Sentences with phrase «rather than the illness»

For the overwhelming majority of families, the childbearing experience is one of health rather than illness, and there is a need for preventative and loving supportive care that is not only safe, but also sensitive, compassionate and empowering.

Rather than illness being caused by disease, Native Americans viewed health as the state of being in balance with the environment.

Homeopathy is person - specific, rather than illness - specific so it requires thoughtfulness and analysis.

Keep in mind that your symptoms may be related to pregnancy related issues like PUPPS rather than an illness.

Children don't always realise that physical symptoms, such as feeling hot, dizzy or sick, may be manifestations of anxiety rather than illness.

A repaired body may have been achieved through brutal trauma and in response to unfair social pressures; a repaired prejudice can eliminate the rights that its existence had called into being... Disabled people are protected by fragile laws, and if they are judged to have an identity rather than an illness, they may forfeit those safeguards.»

The accidental death benefit rider provides for an increased death benefit in case death occurs by accident rather than illness, which can be very sudden.

«My approach to mental health stems from positive psychology that focuses on your strengths and abilities; health rather than illness.

The center helps individuals focus on their strengths, rather than their illness, in order to promote positive life change.

Not exact matches

Yet, rather than writing a book only for people experiencing illness or life - threatening situations, Nepo's book is for everyone.

«Considering that «histrionic personality disorder» is still in the DSM - 5, and that women in general are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some other mental illnesses by clinicians, I'd say he's stoking the flames of a much larger problem about how our society seems to view women — as having excessive emotional needs that need to nearly constantly be managed or controlled rather than taken seriously.

«If those with seriously illnesses are going to be subsidized, and there is widespread agreement in Congress that they are going to be subsidized, I think [it's] far better for that to happen from direct tax revenue rather than forcing a bunch of other people to pay much higher premiums,» Cruz told me last week.

Looking at addiction as «sin» hasn't done mankind very much good for almost two thousand years; treating addiction — and other mental illnesses — as sickness rather than as moral failings or demonic possession has a much better track record, and it took less than 150 years to get there.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

Prominent experts at the time suggested that crime was really a form of mental illness that demanded therapy rather than incarceration.

There are many forms of illness in which the outcome apparently is open rather than fixed, and the doctor's prediction may be in error.

Isn't that like someone who doesn't understand rocket science assuming that rockets fly by magic, or people ignorant of modern medicine believing that illnesses come from demonic possession rather than germs?

I find this helpful to think of it as a process rather than some dysfunction or symptom an illness perhaps but what a normal healthy human being encounters.

One of the objectives of health education should be to develop confidence in the medical profession and reliance upon it rather than upon superstition, hearsay, hunches, or private experimentation for the treatment of illness.

Perhaps Depression might lose some its «it was his own fault» stigma, if we start focussing on the illness, rather than the symptom.

He emphasized the active, integrating self (rather than the frail, victimized ego); held to a «soft» (rather than a «hard») determinism; had a strong interest in future, goal - directed strivings (rather than origins); emphasized the organism as a whole centered in the self (rather than a conflict view of personality); regarded the striving for worth and power (rather than sexual striving) as the central dynamic in mental health and illness; emphasized the possibilities for continuing change in the later years (rather than regarding the early years as utterly decisive)(2) It is clear from these motifs in Adler's thought that his vision of human beings was positive and growth - centered.

Crispin suggests that rather than focusing on safety as a guiding principle to govern or advocate for, the focus should be on peace, where there is a focus on addressing social problems and systemic issues that impact homelessness, mass incarceration and mental illness.

If we take our cue from the Vimalakirti - nirdesa Sutra, the bodhisattva is a fully awakened being for whom it is an implication of his perfect enlightenment (rather than a postponement of it) that he remain in solidarity with all who are afflicted by illness and ignorance, birth and death.

If a religious group helps to foster the general acceptance of the conception, it promotes the following constructive conditions: (1) Community pressures are mobilized in the direction of motivating the alcoholic toward help rather than away from it, in the early stages of his illness.

