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Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts longer than three months and can continue when the injury or illness has been treated. Chronic pain is a disabling condition that affects 100 million American adults every year, a number that keeps growing, which can negatively affect one’s wellbeing. Working, sleeping, or even seemingly simple tasks like walking up the stairs are activities that become harder if you’re living with chronic pain. In fact, chronic pain is one of the most common reasons adults seek medical care and costs the nation approximately $560-635 billion annually in direct medical treatment costs and lost productivity.

Michael Fishman, MD, MBA, double board-certified anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Medicine specialist and his patient Genevieve Watycha, who suffered for more than 30 years with chronic pain, will be available to discuss the journey of chronic back pain management, including how Genevieve finally managed her chronic back pain, which had previously prevented her from sleeping properly, walking long distances and going about her day-to-day activities.

Three tips that may be helpful in managing chronic pain:
• Mind-Body Therapies: Mind-body therapies are treatments that are meant to help the mind’s ability to affect the functions and symptoms of the body. Mind-body therapies use various approaches including relaxation techniques, exercise, meditation, guided imagery, and hypnosis. Relaxation techniques can help alleviate discomfort related to chronic pain.
• Manage your diet: Believe it or not, diet has an impact on a person’s ability to fight pain away. Omega-3 fatty acids, found in foods such as salmon or tuna, have been known to reduce inflammation. Yellow, orange, and red fruits/vegetables are from a group of phytochemicals known as carotenoids – which have also been known to help reduce inflammation.
• Talk to your doctor about treatment options: In the case that medication or lifestyle changes won’t fix or lessen your pain, it’s crucial to speak to your doctor about the latest treatment options. Your doctor may recommend a number of treatments, including pharmacological, relaxation and/or physical therapy, or DTM Spinal Cord Stimulation, to help alleviate the pain.
Interview is courtesy: Medtronic
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Listen to “Multitalented Award Winning Patrick Bergin shares his Good News…Lucky Us…Like a 4 Leaf Clover:^)” on Spreaker.

Patrick Connolly Bergin (born 4 February 1951)[2] is an Irish actor and singer perhaps best known for his leading role opposite Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) and for his stint playing the villainous Aidan Maguire in the BBC soap EastEnders from November 2017 until March 2018.

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Film.

