Nichola Tesla was a genius. a one-of-a-kind- brain. he also had issues...
he may have had "issues" but Nicola Tesla
also had some very interesting things to say!
click HERE to read some actual quotes!
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Nicholas Tesla had issues
Nichola Tesla was a genius. a one-of-a-kind- brain. he also had issues...
he may have had "issues" but Nicola Tesla
also had some very interesting things to say!
click HERE to read some actual quotes!
Mental in America
it's hard times in America these days - no secret there. and just when people dared to dream there might be something better than life under George Bush, things didn't get better, they just got worse.
and then they got even worse than that. it turns out that in America, banks rob you. so there is no money to stop the rot that Reagan began, and here we all are...
and then they got even worse than that. it turns out that in America, banks rob you. so there is no money to stop the rot that Reagan began, and here we all are...
is it ironic that even though there are more people per capita in prison in the land of the free than anywhere else on the planet, the gang that pulled off the biggest bank heist in history in broad daylight still walk among us?
i don't know how much more gets spent on prisons in the USA, but i bet it's a lot more than mental health.
in a country where ketchup can be declared a vegetable, the only surprise is that some bright-eyed MBA hasn't suggested that some significant portion of the prison budget be classified as spending more money on health care...
seeing how that's where so many people with mental issues end up. sooner or later.
or maybe someone did.
and somebody else pointed out that this would make all that money much more vulnerable to budget cuts... whereas we know there's always more money for cops.
there's always more money for cops.
...but when i look at this map, i do wonder if the game's not rigged - ie - there are probably more people diagnosing in the USA, and there are certainly more drug sales associates encouraging doctors along the diagnostic trail...
the darker the state, the more people there are mentally ill.
is this why people keep the lights on all the time? or is it people go crazier faster if it never gets dark out?
the darker the state, the more people over 18 have had at least one serious depressive episode in the past year.
the darker the state, the more people over 18 have had serious psychological distress in the past year.
the darker the state, the more people between 18 and 25 have had serious psychological distress in the past year.
the darker the state, the more prisons there are there.
the darker the state, the more people there live below the poverty line.
the darker the state, the fewer young people* who need mental health care will get it.
notice what states keep turning up on all these? kind of a map of unpleasant possibility potential...
* under 18
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Lithium 102
Trace amounts of lithium are present in the oceans
and in all organisms. The element serves no apparent
vital biological function, since animal and plants survive
in good health without it.
and in all organisms. The element serves no apparent
vital biological function, since animal and plants survive
in good health without it.
The first recorded use of lithium for the treatment
of mania, based in part on the urate/lithium connection,
was 1871. Use of lithium carbonate (the current pill form
of lithium) to prevent depression came in 1886.
of mania, based in part on the urate/lithium connection,
was 1871. Use of lithium carbonate (the current pill form
of lithium) to prevent depression came in 1886.
In 1948, an Australian psychiatrist named John Cade
began treating patients with mania using lithium (1948).
He had injected guinea pigs with lithium urate and found
that they became placid, and somewhat tranquilized.
Only later did he determine that the calming effect
was from lithium, not urate.
began treating patients with mania using lithium (1948).
He had injected guinea pigs with lithium urate and found
that they became placid, and somewhat tranquilized.
Only later did he determine that the calming effect
was from lithium, not urate.
Coca-Cola was originally created as a patent medicine and included miracle ingredients like cocaine (an estimated nine milligrams per glass) and caffeine. The soft drink 7 Up was also a patent medicine, originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" and contained lithium citrate until 1950.
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| Dispels hangovers. Takes the "ouch" out of grouch. |
Lithia water is mineral water containing lithium salts.
Lithia water can occur naturally in spring form. One example can be found in Ashland, Oregon's Lithia Park. The water is pumped to a fountain where hundreds of people come to drink it for its supposed positive psychological effects.
Lithia water can occur naturally in spring form. One example can be found in Ashland, Oregon's Lithia Park. The water is pumped to a fountain where hundreds of people come to drink it for its supposed positive psychological effects.
