SHARING MAKES BOTH GOOD BAD EXPERIENCES MORE INTENSE

Undergoing an experience with another person -- even if we do it in silence, with someone we met just moments ago -- seems to intensify that experience, according to new research published in Psychological Science. The research shows that people who share experiences with another person rate those experiences as more pleasant or unpleasant than those who undergo the experience on their own.

"We often think that what matters in social life is being together with others, but we've found it also really matters what those people are doing," says psychological scientist and lead researcher Erica Boothby of Yale University.

"When people are paying attention to the same pleasant thing, whether the Mona Lisa or a song on the radio, our research shows that the experience is much more pleasurable. And the reverse is true of unpleasant experiences -- not sharing them makes them more pleasurable, while sharing them makes them worse."

Thinking about shared experiences like going to the movies or viewing art in museums, Boothby and Yale colleagues Margaret Clark and John Bargh wanted to explore the consequences of sharing experiences that unfold socially but silently.

In their first study, 23 female college students came to the lab and met another participant who would be completing the study at the same time. Unbeknownst to the students, the "other participant" was actually part of the research team and she always played the role of the second participant in the study.

The pair was told that they would engage in several activities, including tasting chocolate and looking at a booklet of paintings, side by side at a table. They were told they would be assigned to complete the activities in random order but, in reality, the student was always only assigned to taste the two chocolates, one at the same time as the second participant and the other while the second participant was looking at the booklet. After the student tasted both chocolates, the experiment ended "early" before they got a chance to look at the artwork.

Although the chocolate samples were presented as two different chocolates, they were actually squares taken from the same bar of 70% dark chocolate.

Students reported liking the chocolate they had tasted at the same time as the other participant more than the chocolate they had tasted while the other participant was looking at the booklet. Although the chocolate pieces were identical, the students tended to report the "shared" chocolate as being more flavorful, which suggests that the mere act of sharing may influence how things are actually sensed or perceived by us.

To find out whether sharing makes any experience more pleasant or actually intensifies specific feelings (positive or negative), the researchers tasked another group of students to taste a bitter "chocolate substitute" (really just 90% dark chocolate, which pre-testing revealed to be unpleasant).

This time, the students said that they liked the "shared" chocolate less. They also reported feeling more absorbed in the tasting experience and more in tune with the other participant when they tasted the chocolates at the same time.

The researchers suggest that sharing an experience with someone else, even silently, may focus our attention, making us more attuned to what we are sensing and perceiving.

"When people think of shared experience, what usually comes to mind is being with close others, such as friends or family, and talking with them," says Boothby. "We don't realize the extent to which we are influenced by people around us whom we don't know and aren't even communicating with."

Ultimately, these findings may have significant implications for social life in a world that is filled with distractors:

"We text friends while at a party, check our Twitter feed while out to dinner, and play Sudoku while watching TV with family -- without meaning to, we are unsharing experiences with the people around us," says Boothby. "A pleasant experience that goes unshared is a missed opportunity to focus on the activity we and others are doing and give it a boost."

BAD EFFECTS OF CRY

BAD EFFECTS OF CRY

PSYCHIATRIC COMPLAINTS – BAD EFFECTS OF CRY 

In general, cry is treated as an expression of sorrows and grievances.

Eyes alone should be never blamed for crying, since those innocents are squeezed between brain and heart with one’s feelings and needs. Depending upon the cause, intensity and environment, expression of cry commonly differs. The tolerance or breaking point of cry also differs from person to person. Some cry even for trivial, some other won’t cry even for a major loss. Some persons control their tears and cry in their heart with inner feelings and some other would cry as they had ruptured out. The effects of cry too differ from person to person. For some, cry may act as a drain for sorrows and stress, to have clear thoughts and for some other, cry can create more and more clumsy thoughts to give an extreme emotional upset to derail the life train.

Anything excess often bring problems, cry is no way exception. Even though, by the time of birth good cry brings good respiration, intensified and aggressive cry may arrest respiration and can complicate one’s life with respiratory distress syndrome, syncope, panic and with brain damage too. Cry syncope not only occurs in infants, but can also happen in adults too (with extreme emotional upset or after violent cry). Getting fainting after hearing shocking news (i.e. even before starting to cry) is nothing but a series of cry syncope. Women and children are more susceptible to these bad effects and in fact sometimes, gains good claims too with this advantageous (?) cry.