FINDING YOU, Seamus – Red Sky Studios (director: Brian Baugh)
THE LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME, Rossi Dumois – Netflix (director: Olivier Megaton)
BLACKBIRD, The Head – Blackbird Film Productions Ltd (director: Michael Flatley)
TRAINSET, Julian – Solarus Films (director: Rob Burrows)
FREE FIRE, Howie – Rook Films (director: Ben Wheatley)
WE STILL STEAL THE OLD WAY, George Briggs – Evolution Pictures (director: Sacha Bennett)
AGE OF KILL, Sir Alistair Montcrief – Richwater Films (director: Neil Jones)
DANCE OF THE STEEL BARS, Frank – Portfolio Films (director: Cesar Apolinario)
THE WEE MAN, Arthur Thompson – Carnaby International (director: Ray Burdis)
DANCE OF THE STEEL BARS, Frank Parish – Marnie Manicad Prods (director: Stuart Cameron)
A KISS AND A PROMISE, Det Anthony Dolan – Lab4 Prods (director: Phillip Guzman)
ICE, Quinn – Pure Films (director: Nick Copus)
ELDORADO, Roy – Darren Moore (director: Richard Driscoll)
PROJECT FEAR, Captain Morrow – Unconditional Entertainment (director: John Milton Branton)
EVE, Oswald – Artis Films Romania (director: Adrian Popovici)
GALLOWWALKER, Mrshall – Gaza Gallowwalker Ltd (director: Andrew Goth)
ONE STEP BACK, Mr Big – 1-Step Prods (director: Barry O’Neill)
STRENGTH AND HONOUR, Papa Boss – Maron Pictures (director: Mark Mahon)
THE BLACK PIMPERNEL, Senator Davis – Moviefan Scandinavia (director: Ulf Hultberg)
PLAYED, Riley – Celebration Pictures (director: Sean Stanek)
JOHNNY WAS, Flynn – Was Productions (director: Mark Hammond)
GHOSTWOOD, Fr Paul – Maxim Pictures (director: Justin O’Brien)
SECRET OF THE CAVE, Roy’s Father – Shadowhawk Films (director: Zach Gray)
THE FAR SIDE OF JERICO, Jake – Further Prods (director: Tim Hunter)
ELLA ENCHANTED, Sir Peter – Miramax (director: Tommy O’Haver)
BLOOM, The Citizen – Odyssey Pictures (director: Sean Walsh)
THE BOYS AND GIRL FROM COUNTY CLARE, Padjo – Studio Hamburg (director: John Irvin)
BENEATH THE LOCK, Blay – Loch Ness Productions (director: Chuck Comisky)
DEVIL’S PREY, Seth – Triad Productions (director: Bradford May)
FALSE PROPHETS, Karl (director: Robert Townsend)
AMAZONS AND GLADIATORS, Crassius – Drotcroft (director: Zachary Weintrau)
VIKING BEZERKERS, Thorson – Peakviewing (director: Paul Matthews)
THE INVISIBLE CIRCUS, Gene – Justine Pictures (director: Adam Brooks)
CAUSE OF DEATH, Taylor – Cinequest (director: Marc Grenier)
HIGH EXPLOSIVE, Jack Randall – GMT Landmine Films Inc (director: Tim Bond)
WHEN THE SKY FALLS, Mackie – Irish Screen (director: John Mackenzie)
AFRICA, John Young – Peakviewing (director: Paul Matthews)
MERLIN, Arthur – PeakViewing (director: Paul Matthews)
THE PRESS RUN, Alec – Allegro Films (director: Robbie Ditchburn)
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, Alex – Filmline International (director: Stephan Elliott)
PROMISE HER ANYTHING, Vernon Fry – Slingshot Prods (director: Alain Zaloum)
ESCAPE VELOCITY, Cal – North American Pictures Ltd (director: Lloyd Simandl)
TREASURE ISLAND, Billy Bones – Pirate Films Ltd (director: Peter Rowe)
ONE MAN’S HERO, General Winfield Scott – San Patricio Prods (director: Lance Hool)
SUSPICIOUS MINDS, Jack Ramsey – Slingshot Minds Films Inc (director: Alain Zaloum)
LAWNMOWER MAN III, Dr Angelo – New Line Entertainment (director: Farhad Mann)
DOUBLE CROSS, Jack Conealy – Interglobal (director: Michael Keusc)
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART, Walter – Working Title/Polygram (director: Vincent Ward)
PATRIOT GAMES, Kevin – Paramount Pics (director: Philip Noyce)
HIGHWAY TO HELL, Beezie – Hemdale Film Corp (director: Ate de Jong)
LOVE CRIMES, David – Sovereign Pictures (director: Lizzie Borden)
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY, Martin – 20th Century Fox (director: Joe Rubin)

