A Chinese Dinosaur That Went for a Swim

“Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.” ~Kristi Ling 

How is it that two parents of children killed in the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre were able to turn their heartbreak into something positive by founding Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing gun violence? It’s difficult to imagine at a time of tragedy, but life-altering trauma can give way to meaning, spurring people to create enduring, beneficial outcomes for the greater good.This is what psychologists call post-traumatic growth (PTG) — positive psychological changes that occur as part of a healing process. Researchers discovered that people who experience profound difficulties are more likely to experience PTG than they are to face post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which often brings intense anxiety, sleeplessness, depression, or intrusive thoughts.After a traumatic situation, people need time to heal physically, mentally, and emotionally. The process of rebuilding changes how people perceive the world around them.

November 13, 2022Cardiovascular disease is twice as likely to develop in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than it is in the neurotypical population, according to a large observational study published in the journal World Psychiatry.The research studied the link between 20 different cardiovascular diseases and ADHD when it was separated from other known risk factors such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, smoking, sleep problems, and mental disorders.Researchers at Karolinska Institute and Örebro University in Sweden based their findings on data from a national registry of more than one million Swedish adults without pre-existing cardiovascular diseases born between 1941 and 1983. The registry included about 37,000 people with ADHD.After an average of 11.8 years of follow-up, 38% of individuals with ADHD had at least one diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, compared with 24% of those without ADHD.

November 9, 2022New research has identified 42 genes responsible for dyslexia, a language-based learning disorder, and confirmed its genetic link to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in what is considered the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) of dyslexia to date. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Australia, the University of Edinburgh, and the U.S.-based consumer genetics company 23andMe, Inc.

press release:“We are proving that as the leaders of the offshore revolution, we are committed to making disruptive technology innovation commercially viable with the pace that the climate emergency demands. We’ve brought the Siemens Gamesa RecyclableBlade technology to market in only 10 months: from launch in September 2021 to installation at RWE’s Kaskasi project in July 2022.“This is impressive and underlines the pace at which we all need to move to provide enough generating capacity to combat the global climate emergency. This milestone marks a significant contribution to Siemens Gamesa’s target of having fully recyclable turbines by 2040.

I’m a young adult, I look healthy, but I am disabled. I no longer wish to be ashamed of myself for that. My wish is for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) to acknowledge that I am, in fact, disabled.