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Marilyn woke with a start, her heart pounding. It was the middle of the night. "I thought people were calling to me," she explained. "I became truly frightened when I realized that I was deaf and should not be able to hear voices." "My wife hears music that is not there," Harry writes. "The first song she heard was Silent Night sung by a very good choir of mostly men.
Musical Ear Syndrome (MES)
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We're here to help our members convert uncertainty into confidence, inactivity into advance, isolation into friendships, and public unfamiliarity into understanding and support. The Asperger Adults of Greater Washington was founded by six "Aspies" on February 20, 2005. We now have more than 300 members, and have about 30 to 40 members at meetings. Our community usually meets on the 4th Saturday evening of every month at Teaism at Penn Square, located at 8th & D Streets NW, in downtown Washington. (Our March, September, November and December meetings are held on the 3rd Saturday of the month due to the National Cherry Blossom Festival opening, the National Book Festival, Thanksgiving and Christmas, respectively.)
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An ability to identify people on the Spectrum presents one potential hazard -- abusers who stalk people with disabilities. Fortunately such abusers are rare. It is possible (and very easy) to protect oneself from abusers who stalk by being alert for warning signs of these people. ("The Spectrum" generally means the autism Spectrum, including Asperger's syndrome, HFA, PDD and Kanner's autism. Many of us are comfortable with the generic reference of "autistic".)
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Posttraumatic stress disorder [ note 1 ] ( PTSD ) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, [ 1 ] overwhelming the individual's ability to cope . As an effect of psychological trauma , PTSD is less frequent and more enduring than the more commonly seen acute stress response . Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares , avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal —such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger , and hypervigilance . Formal diagnostic criteria (both DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 ) require that the symptoms last more than one month and cause significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. [ 1 ]
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Burnout is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest. Research indicates general practitioners have the highest proportion of burnout cases; according to a recent Dutch study in Psychological Reports , no less than 40% of these experienced high levels of burnout. Burnout is not a recognized disorder in the DSM [ 1 ] although it is recognized in the ICD-10 [ 2 ] as "Problems related to life-management difficulty". The most well-studied measurement of burnout in the literature is the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Maslach and her colleague Jackson first identified the construct "burnout" in the 1970s, and developed a measure that weighs the effects of emotional exhaustion and reduced sense of personal accomplishment. [ 3 ] This indicator has become the standard tool for measuring burnout in research on the syndrome.
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Compassion fatigue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Compassion fatigue (also known as a secondary traumatic stress disorder ) is a condition characterised by a gradual lessening of compassion over time. It is common among trauma victims and individuals that work directly with trauma victims. It was first diagnosed in nurses in the 1950s. [ 1 ] Sufferers can exhibit several symptoms including hopelessness, a decrease in experiences of pleasure, constant stress and anxiety, and a pervasive negative attitude. This can have detrimental effects on individuals, both professionally and personally, including a decrease in productivity, the inability to focus, and the development of new feelings of incompetency and self doubt. [ 2 ] Journalism analysts argue that the media has caused widespread compassion fatigue in society by saturating newspapers and news shows with often decontextualized images and stories of tragedy and suffering . This has caused the public to become cynical, or become resistant to helping people who are suffering. [ 3 ]
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"“….You just don’t understand Emily, I just can’t live without Matt. I know he’s not a Christian but if I give him up and really serve God then I’ll be alone and what if I never find anyone else?” “Emily life is not all about you; it’s about living a life that pleases God.” I hear a click and the phone goes silent. I sit down on the couch with the phone still up to my ear, listening to the dial tone, as tears stream down my face. I pull my knees up close to my chest, finally setting down the phone, knowing I have just lost my childhood friend.
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So I'm an ACOA and in recovery from spiritual abuse. - Christian
Wow. So I started reading the ACOA book. I'm already noticing how having alcoholic parents affects me to this day! I just recognized on characteristic tonight and I was totally blown away.
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I have a relative who left her employment recently. She has always had a job until recently and she was supporting the family ever since her hubby stopped working some years ago. Now, they both are unemployed and the hubby won't even consider finding a job and the wife is too tired to go on.Help! Outrageous Spiritual Abuse - Christian Recovery Forums
I have belonged to a predominantly African American church for the past 23 years. The church is of the United Church of Christ. United Church of Christ Churches are predominantly liberal. Ours is not, most people attending think we are a Pentecostal holiness church.Intro to Cults 101
Most of the following information was condensed from several pages of the REVIVE web site at http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~revive/index.html [Dead Link — the web site is gone] Even though some of this information appears to have been tailored to fit Alcoholics Anonymous, it has not. This is just your generic run-of-the-mill cult description. In fact, the major concern of the Revive web site is currently a new cult called "International Churches of Christ" that is sweeping campuses. They don't even mention A.A..Into to Cults 101 - Christian Recovery Forums
This is a condensed description that can be used to help friends or anyone you know to shed some light into what they may be involved in. I found it interesting how this info is similar to what AA uses. I checked out this out and found an amazing amount of info about Bill Wilson who is recognized as the one who started AA and the 12 Steps.ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — A severe mood disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, affects 5 percent to 7 percent of all women of reproductive age in the United States, but it is often misdiagnosed as major depression or other mood disorder. A recent study further establishes that PMDD is biologically different, and that women with PMDD who have experienced depression could make up a subset. The findings are important because they give physicians more reason to search for a more specific diagnosis and could possibly lead to more precise treatments, of which there are currently few good choices, said Susan Girdler, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine who led the study. "PMDD is not garden-variety premenstrual symptoms. PMDD causes severe impairment in quality of life, equivalent to post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and panic disorder, that continually cycles on a monthly basis.
Depression affects how women with PMDD respond to stress, pain
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