Different Ways of Thinking Different people, different brains. But as George Orwell might have said, some brains are “more” different than others. People with “mental illness” or “learning disabilities” like dyslexia often experience lifelong reproach, ostracism and discrimination. Tell an employer you are “bipolar” and you may lose that job. No matter what your capacities […]
Why Did I Get Sick? Creating a Clinical Narrative (10/15/12)
What Happened To Make Me Sick? Why? People want to know. Why they have an illness and new, never before experienced symptoms plagues, obsesses and fascinates patients. The human brain thrives on order, creating it wherever it can. The confusing pixels of a computer monitor processed in the brain come to represent a 1930s film […]
Can Even Minor Stress Kill You? (Plus What You Can Do About It – 8/13/12)
Does Psychological Distress Harm You? Studies and Results A recent study from University College, London concluded very minor forms of stress that doctors and many patients hardly notice increases overall mortality. The more psychological stress reported, the higher the death rates – and they really went up. How Was the Study Done? The National Health […]
Are We Aging – or Regenerating?
Illness, or a Failure of Regeneration? Living things don’t go around wondering how they’ll get sick and die. They want to know how to live. That should be your concern. All living things regenerate to survive. So do you and your body – no matter what your age. We renew, rebuild, reinvent ourselves constantly, every […]
Seeing the new you (11/9/11)
Seeing What’s Inside If you don’t see it, it’s not there, right? And that’s how most people react when told of the extraordinary speed by which their body remakes itself. I look at myself in the mirror now as I did four weeks ago. My gut is approximately as big, my feet, my calves, my […]