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One of the Many Hard Things About Life ---We're Often Taking the Test BEFORE We've Learned the Lesson

3/15/2022

WebMD: Anxiety and Cancer Patients
(Feb. 2021)

"Intense anxiety associated with cancer treatment is more likely to occur in patients with a history of anxiety disorders or depression, and patients who are experiencing these conditions at the time of diagnosis.

"Anxiety may also be experienced by patients who are in severe pain, are disabled, have few friends or family members to care for them, have cancer that is not responding to treatment, or have a history of severe physical or emotional trauma.

"Central nervous system metastases and tumors in the lungs may create physical problems that cause anxiety.

"Many cancer medications and treatments can aggravate feelings of anxiety."

I found this article March 7 ---- a couple of hours before the Hospital was predicting my husband would probably not survive more than 24 or 48 hours.

It has been a very long road for 2 honest, over-educated people who more often than not --- DID NOT HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED.

As children we see adults and read about people in history making mistakes, floundering around and --- WHY DON'T THESE PEOPLE KNOW BETTER?

And at least sometimes --- it wasn't that people weren't being HONEST --- it was that FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS of the problem were NOT KNOWN or were MISUNDERSTOOD.

The Great Man Theory of History, Neuro-Developmental Disorders & Psychiatric Disorders, GENDERAND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (When It is NOT ADDING UP)

3/13/2022

What are some of the THINGS that are NOT ADDING UP:

Failure to Recognize the greater incidence of NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL issues among males and its implications for CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Failure to Recognize the CONNECTION between Neuro-Developmental Disorders and Psychiatric Disorders.

Failure to Recognize that OUR Systems are EMPOWERING GREED and INCOMPETENCE.
- The ANSWER is not a Criminal Prosecution or to FORCE someone out ---
- We need a MAJOR SYSTEM RE-DESIGN
  - That has as one of its MAJOR COMPONENTS Translational Research and Medicine, and
  - FAIRNESS and EQUITY in
    - Compensation, and
    - Administrative Support (& Fairness and Equity for those Adminstrative Support Staff)

Colorado (2011)

Medicaid Mental Health Services for People With Developmental Disabilities

Criteria for Behavioral Health Organizations (BHOs) and Community Mental Health Centers in the assessment of Mental Health Conditions for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.

[This Letter from the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing was necessary because Mental Health Centers were refusing to treat people with DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

If you have kept up with the CURRENT RESEARCH --- the IRONY of that is NOT ESCAPING YOU.

We are paying a lot in both PUBLIC & PRIVATE MENTAL HEALTH CARE (and unintentionally RIPPED OFF in many cases) -- NOT because Mental Health Professionals are CHARLATANS but because we haven't provided the RESEARCH and TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE SUPPORT to an often BURNT OUT PROFESSION.

[Dr. Carl Clark at MHCD is kinda the "GREAT MAN of Colorado Mental Health" who is far from a MONSTER but is GREEDY and isn't worth Colorado Tax Dollars that have gone to support him one way or another. --- See The Rolling Heads in Colorado's Crappy Mental Health System.

The problem for Mental Health Centers, Colorado Medicaid and for much of the ECONOMY is it is CHEAPER to pay 1 person an ENORMOUS AMOUNT --- while keeping the WORKER BEES at a low level --- that is one of the reasons we have a workforce shortage in MENTAL HEALTH. ]

Insights into the Relationship of the Immune System with Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Disorders (2018)

a Translational Group in Autism Spectrum Disorder – GETTEA, Clinical Hospital of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
b Autism Wellbeing and Research Development (AWARD) Institute, Preston, United Kingdom
c Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology on Neuroimmunomodulation (INCT-NIM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
d Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
eSchool of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

Neurodevelopmental disorders: A new study has found that neurodevelopmental disorders are more common in males than females.

Neurodevelopmental disorders are referred to a group of disorders which occur as a result of disturbance in the central nervous system. Jul 5, 2018

Risk Of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Is Higher In Men Than ...

