La belle indifférence is a phrase sometimes encountered in psychiatry, often associated with conversion disorder, used to describe a lack of appropriate concern for a physical symptom. Now, I don’t speak French, but if you asked me to translate that literally, I’d give you “the beautiful indifference,” or “blissful ignorance.”
Well, whatever the hell it means, I need me some of that. Occasionally, I’ll take a look at the search engine terms that have directed traffic through my blog.
Some of them are serious:
- “rates of autism in unvaccinated children”
- “vaccine controversy”
- “prion encephalopathy aerosol”
Naturally, some of them are funny:
- “foley catheter humor”
- “orthopod humor”
- “how to draw doc from snow white” (Seriously, why would you be directed here? Is Google broken?)
But some of them – some of them are just creepy, and I wish I hadn’t seen them:
- “psychiatrists are shit, shit”
- “plow me”
- “dirty little secrets of opioids”
At any rate, I hope you found what you were looking for.
Bonus: An excellent related quote, taken from the stockpile that will eventually become my “Rules for My Unborn Son”
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.” – Paul Newman
Posted on February 28, 2011
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