Adventures in Anxiety Land

Depression in December - A Holiday Challenge

2011-12-09T16:33:00.000-05:00

Hello Friends: Long time no blog - well, a month, anyway. I always forget how crazy the end of the year can be. November is particularly sneaky since I try to do a lot of writing, but also have to clean up from my usual huge Halloween party, and then suddenly it is time to get ready for Thanksgiving. Then the month is over. And with the MIs, time does not seem to go by at a steady rate,

Even More Sane Than Ever

2011-11-08T17:59:00.000-05:00

Hello Friends: As you know by now I love online quizzes, and I love talking about the crazies. So pretty much nothing can beat an online quiz about the crazies. My favorite for the last two years has been The Sanity Score at PsychCentral. I've mentioned before that I don't think it is terribly diagnostic, but given that I've taken this exact same test five times now over the last two years,

A Ridiculous "Hello" from Halloween

2011-10-26T18:21:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: So there I am, in my kitchen, trying to make something to eat. No, this story is not about mice. Much. Other than to say you know how hard it is to cook in a kitchen that has recently been visited by varmits. I still do not have them out with certainty, but it's been five days since they've been sighted. Heard one in the walls last night, but it did not enter the actual house

Varmint Warfare

2011-10-15T18:25:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: I was far, far too optimistic to hope I had managed to rid my abode of mice. A week after we returned from our trip, my spouse spotted yet another varmint. This time in the LIVING ROOM and the little sucker ran into the KITCHEN and went into the cupboard where my COOKING PANS are. Of course you know, this means war. At this point, there is no food they can get to, at all.

Blog Carnival - World Mental Health Day

2011-10-10T18:21:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: Welcome to the October 10, 2011 edition of World Mental Health Day Blog Carnival!!! (At last! Six hours late, thanks to Blog Carnival being down and then my own internet being flaky.) Exposure Woman presents Exposing OCD: I am the Keeper of My Time posted at Exposing OCD. Kat presents Am I Worth the Investment??? posted at Keeping In The Sunlight, saying, "World Mental Health

Accommodating Mental Illness in the Workplace - A Little Goes a Long Way

2011-10-10T12:30:00.000-04:00

Basic Office - No Touchy My Chair Hello Friends: The theme for World Mental Health Day this year is "Investing in Mental Health." With the wide variety of options for interpreting this theme, I finally chose to highlight the need for accommodations, particularly in the workplace. A little investment in time and energy, and much less investment in actual money, would improve the workplace

Fun with Blog Carnivals - Update

2011-10-10T07:54:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: UPDATE: Blog Carnival site is still down. So when I finally get access, I will extend the deadline. Bother. Annnnd ... blog carnival site is down. For crying out loud. If it stays down for too long I'll extend the deadline. But I wanted the edition to come up today for obvious reasons. Sigh. Computers make our lives easier. Your Hostess With Neuroses

World Mental Health Day - Blogging on Investing

2011-10-09T19:19:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: Want to join in on a little blog carnival for World Mental Health Day? The 'how to post' is here. That post also has a few links to other sites of interest. Submit your post by noon EDT Oct 10, tomorrow to be included in this 'edition.' The edition will list on Blog Carnival, and I will also post it completely in one blog post, myself. I've been thinking more about the theme

World Mental Health Day - Updates to Blog Carnival

2011-10-07T09:06:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: Here's a friendly reminder, please join in on the Blog Carnival! Okay, responding to some commentary from the people, I've made a few updates to the info for said Blog Carnival. First, Deadline change. Deadline for the Carnival is now Noon, EDT, October 10, 2011. So now it is possible to have your relevant post come up on October 10 (instead of before), and also be included

World Mental Health Day - Join Me for a Blog Carnival

2011-10-05T11:31:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: World Mental Health Day is on its way, October 10, 2011. The theme this year is "The Great Push: Investing in Mental Health." Here are two of the sites promoting WMHD ... World Federation for Mental Health and World Health Organization (United Nations Sponsor). My major contribution to WMHD will be to put up a blog post on Adventures in Anxiety Land on October 10, 2011 (of

