Category: Reading
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Precision Change
Read more: Precision ChangeOCD meets CBT: The Data Driven Life profiles people precisely measuring what’s going on in their lives. A few months ago, Barooah began to wean himself from coffee. His method was precise. He made a large cup of coffee and removed 20 milliliters weekly. This went on for more than four months, until barely a…
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The Middle-Aged Brain
Read more: The Middle-Aged BrainThe middle-aged brain is “better than ever,” says Barbara Stauch, author of a book on the subject: The thing the middle-aged brain shares with the teenage brain is that it’s still developing. It’s not some static blob that is going inextricably downhill…during this period…we’re better at all sorts of things than we were at 20.…
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Mind Over Meds
Read more: Mind Over MedsMind Over Meds or “how I decided my psychiatry patients needed more from me than prescriptions”–a psychiatrist’s story, from the NYT Magazine. [L]earning the formal techniques of therapy was like navigating without a compass. While I learned how to form an alliance with my patients and begin a good dialogue, becoming a skillful therapist requires…
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Workaholism and Chronic Pain
Read more: Workaholism and Chronic PainTake a look at the Workaholics Anonymous Brief Guide (pdf). In addition to the 12-steps (pretty much the same as A.A.’s, with “work” replacing “alcohol”) and a quiz (“How Do I Know if I’m a Workaholic?”), there’s Tools of Recovery list. What’s especially striking about them to this reader is how completely they sync up…
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Online Dating Pay Site Takedown
Read more: Online Dating Pay Site TakedownA lively takedown of pay dating sites on the OkCupid Blog–simultaneously demystifying the online dating process. There is a negative correlation between the number of messages a man sends per day to the reply rate he gets.The more messages you send, the worse response rate you get. It’s not hard to see why this would…