Seoul National University School of Medicine

Mental disorders among workers in the healthcare industry: 2014 national health insurance data (2018)

Results

Prevalence estimates for selected psychiatric disorders

Among all insured employees, females demonstrated a higher percentage of mood disorders (2%), anxiety disorders (2.26%), sleep disorders (2.1%), and any psychiatric disorders (6.53%) compared to males.

The most common disorder was anxiety disorder in both sexes. Among workers in healthcare industry, females had a higher percentage of psychiatric disorders than males, except for sleep disorders. Compared with all insured employees, sleep disorders were the most common problem, and the overall frequency of psychiatric disorders was higher in workers in the healthcare industry

Scientific Reality, A Kinder Gentler Nation & Making Piece With the "State of Nature"

Might Makes Right

3/4/2022

The BIG MIGHT MAKES RIGHT CONFLICTS are WARS

But . . .
Many people find those issues in their lives on a --
- smaller scale
Further, if the truth be told most people have been on both sides of that at one point or another in their lives.

In the US

Another extreme could be LAW ENFORCEMENT EXCESSIVE FORCE
- With the advent of CELL PHONES, the general public is more aware this is a PROBLEM --- than was generally understood previously.

MIGHT MAKES RIGHT and MAJORITIES in DEMOCRACIES often go together.

In more politically complicated ways than the OUTRIGHT DICTATORSHIP
Nonetheless . . .

What the Disability Community, especially Cognitive Disability Advocates, Individuals and Families find in the US is a KIND of SMALL TOWN CORRUPTION --- that isn't really SMALL TOWN.

It is aided and abetted by INEFFECTUAL SYSTEMS at MULTIPLE LEVELS of GOVERNMENT
LACK of UNIFORM and PREDICTABLE ENFORCEMENT of Title II of the ADA and Olmstead
- And at ROCK BOTTOM a lack of understanding of WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW?

Olmstead is about addressing the INSTITUTIONALIZATION and RISK of INSTITUTIONALIZATION of People with Disabilities ---
- Caused by HUGE SHORTAGES in DISABILITY HOUSING and generally INTENSIVE SERVICES that COLORADO and MOST STATES are struggling with.

Title II of the ADA and Olmstead are also about INTEGRATION and INCLUSION
- NOT JUST THE PRETENSE OF IT.

The Scary Mess We've Gotten Ourselves into with Knowledge Boundaries

3/4/2022

There's a lot of knowledge out there that is routinely excluded as irrelevant --- that is FAR FROM IT.

In the Law ----

Higher IQ Neuro-Developmental Difference / Disability
Brain Injury and
the Social Determinants of Health

are 3 Big Areas that are routinely mishandled by The Legal System.

In fairness, more and more politicians from both parties are integrating SAFETY CONCERNS with HEALTH and TREATMENT CONCERNS.

Further, there is room and a great need to INTEGRATE Supported Employment and Entrepreneurship in this as well.

It is going to be difficult to make the kind of progress we need to make without addressing:

an OUTDATED DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL in the DSM 5 --- and the answer is probably not a DSM 6

Medical Academics have started to write TEXTBOOKS that are more recognizing the BLURRED NATURE of some of these DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES as well as identifying common biological mechanisms such as:

Shared Genes across disorders that often go to the Immune System as well as Epigenetics
Maternal Immune Activation
Trauma
etc.

There is a certain sense in which none of us fully get to the PROMISED LAND --- that is for future generations and another sense in which the PROMISED LAND is here right now and all the HARD WORK gave our lives meaning.

One of the Many Hard Things About Life ---We're Often Taking the Test BEFORE We've Learned the Lesson

The Great Man Theory of History, Neuro-Developmental Disorders & Psychiatric Disorders, GENDERAND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (When It is NOT ADDING UP)

Might Makes Right

The Scary Mess We've Gotten Ourselves into with Knowledge Boundaries

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One of the Many Hard Things About Life ---We're Often Taking the Test BEFORE We've Learned the Lesson

The Great Man Theory of History, Neuro-Developmental Disorders & Psychiatric Disorders, GENDERAND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (When It is NOT ADDING UP)

Might Makes Right

The Scary Mess We've Gotten Ourselves into with Knowledge Boundaries

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