Bitch Slapped by the Universe, Again - Part II

2011-10-03T04:29:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: I apologize for the cliff hanger, especially since the story might not have the earth shaking climax expected in this modern world of high energy entertainment. I can say I certainly didn't find the whole experience to be entertaining. Other words come to mind, but not the sort I can write out online without a lot of $*#!% in them. So, ah, okay. There I was wondering how my

Bitch Slapped by the Universe, Again - Part I

2011-09-24T10:41:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: You know how it feels when you are cruising along, and things seem ok (or at least meta-stable) and you think you are handling it ... and then suddenly from out of nowhere ... POW - bitch slap. You are on the ropes, hoping you don't pass out and end up TKO'd. You don't just get a jolt, or any kind of new manageable challenge. Instead, you get handed something about three orders

Taking on Travel Anxiety with some Fun

2011-09-19T03:12:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: So last time I talked about flexibility. This time I want to talk about fun. Turning a strange circumstance into a party is definitely a skill worth learning. Wish I could do it more often. Anyway, after being at home a week, we were pounded by another storm. Three days of rain, and the Susquehanna valley up to the north suffered the kinds of floods it hasn't seen since '72.

Taking on Travel Anxiety with Some Flexibility

2011-09-10T04:34:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: Not that I'm an expert on the subject. I do travel a great deal. I do have plenty of anxieties, OCDs, phobias, and the like. I do have my own ideas about how to make it easier. And then I go right ahead and get all worked up anyway. Still, I've had a lot of success creating a strategy and support structure for dealing with doctor's visits, it's time to do the same for travel.

Allergy Freak Out - Or Maybe Not

2011-08-16T00:11:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: It's taken me a week to write about this, it freaked me out so badly. But now, safe in the distance of time and an explanation I can handle, things look differently. Of course they do. But at the time, it felt like this ... Never eat sushi before having an allergy attack. Because you (who have OCD food contamination issues) will imagine it was the sushi. Even though you only

The Real Blue Morpho

2011-08-01T02:29:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: For as long as I can remember I have been a little obsessed with butterflies. They quickly attract my attention, and if one is floating by I'll stop everything to watch it. When I was a child they seemed like fairies. Beautiful, fast moving, colorful things will attract the attention of any child, of course, but I'm still suffering pretty acutely with this ADD behavior around

Hanging With the Normals at the Car Shop

2011-06-30T17:03:00.002-04:00

Hello Friends: Right now I am waiting for my car, which is in for routine servicing. I have a great shop, which is where we bought the car. (Pic is not my car - I have a Honda. One can dream.) They have a nice waiting area at the shop with tables, free internet, and plenty of light. And lots of people who have no idea that you are terrified. I call them 'normals' sometimes. This is so

Investing in Ourselves - Treating the Whole Person

2011-06-02T15:44:00.002-04:00

Hello Friends: The scientific literature for anxiety and depression continues to amuse, entertain, and on rare occasion actually enlighten. I'm not even sure why I read the journals, since for the most part my only comment is "no duh." But my psychologist continues to remind me that there is a difference between something being obvious to me as a sufferer of mental illnesses, and having actual

Learning More About Grief, the Hard Way

2011-05-18T17:46:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: I lost a friend a few days ago. I had intended to blog about it immediately, but was still sort of in shock. Or denial. Definitely denial, since I can feel this "how can this person not exist anymore" sensation. I had known for several months that she had cancer, something with a bad prognosis. But the last report just a week or so ago was that she was in treatment, battling

New Doctors and Other Triggers

2011-04-25T06:03:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: So here today is a happy picture, in honor of Easter, obviously. I found out that a long time reader was very distressed over the picture I had in my last post. She wanted to check and see if I had posted anything more recent, but had stopped checking the blog since the picture was too triggery. This is a good lesson for me. I had, of course, intentionally chosen the image

Words Through the Walls

2011-02-18T17:14:00.000-05:00

Hello Friends: I am, this very moment, hearing my neighbors arguing. I live in a townhouse with reasonably thick walls, but yelling, loud music, and such can be heard pretty clearly. This couple has a loud argument about once a month. They have done this for the last three years. Usually I immediately play music to drown it out, leave the house, or start up with an engaging video game until

