We’ve stopped knowing when to say when.
Have you ever had sushi? A small piece of rice. A small piece of fish. And it is perfect. To get something – even pain – in just the right amount, is the greate...
Category: mental illness
Actual Science Fiction
A hundred years from now half the cops will have psych degrees and we’ll look back on today like a horror show. (the movie “Bright” is not actually ...
diagnosis
the diagnosis of “mentally ill” is often used to strip people of their liberty. by governments and by family members, alike. we Americans don’...
tired of winning
David Segal reviewing Norman Ohler’s Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany: By 1944, the doctor had trouble finding veins to shoot. Then, as the Allies bombed th...
the hyperreality TV star who became president
From a masterful polemic by Brian Phillips: Authoritarianism wants to convince its supporters that nothing is true, that the whole machinery of truth is an into...
Representation
“I feel a lot of hate,” she said. “I haven’t said anything bad to anyone.” says the 18 year-old attending a political rally in sup...
What if the movie Contagion were about viruses rather than globalization?
Soderbergh’s Contagion is a movie about the ills of globalization, right down to the ridiculous closing sequence in which deforestation by a multinational...
on mental illness and political culture
I wonder if scientists have looked at epidemiological records for evidence – if there is any – of a correlation between political extremism and mental illness. ...
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About a year of tweets, archived here for posterity.
I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
The politics of personality disorders: Tom Junod on the Tea Party as a coalescence of resentment.
A few weeks ago I wrote that there might not be a Tea Party if more Americans treated their elders with love and compassion. Tom Junod has written a lengthy ess...
The nightmares of PTSD.
Emma Young: “When you look at the dreams of patients with PTSD, you see these nearly veridical ‘replays’ of the actual trauma event,” says Stickgold. This sort ...
A 21st century industry: meditation for mental health.
Drive through Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, walk around Soho and Chelsea, and you’ll see dozens of empty stores; commercial spaces for lease. In Los A...
The drug war: another health care externality.
America has a horrendous mental health problem and instead of addressing it we imprison the hundreds of thousands if not millions who try to cure themselves wit...
on scientific knowledge, mental health and politics
A study of male testosterone levels during election night 2008 suggests male supporters of McCain-Palin were “amped up” on testosterone. As technolo...