What do you do if someone confides in you about a mental health problem? I don’t mean someone talking to …
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 28, 2013
Functional Drug Use: What’s wrong with it?
I know people who use illegal drugs recreationally. They are not addicted, it has never interfered with school/work/family/etc, they just …
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Parenting: there is no right way
Over the past few years there have been a number of different favored parenting styles. Books, articles, even tv shows …
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Why is it wrong to sell sex?
I am really curious. Most people would argue that selling sex is “wrong”, it’s “bad”, and a whole host of …
Friday, October 25, 2013
The Stigma of Self-Harm
While it seems a little different this issue follows in the judgmental theme I appear to have created for the …
Thursday, October 24, 2013
What is Cultural Appropriation?
Ever since my post last week on cultural appropriation I have been trying to work out what it is exactly. …
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Should we be apologizing for privilege?
And continuing in our theme of people being judgmental assholes let’s discuss this post from Sunday on thought catalog. What …
Monday, October 21, 2013
I’m a Judgmental Bitch
Seriously. Sometimes I’m worried that there are people who can actually read other people’s minds and that they realize what …
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Using Shame as a Public Health Tool
I touched on this topic in my post on body shaming, and how it feels like shame is a tool …
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Scientists and Religionists: Please grow up!
It has long bothered me – the desire to belittle someone else’s belief system, to put it down and mock …
Friday, October 18, 2013
Apparently I’m Colorblind
Last night my boyfriend said I’m the most colorblind person he knew. It wasn’t meant as a compliment or an …
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Turning Point: the event that changes your life
We all have a moment in our lives where we something happened that changed the course of our lives. Sometimes …
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Cultural Appropriation: is it hypocritical?
So this concept has been bothering me since the whole Miley Cyrus twerking thing started. After this a significant group …
Sunday, October 13, 2013
What is a lie?
This is going to end up being a couple of long posts, but just for tonight I have one question: …
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Does it “excuse” a behavior to say we are born with it?
A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog post arguing that our sexual desires–including “unacceptable” ones such as rape, bestiality, …
Friday, October 11, 2013
Addiction is a Mental Health Problem, Let’s Treat it like one
Addiction has long been known to be associated with mental illness. Many people with mental health problems self-medicate with drugs …
Thursday, October 10, 2013
The Effect of Grief on our Mental Health
So this week is mental illness awareness week, and today is national depression screening day. As I post a lot …
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
What do “mental health” and “mental illness” mean?
A post on twitter yesterday got me thinking about the terms mental health and mental illness. The post in question …
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Circumcision in Religion
I’d like to start this post out with a disclaimer. I am all for freedom of religion. I believe everyone …
Monday, October 7, 2013
The Trauma of Giving a Presentation
As you may have noticed this weekend’s posts were not the usual long discussions I have been trying to write. …
Sunday, October 6, 2013
The Negative Effects of Positive Discrimination
This isn’t going to be a long post, just another observation creating a question. Positive discrimination – the idea of …
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Semantics in Society
So this will be a topic I plan on delving into more deeply, but it’s been a long day of …
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
What does it mean to be an adult?
Adulthood: what does it mean anymore? There have been a growing number of blogs and articles along the lines of …
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