Obsessive thoughts can cause you to spiral into a state of negativity. Here is how it happens for me. My commute into Boulder, CO with the mountains as a backdrop starts as a peaceful experience. Then someone decides to pass me, swerving into the oncoming traffic lane, only to get to the stoplight at the same time. What a freak, I think. Why did they feel the need to do that to me? Then, I end up
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This is author Joyce Maynard’s second part of a three-part series on drinking. You can read the first piece here. I was 12-years-old, which would make the year 1966 — and I was home alone, except for my father, who was upstairs asleep. But he was not so much sleeping as passed out. Knock at the door: a police officer. “Do you know anything about the Oldsmobile outside?” he asked me. It was our
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Marilyn Monroe lives in our cultural imagination as one of the most iconic actresses in Hollywood history. But underneath the famous blonde curls and sex-kitten voice, there’s a complex woman who likely suffered from borderline personality disorder, according to science journalist Claudia Kalb. Biographers and commentators have long struggled to make sense of Monroe’s contradictor
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ConclusionsThis study shows that genetic variants in VMAT1, including the functional SNP rs1390938, contribute to the severity of AW in patients of European descent. Our data show for the first time a role of presynaptic neurotransmitter release in AW severity. This finding could contribute to identifying patients at risk for severe AW and shed light into the pathophysiology of AW and its treatmen
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ConclusionsChildhood trauma profiles may provide more useful information about the patient’s risk of current addictionârelated problems than the common distinction between traumatized versus nontraumatized patients.
On the basis of 5 types of childhood trauma (emotional, physical and sexual abuse, emotional and physical neglect), we identified 6 childhood trauma profiles in patients with alcoho
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