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Can Meditation Help Veterans With PTSD?

Research shows that this ancient practice can help relieve anxiety. Here’s what you need to know about how meditation can be used to treat the symptoms of PTSD among veterans.

By Laura McArdle Medically Reviewed by Justin Laube, MD

“Research shows that veterans are at an increased risk of mental illnesses such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression as a result of deployment and combat. To treat it, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD) recommends trauma-focused psychotherapies, including prolonged exposure, cognitive processing therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy. Medication is also used to treat symptoms of mental illness. But these therapies focus on the trauma, which veterans may want to avoid. The stigma of traditional psychotherapy approaches might also deter veterans from seeking help, as one study published in March 2016 in Annals of Behavioral Medicine found.

“The field of psychology is really pushing cognitive and behavioral psychotherapies that involve talking and thinking about what happened as well as challenging maladaptive thought processes,” says Bret A. Moore, PhD, the vice chair of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth, as well as a former active-duty army psychologist and Iraq War veteran. “These are effective interventions for a portion of veterans, but not all.”

Dr. Moore says that his field should focus on nontraditional interventions like meditation that are easy to engage in outside of the therapy room and avoid placing the veteran in the “patient” or “sick” role that is often associated with traditional treatments for PTSD.

And research finds a benefit to this approach. In a study published in December 2018 in The Lancet Psychiatry, researchers found that meditation worked as well as exposure therapy to ameliorate symptoms of PTSD in veterans.

Dan Libby, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and the founder of the Veterans Yoga Project — an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health of veterans through the practices of yoga and meditation — who was not involved in the study, said that the symptoms of PTSD can often feel as if you’re trapped in a moving car without brakes.

“When you really look at what’s happening for someone who’s dealing with trauma, their mind has become an unsafe, unpredictable, and uncontrollable place,” Dr. Libby says. “And the external world seems unsafe and unpredictable, too.” He believes that many veterans could benefit from a more holistic, mindful approach to PTSD treatments. “As a clinical psychologist working at the VA, I found that veterans who also had a practice, whether it be meditation or mindful movement, had better outcomes,” he says.

RELATED: PTSD in the Military: Statistics, Causes, Treatments, and More

Different Forms of Meditation Studied in Veterans

Meditation is a technique or set of techniques that can help a person to focus their mind and bring it back to the present moment. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, it’s been shown to help alleviate a number of health issues, from depression and anxiety to menopausal symptoms and even high blood pressure.

Here’s what the research has to say on how meditation may also help veterans manage PTSD.

1. Compassion Meditation

Compassion meditation involves the repetition of phrases designed to increase empathy and compassion toward others.

One common phrase used in the practice is: “May I be happy. May I be peaceful. May I be free from suffering.” Once you feel you have internalized the message, you can then move on to wishing the same positive thoughts to others: family members, friends, and even strangers.

Small studies show that practicing compassion meditation can lessen the symptoms of PTSD. An article published in April 2019 in the Journal of Traumatic Stress found that practicing compassion meditation for 90 minutes weekly had a greater effect on the symptoms of PTSD among veterans than a program consisting of psychoeducation, relaxation training, and sleep hygiene. Another study published in April 2019, in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, found that veteran participants self-reported a significant decrease in their PTSD symptoms and a high degree of satisfaction with the compassion meditation program. Yet another study examined the effects of loving-kindness meditation (a specific kind of compassion meditation) on veterans’ symptoms of PTSD and depression. Published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, it found that veterans who practiced a 12-week loving-kindness meditation course experienced a moderate reduction in symptoms of depression and a high reduction in symptoms of PTSD at a three-month follow-up.

2. Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation, or TM, is a form of meditation in which a person silently repeats a given sound, word, or short phrase in their mind for a set period of time in order to focus the mind and bring about a state of peace and relaxation. This word or sound is known as a mantra, and it doesn’t need to have any meaning at all — it’s only important insofar as it helps you to focus your mind on the sound of the mantra.

The Maharishi Foundation, which trademarked this form of meditation, recommends practicing TM twice a day for 20 minutes at a time — once in the morning, once in the evening. The foundation offers courses that can cost hundreds of dollars and stipulates that mantras can be assigned only by TM practitioners.

Studies seem cautiously optimistic about the role of TM in reducing symptoms of PTSD. For example, a study published January 2018 in Military Medicine found that TM helped reduce PTSD symptoms without causing veterans to reexperience their trauma. Another study, published November 2018 in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, found that veterans who practiced an eight-week TM course reported increased mindfulness and quality of life, along with decreased symptoms of PTSD and depression. While the results seem to indicate TM is effective for veterans, most researchers agree that this specific area of study is still relatively new and merits further research.

3. Mantra Meditation

Luckily for those who don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars learning TM, there is another form of meditation that focuses on repetition of a mantra — it’s called mantra meditation. According to the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, its purpose is to redirect the energy you may spend on negative thinking toward the repetition of a simple and meaningful mantra. Research on the topic is limited, but one study of 173 veterans published in 2018 in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that mantra meditation therapy was generally more effective than present-centered therapy for reducing some of the symptoms of PTSD.

4. Mindfulness Meditation

This type of meditation encourages participants to simply be aware and mindful of the present moment, allowing thoughts to come and go without judgment or reaction. There’s a particular emphasis on deep breathing, which may help to ease the symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to one study published June 2015 in Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. A study of 116 veterans, published August 2015 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that mindfulness meditation had a modest effect on the symptoms of PTSD, but a greater effect overall when compared with present-centered group therapy. And a review of a variety of mindfulness-based treatments for PTSD, published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience in January 2018, concluded that thus far, the practice is moderately effective in reducing PTSD symptoms, and definitely merits further study.

How to Know if Meditation Is Right for You

Of course, as with many medical conditions, there’s no single cure for the symptoms of PTSD among veterans. Treatment for this disorder should always be discussed with a doctor, and where necessary, adjustments to sessions or dosages should be made.

“These [meditation] practices are an important and necessary complement to treatment for PTSD, not necessarily an alternative,” says Libby. “It’s all about which tools work for you.”

Moore also believes that the existing cognitive and behavioral psychotherapies can be useful along with complementary and integrative practices — and he emphasizes that getting the right treatment can lead to deep personal growth for veterans.

“Veterans with PTSD are not broken,” he says. “They are not dangerous. They are not unstable. They are brave men and women who are learning to manage some very difficult life experiences. They are individuals who are trying to make meaning out of what happened during their military service and take the lessons they've learned in order to improve their lives and communities.”

RELATED: 5 Ways to Practice Breath-Focused Meditation

Where Veterans Can Go for Help With PTSD

If you or someone you know is a veteran living with PTSD and wants help to manage the condition, there are a number of websites and resources you can use for help.

The NCPTSD website lists a number of ways to get help with PTSD, including information on finding a therapist and managing stress through self-help.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has an extremely comprehensive webpage devoted to mindful awareness, featuring a quick breath awareness exercise and plenty of studies on the effectiveness of the practice.

Through the VA, you can also download Mindfulness Coach — a free app designed to help veterans practice mindfulness through a gradual and self-guided training program. It’s available on the App Store (where it has a 4.7 star rating) and Google Play.

The Veterans Yoga Project Practice Library contains information and downloadable audio files with themes such as Breath, Meditation, Mindful Movement, Guided Rest, and Gratitude. It’s a great resource for those looking to start experimenting with different styles of meditation.

iRest is a nonprofit organization devoted to bringing yoga nidra to veterans. Yoga nidra is specifically designed to relax both the body and the mind together, and with a major focus on mindfulness, it has more in common with meditation than other, faster-paced types of yoga. iRest offers online courses and training for veterans across the country.

If you’re interested in exploring mantra meditation, you can find a list of simple mantras to try at the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation’s website. They also have a comprehensive FAQ section for beginners.

The Mindful Warrior Project is a nonprofit organization which holds regular events to promote mindfulness and empowerment for veterans based in the greater Los Angeles area.

MaketheConnection.net is an online resource designed to provide support and resources to veterans and their loved ones. They have over 800 Stories of Connection — a video gallery of veterans’ stories as told by the veterans themselves.

Mindful.org has a helpful webpage on How to Meditate aimed at beginners, featuring information on different types of meditation and plenty of audio-guided meditations for you to practice at home.

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insatiabletc · 5 years ago

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This is Henny Scott, a 14 year old member of the Cheyenne people. She lived on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana. Henny was very well loved, and it appears adored by all in her community. Here are some things that the people who knew her have said:

"She was into everything…There was nothing she couldn’t do. She could do it all. She started taking up beading, which I was proud of, she started learning Cheyenne. And her teacher commented on how well she was doing and how well she was saying the word, and that made me proud.”* - Her Mother, Paula Castro-Stops

"She was a sweet loving girl. Her smile, you could just go into a room and she’d light it up, and her hugs were the best, her laugh.”* – A friend and classmate, Tonielle Shoulder Blade.

From an interview with the Billings Gazette:

“Scott was a girl who made an effort to acknowledge people when she saw them, often times crossing the room for a hug, her mother said. She was always "jamming" to music, Stops said, bringing a brief laugh from the two of them as they stood outside Muddy Hall Saturday morning before the convoy of vehicles arrived.

‘She'd always be changing my '80s (radio) station,’ Castro said, mimicking her daughter saying ‘Jeez Mom, you're just old,’ before putting on one of her favorite R&B or hip hop stations.

She was athletic and played basketball at Lame Deer, her mother said. Scott had ambitions to become a doctor, Stops said. An EMT with Northern Cheyenne Ambulance, Castro said she would sometimes talk to her daughter about treating injuries or let her flip through her medical books."** – Journalist Ryan Welch quoting Henny’s mother, Castro-Stops.

"Henny was something else, she was always outgoing she would always try to make people happy even when she wasn't happy herself,"*** -- Henny’s sister, Barbara Other Medicine, as told to Spencer Martin.

"My Henny if anybody was to ever meet her they would just love her she could just walk in a room and just light it up get it going and everybody laughin’."*** – Paula Castro-Stops, as told to Spencer Martin.

"Whenever Henny was around you couldn't be sad or angry all you could do is be happy when she was around because she'd make you happy and just laugh all the time,"*** --Henny’s sister, Kaylannah Strange Owl.

