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posted 03/23/2008, comments (9)

A few questions - please help!! :(

My brother has schizophrenia and it happened 6 years ago... when he was in university.. he's only 25 now. He graduated (but took him longer than usual) and he's working now. I guess he's got a mild sz. The last 3 days I've been trying to research non-stop about schizophrenia, I want some answers. He acted weird 2 days ago and... Read more Chevron

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posted 03/21/2008, comment (1)

Heart Health Update

In here, I've talked about my visits to Dr. Krall, the primary care doctor who monitors my blood work every three months. Yesterday, I arrived to her office for fasting blood work, and her assistant had me step on the scale, and took my blood pressure. I'd lost 7 pounds since renewing my effort to attend the gym at least three or four... Read more Chevron

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posted 03/09/2008, comments (3)

Coping Skills - #3A - Others Don't Make You Angry

Becoming angry at what someone has said and/or done to us, or about us, and exhibiting the behaviors that society has defined as an appropriate in response to such an offense, almost always uses up a lot of time and energy. Our time and energy are not unlimited and to waste these on such emotions as anger and its associated behaviors is... Read more Chevron

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posted 03/03/2008, comment (1)

Coping Skill - #2B - Active Listening

In this blog, I intend to define and provide an example of how Active Listening works, but before I do that I want to personally thank Don Fraser, David Robbins and Ellen G. for their comments on my blog entitled Coping Skills #2A - Active Listening which I posted on February 24th, as well as the comments they have made on earlier blogs... Read more Chevron

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posted 02/26/2008, comments (2)

New Research in Schizophrenia Treatment

Being a biological scientist by training with graduate work in psychology, and having developed schizophrenia over fifty years ago at the age of thirteen, I was thrilled to see the article in the February 24, 2008 issue of The New York Times by Alex Berenson concerning the initial success of researchers in treating schizophrenia using... Read more Chevron

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