WYFP - Finals Hell, or How I Am Avoiding My Final Paper
As the days get longer and we continue to count the Omer (the 7 weeks between Passover and Shavuot) the pressure is ramping up until now — the final week of the semester And what am I doing? Anything...
View ArticleEvery Republican pushing anti-trans bills needs to read the latest report on...
As Pride Month comes closer, you’ll likely see corporations including rainbows in their advertisements and on T-shirts. You might also notice an uptick in LGBTQ-related content in your favorite...
View ArticleDEALING WITH DEPRESSION AND PTSD
Another morning and I wake up. What’s today going to bring? I take the first breath of the day. My first feeling of the day is not good. I feel empty and depressed. I’m struggling to get up. I don’t...
View ArticleBack in the hospital with bad news. Anyway we can get a music thread going?
3 days ago I was rushed back to the hospital. They're looking at possible stroke again, second in under a year as well as severe chest pains.Today I had 4 tests done...stress test, eeg, ct scan of 2...
View ArticleThis holiday season, I'm grateful for antidepressants
In many ways, I’m extremely privileged when it comes to surviving the COVID-19 pandemic—I work remotely, have excellent employer-provided health insurance, and I don’t live with any chronic health...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Saturday Science
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck and Rise above the...
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What if 'fanaticism and extremism' breaks it all, dragging the rest of us...
Umair Haque writing in Eudamedia and Co begins his argument in his piece The Idiots Aren’t Going to Make It — But What About the Rest of Us? by noting what so many of us have argued for years on end —...
View ArticleDeaf LGBTQ youth with family support are half as likely to contemplate...
Here at Daily Kos, we’re making an ongoing effort to cover the Republican assault on trans rights. Conservatives are doing their best to try various routes to isolate and discriminate against trans...
View ArticleEco-Anxiety Is a Healthy Response to Dire Circumstances
In life, losses happen and grief is real. Don’t be bright-sided. Sane people don’t bounce into funerals and implore the bereaved to be happy and deny death. It doesn’t work for climate change either....
View ArticleSmall study: VitB6 100mg ameliorates anxiety and depression.
In brief: double-blinded research at the University of Reading (UK) with about 470 adults —18–58 years of age (mean 23.0, median 20), roughly 80% female— randomly assigned for one month to placebo...
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The Thwaites glacier is holding back global coastal devastation by only the...
This was a pioneering study of the ocean floor, made possible by recent technological advancements in autonomous ocean mapping and a bold decision by the Wallenberg foundation to invest into this...
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Moon missed in the mist
I forgot to make a plan.Not that plan— I voted, and requested my ballot by mail in a timely fashion. Completed and returned it, even managing the surprise requirement that I had to have two (TWO!)...
View ArticleMental Health, The Western States, And Psychedelic Therapy
The use of psychedelics in the treatment of mental health conditions, for personal use, spirituality, and self-exploration, or even for gaining an extra edge at work has been gaining traction in recent...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest - 12/19/2022
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest, Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise above...
View ArticleWhen you were a child was there a particular show (or episode of a show) that...
I have always been a quiet guy, always watching my environment because I knew one thing.What scares me to death is something shocking. I can handle most “scary” things like blood and guts stuff...
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Disney, DeSantis, Darkness, Deconstruction, defalsifying, deep pockets and...
This will prove interesting. Disney has a huge family friendly non-controversial message about love, kindness, death (coco), and the importance of family, and finding yourself despite bigotry and...
View ArticleFBI Nuclear Drills in Houston - fear politics/journalism destroys truth and...
Rabbi Arnstein is about peace. Peace of the soul. This article is about pushing your fear button. Local conservative online news puts out an article about the FBI holding nuclear drills in Houston....
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Let's thank Drag Queen Harpy Daniels for helping the USS Reagan get 2022...
Minorities were the object of scorn and the military was desegregated and Eisenhower took Truman’s order and made it happen. And there were those that were violently opposed. But Eisenhower was no...
View ArticleTexas, God, Medicine, Gender affirming care, Knowledge, and Error
We must continue having Christian principles guiding the medical experts setting our laws to further conservative views that this country is a Christian based one.In that regard, the state of Texas is...
View ArticleIf Gender dysphoria and gun violence are about mental health, then let's make...
I wonder if someone born with a heart defect thinks they should have a working heart? I wonder if someone born with a deformed limb thinks they should have access to health care that would solve that...
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