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Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Printed with permission from John Breeding. See his website here. My purpose in this short essay is twofold. The first is to describe my understanding of the nature of psychological distress and emotional healing. The second is to expose the truth about our modern mental health system, call it Psychiatry, which diagnoses citizens as “mentally ill” [...]
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MindBlog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen (cousin of the comic actor Sacha Baron-Cohen) weighs in on the debate that I mentioned in my 11/4/09 post over dropping the term Asperger's syndrome. Part of the reason the diagnostic manual can move the boundaries and add or remove “mental disorders” so easily is that it focuses on surface appearances or behavior (symptoms) and is silent about causes. Symptoms...
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Pharmaceuticals Anonymous (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
From the article: American mental-health practitioners need psychological help, a new report says, and they are not getting nearly enough of it. An amazingly prescient article published a few years ago in the U.S. journal Psychology Today and recently reprinted on the Huffington Post lends clinical credence to the commonly held assumption that mental-health workers (and by that the essay's author,...
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The Humane-Rights-Agenda Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gracias Cougar ~ I agree that the treatment of so-called mental illness has decayed into another money-making profit-motivated industry that helps the sick get sicker. I subscribe to spiritual solutions that involve taking care of your health, consciousness a raising and working a progressive 12-Steps Program for character development, personal empowerment and...
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DISSENTING JUSTICE (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
President Obama correctly stated that people should not "rush to judgment" regarding the motivation of Nidal Hasan -- the individual who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base. Unfortunately, the public often races to assign a collective narrative to extremely violent events. Typically, the earliest narratives rest on gross stereotypes and, consequently, miss the mark. For example,...
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Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Atlantic has an excellent article on how our assumptions about genetic vulnerability to mental illness may be misplaced, as many studies have missed out how the same genetic factors may cause people to thrive but only in quite specific circumstances. One of the difficulties with psychiatry research is that it often has a sample bias, a blind spot if you will, as it typically studies people who...
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Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Darryl Cunningham draws amazing comics about psychiatry and mental illness, drawn from his time working as a student nurse on psychiatric wards. His comic strip Psychiatric Tales has been regularly appearing online and he's just posted the amazing and heartfelt last chapter along with an announcement that the series is to be published as a book by Blank Slate Publishing in February. If you want to...
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Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
New Study Shows 85 Percent of Women Say Abortions Cause Mental Health Issues Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new report from researchers at a university in New Zealand indicates 85 percent of women who had abortions report negative mental health issues as a result. The report is the latest from professor David Fergusson and his team showing abortions cause problems for women. The University of Otago...
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Dr. Sanity (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I must agree with Mark Steyn on this insanity: The Headline of the Day, from the BBC : Shooting Raises Fears For Muslims In US Army Really? Right now the body count stands at: Non-Muslims 13 Muslims 0 I was reading from some of this kind of coverage on the Rush Limbaugh show today. Even if you take the view that it would be grossly unfair if all Muslims were to be tarred by Major Hasan's brush, it...
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Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
We've decided we could use an umbrella organization to explain what we do in a more official capacity. What do you think? And yes, the podcast will be back, we're just trying to keep our heads above water with getting the manuscript done for the book, blogging, and the rest of life! ---------------------- The Accessible Psychiatry Project Encouraging dialogue about psychiatry across media. Mission...
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TruthSeeker24's anti-N.W.O. corner (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
From http://lifenews.com/int1371.html New Study Shows 85 Percent of Women Say Abortions Cause Mental Health Issues by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor November 3, 2009 addthis_pub = 'sertelt'; Email RSS Print Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new report from researchers at a university in New Zealand indicates 85 percent of women who had abortions report negative mental health issues as a result....
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Wendy Williams. The Queen of All Media (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Researchers in New Zealand who examined the medical history of more than 500 women concluded abortion “leads to significant distress in some” and that those reporting adverse reactions were up to 80% more likely to have mental health problems, reports the Daily Telegraph.The University of Otago study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, found the risk of mental illness was “...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Common mental disorders, such as depression and alcohol misuse, are the top psychological problems amongst UK troops post-deployment and not post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as is widely believed. A study published today in the open access journal, BMC Psychiatry, also finds that reservists remain at special risk of operational stress injury.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Common mental disorders, such as depression and alcohol misuse, are the top psychological problems amongst UK troops post-deployment and not post traumatic stress disorder as is widely believed. A study published today in the open-access journal, BMC Psychiatry, also finds that reservists remain at special risk of operational stress injury.
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Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
I’m going to take some excerpts as found on John Breeding’s website from his book, “The Necessity Madness and Unproductivity.” Just some ideas to get the juices flowing. I’ve mostly made an argument that mental illness can be treated by natural means and one can heal through healthy lifestyle, diet, nutrition and confronting one’s deepest self. [...]
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somnath1 | 12/10/2008
Depression, a mental illness that is often characterized by prolonged periods of sadness and melancholy, experts from the field of psychiatry say. But just because one person is moping around and just generally hating the world around him or her, doesn...
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