Self Help Blog December Archive

Research on Asperger's Syndrome

12/20/08 18:56

Asperger's Syndrome (AS) is a persuasive developmental disorder that most of the time is unrecognized even in adult psychiatric setting. Sometime the condition is coupled with other bipolar disorders.

A research by Michele Raja and Antonella Azzoni "Comorbidity of AS and Bipolar disorder describes three patients with such conditions. Mood stabilizer and 2nd gen. antipsychotics were able in treating these patiens with comorbid BD, more details on the link below.

Link: Comorbidity of Asperger's syndrome and bipolar disorder - 7thSpace Interactive

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Change Your Actions - Change Your Life Interview

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Change Your Actions - Change Your Life

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Kathy Stanton

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Scottsdale

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We teach a simple, two step process through which changing your actions can change your life. Our focus is the four main areas of life: health, wealth, spirit and relationships.

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Yoke Wellness Interview

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David C. Herzog, Psy.D.

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Pasadena

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The site describes my holistic professional practice that incorporates my training as a clinical psychologist, life coach, a yoga instructor and an art instructor. My practice help individuals identify barriers in their life that are keeping them from realizing their fullest potential and with this awareness, learn tools to help them be optimally successful in their personal and professional lives.

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Happiness may be contagious

What does it take to be happy? What does it mean to be happy? For many many years, psychologists and philosophers have long thought about these questions, and yet, the questions still remain.

One thing seems to be sure, happiness may be contagious. This is according to a recent Harvard and UC San Diego study. Wow, now I want to be around people who are happy!

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Spouse of the Bipolar

In the bipolar support community, it is said that the spouses rarely become the center of efforts to help the bipolars' caregivers. It is almost always the parents who are supported.

People who want to reach out to the spouses are relatively few, so it is quite suprising to find out that these people are rejected by the very groups that want to give support. So what do you do? go online, of course.

Link: Rejected Author Finds Audience in Spouses of Bipolar Husbands and Wives Online