Heres your chance to be heard….or at least share your thoughts….
Read more here to let your voice be heard by the powers that be….via Beyond Meds: SAMHSA calls for a vote on “noteworthy accomplishments” in behavioral health — let’s raise our voices! « ALTmentalities.
And this amazing post is by Christine Claire-Reed who has found her light after passing through much dark….
Today the idea that we are all connected and when we see the pain as part of that connectedness we can shift from “our story” to a new story…
Read this great post here: Girl on Fire: Your Pain is My Pain or How We Are All the Same & That is Awesome.
via Girl on Fire: Your Pain is My Pain or How We Are All the Same & That is Awesome.
Evidence abounds that all “mental illness” stems from either REAL diagnosible physical illness that is denied, minimized and thus becomes profitable for those lifetime patients that provide residual income …or from life experiences that have been denied and labeled “disorders” instead of the experiences being the “disorder”…
Today at Beyond Meds: PTSD versus a post traumatic response some personal musings – Beyond Meds.
via PTSD versus a post traumatic response some personal musings – Beyond Meds.
Finally…the effect of family dysfunction is being seen as the disruptor of development instead of kids being labeled and bad or “oppositional”…read more from this study and please share with health care, mental health care providers and teachers: Spokane, WA, students’ child trauma prompts search for solutions « ACEs Too High.
via Spokane, WA, students’ child trauma prompts search for solutions « ACEs Too High.
Awesome post with the most empowering solution I can imagine…something we can do for ourselves.
Girl on Fire: Help Is on the Way…and in the Meantime, A Very Important Video.
via Girl on Fire: Help Is on the Way…and in the Meantime, A Very Important Video.
Fellow Blogger and Friend Corinna West published a recent piece I wrote in an email discussion on focusing forward and losing the conflict that keeps advocates in conflict and …. keeps the focus OFF those who relish the fact that we as advocates just can’t seem to pull it together.
As long as we are fighting about “who’s wrong and I’m right” … we wont be focusing on the human rights issues of whats wrong and whats right.
Read this piece here: Focus on mental health solutions, not who’s right or wrong | Wellness Wordworks.
via Focus on mental health solutions, not who’s right or wrong | Wellness Wordworks.
This is a piece I’d shared a while back in my Facebook Community and I wanted to make it part of the archives here.
Discussing the issue of trauma in our history then the re-traumitization and powerelessness many experience even in volunatary entrance when asking for “help” in the mental health system.
An excerpt:
The issue of power differentials is crucial here. Abuse is about one person subjugating another- the violent assertion of ones will over another. Traumatic experiences, while not always interpersonal, similarly leave people feeling as helpless victims whose control was usurped by a more powerful condition or event. The risk for anyone entering the mental health system is fundamentally a loss of power. Even voluntary admissions to in- or out-patient services are governed by the coercive power held by psychiatry. The loss of power over ones life which usually accompanies a diagnosis is traumatizing for all people, whatever their past history of trauma or abuse.
Read this very informative paper here: The prevalence of abuse historiesin the mental health system.
via The prevalence of abuse historiesin the mental health system.
The latest from Robert Whitaker on the long term studies that we – those who have been conditioned to believe in and use these drugs – have not been told of.
An excerpt:
Of all the research that has been done in the past 20 years on psychotic disorders, Martin Harrow’s ongoing study of long-term outcomes in such patients is, in my opinion, the most important work. He and his colleagues have now published their 20-year results. Given the 15-year outcomes data he published in 2007, his latest findings should not be surprising. The schizophrenia and schizoaffective patients who took antipsychotics regularly during the 20 years, compared to those who quit taking the medications usually within the first two years, experienced more psychosis, more anxiety, and markedly fewer periods of “sustained recovery.”� They were also more cognitively impaired.The same dramatic difference in outcomes was seen in patients diagnosed with a mood disorder with psychotic features: �those who stayed on antipsychotics fared markedly worse over the long-term.The psychiatric establishment mostly ignored Harrow’s 2007 report, or tried to explain away his findings. But with the publication of the 20-year results, I think the time has come for psychiatry—and our society—to take a close look at his research, and to try to honestly assess what is going on. A full-bodied inquiry is essential for another reason too: We are now prescribing antipsychotics to an ever larger number of children, and to many non-psychotic adults as well, and if antipsychotics are worsening the long-term outcomes of people with a psychotic disorder, which is the obvious concern raised by Harrow’s findings, then we really need to rethink the use of these medications in those other populations.Here is a review of the study’s design, and the findings from the two papers.
Read the studies and outcomes here: Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame? | Mad In America.
via Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame? | Mad In America.
Ok….so who’s crazy?
The FDA gets to decide that potatoe chips can be marketed as health food, that Pizza is a vegetable and walnuts, cherries and other natural forms of unaltered food – are drugs?
Lions and tigers and bears…
Oh my…
I”m tellin’ ya….Gianna over at Beyond Meds has it going on:)
Another great topic and post….The Empathic Civilisation: the human family – Beyond Meds.
via The Empathic Civilisation: the human family – Beyond Meds.
