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November 17, 2022

Expert Voices: Caring for Mental Health With Parkinson’s Disease

In this installment of our “Expert Voices” series, Parkinson’s Information Right now requested psychologist Amy MB Sullivan to response some of your queries similar to applying integrative medication in Parkinson’s disease care.

Sullivan is a board-certified personnel scientific health psychologist and the director of behavioral drugs at the Mellen Middle for Various Sclerosis Treatment method and Exploration at the Cleveland Clinic. Sullivan obtained her doctorate from Argosy College-Atlanta, labored her internship at the College of Cincinnati, and experienced a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in agony medication. She specializes in numerous sclerosis mental overall health care and is anxious about medical professional and caregiver self-care, burnout, and psychological health.

Dr. Amy Sullivan cares about health practitioner and caregiver self-treatment, burnout, and psychological health and fitness. (Image courtesy of Amy Sullivan)

What psychological health challenges are exceptional to lifestyle with a progressive condition?

I strongly make use of the grief and acceptance get the job done that has been tailored from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross with my clients, as these are patients who are faced with a functionally, cognitively, socially, financially, and emotionally debilitating disease, occasionally at a incredibly young age. This model theorizes that folks shift, in no specific buy, via and in involving different stages of grief (anger, denial, melancholy, bargaining, and acceptance/adaptation). Lifestyle with out a continual ailment is tough life with a continual disease adds a further layer of complexity.

What do you would like far more medical practitioners would know about the mental wellness challenges of residing with Parkinson’s sickness?

The superior prevalence of mental health conditions in people with persistent ailment, in particular as it relates to men and women with Parkinson’s, with up to 60{cfdf3f5372635aeb15fd3e2aecc7cb5d7150695e02bd72e0a44f1581164ad809} of people becoming impacted by despair through the system of the ailment. This signifies that there are probably lots of contributing factors, a single staying the adjustment to illness and practical alterations. An additional could be medication-induced temper ailments, and one more is probably improvements in the mind from a structural perspective.

I want they would display screen for mental health conditions. Prior to all appointments at Mellen Heart, our sufferers are screened working with the PHQ-9 [questionnaire]. This is then prepopulated into the be aware in their digital well being document, and we can evaluate mood in excess of time. The providers are in a position to evaluate their temper and can pick out to deal with the client or ship the human being to our behavioral medication group.

How can caregivers help a cherished 1 who’s enduring loneliness from social avoidance relevant to their analysis or signs and symptoms?

Pay attention and empathize. Really don’t judge. Communication competencies are essential to all interactions, and even more so with a romance which now has the uninvited visitor of a long-term illness. Caregivers have to don’t forget to acquire care of on their own and be able to converse correctly with the individual they’re caring for.

Parkinson’s can make a particular person truly feel like a load. What recommendations do you have for a affected individual who fears expressing new limitations, these types of as these brought about by fatigue, to their liked kinds?

If just one is in a trusting, harmless relationship, expressing their views or inner thoughts is nutritious. They also have to understand that the caregiver/liked one is possible dealing with their very own variations, and it’s similarly essential to listen to them. Position reversal is repeated: wherever a person who was a remain-at-household associate is now back at work and a individual who was in the function drive is now in the remain-at-dwelling part. All of this is hard, and it is important for each facet to hear and share their emotions.

What advice do you have for an individual who feels they should be “tough” for their spouse and children and not clearly show the toll of the condition on their psyche?

I feel it’s seriously challenging. I normally stimulate clients to be snug sharing their emotions, but it also relies upon on possessing the suitable support system in place. Obtaining that communication concerning clients and caregivers is vital.

A lot of who working experience suicidal ideas feel that realistically they will not be equipped to triumph over these views. How do you reply to that?

Get help instantly. We do not mess all around with suicide. At times it’s vital to get place involving stimulus and reaction. Feelings can be fleeting, and we need to just take a moment to get that place.

It is usually reported that we should system items like analysis and medical disappointments. But what does processing actually seem like, pretty much?

It seems like the flow of expertise, feelings, behaviors, and thoughts, and how these encounters may improve as information and facts is accessed from distinct channels. The method is going to glance unique for each affected person, and we have to recognize each individual’s requires and the approaches they procedure the phases of their disease.

Pro Voices is a every month collection involving a Q&A with an professional in the Parkinson’s house about a particular subject matter. These topics and thoughts are curated from a study in which we check with visitors what they want to master much more about from industry experts. If you’d like to post subjects or inquiries for thought in a potential installment of the series, click in this article to just take the study.

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December 5, 2021

Fashion Fair Cosmetics Receives Makeover, Returns to Stores | Black Voices | Chicago News

Many Black women may be familiar with the cosmetics brand Fashion Fair — founded in 1973 by Eunice Johnson, wife of John Johnson, the Black publishing magnate behind Ebony and Jet magazines.

Though the publishing house is no longer what it used to be, new ownership has given Fashion Fair its own makeover and returned it to store shelves.

“We’re the queen,” said co-owner Desiree Rogers, who bought the company along with fellow former Ebony executive Cheryl Mayberry McKissack. “We started 56 years ago, you know, and we were, if not the first, close to the first. And we’ve always focused on darker skin tones. It wasn’t novel. It wasn’t something that, you know, we thought like, ‘wow, isn’t this hip and cool to do, let’s be politically correct.’ It didn’t exist.”

Founded in 1973, Fashion Fair catered to black women who could afford the department store prices for cosmetics that suited their spectrum of skin tones.

“So for me, it was my first makeup. It was the first makeup my mother allowed me to use and so that is a big deal in any girl’s life because all of us when we’re young, we want to wear something!” Rogers said.