Television

THE SOUTH WESTERLIES, Big Mike – Deadpan Pictures (director: Simon Gibney)
WILD BILL, Frank McGill – ITV (director: Annie Griffin)
QUANTICO, Liam Killoran – ABC & Disney (director: Russell Lee Fine)
EASTENDERS, Aidan Maguire (series regular) – BBC One (director: Various)
RED ROCK, Jim Walsh – TV3 (director: Various)
NO OFFENCE, Earl Kennedy – Channel 4 (director: Catherine Morshead)
ICE, Quinn – Power/Screentime (director: James Follett)
HUSTLE, Mr Baxter – Kudos) Dir. Julian Simpson
CASANOVA’S LOVE LETTER, Casanova – Solar Productions (director: Mark Murphy)
ICON, Igor Komarvov – Hallmark (director: Charles Martin Smith)
SMALLVILLE, Morgan Edge (guest lead) – Warner Bros TV
BRUSH WITH FATE, Headmaster – Hallmark (director: Brent Shields)
DRACULA, Dracula – Lux Vide (director: Roger Young)
KING OF TEXAS, Highsmith – Milk & Honey Prods (director: Uli Edel)
JEWEL, Leston Hilburn – CBS/Citadel/Alliance (director: Paul Shapiro)
THE RIPPER, Inspector Jim Hansen – Calamari Prods Ltd (director: Janet Meyers)
Stolen Woman, Captured Heart, Daniel Morgan (CBS/SHOWTIME) Dir. Jerry London
APOCALYPSE WATCH, Drew – ABC (director: Kevin Connor)
FRANKENSTEIN, Dr Victor Frankenstein – David Wickes Television (director: David Wickes)
ROBIN HOOD, Robin Hood – Working Title/20th Century Fox (director: John Irvin)
MORPHINE AND DOLLY MIXTURES, Terence O’Farrell – BBC (director: Karl Francis)

In 1993, Bergin bought an old church in Tipperary and converted it into a poetry centre. Bergin explained, “I’ve recently come to feel I can encourage children and teenagers with their writing.[6] I’m continually giving groups money to make videos, but I insist that they have a good script. I do it because it makes the difference between them doing a video or not. It doesn’t cost a lot, and it gives kids an incredible boost of confidence.”[6] In 1998, in response to the murder of a 14-year-old Tallaght boy, Ben Smyth, Bergin participated in setting up a special fund to sponsor young children from Tallaght.[4]

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See the Faces and Listen to the Stories of Our Society’s Most Overlooked Outcasts:

The Mentally Ill and Homeless http://www.robertokinmd.com

From L.A. to Philly to Miami, they’re out there—pushing their carts, digging through garbage, sleeping on park benches, sometimes ranting about nonsense to no one. They often look and sound crazy, smell bad, and make us uneasy, so we avoid them. We know better intellectually, yet most of us shun people suffering from homelessness and mental illness because we view them as deeply flawed—somehow less human than the rest of us.

As part of his career devoted to the mentally disabled, Dr. Robert Okin decided to use a powerful artistic medium to advocate for these people. In SILENT VOICES: People with Mental Disorders on the Street (Golden Pine Press, October 2014), Dr. Okin invites all of us to get to know the people society treats like pariahs, people who, beneath their symptoms and rags, struggle with feelings and needs similar to those of the rest of us. He shares the striking and evocative photographs and stories—most often, in their own words—of more than 40 mentally ill people he met on the streets of San Francisco. “I wrote this book,” Dr. Okin reflects, “to contribute to making these people known as human beings.”

SILENT VOICES offers a glimpse of the dark pasts—marked by abuse, violation, tragedies, crime, drugs, and addiction—and everyday challenges of homeless men and women suffering from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other serious mental disabilities.

Based on his interviews, research, and decades of professional experience, Dr. Okin discusses:

 Staggering facts on how the mentally ill are neglected, mistreated, and discriminated against. In America today, over 200,000 people with mental disorders are abandoned in the streets and another 250,000 are locked up in jails and prisons.

 Measures needed to reduce the widespread, escalating problem of the homeless mentally ill, including increased government funding for affordable housing, partnerships between the public and private sector to provide job training, and legal reform.

 The critical need for well-trained, dedicated professional clinical case managers. “Without excellent clinical case managers, a mental health system will tend to be mechanistic, inaccessible, and exclusively focused on the management of symptoms with medication, rather than also on clients’ human development and rehabilitation,” Dr. Okin asserts.

 What everyone can do to overcome the stigma of mental illness and prevent homelessness, with the goal of not just social acceptance for people with mental illness but genuine inclusion in society. “Treatment cannot occur first and inclusion second,” stresses Dr. Okin.

