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Barry Neale left a comment for Melissa J. Roth"Hi Melissa
I don't know if you are aware but someone appears to be trying to sell ebooks of several of your courses on…"
"#1 you are not the only one. I only see medical clients and I see people like you every day. The docs get frustrated and when they can't figure it out so then it must be psychological. And, many illnesses cause emotional…"
"You could also do sessions with a hypnotherapist by Skype from the comfort of your own home."
"I totally understand and respect your hesitancy to give to third party organizations to divvy out the assistance. Even though I KNOW that the Red Cross and the Salvation Army and the myriad of other help organizations do great work, It bothers me to…"
"I'm sure there are lots of people like me who hesitate to donate to charities in times like these because you can't be sure how much, if any, of the money you donate is actually getting to the people who need it the most. I have…"
"Wipes.... Water and Repellant are on the way.... Let him know stuff is on the way... Ebay Rocks for this kind of stuff. Just drop ship to where he needs it.
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"Thanks Melissa.... Just the Info I was waiting for......
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- Where do you live?
- Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado
- Hypnosis Experience:
- Full Time Practice
- What are you looking for on this site?
- Helpful professional community, sharing, networking learning new perspectives, new stuff I hadn't thought about before.
- Areas of Interest:
- Medical Hypnotherapy--irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, hypertension, migraines, immune disorders, other medically related issues.
- About Me: (please write something so we know you are a real person and not a spammer or robot)
- First learned hypnosis as an undergraduate and used it to get through graduate school. Started practicing it professionally in the mid 80's. Specialize in medical applications of hypnosis. After healing myself of disabling IBS and FMS using hypnosis I decided to get certified and began a full time private practice specializing in medical and healthcare applications of hypnotherapy. I am totally addicted to hypnosis.
- Hobbies:
- My daughter, horses, water sports, photography, traveling, painting, shoveling snow, trying to walk on the ice, hauling in firewood, staying warm.
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- http://www.melissaroth.com
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My latest FDA rant.
Second only to insurance companies, is my disgust with the FDA. I begin to foam at the mouth when someone says that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) serves to protect the public’s health. Someone will invariably refer to the severe birth defects associated with Thaladomide babies in an uninformed attempt to defend the FDA’s mission. The problems with Thaladomide were discovered in Europe, not by the FDA.
It is commonplace these days for the news headlines to announce that yet another drug has been withdrawn from the market due to toxicity problems. A classic example is Zelnorm, Novartis’s drug for IBS. It was introduced onto the US drug market with great fanfare and cute television commercials of dancing bellies in 2002. In March, 2006 it was withdrawn from the market due to toxicity and patient deaths. In 2000 there were reports to the FDA of 267,000 adverse drug reactions. By 2006 that number increased to 471,000 and the number of deaths tripled from 5,519 to 15,107. And there are almost monthly salmonella or E. Coli scares about our food supply with some food or the other being stripped from grocers shelves. The FDA seems to be lurching from one disaster to another like a drunk on a sinking ship.
Things have gotten so bad that the FDA commissioner Dr. Edward von Eschenbach requested a special assessment as to whether the FDA was capable of doing its job. The premise was that “the nation is at risk if FDA science is at risk.” The damning sixty page report concluded that the FDA “cannot even keep up with the advances in science” and that the FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and capability.
The demise of the FDA as protector of the public’s health began in 2004 when officials caught flack for silencing a staff scientist who had concluded that antidepressants could increase suicidal behavior in teens. Other scientists have been pressured to soft pedal product dangers. That same year, they were criticized for dragging their feet in taking Vioxx off the market after it was shown to increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. The FDA has drawn fire for not speeding decisions on new drugs that could potentially save lives and ease suffering and for soft-pedaling problems.
The truth is that the FDA is largely funded by the pharmaceutical companies it is supposed to police. Currently, pharmaceutical industry dollars fund more than half of the FDA’s drug review budget. In five years that proportion is expected to increase to 70%. And, 22% of the advisory board members who vote on which drugs and devices get approved have direct financial interests in the companies that they are supposed to evaluate or their rivals. That’s akin to having the burglar feed the guard dog. Then, we wonder why the dog didn’t bark when we were robbed. It truly is the best agency the drug manufacturers could buy.
So, what can we do? The very best thing you can do for yourself is to do everything in your power to stay healthy or to at least become no more unhealthy than you are now. If you are taking medications for chronic illnesses, do everything in your power to minimize your need for them. Then, work with your physician to reduce your dosages or to eliminate as many as you can to maintain your level of health. Begin to pay close attention to your diet. Eating healthy foods is important regardless of your current weight. Get daily physical exercise. Begin a daily practice of self hypnosis. Hypnosis boosts the number of circulating immune cells thereby preventing many viral and bacterial induced illnesses. It also lowers and stabilize your blood pressure and blood sugar. And, stress...... enough said. It is amazing to me how many hypnotherapists do not do daily self hypnosis. All of these promote a greater level of health.
