I spend too much time thinking about burn barrels, trash and waste, and our consumer throw away society bothers me a bit too much - which drives my anxiety. Sometimes these thoughts are downright obtrusive in my life and hard to talk about, even though they are kind of silly. Burning a little plastic ain't the end of the world, ask any Pennsylvania redneck. But I worry at times they hold me back from my career and life goals.
So that's why I've been doing bimonthly therapy sessions, learning many of the techniques and realizations discussed in this OCD video. Mastering these coping skills are key to being even more successful at my career. While therapy can be scary especially with the stigma associated with mental illness, I feel like I am learning a lot and slowly but surely becoming a better person. I don't always know if the investment of time and money is worth it - as most of the coping techniques are fairly obvious - but I think if it helps and ultimately leads to promotions and bigger checks at work it's worth it. One step closer to that off-grid homestead where I can burn whatever I want within reason.
Want to be happy? Move to South Dakota, as people from the state with the Black Hills report the lowest rates of frequent mental distress in the nation.
The current usage has evolved, Mannion said, and words like "lunatic" represent an outdated usage.?
“Sections of New York State law still use language inferring that people with mental disabilities are somehow inferior, a notion I completely reject,” Mannion said.”It is time to update our laws to reflect reality and the strides that have been made in recognizing and treating mental disabilities.”
The are currently more than 30 instances of the term "mentally ill" in current state laws which would be replaced if Mannion's bill becomes law.
QAnon’s followers have faced failed prophecies before, but last week appeared to be the movement’s most severe breaking point. Many of Q’s prophecies had been kicked down the road to the inauguration. If something dramatic didn’t happen there, perhaps the prophecies would never come to be. After all, how could Donald Trump lead the arrest of the secret cabal of Democrats who run a global child sex trafficking ring, as many believers expected, if he was no longer in power? As Inauguration Day drew closer, QAnon followers grew more confident that Jan. 20 would be the day all was revealed, and their patience would pay off. Then, the day went forward like any other presidential swearing-in. (Just with tens of thousands of more national guard members in attendance.) Trump hopped a plane to Florida. No arrests. No martial law. No public executions. It shook many believers to their core.
You can’t decide what’s normal and what’s abnormal until you understand the ordinary function of any trait—whether it’s vomiting or cough or fever or nausea. You start with its normal function and in what situation it gives selected advantages. But there are a lot of places where natural selection has shaped mechanisms that express these defenses when they’re not needed, and very often that emotional response is painful and unnecessary in that instance. Then there’s a category of emotions that make us feel bad but benefit our genes. A lot of sexual longings [extramarital affairs or unrequited love], for instance, don’t do us any good at all, but they might potentially benefit our genes in the long run.
So it’s not saying that these emotions are useful all the time. It’s the capacity for these emotions that is useful. And the regulation systems [that control emotion] were shaped by natural selection—so sometimes they’re useful for us, sometimes they’re useful for our genes, sometimes it’s false alarms in the system and sometimes the brain is just broken. We shouldn’t try to make any global generalizations, we should examine every patient individually and try to understand what’s going on.
The National Committee for Mental Hygiene was founded in New York in 1909 by a number of leading psychiatrists and Clifford W. Beers (1876–1943), who had been institutionalized in several mental hospitals after a nervous breakdown. He described his experiences and the deplorable conditions in mental hospitals in his autobiography A Mind That ound Itself (1913). The National Committee aimed to improve conditions in mental hospitals, stimulate research in psychiatry, improve the quality of psychiatric education, develop measures preventing mental illness, and popularize psychiatric and psychological perspectives. Although mental hygiene originated within psychiatry, mental hygiene ideas also inspired social workers, teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and members of other professions. Consequently the mental hygiene movement became interdisciplinary in nature.
Many patients who are hospitalized for COVI-19 are discharged with symptoms such as those associated with a brain injury. These include "forgetfulness that impairs their ability to function," de Erausquin says. "They complain about trouble with organizing their tasks, and that entails things such as being able to prepare a meal."
But COVI-19 also appears to produce many other brain-related symptoms ranging from seizures to psychosis, a team reports in the Jan. 5 issue of the journal Alzheimer's & ementia. The team, which included de Erausquin, says severe COVI-19 may even increase a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
COVID is such bad news, especially for the more unlucky. Hopefully though soon the vaccine will be widespread, and we will be getting back to the process of normality.