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We may be great at making resolutions, but how well do we stick to them? Making the daily decisions required to implement our health resolutions can be harder than we imagine.
Making major health care decisions may also be difficult. People often underestimate their ability to adapt, and we're not always good judges of what will make us happy--or miserable. Learning to tap our resilience can be extremely useful when we face medical catastrophes. Find out how the science of decision psychology can help you make smart choices in health care.
Guest: Peter A. Ubel, MD, is The Jack O. Blackburn Professor of Marketing at the Fuqua School of Business and Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford Institute of Duke University.
He is the author of You're Stronger Than You Think: Tapping Into the Secrets of Emotionally Resilient People, and Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature is at Odds With Economics-and Why it Matters.
His website is www.peterubel.com/
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Have you studied the HeartMath Program? I teach this in Raleigh using biofeedback and I see my clients learning to see the world in a more grateful light. They actually change themselves form the inside out. They see the world differently. This process uses Heart rate variability.
Today I was extremely disappointed, and deeply offended, to hear the hosts of the People’s Pharmacy making light of the decision to take psychiatric meds that have serious side effects. Despite popular opinion, the decision to begin treatment for psychiatric conditions with drugs like Abilify is not always (or often) flip and thoughtless. One comment on today’s show was that a side effect of Abilify is death, thus rendering other side effects and whatever condition the med is intended to treat null and void. Is that really funny?
The (apparently hilarious) comment was then followed up with a bemused pondering about why anyone would ever ask his or her doctor to prescribe a drug like Abilify. Have the hosts of the People’s Pharmacy ever considered that a person’s psychiatric condition might be so painful and debilitating that she or he is willing to risk experiencing the frightening side effects of meds like atypical anti-psychotics? Has anyone who works on this show every loved someone with a disabling mental illness or suffered from mental illness? Ever mourned for a friend who made the “rational” decision that death is less painful than life? Ever been the parent of a very young child who self-harms or suffers from depression and discusses suicide? I suggest to you that mental illness can have much more serious and immediate consequences than those associated with psychiatric meds. For instance, if Jared Loughner had been properly identified as mentally ill and treated with medication, isn’t possible that the lives lost two Saturdays ago could have been preserved instead? Wouldn’t it have been worth trying?
I ask that the People’s Pharmacy exercise some greater measure of sensitivity and thoughtfulness the next time the topic of psychiatric meds is discussed. People who suffer from mental illness have a hard enough time without the People’s Pharmacy making light of the choices these individuals must concerning their treatment and perpetuating false ideas about the ways in which, and to whom, psychiatric meds are prescribed. Those who cope with mental illness already face stifling stigma and a damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don’t attitude from society. If they choose to take psychiatric meds along with their behavioral/cognitive therapies then they are just suckers for Big Pharma. If they choose not take meds, and something unfortunate occurs due to their illness, then they or their caregivers are blamed for not taking sufficient action to prevent the unfortunate event… action like taking appropriate meds. Does the People’s Pharmacy really want to contribute to the blame and stigma targeted at individuals with mental illness? I expect this show to more responsible than you were today.
PEOPLE'S PHARMACY RESPONSE: WE ARE CERTAINLY SORRY WE OFFENDED YOU. OF COURSE THE DRUGS WE WERE DISCUSSING ARE NEEDED TO TREAT PSYCHOSIS. BUT THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ADVERTISING THEM ON TELEVISION. THAT'S INAPPROPRIATE AND WAS REALLY WHAT WE WERE OBJECTING TO.
The show comes on at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday morning here and I wouldn't miss it. Every week I learn something that makes my 85 year old body a little more efficient and more fun to operate.
This morning I especially enjoyed the tidbit from the listener who said (paraphrasing) that in life's challenges he has determined to be a(n intelligent, focused) responder rather than a (merely emotional) reactor.
Keep up the good work.
It seems to me that in a country filled with the "Best" Medical experts, the most advance technology, and greatest doctor per capital ratio that something is very, very wrong!
In my sixty six years, I've watched our health care diminish rather than advance! Research by consensus, published facts that are anything but fact, and claims that would make even snake oil dealers of the past blush. I understand the need for profit, but really... it seems any pharmaceutical advancement today is made and limited to the field of treatment and only then when it has the benefit of long term profit... What about cure?
I feel our youth have more to fear from those that encourage the notion that life without effort is possible, the pharmaceutical companies who are the new drug dealers and doctors who have allowed a once noble profession to become little more than dealers and mules to distribute the never ending flow of legal drugs.
Just a thought
Leigh S.
When I see the ads for $2 hamburgers with bacon and drink, I tell to myself: I may save money when I purchase and consume this hamburger right now; but this hamburger will cost me $2,000 next year or sooner in hospital bills. Or the soft drink I get will cost me $500 in dental expenses to fix my cavities. Then I stop thinking about fast food and/or soft drinks.
I heard some good advice for making New Year's resolutions that goes against the usual the grain. (sorry no reference maybe NPR? or another radio show)
You're more likely to keep your resolutions if you make several of them and start them at the same time.
Stop smoking and start exercising and eating more healthy. Or so other combination. By getting in the mindset of change you are more likely to keep the change and to start feeling better because of the resolutions you've made.