Friday, August 23, 2024

Leftover 2008 Mental Health Posts

These two fit vaguely into the category of mental health as I clean up the last of 2008. A few more to go before I start reprising 2009.

I used to often point out that the ability to laugh at oneself is a marker of good balanced personality.  Then someone was insulting in the comments because of a comment I had made over at Language Log and I was a little snippy in return.  Fair, but snippy.  I should have laughed at myself instead.

I was surprised when a psychology PhD student who was interning at our hospital openly put forward 9/11 Truther ideas. I gave my usual insight - not to him, but on the blog - that the paranoia precedes the evidence in a conspiracy theory rather than resulting from it.

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