MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'enemies'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4848122&cid=t_168779_136_f&fid=39016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fturquoisegates.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fin-presence-of-my-enemies.html Even though I walk through the valley of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (Psalm 23:4-6)New life breathes into Psalm 23 as I seek comfort and protection from the flashbacks and nightmares. They are my enemies now, always with their surprise attacks and new weapons and better firepower.I walk up the steps to the pastor who counsels me, and she shows me this verse. Feasting in the presence of enemies. I don't have to wait for the flashbacks and n... Turquoise Gates blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4848122 Fri, 20 May 2011 10:21:00 +0100 4848122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4482826&cid=t_168779_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F15%2Fpunishment-a-cultural-phenomenon%2F We are a culture that believes in punishment. Not just for the criminal or the misbehaving child, but in almost every interaction we have, from our intimate partners to our global enemies and friends. We don’t just see punishment as a deterrent. We think punishment works to change another’s behavior. Just look around. Take a closer look at how you approach a difficult conversation. We all do it. We use punishment all of the time. We don’t even think about it. Punishment is a completely ineffective way to change anyone’s behavior. Punishment simply breeds punishment-avoidance — and what we resist persists. In spite of ongoing and frequent evidence to the contrary, Americans rely on punishment to effect positive change in all areas of our lives. From our child-rearing prac... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4482826 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:31:57 +0100 4482826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3679796&cid=t_168779_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F06%2F20%2Fin-celebration-of-fathers-2010%2F Happy Father’s Day! Dads sometimes get a bum rap as simple bread winners who occasionally are called upon to wield a hammer to hang a picture. They play ball (or, more likely, video games) with the kids, and leave the heavy lifting of child rearing and such to the moms. But fathers are, of course, so much more. They teach us about the wisdom of consideration, courage and honor. They know it is better to command respect than fear, to cultivate friendships rather than enemies, and to find something you love to do, and then build your career around it. Perhaps they aren’t always as “involved” in things as moms seem to be, but they so often seem to provide the rock of stability in a family that is often under-appreciated. Dads are increasingly feeling just as stressed ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3679796 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:52:17 +0100 3679796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3200669&cid=t_168779_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2FkVwChdyh4DQ%2F We drank as heavy drinkers or alcoholics and found these contradictions We drank for happiness and became unhappy. We drank for joy and became miserable. We drank to be outgoing and became self-centered. We drank for sociability and became argumentative. We drank for sophistication and became crude and obnoxious. We drank for friendship and made enemies. We drank for sleep and awakened without rest. We drank for strength and felt weak. We drank for sex drive and lost our potency. We drank for relaxation and got the shakes. We drank for confidence and became doubtful. We drank for warmth and lost our cool. We drank for coolness and lost our warmth. We drank for freedom and became slaves. We drank for power and were powerless. We drank to soften sorrow and wallowed in self-pity. We drank me... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3200669 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:26:42 +0100 3200669 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2934655&cid=t_168779_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FEcV3_ZrZU5M%2F Former Marine captain Matthew Hoh became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war. His letter of resignation echoes some arguments I have made earlier this year, namely, that what we are witnessing is a local and regional ethnic Pashtun population fighting against what they perceive to be a foreign occupation of their region; that our current strategy does not answer why and to what end we are pursuing  this war; and that Afghanistan holds little intrinsic strategic value to the security of the United States. In his own words: The Pashtun insurgency, which is composed of multiple, seemingly infinite, local groups, is fed by what is perceived by the Pashtun people as a continued and sustained assault, going back centuries, on Pashtun land, culture, traditions ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2934655 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:39:35 +0100 2934655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2616841&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F19%2Fa-word-with-you%2F There’s nothing quite like watching an addled crusade to get the juices flowing again. I cannot get through the Shakesville commenting guide and maintain a straight face. At issue is whether blogs that traffic in pain and abuse be appropriately denoted “safe spaces” with trigger warnings and compulsive moderation to make sure indelicate oafs who fail to approach the walking wounded with proper temerity don’t get away with it for a single f.ing second. Maybe it seemed a good idea at the time but safe spaces end up like eXtreme mindgropes, with serious hands-on evaluation and excessive analysis of thread commenters. If there’s a point to it, they’ve failed to get it across, since plenty of us see the only gratification in putting funny people down, as if t... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2616841 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:09:22 +0100 2616841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2061167&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F12%2F23%2Fthe-giving-offering-and-forcing-of-selves%2F Not another post about nuance! Yes and it all started when I heard benevolent superstar Jon Swift is offering exposure to his blogroll writers with another year-end round up of Best Posts Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves. Last year was a great success, providing hours of enjoyable reading and oodles of new visitors to the entrants’ blogs. This is not a contest, but an invitation for writers of all kinds who want a little more attention. I’m posting about it in the enduring hope of seeing psychiatric bloggers do more crossing-over into the wider progressive blogosphere. Of course you have to be on his blogroll, but since his blogroll is famous for being open to anyone I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t be on it. I had little trouble choosing my own favorite post fr... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2061167 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:48:28 +0100 2061167 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1853698&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F05%2Fdiscovered-wordle%2F This summer it’s been living on the Outskirts of the Intranets since I found my library card, but have to mention a new toy making the scene; it’s a time-sink but beautiful, and about time. Just follow this link, cut, paste, Java does the work, you reap the warm inordinate glow of artistic accomplishment. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes, he says, though judging by the spellbinders my learning curve has hills to climb. But for now some thoughts inside my head are free. Sobering, yes I know. they work best when you click them Posted in Books, Cool things to put on my blog, Enemies...must...have...enemies, Murder is a Crime, Rwanda, Torture, War       (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1853698 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:49:52 +0100 1853698 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1837150&cid=t_168779_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F09%2F28%2Ffacebook-scams-of-narcissists%2F Did you know that if you spend time at social network websites like Facebook you might be a narcissist? Of course not everyone who uses Facebook is one. A recent study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Buffardi and Cambell, 2008) found how social networking web sites such as Facebook can attract narcissists. Here are some of the positive traits narcissists can exhibit: Initially likable. Perceived as leaders. Perceived as exciting. Perceived as entertaining. The capability to obtain sexual partners. Narcissists can give the illusion of closeness, having empathy, and warmth yet they also are relational opportunists. They use their relationships to enhance themselves. In other words, they can be “show-offs.” Narcissists are also known to be cont... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1837150 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:54:56 +0100 1837150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1723548&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F21%2Fobama-to-mccain-cbt-is-shit-fer-brains%2F Welp, I’m back from my break. Feast your eyes to the right of this blog, after 3 months over-thinking how to set it up we now have a world of VODPOD, and I think it’s going to help. I’m just building the library now but once it holds a hundred or so clips will find a way to order the narrative so we can get lost for a day or two in there. So what’s new? I took off a few weeks because I’ve been animated by a real serious project that I didn’t want to jinx by blogging about and since this project is uppermost in my mind found I couldn’t blog about anything until I feel secure it’s going to work out. I feel secure it’s going to work out and will explain everything tomorrow but as a tease will just share that due to this new and mysterious ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1723548 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:16:13 +0100 1723548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1492218&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F04%2Fcan-i-count-on-you-if-i-fall-apart%2F I have been consumed with feline diabetes the last few days, as I should, it’s complex as it gets and the knowledge base as demanding as that of informed mental health patients. Angelbait will need me to test her glucose 4 times a day, before and after I give her the shots, that means pricking her ear and getting the reading on a monitor. She will need prescription food and I have to figure out how to do things like get the insulin from the vet to my house in 100 degree heat without a car, the insulin has to be kept refrigerated. This home-based disease management will cost about 150 a month, the only way that will work is if I quit smoking. And I have to figure out how to do all this when the legislature is in session, and bills are passed at 2 AM, when I’m at the Capitol 18 h... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1492218 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:55:50 +0100 1492218 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1383751&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F18%2Fdo-be-do-be-do%2F Sitting here thinking about the ways I’m fucked up, if I will stay in the house day after day like this til my real life starts when I lose 20 pounds, meanwhile Nick Lowe is playing at Antone’s THIS NIGHT, the beat poet Anne Waldman is giving a lecture at the Humanities Center THIS NIGHT, [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1383751 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:22:25 +0100 1383751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1218208&cid=t_168779_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F231583594%2Fenemy_or_amity.html Over at Fearless Dreams I was intrigued by a post that asked …Do You Have Enemies?What a shocking reminder that … we’re consumed with the idea of wars and enemies.Unfortunately this toxic mental pattern triggers and sustains fears that follow. Have you seen it? No wonder it’s easy to believe the 2005 survey by the National Institute of Mental Health … that shows how 58 million people suffer from anxiety disorders.If you’ve detected people out to get you, you likely also see fellow workers as enemies. My question is … Do you consider folks who offer opposing views as combatants? Have you ever noticed subtle differences between well respected firms and combatant organizations? In fighter settings ... wars arise from mere differences in culture, b... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1218208 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:36:10 +0100 1218208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1198052&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F03%2Frise-up-little-blogger%2F I remember last year, when the A-listers de-linked all the smaller blogs from their rolls, in what double-talking Atrios christened Blogroll Amnesty Day. The small blogs responded in true opposition by filling their own blogrolls with the links of those who had been kicked off the big blogs, in a classy demonstration of support [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1198052 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:18 +0100 1198052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1133951&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F07%2Four-overlord-foucault-is-at-it-again%2F A witfree friend of the mentally ill left a comment at ama’s blog, claiming that the SPMI have all but been abandoned by the “consumertocracy literati.” Doesn’t that just roll off the tongue. The myth that we are hippie pomo philosophy majors with no real world knowledge of what we denounce is standard low-hanging [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1133951 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:32:43 +0100 1133951 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1030196&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F15%2Fin-praise-of-icarus%2F Sorry for the light posting, I see people coming by and feel twinges about that but I’ve been hanging out at Icarus, the place to go for support and soothing. I hate support and soothing, you shouldn’t have to spell it all out, Icarus understands that, and that’s why it works. Sometimes I [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1030196 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:47:17 +0100 1030196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=965274&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F20%2Fsofter-times-will-be-had-by-all%2F I went to 2 policy meetings today, which usually leads to the cussing, not-safe-for-work diatribe you’ve come to expect following these forays into the lions den. But institutional mental health is being re-organized in Texas, on the local, state and federal levels, and some demonstrable, incremental changes have happened since just last [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965274 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:33:21 +0100 965274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=858444&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F10%2Fnote-to-compassion-trolls-not-here%2F If you knew me in real life you’d wonder when I’m going to get myself killed. All my friends do. Funny no one ever asks me that online, I wonder why. I’m not in hiding, it’s all out there, right, yes. So let’s not pretend. My life is made up of constant and vituperative battles with institutionalized authority, I’ve always been this way and always will. It’s part non-volitional upset and part performance, but it’s all real. The non-volitional upset is what control freaks tell me to analyze, and that they even make such a suggestion is endemic to the sense of entitlement I refuse to recognize and that got us into this fight in the first place. My refusal to knuckle under leads to even more outrageous demands for submission and I want that to... