By Patrick Omari
 It's because of the monster, I told my friends. You can't stay the night at my flat because of the monster.
No, I wasn't talking about the one who lives in the wardrobe. He's scared of strangers. I'm talking about the monster in my head that makes me wash my hands dozens of times a day because I'm terrified of germs.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD if you can't be bothered to say the whole thing. There, I've said it. I've admitted it, I've named him. The dark secret I carry around with me, that I joke about so you don't guess at the real nightmare behind it, there it is.
OCD is the reason why I have the face of a girl in her late twenties, but the hands of someone who's spent the past 40 years as a scullery maid. Why when you see me washing my hands in the ladies', using more soap than a surgeon, I've not been working down a sewer - that's just how I wash my hands all the time. I get through bottles |
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By Mercedes Oestermann van Essen
 The road to self mastery can be challenging. The path to wisdom is littered with failed attempts, frustration before the new insights and snippets of enlightenment take hold.
Just like anything in life personal development and mastery of the self requires persistence, discipline and the willingness at times to deal with stuff which is not on your Christmas wish list.
If you stick with it the pay offs are better mind control, the ability to step back and evaluate your life, your ambitions and the rest of the world with calm non attachment. Those of you who are into Zen will testify to the invaluable benefits of non attachment to events.
So we have the tools, but times are tough. Your best intentions are challenged and the build up to Christmas highlights all that personal stuff that is not going so well. And then there is the economy and the pervasive doom and gloom around us.
It is always the same old story. We get caught up in the collective consciousness and lose our own independence |
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By Jonas Smith
 One of the first things that will happen to you when you quit drugs is detoxification. This is where all traces of the drug are removed from your body. You should not try to detox without the help of a doctor, and the rehab center will have medical staff to help you through. There are also some drugs that can aid in detox that you might be given, of course under a doctor's supervision. The next articles gives more in-depth information about detoxification. You will be part of a community of individuals all trying to get help for their addictions. Many rehab centers operate as a small community and decisions about life at the center are often made collaboratively.
You may be required to take classes or attend lectures about various aspects of drug addiction. These are important because they can help you lay a foundation for life after you are released from the program.
You will also probably have group therapy which will entail talking to others and listening to what they have to say. Participation in this program |
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By Dr. Jennifer Baxt, DMFT, NCC, DCC
 When people think of depression, they tend to focus more on how it affects a person mentally. It is true that depression is caused by either a chemical imbalance, a traumatic event or is a condition that is passed down through genetics; however, regardless of the reason why someone has developed depression, it can have an negative impact on a persons physical health. It could be that they have lost interest in caring for their appearance, or lost interest in an activity they would normally enjoy on a regular business. Depression can even affect a persons weight by either gaining or losing weight, depending on whether they have decided to try and self-medicate their depression with food or by ignoring food all together.
It is common for depression to affect a persons weight, more so than most realize. The change in weight has even been caused by some anti-depressants that some depressed people have been prescribed; however, the common result of serious depression appears to be the loss of weight. In this situation, the person has lost interest in |
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By suegold
 Homeopathy is a system of medicine introduced by a german physician Dr Samuel Hahnemann. He was basically an allopathic doctor who has left the practise because of side effects and temporary relief of symptoms of allopathy. For his bread and butter he started translating the medical books to different languages. While he was translating cullen's materia medica he came across a herbal medicine called cinchona. It was written that cinchona can cure malaria and it can also produce symptoms similar to malaria on healthy individuals. This point clicked hahnemann's brain and he prepared an extract of cinchona bark and taken himself. To his surprise he developed some symptoms of malaria like chills and achings. He started doing the same experiment on different individuals and the result was the same.
By this experiment hahnemann came to know that any drug which can produce a set of symptoms on a healthy humanbeing can be used to cure the similar symptoms in a diseased person. He gave cinchona to various malaria patients and the result was wonderful and a system called homeopathy originated. The word homoeo means similar,pathy means suffering. |
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