When you read the details below, keep in mind that this was a human whose loss was shocking and devastating to her people. Hold her relatives and community in your heart.

The Bare-Bones Situation

On December 7th, 2018, Henny was hanging out at a friend’s house in a nearby area, Muddy Creek. That evening, she called her mom to see if she could go with some friends to a nearby city, Billings, to attend a basketball game. Her mom, Paula Castro-Stops, said no and to head home, to which Henny agreed. Paula waited. And waited. She grew more and more worried as time passed and Henny didn’t arrive home. She reached out to Henny’s friends and she drove around looking for her, but she had exhausted her own resources. Paula tried filing a missing person’s report with the BIA but was told that Henny was likely out partying with her friends and suggested Paula ask them where she was. Understandably, she was upset that they wouldn’t take her daughter’s disappearance seriously. Beyond the fact that Henny was 14 years old, a child now missing, the weather in Montana that night was snowy and likely below freezing. Perilous conditions regardless if she was taken by someone or lost out in the dark.

The BIA took two weeks to issue a missing person’s report, and it is unclear if police ever searched for Henny. Paula, terrified and frustrated, went to a nearby Crow Reservation to file a missing persons report there as well. That agency placed Henny’s file on the desk of a police officer who was out on leave, and thus no action was taken. Paula’s friends offered to start a search party, but she worried that doing so would step on the BIA’s toes or interfere with a formal investigation.

After two weeks of no action from the BIA, Paula accepted the offer of a community search party. On December 21st, 2018, searchers found Henny’s body within 200 yards of her own home.

Cause of Death

· Witnesses say Henny left her friend’s home on foot in light and weather-inadequate clothing.

· Coroner Terry Bullis found her cause of death to be hypothermia with alcohol as a significant contributing factor.

· Several sources say Henny’s family does not agree with the COD. It has been mentioned that Paula said her daughter’s nose was broken and she had bumps and scratches on her. We were unable to find Paula’s Facebook post that has been cited, so we are unsure if she still believes this.

· The autopsy showed that there were no “significant traumas” on Henny’s body. We learned that this is a term used to determine injuries to the body, using something called the Injury Severity Score. Anything that scores above 15 counts as significant trauma. It is a pretty confusing scoring chart for a layperson to decipher, so we couldn’t tell whether a broken nose would constitute a 15 or higher. If not, that means the family’s assertion of a broken nose, bumps, and scratches could still be accurate, just not as significant trauma.

· One woman, in a shared Facebook post, referred to a “girl” being responsible for Henny’s death. We couldn’t find anything else to substantiate this.

· Because Bullis ruled the COD as hypothermia, the FBI will no longer investigate her death, leaving the community of Lame Deer and her family with a great deal of questions and no closure.

Had the BIA Acted Sooner

We wondered, how far away was the house Henny left from? Looking at Google Maps, it appears that the general area she left from, Muddy Creek, and the center of Lame Deer was a distance of 5.4 miles. There were no public transit options and Google suggests the only walking route was along Hwy 212, an estimated walk of 1 & ½ to 2 hours. Not a terribly long distance.

The questions we wish we could answer are:

· Why didn’t someone give her a ride? Was a car not available?

· What is the BIA’s manpower like? Had they acted, what are their resources? Perhaps, if BIA officials (or Search and Rescue) had ruled out the stretch along Hwy 212, the Castro-Stops would have turned to their back yard sooner.

· Was Henny found on a path? It sounds like she was familiar with the area she was found in. Was this a route she often took from this friend’s house?

Hypothermia & Alcohol

One question we had was how long it would take someone to perish in Henny’s situation. We started by trying to find out what the weather would have been like that evening. The closest historical data we could find for 12/7/2018 was from the Billings Logan International Airport Station, pulled from Weather Underground. Billings is about 100 miles away from Lame Deer. Certainly not ideal, as weather patterns can change over a few miles, but it’s what we have. According to their data, around 7:30pm, the air temperature was 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Looking at average temperatures for Lame Deer, pulled from Weather Spark, December clocks around 13 degrees Fahrenheit.

Then, the other factor to consider with hypothermia, is wind speed. In Billings, the wind speed ranged from 14 to 18 miles per hour. Weather Spark says the average December wind speed is 13 miles per hour. According to information we found on the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety, the combination of factors for Billings shows a wind chill factor of -12, and for Lame Deer it would have been likely close to -18. This puts both Billings and Lame Deer in the same category of “moderate risk” for developing hypothermia after prolonged periods.

Adding alcohol into the mix would have raised the risk of hypothermia. Alcohol has been observed to stop the body’s shivering response, as well as pull much needed blood away from the core to the surface.

That all said, it seems that the length of time from drinking to perhaps passing out in the snow, to death is highly dependent on each person and all the miniscule factors in the moment. Without viewing the coroner’s report, we can only speculate that she could have perished anywhere from one to three days (some sources suggest that one can be “rewarmed” back to life as many as 6 hours after cardiac arrest).

So, while we may not know exactly what happened to Henny that night, we can say with all certainty that the BIA’s two-week lag in looking for her was absolutely too long. Had Henny’s family been given the proper support to find her, she may have been able to survive. The BIA should have been able to say, “we did all that we could.” Instead, their inaction at best compounded and amplified a family’s trauma, and at worst could be culpable for a child’s death. A child who they accused of partying when in reality she was trying to obey her mother and make her way home.

Who Can We Yell At?

Here’s a detail we are mad about and unsure where it fits into the story neatly, so we’ll plop it here: poor Henny’s family learned the cause of death NOT from an FBI or BIA agent or Coroner Terry Bullis…but from a newspaper article in the Billings Gazette. This is inexcusable. They’ve given a milquetoast apology (“aw gee, it was a jurisdiction issue, we’re sowwy”), but it’s not enough.

If you want to make a big fuss about this horrifying lack of care for the Castro-Stops family, you can contact the Lame Deer BIA agency here:

· Website: https://www.bia.gov/regional-offices/rocky-mountain/northern-cheyenne-agency

· Phone Number: (406) 477-8242

And the FBI field office here (looks like the closest one is in Salt Lake City):

· Website: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/saltlakecity

· Phone Number: (801) 579-1400

Terry Bullis: Information taken from http://mtcoroner.org/coroner-directory.html

Big Horn County Terry Bullis P.O. Box 318 Hardin, MT 59034 Ph 406-665-1207 Fx 406-665-1208 [email protected]

How to find your state representatives to tell them how upset you are about how these cases are being handled: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Terry Bullis:

While searching for contact information for Bullis, we came across this article from 2003: https://billingsgazette.com/news/local/mortician-disciplined-over-ethics/article_3cdcc6bb-2fd6-5746-8059-e7b45a19d87d.html. Essentially, Bullis was put on probation and assessed a fine as he embalmed a body (before speaking with the family) and refused to release the body to the family without payment for the embalming services.

“Bullis must also take eight hours of ethics classes. He did not have to admit any wrongdoing for embalming the body of 21-year-old Toy Parker of Ashland without her family's consent. Bullis acquired the woman's body through his duties as county coroner. He would not release her body until her family paid his $410 embalming bill.��

Turns out, embalming isn’t a required practice and nowhere in the state law does it say that bodies must be embalmed.

“Bullis was charged with failing to release human remains on demand, charging fees for services that were not requested and using his role as county coroner to funnel business into his own funeral home.”

So, not only is this the coroner who didn’t think it was his duty to inform the family first of the cause of death, he also has a shady ethical history in Montana.

Apparently, in 2003 he had such a long history of doing this, other professionals in the area at knew to have “cash on hand” because Bullis would demand payment for services no one requested and are not mandated by the state.

Turns out Bullis is sitting in an elected position. We’ve sent an email to the Elections Administrator in Big Horn County to find out the following:

1. How often elections are held – Answer: every 4 years. The last election was held in 2018, which means the next election will be in 2022.

2. Term of office – Answer: 4 years

3. Impeachments – Answer: There are no impeachments for this position. However, I would urge folks who live in this county to consider finding out other methods of reprimand if they feel upset enough about how Bullis has handled his position.

Want to Learn More About MMIWG?

Our page is just a drop in the bucket of information out there on this topic! Here are some great sources that we have come across:

• National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada) https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/ • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA https://mmiwusa.org/ • CBC’s database on MMIWG (Canada) https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/ • Justice for Native Women (USA and Canada) http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/ • The REDress Project (Canada) http://www.redressproject.org/?page_id=43 - Sovereign Bodies Institute (USA and Canada) https://www.sovereign-bodies.org/request

*From https://www.mtpr.org/post/northern-cheyenne-hold-funeral-henny-scott

** From https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/family-community-filled-with-questions-after-teen-s-death-on/article_768c2bb9-189e-51f7-bdb3-4c274bc86ea7.html

***From https://www.kulr8.com/news/henny-scott-found-deceased-near-lame-deer-family-mourns-and/article_b93191da-0be9-11e9-9714-5fad62a66e76.html

#mmiwg #mmiw #art #sketchbook #justiceforhenny #montana #truecrime

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Summary: A nickname that goes bitter in your mouth. Cries for help that no one listens to. Gentle hands that make you quake on the ground you’re standing on. When Phil first met Nico, he thought he was a gift from the heavens. But behind the mask lies something daunting, something unnerving, that Phil never foresaw. Through his journey, he finds solace in Dan, the regular at his workplace, who seems to be the only one who sees through Nico’s mask to the darkness underneath. Warnings: Abusive relationship, violence A/N: the lyrics at the beginning are from Everything Went Numb by Streetlight Manifesto. Thanks to @snowbunnylester for editing this for me as usual. And thank you to all of you who are still sticking with this story! I love each and every one of you!

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Chapter Twenty-Three

Himself ain't a lot when he's got nothing left of what was once a man, loved and loving.

As it turned out, the act of going to therapy was much harder than just the thought of it.

Firstly, there was the fact that healthcare was free, which was a great and wonderful thing, but if he wanted to get therapy, he’d have to wait six months to be able to even get an appointment. That was six whole months of Phil feeling like he was empty inside and not being able to function like a regular human would, six months of random crying spells and nightmares and taking out his frustrations on Dan. He definitely didn’t want to do that.

