JoMiDa's Journey

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An integral part of the DSM IV TR states that before you give a psychiatric diagnosis, the diagnostician rules out the possibility of altern...

Once upon a time, I was speaking to a counselor. He uncovered that I would not take medication for cyclothymia, anxiety or anything else bec...

I am going to use computers and the internet as an analogy for people and society. There is a certain irony here since the computing process...

Thriving How does thriving feel to you? Or, how should it feel? Defining the Thriving Framework The Thriving Framework is a heuristics for ...

Sometimes we are reluctant to act because we are no longer certain what is right to do and we fear the consequences of doing wrong, so we fo...

So I've been watching this YouTube video of Tim Minchin's science rant titled " Storm ", which got me to think about some ...

Memory is an interesting thing. We are so certain that what we remember is true, and yet often it is not. Memory is important because out de...

Often when we don't know who we are, we flail around trying to do lots of things, hoping that one of them will feel right and define us....

We all perceive things that others don't, simply because much of what we perceive of the worlds is within our minds, not in the world it...