Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the locus of control and optimism bias. Depressive Realism May Not Be Real In the lyrics to the song “Dumb,” Kurt Cobain sang “I think I’m […]
Category Archives: my so called life
An anecdote, probably meaningless
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
This morning was garbage day on my street. i was waiting for the bus when i noticed a grocery bag a few houses down the road. It was beige and unmarked. The opening was tied up, but from the lack of inertia in its movement, the bag looked empty. The way it was keeping balance […]
i made this.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Red Noise – Four Years Late and Slightly Different – RPM Challenge 2012
Love, hate and cognitive dissonance
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Benjamin Franklin Effect The Misconception: You do nice things for the people you like and bad things to the people you hate. The Truth: You grow to like people for whom you do nice things and hate people you harm.
honesty
Monday, November 28, 2011
Don’t always protect people from your truth. It won’t make things right One of the day-to-day reasons that relationships between human beings become so screwed up has to do with this well-intentioned deception. We protect those we interact with from the negative aspects of our feelings about them, because we want to be nice and […]
untitled poem
Monday, September 12, 2011
i thought i saw a tear at the bottom of your eye but it looked like crystals as i got closer. or sparkles.
Dear Jack,
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
thanks for your letter. Politics aside, this hit me hard. i’ve just lost a summer to anger and fear and despair, despite many good things happening. Optimism i can kind of do, but my hope always goes nowhere, and love? i can’t even start, despair and fear and anger always follow when i try to […]
Yep.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Psychotherapy Brown Bag: Rumination: How just thinking about the problem can make the problem worse
