Is Stress The New Normal In Our Lives?
As I come to grips with the fact that I am going to have to switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 and from Outlook Express to Outlook, I am a bit stressed. To bring you up to speed on the kind of stress I am going through, I wrote this post this morning. Because ...read more
The Professional Problem With Mood Disorder Life Insurance!
What are there, 300 million plus a few people in the United States now? And the best guess I found is that 10′s of millions have mood disorders to one degree or another. Personally I think that may be an understatement. Tens of millions treated and untreated? 1 in 5? 1 in 4? The truth ...read more
Professionals Hammered Hard For Mood Disorders!
As any physician, attorney, dentist or CEO will confess, the journey from student to professional is not one for the faint of heart. For many it can be the most stressful part of their life as physicians reach residency and attorneys study for and take bar exams. Much is expected and there is no slack ...read more
Life Insurance Companies Cause Situational Depression!
The diverse underwriting reaction to situational depression life insurance and situational anxiety life insurance is huge, with the same case ranging from declines to preferred rates depending on the company. Those of us who were around in the 50′s remember the stigma that mood disorders carried back then and it is apparent that plenty of ...read more
Anxiety Disorder And Physician Life Insurance!
There is, I’ve discovered, a common denominator that runs through most of the men and women who have survived medical school, residency and are out there making a living as a physician. In looking back almost all of them would say that, whether they treated it or not, they suffered from anxiety at some level. ...read more
Sleep Deprivation And Heart Attacks?
I know for me that I consider daylight savings time to be a personal attack on my well being, and now there are studies to back it up. There has always been an acknowledged link between sleep deprivation and heart attacks, so it really wasn’t rocket science when someone figured out that the onset of ...read more
USAA May Be Big, But…..
USAA is one of the biggest insurance companies in the country. Their ratings are enviable and their reputation is impeccable, except for one large chink in their armor. They stink at underwriting. Like a lot of large auto and homeowners insurance companies, USAA makes it clear that when you have life insurance needs, they would ...read more
Did I Forget To Talk About Number One?
In my passion to ensure that the world understands the risks of cancer, obesity and diabetes, I have often referred to heart disease, coronary artery disease, as a collateral health issue. What I have neglected to do is give the number one killer of men and women the singular emphasis it deserves. Although women consistently ...read more
If This Stresses You Out, It’s Probably About You!
We talk all the time about how losing control of one part of your health inevitably has a compounding effect on other areas of your health. Stress, or anxiety, is certainly not an exception to that rule. In a recent post we talked about how some amount of stress, channeled efficiently, can actually be a ...read more