In case of infants, cry is the only way to communicate concerning their need. No one can predict when they would start crying and what for. Parents or caretaker need to provide immediate attention to the violently crying baby to pacify and satisfy them at the earliest or otherwise complications may crop up by anytime. Some kids could not stop crying once they have started it. They may cry until they get tired or get into the sleep. In case of violent cry (in adult or child), commonly adrenaline hormone will be loaded into the blood to cause constriction of blood vessels or arteries to elevate the blood pressure for combating stress. Elevated pressure / constriction of blood vessels caused by adrenaline load can turn hazardous by anytime. So infants or kids should never be left alone. The common bad effects of nagging cry are

• Mental trauma with emotional upset
  
• Anxiety, tension, panic, etc
• Loss of self esteem (when not attended properly)
• Restless sleep / sleeplessness
• Arrest of breath / choking / respiratory distress
• Syncope with blueness of the body
• Seizures
• Cold like symptoms
• Cough and vomiting
• Wheezing
• Buildup of habit like adamant character / cruelty / anger (when cry is often uncared or suppressed)

TIPS AND TRICKS TO AVOID / TACKLE AGGRESSIVE CRYING – Prevention is always better than cure, so never allow a trigger or otherwise one may find difficult to get them stop crying. Proper parental care is very much essential to keep infants / kids in enthusiastic and cheering mood. The parents should comprehend that the crying infants / kids need to be cared, served, distracted and educated in due course to accept the granted offers / offerings. To pacify or to keep calm and comfort babies, following things need to be followed.

• Feed baby at regular time and avoid over feeding
• Care for nature of diets
• Provide them with comfort clothing and bedding
• Give attention to them and play with them
• Care for every complaint then and there consulting a doctor
• Never self medicate them and go for investigations as early as possible in case of any complaints.
• Observe regular bowel emptying and bladder emptying
• Serve their needs with out denying – if it could not be offered, distract them with better offers or otherwise make them to understand.
• Avoid unnecessary travels which make them sleep deprived
• Avoid talking loudly, scolding, beating, pinching, punishing by any means since they often worsen the condition.
• Never tease them to cry or make them angry

TREATMENT FOR VIOLENT CRY – Cry as such cannot be treated with

medicines, since it is not at all a disease. Any how, its bad effects like choking / respiratory distress / causing cold like symptoms / wheezing / headache can be well controlled / prevented with homeopathic medicines / treatment (analysing one’s psychology – in child or adult). On screening out crying children all the way (mentally and physically), ruling out the complication or emergency, homeopathy can provide good solution with its sweet medicines and constitutional approach. With proper treatment, complications can be significantly minimised. The breath taking violent cry can be avoided in future by enhancing tolerance, i.e., after treatment, even though if the child happened to cry violently, there won’t be any choking or fainting or wheezing or any other sufferings. Crying tendency / adamancy can also be altered / lowered with treatment, habit development & distraction / mind modulation in case of growing children.

In the deal of child, children’s friendly homeopathy is matchless. It treats everyone as a different individual and treats them according to their symptom presentations, constitution make up (mental and physical) and feelings. I.e., some babies cries all thro the night and sleep fine in the day, some other babies cries all thro the day and sleep fine all the night and some other cries often through out day and night. Some children may cry in night (in sleep) with brooding for the happenings in the day. Likewise, effects of cry, its intenstiy and needed care also differ from person to person. Some needs consolation, some other need to be left undisturbed. Some babies just wish to be cared in calm environments and some others want to be held, massaged and stroked in midst of music. Some other infant wants to be held constantly. Commemorating child’s nature, homeopathy stands high with its classical individualisation and treatment to rectify everything with remedy. Homeopathy is very safe and free from all sorts of harmful effects since it is given in very minute doses. One more advantage with homeopathic approach is children need not be forced to take medicines (as they love it for its sweet taste) which saves lot of weeping and inconvenience.

Homeopathic medicines commonly indicated for adamant crying character and cry syncope are Aconitum, Bacillinum, Belladonna, Calc carb, Chamomilla, Cina, Cypripedium, Graphites, Hepar sulph, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Merc sol, Pulsatilla, Silicea, Sulphur, syphilinum, Thuja, Tuberculinum, etc. These Medicines should be taken under the advice and diagnosis of a qualified Homeopath.

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Sometimes No News About Nerve Pain Treatment Is Just As Bad As Fake News!

