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Functional Rehabilitation
Published in James Crossley, Functional Exercise and Rehabilitation, 2021
Sit, and we soon start to fidget. Fidgeting is a functional movement strategy designed to rest tissues and share load. Maybe let your child fidget as they sit at the table. Even at night, we shift position 30 or 40 times to avoid stiffness and tension. We are simply not designed to remain still. No matter what we are doing, there is no single, ideal posture. Posture is a dynamic state, one in which we shift from one positon to another.
The First-Episode of Psychosis and Suicide in Schizophrenia
Published in Ragy R. Girgis, Gary Brucato, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Understanding and Caring for People with Schizophrenia, 2020
Ragy R. Girgis, Gary Brucato, Jeffrey A. Lieberman
At the time of her hospitalization at our institution, A. was working part-time as a nanny, ten hours per week. She described the work as “boring.” She described her mood as “Blah.” She had a constricted affect, and slow, monotone, and occasionally mumbled speech. Her degree of spontaneous conversation was within normal limits. She sometimes exhibited inappropriate smiling and giggling. Some occasional fidgeting was noted. At several points in the evaluation she sat in an odd, crouched position on the chair. A. reported an extensive history of odd obsessions and compulsions since childhood. While A. described some dysphoria in early adolescence due to frustration with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, she denied any significant history of depressive or manic symptoms, or irritability, and none were evident. She denied any past or current suicidal, self-injurious or violent ideation, plan, intent, or behaviors, or access to weapons. She had never been arrested.
Fidgeting
Published in Alex Kelly, Nancy Tarshis, Debbie Meringolo, Talkabout, 2019
Alex Kelly, Nancy Tarshis, Debbie Meringolo
Ask the group to think about all of the different types of fidgeting, for example: fiddling with objectsfiddling with hairtouching earrings or other jewellerytouching facewringing handswiggling legstapping on the tablemoving whole body.
Mindfulness is Associated with Better Sleep Quality in Young Adults by Reducing Boredom and Bedtime Procrastination
Published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2023
Ai Ni Teoh, Jeffrey Wai Kong Wong
As such, researchers have attempted to understand what predicts bedtime procrastination. The findings consistently linked bedtime procrastination to lower self-regulation (e.g., Sirois et al., 2018). Boredom, a variable associated with the lack of self-regulation, has been widely studied in procrastination research (e.g., Zhou & Kam, 2017) but has been studied in the context of bedtime procrastination only recently (Teoh et al., 2021). Individuals who feel bored are highly distractible and dissatisfied, and are less engaged and aroused (Carriere et al., 2013; Farmer & Sundberg, 1986). Boredom is a concept that includes boredom proneness and fidgeting. Boredom proneness is a propensity to experience the emotion of boredom (Eastwood et al., 2012), whereas fidgeting is a behavioral coping mechanism for boredom (Carriere et al., 2013). These boredom-related variables predict bedtime procrastination and subsequently poorer sleep quality via inattention (Teoh et al., 2021). Bored individuals search for activities that are more stimulating than sleep (Martin et al., 2006). To cope with boredom, they may fidget to overcome boredom by seeking stimulating activities (Morris & Warne, 2017). Such inattention to the present moment shifts procrastinators’ attention from sleep, delaying the bedtime and compromising sleep quality.
Bipolar depression: the clinical characteristics and unmet needs of a complex disorder
Published in Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2019
Roger S. McIntyre, Joseph R. Calabrese
Differentiating ADHD and bipolar disorder is complicated by similarities between the disorders including early age of onset, reciprocal comorbidity, similar psychiatric comorbidities, chronic course and persistence into adulthood; both disorders are also associated with impaired educational, occupational and interpersonal functioning, and increased morbidity and mortality in adulthood94. Clinical differentiation is most challenging when ADHD is comorbid with conduct disorder and/or oppositional defiant disorder, since the presenting symptoms (e.g. temper tantrum, aggressive behavior) can overlap with symptoms of a manic or mixed state. In uncomplicated cases, the appearance of prominent mood dysregulation, sleep irregularities and aggressive behaviors are more likely to predict a diagnosis of bipolar disorder than ADHD, especially if there is impulsive behavior associated with spending money, sex, or tobacco, alcohol or drug use94. Conversely, fidgeting, restlessness, and inefficient and disorganized behaviors arising from inattentiveness, distractibility and forgetfulness, often suggest ADHD.
Effect of Stress Level on Different Forms of Self-Touch in Pre- and Postadolescent Girls
Published in Journal of Motor Behavior, 2018
Kyra Densing, Hippokrates Konstantinidis, Melanie Seiler
Earlier studies found that humans with social anxiety showed a higher amount of self-touch (“fidgeting”) when interacting in dyads as humans without anxiety (Heerey & Kring, 2007). Self-touch was more prominent in interviews with cold interviewers than in those with warm, empathetic interviewers (Freedman, O'Hanlon, Oltman, & Witkin, 1972), and field-dependent participants (Witkin & Lewis, 1954) showed significantly more self-touch than field-independent participants (Freedman & Bucci, 1981; Freedman et al., 1972; Sousa-Poza & Rohrberg, 1977). Especially continuous self-touch was found to be associated with mental arousal, (predominantly negative) emotional engagement, and depression in humans (Kryger, 2010; Lausberg & Kryger, 2011; Ulrich & Harms, 1985).