I know your illness is completely different and in fact the recovery process is in some ways quite opposite to mine, but so much is also very similar — your advice about focusing on progress rather than regression, on noticing the difference between a «bad day» now to a «bad day» in the beginning — I found so very powerful.

Facing a life of chronic illness I made a conscious decision to take responsibility for my body and my illness; rather than waiting and expecting doctors and their medicine to pick me up and make me feel better, I instead began to look at things that I could do myself to help my body to heal and live the best life that it can.

Rather than relying upon regular cold and flu medication, which can weaken your immune system's ability to respond naturally to illness, try leaning towards natural ways to boost immunity and fight of colds and flu.

«This act gives the FDA a mandate for regulatory oversight of food safety systems that scientifically address hazards, and that puts great emphasis on preventing — rather than reacting to — food - borne illnesses,» Waters explains.

At this age, it's most helpful to explain death in terms of physical functions that have ceased, rather than launching into a complicated discussion of a particular illness: «Now that Uncle John has died, his body has stopped working.

(And the worst illness we ever got was a cold, and even then it'd be impossible to «blame» the shared toys at a library group rather than the 2380374048534908 million other possible germy places / people they came in contact with.)

But the fact is the vast majority of those suffering from mental illness are more likely to be the victim of an assault rather than the perpetrator.

The New York City Council Progressive Caucus is stepping up calls for Mayor Bill de Blasio to reconstitute a citywide task force to examine how emergency responders help people suffering from mental illness, and are insisting that the mayor consider creating a parallel response force of social workers and therapists that can answer calls rather than police officers.

The report outlines a series of first steps, including holding fewer people on bail; expanding diversion programs for drug offenders and those with mental illness; and changing state law to treat some low - level offenses — like fare - beating, marijuana possession in public view, prostitution and possession of so - called gravity knives — as civil rather than criminal matters.

But rather than dashing all hopes for an AIDS vaccine, the trial has heartened some researchers, who see new clues in the battle against the fatal illness.

It is well known that Neanderthals sometimes provided care for the injured, but new analysis by the team at York suggest they were genuinely caring of their peers, regardless of the level of illness or injury, rather than helping others out of self - interest.

The idea of symptom domains rather than disease categories also extends to the neurobiology of mental illness.

Rather than just calculating the cost of cleaner technologies, she said, communities should calculate the cost savings from avoiding illnesses.

Helping families learn how to direct their responses to the illness, rather than to the person suffering from it, is difficult, McFarlane says.

An idea that has gained credibility is that these disorders reflect extremes of the normal spectrum of human behaviour, rather than a distinct psychiatric illness.

The concept, which explains why stirred tea leaves accumulate at a container's bottom rather than its sides, could allow quicker and cheaper tests for illnesses from anemia to kidney disease.

In the United States, nearly half the antibiotic prescriptions given for respiratory infections are inappropriate: for illnesses caused by viruses rather than bacteria, antibiotics won't help the patient get better.

Recent human studies monitor levels of cholinesterase in the blood rather than overt signs of illness.

The first is that epidemiological studies are unlikely to throw much light on the problem, primarily because it is difficult to attribute an illness unequivocally to electromagnetic fields rather than to something else.

Paper authors focused on clinicians because they tend to put more weight on treating illnesses rather than preventing them; however, education is key to keeping illnesses from occurring, they said.

The team found that the highest incidences of illness occurred in the oldest and lowest - ranking males, rather than the highest - ranking alpha males, as might be expected if the alpha males» higher stress levels were suppressing their immune systems.

As noted by Dr. Hodes, «These studies represent a new way of thinking about diagnosing and treating depression as an inflammatory illness in the body rather than the brain.»

Although still in its early days, this line of research could lead to revolutionary ways of treating illness or creating complicated machines by growing them rather than assembling them from parts.

Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans as BOTOX, a cosmetic medicine, rather than as a cause of potentially dangerous foodborne illnesses.

The UA study looked at health and cognition across a normal spectrum, rather than focusing on clinical cognitive disorders or chronic illnesses.

It remains possible that much of the diversity of the manifestation of the illness results from genetic diversity rather than the existence of multiple fundamental causes.