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I would say if it's severe separation anxiety like Beric had, the treats aren't going to be enough. We give our other two dogs those treats before car rides and it seems to help them.

As for the other things we tried before the Fluoxetine: We tried music, we left the TV on, we gave him very long walks before we left (and still do), and we got him a Kong and filled it with peanut butter, froze it, and gave it to him before we left. We even tried one of those Thundershirts. Unfortunately, none of that seemed to be enough (he started to have really bad stomach problems from the anxiety) so our vet recommended Fluoxetine and that has seemed to have the greatest effect.

In a couple of months, we're planning on weening him off the Fluoxetine and finding some combination of the above to work.

Totally understand! I have a bad habit of adding more books to my ever-growing, insurmountable reading list. Of the two books I'd recommend as easily approachable, one is available as an audiobook (which I'll link below), but both authors have one hour talks on YouTube that are based on the content of their respective books.

Book 1 is Hail, Holy Queen by Dr. Scott Hahn (audiobook linked there). A free one hour talk based on that book can be found here.

Book 2 is Behold Your Mother by Tim Staples. I wasn't able to find an audiobook, but a free one hour talk based on the book can be found here.

Both gentlemen are former Protestant pastors and converts to the Catholic Church, so it's worth it to keep a Bible nearby if you do choose to listen. There will be a ton of Scripture references. :)

Have a great day. Cheers!

I'd like to point out the /r/conlangs subreddit since you would get a better response there, but I'd be happy to throw a couple of recommendations your way.

Try In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent. I bought this book, but I lost it shortly after I bought it and never bought it again. I believe it's geared towards a general audience.

If you want to know about the ins and outs of making your own language, check out Mark Rosenfelder's Advanced Language Construction Kit. I haven't read that either, but I've been a fan of Mark Rosenfelder's original site, The Language Construction Kit when I was a budding linguist in the late 90s.

EDIT: A really old book that I found really interesting was Mario Pei's 1961 One Language for the World. Read it with a healthy dose of skepticism because of the age of the book and of course, Mario's ideas at the time. But I think it's worth the read for some historical information about conlangs/auxlangs of the time.

I have a Marpac Dohm white noise machine and use it in the highest setting. The most important thing is putting it between your dog and where they're hearing noises.

If you want soothing music in addition, it certainly wouldn't hurt to try. The Through A Dog's Ear collections (like this one) are supposed to have been clinically demonstrated to help reduce anxiety. :)

Ps. Don't be averse to medication. I have a dog with separation anxiety. We work with a veterinary behaviorist and medication had a huge role in improving his quality of life! I don't regret it for a second... it's really hard on a dog to be experiencing intense anxiety every moment they're alone.

Sorry mama! She sounds overtired to me. When babies are overtired their bodies don't know how to shut down/relax and as a result they actually sleep less (hence the phrase, "sleep begets more sleep.")

Do you think maybe she has silent reflux (it can get worse when they are laying down)?

Or, do you swaddle, do a sound machine, and/or a pacifier?

My son only napped for 45 minute stretches at a time by that age (but, he was sleeping 12 hours a night by then.) I never ever had to do CIO because the Happiest Baby on the Block methods and this lady's techniques worked really well for us (I know the latter may not be for everyone, but it was awesome for us and many of our friends.) By the time a baby is 11lbs and/or 4 months old, they are physically capable of eating enough food during the day to not have to wake to eat in the middle of the night - based on this, in addition to research on their cortisol levels at that age which regulate circadian rhythm, I personally think she is waking out of habit.

