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Zispin — Cause of a Low Blood Platelet Count?
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My mother got a call from her doctor, the day after a routine blood check.
The doctor told her that her blood platelet count was dangerously low, down to 5 — and that it should be at least 150!
I found out on the web that these figures are in thousands. Apparently, most of us have anywhere between 150,000 to 400,000 platelets per microliter (mcL). Anything under that and you’re officially labelled as suffering from “thrombocytopenia” — which simply means you don’t have enough blood platelets… Read more
How to Overcome OCD
Jyoti wrote…
“I am troubled with irrational thoughts and was diagnosed by the doctor with OCD. I want to know if the diagnosis is correct and what the treatment is. Please help.”
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First of all it’s important to know that OCD is just a label for your thought habits. “OCD” is a way of describing irrational thoughts — you are not having irrational thoughts BECAUSE you have OCD. So all we need to tackle here is how to get to rid of unwanted, irrational thoughts.
Thought habits are very subtle and the problem can get reinforced by more and more attention being placed on these thoughts. The key thing to remember is that attention is the volume control for thoughts…
So the key to getting back to a normal state of mind is to completely REMOVE all attention away from these unwanted thoughts, as soon as they pop up. Immediate distraction is what’s needed. This reprograms your mind that these thoughts are not useful to you, and so they stop popping up and dominating your attention… Read more