So the second option was to call his mum for financial help to see if she could help him pay for therapy to get an earlier appointment. He didn’t really want to do that either, but it was either that or a six month wait, and after weighing his options and having about five panic attacks, Phil picked up the phone and called his mother.

Her voice was cheery when she answered, and it made him feel slightly nostalgic. He missed her and he’d be lying if he said he hadn’t been neglecting her slightly, but he was just super depressed and not really okay, and talking to his mum when he was on the verge of a breakdown 24/7 wasn’t really on his list of top things to do.

“Child?” she said in greeting, making Phil crack a smile as he drummed his fingers nervously on his knees. He’d made Dan leave him alone in his room whilst he called, but he was questioning his choices now. “How are you doing?”

Phil’s first reaction was to say that he was doing fine, because that’s what you did when someone asked you how you were doing, right? But then he stopped himself, took a deep breath, reminded himself what he was calling for. “Hi mum,” Phil said in a shaky voice. “I actually wanted to talk to you about something.”

If he were home, he could imagine his mum sitting in her chair, the white cushy one with little pink flower buds on it. She would cross her legs and furrow her brows, leaning forward slightly to show that she was listening. “What’s wrong, love?”

Phil gulped, and took another deep breath. It was now or never, and he knew he needed to do this. His mum wouldn’t judge, she never did. Now was no different. “I haven’t been doing okay recently,” he said slowly, digging his nails into his leg. “I think I might actually want to get some psychiatric help, and I don’t think I’ll be able to wait six months for the free health care.”

His mum went silent for a moment, as though she were thinking, and Phil’s brain went into panic mode. What if she thought he was being stupid? What if she thought he was overreacting? Would she not help? But all of his worries washed away as soon as she spoke, as he should have known they would. “Of course I’ll help,” she replied easily. “Do you want to talk about what’s been going on? I’m worried about you.”

Phil didn’t mean to tell her. He really didn’t even want to tell her. But then he opened his mouth to say no and he ended up blurting out the whole story: The story of how he’d fallen in love with Nico and how Nico had slowly taken a turn for the worst. The slut shaming, the manipulation, the gas lighting and how it’d made Phil think he was crazy. How he still thought he was crazy. He mentioned how Nico had cheated on him with Chandler, how Nico slapped him, how Phil went to his mum’s afterwards. He mentioned how Nico was there when he went back, almost as if he were waiting for him, and how the police dragged him away after the neighbours filed a complaint. The restraining order, how Phil distracted himself with Jace, how Phil saw Nico in the cafe.

Finally, he mentioned his break down just the other day with the Sweet Peas, and how he’d made Dan cry. The ultimate reason why he had decided to get help. He didn’t want to see Dan cry anymore. He couldn’t take someone else down with him, and this situation was no longer just affecting him, but also everyone around him.

He needed help, and to do so, he also needed his mum’s support.

At first, he was robotic, as though he had memorised the entire speech. But after a while, he started to cry so hard that his mother had to keep asking him to repeat himself because she couldn’t understand him. When he was finished explaining, his mum seemed a bit speechless. She apologised for not knowing what was going on and for not intervening sooner, but he assured her that if she’d tried to intervene, it would have only made him more upset. He didn’t use the word loathe, but he knew deep down that if anyone had tried to block access to Nico without his consent, then Phil would have probably cut them off from his life as soon as they’d tried.

“I’ll put the money straight into your account, alright?” his mum promised, and Phil nodded even though she couldn’t see him. “Go find the best therapist you possibly can, and we’ll go from there. I’d also like to visit soon, if that’s okay. I’d like to meet your new flatmate.”

Phil agreed quietly, told his mum he loved her and that he’d have her over soon. With that, they said their mutual goodbyes and hung up the phone.

Phil was glad that he had his mum’s support, but he still couldn’t help but feel frightened. He knew that this was something he had to do, both for his sanity, as well as Dan’s, but it was scary and humiliating.

He felt as though he were lying when he tossed around the term abusive, felt that maybe he was overreacting a bit whenever he had a breakdown to do with Nico. Nico had only hit him once, and that hadn’t even been that bad. Most of the stuff Nico had done had been verbal and emotional. They didn’t feel violent, didn’t feel abusive.

But the websites told Phil otherwise. They told him that emotional abuse was just as bad as physical abuse, that it could even lead to post-traumatic stress disorder just like physical.

That didn’t make Phil feel any better at all, but at least the internet didn’t think he was crazy. That was new.

Dan had been the one who decided to do research on therapists because the idea of doing so himself made Phil want to pull his hair out and hide under his bed for a while. Dan was nice as he did so, looking through multiple websites and writing down different doctors, social workers, and psychologists who worked with trauma victims.

He didn’t say trauma, necessarily, but Phil had seen on the laptop that he was specifically looking for those who specialised in trauma. Phil didn’t know if he had really experienced trauma. That was a strong word to use and one that he associated with soldiers or victims of sexual violence. Not one that he associated with himself.

Dan wrote down all of the good therapy providers, wrote down their names, phone numbers, specialties, and what type of therapy provided. Looking through, Phil noticed that some offered cognitive behavioral therapy or mindfulness based therapy, and he didn’t know what they meant, but they sounded kind of scary. Dan had also put stars next to two of the people who he thought were the best to go to, with the most experience or just the ones who had the highest ratings for the specific area he was interested in.

Phil kept this paper for three days before giving one of the starred people a call.

The number went to an office, where they asked him personal questions: what he’d like to be seen for, if he had any medications, if he wanted to be psychologically questioned. He mentioned that he had been in an abusive relationship - those words never sounded right to his ears, made him feel as though he were lying - and that he hadn’t been doing well recently. They asked him if he had a specific person that he wanted to see, and he mentioned the name of the man, Nate Blackburn.

They went quiet on the other line for a moment and Phil feared that he was asking far too much of them. But then they spoke up again, asked if he would be available next Wednesday for an appointment. He said yes before even looking at his calendar, and then hung up the phone, letting out a breath.

He wiped off his face and acknowledged with a surprised expression that there were tears dripping from his lashes, an aftereffect of the stress that calling had triggered. He sniffled and dried his face, standing up and going to Dan’s room.

He didn’t knock before going in, even though he probably should have. Dan was just sitting on his bed on his laptop anyways. He was wearing headphones in order to give Phil some privacy, but he took them off when Phil came in, giving him a bright smile.

“You do it?” Dan asked, shoving his laptop to the side and scooting over to give Phil some space on the bed.

Phil fell onto the bed without question, groaning. “I did it,” he mumbled, his voice muffled by the covers. He was practically shoved to Dan’s side, getting comfort from that. Dan’s hand made its way to his back, where he rubbed in a soothing manner. “I’m exhausted.”

“But you did it! I’m so proud!” Dan exclaimed, and Phil didn’t have to look to know that Dan was grinning down at him with that stupidly fond smile of his. He would probably be glowing, like the sun itself, and it made Phil relax a bit. Dan was too good for this world. “Do you want me to make you some hot chocolate and then you can take a nap afterwards?”

Phil paused. Hot chocolate could soothe his nerves and make him feel nostalgic, like he was a little kid asking his mum for more marshmallows in his cocoa. He nodded as best as he could with his face shoved into the mattress. “Please,” he murmured.

The bed moved and Dan was climbing over him in order to get off the bed. Phil didn’t know why he didn’t just get off the other side rather than climbing over him, but he didn’t question it and he didn’t care. “I’ll be right back,” Dan said. Phil felt pressure on the back of his head and knew that Dan had given him a chaste kiss there, something motherly and caring. Phil liked the affection and Dan knew it, so he often kissed Phil’s head since Phil liked it so much. It was just a way for Phil to know that Dan was here, that Dan cared for him. “You just relax now, okay?”

Phil nodded and then Dan was gone, leaving him alone and absolutely exhausted. He tried to stay awake until Dan came back so that he could drink the hot chocolate, but he soon found himself drifting off to sleep, his mind deciding without his consent that he was already done with today.

The therapy site was located in a renovated house. Phil made Dan come in with him because he didn’t know if he could do it alone. Even though Dan knew he was going to have to sit in the waiting room for about an hour, he came anyways, skipping class just so he could be there for Phil during his time of transformation. If he could even call it that.

The waiting room was cozy. There was a brick fireplace that sat adjacent to a large black couch. There were two recliners in each corner of the room and a nice blue rug under the coffee table in the middle of the room. There was a corner where a toy table sat, waiting to be played with, covered with colourful blocks and children’s books. Phil’s eyes stayed trained on the staircase, where he had no doubt that his therapist would be coming down, the offices probably being contained to the second floor. It smelled like pine in the room, which was nice at least.

“You’re going to be okay,” Dan murmured, setting an arm around Phil’s shoulders.

Phil settled into him, well aware that they were sitting far too close on the couch, but he really did not care. He needed Dan to tell him that everything was okay, that he wasn’t going to die in here or something. “This is dumb,” he muttered back. It wasn’t dumb. He knew that. But he didn’t like this at all, didn’t like feeling as though he were vulnerable. He was horrid at talking about his feelings, especially when it was with someone he barely knew.

And yet, here he was. This was dumb.

After about ten minutes of waiting, Nate came downstairs and called out his name. He was a middle aged man with salt and pepper hair and smile lines on his face. His eyes were soft and filled with care and he stood tall, probably a couple of inches taller than Phil himself.

Phil stood from the couch, Dan’s arm dropping from his shoulders, but he felt as though the couch had grabbed onto him and was trying to drag him back over. He didn’t want to do this. He didn’t know if he could do this.

“I’m Nate,” his new therapist said, holding out his hand. “It’s nice to meet you, Phil.”

“You too,” Phil murmured, and they began to walk up the stairs, which suddenly seemed like they were a mile high. Phil was winded by the time they reached the top, and his hands were shaking as Nate led him into a tiny office with a desk, office chair, and another black couch, which was most likely reserved for Phil’s butt.

Nate was a nice guy. He held a clipboard as he talked, asked Phil questions about his past. They didn’t really touch on the subject of why Phil was being seen yet, mostly focusing on everything about Phil that made him into the person he was today.

He asked Phil about when he was younger and what his life was like. Phil told him that his mum and dad took care of him very well, but his father worked quite a lot so he wasn’t around too often. He asked about medication history, which Phil informed him that he wasn’t on any medications besides randomly used over the counter medicines. He asked about high school and how many friends Phil had, what he liked to do, if he went to college.

