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Mont-Solliu

The Borderline Patient

A slew of articles about borderline personality disorder (BPD) were in the mailbox this week. This is a diagnosis on my radar for many…

5 min readFeb 8, 2024

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The Borderline Patient

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Mont-Solliu

Living Poetry

A friend recently has been discussing living life as if engaged in magical realism. I told him that I think that is really the way to live…

1 min readOct 26, 2023

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Embracing the Mystery

Krishnamurti states that change which comes about through coercion or force is not change. (Alright buddy, but sometimes you have to just…

2 min readOct 26, 2023

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Caffeine — Our Favorite Legal Stimulant

Caffeine is the most used drug in the world. It is a stimulant that works primarily by blocking adenosine receptors.

4 min readJun 24, 2022

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Caffeine — Our Favorite Legal Stimulant

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Surfing Difficult Emotions with RAIN

One of the most useful techniques in the mindfulness arsenal is the exercise called RAIN. This English acronym was created in the late 90s…

4 min readJun 24, 2022

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Surfing Difficult Emotions with RAIN

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Odd Obs — Finding Catharsis from Reverse Culture Shock

When I moved back to the lion’s den known as the United States, the reverse culture shock hit hard. I lived away for maybe only 5–6 years…

2 min readJun 24, 2022

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Excerpt from “The Ford”

(I wrote this short based on personal experience. In this story, the teenager Charlie is taking a cross-country trip to escape from a…

3 min readJun 24, 2022

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Homeostasis, Allostasis, Allostatic Load, and Rebound

Homeostasis (“similar/same” + “standing still/state”) as a concept has been around for a very long time. In medicine, the concept is that…

6 min readJun 14, 2022

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Homeostasis, Allostasis, Allostatic Load, and Rebound

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Mont-Solliu

The Monoamine Theory of Antidepressants

This hypothesis has its origins with some of the old SSRIs, and tries to explain:

4 min readJun 14, 2022

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The Monoamine Theory of Antidepressants

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The Power of Contentment

I would like to make an argument for nurturing contentment over happiness. But first we have to sufficiently define contentment.

4 min readJun 14, 2022

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The Power of Contentment

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Mont-Solliu

Mont-Solliu

I had my dream job living in a peaceful and exotic corner of the world writing music, but returned to the lion’s den known as the US to get into mental health.

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