Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease Summary Gastro-oesophageal reflux is an irritation of the oesophagus, the part of the digestive system that runs from the mouth to the stomach. The irritation you feel
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Migraine
Summary A migraine is an intense, throbbing headache that may be accompanied by nausea or dizziness and may last from a few hours to a few days. Causes Many facts
How pain is measured
Although it is an entirely subjective disorder, pain can be measured with appropriate instruments, so-called scales, which have been appropriately developed and validated in the clinical setting. Everyone should be
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Narrative medicine (preview)
Nowadays very often physicians identify patients no longer by their actual name, but by the room number in which they reside and perhaps the condition from which they suffer. It
Adult function and adolescence
Parents, teachers, janitors, doctors, sports coaches, as well as subway passengers or spectators in a movie theater, we are all adults in different roles. But precisely all of us, as
The Cutting phenomenon: what drives teenagers to cut themselves ?
The relationship with the body is definitely central in adolescence, whether it is self- or hetero-aggression, or a conflicted relationship with food, or hypochondriac-type concerns, or pregnancy breakdowns. The body
Extinguishing phobia with integrated care
Recent research published in PNAS, the journal of the American Academy of Sciences, shows that the combination of psychotherapy and cortisone in people suffering from specific phobia (in this case,
Placebo effect and Nocebo, the power of the mind
Placebo effect and its opposite nocebo The oldest and most spectacular episode of alternation, in the same person, of a placebo effect and its opposite nocebo, published in the scientific
Let’s read aloud together
Reading aloud to a child, even a very young one, accompanying him to discover the magic of the book, the pictures, the sounds is a gift, a gift we give
Parents and children: the Coronavirus experience
Of course it is a new experience … never happened before … exceptional … unexpected but … On closer inspection it is all these things (new, outstanding,
unexpected, etc.) only
Ferdinand Pellegrino. To be or not to be a leader.
The theme of leadership is taken up by multiple authors, each of whom profiles the ideal leader. The basic idea is to recognize leadership in every person as a resource;
Anger, sometimes a bad counselor
How do you feel when someone insults you, verbally attacks you, or looks at you with eyes full of disapproval, contempt?
When you feel threatened, judged, unappreciated and unloved? An
Antoine de Saint-Exupèry. The little prince.
The book “The Little Prince” is widely studied. It is the story of the adult man who rediscovers his inner child and begins to consider again the possibility of growing,
What if we rewrote our history!
By Cristina Martinucci – Life Coach, NLP, Lausanne, Switzerland We have had life experiences that have marked us as human beings. Our life consists of a series of magnificent experiences
Do I perhaps have a food allergy?
An unexplained food allergy or even a simple food intolerance can cause drowsiness or fatigue.
Inadequate nutrition?
A proper diet that is complete in terms of the nutritional components of foods, with the right levels of sugars, and based on non-harmful products will ensure proper daily energy.
Tired? If you get little sleep…
Insufficient sleep can cause reduced physical energy and recurrent sleepiness.
Too much Caffeine?
Taken in small doses it improves concentration, while if taken in excessive doses it causes heart rate, raises blood pressure levels and induces a state of nervousness.
Fatigued? What if it is the overweight?
Too many pounds fatigue a person during the day, plus they do not allow for good quality sleep at night, especially if there is' then a smoking habit.
Holidays and Melancholy
Christmas Blues is called that state of unease, characterized by depression, anxiety, impatience, stress, insomnia, and physical and mental fatigue that accompanies the holiday season.
Separated parents and the holiday season
The Christmas vacation season, with the array of decorations and advertising icons and all the rhetoric of family and good feelings that accompany them, can prove at times and for some a kind of emotional "trap."
Holidays, Melancholy and Covid
We have said it, read it, and are experiencing it on our own skin: this year's Christmas and New Year's holidays will be different than usual because of the pandemic.
Couple’s understanding and the holiday season
In the collective imagination, the Christmas holidays are laden with strong rhetoric: everyone should be good and happy, families reunite in a harmonious and joyful manner, the new year represent a decisive turning point of change...
Thoughts of renewal between old and new year
"New Year, New Life": this phrase encapsulates both passage and renewal, two fundamental elements that mark the passage of time on the physical and psychic planes.