In addition to what I've linked to already, maybe check out these books too: Baby Whisperer and Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child

I have NOT cured myself. Let's get that out of the way. I personally think I need to give antibiotics a go for bartonella and see what happens combining them with what I'm already doing. However, these are "natural" things that I have found quite useful for bartonella in particular. I have been much better at one point than I am now, and attribute that to all of this (some things more than others). I have NOT been cured yet, so I'm not claiming any miracles. I have been in a downswing in the past year, and I attribute that mostly to getting away from what was working for me. I say doing as many of these things as possible would be helpful. But if you don't agree/find any of it to be bullshit...don't do it. We don't need to have another internet argument over the validity or proof behind any of this. There is some for some of it, but I'm not offering or claiming anything, but anecdotal evidence here. A little background on me....I'm a former athlete(thanks to these infections) who has always been interested in the best ways to improve my health/body. So when I recommend something like breathing exercises...I recommend them based purely on the physical improvements they have given me. I'm not interested in anything that doesn't work. And just because these things have not "cured" me...does not mean I think they are completely useless. In fact, I may be dead by now or at least in a much worse place physically than I am now and like I used to be. I found some things some people claim as absolute bullshit....to be actually quite helpful. And I have also found some of it to be useless. At least for me. I keep an open mind, and try what I can afford if I think it could be useful. I would recommend these to anyone who has been on antibiotics for a while and isn't noticing any/or little improvement. Maybe just try these for a while instead or in a combination. That's up to you and your doctor. I recommend not jumping in without careful consideration and second opinions. So with all of that said.....these are things I have personally found helpful. I may expound on these later, but for now, google search these herbs in general and with keywords like Lyme, Bartonella, etc if you want any explanations as to WHY they would be helpful.

• Cinnamon Leaf Oil
  
• Cordyceps Extract
  
• Haritaki Fruit
  
• Red Root
  
• Infrared Sauna (you can get a cheap portable one) Helps with detox,
  circulation, and keeping you warm. We tend to run on the chilly side with
  these bugs inhibiting our circulation.
  *Hot baths
  
• A diet filled with generally warming foods. Look up yang foods. These would
  be foods and spices that promote circulation, warmth in the
  body...some are antimicrobial as well (such as garlic). This is basically a
  lifestyle change. You are trying to get back to even....and as these infections
  are diseases that are promoting bodies with weakness, tendency to feeling
  cold, having low energy and poor circulation....we can help this by avoiding
  foods that promote sluggishness and bacteria growth. So cooking veggies
  instead of eating them raw...and drinking tea or room temperature water as
  opposed to cold water can help on this area. For more info on this just google
  yang and yin foods. Certain aspects of Chinese Medecine are more out
  there...but for anyone skeptical... this part is just simple common sense on
  how food, spices and herbs affect your bodies beyond just calorie surpluses
  and defecits. Its already prevelant in western society to a degree. We tend
  toward warm/heavy food in winter when we are cold and need more energy. In
  the summer we go for lighter, colder foods. Take a look at it. Again not a
  cure.....but a very helpful tool. Close to my biggest recommendation. Create an
  environment that the bugs don't thrive in....and attack it with antibiotics
  herbs...go at it from both sides.
  
• Exercise...whatever you can manage...don't overdo it or completely ignore it.
  
• 3 specific Chinese formulas for the infections. Thunder Pearls Lightning
  Pearls, Dragon Pearls. These are for GU Syndrome. Google it. Don't let the
  words "demons" and "snakes" make you dismiss this right away. Read about
  it. These are just the translations from Chinese to English for the ancient way
  these infections were described. In simple terms "demons" was describing
  the more mental aspects of these infections and...bartonella in particular likes
  to mess with and embed itself in the brain and nervous system. "Snakes" is
  describing infections like Lyme....(what's a spirochete look like?). So these
  "Pearls" are a specific brand by one of the better respected TCM Doctors out
  there. Doctor Heiner Fruehauf.
  GU Syndrome
  
