The psychologists tell us Emotional neglect Keeps us above the neck. Thinking’s about all you can do No feelings ever permitted through. So here’s the greeting card For those who made life hard. When you were a small tender child With everyone larger you were beguiled. So defenseless and so soft Your divine spirit hovered […]
ADHD can cause one to be very distractible. The visual landscape can erode just enough attention so focusing on a task can become impossible to do. The ADHD-er may not realize this. He or she may think they need to have these visual cues to remind them about their tasks, or they may feel happy […]
The idea of getting injuries seems par for the course in athletics, but our common idea of the depth of injury may be more desensitized than we think. Athletes, both amateur and professional, are subjected to a substantial amount of risk. One of the worst cases is a Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI). The risk for […]
The risks of over-diagnosing a syndrome are real, but that does not mean that the syndrome does not exist. Jeremy Devine declares that “long Covid” and some other illnesses, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, are not biological disorders, but are psychological, psychosomatic diseases, and mislabeled manifestations of depression or anxiety (“The Dubious Origins of Long […]
