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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Joyce Morrison has a doctor appointment today. But she may have to reschedule because with a broken leg, it will take a herculean effort to get her from her fourth-floor condominium to the car. The building elevator is out of order. It’s been out of order for 12 days.
And it isn’t expected to be repaired until Thursday at the earliest. That is if the parts are available.
“I’m going to have to get help in getting my wife down the stairs,” said Kyle Morrison.
The Morrisons and some of their neighbors in the 55-and-older community have been trying to get answers to why it’s taking so long for the elevator repair company to fix the only elevator that services the 80-unit building at the Bayshore on the Lake Condominium complex, on Lake Bayshore Drive off 38th Avenue West.
“We’re trying to get assistance to get the elevator repaired or replaced,” said Richard Jones, 72, who lives about four doors down from the Morrisons and uses an electric wheelchair to get around.
“The condo association says they don’t know when it will be fixed,” Jones said. “Every time I talk to someone, I get a different story.”
He said he has been depending on friends to bring him food and supplies, but he also has a doctor’s appointment that he doesn’t know how he’ll keep.
In an e-mail response to the Bradenton Herald, Scott Bole, of C&S Condominium Management Services Inc., wrote that Schindler Elevator, a national firm with offices in Tampa, was working on the problem.
“An attempt to rebuild the motor has failed and a new motor is to be installed as well as a pump, unfortunately it has been difficult for Schindler Elevator to secure all the necessary parts and a new motor,” Bole wrote in the e-mail.
“On behalf of the Board of Directors, we have been in contact with the elevator company three to five times a day regarding the elevator outage,” the e-mail states. “It has been a constant evolving and time consuming trouble shooting process that has continued to grow.”
A telephone message left with Dave Freeman at Schindler Elevator’s Tampa office was not returned.
Bole wrote in the e-mail, “According to Schindler Elevator, the work on the elevator should be completed by Thursday of this week unless the new parts do not arrive as scheduled.”
But a hand-written notice posted next to the elevator door said the repairs were expected to be finished by “Wednesday by noon,” which was crossed out, and “Hopefully Thursday,” was written, and then crossed out, and “Til further notice” was scribbled in.
“In the time frame it’s been broken down it should have been repaired by now,” said Charlie Gardner, who also lives on the fourth floor of the five-story building.
“If it takes any longer it would be a serious problem,” Gardner said.
“If the fire department had to evacuate it would be difficult.”
Neither the fire department nor Manatee County Code Enforcement Office has any jurisdiction over elevators being out of order.
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Financial pressure puts low- and medium-income women at particularly high risk for anxiety and depression after being diagnosed with the noninvasive breast cancer ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a U.S. study has found.
The study included 487 women with newly diagnosed DCIS who completed questionnaires about their financial, mental and physical health at the start of the study and again nine months after diagnosis.
At the nine-month follow-up, women with financial difficulties reported higher levels of anxiety and depression than those with no financial problems. In addition, women with financial difficulties said their feelings of anxiety and depression grew during the study period, while financially secure women reported a decrease in those feelings.
A woman’s education level didn’t appear to affect her risk for anxiety or depression, and social support didn’t ease the negative impact of financial problems on a patient’s mental health, the study authors noted.
“Women with medium or low socioeconomic status are forced to manage competing stressors: the stress of financial hardship and the stress of a major health event,” study author Janet de Moor, of the Ohio State University College of Public Health, said in a news release. “Because these concomitant stressors leave women vulnerable to escalating distress after their DCIS diagnosis, women with medium or low financial status may benefit from psychosocial interventions.”
The study was published online Feb. 8 in the journal Cancer.
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Parents in the Sanford Avenue School area say some of their worst fears were realized yesterday morning when an 11-year-old girl was hit and trapped under the front of a minivan as she raced across the street in front of the school.
The child was pinned under the front of the van just before 9 a.m. as she crossed from the east side of Sanford Avenue heading toward the school. She was walking with her older sister.
She was freed by firefighters who quickly raised the front of the van using portable airbags. She suffered only minor injuries but was taken to Hamilton General Hospital.
Police Sergeant Terri-Lynn Collings said the girl was hit in a “low impact” collision, which is still under investigation.
Melissa Webster, whose five- and seven-year-old children attend Sanford school, said the girl was crossing the street with her older sister when she was struck by a van turning out of the Pinky Lewis Recreation Centre parking lot.
