Category: Season 10: THE PROGRAM

Season 10: THE PROGRAM

Emotional Distress in Personal Injury Claims

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courtesy of Hoganinjury.com

When people get involved in accidents and pursue damages for personal injury claims, they tend to think about the most obvious damages that they can get compensated for. Medical costs to treat the physical injury they have sustained in the accident lost wages because of the number of days they weren’t able to go to work, and the cost of repairs to their damaged property are some of the things that are often considered first. Because of the overwhelming number of tangible things that a person should consider when filing for damages, they tend to overlook one significant factor, the emotional distress that the accident has caused.

Emotional distress is a type of non-economic damage that a person could include in their personal injury claim. Just like physical injuries, emotional distress can affect a victim’s everyday life and can also have an impact on their recovery time. The manifestations of emotional distress like sleep loss, anxiety, and panic attacks can have a severe effect on a person’s well-being and even their source of income. Just like any other types of non-economic damages, calculating compensation for emotional distress could be complicated.

There should be proof of emotional distress for you to be able to receive the compensation that you deserve. Here are some tips that could help you prove your claim:

1. Physical manifestation. – After a while, symptoms of emotional distress could lead to physical symptoms that may help you establish your case. You should take note of stress headaches or migraines, stomachaches because of anxiety, ulcers, chest pains, and other physical manifestations that were caused by emotional distress.

2. Magnitude and period. – The intensity and duration of your emotional distress should also be considered to help you prove your claim. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a very severe manifestation of emotional distress and recovery could take a very long time.

3. Correlation. – Proving that the root of your emotional distress is the accident you’re filing a claim for can help solidify your claim. For example, you’ve never had a panic attack before the accident; however, after the accident, you started suffering from constant panic attacks.

4. Documentation. – The physical injuries you’ve sustained in an accident would need to be treated by a physician and may take time to heal completely. During this time, it’s best to document all the symptoms of emotional distress that you may be experiencing (including items number 1, 2, and 3), and inform your doctor about them. Your doctor would add these to your record and might even endorse you to a mental health professional that can help you, which means that you have actual proof that you are suffering from emotional distress. These records/documents could be compelling tools that could help your lawsuit or insurance claim. Keeping a journal that details your symptoms and how it affects your everyday life can also be useful.

Emotional distress caused by an accident should always be considered during a personal injury claim so that you can receive the psychological help that you need to recover fully. Dismissing emotional distress could make it more severe and could have a catastrophic impact on your life.

Were you involved in an accident and are suffering from emotional distress? Contact us at Hogan Injury for expert legal advice.

None of the content on Hoganinjury.com is legal advice nor is it a replacement for advice from a certified lawyer. Please consult a legal professional for further information.

Season 10: THE PROGRAM

Photoshop Skills

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Well, it’s true what they say;  If you don’t use it; you will lose it.

That goes for my Photoshop skills.  I’ve been out of touch with Adobe Photoshop for the past several years and to come back NOW, is like riding a bike all over again.  Don’t get me wrong, I still have the fundamentals, but my execution of techniques and actions are a bit rusty.

 

 

To sharpen or rather gain my skills back, I recreated my JPittsProductions Logo (for Fun).  Several steps went to this process.

1) Hand drawn sketch of logo (graffiti style)
2) Import drawing into Photoshop
3) Digitize the piece
4)Export

Season 10: THE PROGRAM

I AM A SCHIZO

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ME:
I guess on a brighter note; the psych doctor diagnosed me with schizophrenia.  I’m say THIS because I do hear voices “in my head” but this is something different.  Sometimes they are friendly and motivating, but majority of the time, they examine my EVERY action and critique it with harshly with an undertone of sarcasm.
I thought that they were people who wanted me dead, but turns out, I seem to be their experiment.  A lifelong experiment that I involuntary applied for.
Don’t get me wrong; I guess I’ve grown to tolerate them…….well, to be honest, they are the only people that I talk to.  They know ME better than myself.  We’ve cried……well, I’ve cried; we’ve laughed and I guess I’m saying all this to say that; well, I guess I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
I got some inner issues that are very apparent to ME……and I can’t fool anyone.  I was 3 months clean from Crystal Meth and as soon as I was released from the rehab facility, I relapsed within in 2days.
But hey, all isn’t lost; Im still breathing/alive.  I may have a few mental issues but I guess that’s what makes me……….ME!
YOU:

I know you to be a talented man and there are hundreds, maybe thousands of people out there that need and want to benefit from your warmth and experience. Please give it to them. Make them feel as good as you do for me.

