Be kind to yourself How to Stop Self-Criticism and Constructively Work on Your Weaknesses http://t.co/N8uL4jKCnP — Kyle MacDonald (@kylemacd) July 27, 2015 Keep calm — and take a walk. After a bad meeting or presentation, it’s easy to slide down the slippery slope of self-bashing. When your head is spinningContinue Reading
Obama said: “Treating women as second-class citizens is a bad tradition: it holds you back. There’s no excuse for… http://t.co/jmZK1K7wYQ — Walk Against FV (@Walk_against_FV) July 27, 2015Continue Reading
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11486884 It is a causal factor in 60 diseases and injuries, and a contributing factor in 200 more, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, alcoholic liver disease, respiratory diseases and pancreatitis. What may be more surprising is alcohol’s link with cancer. For the past 27 years, alcohol has been recognised as aContinue Reading
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we live our lives based on certain fundamental stories we tell ourselves: stories about how we came to be who we are, stories about what life and people are like, and stories about the best way to live. Some of these stories workContinue Reading
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/men-are-4-times-more-likely-than-women-to-be-diagnosed-with-cannabis-psychosis-according-to-study-10411381.html The marked gender difference in rates of cannabis psychosis is puzzling. Particularly as only men are only twice as likely as women to use cannabis. So why might this be? It could be the result of a bias in treatment services which tend to be dominated by male patients.Continue Reading
Ms Glaser argued that AA’s abstinence only approach can be “very demoralising and very disempowering” pointing out that the first of the 12 steps is to declare you are “powerless over alcohol”. “One thing we have that really persists in popular culture is that a person needs to hit rockContinue Reading
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/russian-homophobia-is-a-convenient-diversion/526025.html But in Russia’s consensual autocracy, the government is careful to only advance initiatives which it is sure will meet with popular approval. Nor is Russian society in the grip of especially conservative sexual mores — premarital sex, adultery and prostitution are as much a fact of daily life asContinue Reading
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/ Whereas AA teaches that alcoholism is a progressive disease that follows an inevitable trajectory, data from a federally funded survey called the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions show that nearly one-fifth of those who have had alcohol dependence go on to drink at low-risk levels withContinue Reading
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/opinion/psychiatrys-identity-crisis.html?_r=0 More fundamentally, the fact that all feelings, thoughts and behavior require brain activity to happen does not mean that the only or best way to change — or understand — them is with medicine. We know, for instance, that not all psychiatric disorders can be adequately treated with biologicalContinue Reading
