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What does Wagner, wild animal attacks, and heated floors all have in common? Masha, the subject of Caleb Carr’s moving memoir about his life with his beloved cat. [more inside]
posted by CMcG on Aug 5, 2024 - 2 comments

One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness in any given year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24. It kills over 800,000 people a year globally and 48,300 in the USA. Drug overdose kills 81,000 in the USA annually. The autoimmunity epidemic affects 24 million people in the USA. What is going on? The interconnected epidemics of anxiety, chronic illness and substance abuse are, according to Dr Gabor Maté, normal. But not in the way you might think. [more inside]
posted by iamkimiam on Jun 20, 2021 - 0 comments

Nineteen-year-old Jake Margate struggles with terminal leukemia for five years and is ready to let go but his mother is not. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Apr 27, 2019 - 1 comment

Warning: NOT a zombie movie. This is about terminal illness. [more inside]
posted by Ik ben afgesneden on May 24, 2015 - 3 comments

Directed by Penny Marshall in 1990, Awakenings focuses on a group of patients frozen in a trance like state until Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) begins to experiment with a drug called L-DOPA. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Dec 13, 2014 - 9 comments