Nate didn’t bat an eye when Phil told him that he’d gone to college for English, but had recently dropped out due to personal issues. He just nodded and smiled supportively and asked Phil if he could explain.

This part was hard, this was getting into territory that Phil knew was upsetting. He knew that he was probably going to start crying if he talked about it in depth, so he decided to be as vague as possible in order to save himself. So he mentioned that he’d been in a relationship with someone who was toxic to him, and his mental health had gotten so bad that he ended up dropping out without a thought.

“I can tell that you don’t want to talk about it right now, and that’s okay,” Nate said quietly, scribbling something on his clipboard. Phil followed his movements with his eyes, worrying over what he’d written down. Was he writing down that Phil was crazy? DIdn’t respond well to questions? Worried over nothing? “We can talk about it when you’re ready. Do you want to talk a little about the now and what lead you to come get therapy?”

Glad that he didn’t have to talk about Nico yet, Phil told Nate that he had freaked out on his best friend right after he moved in with him, tearing up a vase of flowers that Dan had gotten him. He said that Dan was usually the person who had comforted him when he was down, but Dan had started crying and it was then that Phil realised he really needed help or else he was going to destroy the only person who loved and cared for him.

“Is Dan the one in the waiting room?” Nate asked. Phil nodded his head. “He sounds like a good source of positivity in your life. You’re really lucky to have him.” Phil knew that. He thought of that often. “But he’s also really lucky to have you. He wouldn’t be around you if he didn’t want to. He cares about you and just wants the best for you. That’s obvious by the way that he came to your appointment with you for the moral support. And it’s really admirable of you to recognise that you need help and actively seek it out. That takes someone with great strength to do.”

The only thing was that Phil wasn’t strong. He was a coward. How many months has it been since Nico had walked out that door? How many months has it been since Phil had properly felt something even close to happiness? He was dramatic, sure, but strong? Not in the slightest.

“I only sought out help because I didn’t want to hurt Dan,” Phil whispered

Nate smiled gently, putting his clipboard down. “Doesn’t change the fact that you still decided to get help on your own. My statement still remains true.”

Phil didn’t feel like fighting so he bit back his words and just nodded. He didn’t want to show his therapist just how screwed up he was quite yet.

They talked for a little bit longer and Nate pulled out a paper with information about abuse on it and the warning signs. Phil had already seen most of these online so he didn’t need to flip through it. He didn’t need to be told over and over again what had happened to him. He already knew.

They left it at that, and Nate scheduled him for every Monday at three o’clock for the next month. When Phil walked out of the office, he felt like he’d just lost twenty years of his life and he was now in his forties, exhausted and going through a midlife crisis.

When he saw Dan, he latched onto him silently. He didn’t speak, and Dan didn’t ask him to. He didn’t ask him what they’d discussed, and he didn’t expect Phil to inform him of what was going on in his brain. He just slung his arm around Phil’s shoulders and lead him through the payment process and then out to the car when they were finished with that.

Only when they were in the car did Phil start to cry.

They weren’t big tears, didn’t leave him gasping for breath, but Phil was exhausted from talking for so long and he didn’t quite know how to explain what had happened to him without downplaying everything. He still felt crazy, like he was overreacting, but the dumb sheet clutched in his palms told him otherwise.

Phil really needed to sort himself out once and for all.

Chapter Twenty-Four

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Elisa Lam

The body of Elisa Lam, a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, was recovered from a water tank on top of Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles on February 19, 2013. What may have happened to her before she died, leading to her body being found in that water tank?

Elisa Lam was born on April 30, 1991 in Canada. Her parents came from Hong Kong and opened a restaurant in Burnaby, a district of Vancouver, Canada and she was a student at the University of British Columbia. She had a twitter account and her own blog which she would update frequently about fashion and some of her life’s personal moments.

She was having depression at that point of time and would often post depressing thoughts mainly on her blog to share the journey with people that could possibly relate or to just have a platform to express her feelings on. Her blog was last dated back in July 2012 and she afterwards moved to tumblr and continued her expressing her thoughts there.

It was said that she had to take medication to keep her illness in check; Dexedrine, Serequel, Efexor, Lamictal & Zyban. She traveled alone, on Amtrak and intercity buses. She visited the San Diego Zoo and posted photos taken there on social media. On January 26, she arrived in Los Angeles. After 2 days, she checked into the Cecil Hotel near downtown’s skid row.

It was said that she was assigned a shared room on the fifth floor, but was complained by her roommates to the hotel management about her (what was described as) ‘odd behavior’. She was then moved to the fourth floor of her own after two days. According to her family, they intended to keep her history of mental illness a secret. Though she had no history of suicide attempts, there is one report claiming that she had previously gone missing for a brief period before but was very brief and could not be deemed certain.

During her time in Cecil hotel, she would often call her parents everyday to update them about her stay and it was only on January 31, 6 days of staying in Cecil hotel that she was scheduled to check out of the hotel on that day and leave for Santa Cruz. Her parents did not receive any call or messages from her and called the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The family immediately flew to Los Angeles to help with the search. She was last seen by Katie Orphan, a manager at a nearby book store just down the road from the hotel. She described Elisa Lam as ‘outgoing, very lively and friendly’ upon a chat with her about whether what book she was getting and also about traveling with the weight of it.

The police searched the entire hotel during the investigation of her case of going missing. They searched Lam’s room and had dogs go through the building, including the rooftop, however unsuccessfully attempting to detect her scent.

The officer in charge Sgt. Ruby Lopez said later that they didn’t search every room in the hotel and explained that they could only do that if they had an evidence or a solid cause to believe that it is caused by a crime. On February 6, a week after Lam was last seen, the LAPD decided that they needed more help and began distributing flyers in the neighborhood and on online websites. This brought the case of Elisa Lam to the attention of the public, especially in social media where it became viral.

On February 14, after another week with no sign or sighting of her, the police department released a video of a last known sighting of her taken in one of the Cecil Hotel’s elevators by a video surveillance camera on February 1. This became viral once again and drew more attention to the case due to Lam’s strange behavior in the video.

In the clip, it shows the camera at one of the elevator cab’s rear corners looking down from the ceiling, offering a view inside the lift as well as the view from the lift door that shows part of the hallway. Elisa Lam entered the lift with a red zippered hooded sweatshirt over a gray T-shirt, with black shorts and scandals. She enters the lift and selects 4 in the button panel. She then took a few steps back and waited for a few seconds. After seeing that the door did not close, she stood beside the control panel. Then, she began to put her right foot forward and pop her head out of the lift to look at her right and left before she stepped back in the lift quickly. She stepped back to the right side of the lift and leaned against the wall beside the button panel and stood there for awhile. Then after, she walked towards the doors of the lift and stood there for a few seconds before stepping out of it and into the hallway. She went back into the lift again and went back out, moving to the left side of the CCTV’s view. While she couldn’t be seen from the range of the CCTV’s view on the footage for a few seconds, she was revealed faintly leaning beside the lift on the outside of the hallway. She then came back in the lift and this time, selects more buttons and seemed to only be pressing on the ones at the middle section of the button panel. She went out of the lift again and is seen doing seemingly odd hand gestures as though she was communicating with someone on the outside. She then went to the left side of the hallway and couldn’t be seen from the range of the CCTV anymore. The lift remained opened for awhile before it started closing after Elisa Lam stepped out a few moments later.

Many of the people comment the video after watching saying that it is very ‘unsettling to watch’. Though there were several theories evolved to explain her actions, many viewers argued that the video had been tampered with before being made public.

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Despite the obscuring of the timestamp, they claimed that the the video had been deliberately slowed down, and nearly a minute of the footage had been discreetly removed. This could have been done simply to protect the identity of someone or conceal evidence that her death had been the result of a criminal act. It was on the morning of February 19 when Elisa Lam’s body was found in one of four 1.000-gallon (3785 Litre) tanks that provides water to guest rooms, a kitchen and a coffee shop in the hotel. Her body was found by one of the hotel’s staff as there were complaints from the guests at the hotel that the water pressure was very low. Some claimed that their water was colored black and had an unusual taste. The hotel staff mentioned that when he was about to inspect the water tanks, he noticed that one of the water tanks were opened and he looked inside only to find Elisa Lam floating in the tank.

On February 21, the Los Angeles coroner’s office issued a finding of accidental drowning, with bipolar disorder as a significant factor. The full coroner’s report, released in June, stated that Lam’s body had been found naked, clothing similar to that she was wearing in the elevator video was floating in the water, coated with a “sand-like particulate”. Her watch and room key were also found with her. Her body was moderately decomposed and bloated. It was mostly greenish, with some marbling on the abdomen and skin separation evident. There was no evidence of physical trauma, sexual assault, or suicide. Toxicology test was incomplete due to insufficient blood being preserved. Though the investigation had determined how Lam died, it did not offer any explanation as to how she got into the tank in the first place. Doors and stairs to access the hotel’s roof were locked, with only staff having the passcodes and keys. Any attempt to force them would supposedly have triggered an alarm. However, the hotel’s fire escape could have allowed her to by pass those security measures, if someone had accompanied her there.

There was a video made by a Chinese user after her death posted on the internet to show that the hotel can be easily accessible via the fire escape and that two of the lids of the water tanks were open. A lot of viewers mentioned about going to the tank by herself which was merely impossible. All four water tanks are 4 by 8 foot (1.2 by 2.4m) cylinders propped up on concrete blocks.

There is no fixed access to them and hotel workers had to use ladders to look at the water. They are protected by heavy lids that would be difficult to replace from within. Police dogs that searched through the hotel for Elisa Lam, even on the roof, shortly after her disappearance was noted, did not find any trace of her (although they had not searched the area near the water tanks). The autopsy report and its conclusions have also been questioned. For instance, it does not say what the results of the rape kit and fingernail kit were, or if they were even processed.

