Heavy snoring is not only annoying but it has its fair share of health hazards as well. It could lead to lack of energy, decrease in productivity, high blood pressure, heart failure and stroke.

There are many reasons why people snore, it could be that they are too tired and they snooze it all right away, or there is an excessive intake of alcohol, drinking sleeping pills and excessive weight gain.

According to professionals, there are a lot of ways to stop heavy snoring and the key to this is by getting a proper diagnosis of the problem itself. There are a lot of surgical techniques that will surely help patients.

If you think that your spouse is about to kick you out of your place because you never let her sleep at night, then get some help immediately before your relationship takes a deep sleep and snooze away.

In New York City, there were speculations that an ambulance who will be equipped with a selected group of paramedics will be roaming around the city waiting for a deceased body and shall preserve the organ so that it can be donated to those who are in desperate need of replacements.

This will be a rapid organ recovery ambulance who will also have a counselor on board who will then talk to families about donating the organs. Of course, this action would raise a lot of ethical questions. There will be a point wherein people would think that the paramedics will simply let the patients die so that their organs could be donated. Another thing is that most family members may think that this act is rather ghoulish in nature although top medical officials would say that this is a very good move in order to save lives of several hundreds of people.

There is no absolute time yet as to when the ambulance will begin to roam the streets. As a precaution, they have noted that the ambulance will have no contact with paramedics on duty and that a supervisor will be the one to call the organ recovery team in not less than 5 minutes after the patient is declared dead.

Their next step for now is to consult with a large number of New Yorkers which will include religious groups. They said that if the general public is not yet satisfied with their answers, then they will not push forward with their pilot test.

In a couple of months after a devastating attack, stroke victims are more likely to succumb to depression but then taking a few antidepressant drugs may reduce that risk according to a new study. While antidepressants are proven to work, problem-solving therapy also has the ability to lower the risk of depression among the victims.

Being a survivor of stroke carries the possibility of having a lot of difficulty in recovering the activities of daily life which will in turn lead to depression. This happens to more than half of the estimated 700,000 people in the United States who will have stroke.

The study in itself is centered in post-stroke depression which is a very important clinical problem. It gives evidence that pharmacological treatment will help decrease the chances of survivors from having post-stroke depression and that there could be a possible role for behavioral intervention as well. It is an important study because it can convince more people to start on preventive therapy and monitor closely for depression and then immediately start the therapy.

As of now, researchers and experts are still working on the proper treatment pattern and that what professionals should focus on right now is to evaluate patients through physical, occupational and speech therapy to help them cope up with their regular lifestyle before they went through the terror of stroke.

The Harvard University and the London Institute of Psychiatry is offering free therapy in Auckland for those who are suffering depression for the first time. The team of International researchers will also get help from Massey University’s Centre for Psychology by getting data from therapy sessions with volunteers. This data will be used to understand further the dynamics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

The people behind this great activity says that the findings of this study will be used to offer hope for those who are suffering depression and to help them out since some of them do not have access to affordable and effective treatment. They said that the treatment will also teach them how to become their own therapists so they can learn how to deal with their own problems in very difficult situations.

Illicit drug abuse and drug addiction are problems that impact millions of families all over the world. When an individual becomes addicted to drugs, it has the potential to tear apart relationships and ruin lives. Thankfully, to help these individuals and those who love them, there is drug rehab.

What is drug rehab?

Drug rehab (or “drug rehabilitation”) refers to the process of taking an individual who has developed a drug addiction and helping them get clean and sober. Drug rehab programs treat a variety of addictions, including cocaine, heroin, crystal meth, marijuana, prescription painkillers and other highly addictive substances. Rehabilitation is accomplished by a variety of methods that vary according to the facility, but likely include the following:

* Drug detox – Most drug rehab programs offer drug detoxification, the process in which all harmful toxins associated with the drug are given a chance to leave the body. Proper rehab can’t begin until detox has been completed (with the drugs in the bloodstream, the chances for relapse are much higher). Given the discomfort associated with potential withdrawal symptoms, it is always recommended that drug detox is overseen by a medical professional (like those found in a drug rehab program).
* Drug counseling – The central point of drug rehab, group and individual counseling provide the individual with a chance to explore the reasons behind their drug use. Expert drug therapists and counselors work with the individual to help change their behaviors moving forward, so that they make better decisions and stay sober.
* Preparation for life after rehab – The counselors at drug rehab understand that when the treatment program has ended, many challenges are just beginning. That is why drug rehab programs help guide the individual towards after-care programs, which may include additional counseling, 12-step programs (such as Narcotics Anonymous), residence in sober living homes and other methods of easing the recovering addict back into “mainstream” society.

