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It is 3 clock in the morning and you are familiar with chills and waves of nausea. Is it a side effect of the new medication you have recently been prescribed or the effect of iffy Chinese food you had on this afternoon? Where do you see for the counsel, comfort and information to go at this hour? Enter online support shown Groups.A survey March 1998 by Tom Ferguson MD at Boston Center for Clinical Computing and William Kelly on the Sapient Health Network, that online communities are much more useful health services and specialists in 9 out of 12 medical aspects. The nine areas that were to be superior to the convenience, economy, emotional support, compassion, source of medical articles, source of information, source of coping tips, questions, death, and probably be there for the long haul. In addition, a little higher value in the field of technical and medical information. E-health communities therefore seem to have a very good bet for anyone with a chronic illness. There is also a means of finding a place to go where you both understood and appreciated. Many find that they are a new meaning in life, a sense of accomplishment when they help someone new to comfort her illness. But how to choose, the support group is right for him or her, there are some do's and don'ts when it comes to support groups? DO: Be prepared to share your thoughts and feelings with the community. You can not help you if they do not know what is bothering you. NOT: Do not enter personal information such as address and identity information. Support groups are an anonymous outlet for a reason. Do not set yourself up for identity theft. DO: Be a good listener and communicator. If you can not put into words how you feel, take emoticons (smiley faces that smile or frown, the small). NOT: Use capital letters as shouting it applies as online chat groups. Crazy fonts and alternative way to make others around you for a little brittle. DO: Welcome all new members and try to feel at home. Think about how you feel when you signed for the first time am NOT: be controversial. Find new news but avoid the latest scam promote healing or quackery. DO: Sit back and watch the group for the first few days to get a feel for the community. DO: Be open to new friendships. Support groups are like a therapy, not to work them with a closed mind. DO: Think before you write. Remember, there are real people behind the user name.With these tips for the adjustment to the healthcare communities, here is a good list of communities to get you started. Some are news groups, some organizations, some message boards, but all need an outlet for support and information when it most.Support groups, you need to send an email offer to join: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and communities: http://arthritis.about.com. http://arthritischat.com www.arthritissuport.com. http://supportpath.com. Organizations: The Arthritis Foundation http://www.arthritis.org.

As an avid Tori Amos fan, I confess often her genius to friends, relatives, colleagues and anyone who will listen. But I'm the first to admit that her brilliant songwriting, live to the world of personal symbols, it is not clearly captured in her music videos. As Tori Amos eschews conventional MTV artist status, she is usually successful without the hype of the video medium. Whether it is due to a bad election of directors or her songs opposition to visual cementation has Tori music videos were typically disappointing. The exception is "1000 Oceans", a song from the double album to Venus and back. Erick Ifergan, director, took one of Tori's more accessible tracks and created a visual statement about human empathy. A great assembly of people's reactions in a glass case installation, it is "1000 Oceans" video sly and nuanced. The video follows Tori character encased in a solid glass booth in the middle of a nondescript urban street scene. Although my inclination is that the name Chicago as a backdrop, is the specific location largely irrelevant. The viewer only needs to understand that there is a diverse city with enough passersby to stop and interact with the glass pane while others pass by obliviously. Dressed in a black dress, Tori is in this museum-like cases in the course of a day. The black dress is not just grief but also suggests a white wedding was black. In keeping with the song's simple lyrics about love and loss raises dress feelings of both Union (marriage) and separation (departure, death). While supine and motionless at the points moved Tori figure also around the box. She is installed in the city as a living sculpture. A short procession of nuns. A riot-instigating it. A NONPLUSSED senior. A goth-inspired spa girl things short with her boyfriend. An overweight whore in a leopard teddy. These are some of the notable passers who stay one to interact with the glass box. At one time, the video is bizarre and realistic, which serves as a metaphor for our human reactions to other people. Strangers as we have no connection other than humanity can be many answers (including ignorance of our existence), but anyone who stops for even a second to evaluate our presence - on the street, in a shop, on a bus, at a coffee shop - will have a clear response in us. They see the context for our lives: we exist as a living art. We are our own movement takes on the human condition, and people use it with varying degrees of awareness. In the case of "1000 Oceans", the Tori figure is emoting, are in a public place where city residents can choose to see her or ignore her. The passers-by who see her appear confused, amused, curious, contemptuous, surprised, shameful, disinterested, critical, taunting and likeable. This series of human responses to the enclosed figure is fascinating, but not unreasonable. I think particularly reflective glass was a purposeful director elections. We can see through the glass, although it is available as an obstacle - and in some cases, we are accustomed to see reflections of ourselves in the glass. Ultimately, it is not what happens when we experience an emotional or intellectual reaction to the stimulus of another person? Our answer to the second reflects our response to ourselves. A city is thus a museum of human contacts, missed and made. Near the end of the video, stay for a family on the glass pane. A mother, father, son and daughter into the picture. They look like an American family on their way to or from church, neatly dressed with bright, warm colors. It is clear that they have a specific answer to Tori figure, and director elections reflect this. . Unlike all the previous passers seem family represent a broader human family balanced in age and sex, are the parents and children - and providers. Their skin marks them in our society as "black" in a way that differs from, but similar, how Tori thought is characterized by her black dress of mourning and loss. Her pink lipstick matched her father's shirt and echoed in his son's lips. And the use of an American family are calling the associations of travel over the oceans (during slavery) when people were separated tragically. These visual cues set the tone for the relations of humanity. The family's view of Tori figure is slow. Illuminated by a street lamp at night, faces glow in their eyes and are quite recognizable: human empathy. There is a respect, a knowing homage and a warmth that makes their response richer than everyone else. At the tip of the video, emerges the sense of empathy as the ultimate human response to grief, sorrow, pain and loss. Now is touching and beautiful - and yet subtle, natural and sincere. It deepens the song by adding a new layer of understanding, and that is what a good video should do. Kudos to Tori Amos for the song and Erick Ifergan for superb director's vision.