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| Do I look like I've been sedated? |
Lithia
Park is the largest and most central park of Ashland, Oregon. Its name
originates from lithium oxide (Li2O)
or "lithia," which is found in the stream water pumped
to the park.
or "lithia," which is found in the stream water pumped
to the park.
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| Used extensively in countenancing excess activity |
In 1907 a lithia water spring was discovered at Emigrant creek several miles to the east. Upon analysis, the water
was shown to have the second-highest concentration of (presumably beneficial) lithium in any natural spring.
The highest highest concentration was found
in the famous springs of Saratoga, New York.
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| Lithium? You're soaking in it! |
The lithium ion Li+ administered as any of several
lithium salts has proved to be useful as a mood-stabilizing drug due to
neurological effects of the ion in the human body.
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| Happy Day |
As a mood stabilizer, lithium is probably more effective in preventing mania than depression, and may reduce the risk of suicide in certain bipolar patients.
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Canadians with mental illnesses denied U.S. entry
Data entered into national police database accessible to American authorities: WikiLeaks
More than a dozen Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto within the past year that they were blocked from entering the United States after their records of mental illness were shared with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
it's all here...
...but wait, there's more!
Have you faced discrimination because of mental illness?
see for yourself...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/09/have-you-faced-discrimination-because-of-mental-illness.html
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A First-Rate Madness
If you're tired of only hearing about bipolar people in crime reports or on Entertainment Tonight, this book may be just the tonic you're looking for...
Psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi's new book "A First-Rate Madness" suggests that when the going gets tough, the last thing we need is a homoclite or "normal" leader... what we really need are leaders who are are a little off.
“The best crisis leaders are either mentally ill or mentally abnormal; the worst crisis leaders are mentally healthy.”
There's an interview with him in the Globe and Mail this week...
In what ways can mental health be a liability for a leader?
As some scientific research shows, normal (mentally healthy) subjects show less evidence of traits that are useful for crisis leadership: realism and empathy (persons with depressive symptoms have more of these traits than normal subjects), and creativity and resilience (persons with manic symptoms have more of these traits than normal subjects).
and a review by Janey Maslin in the good ol' New York Times, where she seems to take a dislike to the theory and the book, but whatever...
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the Excitable boy
Jimmy had always been an excitable boy, curious about every single thing and running everywhere he went. He was also prone to sharing whatever was on his ind ...in fact, sometimes he used his outside voice even when he was in the house!
One day, his parents decided they really didn't like him very much. In fact, they couldn't stand him anymore. So late that night, they had a Talk. By the time the Conan credits rolled, they had narrowed their options down to either an 'accident' on the basement stairs or putting him on medication.
Jimmy's dad told his mom that if ten years of JonBenét Ramsey had taught him anything, it was that even little bodies were a bitch and a half, so why not try him on the kiddy coke and see what happened. "It's a no lose" he reminded her, "the stairs will always be there of we need them".
Six months later, Jimmy was a new boy!
Now, Jimmy sat very still and the Ritalin did all the running, from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. Everything was fine, even if he didn't remember who this weird lady was, or why she was so stoked about showing him her dumb picture of an old hippie.
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Mental accessories
one of the great things about living
in a consumer society is that no matter
what you might be into, there are accessories
to go with!
poll boxes are not exclusive
to the mentally medicated among us,
of course. all kinds of people take
all kinds of pills for all kinds of reasons.
...but we the medicated have a very special
relationship with our pills.
sometimes it can feel like
"take them or else!"
but if one is medicating,
it can't hurt anything to make it
more memorable, or enjoyable
or even a personal statement of some kind.
as near as i can tell, they come
in a wide range of styles and colours.
even a Betty Page!
if that's too racy, you might
prefer "la royale".
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it's not strictly a modern thing, either.
these antiques testify to that.
this one strikes me as kind
of weird... like, why the kid?
is this where the idea of
'mother's little helper' came from?
it seems that pharmaceuticals
were a going concern during
the days of Art Nouveau.
this one is from Austria,
near the end of the 19th century.
this one's my personal favourite-
it's silver with a nephrite stone.
alas, it was sold at auction long
before i saw these pictures.
one never knows what might help.
whatever gets you thru the night,
or the day, as the case may be...
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