  
• Breathing Exercises. There are a lot of different kinds of breathing exercises.
  Some to basically stimulate yourself and some to calm you down. I'm sure you
  have heard of Qi Gong and Yoga Breathing at some point. Yes, there is a lot of
  bullshit, New Agey and ineffective things that are constantly promoted and labeled as Qi Gong. The term simply means "breath work," or breath exercise.
  I do not, once again, believe every single one of these exercises is
  bullshit. In fact some of it is absolutely fantastic, practical and relatively easy
  to learn. I have found, through really looking into this stuff, that its some of the most basic exercises that are the most effective and based in common sense from a western perspective. So I will focus on the one that I believe to be the
  easiest and most effective. And that is the Warriors Breath. Its basically deep chest breathing that floods your body with oxygen( or whatever the actual
  explanation is, that's up for debate on the internet) in a healthy way. It might
  look like hyperventilation to the unfamiliar eye...but its not. There is a
  difference. This is yogic breathing that is very similar to some of the breathing
  that Buddhist and Tibetan Monks do to stay warm in the snow. The most famous, easiest way to learn about this is by looking into Wim Hof (The Iceman). Yes, he makes some claims that are, in my opinion, excessive. I do not believe that this alone is the answer to all health problems or our infections...but I do think it is a fantastic tool that has given me back energy, relaxation and cognitive function that nothing else has..which, at the least, indirectly effects your immune system. Bit I sing its praises for the energy it has given my body back. Deep reserve energy...not the cafiene and stimulant type of energy. The specific version I do (which I believe to be better than Wim Hof's) is made by a guy who I would describe as very New Agey...for hardcore athiests and people who are highly skeptical of anything Eastern....listening to his CD (where he coaches you through a breathing session) will probably piss you off. I get it. It is kinda cringey to me sometimes when he talks about his beliefs, but it's also not as bad as I'm making it sound. Either way, if that bothers you...get over it. I think the actual, physical exercise he has you do is great. He has worked with Wim Hof and studied with Tibetan monks and combined these two very similar breathing forms and basically fine tuned it. If this interests you I would absolutely recommend buying his CD over Wim Hof's course. I believe it's better and cheaper
  
  Have a look into Wim Hof first though. There is a lot of free stuff on YouTube that can sort of introduce you to the concept.
  
  DO NOT DO the cold immersion part of Wim Hof's program. Just the breathing.
  (I had a backslide because of cold immersion and cold baths) Quick cold showers every morning are good though.
  
  
• Avoid cold MOST of the time. I already mentioned try to stay warm and keep your circulation going as best you can. However, my one deviation from this rule would be to to take a quick cold shower in the mornings. (You do not want PROLONGED cold exposure.) Cold showers are shown to have positive affects on the nervous system, hormones, and immune system. It's really helps lift your energy. But staying in the cold for too long will be detrimental to people like us. It was for me. My infections came back a lot worse after a period of trying the cold immersion. The infections thrive in a "cold" body.
  
  
• Gynostemma (An Adaptogen that is really great at balancing your hormones,
  adrenals , and nervous system. This and Cordyceps are my two favorite herbs for general energy and we'll being.)
  
  
• Doug Coil Rife Machine. This is expensive...and I would only recommend it if you have the money, but only as an adjunct to other things. Don't make it a priority and listen to opinions before you buy one. You will find a lot of opinions that they are useless and a scam..once again....this is true for some Rife machines....but in my OPINION and from my PERSONAL experience...the Doug Coil machine has value in killing the infections. But, take that with a grain of salt. It is a lot of money to throw towards that. Listen to opinions on both sides and NEVER decide to put your faith in only a rife machine. That is not going to work and would be a very stupid, uneducated way to approach this disease.... in my opinion.
  
  This is all I'm going to type right now. Take what you want and throw away what you don't. I'm making no claims of a cure, and I'm still not free of this disease. There are natural things that can be helpful....but I'm only listing some of the ones that I have tried and found to be helpful. Cheers.
  
  Edit: Also a huge help. Coffee Enemas and detox in general. Some help with Byron White as well.
  

I do not think that there is any shortcut. Yes you can learn how to "fake" jazz but you will not be able to fool too many people.
Get one of TrueFire course eg.:
http://truefire.com/jazz-guitar-lessons/123-jazz/
or
http://truefire.com/jazz-guitar-lessons/jazz-anatomy/

Also DVD by Jimmy Bruno "No Nonsense Jazz Guitar" and DVDs by Emily Remler (a bit more advanced). After that Joe Pass books.

