Partial Recovery = Partial Life
From an episode of Glee: Emma: You know how we’re always talking about moving towards marriage, and nothing really ever happens. I mean, Sue said I should be all liberated and ask you to marry me. Um, do you want to be with me? I mean as your wife? Will: Of course I do. Emma:...
4 ways to lie
Some interesting thoughts on truth vs. lies from two of my favorite philosophers — Mark Twain and Gregory House. “If you tell the truth, you don’t need to remember anything.” – Mark Twain “I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.” “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody...
Celebrity Rehab – Helpful or hurtful?
In case you missed it (like I did), the new season of Celebrity Rehab began a couple of weeks ago. I’m just now catching up, and in the process of trying to watch everything on VH1.com, ran across a blog post about Drew Pinsky and his interview in GQ magazine. When Vargas-Cooper asks Pinsky if...
Everything Must Go
This afternoon, my husband and I went and saw the movie “Everything Must Go.” In general, I’m not much of a movie watcher. It’s funny how I can watch a House marathon all day, but run out of patience about 2/3rds of the way through a film. Anyway, when I heard the movie had Will...
“Recovery is not a team sport”
Carrie beat me to posting about this Grey’s Anatomy quote: After a trauma, your body is at its most vulnerable. Response time is critical. So you’re suddenly surrounded by people—doctors, nurses, specialists, technicians—surgery is a team sport. Everyone pushing for the finish line. Putting you back together again. But surgery is a trauma in and...
Glee: “Helping” Emma
It seems that this year, Glee is all about morals. On the whole, I’m not sure I love this aspect of the show, but tonight’s episode was on self-love, and I sure have a lot of thoughts on that. I think I’m going to have to break my thoughts up into several posts, so let’s...
Medical drama & zebras
I watch a lot of medical television (if you haven't noticed), so when I saw the What Your TV Habits May Say About Your Fear Of Crime article this morning, I was pretty interested to read about the connection between TV viewing and personal beliefs. I started thinking "hmm... what if they applied this...
Either perfect or sick
House: You're either perfect or you're sick. In my experience, "sick" is much more common.
There's definitely a higher-incidence of perfectionism among individuals with eating disorders, but had never thought about it the other way -- that people who appear "perfect" are more likely to have mental illness. Okay, so this is not research and...
Change in Perspective
In anticipation of the third season of “In Treatment” starting this fall, I’ve been “re-watching” season one. I say “re-watching” because I never finished watching it in the first place. When I first started watching the show, I would watch one patient at a time — week one through week nine. Then I would choose...
Can therapists do this?
The other day, a friend and I were playing the “which professional on Celebrity Rehab would you be?” game. You know… kind of like “which Sex & the City character are you most like?” or “who would you want as your partner on Dancing with the Stars?” — but a little less mainstream. In fact,...
Denial: Not exclusive to addiction
Dr. Drew made a comment a couple of episodes back (Ep. 306 “Triggers”) that I was pretty surprised to hear: “Addiction is the only disease that you have to convince people that they have.” I highly disagree with this statement, and think that denial is a large part of many mental illnesses… and even some...
Maybe it was the ’00′s.
I re-watched Girl, interrupted the other day. When I first saw the movie, I was in high school had just gotten home from my first ED inpatient stay. The film actually made me homesick for the treatment center and all the girls there. I was amazed at how well the directors portrayed the relationships and...
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