Category: Health
Doctors against obesity
By Nicole Skews. This blog is an x-post from Coley’s blog which you can find at www.tangerina.co.nz
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The Terror of procreation
Part one of an occasional series (when I’ve had enough sleep to enable typing).
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Mental health in academia: overworked and stressed
I first knew that something was wrong when I went from joking with friends that I would rather jump in front of a truck than work on my thesis to genuinely thinking “is that an option here?”
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Online bullying: won’t somebody think of the children?
Get your pitchforks, light up those torches and pack your bags kids cause apparently there’s a bandwagon to jump on and it’s called Condemning Online Bullying.
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Being happy
I have just recovered from a leg infection. Everything about it was awful and traumatising. I feel guilty when I’m sick, like I haven’t done enough to stop the microscopic invaders breaching the natural barrier of my skin.
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The best way to remember the Chch Quake?
Sure, watch the Campbell Live coverage of all the people who are still living in very messed-up circumstances. And yes, read the newspaper reports on the battles over the city’s recovery.
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On Credulity (and manners)
Holidays are fine things. They provide an opportunity to rest, and (if you are so inclined) to reflect. As a result of experience during my most recent break, I’m currently reflecting on whether my disdain for woo makes me useful, or just rude and intolerant.
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I wrote a thing
I have spent most of my life playing down the impact of my disabilities on my identity. This will always be a totally futile and quite ridiculous exercise.
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We can be happy
About 12 months ago I lay awake. It was night time so I shouldn’t have been awake. But I was awake. And I didn’t know why. I thought I must’ve been stressed about something. So I started cycling through the Rolodex of things going on in my life.
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Rape is easy here
Trigger Warning. The world isn’t exactly crying out for more opinions on the Roast Busters from straight white cis-men. Sorry world, I’m gonna opine.
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Loz Heaphy – Tears dry on their own
Loren Heaphy of the Block fame has become a little bit well known for having a cry on national TV. She very kindly wrote a post on just that.
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Shake it off
One of the most significant symptoms of my anxiety disorder is that I am quick to worry, often about things that don’t end up being a big deal.
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You don’t know me: Ali Ikram
We’ve invited a group of well known New Zealanders to submit pieces about subjects that they aren’t well known for.
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Anti Science brigade, why you so anti science?
Hamilton City Council recently made the ill-informed decision to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water. Now the ill-informed people who blindly pushed for that outcome are saying Wellington is their next target. This worries me.
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Hey, buddy, where you been?
DID YOU KNOW? If you drink a bottle of red wine in about 10 minutes it has a similar effect as taking a Xanax.
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Anxiety disorders run in my family and after a particularly tumultuous period a few years ago I was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder, otherwise known as GAD.
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Daily dosing
Imagine that I have asthma. Imagine that I was diagnosed about two years ago, and since then I’ve been using an inhaler everyday and though my life probably isn’t totally awesome all the time, I’m heaps healthier than when I was first diagnosed, which makes me happier, and more fun, and better at my job.
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Spring clean your insides
I’ve got a challenge for you – and before you decide to ignore me and go read some other intellectually stimulating blog, just give me a chance… I dare you to try a detox.
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