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Stress, coping and medical procedures

26 May, 2008 in emotions, health, links, stress | Tags: abuse, adaptation, adapting, adaptive coping behaviour, adjustment, anxiety, appraisal, attainment, behaviour, blogging, care, challenges, children, cognitive-behavioural, convalescence, coping, counselling, counsellors, depression, depressive, despair, disability, disillusionment, distress, emergency, emotions, enjoyment, examination, experiences, exposure, factors, family, feelings, friends, gender, gmc, healing, hope, hospitalisation, ibsen, illness, impact, injury, intervention, invluence, leisure, litigation, medical malpractice, medicine, melanoma, mindset, network, optimism, outcome, pediatrics, perception, physician, positivity, postpartum depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, precipitants, preparation, procedures, protection, psychologists, psychology, ptsd, recovery, rehabilitation, repression, research, resource, response, Richard Lazarus, ruminating, satisfaction, self-esteem, sensitization, skills, social support, socioeconomic status, strength, stress, students, support, surgery, survivors, threat, tolerance, trauma, traumatic, treatment, vulnerability, wellbeing | Leave a comment

Stressresponses arise when exposures to adverse life experiences outstrip protective psychosocial resources, leading to a failure of coping and adaptation – Lazarus RS. Stress and Emotion: A New Synthesis, 1st ed. London: Free Association Books; 1999

from Psychosomatic Medicine – Socioeconomic Status Differences in Coping With a Stressful Medical Procedure

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Meditation documentary, BBC 31st March 2008

2 April, 2008 in emotions, health, meditation, stress | Tags: anxiety, attention, bbc, brain, breathing, buddhism, cardio-vascular, CBT, cognitive-behavioural therapy, coronary, cortex, cortical thickness, Dalai Lama, depression, documentary, emotions, health, heart, Herbert Benson, Kathmandu, Kathy Sykes, links, Marharishi Vedic City, Mark Williams, Matthieu Ricard, MBCT, meditation, mindfulness, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Nepal, nhs, observation, open university, papers, relaxation, relaxation response, research, reviews, Richard Davidson, Sarah Lazar, self-doubt, sensations, sensory processing, sitting, stimuli, stress, thoughts, transcendental meditation, tv | 1 comment

Alternative Therapies – Meditation, with Dr Kathy Sykes

Matthieu Ricard (French) - translator for Dalai Lama – Nepal, Kathmandu, meditation
Dr Herbert Benson – the relaxation response - book
Marharishi Vedic City
- Transcendental meditation, impact on coronary health
pubmed.gov for papers
- “reviews” collate information from a number of papers, periodically
Professor Mark Williams, Oxford
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
- Anti-depression/clinical-depression
- 80% mindfulness meditation, 20% cognitive therapy
- Uses meditation similar to that taught by Mattiau in Nepal
  - Buddhist practices
  - focus on breathing
- Observing without trying to fix
- Seeing thoughts as just thoughts
- Reduces risk of recurrence by up to 50% in patients who have had 3 or more depressive episodes
- Helps other anxiety – can help everyone (universal anxieties, self-doubts etc, awareness)
- Available to some on the NHS
Dr Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Meditation shifts brain activity over time from left-hand-side to right-hand-side
Dr Sarah Lazar
- Meditation over time is associated with increased cortical thickness
- Effects are cumulative (“every minute sitting counts”)
- Cortex associated with attention and sensory processing
  - alters ability to concentrate
  - alters response to “sensory” stimuli – physical sensations (pain, hunger etc) but also emotional sensations (fear, anger etc)

Grief and creativity

28 March, 2008 in emotions | Tags: acceptance, anger, bargaining, creativity, denial, depression, emotions, grief, loss, obsession, repression, shock | Leave a comment

The impact of grief on creativity