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21st InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.

It’s the second addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.

Our question this month is one we get all the time because it’s how to cope with the waiting periods between doctor appointments and test results. And so many living with a chronic illness/disability go through a diagnosis period, tests and waiting for results is a common worrying period. Learn the steps on how you can recognize how the waiting period in relation to your health can actually play a role in your daily life, the ways you need to pause with a proactive nature when that worry spiral can happen to achieve optimal success, and why it’s important to note that having different thinking patterns and styles actually makes waiting for results and doctor appointments different reaction-wise for everyone.

Gain the ideas behind our Waiting Room Theory, why it’s important to be mindful the waiting period brings strain and your ability to lower that anxiety comes from you honing in on your thought processing style in a proactive manner, why you need to focus on what you control in your thoughts in the present instead of the future what-ifs our minds can take us down, and what ways each person can untangle their emotional and logical reactions to the waiting period with doctor appointments/test results so they can process the potentials in a more manageable fashion so you never invalidate your feelings, but you hold the most power in the actionable thinking so you can be empowered in the present as you head into any doctor visits, appointments and tests.

Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her first experiences having to go through the waiting game of test results in the early stages of her chronic illness journey, and how she had to work through the initial worries and what-ifs by pausing to focus on the present, and the ways she handled the emotions and logic of the waiting game.

 Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!
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Regular doctor visits or checkups can be stressful for some, especially if we feel like we aren’t being heard or are feeling ignored when communicating. Unfortunately this is an all too common problem for many people and feeling unheard can lead to depression or feelings of “giving up” when it comes to communicating with your doctor.

Fortunately there are things you can do to make sure you are being valued when it comes time to discuss your situation with your doctor or physician.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

1). Why we felt it was important to discuss this topic which gets overlooked in today’s healthcare system and to hopefully shed more light on how this affects us as patients.

2). How we can easily fall into the pattern of making excuses to ourselves when addressing our medical issues with our doctor or even skip an appointments because of neglecting feelings.

3). Why we sometimes feel “stuck” or that it’s hard to leave your physician because you may have history there but no longer feel valued and moreover, what you can do about it.

4). How there is a correlation between a higher number prescriptions being filled due to limited time that doctors have with patients and how this can cause negative side effects both mentally and physically within patients.

5). Some of our best tips to making sure you are being heard and properly tended to as a patient during your next doctor visit.

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Making sure you get the right attention and value from your doctor visit is very important especially when it seems as though doctors are much busier with more and more patients being tended to. It can be challenging but it doesn’t have to stay that way. We hope our suggestions in this episode help you or someone you know who may be having these problems with their doctor or primary care physician.

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In our best episode yet we have our good friend and guest join us Nick, where we discuss sharks. From Shark Boy and Lava girl, Shark Tank, to actual Sharks that swim in the ocean. We face many challenges in this episode from trying not to talk over each other and laugh at our own jokes that much. Throughout the episode we are also faced with external challenges, like our landscapers mowing our lawn at 830 at night, and Nick forgetting to turn his microphone on after his trip to the restroom. So come join us in an hour of laughter where we believe we have out done ourselves. And once again if you don't like what we are saying just turn it off, switch to something else.

The Vedala brothers bring in Bortier Manison to the Vital Visions podcast. Bortier is the annual Medicare wellness specialist at their clinic, Primary Care – South OKC. Bortier gives tips for patients approaching Medicare age, what his processes are to ensure the clinic’s patients receive the care they need and more. This episode is full of helpful information for those who are nearing the age of Medicare coverage or anyone who may be taking care of someone of Medicare age!

Links:
Norman Regional Primary Care – South OKC
Medicare website
Verify your insurance with Norman Regional

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The information in this show is not to be used as medical advice. If you are needing medical care, please consult with your physician.

Norman Regional is hiring! See all our open opportunities here: https://careers.normanregional.com/careers-home/

how often are we supposed to see our doctor? What do I say and how do I tell them everything?

EPISODE SUMMARY:

Spirituality and religion aren’t things we typically think about when it comes to health and health care—and they can be intimidating to talk about with your doctor. This week, Callie and Dr. Poole share how to think about, write down and share how spirituality and/or religion affect your care preferences so you feel prepared to talk about them—both now and in the future.

For more on how your spiritual and/or religious practices relate to your health and health care, check out the full episode. 

The views, opinions, endorsements and content expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of Optum.

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The moments that (re)introduced Shayla, Erick and Anasia to their bodies.

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If you’ve never engaged in self-injury or self-harm, then you may have never considered the anxieties related to something as seemingly simple as a routine doctor visit. In this episode, Brittany Tinsley explains what questions she asks herself prior to attending routine doctor visits in order to ease her anxiety about medical providers seeing her self-injury wounds and scars.  We take a unique peek into what doctor visits can be like for those who self-injure or have self-injured, as well as discuss tips on navigating those visits, whether as a treatment provider or someone with lived experience. 

Follow Brittany on Instagram at @brittanytinsleywrites and read her blog at https://brittanytinsley.com/. 

Follow Dr. Westers on Instagram and Twitter (@DocWesters). To join ISSS, visit itriples.org and follow ISSS on Facebook and Twitter (@ITripleS).

The Psychology of Self-Injury podcast has been rated #5 by Feedspot in their "Top 15 Clinical Psychology Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021" and by Welp Magazine in their "20 Best Injury Podcasts of 2021."

From fairly young on, I've had spent quite some time in doctor offices. Even though I don't feel that seeing the various traditional health care providers that I did see when I was struggling with insomnia, had a big impact on me personally overcoming the insomnia I dealt with, I still, however, always recommend you seeing a doctor for any concerns about your sleep, insomnia, or stress. Sleep issues can not only have short-term but also long-term health implications and therefore I find it very important that you see a doctor to ensure there are no underlying health issues that are affecting your sleep, like sleep apnea, or other health concerns. 
However, in this episode, I want to also empower you to take actions and steps to better your health and sleep, and I also want to encourage you to be an advocate for yourself. Hopefully the tips I'm providing here will help you work out a treatment plan that works for you. 

I have the utmost respect for anyone working in the medical field and am very thankful for your service!

If you have any concerns about being triggered in this episode and want to jump right to the bedtime story, please scroll forward to 34:35 and enjoy the episode from thereon. 

Wishing you all a very good night! Sleep tight. 

For more information on the No More Sleepless podcast, check out www.nomoresleepless.com. 
I'd love it if you connect with me on Instagram at anna_nomoresleepless.com.

Lauretta Justin, OD, of Orlando, Florida, shares strategies for working with children with special needs, many of them gleaned from her own experience navigating doctors' visits and other events with her own sons.