Sublime

If,

Deifying the demonized is another form of categorical self-binding.

“Any prolonged or repeated departures from hedonic or affective neutrality . . . have a cost.”

David attributed fatigue and inattentiveness to a mental illness rather than to sleep deprivation and overstimulation, a logic he used to justify continued use of pills. I’ve seen a similar paradox in many of my patients over the years: They use drugs, prescribed or otherwise, to compensate for a basic lack of self-care, then attribute the costs to

By interviewing them, I learned that they don’t agree on even the most basic questions—including whether ADHD actually exists in the way most people have been told it does, as a biological illness.

“What is turned on here is exactly what turns on while people feel pain.” The operative word is while. She goes on, “A person stops using methamphetamine, and this is awaiting them.” Clinicians who work with meth addicts already know that addicts are often depressed, argumentative, anxious, and unwilling to engage in treatment—exactly like Nic—but

Damasio

When I went through medical school and residency in the 1990s, I was taught that people with depression, anxiety, attention deficit, cognitive distortions, sleep problems, and so on have brains that don’t work the way they’re supposed to, just like people with diabetes have a pancreas that doesn’t secrete enough insulin. My job, according to the th

self-binding openly recognizes the limitations of will.