By Annaham on 21 December, 2010
James S. Fell for the Los Angeles Times: Holistic nutrition is weak on science, strong on selling supplements You may not know the term, but you’ve surely heard its claims. Among other things, holistic nutritionists (or HNs, as they call themselves) may teach that fluoride and pesticides are lethal, that most diseases and detrimental behaviors [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, alternative medicine, alzheimer's, bad science, chronic pain, disabled youth, employment, just world theory, mental illness, migraines, personal stories, questionable science, science, social attitudes, unemployment, work
By Annaham on 7 December, 2010
Cheryl at Finding my Way: On Privilege, Again It was after this that the almost imperceptible freak out occurred. What am I going to do when it snows? How am I going to get food this winter? People / the county just don’t shovel sidewalks very well and it’s too far to roll in the [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged chronic pain, creative work, daily life, diabetes, justice, justice system, mental health, mental illness, music, police, police officers, policy, privilege, weather
By Annaham on 23 November, 2010
miss_invisible at Take a little look… (DW): Origins I often find myself wondering when, exactly, everything started. Have I always been dealing with mental illness? Have I always been, to greater or lesser degrees, disabled? At times the wondering borders on obsession, the inability of my anxious mind to let things go making me turn [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged airlines, airport security, book review, books, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic illness, mental health, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, pain medicine, personal stories, stereotypes
By Annaham on 16 November, 2010
Peggy Orenstein for the New York Times Magazine: The code-words of breast cancer awareness Fast-forward to today, when, especially during October, everything from toilet paper to buckets of fried chicken to the chin straps of N.F.L. players look as if they have been steeped in Pepto. If the goal was “awareness,” that has surely been [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged age, asexuality, awareness, birth control, breast cancer, cerebral palsy, chronic pain conditions, coming out, fibromyalgia, fraud, homeopathy, medicine, mental illness, normality, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, queer
By Annaham on 9 November, 2010
John Keilman for the Los Angeles Times: Technology opens new horizons for disabled Yet for all of technology’s promised advances, some worry that the cost will keep helpful devices out of many people’s reach. Others are concerned that governments, schools and institutions might think that high-tech gadgetry has relieved them of their responsibility to serve [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged assistive technology, bipolar disorder, Deaf, depression, education, gender, global, health care, health policing, independence, mental health, mental illness, patriarchy, recommended reading, schizophrenia, sexism, social construction, structural vs. individual, technology
By s.e. smith on 5 November, 2010
Content note: This post contains critical plot elements from ‘Massage Therapy,’ the fourth episode of season seven of House. Watching the House episode ‘Massage Therapy’ and approaching the grand denouement, I got ready to be infuriated. The storyline involves a character, Margaret, with schizophrenia. She conceals it from her husband and when she gets sick, the [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, mental health, television | Tagged House, mental illness, relationships, schizophrenia
By Anna on 13 October, 2010
A few signal-boosting calls to action that people, especially those in the US, may want to participate in. Penny Reeder at Abled Body: Share your Smart Phone Strife with the FCC And one other thing, I don’t want to pay any more for my smartphone than anybody who has a Blackberry, Droid, or iPhone. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged assisted living, crazy, mental health, mental illness, pets, stigma, United Kingdom, virgina ironside, wheelchair, wheelchair users
By Annaham on 7 October, 2010
And they say that the truth will set you free/but then/so will a lie – Ani DiFranco, “Promised Land” (2003) Yesterday, I wrote some things down, intending to use them for a post. The half-post or so that I wrote was inspired by, in large part, bullying-related suicides recently making the national news. It was [...]
Posted in mental health, meta | Tagged life, mental health, mental illness, trauma, writing
By Ouyang Dan on 2 October, 2010
Every now and again I come across a book that I enjoy enough to read repeatedly. I have several of these on our bookshelves at home. The Harry Potter Series is an annual read for me in my YA set. The Kushiel’s Legacy series is another, in my Not YA set. There are, though, few [...]
Posted in books, intersectionality, media and pop culture, mental health | Tagged ableism, David Thewlis, Ljubijana Slovenia, mental illness, paternalism, Paulo Coelhho, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Veronika decide morrer, Veronika Decides to Die, Very Special Lessons
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