When the mind goes blank it often feels like someone pulled the plug on your thoughts. One moment you are speaking, working, or recalling information, and the next, there is only silence. This does ...

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In the 1980s, one of my psychology professors at the University of Toronto advocated against using labels for psychological or psychiatric diagnoses. "Why not?” I questioned. “How else will we know ...