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- Yahoo Kids (KIds.Yahoo.com)
Provides games, music, sports, jokes, and a study zone for kids. 10-09
- Fantasy Theme Theory (Ohio University - Rose)
"Bormann and many other communication scholars who subscribe to his theory use fantasy theme analysis to show a link between the fantasies people use when they talk to each other and the level of cohesion there is among them."
"Within a group context we are talking about references to the group's past or speculation about their future as well as comments about anything in the world outside of the group. What is excluded here is what is going on in the present within the group, because present events aren't really imaginative; they are what is happening. Fantasies are found in jokes, stories, analogies, metaphors; they are our interpretation of and how we feel about familiar events. What happens when we are all talking, using these fantasies is that we are all brought to the same page because of them. When group energy increases and there is a common emotional response to the imagery used this is a fantasy chain reaction. When a fantasy 'chains out' a fantasy theme runs through the group. Now we are all laughing together, or getting worried together. We are becoming a cohesive group!! Bormann calls this process Symbolic Convergence . It is through this symbolic convergence that a bunch of people are transformed into a group, a community, a family!" 11-04
- Depression Treatment for Women (ABC News)
"As I will remind you throughout this book, estrogen and serotonin are intimately related.When estrogen rises, as it does in the two weeks after your period and also during pregnancy, up goes serotonin, and with it your mood. But when estrogen falls, as it does before your period and also during the menopause transition or after delivering a baby, so does your mood and life can get difficult."
"Add to all this Whammy #1, stress. Remember that serotonin is not only a neurotransmitter allowing brain cells to talk to each other, but also a buffer against stress."
"There are three immediate steps you can take to help your brain make more serotonin and they're outlined in the Three-Week Cure: sunlight, exercise, and carbohydrate timing. There are also two bonus serotonin boosters: laughter and kindness. Learn jokes, visit comedy clubs, rent only comedies from your video store. And perform acts of kindness. People who regularly volunteer to help others have measurably higher levels of serotonin."
"A February 2005 study in the British Medical Journal finally put to rest the effectiveness of St. John's wort as an antidepressant for people with moderate to severe depression. Half the study's partcipants took the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine); the other half took a minimum 900 mg daily of St. John's wort. After six weeks on these regimens, one third of those taking the Paxil felt less depressed; but one half of those taking St. John's wort were less depressed. The well-designed study also showed that St. John's wort caused fewer side effects than Paxil." 01-06.
- Why Co-Workers Act Like Children (Time.com)
"Is your boss a bully who needs to feel important and boosts his ego by withholding important information from you? Or maybe you work with someone who is so fearful of argument or criticism that problems go unsolved because she won't discuss them. And then there's that guy down the hall who's constantly annoying everybody with his dumb practical jokes and loud banter. As the recession sends stress levels into the stratosphere, does your colleagues' weird behavior seem to be getting worse?" 04-09
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