April 2010
3 posts
Compassionate Friends: Where Bereaved Parents... →
Though the name sounds innocuous, The Compassionate Friends is a lifeline for grieving parents and other relatives. It’s a network of support groups for those whose children have died.
In Sleepless Nights, a Hope for Treating... →
psychotherapy:
Is there anything good about insomnia? Could there possibly be any upside to a long, torturous sleepless night?
To answer the question, let’s look at another condition entirely.
Postpartum depression affects between 5 percent and 25 percent of new mothers. Symptoms — including sadness, fatigue, appetite changes, crying, anxiety and irritability — usually occur in the first...
March 2010
34 posts
Being depressed doesn't mean you're never happy.
ultraviolettt:
yerawizardharry:
There are walls that keep it from you, but sometimes you find a crack and you’re able to slip past and stay there for a little while, before it’s patched up again by lonely thoughts.
resunsaysdope:
I’M A BLACK GUY!
As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow--First... →
Reminded me of reading ghost stories when I was younger. Haven’t felt that captivating grip in a while…
tallguywrites: Schizophrenia →
Greatly informative comic on stigma associated with schizophrenia.
BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: The sight of their own blood... →
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a growing clinical problem, especially among adolescents and young adults. Anecdotal accounts, clinical reports, and popular media sources suggest that observing the blood resulting from NSSI often plays an important role in the behavior’s reinforcement. However, research to date has not systematically assessed the role of blood in NSSI. The current study...
vampireboogie:
milktrees:
Sit Down. Stand Up....
Eli Lilly Hit By $75 Million 'Brink's Pill Heist'... →
In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored one of the biggest hauls of its kind - not diamonds, gold bullion or Old World art, but about $75 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs.
Looking for a post-coital snack? | Dr. Carin... →
Sexual partners do not always represent a healthy meal…
How Loss Creates Depression And Growth - Fable -... →
The capacity to tolerate distress and efficiently develop greater internal resources creates the greatest possibility for posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic diminishment can co-exist.
How Fairy Tales Really End | Daily Shite →
Cockatiel Sings Victory Fanfare from Final Fantasy... →
O_O Brilliant!
Two Brave Men Who Ate Nothing But Meat for an... →
Low-carb diets and paleolithic nutrition are all the rage these days, and for good reason. Compared to the Standard American Diet, both of them are superb.
Carnivorous Plants - National Geographic Magazine →
Fatal Attraction
They lure insects into death traps, then gorge on their flesh. Is that any way for a plant to behave?
Neural evidence for inequality-averse social... →
A popular hypothesis in the social sciences is that humans have social preferences to reduce inequality in outcome distributions because it has a negative impact on their experienced reward1, 2, 3. Although there is a large body of behavioural and anthropological evidence consistent with the predictions of these theories1, 4, 5, 6, there is no direct neural evidence for the existence of...
A Mental Ward Exposed : NPR →
Rather than fight in World War II, conscientious objector and Quaker Charlie Lord was sent by the government to work at a mental institution called Philadelphia State Hospital. He secretly took photographs to expose the horrors of the institution. These are his photos.
Helen Jaques » Blog Archive » Medical school... →
New research has found that the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), introduced to level the playing field in selection for medical and dental schools, favours male applicants, white people, and students from a higher socioeconomic class or who attended an independent or grammar school.
February 2010
343 posts
Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com →
“Wisdom isn’t cheap, and we pay for it with pain.”
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What inspires you?
The human condition. My girlfriend. My gerbils (<3 Cpt. Cuddles & Astaroth). Depravity…
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What scares you the most?
…the possibility of waking up in the emergency room to the realization of a fail attempt…
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