I just love it when two interests of mine coincide–and I don’t even have to read an advanced ‘Results’ section of a paper [remember: it's all okay if p is greater than 0.05, right?] to get to the crux of an issue. I’m a softie for infographics [you might have noticed], with a strong interest in the […]
A friend attended a well-known residential program for bipolar disorder, and what was one of the therapeutic offerings, bless my English-major heart, but a poetry group? So I got to thinking. . . I love poetry [I didn't have to think hard for that]–is it possible it has medicinal powers? [I have of course begun a […]
Managing medications is a difficult endeavor. I’ve come up with this brilliant little solution: When I wake up and take my morning meds, I then throw them, so I’ll know I’ve taken them. I throw the ones I won’t need again into my pill basket (or I try to, I’ll never make it as a quarterback), and […]
“The burden of mental illness and substance abuse disorders in older adults in the United States borders on a crisis.” ~ Dr. Dan Blazer, Duke University Stating the obvious can be a particularly irritating habit. Exclamations of “it’s hot!” when the temperature reached 103 in Chicago last week lacked a certain originality. Sharing the sure-to-be-true warning “you’ll […]
When I came across apps for what people were calling ‘Internet addiction,’ I thought I had slid down the rabbit hole. Treating addiction to computer technology with computer technology? It sounded–let’s just say ‘off.’ But we must know the mantra by now: There’s always an app for that–even too much app. Now, the Internet addiction these apps treat isn’t […]
Check out the “MHealth in Mobile Apps” Weekly, with the week’s round-up on what’s new and upcoming in the world of mobile health apps. This week’s topics range from an instant anatomy heart lectures app available on the Android to an interview with the VP of Weight Watchers about self-tracking for all to a new […]
Perhaps you’ll recall from our last post (with the same clever title as this, only a ‘Part I ‘ in place of ‘Part II,’ as these things go) the following: –>Young adults ages 20-24 are heavy information and communication technology (ICT) users. –>According to self-reports, mental health and sleep have deteriorated, and stress has increased among […]
It strikes me as fairly incomprehensible how attached people are to their mobile phones–even in our family, which is of course a bastion of mental health. We’ve got one family member who sleeps with hers, one who watches sports games under the table during meal times–as if no one could notice, one who can pass […]
In 2011, nearly 80 million Baby Boomers turned 65, earning themselves the official title of ‘senior citizens.’ I’m not a huge fan of this title, myself, but there’s a lot to go with aging that has real positives, so I’ve turned the other cheek. Additionally, the image of the doddering elderly person, cut off from […]
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” ~ Arnold J. Toynbee Suicide is the ultimate expression of abandonment of hope, of an inability to see a better future, of the experience of agony too great to suffer a moment more. It is a death that comes when the spirit has gone before it. And I’d […]
I may not be in the majority here, but I think teaching is a great job. My sister, my two daughters, and I all taught English at some point or other in our careers. Now, English may not be the best choice of subjects, given the obvious problem that the students should really write papers […]
A friend of mine who is computer- and internet-illiterate (if you can imagine, in this day and age), tried to explain Twitter to her younger sibling, equally ignorant: “As far as I can tell,” she informed him, “it’s this place where people go online and write things that make them sound like twits.” There you have it, folks, Exhibit A, […]
September 27, 2012 by rfinkel
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