MADRID—Spain’s King Felipe tested positive for COVID-19 earlier on Wednesday after displaying mild symptoms overnight and will remain in isolation for seven days, the Royal Palace said in a statement.
“His Majesty’s general state of health is good and he will keep up his institutional activities from his residence,” it said, adding that Queen Letizia and their daughter Princess Sofia showed no symptoms.
A distinctive epileptic syndrome typically occurs in late middle age, transient epileptic amnesia is often mistaken for dementia, cerebrovascular disease, or transient global amnesia. The condition is marked by amnestic seizures³ that typically last 15-30 minutes and occur approximately once per month.
While some people only experience amnesia, other manifestations in addition to amnesia include olfactory hallucinations, brief loss of awareness, automatisms (for example, lip-smacking), and, very rarely, tonic-clonic seizures.
The condition has been linked to a group of persistent interictal (between seizures) memory complaints. These include accelerated long-term forgetting, autobiographical amnesia (inability to recall personal memories), and topographical amnesia (difficulty recognizing familiar locations). Antiepileptic treatment⁴ has been shown to control both seizures and interictal memory disturbances.
When you get triggered in your life now from childhood emotional neglect from the past, you may have little understanding about what you are feeling and why you may fall victim to repeating a dangerous pattern: pushing down your feelings and treating them as unimportant.
To take control over your triggers, it’s crucial to understand your personal childhood emotional neglect experience. Then, go down the path of reconnecting with your feelings and learn how to identify, differentiate, accept, and process them.
Once you take those steps, you’ll still find yourself getting triggered when certain events happen in your life because you are human just like the rest of us! But, with awareness and some emotion skills, you will be the one in control. You will no longer feel confused or ashamed for having responses that don’t make sense to you. Instead, you will find that you make perfect sense.
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Seizures can either be generalized (affecting both sides of the brain) or focal (located or beginning in one small part of the brain). Because seizures can affect different parts and functions of the brain, they don’t all appear the same or have the same long-term consequences.
Take, for example, the hippocampus. This part of the brain is a bit like a highly efficient receptionist. It receives new information, and if it seems valuable, it sends it off to the relevant area of the brain for long-term storage.
When you need that information again, the hippocampus goes to fetch it for you. Seizures that affect this part of the brain can make it more difficult for you to store and retrieve information, even if the areas of the brain that usually store the information are unaffected.
Certain areas of the brain, namely Broca’s area, and Wernicke’s area, are responsible for speech and language. If seizures originate in or affect these areas of your brain, you may have difficulty accessing or understanding certain words.
Do you become easily frustrated or annoyed when you’re around your parents?
Do you try to escape situations where strong feelings are present?
Do you avoid conflict at all costs?
Do you rarely ask anyone for help?
The questions above may seem unrelated, but they are all defining qualities of people who grew up with childhood emotional neglect.
Childhood emotional neglect happens when your parents fail to respond enough to your emotional needs as they raise you.
A child who grows up in an environment where their emotions aren’t acknowledged or taken seriously is in quite a bind. Even though emotions are a necessary part of being human, these children learn that their feelings are unwelcome. They end up hiding them, walling them off, to not burden their parents.
This is actually quite a remarkable thing for a child to do. They are adapting to their childhood home to survive. Even so, this survival mechanism ends up backfiring, because they are pushing away a vital life source, something they will desperately need throughout their lifetime to live a fulfilled, rich life: their feelings.
Living your life with a wall standing between your emotions and you blocks your access to your emotional world. You miss out on learning how to identify, name, validate, tolerate, manage, or express your feelings. Without these skills, as an adult, you’re more prone to feeling disconnected from yourself and others. You may feel confused or overwhelmed when emotions rise to the surface and have difficulty identifying what you need.
Many people who grew up with childhood emotional neglect don’t even know it. It’s tricky to spot because it’s something that didn’t happen. You didn’t get the emotional language, understanding, skills, or responsiveness you greatly needed. Things that don’t happen are non-events and difficult to see or remember.
Those who grew up this way are typically left with certain “trigger points.” These are normal situations everyone experiences that can trigger the emotionally neglectful experience you had as a child.
That spring felt dark and heavy. Outside, the light was bright, the air crisp and the tulips were in full bloom. But inside, I was a mess—sad, sluggish, tears rolling down my eyes for no good reason. Nothing was wrong, and yet I just couldn’t stop crying. “Why am I depressed,” I wondered?
A simple blood test ultimately identified the culprit—an underactive thyroid gland. After a couple of weeks on medication, I was totally fine. But the notion that a little nodule in my neck could wreak havoc on my entire mental life—on my feelings, thoughts, and sense of self—was shocking. How can a bodily organ control my mind?
This division between body and mind isn’t just the stuff of philosophy. People naturally think of themselves in these terms—across many cultures. Most of the time, we aren’t even aware of that distinction. And yet it affects countless aspects of reasoning.
When we experience emotional pain, we often wonder whether the cause is “psychological” or “biological,” as if the two were different. Science tells us that they are not—our psychological life and the body are one and the same; my psyche is my brain. This is why an underactive thyroid gland made me sad. But intuitively, this seems weird—an oxymoron. It’s almost like saying that scratching my ear can turn on the light bulb. It is for this reason that people wrongly believe that if a psychological disorder has “biological” causes then it cannot be alleviated by psychotherapy—only medication can help. But if it arises from “psychological” causes, such as childhood trauma, then here, only “talk therapy” can work; medication won’t. Unfortunately, even trained clinicians fall into this mind-body trap. And, to reiterate, science shows that this reasoning is faulty.
Update (1700ET): The president is an hour late… and the delay just happens to coincide with the timing of breaking news from Ukraine of gas pipeline explosion in Luhansk?
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After an avalanche of escalating headlines – from exploding cars to mass graves and from shelling kindergartens to mass evacuations – President Biden stands ready to put the world straight on what narrative they should be paying attention to.
The White House’s official statement on the address is as follows:
President Biden gives an update on our continued efforts to pursue deterrence and diplomacy, and Russia’s buildup of military troops on the border of Ukraine.
The remarks will come after the president spoke with NATO leaders this afternoon as fears of an invasion are classified as “imminent” once again.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva of Los Angeles County warned on Thursday that the authoritarians are exploiting COVID-19 rules as a means to secretly defund the police.
“[The Board of Supervisors’] incompetence is only outweighed by their hypocrisy!” “#FactsMatter,” Villaneuva tweeted on Thursday, with a photo of a firefighter’s suspension notice.
For refusing to comply with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID mandate, the L.A. County fireman risks a five-day penalty.
“Due to the Department’s current staffing crisis, which is the result of the current COVID-19,” the letter adds, “your five (5) day suspension without pay will be served at a later date.”
Justthenews.com reports:The supervisors “need to actually follow their own advice,” Villanueva told the “Just the News” show on Thursday. “They keep saying that law enforcement has to deescalate and defuse tensions, and they did the exact opposite. They went and escalated it. They manufactured a crisis when there was none” by forcing sheriff’s deputies to get fired or vaccinated.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted last week to take the COVID mandate enforcement responsibilities away from Sheriff Villanueva, the Los Angeles Times reported. The sheriff has said since October that he would not enforce the county’s vaccine mandate.
Again, romance that wasn’t necessarily leading to bedroom antics.
Men appreciate the gestures of love.
A $exy love letter tucked into their briefcase before they leave for a business trip. A post-it note taped to the bathroom mirror, with “UR SO HOT” written on it. A spontaneous gift of his favorite whiskey. All the small things that spell Romance remind him of what a loving and attentive partner you are.
Persecution Live 