Robert L. Okin, MD, served as chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital and professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, for 17 years. He is also a former state commissioner of mental health for both Vermont and Massachusetts. Throughout his career, he developed crucial services and clinical case management programs to enable mentally ill people to live with dignity in the community. A member of the board of advisors of Disabilities Rights International (DRI), he has provided psychiatric advocacy and consultation for missions to Mexico and Turkey, among many other countries, to investigate human rights violations in mental institutions. He lives in San Francisco.

I hope you will be moved, uplifted, and outraged by the stories in SILENT VOICES.

Dr. Robert Okin, Author of SILENT VOICES

1. You’ve forged relationships with the homeless, but you’re a trained psychiatrist. What can the average person do to help a homeless person they see on the street?

It is true that I was able to forge such relationships, but I don’t think this primarily resulted from any particular skill I had as a psychiatrist. It was more the result of my openness and expressed interest in the people I met. This may sound corny, but saying a simple “Hello, I hope you have a good day” or “I wish you well” is probably the best and easiest thing to do. It won’t change the actual living conditions of the homeless people, but at least it will make them feel that they’re not invisible. It would be great if you could follow up with an e-mail to your city supervisors and congressperson about the need for supportive housing for homeless people. And if you really want to move this project forward, get your friends to send e-mails as well.

2. What is the root of society’s fear and stigmatization of mental illness?

Some of society’s fear comes from the strangeness and unpredictability people associate, sometimes correctly, with mental illness. Because mentally ill people seem strange, it’s hard for us to empathize with them and to remember that they were once children with hopes and dreams like our own. At a deeper level, people have always projected the most feared and hated parts of themselves onto those who have mental illness. Mentally ill people become the living representation of the most disavowed parts of ourselves and thus become stigmatized. Not wanting to be reminded of these parts of ourselves, we, as a society, have burned these people, drowned them, isolated them in mental hospitals, and put them away in jails where we can’t see them. But those who become homeless and aren’t put out of sight evoke in us responses that cause us to avoid them in other ways: basically, we close our eyes to them.

3. Did you have any preconceived ideas about the homeless? What was your biggest misconception about them?

I expected to be dismissed and rejected when I reached out to them. I was a stranger, so I assumed they wouldn’t want to talk with me. I also assumed that if they did, they wouldn’t reveal their feelings. I was wrong on all counts. Most of the people I met genuinely welcomed my overtures and quickly warmed up to me. I was repeatedly surprised at how much grief these people were carrying just under the surface and how willing they were to reveal it to me. More than anything else, I was reminded of just how human and vulnerable these people are. I easily identified with and felt close to them. At the end of a day of talking with them, I felt sad, wrung out, and anxious about my grip on my own financial and emotional security.

4. How did your own opinions change after meeting and getting to know some of them?

I developed an abiding admiration for many of them—I respected how they were willing to continue living, despite the brutal conditions they were dealing with day after day. I often wondered if I would have the grit and the courage to stick it out if I were in their position. I don’t know if I could stand living their lives and dealing with the hopelessness most of them feel.

5. What percentage of the homeless suffer from mental illness?

Approximately 25 percent primarily have severe and chronic mental illness and another 15 percent have significant drug abuse disorders.

6. What can city and state governments do to help the homeless mentally ill integrate back into society?

First, these people need supportive, supervised housing and a sufficient income that allows them to escape the deprivations of poverty. Without housing, any other intervention is ineffective. Second, they need case management from a social worker with a relatively small caseload who has the time to meet them where they live, provide a loving human connection with them, help them with their daily tasks (laundry, shopping, budgeting), help them reduce their drug intake, and when indicated, help them to be evaluated by a psychiatrist to get them on psychiatric medications. These social workers also have to play a major advocacy role in helping their clients rejoin society. And third, the homeless mentally ill need something productive to do during the day—some sort of job.

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The Bob Dorough Trio

Good News speaks to the Legendary Bob Dorough  at Pescatore , see below, details —Jazz, Swing and a little nostalgia of “Schoolhouse Rock” Anything this “perennial hipster” is original!

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