Well Halloween is here, and to those that don’t know it does mark one of the most religious days of the year (All Saints day I believe..), but for most its just a time to go out, get candy, and ruin our health (tooth decay, plaque, diabetes?, sugar problems?…who knows..). Anyway I want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween, personally I’m waiting for my little sister to get home with her bag of candy.

I also should start getting more articles up just as soon as my time frees up, I was recently busy with the ACT, and a few exams (Calculus..ew).

A new national survey by the American Psychological Association (APA) suggests that one third of Americans are living with extreme stress while nearly half believe stress is damaging their health, their relationships, and work productivity, and that it has got worse in the last 5 years.

Three quarters of Americans (compared with 60 per cent last year) said money and work caused them the most stress, with half mentioning housing costs such as rent and mortgage as a big factor, a result that the APA suggests is linked to the US housing crisis.

Stress had a negative effect on personal and working life, was the view of nearly 50 per cent of Americans, and about one third said it was difficult to manage the responsibilities of work and family.

One quarter of Americans said that stress alienated them from a friend or family member and 8 per cent linked it to divorce or separation.. - Read Full Article

I started writing this article as “Stress in America” but slowly it changed to what my own personal theory and philosophy on the problem was.. Mastery of the mind is the key to all problems

My Thoughts..
Living in a household, where the father works 10+ hours daily at times, and the mother suffers from high cholesterol and low blood pressure, I’ve learned that stress is one thing that can slowly take down an individual’s health. It seems as if it is a kind of atrophy (not literally) in more extreme cases, where it slowly degenerates an individual mentally, and at times also physically. I personally believe, from what I have seen and from personal experience that stress becomes such a major factor in so many people’s lives. It holds many back from fulfilling their dreams and others from making an important move or decision in life. I look back 5 years, when my dad was booming in business, however, it took one loss, just one, to put a fear in his mind. The fear led to indecisiveness. Bills stacked up and it all resulted in rapidly growing stress, and I watched as it grew and spread. Many times I have noticed, when one spouse becomes a victim of stress, making it a regular part of his or her life it results in the other spouse suffering from the same problem (Stress I believe can be contagious). I don’t want to divulge deeply into this topic right now since I can talk about it for days and days (will have a in-depth article on stress soon). I just wanted to share that my personal belief on this is that individuals need to control their own mind. One can make heaven out of a prison cell and create hell from his own home. Everyone is a king, the king of their thoughts, the king of their actions, and the king of their beliefs. Bills, financial problems, emotional problems, are all a part of life and will never leave. I hear people constantly telling me that as soon as this happens or that happens or monkeys learn to fly, or if they win the lottery all their problems will be solved, and I firmly believe that is NOT TRUE. Everything is created in a person’s mind — fear, love, and stress, and one is strong enough they can tame their emotions to run as they wish. They key to problem solving is the mastery of one’s own mind. I personally struggled in a kind of depression and stress myself, and one night it ‘clicked’. I sat their thinking for hours about what my problems were, and I realized it is not the problems that are causing me pain but how I perceive the problems and what I make out of them. Now when I am stuck in a major problem, whether it be financially or emotionally I look to it as a challenge, and I know I am the king and it can’t overtake me, and if I ever do lose, whether it is to a person or to my problems I hold a type of respect and admiration for it, that hey you were able to beat a king, but it wont happen again.

For all those suffering from problems, sit there and think to yourself once more, and make that hell into a heaven.

“Managing stress is all about taking charge: taking charge of your thoughts, your emotions, your schedule, your environment, and the way you deal with problems. ”

Links:
Stress - An Epidemic
More Stress, Less Rest in America
AIS - Official Website

About a week or two ago I was browsing through a few blogs and noticed a link to Or-Live, an online service that provided viewing of surgeries, both live and replays. I decided to check the site out today and found it to be a great source for actual visuals for a surgery. Instead of just looking at images or reading about them I can now actually watch in-depth surgeries. Personally I think it is a pretty good source for many individuals that maybe entering the medicine field, including myself. By watching the videos I think I have gotten past step 1 to becoming a surgeon, that I can bare to watch the video footage without running to the bathroom like a kid on a carnival ride…

P.S. -
..I never knew you could tug, pull, and tear away on the insides of someone’s chest so relentlessly without causing some damage..

This is the Initiation Commencimation…mmm…fancy for saying the starting of my blog. After debating with myself for days I have finally made two major life changing decisions. Numero Uno - That I will be going into the field of medicine, and #2 is that I will name my blog Medilogy, and here will be my journey, from where I am now to…

Before I begin to brag about myself I want to put in a little thanks to A day at the Pharmacy and especially The Junior Docter for greatly inspiring to start a blog of my own.

Now a bit more about me…
I am currently not working fulltime, but have worked at Subway (where I learned more then I ever wanted to about people’s eating habits and how healthy a subway really is for you), and also worked as a lead designer for Jackies International.
I enjoy much of my life, expect somethings..which you’ll slowly find out.
I’m not to religious and strongly believe we need to start blaming ourselves before blaming god on our problems.
I laugh at people when they can’t get out of dumb problems..but eventually do help as much as possible.
Sometimes, actually many times I wonder if major businessmen, politicians, leaders, and celebrities ever think about many of the decisions they make.
I believe anyone can do anything as long as they try hard enough, and yes that means being as short as I am, I could be as good as Micheal Jordon in slamming a few dunks for the Bulls. (and no I’m not a basketball fanatic)
I think all sports I don’t watch are probably extremely boring, I do ,however, love to watch cricket, tennis, and football (soccer).
One day I want to live in a comfortable home with a strong career in medicine (hopefully a surgeon of I’m-not-sure-what).
I love to research and learn about things, Sabarwal is another unfinished site I have begun where I am showing some of my work in graphic design, programming, and I.T.
My favorite book is The Kite Runner (and I strongly believe everyone should read it)
My favorite movie series is Saw (not that I am a freak or anything but I have some respect for Jigsaw and his games, it takes a genius to think up of those things, he’s just a bit radical on showing individuals the importance of life..)

One day I hope people will read this, and leave a comment or two.

..and this took much longer to write then I thought it would…can’t wait to begin explaining my different philosophies and theories..