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From The Blog…
Is Your Treatment Making You Suicidal?
post links to a RxISK Reducing the Risk of Treatment Induced Suicide Resource. The immediate idea for this Resource came from an article by Katinka Newman on the Downward Spiral many prescription drugs can cause. Five years ago RxISK posted lists of drugs that can cause a downward spiral. Three years ago a mother…
Juggling Our Selves and Our Bodies
Illustration: Juggling Act © 2020 created by Niki McQueen Balance in Balancing Our Bodies and Our Selves and Juggling or coordinating Our Selves and Our Bodies are closely linked. Life is a Tightrope Walk and Paul Klee’s Tightrope Walker, emphatically concerned with his balance, features in Balancing. Once spotted Niki McQueen’s extraordinary Juggling Act had…
Ondine’s Curse: Can’t Live With or Without
Ondine’s Curse links closely to Balancing our Bodies and next week’s Juggling our Selves. Ondine’s Curse sounds like a Greek Myths. Its not. The story began taking shape a few hundred years ago and has been elaborated ever since – ending up featuring in The Little Mermaid and other stories. The standard version is that…