Back with More Acronyms, and Some Frustration

2011-02-17T14:59:00.000-05:00

Hello Friends: Back after another hiatus. It is starting to get easier to come back and try to take up where I left off. Less guilt about having been away. Which was, admittedly, always kind of silly given that anyone who reads this blog already knows all about mental illness and the problems it causes. So I'll say I'm glad I'm up to writing today, that I hope I'm back on track for posting,

Gratitude and Thankfulness

2010-11-26T16:05:00.002-05:00

Hello Friends: I wasn't going to add to the many lists of thanks out there, I really wasn't. But after reading all the well-thought-out and moving expressions of thanks on your blogs ... well ... I felt an urge to express some of my own gratitude to the universe. So I went looking for a neat picture to express my feelings, and found something absolutely perfect. I love the image and so made it

Public Transportation and What Coping Means

2010-11-15T23:48:00.000-05:00

Hello Friends: I've been thinking about the differences between dysfunctional-enabling behavior and supporting-coping behavior. These thoughts have been coming to me as I've been taking public transportation more than usual this week. And public transport gives me the willies (in other words it's chock full of OCD fodder.) So there have been plenty of moments where I could consider if what I

Apparently, Fear is Excitement Deprived of Oxygen

2010-11-02T21:14:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: I'll explain the title of this post in a minute, but I need to wander off (potentially way off) topic and then back again. The subject of this post actually starts much earlier in the month. I've been feeling better. I've noticed it mostly in my social anxiety. I've been able to go to group functions with less trepidation, have more fun at them, feel less mortified, and ruminate

Poetry, Halloween, and Healing

2010-10-20T17:43:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: It seems like a really strange combination; poetry, Halloween, and healing. But the triple-point of these topics has been on my mind as October rolls forward. (And I thought it a perfect topic to finally get in on The Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse, supported by very friendly blogger Marj aka Thriver on Survivors Can Thrive! The carnival is being hosted by Tracie of From

Continuing Improvements in Sanity

2010-10-16T00:54:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: When you don't know what to blog about, time to head on over to The Sanity Score and see what your latest numbers are. As I've mentioned before (see post in April, Apparently I'm Getting More Sane) I occasionally take the sanity test at PsychCentral just for jollies. Okay, not just for jollies. I take it because even though it isn't a terribly scientific instrument, it does

Book Review: The Mindful Way Through Depression by Mark Williams et al.

2010-09-30T02:00:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: This book gets four out of five 'wings' from your Adventure Hostess. As you know from my previous posts, I've been trying to include meditation and mindfulness regularly in my life. I got the idea from reading about BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy). I don't happen to have BPD - I exhibit only a few of the characteristics, but I do

Returning, Again, and Still Confused

2010-09-28T17:28:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: There is no question that the hardest thing about blogging (for me, anyway) is trying to get back into the swing after a long hiatus. Usually the reason I stop posting is because I'm overwhelmed with depression. Then when I start to get my feet back under me, I don't post because I'm overwhelmed with anxiety. Same stuff, different flavor. Either way, it all just seems so hard.

Flying, Phobias, and Fears - Oh, My

2010-06-14T18:15:00.000-04:00

Hello Friends: Thanks for sticking with me through this little blogging dry spell. I'm going through another rough spot, here, with anxiety and depression making computer use a challenge. But as always, this blog, and the knowledge that there are people out there actually reading (wow, and thanks again) brings me back in spite of it. Good therapy. And I'm in the middle of an anxious scenario

Self Parenting Part II of III - A Closer Look

2010-05-23T03:48:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: Okay, I am posting Part II. Now. I've procrastinated so long that I wrote a post on procrastination. My Part I of Self Parenting took a look at the model for a good parent, since I wanted to avoid making any assumptions, there. In Part II, right here, I'm going to look specifically at suggestions from books and sites about the model for parenting one's own inner child. Some of

Procrastination - A Bad Word for a Real Problem

2010-05-14T17:05:00.003-04:00

Hello Friends: I noticed today that I have 31 followers - thank you so much for joining me in my adventures in Anxiety Land! I learn a great deal from your insightful blogs, and the comments you make on my posts. It is great to have the validation and to know there are people like me, dealing with the same crazy and trying, whenever possible, to enjoy the ride. Right, back to the post. Sort of.

