Tag Archives: mental illness

Pillow Cases: 37-Year-Old Japanese Man In Love With His Anime Cartoon Pillow

Jessica WakemanJuly 27, 2009 //

Meet Nisan, a 37-year-old man who lives with his parents outside a suburb of Toyko. Now meet his girlfriend Nemu, who is about 12 years old.

Nisan’s girlfriend isn’t a real 12-year-old girl, fortunately. She’s a body pillow with a picture of an X-rated anime character on it, from a game called Da Capo. Nisan brings Nemu, who has wide, child-like eyes, a pixie haircut, a blue bikini and gold ribbons in her hair, to restaurants, karaoke and the beach.

A reporter for the New York Times magazine joined Nisan and his pillow for lunch to talk about their real-life “Lars And The Real Girl” relationship—glibly scribbling about their sick relationship with no mention whatsoever of how this tween girl fetish is one wrong move away from being criminal. Keep reading »

Quickies!: Margaret Cho Is Maaaad!

Annika HarrisSeptember 18, 2008 //
  • Find out who pissed off funnygirl Margaret Cho. [Tango]
  • Abortion is never an easy choice. [College Candy]
  • Engaging in kinky sex isn’t a mental illness, but the American Psychiatric Association doesn’t know that. [Daily Bedpost]
  • The first step to creating a perfect wardrobe is buy less, spend more. Weird. We thought it was buy more, spend less. [Savvy Miss]

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    Hormones May Make You Less Crazy

    SimchaAugust 8, 2008 //

    Ironically, hormones, the thing that causes women to become emotionally irrational at times (specifically once a month), may actually help ladies who suffer from schizophrenia. Dr. Jayashri Kulkami, MBBS, PhD, applied the old adage that there’s a grain of truth in every joke when she heard her patients were covering up for their symptoms by blaming them on hormones. So, she set up a study with 102 women diagnosed with the mental disorder. In addition to their regimen of medication, half of the women were given a patch of estrogen and that group reported a decrease in delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. While estrogen had been linked to mental illness over a century ago, medical science is still trying to figure out the exact relationship. Surprisingly enough, the estrogen was even a success when tested on men! But there are side effects to taking these hormones besides moobs — it increases the risk of cervical and breast cancer. With these factors in mind, Dr. Kulkami is continuing her research and currently examining the effectiveness of an alternative known as SERMs (selective estrogen receptor modulators). [Health News] Keep reading »

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