Showing posts with label mental illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental illness. Show all posts

Link roundup

1. Katy Hargrove's sketchbook is 148 pages for $15.

2. Russia is building floating nuclear power stations to assist in its planned conquest of the Arctic. Via.

3. ESPN blowhard Woody Paige talks about the time he nearly committed suicide.

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Stuffed animals with mental problems

Stuffed animals with mental problems:




The patient’s inner conflict must be interpreted as a sign of an ambivalent relationships towards its own body. Combined with the fascination of an apparently much more potent-seeming substitute rattle, we suspect the manifestation of a deeply rooted rattle complex. Of course, the enclosed substitute rattle should not be in use on a permanent basis and should only serve as a transitional object.



The patient has been trying to solve a wooden jigsaw puzzle for the past few months without success. He is so absorbed in this repetitive activity that he is unaware of his surroundings most of the time. Ever since his disorder has begun, the patient hasn't talked to anyone. A connection between the inability to speak and the compulsive urge to solve jigsaw puzzles seems likely.



The patient's hypersensitive hallucinatory perception is a symptom of a paranoid psychosis. The signs are a mental block and a Gestaltzerfall (disintegration of structure) of the habitual field of experience. The consequence is a compensational reactivation of archaic reaction patterns.






The patient seems to temporarily suffer from the delusion that she is a wolf despite the fact that she is without a doubt a sheep. The unexpectedly strong exhibition of the repressed identity completely overstrains her. Hysterical, psychotic defence reactions underline the fundamental threat which points at negative experiences and resulting fragmentation processes. In this state, the patient is unable to accept herself as a plush animal.



Being an animal more accustomed to a relaxed pace, life in the fast lane has caught up with our patient, sending him into a deep depression. Can you help him to come out of his shell once more and enjoy life on the outside? Help Dub to rediscover life - slowly this time!

Via these sites.

UPDATE: Meaghan points out that the animals are from a game.

Twins painting Portraits of Dorian Gray (link roundup)



Photo of identical twins Ivan and Malvin Albright painting before and after Portraits of Dorian Gray. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Complicated goings on in the Bioshock 2 ARG.

2. The world's mental illnesses are becoming Americanized.

3. Mickey Mouse turning into Venom. Via.

*Previously: The Wonder Twins vs the subprime mortgage crisis.

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Entertaining math class (link roundup)



I'm not sure if the class is learning much math, but a fun multimedia presentation by Matthew Weathers. Via.

And a few more links:

1. Aspberger's may be eliminated as a diagnosis from the 2012 edition of psychiatry’s diagnostic manual. Via.

2. A time traveler visits the Revolutionary War in a first person shooter.

3. Wild Things on the subway. Via.

*Previously: A vintage speech by Bill Gates as a commando in Doom.

*Buy Where the Wild Things Are toys at eBay.

Megan Fox as Catwoman desktop wallpaper (link roundup)



Megan Fox as Catwoman desktop wallpaper, made with an image found here.

And a few more links:

1. What do you do when your 6-year-old is schizophrenic:
"Is the Moban working?" her mother asks Jani during a visit.

"No. I have more friends."
Read on and feel way better about your life. You can read her father's blog about fighting Blue Shield for coverage, too.

2. Wired asked various designers to redesign Craigslist.

3. Funny post trying to figure out what Oprah's next book club pick will be.

*Previously: Catwoman Cosbaby.

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Professor Mindlock



Professor Mindlock by Kareem Thompson (posted years ago, but new to me). High-res version at the link.

*Previously: Lacuna Inc. t-shirt.

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There's a baseball team called the "Tin Caps"



The Fort Wayne Tin Caps minor league baseball team (affiliated with the San Diego Padres) play in Indiana. They're named for Johnny Appleseed, who supposedly wore a tin pot as a hat. (No merchandise available at the home page.)

Here's a few more links:

1. There's a man named Greg Packer who has made a career of being the guy lazy newspeople interview. Most recently, the NY Times interviewed him as a fan celebrating the Phillies win. Link.


2. Earlier this year, a fire at an unmanned US nuclear facility went unnoticed for five days. It caused one million dollars in damages. Link.


3. Recent survey indicates roughly half of all medical doctors prescribe placebos as treatment.


4. David Foster Wallace always wore a bandana because he hoped it would prevent his head from exploding. Link.


5. Nuclear power plant located three hours north of Los Angeles had to be shut down because it attracted too many jellyfish. Via.


6. Go here if you want to see Patrick Stewart with a mustache.

*Previously: Engage and Locutus - - two bold new fragrances from Jean-Luc Picard.

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Herschel Walker says he suffers from multiple personality disorder

His father: "This is my first knowing about that."

His therapist said he met Walker's alternate personalities therapy: "They will come out and say, I am so-and-so. I'm here to tell you Herschel is not doing too good ... When he finishes, it would just disappear back in him, and Herschel comes out."

His wife: "Well, now it makes perfect sense, because each personality has a different interest. This one has an interest in ballet, this one has an interest in the Marines, this one had an interest [in the] FBI, this one had an interest in sports."

Read more.