Season 10: THE PROGRAM

Bennie and the Jets

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Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight’s hitting something
That’s been known to change the weather
We’ll kill the fatted calf tonight
So stick around
You’re gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound

Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
Uh but they’re so spaced out, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets
Oh but they’re weird and they’re wonderful
Oh Bennie she’s really keen
She’s got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets

Hey kids, plug into the faithless
Maybe they’re blinded
But Bennie makes them ageless
We shall survive, let us take ourselves along
Where we fight our parents out in the streets
To find who’s right and who’s wrong

Oh Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
Oh but they’re so spaced out, Bennie and the Jets
Oh but they’re weird and they’re wonderful
Oh Bennie she’s really keen
She’s got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine, oh
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets

Oh Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
Oh but they’re so spaced out, Bennie and the Jets
Oh but they’re weird and they’re wonderful
Oh Bennie she’s really keen
She’s got electric boots a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine, oh
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets
Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets
Jets, Jets
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie
Bennie, Bennie and the Jets

Season 10: THE PROGRAM

SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN

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One day when I was young, I heard a knock at my door.
It sounded familiar, like I had heard it before.
I opened the door, and to my surprise,
There stood a young lady with blond hair and brown eyes.

She said, “I have the answers; are you ready to play?”
So I grabbed my money and I said okay.
There were the answers that I had always sought.
Liquids, pills, and powders, and I bought and bought.

Then one day, my friend suddenly changed.
Her face became ugly, calloused, and deranged.
She grabbed my hand and we tore through the town.
My loved ones and friends could only watch and frown.

She kept whispering something I could only guess.
It sounded like she was repeating, “Yes, Yes, Yes.”

How quickly from fun to very near death.
How quickly from one beer, to smoking crystal meth.
I thought of my family, oh what a mess,
But all I heard was screaming, “Yes, Yes, Yes.”

I had to find help; I was at my wits end.
I had lost my child, my family, and my friends.

I said, “God are you there? Can you help me, please?”
A sudden peace came over me and I fell to my knees.
God answered the riddle that so long I did guess.
Why my addiction kept screaming, “Yes, Yes, Yes”

It’s because I kept asking night after night
It’s going to be different this time, right?

I said, “God, I’m not worth it; I feel like a jerk.”
He said, “Suit up and show up; it’s time to go to work.”

Now it’s been eight months since I had my last drink.
It’s given me time to remember and think.

So I am here to tell you in this little rhyme.
Life keeps getting better one day at a time.
So when you think you are going insane.
There’s always sunshine after the rain.

Season 10: THE PROGRAM

HOW TO: Become a better YOU in 11 freakishly scary ways

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Here’s what YOU do:

1. Choose silence. Turn off the TV. Commute without the car radio on or your i-Pod earphones in. The silence may unsettle you. With our addiction to noise and distraction held at bay, our anxiety, painful beauty and genius has room to surface.

2. Stand naked in front of the mirror and don’t leave until you can say three deeply loving things about: your physique, the miracle of your health, and your qualities as good human being.

3. Work with people who are smarter or more accomplished than you.
UNLV graduates have some of the finest business plans I’ve seen; and a kick-ass forum of some of the most savvy marketers, motivators, and communicators in action. In every case I had to leap further to meet my intuition, dig deeper into the industry, and listen more actively.

4. Underachieve. This is especially for all the A Types and workaholics. Slack. Don’t finish the book. For one week, do not do a to-do list. (I know, your palms are sweating at the very thought.) Be late just because you wanted an extra five minutes in the hot shower.

5. Take an improv class. It could teach you more about innovation, relationships, success, and sexuality than any therapist or self help book.

6. Solicit opinions from a diverse audience. Nothing like asking a twenty year old and a seventy year old what they think about your stuff.

7. Solicit opinions from experts. Ask a gifted writer what they really think of your material. Take your CEO to lunch for a preemptive performance review and some tips on how to sail up the ladder. Hire a stylist to eyeball your fashion fabulousness. It may sting, it may be a major gust of wind beneath your wings, but either way, an expert opinion will motivate you to get on top of your game.

8. Say no. Only offer the simple explanation that “it just doesn’t feel right.”

9. Say yes. Just for the hell of it. Whimsy is a direct route enlightenment…or peril. Either way, you’ll come out stronger.

TAKE ON THE WORLD AND WIN FOR YOURSELF!!!!

 

Season 10: THE PROGRAM

12 Steps

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Simplicity is the key.
Here are the 12 steps needed to achieve a life of sobriety

 

Twelve Steps of Narcotics Anonymous

1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.