It’s a good thing there are some unbelievable stories of (aberrant) human behavior reported over the holiday to wake you from the tryptophan stupor of the Thanks Giving turkey. Read the rest of this post here »
I’ve been recently reminded of my years running as a medic with our local rescue squad. Running rescue can certainly put you on an emotional roller coaster. Rage, sorrow, despair, desperation, panic, frustration, joy, and sometimes you even encountered downright comedy. Thank God for the comedy calls, they certainly help offset some of the more 
tragic ones.
Being called to people’s homes at all hours and for all manor of emergencies certainly gives you an eye opener into how some people live, or I should say “exist”. And it’s certainly a reality check of the wide range of competence levels that lurk in your local community.
I find the hinterland between behavior and biochemistry fascinating - and how you can boil down behaviors such as love, sex and monogamy to mere, impersonal, neurochemistry.
Mrs. Gagg, in a well-intentioned way, bought me a bunch of books. “Oh god” I thought, this could be awkward. But, of course, skeptic that I am, when I came to read them there was some great stuff - amongst which was ‘The Brain That Changes Itself’ by Norman Doidge, M.D. who is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York
Some Lovers Become Dangerously Oxytocic - see below.
