The New York Times Op Ed editor doesn't seem to like stimulants these days. A few weeks back there was an article talking about a study showing that long-term stimulants aren't helpful, and today there is a piece by a writer who finds distraction helpful...told with some contempt towards his friend's son whom he calls Ritalin Boy. Steve over on Thought Broadcast has his own take on ADD meds.
What do you think: are stimulants helpful or not? I'll stand aside for this one.
Then there was the article about the business/computer whiz who put hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money (and all his time) into a kidney transplant matchmaking service. If you need an uplifting story, this is an interesting one.
Over on KevinMD, Dr. George Lundberg is a bit skeptical of SAMHSA's new defining features for the Recovery Movement. I more or less agree, it feels like it's more about semantics (what does it mean to say recovery is "person-driven"? as opposed to?) than substance, and a lot of it seems to boil down to the idea that patients should be treated with respect and people with mental illnesses should work towards achieving their full potential. Those things I agree with, for everyone.
And finally, for the writers among us, Pete Earley has a Before You Quit Your Day Job post up on his blog. I'm still pondering the $80,000 advance. The Shrink Rappers need an agent, oh, but we do love our friends over at Johns Hopkins University Press.
And finally, for my friend ClinkShrink the Introvert, who wrote a review of a Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't stop Talking (---huh, stop looking at me), here is an article called The Brainstorming Myth by Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker.
Okay, lots of links. This is what I've been thinking about. Aside from that, I made a quick trip to NYC and had my photo taken with Cookie Monster in Times Square, and I loved Jersey Boys.
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