Webster, who will not allow her seven year old to walk to school by himself “even though he thinks he’s old enough,” said morning traffic on Sanford worries parents.
“In the morning, they get going pretty good between Cannon and Barton,” she said, “and the school’s smack in the middle of the stretch.”
“I live nearby,” she said, “and when you hear the fire and ambulance and police sirens stop close, you know it’s a child.”
Albert Wetherald, of Stirton Street, said in an e-mail he has been asking for a crossing guard at the intersection of Huron Street and Sanford since late 2007. He said he was told a review of crossings in the area done in 2006 recommended Cannon Street East and Barton Street East as the best locations for crossings.
Neighbours say traffic in the school zone is very busy, and that many morning commuters use the Pinky Lewis parking lot as a shortcut between Wentworth Street North and Sanford Avenue.
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Buspar Possible Concerns Related to Buspirone’s Binding to Dopamine Receptors
Because buspirone can bind to central dopamine receptors, a question has been raised about its potential to cause acute and chronic changes in dopamine-mediated neurological function (eg, dystonia, pseudo-parkinsonism, akathisia, and tardive dyskinesia). Clinical experience in controlled trials has failed to identify any significant neuroleptic-like activity; however, a syndrome of restlessness, appearing shortly after initiation of treatment, has been reported in some small fraction of buspirone-treated patients. The syndrome may be explained in several ways. For example, buspirone may increase central noradrenergic activity; alternatively, the effect may be attributable to dopaminergic effects (ie, represent akathisia).
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
To assure safe and effective use of BuSpar, the following information and instructions should be given to patients:
1. Inform your physician about any medications, prescription or non-prescription, alcohol, or drugs that you are now taking or plan to take during your treatment with BuSpar.
2. Inform your physician if you are pregnant, or if you are planning to become pregnant, or if you become pregnant while you are taking BuSpar.
3. Inform your physician if you are breast-feeding an infant.
4. Until you experience how this medication affects you, do not drive a car or operate potentially dangerous machinery.
5. You should take BuSpar (buspirone hydrochloride) consistently, either always with or always without food.
6. During your treatment with BuSpar, avoid drinking large amounts of grapefruit juice.
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Buspar Interference with Cognitive and Motor Performance
Studies indicate that BuSpar is less sedating than other anxiolytics and that it does not produce significant functional impairment. However, its CNS effects in any individual patient may not be predictable. Therefore, patients should be cautioned about operating an automobile or using complex machinery until they are reasonably certain that buspirone treatment does not affect them adversely.
While formal studies of the interaction of BuSpar (buspirone hydrochloride) with alcohol indicate that buspirone does not increase alcohol-induced impairment in motor and mental performance, it is prudent to avoid concomitant use of alcohol and buspirone.
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Many of my female clients initially write to me to ask whether hormone imbalances which are present pre menstruation and during the menopause can influence anxiety and panic attacks. The simple answer is yes but it is a little more complicated than giving blame and living with it.
Yes, hormone imbalances during your period or the menopause can create the environment where you are more susceptible to anxiety disorders, but, not everyone develops anxiety or panic attacks so other factors must come into play.
You do not have to take medication or hormone supplements in order to eliminate the anxiety or panic attacks!
Although hormones may be the catalyst for your anxiety or panic attacks, they aren’t the cause and certainly doesn’t mean that you have to live with your symptoms. Anxiety and panic attacks are caused by a small organ in the brain called the Amygdala which is responsible for the anxiety reaction, even when hormone imbalances during menstruation or the menopause may have ’sparked’ the initial problem, you can quickly eliminate them again.
The Amygdala becomes ‘re-set’ at a higher than normal level creating anxiety and panic attacks.
Anxiety and panic attacks are not a symptom of the menopause or of hormone fluctuations, they are the spin off affect of those conditions. They may be the initial catalyst for the anxiety and panic attacks but they do not drive those conditions. Rather like a person who takes a drug, experiences a panic attack and then thinks that they have permanently changed their brain chemistry… it just isn’t true.
Anxiety and panic attacks need very little coaxing to get started. Once sparked, they are self perpetuating.
By correcting the imbalance in the Amygdala anxiety levels are returned to normal. This won’t, of course, affect your hormone imbalance but it will take away the anxiety and panic attacks making the situation a whole lot more comfortable and less distressing.
