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soniaLyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts by Meghan O'Rourke.
A Town for People with Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome by Mike Mariani. In Incline, NV, a doctor gives CFS patients access to Ampligen, a drug that puts symptoms in abeyance for some.
The Vaccine That Could Prevent Stress, Anxiety, and Depression by Shayla Love.
The Power of One Push-Up by James Hamblin. "Several simple ways of measuring a person’s health might matter more than body weight." I had already been practicing plank pose for 30 seconds in the mornings. Based on this article I started doing knee pushups as well and I'm up to 5. Perhaps someday I'll be able to do a full pushup. I'm much stronger in my legs than my arms.
Enabling Participation: Research with young people on ableism (a cartoon), illustrations by Toby Morris.
How Good Omens Changed My Life, Cured My Depression, and Fixed My Posture by Aira Lee.
In a week, or a month, or six months, I will start feeling less well. My head will get foggier, my energy level will sink. When I wake in the morning, I will have a severe headache. Sharp electric shocks will start running along my legs and arms, for minutes, then hours, then days. My older son will stop eating his breakfast as I twitch in pain, and say, “What’s wrong, Mommy?” And once again I will ask Dr. H for antibiotics.
While writing this article, it happened. I took the antibiotics. I felt worse, and then I felt dramatically better.
A Town for People with Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome by Mike Mariani. In Incline, NV, a doctor gives CFS patients access to Ampligen, a drug that puts symptoms in abeyance for some.
The Vaccine That Could Prevent Stress, Anxiety, and Depression by Shayla Love.
Inflammation seems to directly cause mental health issues, while at the same time, stress and mental health issues themselves provoke inflammation—creating a dangerous feedback loop. [...] M. vaccae could stop the neuro-inflammatory response of the brain's immune cells in rats, and the associated negative behavioral changes that came along with it.
The Power of One Push-Up by James Hamblin. "Several simple ways of measuring a person’s health might matter more than body weight." I had already been practicing plank pose for 30 seconds in the mornings. Based on this article I started doing knee pushups as well and I'm up to 5. Perhaps someday I'll be able to do a full pushup. I'm much stronger in my legs than my arms.
Enabling Participation: Research with young people on ableism (a cartoon), illustrations by Toby Morris.
From 2016 to 2018, researchers from Massey University’s SHORE & Whariki Research Centre worked with 35 young people with a range of disabilities and their whānau, and learnt first-hand about their everyday lives.
They found that the biggest barriers to living a good life were discrimination and ableist attitudes.
How Good Omens Changed My Life, Cured My Depression, and Fixed My Posture by Aira Lee.
Good Omens isn’t just brilliant entertainment. It has changed lives. Many of the fan messages that I see Neil Gaiman answer on social media are heartfelt and emotional expressions of gratitude. People say it helped them understand themselves, their gender, their sexuality, their identity, and made them feel comfortable and safe being who they are, often for the first time in their lives.
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Date: 2019-09-08 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-09-22 02:32 pm (UTC)But I know the curse of trying to say a complicated thing, taking a lot of time trying to do it, and then having it still not come out right, so imagine the curiosity coming with *no obligation* to go further.
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Date: 2019-09-22 04:33 pm (UTC)At the same time, I still strongly agree that stories can tell people that there are others like them out there, and give them words they didn't have before, and offer new possibilities that unlock a trap or a cage.
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Date: 2019-09-22 04:54 pm (UTC)I think what people do with their lives is pick out details that support the narrative they're gradually constructing about something--while discarding the ones that don't fit. This can cause problems, because that act of choosing some and discarding others means that they can create a compelling story that may not actually be helpful--it might even be harmful if they're avoiding details that they need to pay attention to.
But I agree that made-up stories tend to have tidy ends, whereas real life of course has **no** end (well, it ends for each of us individually, but life continues). We never solve it all or get it all wrapped up. And in real life, wise decisions can't always protect us--there are wandering monsters out there.
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Date: 2019-09-24 04:39 am (UTC)