So...stuff's been happening. On the minus side, seeing my dad's mother for the first time since she was admitted to the nursing home a couple of weeks ago -- rail thin, in a wheelchair, easily confused, hardly talking -- was rough. ( Cut for somewhat depressing details :( )
--I'm just gonna go ahead and dump all the remaining links I have -- no quoting and very little commentary this time around. And because Iran (and to a certain extent, the Green Movement) is back in the news again, I'm starting with that:
Childhood mental illness was rarely diagnosed in children 100 years ago; since then the number and type of diagnoses have exploded; the number and type of treatments have also exploded; the medications used to treat childhood mental
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