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Feb 9, 2012, 12:01 am
I had hoped that perhaps today I’d be sharing good news. Last week, I went out of state for a special medical procedure being looked at for PTSD that might reduce my symptoms. Still, I'm sharing what I did because I think that for some people, especially people with PTSD who are not suffering also... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2012, 5:01 am
I can see by the stats on the blog that sometimes people happen upon one of these posts via search and then they sit and click through one after another until they've read the whole thing! I've noticed this a few times now and I don't really look at my stats all that closely all the time, so I imagi... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2012, 12:01 am
Thought I’d repost this. It’s a rather fun look at the atrocity that is pharma. _____________________________________________________________ Source: Online Colleges and Universities Filed under: health, pharmaceuticals Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2012, 8:36 am
Let your tears come. Let them flow, flood, storm, shake and wake you. Let your whole body cry, weep, sob. Drop below any shame you might have about crying so openly, letting your heart break, knowing that what is breaking is not your heart, but only the energetic encasing around it. If you feel like Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2012, 12:01 am
I'm sharing another one of Toni Bernhard's, author of How to Be Sick, helpful posts from Psychology Today. In this post she talks about how when one is ill and someone offers to help we often have to, in turn, help them out and let them know what we need. I have, indeed, found this to be true. (comm... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 2:57 pm
Dr. Healy’s Pharmageddon is one of those books to be read, not summarized. It’s not that it’s filled with new information. He sees what the rest of us see, albeit from the position more interior than most – a neuroscientist who has been embedded in the scene. He writes about the primacy of t... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 9:00 am
The sobering but oh, so enlightening, words of R.D. Laing revisited: The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absur... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 12:01 am
Many people who withdraw from psychiatric drugs discover excessive food sensitivities...we're forced to change the way we eat. It seems that it may be wise for everyone to think about what they're putting in their bodies. More and more people are also discovering this the hard way (by getting sick o... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 6:42 am
Reblogged from ALTmentalities: From Carl Jung’s Modern Man In Search of A Soul: “People a very dangerous monster out of the unconscious, that really very natural thing. As if all that is good, reasonable, beautiful and worth living for had taken up its abode in consciousness! Have the horros... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 12:01 am
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throughout the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 8:02 am
In Greek myths, Chiron was the wisest of the Centaurs and the archetype of the Wounded Healer
He was accidentally wounded by an arrow that had been dipped in the blood of the Hydra
In his search for his own cure, he discovered how to heal others
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Feb 3, 2012, 10:00 am
Will you survive the transition of human industrial civilization happening now due to peak oil and climate change? Can you see the forest for the trees, the earth for the dream, the universe for the seed? Anima Mundi is an innovative documentary about the planetary animal called Gaia and the human a... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 8:38 pm
The article below is from almost a year ago but I somehow missed it. It strikes me as rather important. My psychiatrist was always trying to convince me to have babies…I always told him he was nuts to think I would consider getting pregnant while on so many drugs that were highly questionable. He ... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 6:52 am
A lovely story of growing up with a lot of pain and learning from it as an adult. This is written by Saddhamala (Nancy Nicolazzo) and is from WildMind. I’ve excerpted the beginning so that you might go a read the rest. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 12:01 am
Some people view their madness as a spiritual journey. But can religious or spiritual experiences be distinguished from psychotic ones? A number of studies have found it impossible to differentiate between mystical experiences and psychosis solely on the basis of phenomenological description. Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 12:01 am
Will Meecham: So although I spent two posts honoring humans as living, breathing organisms, it feels vital to round out the discussion with my conviction that we also embody a loving, timeless Presence that permeates and transcends our material forms. This may be a personal soul, or a universal one.... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 11:49 am
Endocrine disruptors interfere with normal hormone functioning and may cause infertility, miscarriage, birth defects, reproductive and breast cancers, and thyroid, heart, lung, liver, and kidney damage. Commonly used endocrine disruptors include phthalates, surfactants, and parabens – all of which... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 12:36 am
An article in Scientific American is entitled, Panic Attack Sufferers Are Unaware of Symptoms:
Panic attacks seem to come out of nowhere but research finds symptoms appear up to one hour before the sufferer is aware of the attack.
The conclusion of this article ends with a stat... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 12:10 pm
Ultimately, I see mindfulness as a love affair–with life, with reality and imagination, with the beauty of your own being, with your heart and body and mind, and with the world. — Jon Kabat-Zinn from Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment–and Your Life Click here for a list o... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 12:21 am
A friend of mine who has been gravely harmed by the medical establishment, much like I have, asked for some advice via email the other day about how to begin a relationship with a new (alternative) doctor. Because I’ve found that alternative doctors are very much like mainstream doctors when it co... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 6:05 pm
This is not news to any of us at Beyond Meds, but there is a damning article in the New York Times morning edition about how longterm Ritalin use does not result in general, in improved school performance down the road. The author states,
Attention-deficit drugs increase concentration in ... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 10:43 am
The path of conscious awareness is no bed of roses… It is difficult for everybody; that is something we have to face. We may not always be willing to receive the kindness that is there; we cannot always experience what happens in our practice as compassion. When we are in the middle of learning a Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 6:20 am
My iatrogenesis is such that I cannot fly. I cannot be on my feet or even upright for any length of time still and the airport and a plane, too, would be close to impossible.
