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- 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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NeuroLogica Blog
Science-Based Medicine- The Anti-Trans Obsessions of “Skeptic” Michael Shermer: Hallucinating Imaginary Demons to Empower Actual Villains, Once Again.
- Science Based Satire: My 2026 Interview with Jay Bhattacharya. It’s Still Lockdowns All the Way Down.
- The Health Effects of Air Pollution
- RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 7): What, me worry (about polio and HPV)?
- MAHA Gave Us MAGA 2.0. Remember the Enablers.
- The World Health Organization on Traditional Medicine
- Pet Acupuncture and Life
- RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 6): Liability, ethics, and policy-based evidence making
- The We Want Them Infected Movement Isn’t Just for COVID Anymore
- DIY Botox: Why Self-Injecting a Neurotoxin Is a Terrible Idea
skeptic insight- What is Truth, Anyway?
- A Skeptic’s Guide to Ozempic and Other GLP-1 Agonists
- Iranians Are Rejecting Theocracy: The Islamic Republic’s Unintended Legacy
- Two Movies on One Screen: Conflicting Narratives of the Renee Good Shooting in Minnesota
- 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
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
- New report reveals how corporations undermine science with fake bloggers and bribes
- Doctor numbers in Canada at all-time high
- Global Control and Regional Elimination of Measles, 2000–2011
- Health Canada shuts website selling industrial-strength bleach as health cure
- The High Price of Loneliness
- Mentally ill flood ER as states cut services
- 3 Minute Test for Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder and PTSD
- Rural Suicides Follow Medicaid Cuts
- Mystery of How Social Isolation Messes with Brain Solved
- Ruling legalizes assisted suicide
- Brain Scans Might Spot Autism as Early as 6 Months of Age
- Diabetes Linked to Schizophrenia
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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- January 22, 2026 (this day)
- AA Experience has Taught Us (Step 5 continued)
- January 2, 2026 (this day)
- To Thine Own Self Be True
- December 13, 2025 (this day)
- All of A.A’s Twelve Steps ask us to go contrary (Step 5)
- November 25, 2025 (this day)
- Time Takes Time
- October 23, 2025 (this day)
- September 20, 2025 (this day)
The Underground Bunker- Dom Lemon defiant after arrest by Trump goons
- Marc Headley on the (hilarious) connection between two Scientology icons
- Trump pulling back from Minnesota? ‘No no. Not at all.’
- The Scientology life — and Scientology death — of Romey Beliles
- Tulsi on hand as FBI raids Fulton County 2020 election records
- How Scientology hardens you against the people who matter most
- Frequent Trump target Ilhan Omar sprayed with liquid by MAGA patriot
- Scientology grifter pleads guilty to health care fraud and faces 10 years in prison
- Half-assed Himmler demoted back to El Centro as Trump deals with Pretti slaying
- 40 years ago: The eerie Hollywood sendoff for Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
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: Mental Health
Still salted but without the lithium
I forgot how vivid my dreams can be when I’m not taking the lithium. I’ve been off for almost four months now. For ten years lithium carbonate kept me sane. It gave me the base on which to build my … Continue reading
Even more studies into the biology of manic depression, schizophrenia and diabetes
“…recent studies have shown that genes linked to mental illness are also involved in the generation of circadian rhythms and sleep, while some clock genes have also been shown to influence the development of certain specific mental illnesses. This new … Continue reading
Some studies into the biology of manic depression and schizophrenia
“Certain brain regions in people with major depression are smaller and less dense than those of their healthy counterparts. Now, researchers have traced the genetic reasons for this shrinkage. “Brain-imaging studies, post-mortem examinations of human brains and animal studies have … Continue reading
Protected: Something I wrote a long time ago about someone who doesn’t exist (updated)
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Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, fiction, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health
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Moving.
“When I moved from Ottawa to Toronto [in 1998] I had two bags of clothes, some books and a [10-year old] radio. Four or five years later, when I moved [back] I had two bags of clothes, a few more … Continue reading
Monday Mental Movie Night: Mary & Max
“[Mary & Max] deals with themes including childhood neglect, friendship, the obscurity of life, teasing, loneliness, autism (Asperger syndrome in particular), obesity, depression and anxiety.” — Wikipedia A very odd, very unlikely animated film from Australia that manages to be … Continue reading












