Funtimes in North #Berkeley, police arrested someone for strong armed robbery, sounds like out of Oakland, but caught in Berkeley. Lots of helicopters overhead. It's all over now, back to fighting over bike lanes on #hopkins

https://twitter.com/BerkeleyScanner/status/1696652301602021853

Via C J #Hopkins on @substack “The future is not an #Orwellian boot stomping on your face forever … it’s faceless corporate censors [like those at @YouTube #YouTube] ‘visibility-filtering’ you into oblivion.”

See, e.g., this piece by Matt #Orfalea

“YouTube Secretly Labelled My Video ‘Harmful Or Dangerous’”

https://open.substack.com/pub/censorednews/p/youtube-secretly-labeled-my-video?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Thousands of Afghans in limbo two years after fall of Kabul despite pledge to save those who helped UK troops | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/afghan-refugees-kabul-taliban-pakistan-b2390923.html

#Afghans
#AfghansWhoWorkedWithBritish
#ARAP
#Pakistan
#ACRS
#Sunak
#Tories
#Dubs
#Richards
#Lewis
#Jarvis
#McColl
#Mercer
#Dannatt
#Hopkins
#Labour
#AfghanRefugees
#AfghanRelocations

Merchants on #Hopkins and #Valencia: “Removing cars will kill our business!!!”

Merchants on #Hayes: “Adding cars will kill our business!!!”

https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/25/san-franciscos-hayes-street-is-reopening-to-cars-merchants-worry-what-that-means-for-business/

TITLE: Kay Redfield Jamison: Healing in Mind (*Lancet*) [Book -- Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind. ]

Thank you Dr. Pope for the summary.

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The new issue of The Lancet includes an article: “Kay Redfield Jamison: healing in mind” by Niall Boyce.

Here are some excerpts:

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I am talking on Zoom with Kay Redfield Jamison, Co-Director of the Mood Disorders Center and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, about her new book Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind. Its optimistic title is belied by the dustjacket photograph depicting flames rising from Notre Dame cathedral during the 2019 fire. While pointing out that she does not choose her cover art, Jamison nevertheless thinks it is an appropriate image:

“Since I wrote about Notre Dame, and what it is that you can bring from ruin and destruction, it has some meaning there.” The book's title, meanwhile, is taken from English writer Siegfried Sassoon's poem To a Very Wise Man, a tribute to W H R Rivers, the psychiatrist who helped him cope with trauma sustained in World War 1.

Fires in the Dark is the latest in a series of highly regarded publications by Jamison; previous topics include creativity and mental illness, suicide, bereavement, and exuberance.

The book is concerned with healing, and Jamison has in her life been both the healer and the healed; her experience of bipolar disorder was the subject of her 1995 memoir An Unquiet Mind.

Fires in the Dark is a book about finding a way forward, but it is also a revisitation of Jamison's past, as its subtitle suggests. Jamison recalls an episode of depression that she had as a 17-year-old in California during the 1960s, when help came not from a psychiatrist, but from an English teacher: “Nobody talked about depression. I mean, it just wasn’t done…But he came to me with a couple of volumes by Robert Lowell, and Sherston's Progress by Sassoon, and The Once and Future King by T H White.” Jamison tells me that these books—poetry, fictionalised war memoir, and Arthurian legend—“have just stayed in my life since”.

There is an epic quality to Jamison's own life; her early years were spent moving “from Florida to California to Puerto Rico, Japan, Washington” with her family—her father was a scientist and pilot with the US Air Force. “I actually loved it, and enjoyed meeting new people”, she says. Settling in Pacific Palisades, CA, USA, when her father took a job with the RAND Corporation, Jamison's thoughts turned to the medical world; psychology, she explains, came later.

At one point, she was set to become a veterinarian; and yet, discussing this stage in her life, I detect a hint of where her talents would eventually lead her. Animals, Jamison says, are “different, they go through the same world [as humans] and they sense that differently”. Perhaps this interest in communication across seemingly insuperable barriers meant that her eventual qualification in clinical psychology was on the cards from the start? One of the most frustrating things about mental illness, Jamison tells me, “is that you can’t communicate in your normal way. So it's up to the therapist…How do you find out what someone is feeling and thinking when they’re so ill, and so embarrassed about being ill?”

Jamison has tackled that stigma in her own life, making public her experience of bipolar disorder in An Unquiet Mind. While family and colleagues were largely supportive, she experienced a ferocious backlash from some quarters. “I got a lot of hate mail”, Jamison recalls. “A lot of people saying it's a good thing you didn’t have children [and] pass these genes on.” But it was vital to Jamison to tell her story, other people's accounts of their illness having proved invaluable to her: “When I got manic the first time, I was so terrified…everything was just bleak, bleak. The fact that people had gotten through it was very meaningful, very important.” In a field that is often marked by professional polarisation, Jamison takes a holistic attitude towards healing: “I think psychotherapy is so undervalued. And I think there's no question in my own mind that for myself, psychotherapy kept me as alive as lithium did.”

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We return to the subject of Rivers, one of the key psychological and societal healers featured in Fires in the Dark. Jamison tells me that it was said “that he came by understanding human nature probably through more different paths than anyone else. Through experimental psychology, anthropology, neurology, psychiatry, medical psychology…there's profundity there of wisdom; of human wisdom, and an openness to experience, and a compassion toward suffering.”

