This week March 3-8 the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is holding National Sleep Awareness Week (NSAW, but SNAW would have sounded so much better.)
Had you hear about this week?
Each year it seems to be getting bigger so eventually you might.
Let me quote from the NSF’s “Sleep in America Poll 2008 - Summary of Findings”
“Long work [...]
A friend of mine suggested I should write about Heath Ledger’s unexpected death.
In fact he suggested I should do some media publicity about the material I have about taking sleeping pills safely since Heath was found with sleeping pills and anti-anxiety pills in the room.
Well I wasn’t up for a media campaign, and I wasn’t [...]
My father is an anesthetist, which means he puts people to sleep for their surgical operations.
We have been using anesthetics for surgery, childbirth etc since ether was recognized for this purpose back in the mid 1800’s. There are now about a dozen main general anesthetic agents, Nitrous oxide ie Laughing gas, Halothane, various forms of [...]
Forget New Year’s Resolutions. Forget goal setting.
Start taking self help action. It can be massive action, small steps, or incremental change to a new direction.
Almost everything you read on this site includes something immediately actionable. But here are the top 15 actions so far…
1. If you are having a horrible time this holiday [...]
I want to change the world, or at least a bit of it.
So I’m giving some stuff away for free, and I’m wanting your help.
If you agree that people are popping too many pills in this world, or you just have an interest in helping people improve their lives then read on…
Working as a family [...]
Once in a while it’s worthwhile therapy to ponder your own death, Charles Dickens’ style.
The world ain’t so focused on you that it wouldn’t keep going if you died, so it’s a valuable exercise to try it out your mortality for a while.
When I suggest this to people in counseling I often call it Dicken’s [...]
The biggest problem with reading all the self-help literature is that so much of it is just ideas with very little real evidence to back it up.
Fortunately there are some notable exceptions.
But first, take a moment to do a bit of a self-assessment.
Do you want to have any of these changes in your life…?
- Better [...]
I’ve just woken up an hour later.
Running an international website is such fun. In Australia we have just had our Daylight Saving Time change. Those of you in the European Union are doing/have done the same. And those of you in the US will wait another week.
So if you are confused about how remember how [...]
Medicine is an art. It’s meant to be a science, but in fact it isn’t. It is slightly more of a science than many other healing arts, but still most of the decisions made by doctors have very little to do with science based on solid, relevant evidence.
Psychiatric medicine is one of the worst offenders.
As [...]