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When Hope is Not Enough Sales Weirdness
You know all, there’s something weird about the sales of “When Hope is Not Enough” – I have tracked sales each day (because I can and because it matters to me) and I have noticed something decidedly weird about those… I sold an average of 2 books a day for the first 12 days of June… and then nothing. Why? I have no idea. I don’t advertise the book much. Yet, if you look at the sales of other competing books – those seem to be going along fine. I have no idea what happened. I mean from 20,000 in sales rank to 200,000+. Strange. Look you all, this book…
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Dr. Richard Davidson Decides to Study – get this – Happiness
Article about Dr. Richard Davidson and the brain science of happiness… Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness MADISON, Wis. – After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question. Scientists often study depression, anxiety and fear, but why not devote your work to the causes of positive human qualities like happiness and compassion? the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader asked. “I couldn’t give him a good answer,” recalled Davidson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist. Since then, Davidson has become a partner in the Dalai Lama’s attempts to build…
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Milton Bradley and BPD or something else
I have never posted on potential BPD of an athlete before. I think that there are probably athletes with BPD. Heck, if the NIAAA study is correct 5.9% of the adult population has had a life time incidence of BPD – it seems likely that there would be people of all stripes with the disorder. Anyway, a few weeks ago I read an article about Milton Bradley (the baseball player, not the game company). Here is the article… (I have bolded the parts that I find telling): ‘Committed’ Bradley returns to M’s after 2 weeks SEATTLE (AP) -Milton Bradley’s hiatus from the Seattle Mariners is over. His process of getting…
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ATSTP website issues
Sorry all if you have been to ATSTP over the past couple of days can gotten “Error: can’t access database” or something of that sort. My hosting company has informed me that traffic to the server has been unusually heavy over the past few days. Things seem to be getting a bit better as of today. I noticed personally that when I logged into my host to try to trouble-shoot the problem myself, it was really slow. No related posts.
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Distancing and Detachment as an Interpersonal Strategy
When perusing the Internet and the recent research on BPD, I discovered a study from Dr. Harold Koenigsberg, et al. that seeks to understand the neural correlates of “distancing strategies” of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients. The study focuses on the use of “distancing” when faced with strong negative emotional pictures. The study analyzed brain activation – particularly in several emotional areas of the brain and the brain response to distancing. It says (HC means “healthy controls”): … we aimed to better understand sources of emotional dysregulation in BPD by comparing the neural correlates of the passive processing of social emotional cues and of cognitive reappraisal of these cues in…
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Engagement without Entanglement
Is it even possible? The short answer is: yes. I see many nons hopelessly entangled with their borderlines. I don’t use the word “hopelessly” lightly. It is a difficult situation to be in and, unfortunately, in the world of human relationships, it is a natural situation to be in. One of the main issues as I see it is that we get our emotions engaged in the mix. When someone (anyone) is emotional, it is natural to “circle the wagons” so to speak. When we get emotional, other people’s intent, feelings and motivations disappear from our mind. This situation is particularly acute for borderlines. Their emotions become engaged rather quickly…