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I FEEL ASHAMED
I feel ashamed to be a male in a world that routinely abuses women in so many ways and with out seeming to recognize how wrong this is. There are the more obviously terrible examples of treating women like objects to use anyway males want…like they are not human when in reality it is the…
Read MoreTHE USE OF LDN [LOW DOSE NALTREXONE] FOR DISSOCIATIVE SYMPTOMS
A COUPLE YEARS AGO I SAW A RESEARCH REPORT INDICATING THAT LOW DOSE NALTREXONE CAN REDUCE OR EVEN STOP DISSOCIATIVE REACTIONS THAT OCCUR WHEN AN EVENT HAPPENS OR A MEMORY IS TRIGGERED THAT RECALLS PAST TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES WHERE THE PERSON HAS LEARNED TO COPE BY DISSOCIATING [IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER IT IS LIKE REMOVING…
Read MoreIS AI FOR US OR AGAINST US?
This week some AI firm predicted that AI would be the end of the human race in the next several years. Well there is not much evidence of that happening but it may be that the AI company wanted more people using their website[s] and therefore earning them more money. Others have noted that it…
Read MoreWHAT WENDEL BERRY TAUGHT
Wendell Berry recently died. I read a blog by Liz Prather [“Your high school creative writing teacher”] about her experience taking a class taught by Wendell Berry. She states that Mr. Berry taught her how to: pay attention, think independently, live honestly and take responsibility for her words and her life. What a wonderful comment…
Read MoreARE BENZODIAZEPINES SAFE TO PRESCRIBE?
It has become clear to me that benzodiazepines can be difficult to stop. This may be related to the fact that these medications are frequently effective at lowering anxiety and helping to initiate sleep. Also, even if other treatments including other medications are helpful they may not be experienced as being as effective as the…
Read MoreDOING THE RIGHT THING
I read once that there is evidence that we are born knowing right from wrong. I searched for this evidence recently and found a summary of studies with infants by Christian Jarrett. He referred to a 2010 study by researchers at Yale University[I could not find the reference] with babies as young as 3 months…
Read MoreWHO ARE OUR NEIGHBORS?
Virtually all spiritual groups, including all major religions, support the idea that we are all meant to love our neighbors and that everyone is our neighbor. So why is this considered so important for all of us to follow when it also seems impossible to follow, especially when we are told that we are to…
Read MoreHOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING DISSOCIATIVE COPING
Dissociation is considered an interference or disruption in our consciousness, memory, identity, emotions, awareness and motor control. These can be experienced as feeling detached from our bodies, thoughts or emotions; feeling like we are in a dream or that things around us are not real; gaps in our memory of things, especially if these are…
Read MoreIS THERE REALLY NO REASON TO REACT TO ANYTHING?
This seems like a ridiculous question as people can think of many things that demand and require a reaction from us. So what is wrong with reacting? What do we get by reacting? I, of course, believe that the only thing we get from reacting is feeling lonely. When we react we are not connected…
Read MoreRESEARCH USING PROPRANOLOL TO TREAT PTSD [POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER] AND MY EXPERIENCE WITH PROPRANOLOL.
I mistakenly thought that there were some research studies supporting prescribing propranolol for treating PTSD. In reviewing the research literature that I was able to find, there was not much support for this use of propranolol. I reviewed an article entitled: Propranolol for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Review of Clinical Effectiveness by Calvin Young and…
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