Archive for the 'Mental health' Category

Framing Mormonism courtesy of the Texas polygamists

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The Texas Polygamist raid is a PR disaster for the Mormon church.
Last night, Larry King did his best impression of a journalist and interviewed people who have left polygamy - all with the LDS Salt Lake temple in the background.  The repetition of LDS/Mormon and polygamist/polygamy is undoing decades of work by mainstream Mormons to present [...]

What do you do when reality aligns with your theories?

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I’ve blogged about suffering from migraines.  At the time I described a migraine as not unlike having a short term mental illness.  The pain of a migraine can be debilitating, pain so intense at times that I’ve rubbed my temples so hard I’ve bruised them.  Migraine pain interferes with your ability to see, to think, [...]

Grief

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

The cat beast in my house will walk to the door and stare it. Then look at me, meow, and turn back to the door. I open the door, she looks out but doesn’t step out. We wait for a minute, then she’ll sit down and groom her paw. If I [...]

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