I am traveling several hundreds of miles, out of state, to visit yet another medical practitioner. This one has th... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 12:01 am
ISEPP Statement on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry (ISEPP) voices concerns over the APA’s May 2013 anticipated publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 4:31 pm
Reblogged from Samsaric Warrior: Sit around your house all day recovering from surgery and your monkey mind can sure try to get the best of you. Yesterday I was sent to the ER at the local hospital to get checked out since I was experiencing some chills and a slight fever. I wasn’t thrilled about Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 12:35 pm
Inocente is a 15-year-old girl who has spent the last 9 years homeless in San Diego. Despite her circumstances and her dark park, she paints bright and whimsical paintings. Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 10:13 am
PRESS RELEASE: (and then follows a video of someone post ECT) The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) calls upon the producers of "The Dr. Oz Show" to provide balanced and truthful coverage of the risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in which grand mal seizures are electricall... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 12:01 am
"We've had a hundred years of analysis, and people are getting more and more sensitive, and the world is getting worse and worse. Maybe it's time to look at that. We still locate the psyche inside the skin. You go inside to locate the psyche, you examine your feelings and your dreams, they belong to... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 8:49 am
Rick Hanson, whose work really delights me, now has a youtube channel with Just One Minute practices. They are simple and straight forward tips, making mindfulness practice a part of every minute of our lives. That is how it’s supposed to be, but it’s so often taught in ways that make people thi... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 12:06 am
As we watch the hullabaloo around the creation of the next DSM, one of the moves towards increasing pathology in normal people is to label grief a depression, hence opening the floodgates that more people will be treated with antidepressants.
The fact is this has already been happening fo... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 1:27 am
Beyond Meds and anyone who’s actually paid attention to the science for the last many years has known that the serotonin myth about depression and how antidepressants work has no evidence to back it up whatsoever. So when it all came out in an NPR interview I pretty much just yawned. Yes, I’m ti... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 12:11 am
Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re c... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 7:37 am
Matthew Aldridge, a psychiatric nurse at London's Lambeth Hospital, just published a new article in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, "Addressing non-adherence to antipsychotic medication: a harm-reduction approach."
This is an extraordinarily well researched clinical ... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 5:25 am
Could a young man's overwhelming visions of Christ and apocalypse be a creative response to life trauma, rather than signs of paranoid schizophrenia? Does madness unfold differently depending on whether it is supported - or feared? Irish activist and punk musician Grainne Humphrys, herself a survivo... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 12:01 am
Too many of us grew up in families wracked with pain. Emotional wounds accumulate in settings of neglect, abuse, bereavement, molestation, violence, and misery. As adults, these ancient injuries undermine our happiness. We often choose poorly in relationships, careers, and pastimes. Even if we don... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 3:18 am
Fixating on or trying to go toward “the Light” — as in the throes of unchecked spiritual ambition — only further endarkens us, estranging us from that in us which is subterranean, wounded, misshapen, wretched, or otherwise unwanted. What we won’t dance with, what we refuse intimacy with, w... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 12:34 am
Behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow was published in 2011, and in this video clip he explains the difference between thinking fast and intuitively (System 1), and a more slow and reasoned approach (System 2). Cognitive biases and prejudices are inevitable and part ... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 10:02 am
Lots of people get severe iatrogenic illness on psychiatric drugs. Many of them don't have a diagnosis and most probably don't even know the drugs they're on are making them sick.
I have severe illness but since I was on so many drugs for so many years there isn't one company I can blame.... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 12:13 am
"The US National Institute of Mental Health proclaimed the 1990s “the decade of the brain.” A simplistic biological reductionism increasingly ruled the psychiatric roost. Patients and their families learned to attribute mental illness to faulty brain biochemistry, defects of dopamine, or a short... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 1:56 pm
Share your story — So if you or your partner, parent, child, or friend has been through the “system” — injured by treatment and possibly trapped in a Kafkaesque world when you haven’t got the help you needed from doctors, regulators, or anyone else you thought should be there to help, fill... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 2:38 am
This is a long post that cuts and pastes all my documentation on this program. At the end is the original story of what happened while I was there. It's not the neatest documentation, I just want to be sure it's available information. If anyone is having a complicated withdrawal THIS IS NOT THE PLAC... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2011, 12:02 am
These are all stories of recovery that involve freedom from drugs/medications. Most everyone on these pages were told they would need drugs for the rest of their lives and proved psychiatry sorely wrong. Comment - Like
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