health

After I’ve been learning all this stuff about how important sleep is, I decided maybe I should start taking my sleep a little more seriously. I have an Apple Watch, and word on the street was that I could use it to track my sleep. I wasn’t ever doing it, mainly because the battery on that thing needs to be charged every night, so how in the world was I supposed to wear it at night and somehow keep it charged? Two seconds of Googling showed me it charges in under two hours, so I can wear it at night

When I started attending this intro to psychology class, I’m not sure exactly what I expected. Maybe just a series of classes focused on different studies about why people behave the way they behave. While we’ve touched on that some during these first few weeks, we’ve spent much more time on something I didn’t think for a moment we’d discuss. (Obviously due to my own ignorance) The brain. We’ve talked about what parts of the brain affect what kinds of behavior. How the brain is organized. How the structures in it form. And today, we learned all about how it’s

One of my favorite Christmas presents this year has to be this weighted blanket. I’d read about them before, and I’d wondered if they would actually be worth it. I mean, the thing cost $100. That seems like a bit steep for a blanket. How much difference would it make? Like many of you, all the uproar in the world has left me struggling to sleep sometimes. Could this be the trick? I decided to stop wondering and give it a go. After all, if it did work, then $100 was cheap for the amount of benefit I’d get out

I wrote a while ago about the pain I was dealing with brought on by TMD, and how I’d started to go see a physical therapist about it. Mind you, this is now months that I’ve been dealing with this, which I realize is a drop in the bucket compared to how long others have faced it, but I just mention to say that it’s been a perpetual problem for quite some time. After that initial visit with my physical therapist (shout out to Justin at Allied Physical Therapy!), he gave me some exercises I was supposed to follow. I

Perhaps you’ve heard of TMD (also called TMJ). Maybe you even know what it is, or maybe you’re like I was: aware of the concept, but kind of fuzzy on the details. TMJ stands for your temporomandibular joint: the joint at the base of your jaw. Thus, saying you have TMJ is kind of like saying “I’ve got elbow” or “I’ve got knee.” Everybody has TMJ. TMD, on the other hand, stands for temporomandibular joint disorder. I, unfortunately, have both. I’ve always been a teeth grinder. I had one special night guard made, and I actually ground right through it,