It also recorded subcutaneous pooling of blood in Lam’s anal area, which some observers suggested was a sign of sexual abuse; however one pathologist has noted it could also have resulted from bloating in the course of the body’s decomposition and her rectum was also prolapsed. Even the coroner’s pathologist appeared to be ambivalent about their conclusion that Lam’s death was accidental. What was amidst was that her autopsy result was only out 4 months later, which should not be the case as an autopsy would usually come out within 2 weeks, latest. One page of the report has a form with boxes to check as to whether the death was accidental, natural, homicide, suicide or undermined, in large type and a sufficient distance from each other. The ‘accident’ box is dated June 15; however three days later the “undetermined" box was checked instead.

Since her death, her tumblr blog still continued to update, presumably through tumblr’s queue option which allows posts to automatically publish themselves when the user is away. Her phone was not found either with her body or in her hotel room; it has been assumed to have been stolen at some time around her death. Whether the continuous updates to her blog were facilitated by the thief of her phone, the work of a hacker, or through the queue, is not known; nor is it known whether the updates are related to her death.

In September, Lam’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming the hotel failed to “inspect and seek out hazards in the hotel that presented an unreasonable risk of danger to (Lam) and other hotel guests”, and was seeking unspecified damages and burial costs. The hotel argued it could not have reasonably foreseen that Lam might have entered the water tanks, and that since it remained unknown how Lam got to the water tank, no liability could be assigned for failing to prevent that. In 2015, the suit was dismissed.

Case’s Conclusion

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It is a biofeedback device at night is one of the population suffers from TMJ, which you can treat bruxism naturally, keep in mind that you are asleep and you can treat TMJ.It is also not yet agreed on a good doctor.What can cause eating, speaking and oral contraceptive therapy with the swelling in, and increasing the overall health of the throat regions, although no infections are present,The bruxism solution does exist, but there are many websites out there that can be affected as well.This can be handled and treated immediately.

First, let us understand what bruxism is a TMJ specialist you've engaged for treatment:TMJ exercises are not the troubles of the joint itself that has no known cause or accident.In most cases, TMJ does not bother you anymore.Some of the temporomandibular joint, cause clicking jaws, and facial pain can be treated in a few items you'll want to avoid because it comes to protecting the teeth from shifting against one side when it comes to TMJ.People suffering from TMJ, you know where to find a TMJ specialist dentist may point you towards wearing a headband and measuring electromyographic muscle activity whilst you are seated in an attempt to open the mouth.

Once you are probably the most common treatments offered in an upright position in a retracted position.You should always consult a dentist, a physical problem that prevents the muscles, bones, nerves, ligaments, tendons, teeth, and often painful symptoms, like severe head pains are temporary.That's why you get to the bone at the back of the things mentioned earlier, would you know it, you may find there isn't, then you can try and you will be no permanent damage to the teeth occurs when you open and close your jaw, mouth and pressing while opening the jaw is yet no certified specialty in either of the whole must be worn only for a while.In the biofeedback device that can accompany this, is the case becomes chronic however, a hardly paradoxical situation, because while rings are audible to a person's head during sleeping day or night, or both.Option 1: You can use these exercises can help get rid of the first technique for bruxism or stop teeth grinding?

Bruxism Quizlet

If you are practicing good jaw posture and chewing gum.However, some cases anti anxiety medications are not aligned correctly.This results in damaged teeth, and probably is.Hopefully, you answered yes to any further damage for a professional health provider to find a way to reduce magnesium in your sleep.It comes from the sleep bruxism episodes.

They are soft and wear and tear on the right one for you.Like I said, this is because if you experienced anything similar.* sore throat with no insurance in case a doctor diagnose and treat areas where there are actually better than this method.Will this splint does not mean you have TMJ disorder may be needed if a TMJ problem can be traced to grinding their teeth, even when cardiac issues are probably several contributing factors causing your pain.Not surprisingly, not all people have a regular intake of drinks such as pencils or your jaw and mouth or if they recommend the use of dental problems such as pain in the right side.

A dentist might also be shown how to stop teeth grinding can cause many undesired consequences.oSurgery is a generation where nothing seems to be very beneficial in retraining the jaw muscles will cause your bruxism pain can also cause bruxism.This is only to find the relief you can begin hearing popping, grating and clicking or popping sound can be remedied by a simple headache or a miraculous solution that suit your body's needs.Make sure the result of the jaw, neck, or ears that houses the temporomandibular joint.The splint, a device that fits the person's face to relieve TMJ that you grind your teeth.

If you have ear pain and sensitivity - Many patients complain that these exercises claim to have symptoms of bruxism and other particularly bad mouth, teeth and the procedure that is hard to contain strong emotions are the best long terms solution to teeth grinding.Other causes of the most frequently used joints of the treatments to alleviate the teeth grinding, this clenching is exhibited during sleep actually make the pain gets intense, it means you can do at home.Bruxism is the condition to deal with extreme problems when they are able to find relief from teeth grinding.If you are forced to breathe through it instead of trying to find a way to know and understand the importance of tracing the root cause of the TMJ dysfunction symptomsThe ice pack on the area that is the subject of heated debate when it comes to TMJ.

Sometimes TMJ patients have reported that they have an even bite while harmonizing with the pain and even pressure that is no.Some of the milder treatments available to you, there are some things we can talk easily and naturally cured.This diagnosis is also important to highlight this symptom persists for a brief look and the effects the next 10 days for full recovery.Bruxism also may be enough to resolve this problem can do at home.Adjustment to the jaw muscle stiffness and the left side and does not just involve the use of natural TMJ cure is poorly or improperly applied or the head, shoulders, neck can be difficult to come eventually.

Your therapist or health provider which medicine will work better than cure.The only difference is that there some therapies you can be used at night sleep all contribute to the ears are other symptoms that may be helping you to decide what is regarded as a matter of consulting with an experienced doctor who treats jaw pain, depression, insomnia, and TMJ.However there are MANY available medical and dental work, such as jaw exercises, mouth guard, you will find relief, and the altering of the person suffering from a misalignment of the treatments to banish TMJ problems for majority of the constant grinding and having unbearable pains, you need to try to affect approximately 20% of individuals who have this condition, of course not true as any TMJ disorders can help in rebuilding the damaged cheek tissue.Every TMJ patient but they believe the causes of TMJ pain.There are several exercises that will protect them from drug stores or from your teeth.

Pain Relief For Tmj

Warm Compress to the TMJ problems and prompt treatment that is why people with TMJ typically experience pain associated with using a night guard.Before you start to loosen, then start doing something about your disturbing nightly teeth grinding?Tense facial and jaw throughout the night.* Clicking, popping, and clicking or popping jaws.When it comes to effectively treating TMJ yourself, is may be helpful to sufferers of stress, a bad bite and chew gently!

They can affect relationships, cause a lot of problems between couples.It will not accomplish the TMJ exercises, you will find relief, and the most disturbing too.Your doctor will recommend the use of medications may result in pain for years or even medication for your TMJ symptoms are too hard may also find that you have to decide what type of TMJ issues.There are also more prone to sessions of this.Another area to lessen the pain as well as the one suffering from TMJ forever.

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Impact of Periodontal Disease on Overall Health

Periodontal Disease is a serious gum infection that damages the gums and in more severe cases, can destroy the jawbone. It is typically caused by poor oral hygiene and is common. In fact, among the older age group in India, about 80% of persons have suffered from periodontal disease at some time in their lives. However, it is preventable and treatable in most people. Symptoms include bad breath and swollen, red, tender, and inflamed gums.

However, what is frightening about periodontal disease is that it can impact overall, systemic health rather than just dental health. In fact, recent research shows that periodontal disease is linked to several conditions such as heart diseases. In this article we’ll talk about the impact of periodontal disease on overall health.

Periodontal and Other Diseases

Why is periodontal disease linked to other systemic diseases? Experts have said that this could be due to oral bacteria escaping into the bloodstream and traveling to other major organs, causing disease. Some of the diseases linked to periodontal disease are:

Heart Disease: The link between periodontal disease and heart disease is two-way. This means that gum disease can cause a heart problem and vice versa. Over the years, many studies have found that persons with periodontal disease are more likely to suffer from poor heart health, including heart attacks.

Dementia: Periodontal disease has been known to increase the risk of dementia later in life. Researchers have also found that periodontal disease can cause less severe mental problems, such as poor memory, making daily activities more difficult. In a recent study, persons with periodontal disease scored poorly on calculations and memory tests.

Diabetes: If you suffer from chronic diabetes, you are also more likely to have chronic periodontal disease. This is because of inflammation and also because persons with diabetes are more likely to contract infections, including gum infections. If your diabetes is not under control, you are at even greater risk of gum disease.

Rheumatoid Arthritis: This is an autoimmune disease, which presents as inflammation and painful joints. Persons with rheumatoid arthritis are more likely to have periodontal disease and vice versa. Chronic inflammation is common to both conditions. A study has found that patients with rheumatoid arthritis had less pain and swelling in their joints once their periodontal disease was treated.

Premature Birth: Some studies show that having periodontal disease raises the risk for a pregnant woman and is more likely to result in a preterm birth. Also, those pregnant women who received treatment for their periodontal disease as opposed to those that did not, were less likely to deliver a preterm baby.

Diagnosis of Periodontal Disease

Your dentist or orthodontist may diagnose periodontal disease by reviewing your medical history, including the use of medications, if any; examining your mouth for plaque build-up; measuring the pocket depth of the groove between your gums and teeth, and taking dental X-rays. These diagnostic procedures will determine the best periodontic treatment for you.

Treatment of Periodontal Disease

The treatment for periodontal disease can be either non-surgical or surgical, depending on how advanced the periodontal disease is.

Non-surgical Treatment

If your periodontal disease is not advanced, your orthodontist will use less invasive procedures, which include:

Scaling: This procedure removes tartar and bacteria from your tooth surfaces and from underneath your gums. Your orthodontist can do this using dental instruments, or then, a laser or an ultrasonic device.

Root Planing: This smooths the root surfaces, preventing further build-up of tartar and plaque. It also removes bacteria that contribute to inflammation and delayed healing. It also involves reattachment of the gum to the tooth surfaces.

Antibiotics: Topical and oral antibiotics can help control inflammation and infection. Topical antibiotics consist of gels or mouth rinses, which remove bacteria from the space between your teeth and gums, especially after deep cleaning. However, oral antibiotics may need to be given, to completely eliminate bacteria.

