Category Archives: Resiliency

UNM Art Project Spreads Awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury

29 Jan 2016

Nearly two million people in the US suffer traumatic brain injuries every year but experts say few understand it. That’s why UNM is helping patients put a spotlight on their challenges.

Sarah Palin, This is What PTSD Is Really Like

28 Jan 2016

AS a veteran, I want politicians and public figures to try and understand what military deployment is like, and to relate to my experiences. But I’m not sure I want Sarah Palin weighing in

Enter the Grief Police

27 Jan 2016

The first World War transformed, along with so much else, the way people mourn. The British anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer argues that the death of so many people in such a small span of time overwhelmed those they left behind, and rendered them unable to undergo the rituals that had previously been in place for grieving. Combined with the rise of psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the interiority of the individual—Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia presented grief as a highly personal phenomenon—the social practice of mourning was transformed in the early 20th century, to the extent that, by the 1960s, Gorer was describing grief as something to be kept “under complete control by strength of will and character, so that it need be given no public expression.”

‘This Brought a Tear To My Eye’

26 Jan 2016

AS far as heartwarming tales go, it doesn’t get much better than this. Teenager Sam, seen jiving away in this video, has autism. Like many people with this condition, he also has a movement disorder which makes it hard for him to keep his body still.

People With Anxiety Issues Have Surprising Advantages

25 Jan 2016

Anxiety, a feeling of unease or nervousness, is a normal emotion that afflicts human beings in the face of an imminent event or uncertain outcome. Extreme anxiety can come in the form of several types of disorders that include panic, social anxiety or a specific phobia.

I’m a Psychiatrist — And I Live With Depression

23 Jan 2016

I am a psychiatrist, and I have experienced recurrent severe major depression for most of my adult life. My problems first appeared during adolescence when I began to suffer from anxiety. I experienced my first episode of significantly low mood in my last year of medical school. Nevertheless, I decided to go ahead and train in psychiatry, as it was clear to me this was the specialty that I showed the most talent for as a student. I had a further episode of depression during my training when I failed a professional examination. – See more at: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/depression/im-psychiatrist-i-live-depression#sthash.Da16BPRz.dpuf

In a Different Key, the Story of Autism

22 Jan 2016

In their book published this month, In a Different Key: The Story of Autism, journalists John Donvan and Caren Zucker delve into the history of the good and bad intentions, sometimes wrongheaded science and shifting definitions that can cloud our understanding of what has come to be called the autism spectrum.

How Rapper 360 Survived His Secret Codeine Addiction and Got Clean

21 Jan 2016

Rapper 360’s slow, tentative recovery from addiction began on the floor of the Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay. It was January 2015. He was part-way through a 16-date tour of regional Australia, travelling the country with a half-suitcase of clothes and a half-suitcase of painkiller medication.