3. so hot.

    so hot.

  5. All these colors were achieved with red, yellow, blue, and green food coloring mixed into white frosting. The amount of drops needed for the color you want is underneath the icing color. So convenient. :)

  6. truebluemeandyou:

    DIY Design and Entertaining Reference Charts. There is a roundup of twenty charts on everything from rug sizes to to bed pillow configuration on TuTu Devine’s site here.

  7. truebluemeandyou: Eight PDF Patterns for the Hermes Kelly Paper Bags. You can’t download these anymore from the Hermes main site (if I’m wrong - message me!), but you can from their facebook site which is so much easier to do anyway. Go to facebook.com/hermes/photos and click on “Kelly Paper Bag” and download all eight PDFs. Again, I’d go to Small Good Things post on how to wax paper to make these bags stronger and prettier here. *These are tiny!

    truebluemeandyou:

    Eight PDF Patterns for the Hermes Kelly Paper Bags. You can’t download these anymore from the Hermes main site (if I’m wrong - message me!), but you can from their facebook site which is so much easier to do anyway. Go to facebook.com/hermes/photos and click on “Kelly Paper Bag” and download all eight PDFs. Again, I’d go to Small Good Things post on how to wax paper to make these bags stronger and prettier here. *These are tiny!

  11. truebluemeandyou: DIY Thread Wrapped Cuff with Spikes. Really easy great looking cuff. Tutorial from one of my favorite blogs: Pretty Quirky Pants here.

    truebluemeandyou:

    DIY Thread Wrapped Cuff with Spikes. Really easy great looking cuff. Tutorial from one of my favorite blogs: Pretty Quirky Pants here.

  12. Subtypes of psychotic disorders

    A. Residual schizophrenia- absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. Continued evidence of some light symptoms. Usually reserved for those who experience a schizophrenic episode but not another.

    B. Schizoaffective disorder- A major depressive episode or manic episode occurs with symptoms of schizophrenia. 

    C. Schizophreniform disorder- a category reserved for schizophrenia-like symptoms that last at least a month but do not last for 6 months and so do not warrant a diagnosis of schizophrenia. 

    D. Delusional disorder- nonbizarre delusions (involving situations that could occur in real life. being followed or poisoned) that last for at least a month. No evidence of impaired functioning and no evidence of full-blown schizophrenia. 

    E. Shared psychotic disorder- folie a deux. A delusion that develops in someone who has a very close relationship with another person who is delusional. Contagion in friends and families. 

  13. Schizophrenia

    Handy facts:

    -Urban living, immigration, cannabis, being Afro-Caribbean in the UK, and having a family history increase risk.

    -Individuals with overbearing or critical families (EE) have a poor prognosis, even worse than for those living alone.

    -38 percent of patients show a reasonable form of recovery.

    -16 percent recover to the point where they need no form of treatment.

    -John Nash totally didn’t have visual hallucinations. He was more delusional. 

    -Estrogen has antipsychotic effects. Women are less likely to have schizophrenia and usually have less severe forms.

    -There is a lifetime prevalence of 1 percent. 

  14. The Tarasoff Law

    -Spells out a therapist’s responsibility in situations where there has been an explicit threat on a specific person’s life. But should individuals be told if there is adequate protection and the homicidal individual is treated and no longer has the same feelings? 

  15. Milieu Therapy in Mental Hospitals

    Part of an effort to make the hospital community a therapeutic one.

    1)Staff expectations are clearly communicated to patients. Both positive and negative feedback are used to encourage appropriate verbalizations and actions by patients.

    2) Patients are encouraged to become involved in all decisions made, and in all actions taken, concerning them. A self-care, DIY attitude prevails.

    3) All patients belong to social groups on the ward. The group cohesiveness that results gives the patients more support and encouragement, and the related process of group pressure helps shape their behavior in positive ways. 

    -Open wards should be encouraged, wards that permit patients to use all grounds and premises.

    -A form of self-government could be implemented. 

    -The “other 23 hours” effect.

About me

Meg. 22. M.S.W. student. Feminist. "Into" Irony. Orphan. From Northeast TN. Can be found reading, lamenting Leonardo Dicaprio's aging, indulging in but not finishing cans of Diet Dr K and Coke Zero, or waiting impatiently for Buffy to have sex with Spike in season 6.

Expect Buffy, surrealism, feminism, literary references, and some of my own photography.