A blog of note: The Neurocritic. Just another great blog that keeps an eye on science and trends in scientific thought.
The full name of the blog is: The Neurocritic: Deconstructing the most sensationalistic recent findings in Human Brain Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Psychopharmacology. Neurocritic seems to specialize in keeping the “bio” part of biopsychosocial [...]
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An automatically generated link led me to a very nice old post at We Worry: A Blog for the Anxious about discriminating between anxiety disorders. Apparently weworry.com received some accolades last year (see the website), so you might want to check it out, particularly if you have questions about anxiety. For instance, If you click [...]
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Well, at PANIC!, there’s an excellent first-person account titled: “My first panic attack”. The piece does a nice job of describing how a mundane moment is exploded by total panic. In fact, if you’re interested in the subjective experience of panic disorder, you’ll find post after post of well written descriptions of and musings on [...]
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Two indicators: Research and practice. Well a new study seems to indicate that overdiagnosis is the order of the day. Furious Seasons has two stories on this topic, April 6 and 7, both quotes are straight from Furious Seasons.
Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, advocating a Bipolar Overawareness Week, has an extensive treatment of the topic, with [...]
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Here’s the first few paragraphs from the Walking The Black Dog blog. I think it says some interesting things about what it means to be depressed, as well as explaining the whole “black dog” thing.
Welcome to the land of the blues or more accurately - something more than the blues. Depression isn’t just a case [...]
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Depressed? You may have come to the right place, at least today. The excellent PsychCentral website has a list of the “top ten best blogs on depression”. One of those blogs, Finding Optimism, has a list of 94 resources for those suffering with depression. You might find it useful.
Kalea Chapman, Psy.D.
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A post from Wired on the over-medication of America. It dovetails nicely with another observation at Furious Seasons. The Furious Seasons post may be a flat-out rant, but it’s rant worth reading. Excerpts from both. First Wired:
Sometime in the 1990s, the concept of better living through chemistry turned a corner, thanks to drug companies’ efforts [...]
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Posted in blogging, environment on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here are some links for [the day after!] Blog Action Day. I must admit this is not my original post, which seems to have been eaten by my dog, or something.
Treehugger - Easily the best environmental blog on the web, Treehugger has a great section called How to Go Green as well as tons of [...]
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