“Happy” music included Jacques Offenbach’s cheerful “Infernal Gallop,” and “sad” music included Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” which is almost universally considered to be extremely depressing. The scientists found that, like in the 2015 study, participants with depression indicated...
It really pains me to read the words of these patients. The UHWI needs to do better, investigate these complaints and share their findings with the staff, with a view to ensuring that patients with sickle cell disease, and indeed all patients, feel that they have been tre...
As a reader, I’m on a perpetual quest for better stories. What does that mean for writers? The Best Fiction Sticks I’ve been thinking about what makes some books so easy to put down and what makes others impossible to let go of. After readingThe Catcher in the Rye, for example, I...
That’s why New Year’s Resolutions usually fail. People wake up on January 1 with great intentions of changing their lives for the better, but when they wake up on January 2nd, their first thought is: “Oh man! 364 more days of THIS??” @HBH, you said: “I just don’t want to...
athat's very depressing. I wish there was a way I could help 那非常令人沮丧。 我祝愿有我可能帮助的方式 [translate] aI don't know. Maybe I'm really make people hate. My temper is bad, always very rebellious. 我不知道。 可能我是真正地使人恨。 我的脾气是坏,总非常反叛。 [translate]...
My husband and I lost our jobs, our home, and all of our money. We live with relatives and life is hard and depressing. What better way to heal than to be inspired with great music. I am making this song part of my morning and evening prayers. ...
"Everyone in life has a cross to bear - and yours is your back. Those were the parting words uttered by my neurosurgeon during a surgical consult I attended, bent over in pain and armed with scans and reports - detailing the ways in which my back had bet
And for the record, I’m not saying I’m unique. I’m just the only one to type a string of words and hit “post” in the past few years. That’s it. I always roll my eyes when people are excited to find they’re from the same generally large hometown. Or that they worked ...
In the fall I found a permanent place to live (well, as permanent as any residence ever is for me) in the town where I work–the poorest town in Ohio. Objectively, I know it’s an ugly, depressing place, a dying coal town with a polluted watershed and a serious opiate problem–but...
And Jr. Researcher Hu Zhi completed the last item for his latest column: 20 Ways to End the World without Application of Anomalous Objects. That was a depressing piece of fiction, but he needed to get back to that research proposal about SCP-2076. If it can make people think that shootin...