I’ve written before about finding meaning in family, and art, and the world and Universe entire. But is that enough? Freud said “Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination”. This echoes Tolstoy: “One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work...
Anecdotal discussion alert … aOOOOga! aOOOOga! I’ve decided this morning that diagnostic restrictions on prescribing of medications are not helpful. What am I talking about? The more expensive a medication is, the less the funding agencies want you to prescribe it; they would rather we use dirt-cheap haloperidol than expensive quetiapine for example. These...
Homeopathy is based on the crackpot ideas that: (1) “like cures like” – sympathetic magic that was abandoned long ago in favour of, well, reality; and (2) the more you dilute (and shake, or “succuss”) a solution of a substance, the more potent that solution becomes – even to the point that Avogadro’s Number...
This sort of crap really annoys me: RT @TIME: After Tuscon, Why Are the Mentally Ill Still Bearing Arms? | http://su.pr/1mN7RM Because an individual, who might well be psychiatrically ill, shot a number of people – for reasons that we do not know; being mentally ill does not mean that nothing else drives you – TIME.com...
I saw this link on Twitter (I’m sorry I can’t remember who retweeted it from Gibson): Geezer Butler Says Ronnie James Dio Could Have Been Saved. My first thought was “oh bloody hell what’s this going to be?” – expecting either woo or religion. I was pleased to see it was neither; rather Geezer...