Self Parenting Part I of III - Learning From Good Parents

2010-05-10T01:02:00.003-04:00

Hello Friends: Part of my healing investigations include learning about how to self-parent. For those of us who did not have a nurturing childhood, learning how to self-parent your own inner child can be a key to developing needed skills for life. Or at least that's what they tell me. I've done a lot of poking around for resources and ideas, and figured I'd put them up in a series of posts

Sane? Depressed and Overwhelmed, Instead.

2010-05-05T18:40:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: I am choking on the irony of having posted "Apparently I am getting more sane ..." and then having the week I just had. No, nothing 'bad' happened. No illnesses or accidents or any of that. It is, as usual, the depression that comes out of nowhere. People see me, notice I am down, and say "What's wrong?" I want to say "Where have you been for the last two years (or ten or thirty)?

Apparently I'm Getting More Sane ...

2010-04-29T20:24:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: As I mentioned in a previous post, I enjoy taking many of those time-wasting quizzes that one runs into on the internet. In December, I took the The Sanity Score, and recorded my results. I thought it might be interesting to see if the scores changed in any statistically meaningful way over time. I have been feeling a little bit better recently (less depressed, although more

A Successful Visit to the Doc for that Pesky Exam

2010-04-23T11:31:00.002-04:00

Hello Friends: I had my annual physical exam yesterday, and it actually went pretty well. This is in contrast to my physical last year, which ended up being something of a disaster. That situation was what motivated me to try harder to express my needs and get advocates for health care. I have too many CPTSD flashback triggers in doctor's offices and hospital settings. The environments are too

Grief and Mourning Part III of III - Starting to Move Forward

2010-04-19T01:41:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: In my first post, I talked about how I had done some grieving of my losses in the past, but still felt there was more to do. And I didn't want to do it. In the second post, I put up a few reasons why we might resist grief and mourning, and what I thought my own hang-ups might be. So here's the third post, where I'm going to talk about the process of grief, and how I'm starting my

Grief and Mourning Part II of III - Some Reasons Why It's So Hard

2010-04-12T02:18:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: The canonical wisdom about healing trauma is that a person needs to complete the full, natural grieving process, or the symptoms of trauma will keep reappearing, demanding our attention. Back to Judith Lewis Harris' book "Trauma and Recovery" that says, "Survivors of chronic childhood abuse face the task of grieving not only what they lost but also what was never theirs to lose.

Grief and Mourning Part I of III - Taking Another Look at Recovering from CPTSD

2010-04-07T19:40:00.004-04:00

Hello Friends: I've been thinking about mourning, lately. I have this idea that I should be mourning more, even though I don't want to. I've only really mentioned grief and mourning once in this blog. And since it is such an important issue for healing, I figured it was time to put a little more of my oh-so-coherent thoughts down on 'paper'. If you can help me sort through them, that'd be

Book Review: Healing Myths, Healing Magic - By Donald M. Epstein

2010-04-02T04:57:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: This book gets two out of five 'wings' from your Adventure Hostess. I've read this book many times since I purchased it, and still find it somewhat useful, somewhat confusing, somewhat uplifting, and somewhat irritating. I went back and forth between a rating of three or two for a long time. In the end I chose the two, because although this book has some useful ideas for

Anxiety Land Two Year Anniversary AND 50th Post!

2010-03-29T00:30:00.004-04:00

Hello Friends: Well, wow. Two years and finally, fifty posts. Two milestones to celebrate for Adventures in Anxiety Land. Thanks to readers who've been along the whole time, and thanks to those who just started following. Knowing there are people out there reading makes this both a lot of fun and a great way to try to keep myself honest with my own healing. I'm glad I have been able to keep

A Successful Visit to the OBGYN

2010-03-26T17:45:00.003-04:00

Hello Friends: Visit is done! Yeah! And hopefully all tests will be negative and I won't have to go back for a year! I said I'd report out on the visit. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out Part One and Part Two of White Coat Anxiety. One of the first things that helped was that I'd made a field trip to the office two weeks before the visit. I'd scouted the location of the

