» Archive for August, 2007

If you Need A Little Inspiration…

Friday, August 17th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Try my buddy Rob Schultz’s new and beautiful movie on breaking through periods of difficulty where the clouds may seem to obscure the light. A must for Law of Attraction junkies as well. Rob did this solely for love and in service to his dream, and to You. Keep a link to this one in your favorites…

Inspiration for Tough Times

Telephone Networking for Young Women Survivors Of Breast Cancer

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Just read about this at Sandra Ghalinger’s "Tittyology" website courtesy of Suzanne’s ezine - thanks, Suz!

Sponsored by Young Survivor’s Coalition:

Free International Telephone Networking Session for Young Women Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Join the next telephone networking session for young women with metastatic breast cancer on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. (ET). Registration information available here.  If you miss it, the calls happen monthly.

If the registration link doesn’t work, try this: Backup to registration page for call

Also of note at this page is the event being held Friday, August 24-26, 2007:

The Second National Male Caregivers’ Conference: Men Empowering Men to Care for Women with Breast Cancer

Find out more here: http://www.youngsurvival.org/

It’s Official: Work Stress = Mental Illness

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 by Maryam Webster

Again scientific confirmation comes for a syndrome most have long known exists - stress at work = anxiety and depression. Family troubles. Failures in business. And there doesn’t seem to be much difference in occupation studied from this quote:

"The most toxic factor here is high psychological demands. That can be present in multiple professions: the media are always working under time pressure;  doctors, firemen, nurses, builders, plumbers - it applies across the board."

From New Zealand, generational research proves the  link between high stress on any job and the mental illnesses of anxiety and depression. Other studies have linked such stress to chronic pain perception as well. Keeping in a stressful situation does more damage than you may have thought. Just look:

Now the proof: Work Stress Makes People Mentally ill

Work stress is making people from doctors to plumbers mentally ill, new research has found. The Dunedin-based study found that 14 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men who were stressed at work suffered depression or anxiety when aged 32. They had not had these conditions before.

They were among nearly 900 people Otago University has been following since they were born in 1972-73.

For the latest paper, they were asked at the age of 32 about psychological and physical job demands, the level of control they had in decision-making and social support structures at work.

The paper, published in the British journal Psychological Medicine, found that women who reported high levels of psychological job demands - such as long hours, pressure or lack of clear direction - were 75 per cent more likely to suffer from clinical depression or general anxiety disorder than women who reported the lowest levels…

Jeepers. But then, we already knew this…didn’t we?  Click to read the whole article here  and click to get relief here