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Brain fog is not just in your head.
Brain fog" was not a term I heard often in my practice until a few years ago. It's now a frequent, and often frustrating, concern that patients bring. The term first appeared in scientific literature in 2004, with a dramatic uptick in the last two years. Perhaps this symptom is becoming more common, perhaps the language now used to describe it has consolidated, perhaps science is becoming more adept at measuring it, or maybe all three.
Getting past wellness BS. . .
… and towards body empowerment.
Centering your own wellness can feel like swimming upstream in a society that values profits over people and tells us that some bodies are better than others. Choosing to love and honor the body you live in is a radical act!
The placebo effect and you
The placebo effect is evidence that bodies can take healing cues from the mind. Perhaps the cartesian dualism of separate mind and body is overlooking a fundamental truth about humans and the way we function. How does meditation lower blood pressure? How does anxiety cause an upset stomach? How, indeed, does belief that you are being treated lead to healing?
How to get Health Care in a system that stinks
Own your health, and you may find that you can use the medical system the way it works best– to manage specific, acute kinds of illnesses and injuries.
Diagnosis vs. Understanding
Here’s the thing: healthcare providers mean well, by and large– yet so often, patients don’t feel that. They feel frustrated, and dismissed, and uncertain, and discouraged. On top of being sick. These aren’t puzzles, or cases. They’re people, and we in healthcare need to remember that. Even when we want to scream that the patient isn’t listening to reason, is convinced they have something they don’t have, or is being dramatic/uncooperative/noncompliant/whatever