Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• Orange and T-Mobile splice customers - allow roaming between their networks
  (tags: orange t-mobile mobile_phones uk)
• How News International (Murdoch) and the London Metropolis Police Force are working together to cover things up
  (tags: police london news murdoch)
• Craigslist’s Forced Censorship of Erotic Ads Saves Journalism Industry
  (tags: advertising craigslist porn prostitution usa)
• Top Ten Myths of Popular Psychology
  (tags: psychology brain memory skepticism science)
• Grasping the nettle: an empirical enquiry. Does it actually work?
  (tags: science)
• Famous directors in haiku form
  (tags: movies haiku)
• An employee of a web analytics company talks about the data they have on where people go.
  (tags: SomethingAwful web statistics)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

It would surprise me if low self-esteem weren't a part of depression.

[andrewducker]

I'd be surprised if more depressed people than average didn't have low self-esteem. But that doesn't mean that low self-esteem causes depression, or that fixing the low self-esteem will fix the depression. It's more likely to mean (in my opinion) that depressed people have a low opinion of a lot of life, including themselves.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

CBT addresses low self-esteem as part of a generally pessimistic attitude.

Have you read Good Mood by Julian Simon? I'm linking to the autobiographical section, but the whole book is online-- he broke a serious (long-term suicidal) depression by working out that the pessimism was self-imposed and changing it.

[andrewducker]

I'm prepared to believe there are outliers to almost anything. But that doesn't prove anything about depression in general.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Grasping the nettle: an empirical enquiry.

You certainly find some real gems in your internet trawls! :-)

[andrewducker]

I'm helped by having some very cool people on my friends list :->