A few years ago, my husband and I decided on a whim to go on a Halloween weekend ghost tour hosted by a local historical group. A few stops into the tour, we realized it was going to be more historic than scary, and we weren't allowed to go into many of the buildings on the tour as they were private residences, which…

I have a spooky story!

So I've worked in hospitals for almost half my life now and in my experience it is hard to find a hospital worker who doesn't at least believe in ghosts a bit.

Several years back, we got a rescue pup. Now rescue pup (RP) had a tendency to bark for attention, never sat still and was 100% fearless (no, seriously. He tried to make friends with a working lawnmower. Fucking fearless). Right around the time RP turned one, he still was fearless, barked for attention and had…

I'll start by professing that I am one of the most skeptical people you'd ever meet. I pretty much don't believe in anything and ghost stories normally make me roll my eyes.

This feels really unfair to me. What about the people who do suffer from this disorder and do have their lives impacted? Should they not have the proper treatment options available to them just so 99% of people can feel good about themselves?

I like this comment.

I am a psychiatric nurse practitioner and have one patient who I previously diagnosed with PMDD (before it was added to DSM5). It is NOT regular PMS — her mood swings are very severe and debilitating and if she didn't clarify the time frame in which they occur she would meet diagnostic criteria for major depression. …

I concur. I don't really have a problem with people taking PMDD seriously as a disorder.

"Say a poor woman was in court, trying to see whether she could keep custody of her child," [Washington University Researcher Sarah] Gehlert says. "Her partner's or spouse's attorney might say, 'Yes, your honor, but she has a mental disorder.' And she might not get custody of her children."

I think it's important to note that this isn't about classifying PMS as a mental disorder but a very specific, much more rare, dehabilitating form of PMS. If classifying it as a mental disorder means that insurance covers treatment and meds, doctors take it seriously, etc., I have to say that I support it.

I think it's so interesting to consider why those names became so popular all at once. It's usually something to do with a celebrity/fictional person. I know that the name Margaret became hugely popular (at least, in Canada..) after the birth of Princess Margaret like 80 years ago, and I know a great many octogenarian…

Maybe if you can check in Quebec or France?

I like the "before" picture. I need something (besides the obvious) to grab.

Wait, I'm confused...don't most people leave a hair salon feeling attractive and confident? I mean, I know there is always the occasional botched dye job or the case of "Okay, this Michelle Williams Pixie cut should have stayed on Michelle Williams' head" buyers remorse, but how is this a thing? Barring any disasters…

Chris Brown has a singular talent for making it impossible to sympathize with him even if he’s recounting a vaguely traumatic incident from his childhood. You know, like that time he lost his virginity to teenage girl. When he was eight.

It's my favorite! I'm a physician and I'm dying to write an order for it.

As a Brit, I have 2 things to say:

1: Your political system is WAY fucked up.

2: You need to get on this socialised healthcare shit ASAP. It is GREAT. You are going to LOVE IT.

Jesus, why are the options 'cheat' or 'leave'? What about 'work on your marital problems together'? The problem here is a commodity, consumer-based culture: a marriage is just a product, and like all products, it's supposed to make you happy; if it doesn't, you either quit using it or get a new one. But that is such a…

Dirty Dancing is a prime example, for me, of how good movies that happen to be about and/or marketed to women are often devalued as chick flicks. Sure, it's a dance movie with a romance, but it also possess a sharp-edged takedown of Rand bros, involves a non-judgmental abortion plot (that can be read as a reflection…