Freeing Ourselves From Toxic Ties With the Past – Part IWritten by John R. Cook
Have you ever been flooded with emotion that seemed to be from another time or place in your life, out of proportion to whatever provoked it? Perhaps while visiting with your mother or father over holiday season you were disappointed and surprised to find yourself behaving toward them as you did when you were a teenager. Maybe you caught yourself responding to your own children in a way that was reminiscent of how your parents treated you – something you had promised never to let happen. Where do these toxic ties with our past come from and how do we sever them?There are three major ways in which we can be ambushed by our ties to past. The first is through phenomenon of state dependent recall. In state dependent recall, a relatively uncommon mood state or emotion comes up, and magically unlocks memories of all times in our life when you felt a similar way. For example, if something a parent says reawakens a feeling of jealousy toward one of our siblings, we may find ourselves remembering all of times in past when we felt slighted or unfairly treated. This may in turn provoke an angry reaction that seems to come from out of blue. Another type of ambush happens when we are confronted with an emotional problem that is, for moment, unsolvable. Let’s suppose weeks leading up to holidays were stressful, but you didn’t realize how bad it had gotten until you tried to unwind on your days off. Instead of relaxing, you became increasingly anxious and found yourself keeping busy by nervously cleaning around house. Why cope with anxiety by keeping busy? The answer to this question may be found by thinking back to earliest time you can remember coping this way. Perhaps it was as a child listening to your parents fight that you found solace in tidying your room. This kind of reverting back to a previous successful solution is called regression.
| | Watch out What You are TakingWritten by Kay Zetkin
It is quite frightening to think about being a patient needing important medication but getting worse because of taking wrong drug. And indeed, this kind of fatal situations happen. In fact people that take over counter drugs might happen to become victim of this occurrence.Other things may also lead to adverse drug reactions on patients. According to research, there are over 4 million Americans who take as many as eight different prescription drugs each day. If there’s a particular research about older Americans, presumably they take even more than eight prescription drugs per day. There is high possibility that these people maybe taking right drugs according to prescriptions but in wrong combinations. Wrong combinations may be caused by taking herbal supplements, certain foods and vitamin products, alcohol, caffeine, over-the-counter drugs are being taken alongside prescription drugs. These are common situations that arise during cold and flu season. The effect may be very slight or worse, very fatal…. So what do we do so as not to be victim of these occurrences? The director of Pharmacy Affairs for Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy at Alexandria, Virginia, Marissa Schlaifer said that it is very important for those taking medications to talk with their pharmacist or doctors. Primarily, they should discuss drug, dosage and any possible interactions. Patients who consult with several doctors and uses more than one pharmacy must always be aware of this significant process when having to take medication. This should be an easy process since almost all pharmacies check for potential drug interaction on prescriptions they fill. If you are a patient whose health coverage is provided by a managed care organization, then it could be helpful. Plans provided by these managed care organizations center on helping patient safeguard against dangerous drug interactions, no matter where patients take their prescriptions.
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