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I’ve been reading blogging by Scicurious (formerly of Neurotopia at Science Blogs, now at a blog called either “Neurotic Psychology” or “Scicurious”, I’m not sure which. She’s a post-doc in neuroscience, and she has posted in the past about various psychoactive medications and how they work. She writes about the two major classes of ADHD drugs, [...] The weather in my neighborhood is usually fairly predictable. Rain from January through March. Sun in April and May. Fog from June through August. Sun in September and October. Fog or overcast weather in November and December. Usually, what this means is that I can count on April and May to be my good months. The [...] Journalist Ethan Watters was on The Daily Show last week, talking about this new book “Crazy Like Us: the Globalization of the American Psyche.” In it he questions the usefulness of the American biomedical model of mental illness when its applied to the rest of the world. John Stewart jokes that this might be a [...] I don’t consider myself to be a neurotic person. I say this in spite of having suffered from depressive and anxiety disorders for years. These disorders are bona fide mental illnesses, and between that and a traumatic childhood, I spent several years in therapy sorting myself out. I have always been and always will be triggered [...] A few days after the new year I came down with a cold. As far as colds go, it hasn’t been that bad. I’ve even been able to breathe through my nose the whole time. The bitch of it is that when I catch a cold, I’m extremely prone to inner ear [...] I love coffee. Anyone who has known me since high school knows that I love coffee. I’ve always had trouble getting going in the morning, and coffee was the only thing that would get me functional. In the all-day seminars for my master’s degree, I was known for arriving with a cup of coffee, and [...] Rickie Sugars is glad the study proves a link between learning disabilities and poor mental health. I have no idea when this story ran in the Vancouver Sun, but it’s worth a look. The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada has released a study on the long-term effects of undiagnosed learning disabilities. The results? Lasting psychological harm. I [...] |
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