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I’ve been using Babbel to study French every day for the last few months, hav­ing tak­en advan­tage of one of their Yule­tide spe­cials to get a Life­time mem­ber­ship. Tues­day morn­ing, I received notice of a new press release from them.
Babbel Launch­es Free Lan­guage Cours­es For Ukraini­ans On Its Platform

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May is Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month. The month is about real­iz­ing how com­mon men­tal health issues are, sup­port­ing each oth­er through them, and remov­ing the stig­ma about them.

A few statistics:

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The American Chronic Pain Association site says the group has been around since 1980, but I hadn’t run across them until yesterday. I spent some time on their site and they have some really good resources as well as a long list of support groups. There aren’t any groups near me, but I think I’ll try out their online group. Let me know if you go to ( Read more... )

This is a fascinating article with excellent sources.

Chronic pain is terrible. A new way of understanding it may help.

The past two centuries have produced a cascade of life-altering advances in medicine, yet we have been unable to deal with one seemingly straightforward condition: chronic pain. It affects 1 in 5 people around the world, yet in ( Read more... )

I’m not one for video games, really, or games of any sort other than tabletop RPGs. But there was one game that I used to play on my iTouch, Glyph, that I still miss. It was fun and somewhat challenging. Parts were like a Match Three game, some of it was a puzzle, and some of it was like the old Simon game. I enjoyed it. A lot.


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Those of us who suffer chronic pain face a great deal of stigma. This paper addresses that stigma.
Pain, objectivity and history: understanding pain stigma

Mirrored from Cyn Armistead.

Neuronal plasticity in chronic pain-induced anxiety revealed

Hokkaido University researchers have shown how chronic pain leads to maladaptive anxiety in mice, with implications for treatment of chronic pain-related psychiatric disorders in humans.

Chronic pain is persistent and inescapable, and can lead to maladaptive emotional states. It is often ( Read more... )