Anxiety and panic attacks are not a ‘normal’, or acceptable, symptoms of the menstrual cycle or menopause. I promise you that they can be reduced and eliminated quickly and simply using the correct method.
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
I’m going to share with you a few tips on how to stop your panic attacks. I’ve had them for almost 30 years so I believe I have some information that will help you out….
This is how to stop your panic attacks
Tell yourself in your mind that you have gone through a panic attack before and you lived, and this attack is no different. Laugh out loud at it and do reverse psychology on it. When you lapse, immediately get involved in something to keep your mind instantly busy to take your mind off the immediate thoughts until your manifested thoughts subside.
Force yourself to get your mind involved in a funny television show. If you can’t sit for obvious reasons stand up and watch it and pace around until your mind eases. Take a few deep breaths.
Start drinking a bunch of water telling yourself in your mind that it cools you down and makes you feel better. Drinking water Is like an IV the hospital gives you. It works!
Stand by your computer and go to YouTube and watch funny videos until your thoughts subside
Start talking to someone about anything if you can stand still and not look like your freaked out. (Depends on the level) until your mind eases.
Don’t fight it. Let it come and take its course and assure yourself that you will live because you have had them before. Also remember that as the author of these tips I’m sharing with you, that I’ve had severe panic disorder of the worst kind and if I can live this long with this disorder than so can you….
The more you beat your panic attack away from the places that make you feel comfortable the more will power you will get at beating the panic attack next time in places that normally make you feel uncomfortable and keep you from lapsing when your out and about.
Those were some of the techniques I’ve used over the last 30 years to help stop my panic attacks when I was having them.
After nearly 30 years, I do not get panic attacks anymore. But I use to have severe panic attacks where my heart would actually start skipping beats while I was having an attack along with all the other panic attack symptoms that are so typical but very terrifying. Like an intense feeling of unreality like I was going to die of a heart attack or stop breathing any second as my chest was hurting and the palms of my hands were sweating.
Well…. I don’t want to get into to much more detail as I know this can also stress you out and possibly lead into your own panic attack. Just remember this… you will not die from your panic attack.
I also want to tell you something extremely important about your panic disorder that you may or may not know….
The couple of techniques I shared with you above will only help you while your actually having a panic attack. To stop your panic attacks forever you need to get to the root of your disorder which is breaking your perpetual loop of being afraid to have your next panic attack, which leads to you obsessing when your next panic attack will come.
Its a vicious circle and it all sounds crazy, but your afraid of being afraid.
If you don’t stop worrying and obsessing about when your next panic attack will come they will just keep compounding daily, weekly, monthly and yearly and can have significant negative affects on your personality that can lead to avoidence of certain places or things. You will also develop poor relationships with people as you start withdrawling and become more introverted, which can also not only affect your relationships, but your job performance, your quality of life, and your overall health.
Since your panic attacks are triggered by fearing fear itself, then Your probably wondering how do you stop worrying about when your next panic attack will come if it completely scares the hell out of you each time that you have a panic attack?
How Do you break your perpetual loop of fear that causes you to constantly think about when your next panic attack will come, which then triggers yet more panic attacks inside you?
How do you stop your panic attacks forever? Is it even possible?
Honestly after 30 years I had no clue it was even possible to stop my panic attacks forever since my constant fear over the years had deeply damaged my thought process from all the panic attacks I had.
Maybe you’ve only had one panic attack before? Maybe you’ve had panic attacks only a few times? Maybe you have panic attacks all the time like I use to?
Whatever your case, I can tell you that based not only on my first hand experiences having panic attacks myself for years and years, but also being highly educated about panic disorder, that your panic attacks are not over. They will only continue to get worse over time and eventually haunt you for the rest of your life unless you find out how to stop your panic attacks forever.
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
People who are anxious tend to breathe in their upper lungs (upper chest) with shallow, rapid breaths, instead of breathing into their lower lungs (lower chest). This is one contribution to hyperventilation: shallow, upper lung breathing.
The three breathing skills that I will describe next start with inhaling into your lower lungs. This is a deeper, slower breath. Below the lungs is a sheetlike muscle, the diaphragm, which separates the chest form the abdomen. When you fill your lower lungs with air, the lungs push down on the diaphragm and cause your abdominal region to protrude. Your stomach looks as though it is expanding and contracting with each diaphragmatic breath.