I have to say that today's post from sciencedaily.com (see link below), which is widely repeated across the internet at the moment, is problematic for me. When you see the words: 'moderate evidence' and 'probably' and 'Unfortunately, more research is still needed', littering an article, you know that what you're reading is more of the same and nothing new. So, we have a report from the esteemed, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) which broadly supports the continued use of the anti-depressants and anti-seizure drugs to treat nerve pain we all know and are generally disappointed by but offers no new evidence, or new alternatives, just more vague estimations that these drugs are probably better than nothing. Frankly it's not good enough. People are going to read this in the way that people do and come to the conclusion that pregabalin, duloxetine, gabapentin, amongst others; with botox and capsaicin thrown in for good measure, are all okay for nerve pain. Now, forty years of stagnation in pain control for nerve pain, suggests the opposite. The side effects are so often worse than the symptoms themselves that yet more suffering is heaped upon innocent patients who believe what they read here. Of course, these days, no article of this sort is ever complete without the statutory warning about the evils of opioids (as if sensible opioid users don't already feel guilty enough about taking the only thing that really reduces their pain!). If you look carefully at this story and maybe read some of the other versions that are currently sweeping the neuropathy net, you'll see that while this is not a 'fake news' story, it is a non-news story - we've heard these conclusions for decades - why are they getting so much publicity?

Which drugs effectively treat diabetic nerve pain?
American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Date: March 24, 2017

A federal health agency has found certain antidepressants and anti-seizure drugs are among medications that effectively treat diabetic nerve pain. The research is being published simultaneously in the March 24, 2017, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and in a more comprehensive report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).


AHRQ is the lead federal agency charged with improving patient safety and the quality of America's health care system.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than 9 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes and an estimated 50 percent of people with diabetes have some form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage caused by high levels of blood sugar, although not all have symptoms. Symptoms can include nerve pain, numbness and tingling in the legs and feet. The longer someone has diabetes, the greater the risk of developing neuropathy, especially for those who have problems controlling blood sugar. Severe neuropathy may eventually lead to the need to consider amputation.

"Providing pain relief for neuropathy is crucial to managing this complicated disease," said Julie Waldfogel, PharmD, of The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and author of the systematic review. "Unfortunately, more research is still needed, as the current treatments have substantial risk of side effects, and few studies have been done on the long-term effects of these drugs."

A systematic review is an analysis of the results of multiple, carefully designed studies available on a topic.

For this systematic review, researchers looked for studies and other systematic reviews conducted after the American Academy of Neurology's 2011 guideline "Treatment of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy." A total of 106 studies were included in the review.

Researchers found moderate evidence that the antidepressants duloxetine and venlaxine, which act as serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, were effective in reducing neuropathy-related pain.

They also found weak evidence that botulinum toxin, the anti-seizure drugs pregabalin and oxcarbazepine, as well as drugs classified as tricyclic antidepressants and atypical opioids were probably effective in reducing pain.

Waldfogel noted that the long-term use of opioids is not recommended for chronic pain due to lack of evidence of long-term benefit and the risk of abuse, misuse and overdose.

Researchers noted that while pregabalin works in the same way as gabapentin -- both are often used interchangeably in clinical care -- this review found gabapentin was not more effective than placebo. This is contrary to the 2011 AAN guideline, which found gabapentin to be probably effective.

The seizure drug valproate and capsaicin cream, which were considered probably effective in the 2011 AAN guideline, were ineffective in this meta-analysis.

"We hope our findings are helpful to doctors and people with diabetes who are searching for the most effective way to control pain from neuropathy," said Waldfogel. "Unfortunately, there was not enough evidence available to determine if these treatments had an impact on quality of life. Future studies are needed to assess this."

There were other limitations. One was that all studies were short-term, less than six months, and all studies on effective drugs had more than 9 percent of participants drop out due to adverse effects. Longer-term outcomes should be evaluated in future studies so that side effects and continued effectiveness of the drugs can be assessed.

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Journal Reference:
Julie M. Waldfogel, Suzanne Amato Nesbit, Sydney M. Dy, Ritu Sharma, Allen Zhang, Lisa M. Wilson, Wendy L. Bennett, Hsin-Chieh Yeh, Yohalakshmi Chelladurai, Dorianne Feldman, Karen A. Robinson. Pharmacotherapy for diabetic peripheral neuropathy pain and quality of life. Neurology, 2017; 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003882 DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003882
 
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170324192328.htm