Drug rehab facilities generally fall into two major types: residential and outpatient. At residential drug rehab, the individual stays at the facility 24/7. Here, an addict is removed from the distractions of everyday life so that they can focus solely on their recovery. At outpatient drug rehab centers, the individual still receives outstanding care for their addiction, but attends programs during the day, and then returns home in the evening. Which type of facility an individual chooses depends upon factors such as the style of treatment being offered, cost, and the feasibility of putting one’s life on hold to go away to a residential treatment center.

What does a therapist do for those in rehab?

The therapist plays a pivot role in the recovery of the individual. Drug rehab therapists can either hold individual counseling sessions, which provide an opportunity to get to know the patient and learn the root causes of his or her addiction, or they may also lead group counseling sessions. These group counseling sessions are a wonderful opportunity for the individual to open up, perhaps for the first time, about their drug addiction, and share stories and lend support to others who are in similar circumstances. The therapist oversees these group sessions and makes sure the discussion is kept to relevant topics, and that everyone is benefiting from the dialogue.

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Warning: First and foremost, if you are plagued with severe migraines or headaches, you should have a medical examination that will rule out any physiological reality you might have to deal with in order to heal. But, if you have migraines that appear to accompany your PMS or surround your menstrual cycles, I invite you to read on.

Diane spent a third of each month with migraines for which nobody in the medical world advised her to consult in therapy for. Synchronicity had it such that we met at a three-day workshop on art therapy.
A very nice woman indeed. We had our meals together and learned about each other’s life and career. On the last day of our workshop, she claims she will probably have to cut it short for her monthly ordeal of migraines is showing its nose.

A light throbbing has worked its way up her neck and this is how it normally starts. I can see pain in her eyes and face; I can imagine what an ordeal it must be to have that ghost show up every month. She literally becomes paralyzed for days and all her life is put on a stand still.

She is 38 years young. She has 2 young children and a comprehensive husband who helps her as much as he can during those moments. On the other side of the coin, these migraines have literally stopped her advancement on the work force; everybody knows about her absence from work and compensates for her.
Pills help her a bit but they never lead her back to a normal life. The rest of the time she is fine and catches up with her routine.
Who would want that life? Nor you or me! Not Diane either.

For the last ten years, I have researched PMS and its links to our subconscious. You read well. We all have unknown and unconscious situations that we have far too long left aside, unattended, unlooked and misunderstood. We also have a myriad of limiting beliefs about anything and everything. So it is about your many physical and emotional symptoms whether medicine calls it PMS or cancer.
Did you know that 39% of the women I surveyed have similar symptoms if not every month, more often than they should?
Ten years ago when I discovered my first link between PMS and the subconscious, I was totally flabbergasted about my own discovery and results. I kept researching PMS and its links to our subconscious, and migraines came up too often.

I offered Diane to look at the possible links and the reasons why her body was reacting as such in her life. She happily consented. After an hour together, she realized how much she had just adopted a pattern that came from her own mother. As we were doing this introspection, she was amazed her pain had not become worse as it would have done in the past.
“My mother used to have that same symptom month after month after month all her life. I can see how Mom also had developed a pattern of her own.”

I offered to Diane that we keep in touch and that I help her during the following months. Along the way in our conversation, she also discovered she was a savior with everybody around her. I told her that Mother Teresa had a perfect role cut out for her and she never burned out while alive. Diane, I discovered, has concerns and issues she allowed the world to put in front of her. Like so many women, she has been educated to care and had not granted herself the permission to set healthy limits. Most of us have to learn to say “NO!” at times.

She reflected long and hard to realize she did not have to be SO GOOD! Because the one who ends up paying after all, IS HER. And at what price?
Every symptom has its own limiting belief. What is yours? Where does it come from? From whom have you copied it or believed you had no choice but go along with it?

All these simple yet profound questions will help you finally connect to your own true self. You may find in the process that it becomes important you take some parts of your life in your own hands.
I wish you great success and please let me know how you are doing.

Pauline Houle is Therapist with 20 years experience. She has a background in Social Work and Psychodynamic trainings that really make a difference in people’s lives. She has a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Studies, which has been a great help in keeping her focused on the big picture of PMS and what women need to know in order to heal it.

