13 posts tagged “blogs”
Don't you love it when one good blog leads you to the other?
A real life sob story.
I find it difficult to write.
The words sound shrill and the sentiment mostly over the top.
And now even though there is a funeral going on in my head, I cannot write.
I would have liked to write about rejection. Like I have never written before.
I would like to write about making small conversation in the wee hours of the morning, narrating silly incidents just to cover the silence, hugging quickly and awkwardly in the elevator and then going away in a cab and never looking back.
About sitting on the plane and hysterical wails threatening to spill out that you contort your face to hold the tears in and a fellow passenger catches that expression.
And how you pretend like you weren’t really screwing up your face.
And you almost laughed.
And you tell yourself, get over it bitch.
‘Coz really. Its been long enough.
Besides, it’s all a bit over the top.
- found here.
A funny, astute commentary on our lives and times. I link to the blog because I did not find it to be racist/offensive in any way. The term 'white' is used almost metaphorically for the increasingly neurotic American Yuppie generation, be it white, black or brown. Enjoy.
p.s. If only they would take up one commentator on her offer to proofread.
At Furious Seasons, Phillip Dawdy talked about the stabbing of a psychologist in NYC, going by the assumption that the murderer was a patient. That let loose a furore of protests/angry comments/anti-psychiatry posts. He followed with a post about the disturbing comments, generating more comments in turn.
Both the posts and the comments are variously informed, angry, mocking, bizarre, and quite a few are insightful. Recommended if you have an open mind and hard stomach (quite a few readers were angry/disappointed enough to stop following Dawdy, it seems.)
Judith Warner wrote an article on Overselling Overmedication. Phillip Dawdy posted a rather vitriolic post in response. She referred to Peter Kramer's review of Charles Barber's Comfortably Numb- How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation. He returned to Barber's essay in Washington Post.
Interestingly, all these articles seem to make valid points. I find myself agreeing to parts of all, all of none.
- Medications help those who are sick.
- There are those who are not sick/do not need medications for their brand of sickness, but get medicated anyway.
- Medications have side effects.
- There is much more to recovery than just pills.
- Doctors and patients need to be more judicious in prescribing and taking of pills, respectively.
- America's mental health care system is all effed up.
Go read if thats what you want to do on a Saturday morning.
Dear ____
This is just to say
I’m thinking of you.
It’s the 14th of Feb,
the end of a billing cycle,
and I have 200 messages
I haven’t sent.
- Falstaff
-- caferati.com
The New Jersey Law Journal published this story.
The plaintiffs are suing in federal court in Newark, N.J., on behalf of their minor children, who have been denied benefits by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.
Horizon claims that the children’s online writings, as well as journal and diary entries, could shed light on the causes of the disorders, which determines the insurer’s responsibility for payment. New Jersey law requires coverage of mental illness only if it is biologically based.
Horizon claims the eating problems are not biologically based and that the writings could point to emotional causes. It contends that access to the writings is especially important because the court has barred taking the minors’ depositions.
How to protect your (and your family's ) health information.
-- via psychcentral.com
..if there are other people out there who go back to their old posts to correct grammatical mistakes, insert missed words and so on.
Just so I don't feel like a freak.
