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		<title>Not easy, but worth it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t thrilled about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=23182&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 in 50 children in the US are now homeless: the story of one of them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=21020&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Dr. Oz show on Electroshock (and a compelling video by someone who had ECT)</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/27/ectdroz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 electrically induced, usually to treat severe depression.

"We are surprised that Dr. Oz would air such a one-sided show," says NCMHR director Lauren Spiro, "as ECT remains one of the most controversial psychiatric practices."

"Shock survivors" and many other mental health advocates assert that ECT's disabling effects - including permanent memory loss and cognitive deficits - outweigh possible benefits, and call for potential ECT recipients to be told the risks so they can make an informed choice.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=23165&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Therapy supports the decline of the actual world&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/27/therapydecline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["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 you. Or it's interrrelations, interpsyche, between your psyche and mine. That's been extended a little bit into family systems and office groups – but the psyche, the soul, is still only within and between people. We're working on our relationships constantly, and our feelings and reflections, but look what's left out of that.

"What's left out is a deteriorating world.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=22626&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Relax &#8211; (mindfulness, just one minute at a time)</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/26/relax-just-one-minute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s supposed to be, but it&#8217;s so often taught in ways that make people think it&#8217;s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=23097&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grief to become just another form of depression? another disorder for the DSM5 (and alternative ways of thinking about that pain)</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/26/griefdsm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 for a long time. Many people are introduced to antidepressants after the loss of a loved one or after a divorce etc. Still, to further legitimize the mass drugging of normal pain and heartbreak that all human beings will face at one time of another as we live our lives is a bad direction to move in. The DSM5 wants to do that. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=23076&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical imbalance myth takes a big public fall (no, antidepressants do NOT correct an imbalance of serotonin, nor do other psychiatric drugs correct anything at all)</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/25/chemicalimbalancemythfalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 tired and I’ve been steeped in some of this stuff for far too long.
So, I am now realizing that for the vast majority of folks this is shocking news. So…I will do a little round-up here for some of my readers who may not be so familiar with this issue.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=23061&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop hiding from yourself</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/25/stop-hiding-from-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 coming to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=22541&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent UK Article on Anti-Psychotic Drug Harm Reduction in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/24/antipsychoticharmreduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 discussion of professional medication practice that draws a lot from the Harm Reduction Guide To Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs that I wrote with The Icarus Project and Freedom Center.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=23031&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical Crucifixion: Grainne Humphry</title>
		<link>http://beyondmeds.com/2012/01/24/chemicalcrucifixion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 survivor of an extreme state, discusses the campaign for the release of former partner John Hunt. John has been incarcerated and drugged against his will since 2005, sparking international outcry.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondmeds.com&amp;blog=1281489&amp;post=21295&amp;subd=bipolarblast&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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