> Hot damn, 12 acres of cats!

I KNOW.. this place is awesome, for $50 you get a 5 minute ride around the grouds on a four-wheeler ATV and there are no rules, at all. We brought our whole project management team as a team building / stress relief exercise.

"Some of the amazing benefits and uses of your NeoCube include:
Innovation Initiator
Creative Outlet
Dual Hemisphere Brain Stimulator
Stress Relief
Boredom Buster
Total Control
Educational Tool
&
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I'm neither a D.O. nor Licensed Massage Therapist, but I'd think that its an immune system response to the presence of foreign bodies. From a certain perspective sex is a disgusting exchange of of bacteria and other possible pathogens. The fact it occurs in the mouth and lungs would seem to support that its not the act of sex but the exchange of fluids and air during passionate kissing. If you hermetically sealed both people's heads during the act would the immunological reaction still show up? Could you get the same results if someone spit in your mouth and breathed in your face for an hour a day?

The health benefits I'm aware of for sex are more related to stress relief.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I still don't get how people think that joining Scientology is a good idea.


They use general semantics and hypnosis on the premise of "self-improvement" or "stress relief." The more progress you make, the more encouragement / discipline you receive as feedback so to keep you motivated towards achieving "the bridge" to your "success" rather than become a quitter.

Fellas, fellas. The Cleveland Steamer went out of style back in '02, this video is proof that it's been relegated to the realm of awkward, elbow-y teenage experimentation and possibly overworked Japanese husbands' stress relief. The new scene is all up in this Angry Pirate business, ferreal.

This sounds like Scientology propaganda. That being said, ADHD is one of the most abused labels I can think of. The label itself is one of the biggest issues with ADHD diagnosis and treatment. Symptoms commonly associated with ADHD can be caused by many things, namely various sources of stress. I think in many cases the ADHD term is applied in situations where it may only vaguely apply in an attempt to simplify the unavoidable complexity found whenever you study psychology.

I, in recent years, have developed a significant difficulty in focusing or concentrating on certain things. Foremost among them is reading. I can't enjoy a book anymore because by the time I finish a page, I have completely forgotten the page before it. I can spend all day sitting around doing nothing and still feel like I've never had the chance to relax because I cannot get myself to wind down. I am constantly churning over issues from work, family concerns, bills, etc. There's nothing unusual about these concerns; I imagine everyone here can say they have the same; but they seem to affect me differently.

One of the interesting things that's surfaced in the last few years is the view of ADHD not as a "malfunction" but simply as a different way of functioning. Many of us with classic ADHD symptoms also have benefits. As adults, we tend to multitask better and we tend to communicate more clearly and concisely.

Do I have ADHD? I imagine many doctors would slap that label on me and I imagine others would not. Frankly, I don't care what they label me so long as they can help me. "Help" should not mean medication, at least not so readily as it usually does now. Unlike the majority of modern anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications, ADHD treatments have not come very far and still tend to bring significant drawbacks with them. Exercise, therapy and general stress-relief techniques can do wonders for many psychological issues. The most helpful thing I've ever found is simply being conscious and aware of what your issues are.

I don't think it's as black and white as most people want it to be.