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The Past
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Recent Posts
- My Biological Father Has Died… There Are No More Chances
- Well That Was An Entirely Too Interesting Few Months
- First Meeting With My Psychiatric-Nurse Was Also My Last | WTF Was That!?
- Music Friday: “Pull Your Head Up Off The Floor, Come Up Screaming…”
- From Mine To Yours, Happy Christmas & A Happy New Year
- Conversations With My Psychiatrist | It’s Been Fun
- Conversations With My Psychiatrist | Welcome To The Sh*t Show Part One: Andrew Is Homeless
- Another Conversation With My Psychotherapist… Now With Less Mom Talk
- Conversations With My Psychiatrist | The End Is Nigh
- Conversations With My Psychiatrist | Dealing With The Aftermath
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Natalia Antonova
Natalia Antonova- My father’s greatest hits and misses
- The Longest
- I’m a Rape Survivor With #MeToo Fatigue: Here’s Why
- Matilda’s New Digs: An October Ghost Story
- In memory of Mikhail Ugarov
- I talked about abuse and made you uncomfortable? Good.
- Mirrors eat remaining light
- My theory of seamless love
- “Do Marines like cake?” “Does God have a butt?” Conversations with a five-year-old
- Laura Palmer and the end of the world: news of note from me
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Ride On My Mood Swing
Behind the Mask
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- Kenn’s Journey With AIDS
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NeuroLogica Blog- Challenging the Acceleration of the Universe
- Biological vs Artificial Consciousness
- Animals Adapting to Humans
- Mining Asteroids
- New Study on the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines
- Cognitive Legos
- Is Climate Science “Post Normal” Science – Part II
- Is Climate Science “Post Normal” Science?
- The Future of the Mind
- Superfoods Are Bunk
Science-Based Medicine- Dr. Marty Makary Was Paid $130,357 By Pharma. Is His “Undue Influence” Affecting the FDA?
- RFK Jr. Decimates Vaccine Schedule
- Revisiting the question of debating science deniers
- Detox 2026: What Big Wellness Wants You to Believe
- The Murray Hill Declaration
- It’s a madhouse! Public health under the heirs to Lysenko (and Dr. Zaius) in 2025
- Dr. John Ioannidis: To Protect Science and Keep it Apolitical, We Must Not Resist MAHA.
- Well Dr. Stephanie Seneff, 2025 is Over. Did Glyphosate Turn Half of All Children Autistic?
- The FDA’s Proposed “Black Box” Warning for COVID-19 Vaccines
- Every accusation is a confession (or a statement of intent): MAHA’s new Tuskegee experiment
skeptic insight- How “Us vs. Them” Takes Hold: Tribalism in Byzantium, Sri Lanka, and Modern America
- The Future Leaks Out: William S. Burroughs’s Cut-Ups and Cucumbers
- Gaslighting
- Interviewing the Children of Nazi Leaders: Guilt, Trauma, and the Legacy of Atrocity
- Decoding Espionage: Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Secret Intelligence War
- I’m Trans. This Is My Story
- Why That 140-Year-Old Hairbrush Still Sells: Consumer Psychology and Mythmaking
- Harvard Astronomer Takes Up Skeptic Publisher’s $1,000 Bet on Alien Disclosure by 2030
- The Aliens are Here (Again)! A Review of The Age of Disclosure
- 🚨 Annual Fundraiser: Exclusive Autographed Items from Our Archives
Respectful Insolence- MAHA: The “we’re not antivax” mask has been dropped
- The Four Horseman of the Woo-pocalypse join President Trump to spread autism pseudoscience and quackery
- America’s Quack (now CMS Administrator) Dr. Oz goes authoritarian quack…again
- Dr. Pierre Kory promotes an old lie about vaccines and SIDS
- “Voices of the Vaccine-injured”: Old school antivax nonsense on steroids
- Antivaxxers will testify before a Senate committee…again
- Shameless self-promotion better late than never: Anti-Vax America
- RFK Jr. guts ACIP to pack it with antivaxxers
- Scott Adams vs. a cancer quack
- The soft eugenics of MAHA: RFK Jr. on autism and Dr. Oz on your patriotic duty to be healthy
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Mental Health News
- Cat Parasite Linked to Suicide Attempts in Humans
- Mental-health strategy calls for significant cash boost to address crisis
- Rural Suicides Follow Medicaid Cuts
- Majority of people with mental illness not treated, Ontario report says
- Competitors Form Partnership to Develop Autism Drugs
- 2002 Report on Mental Illnesses in Canada
- Psychiatrist who championed 'gay cure' admits he was wrong
- Health Canada shuts website selling industrial-strength bleach as health cure
- Elizabeth Manley's journey through darkness
- Global Control and Regional Elimination of Measles, 2000–2011
- The Biologic Basis of Bipolar Disorder
- 10 movies featuring mental illness
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Patient Anonymous
PatAnon: Purple Ninja
The She Chronicles
Seaneen- Still Not Dead (Sorry, Dom)
- Our Mummy, Marie Molloy: 1957 – 2023
- How #TheGoodPlace Is Helping Me Face My Fear of Death
- Listen to our Christmas Mental Health Survival Guide: Access All podcast
- Derry Girls taught me the joy of feeling seen
- The Thawed Mother
- From calm to crisis – new BBC Ouch episode from me and Mark
- Mentally Interesting podcast – Episode 2: Shame
- Tell me your postnatal anxiety stories?
