Mike Bebernes
The Psychology of Submitting
Mixed martial arts is unique in sports in having a major percentage of its outcomes decided by a choice: to endure pain and risk injury or to tap out. The science of how pain works within the body is widely understood. What is less clear is what...
Tedium Is Torture: What It's Like to Have Severe ADHD
This is my life. My focus is always split between subjects. I can be in class thinking about sex or having sex thinking about class. There’s always something else flashing to the front of my mind before disappearing just as quickly.
With and Without My Ritalin
It comes on as a heat. A warmth starts in my chest and gradually spreads into my neck and arms. For me, ADHD is not a static condition. It comes in squalls. My life is lived between the poles of who I really am and who the Ritalin turns me into. The...
