"...what is usually called hypnosis is an experimental model of a naturally occuring phenomenon in many families. In the family situation, however, the hypnotists (the parents) are already hypnotised (by their parents) and are carrying out their instructions, by bringing their children up to bring their children up... I consider that the majority of adults... Continue Reading →
(Large) Cute baby animal alert!!
Part of the reason some people are so skeptical about real and complete recoveries is because a lot of people who achieve it move on. They don't hang around the mental health blogosphere and most of them don't go into working in mental health. Most of them go off and live their ordinary lives---as it should be. The thing is they are out there and they are thriving. My interests continue to lie with the folks I've worked with my whole life, but for most people life simply continues in whatever realms of interest they have. -- Most of the people who have written me to tell me they are now thriving and free of psych drugs don't write stories that can be published. We are not all writers and some people who can write don't like the idea of their story being published even anonymously. -- I'm re-posting a withdrawal and recovery story with an update now that she has been med free and healthy and happy for 2 years. Finding people who write well enough to share their stories and care to do so on top of it is the hard part. There is no shortage of people living their lives off drugs and feeling far better for it. ...[click on title for the rest of the article]
Informed consent has never existed in any meaningful way in psychiatry. This headline pretends that it has. None the less, what is happening to our most vulnerable children is a travesty and it's unprecedented. From the Chicago Tribune: Powerful mood-altering drugs were prescribed to hundreds of Illinois foster children without the required consent of state... Continue Reading →
A bunch of links to book excerpts by Maureen B. Roberts. PhD. She is a Jungian therapist who values the spiritual dimensions of what is so often labeled mental illness. She also supports nutritional and dietary support for care of our delicate systems. Schizophrenia: Your Questions Answered Soul in Crisis: A Vision for New Directions... Continue Reading →
The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one Traveller, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim,... Continue Reading →
Love and good wishes to John who is shown in this video and is the dear husband of a dear friend of mine.
Label me, define me and you starve yourself of yourself. Nail me down in a box with cold words and the box will be your coffin. -- Rumi Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. - Sir William Osler We must make... Continue Reading →
Links for the week: The Hindu : Book Review : Exploring the spirituality-mental health space Children on Medicaid Found More Likely to Get Antipsychotics - NYTimes.com Drugging the Poor | Mother Jones Antidepressants may increase risk of stroke and death Alison Bass: Too many overdrugged kids, or the story of a dead-eyed little boy in... Continue Reading →
Laughology the movie: Thanks to the reader who passed this to me today. He also mentioned that he practices laughter yoga and that it changed his life! For more on the above movie see here.
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