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“It’s my hormones, doc. It’s my hormones, and no one’s listened to that.”
It was the late 1980s, in what was once Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital in inner-city Melbourne. A brash young registrar doing her training in psychiatry had arrived at her first hospital placement, full of ideas and enthusiasm. Perhaps to put a bit of scuff on that bright ambition, she was assigned to look after the female patients in the “back ward”.
Some of the women in that ward had been there for decades, institutionalised more or less indefinitely because existing treatments could not relieve the psychosis, hallucinations and schizophrenic symptoms that warped their reality.
Let’s talk about our feelings, not label normal emotions
Psychologist Lucy Foulkes welcomes the drive to destigmatise mental illness but cautions we are in danger of labelling normal negative emotions as clinical disorders
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Suzanne Harrington
In 2008, when Lucy Foulkes was aged 20, her life looked idyllic. She had a loving family, great friends, a lovely boyfriend. At university, she was studying psychology, which she adored, and had a great summer job as a swimming instructor. There was nothing external to prompt a catastrophic mental breakdown, and yet it happened.
“I was in Turkey when everything came undone,” she writes in Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is And What It Isn’t. Walking back to their holiday apartment after a day on the beach with close friends, “I began to feel like I couldn’t breathe. My thoughts became dark and opaque.”
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Strong thunderstorms likely. Damaging winds and large hail with some storms. Low 47F. Winds NNE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Updated: May 8, 2021 @ 11:31 pm
Does Mississippi have an addiction to porn? (Source: WLBT) By Josh Carter and Melissa Faith Payne | February 2, 2021 at 2:56 PM CST - Updated May 6 at 8:44 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Porn is popular. Just how popular? In 2019, there were 42 billion individual visits to Pornhub, one of the world’s most popular pornographic websites.
Each day there are 115 million people who log onto the x-rated site and in 2019 alone there were 1.36 million hours of new content added, equaling 169 years.
Americans by far make up the most traffic on the global porn site, and the state that spends the most time per visit: Mississippi.
May 5, 2021 by NIAAA
The NIAAA announces the release of genetic data collected from individuals who participated in NIAAA’s National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III (NESARC-III), the largest study ever conducted on alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD), and its co-occurrence with drug use, substance use disorders (SUD), and related psychiatric conditions.
The NESARC-III is a large nationally representative epidemiologic survey of substance use and mental health in adults in the United States. More than 36,000 people aged 18 and older were interviewed in 2012-2013. Among them, roughly 23,000 also provided samples of their DNA. These DNA samples were analyzed using an exome array, which examines the portions of the DNA that contain information for creating proteins. Variations in instructions for creating proteins play critical roles in the health and well-being of an individual.