Melissa J. Roth, PhD
Alabama Hypnotherapy Center
2117 Sixteenth Ave. South
Birmingham, Al. 35205
www.tranceworkers.com
205/933-5705
It is commonplace these days for the news headlines to announce that yet another drug has been withdrawn from the market due to toxicity problems. A classic example is Zelnorm, Novartis’s drug for IBS. It was introduced onto the US drug market with great fanfare and cute television commercials of dancing bellies in 2002. In March, 2006 it was withdrawn from the market due to toxicity and patient deaths. In 2000 there were reports to the FDA of 267,000 adverse drug reactions. By 2006 that number increased to 471,000 and the number of deaths tripled from 5,519 to 15,107. And there are almost monthly salmonella or E. Coli scares about our food supply with some food or the other being stripped from grocers shelves. The FDA seems to be lurching from one disaster to another like a drunk on a sinking ship.
Things have gotten so bad that the FDA commissioner Dr. Edward von Eschenbach requested a special assessment as to whether the FDA was capable of doing its job. The premise was that “the nation is at risk if FDA science is at risk.” The damning sixty page report concluded that the FDA “cannot even keep up with the advances in science” and that the FDA cannot fulfill its mission because its scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and capability.
The demise of the FDA as protector of the public’s health began in 2004 when officials caught flack for silencing a staff scientist who had concluded that antidepressants could increase suicidal behavior in teens. Other scientists have been pressured to soft pedal product dangers. That same year, they were criticized for dragging their feet in taking Vioxx off the market after it was shown to increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. The FDA has drawn fire for not speeding decisions on new drugs that could potentially save lives and ease suffering and for soft-pedaling problems.
The truth is that the FDA is largely funded by the pharmaceutical companies it is supposed to police. Currently, pharmaceutical industry dollars fund more than half of the FDA’s drug review budget. In five years that proportion is expected to increase to 70%. And, 22% of the advisory board members who vote on which drugs and devices get approved have direct financial interests in the companies that they are supposed to evaluate or their rivals. That’s akin to having the burglar feed the guard dog. Then, we wonder why the dog didn’t bark when we were robbed. It truly is the best agency the drug manufacturers could buy.
So, what can we do? The very best thing you can do for yourself is to do everything in your power to stay healthy or to at least become no more unhealthy than you are now. If you are taking medications for chronic illnesses, do everything in your power to minimize your need for them. Then, work with your physician to reduce your dosages or to eliminate as many as you can to maintain your level of health. Begin to pay close attention to your diet. Eating healthy foods is important regardless of your current weight. Get daily physical exercise. Begin a daily practice of self hypnosis. Hypnosis boosts the number of circulating immune cells thereby preventing many viral and bacterial induced illnesses. It also lowers and stabilize your blood pressure and blood sugar. And, stress...... enough said. It is amazing to me how many hypnotherapists do not do daily self hypnosis. All of these promote a greater level of health.
Melissa J. Roth, PhD
Alabama Hypnotherapy Center
2117 Sixteenth Ave. South
Birmingham, Al. 35205
www.tranceworkers.com
205/933-5705
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Colorado fires
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 4:54pm 10 Comments 0 Favorites
I left my office around 3pm today to get lunch. As I turned into Whole Foods I saw the smoke plumes in the canyon where I live. I raced home to find the fire cresting the ridge in front of my house. As the crow flies it is about 3 miles. The fire burned 200+ acres in 5 minutes--kinda puts things in perspective. As I write this we are on pre-evacuation stand-by. I have packed as many valuables as my car will hold--pictures, trinkets, momentos. We are ready to leave on a moments…
ContinuePleasant Grove and Pratt City, Al. tornado
Posted on April 29, 2011 at 9:13am 56 Comments 4 Favorites
As many of you know I just relocated away from Alabama in Jan. of this year. For 18 yrs I lived in the surburb of Pleasant Grove, Al outside of Birmingham, Al It is the one that was hit by the tornado earlier this week. My sister still lives there and was thankfully unhurt. Her street was one of 2 in the community that was spared from total destruction. There is no power and will not be for weeks to months since the substation was blown away also. Most of the cell phone towers are gone…
ContinueA different kind of neighborhood watch
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:54am 10 Comments 0 Favorites
The "neighborhood" alert system went off today. It worked the way any other neighborhood watch program has. I got a call from a neighbor that I should be aware. There is a big mountain lion hanging around. My next door neighbor saw it sunning itself lying in the road outside her house and drinking out of their horse trough. So, the other neighbors have alerted all 9 houses on this mountain to be on the lookout and not be…
Continue Moving IN
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 6:47am 8 Comments 0 Favorites
The moving truck is gone. The furniture is in the house but not necessarily where I had planned. The boxes are here--interminable boxes. The heat, water and washing machine work so life on the mountain is good. Each morning as I wake up I get to look out my window to see the most incredible views of the mountain tops and mountain meadows of Eldorado State Park. No one will ever build there and ruin my daily Communion with God. I"m incredibly lucky to get to be here.
