendergast and his wife Christine. The book takes the reader on a roller coaster ride to dizzying heights and abysmal lows experienced in the world of ALS. With un-sugared words, the couple reveal intimate, disturbing, frustrating, gut wrenching and life altering experi ...
Quiet as it’s kept inside the United States, the Cuban revolution has achieved some phenomenal goals, reclaiming Cuba’s agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent – and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fi ...
In der gro?en Historiensaga kampft die Arztin Ricarda gegen Bleichsucht, Diphtherie oder Nervenschwache. Manche Behandlungsmethode, mit denen Mediziner zur Kaiserzeit Krankheiten zu Leibe ruckten, wirkt aus heutiger Sicht ungewohnlich. Dieses Buch versammelt die Perlen aus jenen Nachschlagewerken, die Helene Sommerfeld inspirierten, und zeigt, vor welchen Problemen speziell weibliche Patienten standen. Die Ratschlage muten abenteuerlich, kurios ...
Gaslighting is the psychological manipulation of making someone question their own sanity or the validity of their experiences. A combination of outright lies, denial of things that happened, and generally questioning the subject’s thought processes and conclusions boils down to the end result of thinking you’re wrong or crazy for feeling the way you do. At its core, it’s an emotional abuse tactic. Have you ever gotten into an argument ...
A Bipolar Guide from a Bipolar Person Welcome to the Jungle has a greater focus on bipolar people, not the diagnosis: the ways in which each person can find his or her own way through the extreme emotional states and intense experiences that we are calling “bipolar”—whether that means medication or meditation, psychiatrists or vision quests, good sleep or good all-night dancing, or a little bit of everything. An honest, relatable ...
