Category Archives: popular press
Deep cracks, hidden damage
The Guardian reports on the continued psychological impact from the Fukushima disaster in Japan: Twenty years after the 1986 reactor explosion in Chernobyl, the World Health Organisation said psychological distress was the largest public health problem unleashed by the accident: … Continue reading
You’ve to move it move it.
My son has a birthday card he got from his grandparents. It’s one of those annoying singing birthday cards that have no audio fidelity at all but makes a 4 year-old crack up. The song is I like to move it. … Continue reading
Dr. Linehan talks about her own struggles.
Dr. Linehan has been an inspiration to many, including me, in trying to figure out how to deal with borderline personality disorder. I count myself among the fortunate few who have had an opportunity to be trained by Dr. Linehan … Continue reading
The science of anger
Self-restraint can be hard to effectively manage. There’s been an ongoing debate about the notion of catharthis and whether it works to help us relieve emotions or not, for example. A recent article in Wired.com discusses the issue a bit … Continue reading
Thinking faster
Training the brain through mindfulness practice is an essential part of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. We work on developing a way of sorting out what is important to attend to and what needs to be left out of awareness. It’s not … Continue reading
Talk is cheap (and effective)
MSNBC reports on suicide in the Native American Community: “Let’s say that all your emotions are in a glass of water. When somebody bullies you, dump out a little bit. When somebody offers you drugs and you take those drugs, … Continue reading
“You will be FAT if you eat today. Just put it off one more day.” (Don’t do this.)
This says it all: ”You will be FAT if you eat today. Just put it off one more day.” This is the #1 reason on many lists on sites that promote anorexia and it’s really startling. I hope by putting … Continue reading
Flow and the “roots of happiness”
(My apologies for the flash video. I think that the TED talks series is fantastic and worth the trouble of dealing with flash.) Here’s Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi talking about the concept of Flow. Flow is about being in the moment, without … Continue reading
Stimulating Happiness
Paul Krugman, a nobel laureate, knows what he’s talking about when it comes to economic theory. There’s very little doubt that he’s a well-respected expert on economics and has a very specific stance with respect to government’s role in the … Continue reading
Bipolar disorder vastly undertreated
Reuters reports on an issue that has been troubling me for some time: the under-treatment of serious mental health conditions. Along with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder is responsible for a phenomenon called downward social drift that we see occur as a … Continue reading