This post was originally written months ago. It should have been topical and no longer relevant. Instead, it’s even more relevant. In almost all TV cop shows and movies, the bad guy, usually a mad psychotic, a mad genius or… Read More ›
Mental health
LIVING WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION – ELLIN CURLEY
Sleep is very important to me. I spend a good deal of my life not getting enough of it. During those times, it was a struggle to get through each exhausted day. I’m glad I don’t have to live that… Read More ›
BEHAVIORAL CONDITIONING – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I was an anxious child. I’m convinced that my father had a serious anxiety/depression disorder, which I undoubtedly inherited. From early on, I had nervous ticks, anxiety attacks, learning problems, and psychosomatic stomach problems. I was also a bed wetter… Read More ›
MY TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY – BY ELLIN CURLEY
It was the night of October 18, 1987. My husband, Larry, had been devolving into a state of paranoid rage for several weeks. He couldn’t enter the house at this point without punching something, like a wall. Or breaking something…. Read More ›
PSYCHIATRY LET ME DOWN – BY ELLIN CURLEY
My father was a well-known psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. My mother was a psychologist. I was like the shoemaker’s kids who goes without shoes. I was not well-served by the psychiatric profession. It wasn’t anyone’s fault. I was just born too… Read More ›
THE YOGA YEARS – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I taught Yoga for eight years, from 1995-2003. Those were eight very happy years. After that, I developed severe sciatica and had to stop teaching. I still miss it. I got into Yoga in a backhanded way. In 1994, my… Read More ›
DOONESBURY NAILED IT 41 YEARS AGO – BY BRAINWRAP (AND ME)
Doonesbury nailed it 41 years ago. — By Brainwrap I remember this specific strip too. I was an ardent follower of Doonesbury back in those days. How ironic and sad that his material is relevant 41 years after publication. A BIT… Read More ›
MY MOTHER COULD’VE BEEN MARILYN MONROE’S THERAPIST – BY ELLIN CURLEY
In 1962, Marilyn Monroe was working on her last movie, “Something’s Got to Give”, by 20th Century Fox. One of the producers on that film was a man named Henry Weinstein. He was brought into the production because it was… Read More ›
REUNION ANGST – BY ELLIN CURLEY
Every ten years I face a major High School Reunion. 20 years, 30, 40, and now I’m up to 50 years in June of 2017. Whenever reunion time approaches, I go through a period of self-doubt and indecision. Do I… Read More ›
HIGH ANXIETY – BY ELLIN CURLEY
On June 11, 2017, the front page of the New York Times ‘Sunday Styles’ section had an article called “An Anxious Nation.” The article talks about the near epidemic levels of anxiety in our society. For a generation, depression was… Read More ›
“CHEMISTRY” IN RELATIONSHIPS – BY ELLIN CURLEY
My mother was a psychologist with a private practice. She saw lots of relationships up close and personal. She always wondered how people seemed to be able to find others who satisfied their unconscious needs. The Ying to their Yang…. Read More ›
DOING WHAT YOU LOVE, LOVING WHAT YOU DO – BY ELLIN CURLEY
My mother was a psychologist and my father was a psychoanalyst. They both practiced as therapists. It seemed like the greatest profession and I grew up wanting to be a therapist too. You get to help people but you can… Read More ›
HEALTH CARE AND CIVILIZATION
I was on Facebook when I realized the House had actually passed Trump’s new “version” of non-health care. I got so depressed, I went to Steam and bought Civilization VI. I used to play the game three or four versions ago, so I… Read More ›
I WANT TO BE A CURMUDGEON – BY TOM CURLEY
I want to be a curmudgeon. I’m the right age. I’ve paid my dues. I’ve earned the right. Problem is, I’m having a hard time doing it. I want to be able to yell at kids to “GET OFF MY… Read More ›
CAN MEL BROOKS SUE “REALITY” FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? – BY TOM CURLEY
My all-time favorite movie is The Producers. I’ve seen it a hundred times. I have it memorized. I can tell you what line is coming up next and what the next shot is in any given scene. I still fall… Read More ›
THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I’ve come to accept the fact that a large chunk of the country believes a set of ‘alternative facts’ that are, in fact, not true. They are SO not true, they are ridiculous, outrageous and totally unbelievable to most people…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 