Guest Post by therapist Mary Kelly-Williams, MA of www.marriedwithbaggage.com"The Marriage Ref" made its debut on NBC last week. This latest reality show takes marriage to a new low. "Real couples" bring an issue they've been arguing about and celebrity "judges" decide which one is right.It's like a marital boxing match without the gloves. One of the spouses is declared the winner. While the show is surprisingly witty and entertaining, I couldn't help but think of the couples I've worked with in my private practice and of my own marriage.Years ago, my husband and I went to a nationally known marital therapist. Part of my agenda in going to the counseling was so my husband could find out how wrong he was and how RIGHT I was.It didn't take long for us to get into the back and forth accusatio...MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Sleep problems are remarkably prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) . Numerous publications have demonstrated the high burden of sleep disorders in early stage disease, in patients on dialysis, and even in patients who have received renal transplants. Endstage renal disease (ESRD) produces dramatic compromise of patients’ quality of life, and sleep disorders represent a major and potentially treatable component of that impairment with implications for several quality of life indices, medication use, and even mortality . A survey of 883 dialysis patients from 20 Italian dialysis centers revealed that 80% endorsed symptoms of sleep disorders including 69.1% with insomnia, 23.6% with sleep apnea syndromes, 18.4% with restless legs, 11.8% with excessive daytime sleepiness, ...

Inside every human being is a drive. Sometimes the drive is clear cut: he or she wants to be a doctor, a lawyer, a wife, a mother, a husband, a father, or something else entirely. Sometimes the drive is muddy, murky and hard to understand. Sometimes that drive, the very thing that is supposed to motivate us to become something special in this world, can become the one thing that can turn on us and lead us down the path of self-destruction. Once on that path, a host of questions, fears and doubts besiege us. How do we protect ourselves against rejection, prejudice, risk, pain and judgment? How do we breathe through this dark cloud, let alone survive in this world? From the time I was very small I knew I was different. I was more sensitive to people’s emotions and I always wanted to belong...

They are among the most respected, scientific and accurate forecasters in the world. Yet to the British public they are a joke. Tim Adams visits the Met Office's HQ in Exeter to meet the people for whom the outlook is always gloomyThe walls of the hi-tech head-quarters of the Met Office in Exeter are decorated with wisdom about the weather. The words tend to act as a comic counterpoint to the work that goes on in the building. The meteorologists who wander the glassy corridors with one eye on the ever-changing Devon skies outside will tell you that the job of forecasting is becoming incrementally more exact with every new satellite and software update, but the walls invariably tell you something different. In the lobby, a quotation from Hansard of 1854 recalls parliament's reaction to the ...

They are among the most respected, scientific and accurate forecasters in the world. Yet to the British public they are a joke. Tim Adams visits the Met Office's HQ in Exeter to meet the people for whom the outlook is always gloomyThe walls of the hi-tech head-quarters of the Met Office in Exeter are decorated with wisdom about the weather. The words tend to act as a comic counterpoint to the work that goes on in the building. The meteorologists who wander the glassy corridors with one eye on the ever-changing Devon skies outside will tell you that the job of forecasting is becoming incrementally more exact with every new satellite and software update, but the walls invariably tell you something different. In the lobby, a quotation from Hansard of 1854 recalls parliament's reaction to the ...

Conclusion  The most severe and long-lasting symptoms were found among those who had been in disasters where one or more crew members had perished. Loss of life in disasters therefore seems significant in the process of creating or extending the endurance of symptoms of psychological vulnerability. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original PaperDOI 10.1007/s00127-010-0189-zAuthors E. Líndal, National University Hospital The Department of Psychiatry Reykjavík IcelandJ. G. Stefánsson, National University Hospital The Department of Psychiatry Reykjavík Iceland Journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyOnline ISSN 1433-9285Print ISSN 0933-7954 (Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

All the sacred traditions of the world give an especially privileged place to dreams and dreaming as a means of self-understanding and communication with and from the Divine. In addition, every culture of the world reveals some version of the ancient archetypal metaphor: "sleep = death", and "dreams = the experience of the afterlife". Tibetan Buddhists even go so far as to say that what we experience as "dreams" when we are alive and in our physical bodies is exactly what the discarnate entity experiences after death and in "the Bardo of Dying and Preparing for Rebirth". This belief is the primary reason for their focused attention to lucid dreaming; if a person can become proficient in recognizing consciously, "Oh, this is a dream..." while asleep, then that person will also be very likel...

This note is in response to Dr. Norman Holland's question: Why do we get pleasure from horror movies? My answer is different from his. Dr. Holland thinks that Aristotle offered a cognitive answer to a similar question, why do we get pleasure in the theatre from tragedies? Yet what Aristotle wrote was "to purge us of pity and terror." That seems to imply bodily rather than cognitive responses. Aristotle was the first to offer a theory of the catharsis of emotions. The idea of catharsis is currently in disrepute because Freud rejected it, even though his first book reported its success. Also experimental psychologists think they have disproved it, because they have shown that acting out anger usually doesn't get rid of it. But Aristotle didn't propose that audiences shout in anger or run awa...

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)

Those with the worst cases report the fewest nightmares, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Topic: Sleep Apnea (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)