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Behold

September 11, 2009 in Judaism, Links | No comments

Black Hebrews

Whenever I pass some “black hebrews” on Nicollet Mall, I keep thinking of the MaNishtana post:

Please direct me to where it says “Behold, and thou shalt dress in a manner as if thou art the bastard offspring of a threesome between the Power Rangers, the Village People, and Lawrence of Arabia.”

Monday Mental Health Blogging

September 7, 2009 in Links, Mental Illness | No comments

An award-winning duck of some sort at the MN State Fair.

Adults who were mildly depressed as teenagers are more likely to have major depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. However, researchers could not say if mild depression contributed to the development of major depression, or if the mild depression as a teen was an early phase of major depressive disorder.
They have the thinnest skin, the shortest fuses and take the hardest knocks.
“Despite all this help, there are days when I can’t get out of bed because I’m in a deep depression or didn’t sleep at all the night before. Sometimes I’m unable to do anything other than get my kids fed.”
“I recognize that I’m hallucinating. I know this isn’t real, but maybe there’s some lessons I can gain.”

Monday Mental Health Blogging

August 31, 2009 in Links, Mental Illness | No comments

"Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall," by Frank Hurley, circa 1911-1914

Depression’s evolutionary roots: an adaptation, not a malfunction.
The 2008 American College Health Association Survey found that 30% of college students said they had suffered from depression in the last 12 months
In Florida, the State argues that gay people have higher rates of “domestic violence, psychiatric disorders and breakups” (none of which is true), and thus should not have the right to adopt a child.
Ted Kennedy was instrumental to the passage of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which he called “a major breakthrough for those with mental health needs.”
Connection found between heart disease in women with no previous warning signs (such as high blood pressure) and hopelessness:
“What we found is, those women who reported feeling hopeless about the future or their personal goals had more thickening in the neck arteries — more atherosclerosis — which is a predictor of stroke and subsequent heart attack,” Everson-Rose said in a telephone interview.

Monday Mental Health Blogging

August 24, 2009 in Links, Mental Illness | No comments

A video from The Onion: White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase.
“Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline used a sophisticated ghostwriting program to promote its antidepressant Paxil, allowing doctors to take credit for medical journal articles mainly written by company consultants.“
An L.A. County program helps female inmates handle their mental illness and regain custody of their children.
The Virginia Tech shooter’s medical records were released on Wednesday.
“A study published last year suggested that bipolar disorder may be over diagnosed in people seeking mental health care. Now new findings shed light on which disorders many of these patients actually have.”
Woman who claimed to be expecting 12 babies at once (“next to impossible,” said health experts) turns out to just have a freaky phantom pregnancy. It happens when you spend too much time in opera houses.
“Faded numbers stamped into small cement blocks marked the graves of more than 3,200 mentally ill patients buried here at Western State Hospital between the 1870s and 1953.”

Michele Bachmann & Ron Paul Crazy Train Stopping in MN

August 23, 2009 in Links, Politics | No comments

Breaking news from Dusty Trice! Michele Bachmann will be holding a town hall during September, featuring special guest star Ron Paul… Even for Minnesota, this kind of crazy doesn’t intersect often:

“[...] I’ll be doing another town hall up in the Saint Cloud area in September, and we’ll do that on monetary policy. Uh, Ron Paul is gonna come in, and we’re gonna hold something on monetary policy because I especially want to speak to the 19 and 20 year-olds.”

Quick note: Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul are both members of the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade in the 111th Congress, and the whacked-out young adult demographic was a large chunk of Paul’s creepy fringe support during his run for President.

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