I was not over 12 when my parents invited me to perform on the banjo which I played rather minimally for a family of synagogue friends.
I went straight to my best song, at that time “Where Have all the Flowers Gone,” by Peter, Paul and Mary. Read more on How Long Does This Continue?…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, depression, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, Education, life, Mental Illness, News by on May 13th, 2018. Comment. 
People have no talent for picking foods
To me, from everything that comes at me from the internet data, it is wildly obvious that everyone needs to eat less carbohydrates to get — well, healthier. Read more on …
Filed under Education, News, Nutrition by on May 12th, 2018. Comment.
This psych news of February 7, 2018 starts by suggesting an increase in suicide came about after the media reported Robin Williams’ suicide.
Although Robin Williams was, as far as I have heard, a bipolar and a substance abuser, at least some people may have been influenced in choosing suicide by the fact Robin Williams chose it first. Read more on Celebrity Worship And The “Copycat” Phenomenon…
Filed under Celebrities, culture, Disease, Doctors, News, Religion, Religion and Politics by on May 11th, 2018. Comment.
I recently started seeing a patient whose previous psychiatrist ran him through absolutely every antidepressant drug that his (expensive) genetic testing suggested he would respond to. He had no improvement with any of them.
I will admit to having been an enthusiastic supporter of genetic testing not long ago. The science was sound on paper. Read more on Bipolar Genetics…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Diagnosis, Doctors, medicine, Mental Illness, News, Psychiatrists by on May 9th, 2018. Comment.
America has created wonder drugs for the world.
Then it rendered them unusable.
Both antibiotics and corticosteroids are not what they once were. Read more on Meds To Cure (or Harm) The World…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, medicine, News by on Apr 23rd, 2018. Comment.
When I was in seventh grade in prepschool everyone except me delivered a book report on “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle. It also won a LOT of awards, so I decided it needed to be avoided at all costs because anything that was so popular had to be bad.
I knew that it was some kind of science fiction, something I believed to be a degenerate form of literature until my beloved husband turned me on to the writings of Robert Heinlein some years later. I read a few days ago the (would-you-believe) Wikipedia article on the book. Read more on Disney’s Female Empowerment Flick…
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What do you love? Do more of it with Meet-Up.
The key is that you have to love it first before you look for it on meetups.
Love includes belief. Read more on Self-Improvement Meetups…
The unvarnished truth is that when somebody lives in a nursing home their next address is usually the cemetery.
I am proud of the two exceptions I have known.
One was my own father-in-law of blessed memory, a life-long smoker afflicted with COPD. He was the first recipient of my tapping lessons (Emotional Freedom Technique) who tapped on his own acupuncture meridians successfully enough to improve his breathing. Read more on How To Leave A Nursing Home…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Family, life, News by on Apr 7th, 2018. Comment.
Gag me with a spoon.
Psychiatric diagnosis is never a controversy. It is always a mess.
Within the first week of my residency training, my respected preceptor in child psychiatry told me “You aren’t going to child psych very much, Estelle. There isn’t much evidence for most of what we do. The research is about 20 years behind adult psychiatry.” Read more on The Alleged Controversy About Childhood Bipolar Illness…
Filed under Mental Illness, News, Psychiatrists by on Apr 6th, 2018. Comment.
It was a local cabaret night fundraiser for the community theatre, a spirited mixture of volunteers and professionals, performing Broadway numbers. One of the performers was a young man, about 30, with phocomyelia. You may not have heard of this condition, but fortunately there is always Wikipedia for background.
Those born with this defect have shortened limbs, somewhat like the flippers of a seal. Read more on Phocomyelia Reappears…
Filed under Government, News, prescription drugs, Research by on Apr 5th, 2018. Comment.