The Packing Roller Coaster
Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:39am 5 Comments 0 Favorites
As I pack my house to move to Colorado later in the week I get the chance to sort not only my belongings but my emotions as well. Each item has a memory attached. As usual, some are good, some not so good. So, I decided to keep the good memories and toss all the stuff that has the not so good memories attached. That way I won't recall them as easily if they are not anchored to "stuff".
I've got classic rock blaring loudly enough for my closest neighbor (4 football…
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- At 12:54pm on May 23, 2013, Barry Neale said…
Hi Melissa
I don't know if you are aware but someone appears to be trying to sell ebooks of several of your courses on ebay,
barry
- At 2:42am on March 19, 2013,
Marion Robb said… Hello Melissa, thanks for the add - unfortunately your message did not seem to fully download, so I only know you were going to discuss pain issues, which you have done a great deal of work with -thanks so much for that - I'm particularly interested in pain around addiction if you can offer me some pointers, as well as palliative care and anti-emesis.
Thanks again x
- At 4:46pm on February 5, 2013,
Adrienne Rogers said… Melissa, Thank you for the welcome. It has been some time since I have been online. I still do part time work. I love hypnosis. It sings to my heart. I will be back in the saddle again soon. I come to this site and feel wonderful reading the current work and knowledge shared here.
Well it looks like the old gal that I am is on my way back to a path that brings me round full circle. I have been asking the age old question. What shall I do? So here I am at this site again. I had a hit this evening to come here again. So I trust the intuitive mind that brought me here. I am making lifestyle changes. I feel at home again. More later. I still have my books from my courses and written scripts and so on from my own writings on the techniques used in various hypnotic trans and the like. I have come alive again! More later! Again a heartfelt thanks for this site and the people here.
- At 1:51pm on November 28, 2012, Barry Neale said…
Hi,
Wow, i would have never thought that Cal might have anything to do with this? I would be surprised as he has been selling one of my products on his website for years. I always thought highly of him until I read the post by Jerry Kein a few months ago.
It never occured to me that this was an attack on hypnothoughts either. Jeez. Well its not going to scare me off. I know Terence has had problems with Andy Austin previously so I don't know if this something to do with his departure? Andy has been sharing the link to the fakephds on his blog.
I find it a real shame because i really enjoy helping out on Hypnothoughts
Yes those photos are out of date. They must be 10 years old now. Both of the websites that they came from are quite old and I they are not run by me so i have no control over them.
There are a number of inaccuracies in the "facts" about me in the blog. I have no connection to Calumus other than Morris Berg (who runs the UK Calamus) refers people to one of my old home study courses, and as for Huntingdon, years ago I used to have the UK reprint rights to Bruce Kaloski's Medical Hypnotherapy Course and he asked me to include details of Huntingdon to purchasers of his course so he must have mentioned me on his site. Oh well!
I have had a great year with my horse. We have been out competing a lot this year and won the overall champion prize at several two day rodeos. She is scarily fast at barrels and pole bending and loves the cow work.
Your horse is doing really well!
My instructor is 78 years old and he is still starting horses and rides everyday and runs a farm. He won't let me get away with me saying "I am getting too old for this!"
regards
barry
- At 11:11am on November 28, 2012, Barry Neale said…
Hi
I wondered why this person hasn't listed this person on his hall of fame?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5223454.stm
barry
- At 4:18am on November 28, 2012, Barry Neale said…
Hi Melissa,
Sorry to hear that you have been added to this fakephd list along with myself.
Regards
Barry
- At 3:30pm on November 20, 2012,
Adrian G Madril said… Hi Melissa, well, I went to the dinner and even the basic science was over my head. I recognized "limbic system and a few other words. He did quote a study on pain I believe from the 1960s that mention that pain had an emotional component. I remember reading the exact thing online from a link from here. I thought that it was very interesting, but ofcourse his direction was from what phramacology approaches work best in his clinic for acute onset of chronic pain (gee I hope I said that right). His talk was from the direction of "the right combinations have shown to decrease the amount of heavy dosing narcotics. I wish I could recall what it is that he uses in his combos.
He did do a good job reviewing the different theories of pain and indicate that not one theory answers all the questions. But did mention that the different meds basically block the signal between source and some point before interpretation by the brain. Wow, just like hypnosis. Some parts sounded wonderfully familiar while somethings sounded like I forgot everything in Anatomy and Physiology 1&2. Take care and play safe. Adrian
- At 5:03pm on November 10, 2012,
Karen Rothstein said… Always my pleasure. Gary and Larry and I were talking about how we will miss your trainings since Katherine has moved to San Diego. I guess we'll just have to travel now...:-).
- At 6:10pm on September 20, 2012,
Jon Wiebold said… Melissa,
I would like to formally introduce myself, as an advisory from Scott, am a student at HPTI, and while I have known of you for some time, never got the opportunity to say hello.
Look forward to making your acquaintance, in the not so distant future.
Jon Wiebold
- At 6:47am on September 9, 2012,
Suzy Sikora said… Thank you for the warm welcome, Melissa!
I think you're right! I AM going to like it here! So many resources AND friendly people! What can be better?!
Suzy
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