As far as jazz comping... I would recommend books by Jim Ferguson (all the books by him are good but this one addresses comping) and Mike di Liddo:
http://www.amazon.com/All-Blues-Jazz-Guitar-Comping/dp/0786631287
http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Jazz-Guitar-Mike-Diliddo/dp/B00683JKHC

Another great resource is:
http://www.jazzguitar.be/
You can ask all the questions there - patient and knowledgeable folks.

We haven't tried a white noise machine, but Through A Dog's Ear has a marked affect on both of our dogs (one frenchie and one rescue mix of GSD/BC/Beagle/Etc.). Full disclosure: it makes humans sleepy too.

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Food puzzles are great (snuffle mats, puzzles, Squirrel Dudes, Kongs, etc.). If your dog has absence anorexia, then do the puzzles before you go so at least his brain got some exercise. :)

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If it is separation anxiety, you'll need to desensitize him since it is a panic disorder. Long road - best wishes!

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Edit: yelling at someone in the middle of a panic attack is counter productive so I wouldn't recommend recording any 'angry' voice anything. Please don't punish the dog for something out of their control. :( And I wouldn't up the anty with adding food to your return = the good noms happen when mom/dad returns but not when they aren't there. Again, seems counter productive.

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Right here. OVERNIGHT.

Pink Flamingos. My friends and I tried to watch it in high school because of its status as a cult classic but had to turn it off. Then we watched Baby Mugs to cheer ourselves up. It was also pretty disturbing.

I had part 1.
http://www.amazon.com/Featuring-Jam-Master-Jay-RunDMC/dp/B00005YAW2

I recall seeing something like this but I thought it was a nuclear threat, googling... yep, there was a made-for-tv movie in 1983 called Special Bulletin.

> A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isn't met.

also,

> TRIVIA: When this film was first broadcast, the network superimposed the word "dramatization" on the bottom of the screen every few minutes and ran disclaimers after every commercial break, to remind people it was only a movie. That didn't stop some people in Charleston, S.C. from panicking anyway.

more insight into the believability of the fake news reporting in reviews at Amazon

> "Special Bulletin" is, intentionally, made to look as much like real television news coverage as possible -- unlike most TV movies, it is shot on video rather than film (In fact, i wouldn't be at all surprised if the image wasn't intentionally slightly degraded to emphasise that it WAS tape, not film). While a lot of people may not actually be able to describe what the differences between a film image and a video image are, they are perceptible to almost anyone, and the mind, consciously or otherwise, identifies the video image with "real TV" and the film image with "movies".

>Another thing that helps to create the rather scary level of verisimilitude in this film is the fact that it is paced like real TV; its rhythm is keyed to commercial breaks, and this enhances the realism of the revreation of the staccato, punchy nature of television news coverage, both when Something Is Happening and in those long stretches when you have had nothing actually new in hours, but you can't just let the story go, if only because the Competition might get a ratings jump on you if something new happens and they're able to go live with it faster than you. (We saw both of these aspects in the recent coverage of the DC-area sniper story.)

edit: here's the first few minutes as aired on NBC - YouTube

and here is a 7 minute clip from near the end of the movie -- WARNING: SPOILERS ;)

also noticed that the Amazon reviews started in 2002, so maybe the DVD came out then and that's when you saw it

Rodney Yee has several DVDs for flexibility specifically. http://www.amazon.com/Power-Flexibility-Beginners-Rodney-Living/dp/B00000JPRS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1377975876&sr=8-3&keywords=rodney+yee+flexibility

http://www.amazon.com/music/dp/1591796423
"Through a Dog's Ear" music will put my dog to sleep within 4 minutes of playing it. I usually have it going in my car when we go for a longish car ride.

You can also find it on Spotify.

I can totally see this working. When I had my daughter I found The Happiest Baby on the Block DVD and it was great, its a similar technique as far as the slight shaking and arms across goes and he adds an almost whitenoise technique as well. I have been able to achieve the status of baby whisperer amongst my friends and can pretty much almost instantly calm babies for some reason.