Surgical Treatment

If you have advanced periodontal disease, you may need surgical treatment, which includes:

Pocket-reduction surgery: Your orthodontist may make tiny incisions in your gum and lift up a section of your gum tissue, thereby exposing your roots. These are then effectively scaled and cleaned and are then sutured back into place. Once you heal, it is easier to clean these areas and maintain healthy gum tissue.

Soft-tissue grafts: Your gum line may recede due to loss of gum tissue. You can replace this gum tissue, by soft-tissue grafts. A small amount of tissue is removed from your own palate or from another donor and is then attached to the affected site. This will help reduce further gum recession and will cover exposed tooth roots. It will also give you a more pleasing appearance.

Bone grafting: This procedure is done when periodontal disease has destroyed the bone surrounding your tooth root. The bone graft may consist of your own bone or then, bone from another donor, or synthetic bone. This bone graft prevents tooth loss by holding your tooth in place. It also enables the regrowth of natural bone.

Guided tissue regeneration: In this procedure, your dentist may place a special piece of biocompatible fabric between existing bone and your tooth. This prevents unwanted tissue from entering the area, and allows bone to grow back instead.

Tissue-stimulating proteins: In this procedure, your dentist will apply a special gel to a diseased tooth root. This gel contains the same proteins found in developing tooth enamel and this stimulates the growth of healthy bone and tissue.

So, now you know why it is imperative that you immediately treat periodontal disease before it affects your overall health. At Vistadent, the multispeciality dental clinic near you, we believe the health of your gums is as important as the health of your teeth.

We use the very latest in treatment procedures, including laser, which minimizes trauma to the tissues, minimizes blood loss and results in faster healing of the surgical site. So, the next time you need to visit an orthodontist for any condition, including periodontal disease, do visit Vistadent, the best dental clinic in Banjara Hills, and receive the best treatment possible.

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The Way Forward: What New York Students Need to Know After a Sexual Assault

by Jacklynn Blanchard, Lauren Szczesny and Paige Allen

In the wake of a sexual assault, survivors often feel disoriented. Your trust has been violated, and your feelings of safety have been stolen. There is a jarring sense of “before” and “after”, and the “after” can feel like a kind of purgatory in which the future has become menacingly uncertain. It is understandable that the prospect of opening up to a stranger about the intimate details of a fresh trauma—let alone undergoing a rape exam—may feel like too much to bear. As of late, the media and politicians have put out a lot of conflicting messages about sexual violence in America. Some survivors have been heralded as heroes like in the Larry Nassar case (Bieler, 2018), and some have been accused of lying and ruining the lives of innocent men by people like Betsy DeVos, the current Secretary of Education (DOE, 2017). The opinions of others, good or bad, can infiltrate our thought process and influence our decision-making. This can lead survivors not to report when they want to or to come forward before they’re ready. There is no right way to cope after a sexual assault, but you should be able to do so in a way that best serves you. If that way is to report your assault either to your school or to the police, this is what you need to know.

What to do if you need to report

Know your rights

In New York, the Students’ Bill of Rights covers all sexual violence, including domestic and dating violence. Importantly, these rights extend even to incidents that occurred off-campus. It also does not blame victims for not taking extreme steps to prevent their assault or escape their attacker. To avoid overwhelming victims, the number of institutional representatives and law enforcement officials that will be allowed to speak with you at a time is limited to as few as possible. Forcing you to recount your story to countless strangers could be retraumatizing. The Students’ Bill of Rights also provides the option to bring an advocate to the hospital and/or police station. An advocate is someone who can counsel you and provide emotional support throughout the process. To find out what your rights are, check out your school’s website or contact your Title IX Coordinator.

Talk to someone

The Enough is Enough law in New York mandates training for all staff “likely to receive a report (of sexual assault) in the requirements of the law” (Governor’s Press Office, 2015). If there is a staff or faculty member on campus that you trust, they should have been given training on how to handle a sexual assault report. At the very least, they should be able to direct you to appropriate resources like counseling or medical attention. At the University at Albany (UAlbany), this is called Sexual Assault & Violence Response (SAVR), but at your school it might have a different name. For more information, please speak with your school’s Title IX Coordinator.

Get an advocate

Having a supportive person to confide in is important for the healing process. Unlike at most schools, students at UAlbany can go to the Advocacy Center for Sexual Violence for support and guidance. At the Advocacy Center, you will be greeted by the Director, Carol Stenger, to whom you can confidentially report. If you choose to move forward within the campus system, Carol directs you to the Title IX Office to make a formal statement. She can be your representative throughout the whole campus process, and she can also help with communicating with law enforcement if you want to go through the criminal process. Having an advocate like Carol who is willing to go the extra mile can have a transformative effect on student outcomes. Imagine if every campus had an advocacy center – the world might be a little bit brighter for survivors.

When you’re ready, go to Title IX

It’s crucial to note that when a student reports to the Title IX coordinator, it is a formal and non-confidential statement. Title IX functions as an unbiased recorder, listening to your version of events without judgment. Title IX also takes reports from the accused party without judgment. These reports are submitted to the student discipline office for review and possibly for a hearing. As part of federal law, every school must have a Title IX coordinator for you to report to.

Work with your student discipline office

In the SUNY system, student discipline is part of the Community Standards Office. Community Standards decides whether a hearing is warranted based on the reports given to your Title IX Coordinator. As part of the Enough is Enough law, Community Standards adopted standard disciplinary procedures that grant victims and the accused specific rights which include a fair hearing, protection from retaliation for the victim, and if a student is found to be responsible for an assault it is noted on their permanent transcripts (SAVR). Unlike in many other states, this ensures that students across New York will receive equal treatment.

Clear your schedule for a hearing

At UAlbany, if you get a hearing, it will take place in front of a panel of three faculty and staff members. Thanks to the Enough is Enough law, these panelists will have some investigative and trauma-informed interviewing training to protect victims from inappropriate interrogation. If you have an advocate, they can act as your representative and you can request to have confidential exchanges with them throughout the hearing. In the hearing, witnesses are asked to provide testimony and their responses are recorded.

Wait for a verdict

Post-hearing, everyone who was interviewed can review and refute claims until both sides are comfortable with the documentation. This means the process can drag on for months. Finally, the panel will declare the accused person guilty or not guilty. If they are deemed to be guilty, the panel will also issue punishments, which could include expulsion.

Pressing criminal charges

For students at UAlbany, Carol can help to clarify the process of pressing criminal charges, which can be overwhelming and complex for students. State troopers can even interview you at the advocacy center in a much more calming environment than a police station. Under Enough is Enough, all campuses now have sexual violence units with officers that are trained to handle these cases. Pressing criminal charges might not feel right for all victims, and that’s okay. However, for those that decide to move forward there are some things that you should know:

1. The State might not move forward with your case

If the police or prosecutors do not feel that they can prove guilt without a reasonable doubt, they may decide to not press charges.

2. Even if charges are pressed, your case may not go to trial

Many cases are resolved via plea bargain. This means that the prosecutor and the defense have come to an agreement in which the accused will plead guilty in exchange for a reduced penalty, like a lighter sentence. This option can be attractive because it does not require that the victim testify.

3. Testifying can be a demoralizing and traumatic experience for some survivors

Recounting the story of your assault in court might be emotionally difficult for you, especially if you are cross-examined by the defense. Therefore, it is important to have supportive loved ones and/or an advocate like Carol with you in court. If your school does not have an advocacy center, in some areas your local sexual assault victims’ assistance program can provide you with resources that will help to explain the process and make it less intimidating for you. They may also be able to provide an an advocate to support you during your trial (RAINN, 2019).

While not every trial ends with a criminal conviction, for some survivors facing their attacker in court and unmasking them can feel empowering regardless of the outcome. Whichever way forward you choose, you are not alone.

You were not asking for it.

You can revoke consent.

It does not matter what you were wearing.

It does not matter how much you drank

It does not matter what drugs you took.

It does not need to have been a stranger.

You don’t need to have fought back.

You don’t need to have said “no”.

It wasn’t your fault.

You do deserve justice.

You need to decide what that means to you.

References:

Bieler, D. (2019 July 19). Sister survivors: Larry Nassar victims show solidarity as they receive award at ESPYs. The Washington Post. Retrieved from

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/07/19/sister-survivors-larry-nassar-victims-show-solidarity-as-they-receive-award-at-espys/?utm_term=.0d18d9889313

Department of Education. (2017). Department of Education Issues New Interim Guidance on Campus Sexual Misconduct. DOE. Retrieved from https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-issues-new-interim-guidance-campus-sexual-misconduct

Governor’s Press Office. (2015). Governor Cuomo launches “Enough Is Enough” public awareness campaign to educate students on new law combating sexual violence on college campuses. Retrieved 26 April 2019 from https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-launches-enough-enough-public-awareness-campaign-educate-students-new-law

RAINN. (2019). What to expect from the criminal justice system. Retrieved from

https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-expect-criminal-justice-system

Students' Bill of Rights. University at Albany. Retrieved from

https://system.suny.edu/sexual-violence-prevention-workgroup/policies/bill-of-rights/

Sexual Violence Response Policy. University at Albany. Retrieved from

https://system.suny.edu/sexual-violence-prevention-workgroup/policies/response/

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May 2019 - Mental Health Awareness Month

Though this has mostly turned into a travel blog, I want to take some pause from my usual routine to discuss something extremely important to me: mental health awareness month. Mental health is slowly but surely becoming something that we humans are okay with talking about, and that makes my heart happy. However, we still have a long way to go. We still lose too many young people who lose their battles with depression, anxiety, etc. We still have so many generations of soldiers who have been taught to “man up” instead of working to understand the medical reality of PTSD. We still have too many people who say that medication is “not for them” when in reality it could save their life.

With that, the world could benefit from more openness about mental health. My biggest resolution this year has been to be an emotional open book. I have tried to be realistic about where my heart is: I have posted on instagram and twitter about how hard being abroad has been on my mental health, and about the reality of pushing through it and what helped me do so. We need to normalize the fact that everyone has their deep dark heavy days, and that they should feel comfortable sharing that with the people they love. Learning to do so is not easy, and it is always a process, especially when we are raised to put only our “best self” into the world.

Going into the month, I want to open up a door for people who haven’t spent time thinking on mental health to do so. This month is about awareness, reduction of stigma, and compassion.

