Podcast: Can Mental Patients Also Be Experts?
Who do you think understands more about bipolar disorder: a psychiatrist or a patient with the illness? In this Not Crazy podcast, we discuss whether a patient can be considered a mental health expert without all the credentials after their name. Today we invite writer and bipolar advocate Natasha Tracy — who also has bipolar disorder — to the show to give her opinion.
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Source: World of Psychology - September 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Interview Not Crazy Podcast Policy and Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Review Lesson
Now seems a good time to take stock of what we have read so far. In Genesis and Exodus, the priesthood has not appeared. While there is no real systematic elucidation of the nature of society, people appear to live in small bands ruled by a hereditary patriarchy. God speaks directly to whoever he wishes, or by means of messengers. There is no designated intermediary. The origin of these stories is murky, but it appears they are derived from oral tradition that got transcribed at various times. Sometimes there are variants of the same story, or contradictory stories. (There is a priest mentioned in Genesis, Melchizedek, but...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 13, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
: Wednesday Bible study: The priests rake in more swag, and some serious psychopathy
In Numbers 15, Yahweh takes the opportunity to give the people orders for stuff they are supposed to do when they entered the promised land, which will not happen until for forty years later. Hopefully they ' ll remember! Specifically, in addition to the sacrifices they have already been ordered to make, they will need to throw in a lot of grain and olive oil, and sometimes wine. Well, a priest has to eat! Then something extremely ugly happens. 15 TheLord said to Moses,2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘After you enter the land I am giving you as a home3 and you present to theLord food off...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 2, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Grain-Free, Legume-Free, Sugar-Free Experiment
For the month of August, I’ve been doing a new dietary experiment. I’m eating grain-free, legume-free, and sugar-free. I’m doing this mainly out of curiosity to see what effect it has. I think I’m far enough along (about four weeks) that this would be a good time to share what I’ve learned.
The biggest adjustment was switching some common food sources, especially carbs. Instead of brown rice or rice noodles, I’ve been eating more potatoes, sweet potatoes, and starchy squash. Instead of beans or tofu, I’m eating more fruit, nuts, and veggies.
While I’ve removed refined s...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Descent into the bizarre
We ' ve had some really weird chapters before, but Numbers 11 is in competition for the Bizzarro Award. Many of the stories and prescriptions in Leviticus and Numbers can be explained as having an essentially political motive -- to entrench the power and wealth of the priesthood, or to create and enforce social order. Much of it, obviously, is about the glorification of God and demonstration of his power. Numbers 11 is in the latter category, but God ' s behavior is just lunatic. There is also a somewhat puzzling story in the middle of it all that may be explicable in political terms but is difficult to interpret. Fr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 19, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Wake me up when it's over
The Old Testament is of course part of Christian scripture and it is taught -- or rather some of it is taught -- to children in Sunday school and some passages are sometimes read in church. However, Christians generally are completely unfamiliar with most of it. Christian awareness of the Torah pretty much extends to Genesis and Exodus, the broad narratives of which are familiar; and occasional, very selective passages from Leviticus and Numbers, particularly the condemnation of homosexuality, some of the more relatable ethical principles but none of the less relatable ones, and the benediction we read recently. But ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 9, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: The priests rake in the swag
A good part of Leviticus and numbers consists of instructions to give stuff to the priests, but Numbers 7 takes it to 11. There isn ' t much else to be said about this. The tally at the end comes to 60 pounds of silver and 3 pounds of gold, I believe. That should let them live in style.7 When Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings. He also anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils.2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of families who were the tribal leaders in charge of those who were counted, made offerings.3 They brought as the...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 5, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: What's this all about, anyway?