I’m struck that Jamison takes a similarly expansive approach: she is focused not only on the acute stages of mental health problems, but also on what comes afterwards: “if you’ve got to spend the rest of your life knowing that you’ve got a recurrent illness—that you may get sick at any time, under the best of circumstances—you’ve got to figure out what you’re going to do with that. And to me…healing is a lot of getting well enough and insightful enough to say: How do I take on the world? How do I take some purpose from this?”

Although the US health-care system—which Jamison describes as “utterly completely broken”—does not make it easy for clinicians to work as healers, she remains optimistic. Towards the end of our conversation, I ask her about her statement in An Unquiet Mind that she “long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms”. Is this still the case?

“I’ve been very lucky”, she replies. “By medical standards, I have a bad version of bipolar illness, but by treatment standards, I have a very good response.” She looks thoughtful. “The idea that there are storms out there doesn’t bother me.”

Ken Pope

Ken Pope, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Hector Y. Adames, Janet L. Sonne, and Beverly A. Greene
Speaking the Unspoken: Breaking the Silence, Myths, and Taboos That Hurt Therapists and Patients (APA, 2023)
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
—Jo March in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868)

#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy #therapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #bipolar #book #bookreview #johnshopkins #hopkins #firesinthedark #anunquietmind

Rewilding #Minnehaha Creek as it winds it’s way through #Hopkins and #Minneapolis has made for pretty spectacular results. #Minnesota https://www.startribune.com/rewilding-minnehaha-a-decade-long-plan-to-repair-the-degraded-creek-begins-to-pay-off/600281830/

Ospiti da #fazio a #CTCF per questa ultima puntata #metsola #Hopkins, #Elodie e #mengoni

Dal prossimo anno Orbán, Boldi e Povia.
Questione di qualità

#28maggio

President #Zelenskyy was the surprise #commencement speaker at John #Hopkins University #graduation ceremony.

The western media is really working up this shady jew.
Is he here in #WashingtonDC for #AIPAC convention?
More hand out for #Israel?

Filthy scumbags!

#Ukraine

This is obviously true and I appreciate @WalkBikeBerk saying it.

https://twitter.com/WalkBikeBerk/status/1659679470159294464

#Berkeley #Hopkins

“Transportation staff that are trained to do this are few and far between,” Parolek said. “Delaying this project just said to those people, ‘Don’t bother coming here, because we can’t get anything done.’” https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/05/18/berkeley-transportation-staff-shortages-farid-javandel-investigation #Berkeley #Hopkins #RoadSafety

RT @HamuchuStarTea
Hopkins and Puddles are true besties, they even both wear fruit themed outfits and are always together. ＊❀🥝🍓❀＊#ACNH #AnimalCrossing #どうぶつの森 #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons #NintendoSwitch #Hopkins #Puddles

The better Ada Bypass plan would be to make Hopkins one way for cars between Ordway and McGee, moving eastbound auto traffic to Ada. Then there should be plenty of room for parking, protected bike lanes, and one lane of car traffic on Hopkins. #hopkins #berkeley

I … cannot even believe this.

Chris Lee-Egan and I wrote a Medium piece (https://medium.com/@marcprecipice/three-myths-about-hopkins-street-c09712029084) about misinformation in the #Hopkins bike lane debates. We quoted opponents of the lanes talking about severe injuries and deaths on the street.

They have a response up claiming “no one ever said” what we claimed. But … they still say it, on the same site where they published their rebuttal. 🤯🤯🤯

(The rest of the rebuttal is ridiculous, too.) #BikeTooter #RoadSafety #Berkeley

Was ist #Frühling?
#Wachstum in jedem Ding.

G.M. #Hopkins

That was an awesome ride. About 80 people riding, even with the rain, and tons of enthusiasm and ringing bells. I dunno, man, I think people just like bike lanes.

#KidicalMass #Berkeley #Hopkins #BIkeTooter

Its not often that a #professional #photographer is able to get out to remote areas for fun unless it's related to a #photography job. But this morning I was able to trek out to a hidden area of #hopkins #minnesota to find this peaceful little #lake with a family of #ducks nestled by it's edge making for a GREAT #shot.

Sometimes it's worth going out of your way for yourself sometimes. Not every photography moment has to be about making money. Though, this print will sell for a ton.
#MNastodon

No luck waiting for the massive #snow #storm in #minneapolis. I camped out all night but wasn't able to get the shot I hoped for, though I did get this BEAUTIFUL #photo of a natural #snake track in #hopkins #minnesota.

Sometimes if something doesn't work out as a #professional #landscape #photographer you can still find beauty has happened while you were asleep suspended from a pole. How can YOU scramble to produce when you have a tight deadline and hypothermia?

#mnastodon

I got to make a short contribution to @TheWarOnCars’s episode 100 (I'm at 46:05), and the whole episode is great. I love hearing how many ways people are fighting for safer streets and against climate change. https://thewaroncars.org/2023/02/21/the-war-on-cars-turns-100/

#BikeTooter #Berkeley #Hopkins

Caught this EXCITING shot of an illegal #drag #race in the heart of the #hopkins #minnesota over the #weekend. It can be thriling to immerse yourself in the lesser known and #dangerious #youth culture that is out there if you only look for it.

As a #professional #landscape #photographer its important to sometimes risk your life among the locals to get a perfect shot. It opens your eyes to different lifestyles and cultures that you only hear about in your local city hall!

Enjoy

#mnastodon

Walk Bike #Berkeley releases The Definitive Guide to the #Hopkins Debate. Read up, and write City Council to tell them: Approve Hopkins with Option 3! https://twitter.com/WalkBikeBerk/status/1624842952987254785

#RoadSafety #BikeTooter