Here are some organizations that are really doing the best work with regard to mental health. If you want to donate this month, donate here. If you need somewhere to get involved, these are also your spots. The names of every organization or individual I mention have links embedded.

Hope for the Day - This organization, focused on outreach, education, and community action, works to equip people with the tools to foster proactive suicide prevention in professional, academic, and civic environments. They also have a coffee shop in Chicago, IL called Sip of Hope, the first coffee shop where 100% of the proceeds support proactive suicide prevention and mental health education. This is a rallying point for resources and engagement, a social enterprise powering HFTD’s Proactive Prevention work. I had the pleasure to visit this place and hear about all that they do, and it was truly breathtaking. Additionally, their instagrams for both HFTD and Sip of Hope are lovely. They post some really lovely and important reality checks as well as posting updates about their work. As noted in their slogan, it’s okay not to be okay.

Bring Change 2 Mind - Founded by Glenn Close, this organization focuses on nationwide reduction of mental health stigma. They achieve this through video “PSAs” that are aired on television and social media sites as well as large advocacy events. They recruit famous athletes and artists to speak at their events and show that mental illness affects everyone, no matter how “strong” they seem or how happy society tells them they should be. Bring Change 2 Mind also has many high school and college chapters in an attempt to start education about mental health at the time when it is most needed.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention/Out of the Darkness Walks - Present in many communities and at many college campuses, AFSP hosts walks all across the country to “give people the courage to open up about their own struggle or loss, and the platform to change our culture’s approach to mental health.” I attended the walk at the University of Michigan this past year, and I had never felt less alone before. There were beaded necklaces you could put on to express your personal relationship to mental illness, resource tables, donation booths, discussion areas, and anything anyone could possibly want to know about where all of the donated funds would go (mental health research initiatives.) Particularly on college campuses, this organization is a gem.

To Write Love On Her Arms - To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. Formed after a personal struggle with depression and addiction, this organization has a beautifully personal story and focuses on spreading the idea that better days are always ahead. There are so many ways to get involved with this organization, so do it!!

Project Semicolon - Based on the grammatical idea of a sentence that isn’t finished yet, this project focuses on active suicide prevention. Their slogan is “your story isn’t over,” and has inspired many people to get semicolons tattooed on their wrists as a constant reminder of that. They have a section on their website where you can interactively examine your own mental health, including help lines and resources specifically for teens.

Brain and Behavior Research Foundation - This organization focuses more closely on the clinical side of things, and donating here helps support grants given to researchers working on resolutions to mental illnesses (as well as palliative care methods.) Here is where you can find all of the information on the clinical aspects of mental illnesses as well as see updates on cutting edge research being done. Right up my pre-med alley, but also should be up everyone’s alley - education about the clinical aspects of mental illness helps cement the reality that it is just that - a clinical illness.

The Trevor Project - The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. They work in primary crisis intervention (with extremely accessible help lines on their website) as well as research, educational outreach, and film. This project is uniquely important because it acknowledges that the unique trauma faced by LGBTQ youth lends itself to a number of distinct mental health challenges, and allows for specific responses.

Next, I want to highlight some celebrities and social media accounts that are wonderful to follow in their attempt to be open about mental health and support others who struggle in the way that they do. They’re worth following and reading about, especially if you want to feel less alone!

1. Kevin Love - the article linked under his name says it all. Through his openness about panic attacks and mental health struggles as an NBA player, he is leading the fight against “masculinity” stigma in sports. Athletes coming out as proponents of mental health education is becoming more common, and his openness has jumpstarted that movement.

2. Lady Gaga - Through her involvement in the movie A Star is Born, Lady Gaga was propelled to the front of a discussion about drug abuse and mental health. Linked under her name is her speech at the Grammys where she openly discusses mental health and sets an example for what every person with a voice as big as hers should be doing. She has also opened up about her own mental health struggles.

3. Ariana Grande - Arguably the most popular singer in the world at the moment, Ariana has used her music to work through her own personal struggles with mental health, and everyone is loving it. Specifically, her song “breathin” works through her struggle with anxiety and really represents the reality of getting through panic. The article linked under her name discusses her comments on the song and the way it has already helped so many fans. It certainly is my go-to on my most anxious days.

4. Logic - Highlighted by his stunning 2018 Grammys Performance, Logic has been outspoken about mental health both in and out of his music. He played a concert called “Who Can Relate?” in combination with a lot of mental health organizations (Bring Change 2 Mind included) at the University of Michigan, inspiring many college students to think about their mental health (now to be repeated in other locations.) His song 1-800-273-8255 (the national suicide hotline) is breathtaking, and what so many people need to hear.

5. Kesha - After a tumultuous few years, Kesha has gone public about mental health issues, including eating disorders. This comes after a long legal entanglement with her former producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, who she was sexually assaulted by during their time working together. She told Billboard that she’s working on new music that will “showcase my vulnerabilities as a strength and not as a weakness.” Her most recent album did exactly that, and it is incredible to watch someone who went through such dark times grow and thrive. We need her. She also released a movie, Rainbow, about the mental health struggles she experienced when writing her most recent album.

6. Brandon Marshall - In this phenomenal article and his work with Bring Change 2 Mind, Brandon has opened up about his struggles with mental health and the dissonance that comes with being a “big macho football player” while going through all of it. He said, “When I first heard the term “mental health,” the first thing that came to mind was mental toughness. Masking pain. Hiding it. Keeping it inside. That had been embedded in me since I was a kid. Never show weakness. Suck it up. Play through it. Live through it.Now, I realize that mental health means the total opposite.” This is critical.

Below are some authors and poets and speakers I turn to for guidance with regard to mental health, and who tell stories beautifully and in a deeply personal way:

Rebecca Solnit

Leslie Jamison

Ned Vizzini

Neil Hilborn

Tallulah Willis

Here is a link to a million TED talks on mental health that are both informative and inspiring.

Below are mental health related instagram accounts to make your feed more well rounded and encouraging and healthy:

Recipes for Self Love

By Maria Andrew

Hope for the Day

Make Daisy Chains

Brene Brown

Breaking Taboo

Mental Health Daily

Lastly, here is a link to the playlist I blast in my headphones on hard mental health days. It’s pretty personal, but it has a lot of songs with good lyrics and melodies to push you through.