Numbers 6 is one of the more puzzling chapters in the Torah. It isn ' t clear what the point is of being a Nazirite (spelled Nazarite in the KJV) or why somebody would want to do it. Apparently there was considerable Talmudic debate about this but they never got to a consensus. By declaring oneself a Nazirite, a person assumes exactly three restrictions: don ' t cut the hair, don ' t consume any products of the plant genus Vitis (not just alcoholic wine) and don ' t get near a corpse. Other than that there are no affirmative responsibilities and you can do whatever else you want. This is apparently a state of special " con...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 2, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Appreciation Density
In the past 11 weeks, I’ve lost an average of 1.15 pounds per week, mainly just by logging what I eat. This simple practice has helped me tweak and adjust my meal choices even though I’m still eating the same foods as I was previously. I’m eating less food in terms of calories, but my current diet is actually more satisfying than before. Since there’s no sense of restriction or deprivation, it’s frictionless to maintain this approach.
Let’s say that the appreciation density of a meal is your overall physical and emotional satisfaction with it, divided by its calories:
Appreciation ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Emotions Health Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: I demand that Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., and Robert Jeffers read this
This being Numbers 5. I don ' t really know about Judaism in this regard, but the Catholic church didn ' t prohibit abortion until the late 19th Century, in reaction to the feminist movement of the time; and it did not become a cause celebre for Christian evangelicals until the mid-20th Century. In case you haven ' t noticed, anti-abortion crusaders never actually quote the Bible, and that ' s because they can ' t. There is no condemnation of abortion anywhere in the Bible, Old Testament or New, and in fact it is condoned and even, in Numbers 5, affirmatively promoted under the specific circumstance that a woman has become...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 29, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The most pointless chapter in the Bible?
Numbers 4 stipulates exactly which Levite clans are responsible for carrying what portions of the tabernacle when the camp moves, and how the sons of Aaron are required to pack everything up. That ' s it. It ' s obsessive-compulsive in its level of detail, and seems to be essentially pointless beyond the general idea that these various inanimate objects must be treated with veneration.Why this was deemed important enough to include in the Torah in the 7th Century BC I cannot say exactly, since of course the Temple at that time was an immobile edifice. I suppose it does lend verisimilitude to the story of wandering in the d...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 13th 2020
In conclusion, sitting for prolonged periods of time without interruption is unfavorably associated with DBP and HDL cholesterol.
Exercise Slows Inappropriate Growth of Blood Vessels in a Mouse Model of Macular Degeneration
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/07/exercise-slows-inappropriate-growth-of-blood-vessels-in-a-mouse-model-of-macular-degeneration/
Excessive growth of blood vessels beneath the retina is a proximate cause of blindness in conditions such as macular degeneration. Researchers here provide evidence for physical activity to be influential in the pace at which this process of tissu...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 12, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Aging Gut Microbiome Produces More Trimethylamine, Harming Arterial Function
In recent years academic interest has grown in the study of the gut microbiome. Researchers are making inroads into understanding the considerable influence of these microbial populations over the progression of health and aging. The gut microbiome may be as influential as physical activity in these matters. The balance of microbial populations shifts unfavorably over time, for reasons that are yet to be fully mapped and understood. This leads to greater numbers of inflammatory microbes, or those that produce harmful byproducts, and fewer microbes that produce beneficial metabolites. Researchers have identified some of the...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 8, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Pot pourri and lex talionis
As I ' ve noted before, the division into chapters and verses was made by medieval monks, and isn ' t always logical. (They may have been getting into the sacramental wine.) Leviticus 24 consists of three obviously distinct parts, two of which might have originally gone together as specifications of ritual but the third of which is unrelated. Furthermore, the whole thing is an interpolation between the schedule of festivals in 23 and the schedule of jubilees in 25. Leviticus generally is haphazardly organized. It seems the priests didn ' t really care about narrative or logical coherence, they just wanted to get everything...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 1, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Food Logging
If you’d like to raise your awareness about what you’re actually eating and how it affects you, food logging is a simple and effective way to do this.
Six weeks ago I decided to start keeping a log of everything I ate in a small notebook. I also keep track of calories. I wanted to raise my awareness of what I was eating and how calorically dense each meal was.
Computing the calories is easy. I use a small kitchen scale to weigh quantities of foods, and then I just ask a nearby smart device what the calories are. Usually Google or Alexa can give the correct response to a question like, “How many calo...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
