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cimorenestaranise posted: Here's how you fix The Princess Bride: You make Buttercup a poet.Did you know The Princess Bride needed fixing? I didn't, until we did an unauthorized unlicensed live performance of it as my high school play. I got to direct and choreograph all the fight scenes. For months, I lived and breathed that play. I got to know all the plot holes (How does Inigo know Buttercup is the man in black's true love? How does Westley know Buttercup and Humperdinck never said their vows?) and I also got to know the biggest hole, the enormous gaping void in the centre of the story. It's Buttercup. I've never been able to un-see it.
3 mental health articles via
sciatrix that I saw my wife reading over my shoulder: Gratitude Lists Are B.S. — It Was an "Ingratitude" List That Saved Me by Liz Brown at Good Housekeeping
Gratitude lists didn't help me one bit. Writing them was a practice that drove me deeper into shame and self-loathing when I was already in a very dark place. Gratitude lists imply that those of us who are in pain are choosing misery and just aren't working hard enough and that if we just think happy thoughts we'll float up above our problems like the kids in Peter Pan.
Listening to Estrogen: Hormones have always been a third rail in female mental health. They may also be a skeleton key. by Lisa Miller at The Cut
A tiny group of mainly female psychiatrists working independently all over the world, from inside American universities and organizations like the National Institute of Mental Health to researchers working as far away as Switzerland and Spain, began to study these women. They believe that in some, the dramatic fluctuations in hormones that accompany the onset of menopause may help to trigger schizophrenia. This correlation is called “the estrogen hypothesis.”
The Stuttering Doctor's 'Monster Study' By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, MARCH 16, 2003 at The New York Times Magazine
In the fall of 1938, Wendell Johnson recruited one of his clinical psychology graduate students, 22-year-old Mary Tudor, who was avid but timorous, to undertake exactly that experiment. She was to study whether telling nonstuttering children that they stuttered would make it so. Could she talk children into a speech defect? The university had an ongoing research relationship with an orphanage in Davenport, Iowa, so Johnson suggested she base her study there. And thus, on Jan. 17, 1939, Mary Tudor drove along the high, swooping bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River to the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home. She toted notepads, chalkboards, a Smedley dynamometer (to measure hand strength) and a cumbersome Dictaphone. The study she began that morning is now the subject of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the State of Iowa and the University of Iowa.
