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Chronic Pain, Depression, And Mental Suffering
MENTAL SUFFERING MATTERS If you’re in mental misery, for whatever reason, you can count on the people at the following site NOT to tell you to pull up your socks and whistle a happy tune. If you – or a friend or loved one – are mentally suffering (and anyone who’s been there knows there’s no suffering worse), please do spend some time searching this excellent website and gathering ways to help. Sometimes it helps just to know that you’re not the only person with this kind of problem. If things are really bad, click on the “Crisis Center” button on the right. http://mental-health-matters.com/ WHEN MEDICATION DOESN’T WORK Anyone who pooh-poohs antidepressive medications hasn’t been really, seriously depressed. In some unfortunate souls, however, antidepressive medications don’t work, or they work for awhile then cease to be effective. This article has some other options. But if you try these other options and they don’t work, insist that your doctor keep trying to find an antidepressant that works. If he doesn’t, FIND ANOTHER DOCTOR. http://depressiontreatmenthelp.org/clinical-depression-treatment.php TERRIFIED OF THE DENTIST? DOCSHOP has a good discussion of sedation dentistry, which uses “anesthesia during treatment to put patients into a relaxed state, almost like sleep.” http://www.docshop.com/education/dental/sedation-dentistry/ FIND A SEDATION DENTIST NEAR YOU The two sites below have listings of sedation dentists, so that you can find one near you: http://www.1stsedationdentist.com/ http://www.sedation--dentist.com/ CHRONIC PAIN If you or someone you know has unrelenting pain NOT connected to cancer, here are some useful websites: The Mayo Clinic’s website has the following article on the subject: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/chronic-pain/PN00048 You’ll find at the site below articles written by physicians specifically for those with chronic neck and back pain: Next, on the U.S. government site, put “pain, chronic” into the search box. Among other things, you’ll find scientific studies now being conducted on chronic pain; perhaps you can participate in one. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/disorder_index.htm And music surprisingly helps those with chronic pain and depression. “Different music has different effects on different people, and different effects on the same person at different points in time,” says researcher Sandra L. Siedliecki. Learn more at: http://www.ciaomed.org/articles.cfm?articleID=717 GET YOUR ANGRIES OUT The award winning ANGRIES OUT website is for angry parents, for angry kids, for grownups with small problems, for grownups with BIG problems: |
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