Contact: Pauline Houle : pms@paulinehoule.com
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written by: Pauline Houle
Licensed Psychotherapist
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Masters in Transpersonal Studies

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Is your PMS a curse that pushes you to buy a cure at any price?

It appears in many articles I have read and from many discussions I have had with different colleagues in the health and therapeutic fields, that women want a cure for their monthly curse.

They do not care where it comes from or why they got it worse this past month! Nor do they care that it only started to show up in their life after their 5th wedding anniversary or why they’ve had PMS from the very first cycle of their menses…

So many women do not mind taking a pill to smooth their biochemical mechanism, if their hormones want to dance all night when all they wish to do is sleep! Their choice of cures ranges from vitamins and alternative approaches to pharmaceutical anti-depressant pills when it is not a needle helping them suppress their menses for three months at a time. In a nutshell, they appear to think that a PMS cure happens from something outside themselves! Why is that so?

I have reflected on the myriad of influences, with which women of our era have been bombarded, and I have a possible conclusion: women have been told so often — and it goes back to our own mothers — that they have to keep it quiet or else get out of the kitchen! Well, many of us have left the kitchen but I am not sure it was in our best interest.
As a dear male friend of mine, himself in the medical field, relayed to me: “Women have been told to take their Motrin and shut up!”

And apparently we have complied. It reminds me of the old saying that when a man is angry, he asserts himself; when a woman is angry, she is hysteric! By the way, the word “hysteric” is in direct connection with “hysterectomy” or the removal of the uterus! Hum… something to reflect upon.

Another conclusion I came to, that we have for so long relinquished our power to medical science (for they know so much we don’t), hardly anyone dares argue with them.
Two clans have developed since women entered the scientific world; one side embraces every thought the male world has and tries to become like men while the other side fights hard to bring an intuitive sense to it all, oftentimes feeling they are fighting a losing battle.

I truly believe both genders have important qualities and are compatible; but this is where the recipe got lost. Men, coupled with the reality that we exist in a patriarchal society, have far too long led science by themselves.

No matter what science dictates, more and more people have added alternative approaches to their lifestyle - and for the better, I feel. The medical field can perform tasks short of miracles, but so can alternative approaches when all else fails. For others, alternative approaches are still considered “old wives’ tales.” And oftentimes, proponents of scientific medicine refuse to see the proven results of alternative therapies, no matter how many times they see it.

If you will read Molecules of Emotion by Candace B. Pert, you will understand how her path to seek the truth was met with incomprehension and objections from the predominantly male/scientific world. It seems that even pure science has difficulty looking emotions straight in the eye. No matter how many proofs Pert could bring about, men just did not give credibility to her findings, possibly because they did not want to observe a certain reality themselves.

Some fundamental neuro-cognitive research by Paul McLean reveals how our frontal lobe is of a more “feminine” nature as it serves us with vision, which cannot be seen under microscope from a scientific standpoint.

If you read a Woman’s Book of Life by Joan Borysenko, you will discover a physician who decided to activate her inner wisdom and approach illness from an “inner eye.” She will help you understand that human beings are much more than physical in nature.

The medical intuitive Caroline Myss is another example that is very provoking for the scientific world. Her adult years awoke in her the realization that she was able to detect illnesses in someone she had not met, even from a distance, and be proven accurate by medical science. We may choose to be doubting but somewhere deep down within, we have no choice but to realize that such a reality, even if totally invisible to the majority of us, exists.

Dr. Gladys McGarey, who is well in her seventies, has for so many decades brought her patients in touch with their emotions and feelings.

These women have all finally listened to, and understood, their inner voice and have gifted science with such an important component, that is: the mind-body connection. I feel akin to these researchers of truth for they all bring in such a vital and undeniable component. As Wayne Dyer often says: “We are spiritual beings going through a human experience.” How true!
I can only hope for the women who let me know in no uncertain terms that pharmaceuticals are their “soup du jour” to take care of their PMS, that they find moments in their days to reflect on their wholeness and the many realities of which they are composed, and at least orient their openness to look at what else within themselves can be done to heal.

Women have fought so hard to come out of the closet and be acknowledged as equals that maybe we have gone overboard. We have lost our true femininity, our intuitive gifts, our resonance with nature, and most of all our inner calling to listen to our healer within. But we still have the power to recover.

