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Does Modern Academia Encourage Unthinking Acceptance of Authority?

May 12th, 2013

By Dan Miller This post is based in large part on an article titled Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Is there a current tendency to consider those who cherish and seek to preserve our rights, including those under the First and Second Amendments, mentally ill for that reason? Interesting for the focused question it poses directly, […]

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Tags: academia, Benghazi, conformity, mental illness, PC, psychiatry, psychology
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Mental Battles

March 3rd, 2012

By Jan Barry Remember the TV ad where several people congregate in New York’s Grand Central Station, each wearing a bright white T-shirt displaying a message revealing startling and very personal information: “bipolar,” “sister,” “schizophrenia,” “mother,” “post traumatic stress disorder,” “battle buddy.”

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Tags: bipolar disorder, BringChange2Mind, families, Glenn Close, mental illness
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Can Your Kindle Cause Mental Illness?

November 25th, 2011

By Dan Miller My wife gave me a Kindle reader for my birthday in June. Although she sought to do good rather than harm, I have become addicted to it and to its free collection of old classics. I should have known that this would happen. Even a year ago, it was written that The […]

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Tags: addiction, dreams, e-reader, free classics, Kindle, mental illness
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