Going to the Doctor Part II of II - The Visit (or More Tips for Dealing with White Coat Anxiety)

2010-03-25T01:58:00.001-04:00

Hello Friends: Well, today I go to the doctor for my 'yearly' check of my womanly bits, as I noted yesterday in my post Going to the Doctor Part I of II. I can't tell you how very badly I do not want to do this. I really don't want to go. But I am going. I am going to put on my brave persona, and I'm going to do this. First of all, because I need to get this done. Second of all, because

Going to the Doctor Part I of II - The Background Work (or Tips for Dealing with White Coat Anxiety)

2010-03-24T02:31:00.002-04:00

Hello Friends: I stumbled over a site today that was talking about the "little known or ignored sources of trauma" that can result in PTSD. One of them was "hospitalization before the age of three." I already knew my childhood medical history was a source of trauma, but had never seen it called out quite so specifically. It is both validating and scary. Doctors do suck, especially when you

Book Review: The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

2010-03-19T16:10:00.002-04:00

Hello Friends: This book gets three out of five 'wings' from your Adventure Hostess. Rating this was nearly impossible. Three or four? I went back and forth. I ended up giving it a three. I can see that someone else would like it quite a bit more, and give it a four or higher. But ratings are subjective ... I just couldn't give it a four. As you'll see below, in spite of plenty of good

Shattered Girl and The Sound of Breaking Glass

2010-03-15T21:51:00.003-04:00

Hello Friends: The inevitable preamble to this post is this; I had a rough day today. The kind where I'm in bed and not really functional. It was rough enough that I couldn't find anything to eat, since my OCDs were running too high to open the fridge. So I was not only depressed, but low blood sugar, not enough sleep depressed. This is a very bad state for the Morpho, let me tell you. When

PTSD and the Crisis of Faith: Part Two of Two

2010-03-11T01:48:00.004-05:00

Hello Friends: I promised a post to follow up on PTSD and the Crisis of Faith: Part One of Two, where I talked about why a loss of faith is part of the whole PTSD package of symptoms. And here it is ... much later ... my attempt to synthesize the basis of the loss of faith and how to reclaim it. Jumping in where I left off, the general stages of recovery from PTSD (again, as taken from Trauma

Finding the Surface ... Again

2010-03-08T00:02:00.001-05:00

Hello Friends: The cycle of sinking and surfacing is so tedious. I'm sure you know the drill ... feel better, lighter, see some sun, then maybe too much sun, get feeling down, feel heavier, sink, stay down awhile, then start looking for sun again. Over and over. Not sure what exactly triggered this particular depressive episode, but I have a few ideas. Probably a combination of dealing with

"Getting Bitch-Slapped By The World" or "Don't Get Cocky, Kid"

2009-12-12T21:38:00.007-05:00

Hello Friends: Fair warning, this is a pretty 'triggering' post for those with sickness related OCDs, hypochondria, fear of V*, and such. I'm not sick, myself, but witnessed it and it has me pretty rattled. So if you don't want to read my somewhat graphic rant, you better stop right now. The end of the cruise went great. No serious problems, and then we even found a half day excursion around

More Fun Cruising With OCDs

2009-12-07T13:37:00.001-05:00

Hello Friends: Ah, the glories of travel. I love being in new places, I just hate getting there. Which makes one wonder why I yet again chose to go on a cruise. A cruise is like “all getting there and never being there.” You never stop moving, and there is a strange, new port every day. And for some inexplicable reason, I get seasick more easily than I used to. So the cruise is a little bit more

The Sanity Score - I Love a Good Quiz

2009-12-03T16:41:00.007-05:00

Hello Friends: I love online quizzes and surveys. Especially if I can see metrics for my craziness. I'm still in that phase where defining and categorizing my mental illnesses makes me feel like I have more control over them. I thought I'd point out a survey I just took that was actually marginally helpful, and then see if I could talk any of my dear readers into taking it and sharing their own