- Pregnant and mental in a pandemic. Not my best laid plan…
Don’t Drink & Don’t Die
The Underground Bunker- Trump on Greenland: We can do it the easy way or the hard way
- Heber Jentzsch: A Scientology life shaped by control, and the cost paid by a son
- Trump administration keeps feeding Q patriots with QAnon teasers
- Heber Jentzsch, 90, Scientology’s longtime ‘president,’ dies in nursing home
- Fox News: But her pronouns
- Memories of Jefferson Hawkins from people who knew and admired him
- Trump loses the QAnon Shaman over the Epstein files
- Grant Cardone and Doug E. Fresh pull in a big crowd for Scientology
- Five years later, and Q patriots are still storming the capitol
- Mitch Brisker knows why Scientology is fixing up those old L. Ron Hubbard haunts
Neuroskeptic- Goodbye Discover
- The Erection of a Placebo
- The Invisibility of COVID-19
- Dialogue With Dreamers
- The Man Who Thought AIDS Was All In The Mind
- Are Effect Sizes in Psychology Meaningless?
- Brain Stimulation's Complex Emotional Effects
- A Curiously Written Coronavirus Paper
- Questions from 1920 Still Haunt Neuroscience
- The Ethics of "Human Brain Surrogates"
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Category Archives: Appointment Day
Conversations With My Psychotherapist Are Coming To An End
“…our biggest trigger while I was growing up, was me asking questions about my past. Any questions about the Cult we grew up in, or anything regarding my father, or even anything regarding my father’s side of the family, were … Continue reading
Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, Depression, Family, Granny, Health, Mother, Photography
Tagged Bipolar, Family, Psychotherapy
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Thursday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | New Pills & A Car Wreck
I’ve changed psychiatrists since I wrote the last one of these. My last psychiatrist — the one who saved my life, retired… or something, he told me my regular Doctor could treat me. So I went without a psychiatrist and … Continue reading
Bonding Part One: Two Choices She Made That Made Me
Even though I lived with her, I didn’t know who my Mother was until I was eight-years old. That was one of the main rules of the Commune / Collective / Cult I grew up in: the kids are everyone’s … Continue reading
Evaluating My Mental Health Evaluation
“The signs I’ve slid into a depression should be obvious to me by now. After almost two decades I should at least have a check list by my door, or beside my bed. Dressing in black for days on end … Continue reading
Back On The High-Wire Without A Net: Goodbye To My Psychiatrist And Hello Again To My Blog
My psychiatrist retired in July. At our next-to-last appointment he told me I was doing well enough that he decided not to refer me to another shrink, instead my family doctor will be treating me. Which I’m a little nervous … Continue reading
Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, Health, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Psychiatry
Tagged Psychiatry
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Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | Reexamining the causes for exile
This one has been hard to write. Not so much because of the emotions involved, more because just getting the context right is difficult. On August 29 my mother and I had a confrontation regarding my decision to prevent her … Continue reading












