Trauma

(Not So) Great Moments in Gear Theft History

News has emerged from Canada that legendary rockers The Stooges had all their gear stolen yesterday from in front of their hotel in Montreal. The equipment, including guitars, pedals, amps, and drums, was packed into a rented truck outside the Embassy Suites hotel, and was taken sometime around the rock-stars-are-sleeping hour of 7:00 a.m. Bassist Mike Watt's original Gibson guitar, which he's used since playing with the Minutemen in the '80s, is among the missing. The band have appealed for an...

Dispatches from Tibet

tibet.net Kathleen McLaughlin has been a journalist in China for more than seven years and has covered regional issues including economics, the environment and governmental regulation. Recently she applied for a foreign journalist's permit to visit Tibet and was granted permission to do so. She is one of the first foreign journalists since March 2008 allowed to travel independently to Tibet, although regulations still require hiring a government-approved guide. During her five-day trip, she is s...

Prisoner died of blunt trauma -relative

By Zoisa Fraser A post-mortem examination conducted yesterday on the remains of Nolan Noble, the Camp Street prisoner who was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital on Saturday, showed that he died from blunt force trauma to the head, a relative said last evening. Several attempts to confirm this with the police yesterday were futile. According to [...]

Bottling up feelings after trauma is okay

Contrary to popular notions about what is normal or healthy, new research has found that it is okay not to express one's thoughts and feelings after experiencing a collective trauma, such as a school shooting or terrorist attack. In fact, people who choose not to express their feelings after such an event may be better off than those who do talk about their feelings, according to University at Buffalo psychologist Mark Seery, PhD, lead author of a study to appear in the August issue of Journal o...

Being dead can't be too bad. No one complains and in all of history only a couple of guys changed their minds.

Click images for desktop size: "On Day in the Big City" by Justin Maller It was not a very good weekend. On Saturday it rained all night and continued to rain all through Sunday. My friend needed to go into work but her computer system was down so she had to stay home and watch her schedule and deadlines flitter away. I'm selfish enough to not have minded that. I like having her around. Then the cat who has looked near death for a while showed up with a wooden tongue and some pretty nasty revolt...

Comorbid PTSD affects depression and pain severity

Patients with accident or trauma related chronic pain often have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. What isn't clearly, however, is how PTSD relates to mood disorders and pain severity in chronic pain patients. To find out University of Michigan researchers examined the contribution of PTSD to the pain experience, functional disability and frequency of depressive symptoms. They studied 241 patients referred to the university hospital's pain rehabilitation program who reported ...

America Still Working Through That Wardrobe Malfunction Trauma For Some Reason

Yes, doctor, we know that it was way back in 2004 when a couple middling pop stars engaged in a flirtatious dance routine during a Super Bowl halftime show that ended in the brief revelation of a boob, but the event apparently still haunts our nightmares. By that I mean, of course, that it's "working its way through the court system," but there was a decision today that may mean an end to our cruel suffering is in sight: a federal appeals court today threw out the original $550,000 FCC fine agai...

The Little White Girl Had to Bow Her Head for Emperor Hirohito, 2003

Based on author, choreographer, activist, and filmmaker Lydia Chagoll's autobiography A Childhood in the Japanese Camps and historical essay Hirohito: Emperor of Japan, The Little White Girl Had to Bow Her Head for Emperor Hirohito is a lucid and impassioned examination of the postwar geopolitics that have led to the cultural amnesia and historical whitewashing (enabled by western governments) of Hirohito's role in the commission of atrocities during Japan's expansionist campaign that culminated...

Toronto Fringe Festival Quickies, Part Three

Balls! By Rob Salerno Presented by Ten Foot Pole Productions Featuring Rob Salerno and Adam Goldhamer Factory Theatre Mainspace MMMm Reviewed by Matt McGeachy Much has been written over the years about what defines a man. It does, in some sense, come down to anatomy: man is man by his gonads. Rob Salerno, however, believes that men are more than just their balls. Balls! is a touching story about two friends, Paul (Salerno) and Bastian (Goldhamer), who together undergo the trauma of testicular ca...

Obesity linked to anxiety, and depression

Mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression are associated with obesity according to a new study from the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. The research found there are associations between obesity and some anxiety disorders, and less strong links with obesity and depression. This is the first study to have examined links between all anxiety disorders and obesity. The findings indicate that in the general population people with obesity are more likely to have certain menta...