“Youth’s ambitions have shrunk,” the magazine declared. “Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with it, a kind ( Read more... )

Everything is going well!

I'm starting to feel a little more like how I used to be. Parts of me I used to like are coming up for sips of air ( Read more... )

I feel as if there was a small boy from across the street, with the pretty face and smile, who just died and I can't accept it yet ( Read more... )

Change one thing in recent history?
Tight regulations on penicillin use, right from the start.

I just realised that the prevalence rates for bipolar disorder (aka manic depression) is the same as that for schizophrenia (not schizotypal or schizoid or schizoaffective or any of that). I was under the impression that bipolar disorder was far more common, so I checked a few other large-population studies (mostly in America), and nope. Same rate ( Read more... )

I get kind of mad when I see those e-mails that try to foster positive body image and self-acceptance with claims like "Marilyn Monroe wore a size 16!" or otherwise using Marilyn Monroe to say that today's ideal body type is so different and unachievable compared to her day. Do the people writing these chain e-mails know ANYTHING about her? Have ( Read more... )

Because (the three stages of love - lust, romantic love, and long-term attachment) are independent, these three systems can work simultaneously-with dangerous results. As Dr Fisher explains, “you can feel deep attachment for a long-term spouse, while you feel romantic love for someone else, while you feel the sex drive in situations unrelated to ( Read more... )

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