Monthly Archives: December 2015

Surviving Match: Personal Stories

    While reflecting back on the internship match process, a lot of mixed emotions surfaced like anger, anxiety, sadness, acceptance, and elation. Sounds a lot like the five stages of grief because that is exactly what it felt like, … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids Catch-Up: The Holiday Blues

  The happiest time of year can actually be quite miserable. For a select few, the months of November and December can be overwhelming, stressful, exhausting, depressing and filled with dread. The thoughts of finding the ideal gift, planning the … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids: Sydenham’s Chorea

The link between mental illness and viral/bacterial/parasitic infections is proving to be greater than we ever imagined. Many neurological disorders are now known to be caused by infections in addition to already known genetic and other factors. Sydenham’s chorea (SD) … Continue reading

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Individual Autonomy and Peer Support

    This is a note from a personal perspective:   I have studied the Peer Support Training Manual from front to back.  I know the evidence-based practices involved.  It is something that I must practice daily so to override … Continue reading

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Friday Factoid: Toxoplasma Gindii

    An interesting tidbit of information that recently caught this writer’s attention is the possibility that we are susceptible to psychiatric disorders stemming from parasites. That is not to say that all or even the majority of those diagnosed … Continue reading

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Friday Factoids: Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections

Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections, or PANDAS for short, was a relatively new term that this writer was not very familiar with more than three weeks ago. For those of you like this writer who were unaware … Continue reading

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Surviving Match: Personal Stories

  As more and more strands of my hair began to entwine around the bristles of my brush instead of staying attached to my head, I knew I had a problem. I immediately contacted my family doctor, made an appointment … Continue reading

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