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If Your Brain Were Made of Yarn

Dr. Karen E. Norberg is a quirky psychiatrist who created an anatomically correct model of the human brain. Continue reading If Your Brain Were Made of Yarn

Excerpt from SUICIDE TANGO: Tallulah’s Laws of Bad Medicine

Dear Reader,

Tallulah’s Laws of Bad Medicine was presented to me by one of my first suicide patients as a warm thank-you for listening so intently. TW later recovered and became a successful psychiatrist who worked with suicidal girls and women. Over the years, she compiled these details about psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental-health professionals who “treated” suicidal patients.

Excerpt from Suicide Tango: Why Do You Want To Kill Yourself?

The following is the introduction to Chapter One by Dr. Jon Moore:

Being a textbook practitioner of the anal arts—please read: compulsively obsessive and obsessively compulsive—I often puzzle over the impossibly complex neural processes that lead a human being even to consider taking her own life. After all, they and their parents, for most people, have already invested at least fifteen years in that life, although for the average suicide—excuse me, suicidal person—this may not have been a particularly pleasant experience.

25 Biggest Lies and Dumbest Things Grown-ups Say To Children

Adults and grown-ups lie to children all the time and, most of the time, it well-intentioned. These recipients of this crap then pass on the same old dumb (if not outright stupid) things to their kids and anyone who will listen.

Villanelle: Coolest Psychobitch in the Stream

Over the past 75 or so years, movie and tv psychos have been so boringly Hollywood-stereotypical, cartoonish even: Raven (This Gun for Hire) Don Logan (Sexy Beast), Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction), Norman Bates (Psycho), among others. The writers of these clumsy characters were clueless about what makes a true psycho, let alone one who murders for cash.

For every hundred readers, ONE will:

The Fastest Way to Learn How to Write a Great Story

This will be the fastest how-to article I’ve ever written.

Every writer and author whose artworks you enjoy is your mentor. Here’s a nice plot twist: put them all to work for you! Continue reading The Fastest Way to Learn How to Write a Great Story

The Hypergenetics of Suicide: It’s Not Our Fault We Kill Ourselves Over and Over

There are trained professionals in the medical community who actually believe that anxiety, depression and suicidal behavior are just “in your mind” and have no organic basis whatsoever.

Remind me to steer clear of those idiots.

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