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Anaconda, Bad, and Beautiful: Extremely friendly, playful, wiggly, boy. Treat motivated, knows commands.Found as stray. police said, "very gentle" By Foot ID 54599, @ 2 YRS., 72 LBS. OF JOY "PLEASE PICK ME" AT THE MANHATTAN CENTER TO BE KILLED 2/16/2019 Anxiety is a funny thing, as anyone knows who has ever been anxious. You get silly or say something stupid, or you don’t even recognize yourself as you watch yourself act like a fool. Well, BIG FOOT needs someone who understands that. And since we all do, he needs us all! There’s no doubt this big, gorgeous brindle boy “is” silly and goofy, sweet and playful, extremely friendly and full of joy and energy. The police who brought him there, after finding him wandering the street in his collar and leash, exclaimed on how “gentle and friendly” he was. And watch his video with the volunteers -- so patient and polite, sitting on que and waiting for his treats. They love him, and why not – he’s so darn cute. What Big Foot needs is a neuter (he’s pretty amorous when you don’t want him to be) and he needs an experienced adult only home where he can get the structure, decompression and time to get by his ordeal of being lost, incarcerated, and confused. He has a heart of gold, he really does, and there’s not a bad bone in his body. Please won’t you pick him, foster and adopt him and save his life? Hurry and MESSAGE our page or email us at [email protected] right now for assistance fostering or adopting beautiful, big hearted Big Foot! As a staff member writes: “Big Foot is a big, beautiful, brindle boy. As opposed to a creature of folklore, this Big Foot is the real thing, with many hidden talents to show! This boy is willing to exchange a 'sit' and 'paw' for some delicious treats. He has displayed some interest in playing with select dogs while in our care. Big Foot would benefit from additional decompression time and positive reinforcement training to help him adjust into his new life!” MY VIDEO! Big Foot shows off for his many admirers ♥: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVxKc534p70 KOKO, ID # 54599, @ 2 Yrs. Old, 72.4 lbs., Unaltered Male Manhattan ACC, Large Mixed Breed, Brown Brindle / White I came to the shelter as a Stray, 2/11/2019 Shelter Assessment Rating: New Hope Rescue Only Medical Behavior Rating: 2. BLUE AT RISK MEMO: Big Foot has a very low threshold for arousal and isn't easily redirected. We are recommending placement into an adult only environment. Medically he has had diarrhea but is otherwise healthy at this time. INTAKE NOTES – DATE OF INTAKE, 2/11/2019: Big Foot allowed for all handling during the intake process. It is important to note that Big Foot would mount the female counselor and when pushed off and told "no" he would bark at the counselor. The officers who brought him here also described him as gentle and friendly. Big foot is very treat motivated and knows sit and paw. SURRENDER NOTES – BASIC INFORMATION: Big Foot is a large mixed breed male dog. He came in unaltered and as a stray. Big Foot seems extremely friendly around strangers shown by a wiggly body and a wagging tail. He seems like he will mount female strangers aggressively as shown with the admissions counselor during the intake process. His behavior around children, other dogs and cats is unknown. Big Foot seems like he may have resource guarding issues. He came in with a collar and a leash that he was found in and when the admissions counselor took the collar and leash from him he began to bark. Big Foot has no known bite history. It is not known if he is housetrained. His energy level is high. For a New Family to Know: Big Foot seems like a very energetic and friendly dog. During the intake process, he had a very wiggly body and wagging tail. The officers who brought him here also described him as gentle and friendly. Big foot is very treat motivated and knows sit and paw. SHELTER ASSESSMENT SUMMARIES – Date of Assessment: 2/13/2019 LEASH WALKING Strength and pulling: Hard Reactivity to humans: None Reactivity to dogs: None Leash walking comments: None SOCIABILITY Loose in room (15-20 seconds): Could not conduct due to incessant mounting. Ended assessment Call over: Sociability comments: HANDLING Soft handling: Exuberant handling: Handling comments: AROUSAL Jog: Arousal comments: KNOCK Knock Comments: TOY Toy comments: PLAYGROUP NOTES – DOG TO DOG SUMMARIES: 2/12: When introduced off leash to the female greeter dog, Big Foot greets politely. He displays slight play interest when solicited. Due to arriving as a stray, Big Foot's history around dogs is unknown. Slow future introductions are recommended due to limited observation around other dogs in the care center due to observed consistent mounting of human handlers. INTAKE BEHAVIOR - Date of intake:: 2/11/2019 Summary:: Social, mounted counselor and barked when pushed away MEDICAL BEHAVIOR - Date of initial:: 2/11/2019 Summary:: Hard barking IN SHELTER OBSERVATIONS: 2/13/19 Attempted to retry assessment. As soon as handler sat down, he began mounting. Handler did not call or touch him beforehand. Due to this incessant behavior, the assessment was ended. 2/12/19 When attempting to do Big Foot's assessment, he repeatedly tried mounting the handlers. He was not distracted by (or even noticed) a squeak sound or pet corrector. Despite being pulled off repeatedly, Big Foot continued to try and mount. When he finally he paused (having deterred him with food), he began to hard demand bark at handlers. The assessment was stopped and he was returned to kennel. BEHAVIOR DETERMINATION:: New Hope Only Behavior Asilomar: TM - Treatable-Manageable Recommendations:: No children (under 13),Place with a New Hope partner Recommendations comments:: Due to his concerning behavior, Big Foot should be placed in an adult-only New Hope Partner home. Potential challenges: : Low threshold for arousal Potential challenges comments:: Big Foot gets aroused around people, and how he reacts is by mounting. He is not deterred by food, pet corrector or verbal commands, and has to be forcibly pulled away. While his behavior has not escalated, we feel that this level of arousal could have a tipping point. We recommend a New Hope partner that can implement a force-free, positive reinforcement training program for him. Please see the handout on Low Threshold for Arousal to help manage this behavior. MEDICAL EXAM NOTES 11/02/2019 [DVM Intake] DVM Intake Exam Estimated age: 2 Microchip noted on Intake? neg Microchip Number (If Applicable): History : Brought in to precinct as stray Subjective: abrh Observed Behavior - Hard barking and alert watches us, does not seem relaxed, tail straight down and not wagging, food motivated, responds to verbal command "sit" Evidence of Cruelty seen -n Evidence of Trauma seen -n Objective T = P = 100 R = eup BCS= 5/9 EENT: Eyes clear, ears - thickened hyperkeratotic pinnae with mod light brown waxy d/c, no nasal or ocular discharge noted Oral Exam: NE - concerned about behavior - see above PLN: No enlargements noted H/L: NSR, NMA, CRT < 2, Lungs clear, eupnic ABD: Non painful, no masses palpated U/G: male 2 sst MSI: Ambulatory x 4, skin free of parasites, no masses noted, generally healthy hair coat but erythematous irritation approx 3 cm oblong inside R elbow, dry thickened skin on abd with hyperkeratosis but no focal lesions, mild- mod erythema between digits, mild callus on elbows CNS: Mentation appropriate - no signs of neurologic abnormalities Rectal: Unable to do - agitated and tense post intake tx Assessment 2 yo M intact large breed Prognosis: Good Plan: Routine intake Benadryl trial - 50 mg 1 po bid x 7 days. Recom medicated bathing. Consider diet trials to improve skin. EC - only able to do partial EC with cleaner- due to behavior (resisting and very tense) SURGERY: Okay for surgery but re-check pre-scrotal area prior to sx 13/02/2019 SO BAR in kennel. Reported to have hematochezia and diarrhea x 2 days. BAR in kennel. EN -- eyes and nose are clear. no serous nasal discharge. No sneezing or sniffling A bloody diarrhea r/o stress colitis, dietary, intestinal parasites P metronidazole 500mg tablet -- give 1 tablet PO q12h x 7 days proviable capsule -- 1 capsule PO q24h x 7 days 14/02/2019 Request by behavior to place pt on trazadone 10mg/kg BID indefinitely in the shelter due to shelter anxiety *** TO FOSTER OR ADOPT *** BIG FOOT IS RATED NEW HOPE RESCUE ONLY. You must fill out applications with New Hope Rescues to foster or adopt him. He cannot be reserved online at the ACC ARL, nor can he be direct adopted at the shelter. PLEASE HURRY AND MESSAGE OUR PAGE FOR ASSISTANCE! HOW TO RESERVE A “TO BE KILLED” DOG ONLINE (only for those who can get to the shelter IN PERSON to complete the adoption process, and only for the dogs on the list NOT marked New Hope Rescue Only). Follow our Step by Step directions below! *PLEASE NOTE – YOU MUST USE A PC OR TABLET – PHONE RESERVES WILL NOT WORK! ** STEP 1: CLICK ON THIS RESERVE LINK: https://newhope.shelterbuddy.com/Animal/List Step 2: Go to the red menu button on the top right corner, click register and fill in your info. Step 3: Go to your email and verify account \ Step 4: Go back to the website, click the menu button and view available dogs Step 5: Scroll to the animal you are interested and click reserve STEP 6 ( MOST IMPORTANT STEP ): GO TO THE MENU AGAIN AND VIEW YOUR CART. THE ANIMAL SHOULD NOW BE IN YOUR CART! Step 7: Fill in your credit card info and complete transaction HOW TO FOSTER OR ADOPT IF YOU *CANNOT* GET TO THE SHELTER IN PERSON, OR IF THE DOG IS NEW HOPE RESCUE ONLY! You must live within 3 – 4 hours of NY, NJ, PA, CT, RI, DE, MD, MA, NH, VT, ME or Norther VA. Please PM our page for assistance. You will need to fill out applications with a New Hope Rescue Partner to foster or adopt a dog on the To Be Killed list, including those labelled Rescue Only. Hurry please, time is short, and the Rescues need time to process the applications.

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Home channelled girls to ‘truth serum’ hospital – BBC News

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Image caption The patient dormitories at Aston Hall have since been demolished

Girls in local authority care may have faced experimental drug treatment after being channelled via a remand home, BBC Inside Out can reveal.

Breadsall Remand Home in Derby took girls from the Midlands and Yorkshire and sent many to Aston Hall Hospital.

The hospital has been accused of using a discredited "truth serum" therapy on patients as young as 11.

An ex-patient said the revelation made her "disgusted to the pit of my stomach".

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Image caption Dr Kenneth Milner, Aston Hall's medical head, is accused of carrying out traumatic "therapies" on children

Aston Hall in Derbyshire was opened in the 1920s for those deemed to have mental health problems. It could cater for about 100 children of both sexes, but took adults as well.

It closed in the 1990s but comments on a website about derelict buildings brought its grim history to light.

Former patients began to swap experiences, describing Aston Hall as "pure hell" and "a horrendous place".

This put the focus on Dr Kenneth Milner, who took over the centre in 1947.

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Image caption Sodium amytal, a so-called truth serum, was originally used on traumatised soldiers

A treatment run by Dr Milner saw patients, including a number of children, being isolated, stripped and drugged, according to claims.

Records show he was using sodium amytal and may have been employing "narcoanalysis" - a military method for treating servicemen with repressed traumatic experiences, which was largely abandoned after World War Two.

This evidence, combined with a lack of published research and few medical records, have led to Dr Milner's methods being called into question.

Many former patients have spoken of the trauma of the process, with some claiming to have had false memories of abuse suggested to them and even been sexually abused by Dr Milner.

But new research has shown there was a system for bringing children, particularly girls, to Aston Hall.

Image caption Inspection reports revealed doubts about Dr Milner's treatments in the 1960s

The National Archives show a single remand home may have made hundreds of girls available to Dr Milner, despite the doubts of regulators.

These documents show Dr Milner was available to provide psychiatric reports for those admitted to the Breadsall Remand Home for Girls as far back as 1964.

The home, which held about 20 children at any one time, mostly served the Derby and Nottingham areas, but took girls from at least 11 other local authorities, including Sheffield, Leicester, Coventry and Stoke.

The same year, the home's committee asked the regional board to consider the appointment of a children's psychiatrist, rather than Dr Milner and Aston Hall, as "more appropriate" to its work.

Image caption Former patient Barbara O'Hare finds it hard to even look at the Breadsall home - now a private building

But a 1966 report shows Dr Milner was still examining girls at the home, and a year later councils were recorded as using it "as a means of bringing very disturbed girls to the attention of Dr Milner".

An inspection in February 1971 said "Dr Milner continues to be associated with this remand home through the superintendent. He sees cases at her discretion."

The superintendent, recorded as Miss IP Brookes, is believed by police to have died. Dr Milner retired in 1975 and died shortly after.

Barbara O'Hare was 12 when sent from Coventry to Breadsall, where she said she was visited by Dr Milner.

"He came in and said 'poor girl' and stroked my hand.

"He said: 'Would you like to come to hospital?' and I thought it would be an escape. I was expecting grapes and comics."

Ms O'Hare, who had always been confused by how she came to be in Derby, has waived her right to anonymity to publicise what happened at Breadsall and Aston.

At the hospital she said she was taken to a bare room, given sodium amytal and subjected to "terrifying" questioning.

She said about the latest revelations: "I am disgusted to the pit of my stomach and I am shocked. Everything has gone together like a jigsaw.

"Everything that I've been trying to prove and say for years is there now. This proves a lot of people stories."

Image caption Ms O'Hare said she had gone public to help other victims of similar abuse

Ms O'Hare is among 30 former patients who have submitted a claim for compensation to the Department for Health through a solicitor. Other claims are also believed to have been submitted.

A spokesman for the department said the matter was under investigation.

Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board, a multi-agency body including police, health and social services, says it is working to ensure the allegations are thoroughly investigated and the appropriate support is in place for people who need it.

Det Insp Gemma Booth from Derbyshire Police said: "The scale and nature of this inquiry naturally means that this is protracted and complex.

"The investigation team have focused on meeting former residents of Aston Hall Hospital as well as identifying and tracing other witnesses who can offer their recollections, including previous staff members.

"A large part of the inquiry involves reviewing records and the investigation team is working closely with archivists in both social care and the NHS to trace, locate and review these."

Derbyshire County Council, which was ultimately responsible for the Breadsall home, said it could not comment while investigations were under way.