Tag: mental disorder

  • Does ADHD exist ?

    This article by Peter Hitchens has been published by the Daily Mail. It begins: “Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC’s Panorama programme … It has a huge and powerful lobby which turns with fury on its critics so I know this question will get me into loads of trouble but… does ADHD even … ——-…

  • Hocus Pocus

    A Magical formula used in conjuring, 1630s, earlier Hocas Pocas, common name of a magician or juggler (1620s); a sham-Latin invocation used by jugglers, perhaps based on a perversion of the sacramental blessing from the Mass, Hoc est corpus meum “This is my body.” The first to make this speculation on its origin apparently was…

  • Rp The role of mind in neuroscience

    After failing to find anatomical or functional correlates of a variety of psychiatric conditions, Dr. Sarah Durston (neuroscientist and Professor of … The role of mind in neuroscience —— If you are not as concerned about the philosophical side and want to hear just about the biological side of mental disorder and diagnosis from the…

  • Love and Neurosis 💙

    On this wonderfully fabricated day of promoting national fecundity, I am pondering all the problems that arise to individuals in relationship. Neurosis. Neurosis is a latinized word for nervousness. Originally, nervousness just meant excessive worry or sadness. Though for pretty much all of history various organs of the body were held to be responsible for…

  • Awareness is the root of all mental health.

    What is actually wrong? Does it need “fixing”?