A TED talk by Dr. Dean Ornish. Things you can do to change your brain cells! So much we can do with diet, exercise and lifestyle. Meditation and yoga etc. can change the brain through neuroplasticity too.
Celiac disease on the rise and is often associated with psychiatric symptoms
February 28, 2011 By
Celiac disease among other illnesses that can be fairly easily treated without psych drugs is one physical illness that sometimes gets people diagnosed with mental illness including schizophrenia and bipolar. All sorts of mental health issues can arise from someone with Celiac who is still actively eating gluten. It’s worth ruling it out if you [...]
Lovingkindness
February 27, 2011 By
Everything in life changes. The path to true happiness is one of integrating and fully accepting all aspects of our experience. This integration is represented in the Taoist symbol of yin/yang, a circle which is half dark and half light. In the midst of the dark area is a spot of light, and in the [...]
On the dehumanization of Sylvia Plath…
February 27, 2011 By
Sylvia Plath was a human being. She lived and breathed, she feared, she loved, she picked daffodils. Skipping around in her unabridged journals this morning, I had that revelation. Why should it be a revelation? Because the mental health field has made her an ICON; something entirely separate from humanity. According to them, she IS [...]
Carl Jung, another drug-free recovery from psychosis
February 26, 2011 By
This review of the book on psychology today by Dr. Stephen Diamond agrees with my own musings that people would have considered Jung psychotic at certain points. The joyful part is that he healed himself. DRUG FREE. Like so many of us do everyday even while psychiatry claims it’s impossible.
Opening to Our Lives: Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Science of Mindfulness
February 26, 2011 By
Scientist and author Jon Kabat-Zinn has changed medicine through his work on meditation and stress. We explore what he has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life; about slowing down time, as he says, and “opening to our lives.” This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time — from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age.
Saturday mellow: two beautiful and unusual music videos
February 26, 2011 By
and This is Matthew Hemerlein’s blog.
Education and the drugging of kids
February 25, 2011 By
RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms This video has crossed my path multiple times in the last several months. For some reason I never watched it until a couple of days ago. It’s well worth watching!
Be curious about both the bitter and the sweet
February 25, 2011 By
There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable. You can see this even in insects and animals and birds. All of us are the same.
Military Families and Psychiatry
February 25, 2011 By
Whether or not you believe we are still helping the people of Iraq or Afghanistan, we cannot afford to ignore the emotions that wrack the breasts of the little ones whose fathers or mothers fly off to war.
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