May 2012
10 posts
“I believe now that depression can never be fully grasped by mental health...”
– Richard O’Connor, Undoing Depression (via psychotherapy)
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via curiositycounts)
“I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via bookmania)
“You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a...”
– Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris (via travellinginspiration)
April 2012
30 posts
“The primary goal of parenting, beyond keeping our children safe and loved, is to...”
– Gordon Livingston
(via sometimesagreatnotion)
Post-Prozac Nation: The Science and History of... →
psychotherapy:
Excerpt:
A remarkable and novel theory for depression emerges from these studies. Perhaps some forms of depression occur when a stimulus — genetics, environment or stress — causes the death of nerve cells in the hippocampus. In the nondepressed brain, circuits of nerve cells in the hippocampus may send signals to the subcallosal cingulate to regulate mood. The cingulate then...
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via psychotherapy)
“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human...”
– Susan Sontag (via curiositycounts)
“And those who were seen
dancing
were thought to be insane
by those
who could...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via curiositycounts)
Listening to Xanax: How America learned to stop... →
psychotherapy:
by Lisa Miller
…Anxiety can be paralyzing and life-destroying for those who suffer it acutely. But functional anxiety, which afflicts nearly everyone I know, is a murkier thing. Not quite a disease, or even a pathology, low-grade anxiety is more like a habit. Its sufferers gather in places like New York, where relentlessness and impatience are the highest values, and in...
When Compulsive Thoughts are 'Triggered' (NPR) →
psychotherapy:
via NPR’s Talk of the Nation:
From a young age, Fletcher Wortmann spent countless hours absorbed by his obsessions. In third grade, he became consumed with the idea that every nonwater substance on the planet would soon freeze. He spent hours laying plans for how he and his family would survive. Over and over, he replayed an imagined apocalypse.
Though he wouldn’t be diagnosed...
March 2012
39 posts
“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical depression....”
– Rachel Maddow, on depression
(via NPR’s Fresh Air)
curiosity counts: The Brain on Love →
curiositycounts:
A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of…
curiosity counts: What We're Missing Out On: A... →
curiositycounts:
Well, there’s several different ways people look at subcultures. I use the model that the sociologist Kenneth Westhues put together. In it, he claims there’s basically seven characteristics of subcultural behavior:
1. Their relationships tend toward communism with a little “c.” 2. Their…