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=858444 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:16:56 +0100 858444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=801465&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F15%2Fwhats-more-loaded-than-a-skid-row-bum%2F TAC rhetoric! Hands down the most mind-blown example of Orwellian doublethink going on in the national discourse. Alison Hymes correctly identifies TAC as a political action committee that promotes wicked discrimination while claiming itself a leading advocate for the mentally ill. The following is from her post about TAC’s Craig’s List ad for a new director. Here I attempt to unpack their language and get to the bottom of it: The Treatment Advocacy Center seeks a dynamic and passionate leader who can continue a commanding track record of success into its second decade. The Treatment Advocacy Center (www.TreatmentAdvocacyCenter.org) is a national nonprofit based inside the Washington Beltway (Arlington, VA). TAC has an expert legal, communications, and support staff in place ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=801465 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:46:00 +0100 801465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=733878&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F13%2Fill-listen-to-my-heart%2F The Simone D story has gained some traction in the feminist blogosphere. I would like to breathe a sigh of hope, but I can’t, something else is going on that always goes on and makes us lose whatever allies we pick up. By allies I don’t mean the unshakable Scientologists, and the somethiing else going on is not the knee-jerk discrediting of allies as such. Not yet. If progressives are to take up psychiatric rights it’s the stakeholder’s job to meet them halfway. We have to be directive, and “on message.” Maybe I’m kidding myself and there is no real c/s/x community, but for the sake of argument, let’s say we have something going on. How do we get out of the ghetto? What can we do? What are we doing? It’s tricky to urge social activists... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=733878 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:04:47 +0100 733878 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=683525&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F19%2Fthird-times-a-charm%2F I wrote 2 long and demoralizing posts today that made me loopy. I’m arguing with another commenter at Amanda’s blog and can’t make heads or tails of what’s going on. I see some folks are here today, I tell you what, I’ll just download the chat function so we can talk in real time when things [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=683525 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:20:41 +0100 683525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=558058&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F20%2Fsharing-the-wealth%2F I’m surfing the theatre of cruelty this national day of mourning, will toss some links up later tonight. There’s that saying, something happens and the crazies come out of the woodwork, but all I’m seeing are crazy-haters today, doing god’s work, shaming the depressives. The fear-mongering DSM spewing psycho-bigots with their intimidating screeds on what to do with the severe and persistent mentally ill, that theatre of cruelty. I read the posts and don’t know where to go. I stare at the comment box and don’t know how to start. Vonnegut’s dead, Molly’s gone, I could tell them about my gramma, make them weep. Johnny Cash? I’ll use him, an American icon, we all agree on Johnny Cash. No, it’s that mental midget Nikki Giovanni, she ki... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=558058 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:21:53 +0100 558058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=552208&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F03%2F28%2Fgo-ahead-ignore-me%2F I regret everything I write here. I wonder if I’m the only one who instantly and violently hates what they post. I thought being disposable would cure me of literary pretensions, what does it say about the value of your work when by design it falls off the page, why care really, when it’s gonna effectively disappear in a few days anyway? I dig them up, groan and edit, it’s hard to let go. All I can say for sure right now is blogging is a medium. That’s it. Where no one clicks the links. Seeing that can fill me with rage because I click the links on every post I read, people raised catholic tend to do things like click links religiously. I suffer for it, on dialup, half the links I click are a pointless waste of time, but that’s the medium, and I read in good f... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=552208 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:11:58 +0100 552208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=552217&cid=t_168779_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F03%2F17%2Fin-the-name-of-what-now%2F I love the interblog fights. Last one I was in on took off from the Feministe slapdown of the Sadly, No! ruffians over their free use of the word cunt as an epithet. Which goes to show the liberal dude is not your ally but a wolf in sheeps clothing, steeped in privilege, typified by his refusal to knuckle under the feminist re-education campaign which went on for a week and led to thousands of posts on millions of blogs. I’m about to share my take on it by starting with the insightful and pro-social Pinko Punko, who checked in with an indication of how bad things got on day three or so, when the frayed and sleepless were trolling each others blogs, performing our umbrage and rolling fat heads on the killing floor: Everybody just take their asshole reduction pill. Nobody is arguing f... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=552217 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:41:47 +0100 552217