OCD's and Scrupulosity - Obsessive Religion

2009-11-26T14:28:00.004-05:00

Hello Friends: We now interrupt our previously scheduled post (the second part of my PTSD and Spiritual Crises series) to take a step back and ask, so what? So why do I care so much that I'm not spiritually well-defined, anyway? I mean, I know this is a symptom of PTSD, but is it really necessary to work through this religion stuff at all? Aren't flashbacks, say, much more of an issue? Well,

PTSD and the Crisis of Faith: Part One of Two

2009-11-22T03:05:00.016-05:00

Hello Friends: Well, here's another installment in under my tag of 'spiritual struggles'. I mentioned in Spiritual Crises: Trying to Make Sense of God that at this point, I'm pretty much at ground zero as far as God goes. Ya might want to take a look at that old post since it is the background for what I'm going to talk about here. Now tell me, how is it that I've been looking for great

Feeling Totally Crazy - Am I A Dweeb?

2009-11-18T23:16:00.004-05:00

Hello Friends: I am feeling kind of like this picture. Crazy, and yet sort of a mix of spacey and startled. I don't really have anything profound to say (do I usually?) but felt like posting. See, I've found a forum on the net that I really like. And this is a surprise because I've tried a lot of forums and have not felt like there was really much going on. Not much sharing. But I found

Cans - Part Two of Two - Triumph over Can

2009-11-16T23:49:00.003-05:00

Hello Friends: In my post Cans - Part One - Cans are Scary, I mentioned why it is I seem to have this problem with cans; associating cans with Botulism at a ratio of one to one. I also talked about how I hadn't opened a can and eaten the contents (without any help) in 17 years. And even with help, I still haven't opened more than a handful of cans in all that time. Well, on Friday, one can

Cans - Part One of Two - Cans are Scary

2009-11-14T14:23:00.004-05:00

Hello Friends: Cans are scary because in my mangled mental state I believe that 'all cans have botulism'. As with my issue about rabies (i.e. all bats have rabies, all squirrels have rabies) and tetanus (all pins, needles, and nails can give you tetanus) I am not quite rational in my fear of botulism. I had an interesting encounter with a can recently, which prompted me to go ahead and create

Book Review: Radical Acceptance - Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach

2009-11-03T20:21:00.004-05:00

Hello Friends: This book gets five out of five 'wings' from your Adventure Hostess. One of the best books on 'healing' I've read in ages. The 'self-help' book that tells you that you are not broken, and even gets you to believe it. However, calling this a 'self-help' book is a disservice, as the text grapples with our views on life and death, grasping and denial, love and self-hatred, and

Healing Feels Weird

2009-10-30T00:21:00.004-04:00

Hello Friends: We all want to heal, of course, however we individually define that term. But as you may know from personal experience, or the reports of a friend, healing can feel ... weird. The post yesterday on one of the regular sites I visit for PTSD was Can We Plan for Healing PTSD? The issue in question for that post was - healing can be strange, so how we can anticipate and plan for

Writing Like Crazy

2009-10-26T13:56:00.009-04:00

Hello Friends: I've chosen not to carry full time work for more than a year, now. This is the first time I've gone through a major depressive episode and have also backed off on my 'day job' at the same time. A couple of reasons for this. Reason 1 is that I experienced my first three episodes of major depression when I was a student in one form or another. I didn't get my Ph.D. until I was

Book Review: Feeling Good - The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns

2009-09-03T01:45:00.010-04:00

Hello Friends: This book gets two out of five 'wings' from your Adventure Hostess. I almost gave it three, but I can't, simply can't, get over my biases against this book. Everybody else loves it. It's sold a ba-gillion copies or some such thing. And is one of the books commonly suggested by therapists to their patients with depression. Which I find very depressing. I know I said I

Suppressing Does not Work - Part Two of Two - Searching for Something that Does Work

2009-08-29T16:03:00.009-04:00

Hello Friends: There's a post on Psyblog called "Why Thought Suppression is Counter Productive" that follows along similar lines to those I'm addressing in Parts I and II here. So either I'm a really trendy blogger, have come late to the party, or (the worst) I'm a conformist. Egads. Anyway, they cite some of the same studies (including the famous one with the white polar bear that I changed

Suppressing Does Not Work - Part One of Two - Behavioral Rebound

2009-08-28T02:39:00.009-04:00