I will grant that it might take a different frame of mind to undertake a path less traveled and strive to find out one’s truth. The reality is that each person is unique, which makes it very difficult, or virtually impossible, to invent a “one pill fits all.”

Every woman I have helped with her PMS has a very unique history, a very intimate relationship with her symptoms, and also a very limiting belief system. Many feared becoming different because change is scary. But guess what? If you do not change, you will remain the same. If you want to achieve a different result you cannot continue to repeat the same old losing behavior. If you remain the same, you become static and regress; that is a law of nature. Although truth does not have to be shocking, many times: Truth shall set you free but first it is going to piss you off!

Every action and every thought creates a reaction. We have been so brainwashed to become busy and unconscious about our daily routine, we do not know how to mind our inner medicine woman, this intimate healer within.

It has become so much easier to relinquish the decision to the “Big Medical Guru” that we really have lost how we can even think for ourselves. So many women have lost their true identity for the sake of a career, for the sake of being recognized as a worthy piece of society. We keep focusing outside ourselves, for this is what we have come to know best.
Cancer is one of the leading causes in our list of severe illnesses and I find it so revealing that women’s breast cancer is on the rise. Doesn’t that ring a bell to many of you out there?

How many lives will we allow to be taken before we wake up and realize we are trying to do too much? Women have become workaholics for their job, at home, with the kids, and then top it off with volunteer work for their church or community. Maybe we should start labeling cancer as the “Saint’s disease!”

Dr. Bernie Siegel routinely asks his patients what emotional trauma they went through before developing cancer, and Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer from Germany has shown that in many thousand cases every patient diagnosed with cancer experienced a traumatic moment in the months or years before the illness showed up. Herein follows Dr. Hamer’s quote: “Through the millennia, humanity has more or less consciously known that all diseases ultimately have a psychic origin and it became a “scientific” asset firmly anchored in the inheritance of universal knowledge; it is only modern medicine that has turned our animated beings into a bag full of chemical formulas.”

As I conclude this article, I really urge you all, dear women of this planet, to look deep and hard at the limiting beliefs you have had all along. Start imagining what life you should have that would be best for you. Every action has a cost!

Who have read the book of Paolo Coelho? I am a huge fan. Funny as it may seem, my friend’s psychiatrist recommended this book to him after one of their sessions. He was there because basically, after losing the relationship that he loved the most, his whole world collapsed and there he was, sitting alone with so many thoughts in his mind but he has no power to accomplish anything. He was a total bum.

Why did the psychiatrist recommend this book? Because it is a very inspirational novel that is well written and everyone can make a deep connection with the characters of the story. It all began with a boy who had a dream or a personal legend. He was doubtful at first but he listened to the voice of his inner heart and before he knew it, he became an alchemist himself. The story was touching, compelling and moving. I guess this was the novel that made Paolo Coelho the ultimate magician who made his books disappear from stalls right after the release.

I suggest that you read this novel too. It is moving and may end up being one of the best therapy methods you have evern encountered.

Is there such as thing as sex addiction? Many professionals believe there is. I believe in it myself. If you could still remember Pamela Roger, the one who got 13 counts of statutory rape last 2005, she is a sex addict. She confessed what she done and is willing to go through rehabilitation.

Sex addiction is often the problem of men. Some would say that it is an excuse for cheating and some would say that it is a disease. Yes, professionals consider it a disease or an addiction. Although it is not through chemical means, it has something to do with the urge to do it just like gambling for example.

Professionals say that some are addicted to sex because of low self esteem and they needed an outlet to prove that they are something. Everything starts with just searching and watching porn for a few hours a day and then it will lead to using prostitutes whenever they can. This is very alarming since it can destroy lives, careers and more importantly - families.

This addiction is being dealt with by professionals and if you think that you are having this problem, seek help before it is too late.

Last night, I got a late call from my friend who recently visited a therapist. Well, basically he just called to tell me how beautiful his new therapist was but I got interested with the fact that he said that he went through Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

As I did a little search in Google while he was talking, I saw that according to REBT, our emotions result from our personal beliefs, interpretations and reactions to life events. It is actually a type of cognitive therapy and is based more on thinking and doing than with the expression of feelings.

After hours of therapy, he told me that REBT taught him to have an unconditional self - acceptance. He lost his ego after his divorce with this wife so he really could not accept himself until such time he went to therapy. He learned that the world and people are fallible and that everyone must learn to accept themselves, life’s problems and hassles and that unfairness.