Watch this heart rending video, 25 year old Mel, whose experience of hearing voices, one persecutory voice in particular, is profoundly harrowing and debilitating, she shares her story with overwhelming candour and rawness. Journalist Tom Tilley takes us to meet Mel and her family for a rare, raw and intimate insight into the experience of hearing voices; and reports on current uncertainty over causes and treatments. link to view it here
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Take a peek at some fabulous photos from Christopher Payne that documents over 70 institutions across the US . Featured in the New Scientist . Most people associate the word “asylum” with squalor and brutality – an impression strengthened by portrayals in books and films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – but they were originally designed to be places of sanctuary. Christopher Payne visited and photographed 70 such institutions across the US for his book Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals, which documents how their fall from grace reflects changing attitudes to mental illness.
The BBC News Magazine sheds some insight into the abuse that fat people are subject to in the feature article Why are fat people abused?
“You big fat pig” is all Marsha Coupe heard before she was kicked in the stomach and punched in the face.
The 53-year-old businesswoman says she was sitting in an almost empty train carriage in the early evening when she was kicked, punched and shouted at for taking up two seats.
Her attacker was pulled off by another passenger and restrained, but got off at the next stop before the police arrived.
It might surprise some people that the person doing the kicking and punching was a middle-aged woman, who was also travelling alone. But it might not stun those who are already significantly overweight.
Footage of this driver’s disastrous attempt to park a BMW at a Thornhill, Ont. fitness centre became a hit on YouTube and resulted in charges laid against a 62-year old. Well maybe she can draw some comfort from this new research, which suggests that bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists. People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it – and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results. About 30 percent of Americans have the variant.
“These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of what they learned after time away,” said Dr. Steven Cramer, neurology associate professor and senior author of the study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex. [continue reading…]
Take a peek at some fabulous photos from Christopher Payne that documents over 70 institutions across the US . Featured in the New Scientist .