The first breathing skill is called Natural Breathing, or abdominal breathing. In fact, this is a good way to breathe all day long, unless you are involved in physical activity. In other words, you should practice breathing this way all day long, since it provides for sufficient oxygen intake and controls the exhalation of carbon dioxide.
It’s very simple and it goes like this:
Gently and slowly inhale a normal amount of air through your nose, filling your lower lungs. Then exhale easily. You might first try it with one hand on your stomach and one on your chest. As you inhale gently, your lower hand should rise while your upper hand stays still. Continue this gentle breathing pattern with a relaxed attitude, concentrating on filling only the lower lungs.
As you see, this breathing pattern is opposite of that which comes automatically during anxious moments. Instead of breathing rapidly and shallowly into the upper lungs, which expands the chest, you breathe gently into the lower lungs, expanding the abdomen.
The second technique is deep diaphragmatic breathing and can be used during times when you are feeling anxious or panicky. It is a powerful way to control hyperventilation, slow a rapid heartbeat and promote physical comfort. For this reason we will call it the Calming Breath.
Calming Breath
1. Take a long, slow breath in through your nose, first filling your lower lungs, then your upper lungs.
2. Hold your breath to the count of “three.”
3. Exhale slowly through pursed lips, while you relax the muscles in your face, jaw, shoulders, and stomach.
Practice this Calming Breath at least ten times a day for several weeks. Use it during times of transition, between projects or whenever you want to let go of tension and begin to experience a sense of calmness. This will help you become familiar and comfortable with the process. And use it any time you begin to feel anxiety or panic building. When you need a tool to help you calm down during panic, you will be more familiar and comfortable with the process.
The third technique is called Calming Counts. It has two benefits over Calming Breath. First, it takes longer to complete: about 90 seconds instead of 30 seconds. You will be spending that time concentrating on a specific task instead of paying so much attention to your worried thoughts. If you can let time pass without such intense focus on your fearful thoughts, you will have a better chance at controlling those thoughts. Second, Calming Counts, like Natural Breathing and the Calming Breath, help access the Calming Response. That means you will be giving yourself 90 seconds to cool your body out and quiet your thoughts. Then, after that time has passed, you will less anxious than you were.
Here’s how this skill works:
Calming Counts
1. Sit comfortably.
2. Take a long, deep breath and exhale it slowly while saying the word “relax” silently.
3. Close your eyes.
4. Let yourself take ten natural, easy breaths. Count down with each exhale, starting with “ten.”
5. This time, while you are breathing comfortably, notice any tensions, perhaps in your jaw or forehead or stomach. Imagine those tensions loosening.
6. When you reach “one,” open your eyes again.
As you apply these skills, keep two things in mind. First, our breathing is dictated in part by our current thoughts, so make sure you also work on changing your negative thoughts, as well as your breathing, during panic. And second, these skills work to the degree you are willing to concentrate on them. Put most of your effort into not thinking about anything else — not your worried thoughts, not what you will do after you finish the breathing skill, not how well you seem to be at this skill — while you are following the steps of these skills.
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
During an emergency, our breathing rate and pattern change. Instead of breathing slowly from our lower lungs, we begin to breathe rapidly and shallowly from our upper lungs. If during this time we are not physically exerting ourselves, then it can produce a phenomenon called “hyperventilation.” This in turn can explain many of the uncomfortable symptoms during panic:
* dizziness
* shortness of breath
* a lump in the throat
* tingling or numbness in the hands or feet
* nausea
* confusion.
The good news is that by changing your breathing you can reverse these symptoms.
By shifting your breathing rate and pattern, you can stimulate the body’s parasympathetic response. This is the body’s equally powerful and opposite system to the Emergency Response and is often called the relaxation response. For our purposes I will call it the Calming Response.
The table below lists the physical changes that take place in the Calming Response. As you can see, all of the primary changes of the Emergency Response are reversed in this process. One of the differences in these two physical responses is that of time. The Emergency Response takes place instantly in what is called a mass action: all the changes occur together. Once we flip on that emergency switch, it takes awhile for the body to respond to our calming skills. For this reason it is important for you to know what specific skills will reverse this emergency response and will help calm your body and clear your mind.
You will now be introduced to three breathing skills. In later steps you will learn how to change your fearful thinking and your negative imagery, because each time you frighten yourself with catastrophic thoughts or images, you re-stimulate your body’s emergency response. To begin with, however, you need a solid foundation in proper breathing.
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