Us kids were warned: stay off the ice on Saturday mornings. Why? Teams of boys were playing hockey. I thumbed my nose one Saturday morning and took my chances. And wound up in a four-foot …
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Wife: “You think it’s easier to keep things hidden in order to spare your spouse the harsh reality” of inner turmoil. “It’s almost like trying to shelter them. But it’s a spouse, not a child.” Husband: “No matter what your dreams are or your partner’s dreams are, talk about them. No matter what your problems or your partner’s problems are, talk about it. Find out together how to solve them.”
The couple just quoted married a decade ago. They met at an event put on by Society for Creative Anachronism. She was attracted by the shapes of his knees, protruding as they were from under his kilt. He was attracted by the shapes of her eyes and chin line. Two years after marriage, he was laid off. They moved to near-by state. A baby came along. She was laid off and they moved “back home”.
Since those insights, the couple has been closer and their relationship deeper. Carefree days of frolicking in the woods dressed in Medieval duds and waging war in armor, the couple put the costumes in mothballs. Now he is a home project consultant at a major retail corporation, researches genealogy and makes home brew and wine. She is adjunct professor of English, theater and music at three community colleges.
The lesson learned: don’t shelter each other from reality – talk about things and solve issues together!
Excerpt from New York Times; Sunday, September 4, 2011 edition; Styles section, page 19.
If you’re using a SSRI antidepressant, consider quitting the pain medications. NSAIDs, aspirin, Tylenol may disrupt the action of the antidepressant! Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt et al. of Rockefeller University experimented with mice. The mice given …
Andrew Feigin et al. (North Shore LIJ Health System, Manhassett, NY) scanned 12 unmedicated Tourette’s patients’s brains and 12 ‘healthy’ brains using the positron-emission tomography (PET scan) technology. They found that Tourette brains exhibited more …
[From Jezebel.com] Contrary to popular belief, it appears marriage is not always a miserable slog through quagmires of irritation and ennui culminating only in messy divorce or unfulfilled death. In fact, a study shows that …
One schizophrenic’s journey and way of coping with voices.
Read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/health/07lives.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
We hear about flashbacks. Unless we have one, we really don’t know what they are like. Here’s an example. A 1st Gulf War vet had a remarkable flashback experience when he arrived in Mexico City recently. …
Just completed an interesting training on Friday, 8 April 2011, titled “Family Law and the Mental Health Professional”. The instructor is a ‘collaborative attorney’ – never heard of it. We learned about parenting plans. …
This is the best article I’ve found so far. There’s an interactive brain diagram – drag the arrow to the part of the brain you’re interested in and it’ll explain the function.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/metro/traumatic-brain-injury/#/brain/?artslot
