Tonight our book club meets to discuss the book my wife and I sponsored for the month, and it is our obligation to feed them. It is June, the weather is nice, and hamburgers on the grill sounds good to me. As my wife boiled potatoes for the potato salad, I drove into town to […]
In the movie Sleeper, Miles Monroe runs a health food store in Manhattan. He becomes ill and his friends have him cryogenically frozen in 1973. The movie opens 200 years later, and Miles is being revived by scientists. As he awakens they put something into his mouth and tell him to draw it deeply down […]
First, let’s look in more detail at the role cortisol plays. Note at the end there is a comment about some people being low in cortisol and therefore inappropriate for antidepressant use. We now know that if you take antidepressants for several weeks, they lower cortisol. But right after this announcement, you will see how […]
Ken Pope recommends this book. He has good taste. He writes the following, and my comments are at the tail: Many of you know of Mark Vonnegut’s book from decades ago: *The Eden Express: A Memoir of Schizophrenia.* (Kurt was his father.) After he wrote that account of his various hospitalizations, he applied to 20 […]
