Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use This is all kinds of cool, and everything your mother told you not to do. Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist from Washington D.C., not just any artist though. Saunders prefers to take a more unconventional approach to his artwork. Arguably his most interesting project, entitled DRUGS is described as follows: Below, you can view a collection of portraits Saunders drew while under the influence of various substances ranging from cocaine, to marijuana, to DMT. Abilify / Xanax / Ativan 90mg Abilify 1 sm Glass of “real” Absinth 10mg Adderall 10mg Ambien Bath Salts 15mg Buspar (snorted) 4 Butalbitals Butane Honey Oil 250mg Cephalexin 1/2 gram Cocaine Computer Duster (2 squirts) 2 bottles of Cough Syrup 1 “Bump” of Crystalmeth 4mg Dilaudid 1 shot of Dilaudid / 3 shots of Morphine 60mg Geodon Hash Huffing Gas Huffing Lighter Fluid 7.5mg Hydrocodone / 7.5mg Oxycodone / 3mg Xanax 3mg Klonopin 10mg Loritab Marijuana (Kine Bud) G13 Marijuana Morphine IV Psilocybin Mushrooms (2 caps onset) 2mg Nicotine Gum Nitrous Oxide 2mg Xanax
Dialectical behavior therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a therapy designed to help people change patterns of behavior that are not effective, such as self-harm, suicidal thinking and substance abuse. This approach works towards helping people increase their emotional and cognitive regulation by learning about the triggers that lead to reactive states and helping to assess which coping skills to apply in the sequence of events, thoughts, feelings and behaviors that lead to the undesired behavior. DBT assumes that people are doing the best that they can, but either are lacking the skills or are influenced by positive or negative reinforcement that interfere with one’s functioning. DBT is a modified form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that was originally [timeframe?] developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychology researcher at the University of Washington, to treat people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and chronically suicidal individuals. Overview[edit] Four modules[edit] Mindfulness[edit] Observe
Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality Google’s driver-less cars are already street-legal in three states, California, Florida, and Nevada, and some day similar devices may not just be possible but mandatory. Eventually (though not yet) automated vehicles will be able to drive better, and more safely than you can; no drinking, no distraction, better reflexes, and better awareness (via networking) of other vehicles. Within two or three decades the difference between automated driving and human driving will be so great you may not be legally allowed to drive your own car, and even if you are allowed, it would be immoral of you to drive, because the risk of you hurting yourself or another person will be far greater than if you allowed a machine to do the work. That moment will be significant not just because it will signal the end of one more human niche, but because it will signal the beginning of another: the era in which it will no longer be optional for machines to have ethical systems. But what should we do about it?
Personality disorders Personality disorders are a class of mental disorders characterised by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating markedly from those accepted by the individual's culture. These patterns develop early, are inflexible and are associated with significant distress or disability.[1] The definitions may vary some according to other sources.[2][3] Official criteria for diagnosing personality disorders are listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, and in the mental and behavioral disorders section of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, published by the World Health Organization. The DSM-5 published in 2013 now lists personality disorders in exactly the same way as other mental disorders, rather than on a separate 'axis' as previously.[4] Classification[edit] World Health Organization[edit]
When Books Could Change Your Life: Why What We Pore Over At 12 May Be The Most Important Reading We Ever Do A girl I once caught reading Fahrenheit 451 over my shoulder on the subway confessed: "You know, I'm an English lit major, but I've never loved any books like the ones I loved when I was 12 years old." I fell slightly in love with her when she said that. It was so frank and uncool, and undeniably true. Let's all admit it: We never got over those first loves. Listen to the difference in the voices of any groups of well-read, overeducated people discussing contemporary fiction, or the greatest books they've ever read, and the voices of those same people, only two drinks later, talking about the books they loved as kids. It's not just that these books, unlike adult literature, have been left unsullied by professors turning them into objects of tedious study. Let me put it another way: When was the last time a book changed your life? It's not that children's books are pure entertainment, innocent of any didactic goal--what grownups enviously call "Reading for Fun."
Screw Positive Thinking! Why Our Quest for Happiness Is Making Us Miserable Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Sergey Nivens December 4, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The man who claims that he is about to tell me the secret of human happiness is eighty-three years old, with an alarming orange tan that does nothing to enhance his credibility. “So you wanna know?” “Here it is, then,” Dr. The audience combusts. The logic of Schuller’s philosophy, which is the doctrine of positive thinking at its most distilled, isn’t exactly complex: decide to think happy and successful thoughts — banish the spectres of sadness and failure — and happiness and success will follow. The organisers of Get Motivated!
The Oatmeal (Matthew Inman) replies to the Buzzfeed article criticizing him about a joke from a recent comic. : comics bovisrex comments on ELI5: PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder alpha_squadron1 comments on Alpha as fuck John Keats on "Negative Capability," Embracing Uncertainty, and Celebrating the Mysterious by Maria Popova On the art of remaining in doubt “without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) endures as an icon of literary creativity. In a letter to his brothers, George and Thomas, found in Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends (public library; public domain) and dated December 21, 1817, Keats uses the phrase that has come to be the single most emblematic phrase of his entire surviving correspondence, even though he only makes mention of it once: “Negative Capability” — the willingness to embrace uncertainty, live with mystery, and make peace with ambiguity. Keats writes: In the introduction to Selected Letters, Jon Mee writes of the letters themselves as a meta-embodiment of “Negative Capability”: Perhaps Christoph Niemann was right, after all, in asserting that insecurity is essential to creativity. Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month. Share on Tumblr
What is CBT - Information What is CBT? CBT, or Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, is a talking therapy. It has been proved to help treat a wide range of emotional and physical health conditions in adults, young people and children. CBT works There is a great deal of research evidence to show that CBT works effectively in treating depression. NICE provides independent, evidence-based guidance for the NHS on the most effective ways to treat disease and ill health. What can CBT help with? NICE recommends CBT in the treatment of the following conditions: anxiety disorders (including panic attacks and post-traumatic stress disorder) depression obsessive compulsive disorder schizophrenia and psychosis bipolar disorder There is also good evidence that CBT is helpful in treating many other conditions, including: chronic fatigue behavioural difficulties in children anxiety disorders in children chronic pain physical symptoms without a medical diagnosis sleep difficulties anger management How CBT is delivered Self-help CBT About BABCP
Psychiatrists are being driven mad by their portrayal on screen - Health News - Health & Families Hollywood screen psychiatrists such as Hannibal Lecter and Frasier Crane misrepresent the profession, and may actually prevent people seeking help, according to their real-life counterparts. A new Radio 4 series, to run daily this week, surveyed 50 eminent psychiatrists worldwide to discover what they thought of their profession's portrayal on screen. The producer, Ian Docherty, said he was somewhat shocked at the vehemence of their replies. "There was a whole untapped resentment going on." The doctors felt that cinema had given them a raw deal, and bemoaned every screen portrayal from Robbie Coltrane's hard-drinking, womanisingpsychologist Fitz in Cracker,to Kelsey Grammer's latte-swilling radio doc in Frasier. Based on their answers,the producers of Celluloid Psychiatrists compiled five "types" of screen psychiatrist, from the "intellectual buffoon", typified by a character called Dr Dippy in Edwardian times, to the thrill-seeking "unethical exploiter".