Packaged in iconic pink tubes and compact cases, the brand was seen on hundreds of Ebony Fashion Fair models, as well as fashion show audience members, over the years.

But as Johnson publishing was filing for bankruptcy in 2019, it sold Fashion Fair to former executives Rogers and McKissack.

The business duo, along with another partner, scooped it up with plans of returning it to its former glory.

“So the opportunity to take the historical legacy that Fashion Fair has been known for around the world, certainly all work Mrs. Johnson did bringing Fashion Fair into the marketplace, it’s wonderful,” said Mayberry McKissack. “But yet a little bit scary because, you know, there’s a history and there’s a legacy and you know, we’ve got to make sure that we do it right.”

Chicago-native and celebrity makeup artist Sam Fine returned to help redevelop the product.

Today’s Fashion Fair is vegan and includes natural additives like vitamin C and green tea extract to provide a skin-care benefit.

A range of lipsticks and foundations — in both new and legacy colors — are now presented in white and gold packaging, perched on the shelves of retail beauty giant, Sephora, instead of department store counters.

“Being able to say that you can go to this gondola and find something for your cousin, your sister and your aunt, I think is unique because many of the brands, even in their shade extensions don’t really speak to the nuances of, of coloring that that speak to us so beautifully,” Fine told WTTW News.

But Fashion Fair’s comeback arrives at a time when women of color already have far more choices than in the late 20th century.

Heritage brands have extended their lines to include darker shades, and Rihanna’s all-inclusive Fenty beauty line has sold enough to turn the popstar into a billionaire business mogul.

Research shows that Black women alone spent about $1.3 billion on color cosmetics in 2020 — down from nearly $1.7 billion in 2019, likely because of the pandemic.

Rogers and McKissack say while there’s room for everyone, Fashion Fair is the original — and its new makeover is for those who knew it when, and fresh faces who can get to know it now.

“They’re also gonna see us and I think in a very different way and it really is about us really focusing on women with darker skin tones. That’s our number one focus: we don’t do anything else,” McKissack said.

The pair also co-own Black Opal cosmetics, a mass-market brand designed for Black women, sold in drug stores and Ulta.

November 23, 2021

Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resign from Fox News, protesting ‘irresponsible’ voices like Tucker Carlson

Every month or so, while conversing with sources at Fox News, I express surprise that Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes are still employed by the network. After all, the two men are reality-based conservative thinkers who refuse to capitulate to Donald Trump. Unfortunately, Fox viewers rarely get to hear from them. They are booked by the network’s producers so rarely that their contracts could be likened to golden handcuffs.

Now they are ditching the cuffs.

Hayes and Goldberg announced Sunday night that they have resigned from Fox. The pair wrote in a blog post for The Dispatch, their online home, that Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” propaganda film was the last straw.

“Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis,” the men wrote. “But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible,” and Carlson is the case in point.

CNN and other news outlets have described how “Patriot Purge” is disturbing evidence of right-wing radicalization, complete with January 6 denialism and paranoid descriptions of a “new war on terror” targeting Republicans, with references to Guantanamo Bay and images of waterboarding.

“This is not happening. And we think it’s dangerous to pretend it is,” the Goldberg and Hayes wrote. “If a person with such a platform shares such misinformation loud enough and long enough, there are Americans who will believe — and act upon — it.”

Goldberg and Hayes simply could not be a part of it anymore.

New York Times media columnist Ben Smith, who broke the resignation news on Sunday, called up Carlson for reaction, and the trollish host naturally celebrated, saying “our viewers will be grateful” that Goldberg and Hayes are gone. But the conservative movement will suffer for it.

Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the Republican party’s foremost critics of Trump and the Big Lie, tweeted out a thank-you to the two men “for standing up for truth and calling out dangerous lies.”

A rare view inside Fox

Goldberg, in a phone interview with Smith, provided a rare on-the-record peek inside Fox’s political positioning. Per Smith, “Goldberg said that” he and Hayes “stayed on at Fox News as long they did because of a sense from conversations at Fox that, after Mr. Trump’s defeat, the network would try to recover some of its independence and, as he put it, ‘right the ship.'” But Fox’s decision to promote and publish “Patriot Purge” in early November was “a sign that people have made peace with this direction of things, and there is no plan, at least, that anyone made me aware of for a course correction,” Goldberg said.

In Sunday night’s post on The Dispatch, the two commentators said the “Patriot Purge” web series “creates an alternative history of January 6, contradicted not just by common sense, not just by the testimony and on-the-record statements of many participants, but by the reporting of the news division of Fox News itself.”

Hayes and Goldberg praised the “news side” (which keeps shrinking at Fox) but acknowledged that the opinion side has radicalized. “The release of ‘Patriot Purge’ wasn’t an isolated incident,” they wrote, “it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend.” So they’re out. “We do not regret our decision,” they concluded, “even if we find it regrettably necessary.”

Top reactions

— New York Times political reporter Jonathan Martin framed the resignation news as “Fox makes its choice, con’t.” In other words: Fox keeps siding with the populist pro-Trump base over the GOP’s more rational, intellectual voices. Fox is picking its lane.

— Former VP Pence aide turned Trump administration critic Olivia Troye wrote, “Thank you Jonah Goldberg & Stephen Hayes for taking a stand for the truth against an ongoing dangerous enterprise.”

— Conservative writer Bill Kristol sent the two men kudos “for standing up to Fox, yelling Stop, at a time when few other conservatives are inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it…”

— Liberal writer Dan Froomkin’s reaction: “We should ALL quit Fox Noise. And reality-based journalists should work to wean America off it…”

— “Steve and Jonah have been two of the bravest journalists during this whole mess,” David Brooks tweeted. “They’ve taken positions that carry real costs. Think about supporting The Dispatch.”