Five Links Make a Post

While yet unable to write of myself, or others, or reading or whatever of genuine interest, I have been reading the net like a turtle trapped at the base of a waterfall. So I can still fling links with the best of them:

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Join me in being educated by "Jubilation," a new blog about life as a therapist with mental illness.

Here the blogger meditates on the stereotyped bright, tall wall between "professionals who help" and "those people."
( Myth of Them and Us )

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( That drug doesn't do what you think it does )

Argh, that was a particularly rich article and hard to excerpt; if you or anyone you know deals with an "orphan disease," it's useful reading.

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All pet owners know that terrible feeling, when their loved one is laid low and something important is missing. ( They ate what? )

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Turns out there are little words which tie us together. ( But not those three little words )

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I have learned a lot from reading other people's experience of living with chronic pain. Every one of us develops idiosyncratic coping methods. I've borrowed some, and admired many.
( Riese's Eloquent Discourse on Constant Pain )