Just perk up! -- 'Cuz I didn't think of that.
Loneliness is Lethal -- Ayn Rand is Wrong
This I've got mine; screw you thing we have going on in the US today is bad for our health. John Cacioppo tells the story at a recent TED event in Des Moines, Iowa.
Here is the short version, with direct quotes in italics:
The human species is social. We are just wired that way.
Return to the Chemistry Experiment
What is it like, this chemistry experiment, you ask. Somebody did ask, honest.
Prozac Monologues strives to be journalism, not journaling. I write for education (mine first, then yours), not for therapy. So when the story turns to the Chemistry Experiment, a topic I write about so often, it gets its own label, I have tried to season my prose only lightly with my personal story.
But the Chemistry Experiment has been excruciatingly personal these last several weeks. And nowadays, the personal story is one way that journalists frame their reporting. So here goes.
Prozac Monologues strives to be journalism, not journaling. I write for education (mine first, then yours), not for therapy. So when the story turns to the Chemistry Experiment, a topic I write about so often, it gets its own label, I have tried to season my prose only lightly with my personal story.
But the Chemistry Experiment has been excruciatingly personal these last several weeks. And nowadays, the personal story is one way that journalists frame their reporting. So here goes.
Michael Hill and Antoinette Tuff: Lesson in Crisis Intervention
-- nobody died.
Tuesday, the first school shooting of the new school year
-- didn't happen.
It started the way these things start. A disturbed young man went off his meds. He decided he would die that day. He did what others have done who wanted to die.
Suicide By Cop
The Suicide Monologue
Suicide HumorThey asked for a trigger alert. This is a humor alert. Oh, well.
I realize some people do not find suicide humor humorous. I get that. I respect this opinion and honor the feelings and experiences behind it.
If you have not read Prozac Monologues before, you need to know that it has always aspired to a bent sort of humor. And in honor of the World Health Organization's World Suicide Prevention Day, today's post, a long time coming, is The Suicide Monologue. Watch me while I attempt humor. You don't have to read it. Just know, it is what it is.
Empathy in Health Care
Medical schools are using this video in training. Watch it once just to take it in.
Watch it again. Which one has schizophrenia? Which one has bipolar? Which one has PTSD? Which three are on antidepressants?
Which ones are normal?
Saving Normal - At What Cost?
Rest In Peace, John Ferguson
John Ferguson was executed by the State of Florida on Monday, August 5 at 6:17 p.m. ET. He killed eight people thirty years ago, and many people can't get too excited about his own death. I understand that. As a Christian, I am grieved that my nation kills people to show that killing people is wrong. But I get it.
The civilized world does not get it. The United States of America is a member of an elite club, forty-three nations that have executed people in the last ten years (brown in the map below, along with China, Syria, Libya, North Korea -- our good buddies, all of them). We bear the distinction of being the only member from among the developed nations.
We do place limitations on the death penalty. Our constitution, since its first passage, prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, the eighth amendment. Over the years, the Supreme Court has ruled that all forms execution are cruel and unusual, except for lethal injection, the method that Florida used to kill John.
American Medical Association on the Death Penalty
John Ferguson was executed by the State of Florida on Monday, August 5 at 6:17 p.m. ET. He killed eight people thirty years ago, and many people can't get too excited about his own death. I understand that. As a Christian, I am grieved that my nation kills people to show that killing people is wrong. But I get it.
The civilized world does not get it. The United States of America is a member of an elite club, forty-three nations that have executed people in the last ten years (brown in the map below, along with China, Syria, Libya, North Korea -- our good buddies, all of them). We bear the distinction of being the only member from among the developed nations.
We do place limitations on the death penalty. Our constitution, since its first passage, prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, the eighth amendment. Over the years, the Supreme Court has ruled that all forms execution are cruel and unusual, except for lethal injection, the method that Florida used to kill John.
American Medical Association on the Death Penalty
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