My thoughts on the brain: its functions and diseases
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In my previous post, I wrote about depression and how it has affected me throughout my life. It is both interesting and a dubious privilege to experience, within the same year, two different states that are commonly referred to as depression: severe biological depression on the one hand, and grief on the other.
Many of us, like Winston Churchill, have lived our lives with an unwelcome guest in the form of a black dog.
Look into your neighbor’s eyes.
In the previous post I wrote about consciousness and how one might think about where it begins; that it is like a wave without a clear start or end.
Reflecting on the existence of the universe, the origins of life, and why life became conscious is something most people do now and then—some more than others, and perhaps especially when young.
The other evening, I rewatched the excellent film Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
This is a continuation of my series of posts on psychiatric diagnostics.
Happy new year!
I don’t want to miss a single day
In the Gospel of John in the New Testament, it describes how Jesus heals a paralyzed man at Bethesda.
