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Comment on I AM alive — correction, excuses and apologies by Laurie

Laurie — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:23:58 +0000

Thanks for your sweet feedback, Debra!

Comment on I AM alive — correction, excuses and apologies by Debra@TheWarmMilkJournal.com

Debra@TheWarmMilkJournal.com — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:20:14 +0000

I just read your book today. What can I say? Thank you. I feel so validated. I have been one of those accessible introverts all my life. Thank you!

Debra
http://www.TheWarmMilkJournal.com

Comment on I AM alive — correction, excuses and apologies by D.B.

D.B. — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:34:19 +0000

Funny how the human brain has an imperceptible error correction feature built in. I’m willing to bet most people (me included) didn’t notice that.

I’ll add Hyperculture to my reading list. Another excellent book, tangentially related to it, is “The Paradox of Choice” by Barry Schwartz. Watch one of his TED talks for his whole argument in a nutshell:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html

Comment on Meet Ceci, our resident Movie Therapist! by Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:24:22 +0000

Hi Anonymousopotamus,

Wow — that’s a mouthful! Thanks for your comments. I am heading out for some movie therapy this afternoon. Isn’t it great?

The movie? Not much out this week, but it doesn’t matter — just want to sit in a dark theatre, eat popcorn and watch life on the big screen. Did see Oceans — lovely, and sadly, timely with the current threat to such beauty. All best, Laurie

Comment on And the Winner Is… by Laurie

Laurie — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:59:44 +0000

Hi moonmaiden76 — YES! You are correct. I finally changed these around. There is something wrong with my blog alerts — been buried in a writing project so haven’t written here for ages (ironic, huh?). Anyway, thanks so much for alerting me on this. All best, Laurie

Comment on Get it right, get a book! by sheilareynolds

sheilareynolds — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:42:23 +0000

As the first recipient of Laurie’s Power of One (Introvert) Award, I was just thinking I want to get back into being conscious of doing things to further healthy outlooks about introversion.
And, then I received Laurie’s email about the American Psychiatric Association adding introversion to its list of personality disorders.

Take a look at a book I read recently. Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane.
This book is not only interesting, but extremely disturbing! It’s about the history of how a small group of people (with tons of personal issues of their own!) reorganized psychiatric thinking in the late ’70s. The author details also the involvement of drug companies in this idea of taking normal behaviors and making them illnesses.

I’m sure drug companies welcome something like this and will gladly research and come up with medication for this – it could be a drug someone takes for life! What a bonanza to drug companies.
In contrast to that, little research and work is being done on antibiotics lately because this is a one-time specific drug to counteract an infection. Personally I’m in favor of alternatives to most drugs, but with new infections now resistant to old antibiotics it could be useful to be researching and creating something that might work.
No, it seems they prefer to work on drugs that someone can take long term, even for life. I got sidetracked for a moment on this, having read recently about this issue. It doesn’t take too much of a stretch of imagination to think that drug companies would love this new “disease” –
And could even be behind this push to categorize introversion as a disorder.

Today I will add my voice to the American Psychiatric Association website opposing this. And, I’ll send out emails to people I know will add their support.