Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-5-2008

[andrewducker]

• America invades Pakistan
  Huzzah!
  (tags: war pakistan USA)
• Did the Romans destroy Europe's HIV resistance?
  And does it make up for the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?
  (tags: HIV disease history WildSpeculation)
• Angry? Get Distracted
  Fascinating piece on different strategies for dealing with anger. The answer isn't what you'd expect
  (tags: anger emotion psychology)
• Natural birth 'may aid baby bond'
  Mothers who give birth naturally are more responsive to the cry of their baby than those who choose to have a Caesarean, American research suggests.
  Brain scans on 12 new mothers soon after birth found more activity in areas linked to motivation and emotions in those who had a vaginal delivery.
  The contractions which are an essential part of a natural birth trigger the release of the hormone oxytocin, which is thought to play a key role in shaping maternal behaviour.
  (tags: babies oxytocin hormones brains)
• Del Toro booked up until 2017
  Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Hobbit, Hobbit 2: Hobbits in Space, Drood (based on the Dan Simmons novel about Charles Dickens) and hopefully an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
  (tags: movies GuillermoDelToro)
• Ten ways to Destroy New York
  A brief filmic countdown
  (tags: movies newyork TheEndOfTheWorld)

Comments

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

I wonder how people were angered. I suspect that anger caused by scientists when you know you are participating in an experiment would totally fade with time.

Also, physical exertion like that probably does precisely the thing of bringing the anger to the surface and so of course you feel more angry directly afterwards. But it’s kind of like wearing a face mask and being really spotty the next day, but a couple of days after that you have baby soft skin and all the deep down ming has gone. You can totally get over intial anger within minutes, but if you don’t deal with it, it’s still affecting you.

I would be interested in seeing this experiment where you take people who have genuine anger, where you test them say a couple of weeks after these techniques of anger management to find out (I don’t know how) how much anger they are still harbouring – maybe test stress levels?

Hmm.

Lxxx

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

I'd second that. I'm reading some very interesting research right now about the effects of long-term repressed/suppressed rage on physical health - Not Nice.

And the conclusions of this article remind me of a semi-anecdotal story from a parenting book, of all things, I read many years ago. Apparently there was a family where the father was incredibly, incredibly witty. Whenever there was anger in the air, he'd say something massively funny, and everyone would crack up, apparently diffusing the argument.

All members of the family apparently ended up with serious problems due to unexpressed anger.

(The source for that book was a bit unreliable, but still interesting.)

One big problem right now seems to be that we're quite good at teaching people to suppress anger short-term, but not very good at teaching how to express and deal with anger in the long term. And there really isn't a lot of information out there on how to deal with long-term anger, at least that I've found.

I wonder if it might be worth having a read through some techniques used by abuse survivors? I know that repressed rage is a huge problem there.

[andrewducker]

Yup, definitely agreed. Short-term techniques are fine, and useful - so long as you also deal with underlying problems in the long term.

[andrewducker]

Which is pretty much what I said to Julie when she pointed me at the article. Short term stuff is handy at the time, when you need to get your temper under control and deal with things, but you need to deal with the underlying causes in the long term.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Anger sucks donkey cock.

(I find childish ranting to be a good way to relieve anger)

Grr

Lxxx

[andrewducker]

Great big wobbly donkey cock.

And yes, I agree :->

It took me a long time to be able to express anger at all, and a fair bit of time after that to begin controlling it reasonably well.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

I still feel it a triumph if injustice makes me angry rather than cry. I think years of being taught that anger is unacceptable at any time have finally faded. That said, I liked the comment on how to relax and let go at the time, as long as we do deal with the underlying cause.

Or alternatively, we could go out and destroy New York.

Interesting links as always! I do enjoy them.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Yet more good links - I really enjoy these, Andrew, would you go do that post that explains how to do this. Because I am fail and can't get it to work.

[andrewducker]

Finally got around to doing this :->