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What Is "Normal"?

Eric Maisel, Ph.D. | Posted 03.29.2013 | TED Weekends
Read More: Tedtalks, Normal, Ted, Rethink Your Sanity, Brain-Abnormalities, Psychiatry, Ptsd, Jon Ronson, TED Weekends News
Eric Maisel, Ph.D.

What do we mean by the words "normal" and "abnormal" as they apply to the mental and emotional states and behaviors of human beings? Can those words be sensibly used at all, given their tremendous baggage, their built-in biases and the general confusion they create?

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The Surprising Thing I Learned About Memory Loss

Nancy Alvarez | Posted 08.06.2012 | Fifty
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Nancy Alvarez

My friend and I talked with a neurologist about our memory loss and how distressing it is to us both. She said that when she went to med school she was taught that we all lose brain cells as we age, and there is nothing to be done about it. Now they know otherwise. Both of us perked up. "What can we do?"

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'New Girl': Winston's New Co-Worker Is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Posted 04.11.2012 | TV
Read More: Normal, Video, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, New Girl, Tv Replay, TV Canada, Fox, Reality-Free, TV News

Jess and Russell have been progressing nicely in their relationship, but it's been almost exclusively at his place thus far. She wanted to immerse him...

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Will I Ever Have A Normal Sex Life?

Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 03.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Sex Life, Normal, Rape, Normal Sex Life, Better Sex Life, Sexual Assault, Sex, Women News
Hayley Rose Horzepa

If your first "sexual" experience is a violent crime, can sex and rape ever be dissociated?

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Who (and What) Defines Normal?

Dennis Palumbo | Posted 02.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Clinical Diagnoses, Schizophrenia, Mental Health, Normal, Definition of Normal, Personality Disorders, Healthy Living News
Dennis Palumbo

All clinicians should be wary of seeing their patients only as a set of symptoms. They're not; they're individual human beings, each with a history and a particular (though not always healthy) way of coping with a hard, uncertain world. As are we all.

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Cara Santa Maria

Is Monogamy Natural?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.10.2012 | Home
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I fear that some of our discussions about human sexuality thus far have confused the term "natural" with the term "normal." Natural can be defined in many ways, but based upon its etymology, having some relationship with nature is a dominant theme.

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Her Nether Regions: What's Normal?

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 10.25.2011 | Women
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Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright

A study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has declared that most women seeking genital cosmetic surgery to reduce the size of their inner lips do not have oversized or misshapen labia minora.

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Help Like a Normal Person

Attiyya Anthony | Posted 09.18.2011 | Impact
Read More: Giving, Celebrity Money, Normal, Helping, The Giving Life, Impact News
Attiyya Anthony

We seem to think that if you can't make a large-scale, celebrity-influenced difference, then it doesn't count, but it does. You don't have to have a million dollars to make a million-dollar difference.

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Strange Family Ties

Magda Pecsenye | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Read More: Normal, Families, Divorce, Children, Family, Christmas, Divorce News
Magda Pecsenye

The other night I was having two text conversations simultaneously. One with my mother about Christmas Eve, and one with my uncle (my dad's brother) a...

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I'm Not Falling For It

Taylor Nunley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Taylor Nunley

When addressing the issue of bullying, I feel all too often no one ever really takes the time to help strengthen students against bullying so as to put bullies out of business.

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Should a mom worry about her daughter making friends?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The Friendship Doctor, Worried Mom, Kid?S Friendship, Normal, Living News, Relationships, Social Butterfly, Friendship Advice, Children?S Friendships, Teacher, School, Plays With Younger Children, 7-Year-Old, Tomboy, No Sleepover, Living, Daughter Has No Friends, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

QUESTION Dear Irene, My 7-year-old daughter, soon to be 8, seems to be having some problems, and I am not sure how concerned I should be. I have two...

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Does 'Normal' Really Exist?

Donna Flagg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Normal, Learning Disabilities, Societal Norms, What Is Normal, The Balanced Life, Normalcy, The Norm, Norm, Learning Disability, Healthy Living News
Donna Flagg

Maybe, at the end of the day, there is something not so "normal" in thinking that everyone, in the whole wide world, should be the same.

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FDIC Closes Four Banks: Bank Of Illionois, Sun American, Waterfield, Centennial Bank

AP | IEVA M. AUGSTUMS and MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Regulators on Friday shuttered banks in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah, boosting to 26 the number of bank failures in th...

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