"'One of the most interesting origins for much of this aberrant thought comes out of harsh and inconsistent and unpredictable early environments,' Caspi tells me. 'Those kinds of experiences that set up the anticipation of bad things happening, or they set up the anticipation of being rejected, they set up the anticipation of being violated, … Continue reading The P-Factor
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Lithium: The Gripping History of a Psychiatric Success Story
"Some 70 years ago, John Cade, an Australian psychiatrist, discovered a medication for bipolar disorder that helped many patients to regain stability swiftly. Lithium is now the standard treatment for the condition, and one of the most consistently effective medicines in psychiatry. But its rise was riddled with obstacles. The intertwined story of Cade and … Continue reading Lithium: The Gripping History of a Psychiatric Success Story
Alienation at Home
"Who is going to be brave enough to ask where home is, and seek out something else if they don't like the answer?"-Hanif Abdurraqib, "Under Half-Lit Fluorescents: The Wonder Years and the Great Suburban Narrative," in "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us." Columbus, Ohio: Two Dollar Radio, 2017. I remember the moment I … Continue reading Alienation at Home
A Season Underground Eating the Pomegranate Seeds
"To be a 'high functioning' anything, let’s say, is just to know that you can work liberal subjectivity OK today but maybe not next week. A strictly finite talent for the long, merciless art of living in a house, speaking a language, and exchanging money, labor, goods, and services in that occult proportion that keeps … Continue reading A Season Underground Eating the Pomegranate Seeds
The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing With Thin Skin
"'As a concept,' Wang writes, 'the schizophrenias encompass a range of psychotic disorders, and it is a genus that I choose to identify with as a woman whose diagnosis is unfamiliar to most — the shaggy, sharp-toothed thing, and not the wolf... ...'the liminal' as a space in which 'thin-skinned' individuals — those who 'have … Continue reading The Shaggy, Sharp-Toothed Thing With Thin Skin
Wil Wheaton & Depression | WIL WHEATON dot NET
"Depression is beating up on us already, and we don’t need to help it out. Give yourself permission to acknowledge that you’re feeling terrible (or bad, or whatever it is you are feeling), and then do a little thing, just one single thing, that you probably don’t feel like doing, and I PROMISE you it … Continue reading Wil Wheaton & Depression | WIL WHEATON dot NET
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