[News] Links I found interesting.

[moonvoice]

YA literature being increasingly purchased by adults.

Why enemies are a useful mainstay against generalised anxiety.

Animals who commit suicide.

Massage makes you feel good, but it's no more effective than just chilling out.

Comments

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

I read the YA article and the animal suicide one. I read YA books, came back to them after maybe 10 years of 'trying to be grown up' about my reading choices. But I found that in the genre of adult sci-fi/fantasy, the themes were the same. Nothing really stood out except my personal classics, books I consistently return to. I go back to YA and find lots of interesting stuff.

I also found urban fantasy/romance and those are quite often good.

I'm not at all surprised by the idea that animals commit suicide. I see it all the time in cases of animal abuse, and in cases of terminal illness. They can just give up, as in the case of that Newfoundland (at the end) - though for some reason, it's not taboo to keep the animal alive past the point of sanity, whereas the same for humans is quite taboo. Did that make sense? I mean that humans are almost always kept alive, no matter what the case or situation, and yet, animals are allowed to quietly die when they've reached their limit in tolerance of a painful life. In fact, we (general 'we') help the animals along!

I hope that manages to make sense :) I am kinda fuzzy minded after dealing with 2 days worth of migraine, and the after effects.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

That article on animal suicide was fascinating.

[thoraofthenord.livejournal.com]

Yep--I was a little surprised the article on animal suicide didn't actually talk about horses. If a horse gets stuck (cast against the stall wall, for instance) it will often will itself to die; probably following a genetic thought that suicide would be a better end than death from bleeding out, starvation, dehydration, or being attacked by another animal.

[white9-fox.livejournal.com]

RE Animal suicide...

Animal and human suicides are no longer seen as willful acts but as responses to conditions.

We need SCIENCE to tell us that????

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

I'm unsurprised about the animal suicide thing. A couple of those comments, though, fall right smack into the territory that naamah_darling was writing about the other day. People are such cruel fuckers sometimes.

[silere.livejournal.com]

Interesting articles. I'm not surprised by the animal suicide one.

The enemy article makes me go 'hmm.'

In regards to the massage article, for anxiety in particular those other treatments may be equally affective, but there are tons of other benefits to massage. It's not just a 'makes you feel good' thing, imho. (just gotta say it, since that's what i do for a living, sorry.)

[wolftale.livejournal.com]

Interesting articles, thanks for sharing.

[amhrantine.livejournal.com]

Yuck. Maybe this is a crazyperson thing, but I hate massage. This doctor is trying to force me into one massage session per week, and the idea is horrible. I hate having my skin touched by other people, and massage actually is quite painful for me as everyone is always too hard on the pain-knots in my back. Massage = fail in my opinion.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

If you hate massage that much, then submitting to it will do more harm than good - you can't relax those muscles if you're tense with the stress that the massage itself causes.

Your doctor is an ass.