Month: March 2014

Neurotoxins and Biofilm: Health Crisis

Neurotoxins and Biofilm: Health Crisis ~~ update 2025: Since first publishing this post I have learned a lot more about how neurotoxins in our environment are used by biofilms in our bodies. They create armor against and from living pathogens. Micro-organisms, including our own probiotics use the toxins to create and move biofilm away from organs thus protecting us while also creating pockets of deep infection that is often hard to target and can defy laboratory detection. Our bodies are always working for us, and if they're overburdened the internal screams become confusing.

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People with psych labels suffer discrimination: mental health professionals are often guilty of such prejudice

Most mental health professionals not only know next to nothing about the deepest part of the psyche, they are terrified of it, adding another layer of obfuscation to the problem. When people in mental distress are terrified the last thing they need is to be met by a “healer” who is equally terrified of the clients thoughts and behavior. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Earthing and forest bathing…it does a body/mind/spirit good

(old post sharing again by sticking it to top of blog today) -- Spring has returned and I’m so happy to be able to start freely walking barefoot on the ground again. I’ve posted this a couple of times before and it seems a good practice to introduce to new readers now that weather will allow, so I’m posting it again. There is science behind my incredible and unstoppable need to walk barefoot upon the earth!! Every day that weather permits I do this. I walk barefoot on the earth. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

The Obsessive Joy Of Autism

Read this please:

De-escalating folks when psychotic or potentially violent

I have a few stories I've written about within the context of other posts of times I've deescalated people who might have otherwise become violent. I'm sharing them here just so that people can see what is possible and why I know that we can do much better than we do in many circumstances where people end up being re-traumatized unnecessarily. People are afraid when they act out this way. Meeting them with fear and violence will often backfire. Finding a way to connect is instead healing, for everyone involved. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Mad Rad Crisis Intervention: psych survivors train sheriff deputies

psych survivors train sheriff deputies

Earlier this week, nine members of the Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective met with six deputies from the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office, one of them a dispatcher, a telecommunicator. Dressed in plainclothes, the deputies came into the coffeeshop shaking hands, with a flurry of Southern manners and introductions, hands being shaken, small talk exchanged. Couches had been moved and chairs set out, with a fan of handouts spread onto one of the seats, full of writings on radical mental health, trauma informed care, mutual aid, and listening spaces. Six deputies from Buncombe County, North Carolina recently received Icarus Project postcards. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Fixing our diets and our exercise patterns #foodie friday

This is a pretty good all round introduction on how to start making big changes to lifestyle. It takes time and so baby steps are most often quite appropriate and even necessary for long-term success. If you've wanted to make changes and don't know where to start this video can function as a sort of intro to such ideas. Also contains links to other info and resources. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

I am not a superhero

I am not a superhero. This is by the same woman who I just reblogged below. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Recovery: The Space Between the Victim and the Superhero

See also: I am not a superhero

The Abyss of Madness

Despite the many ways in which the so-called psychoses can become manifest, they are ultimately human events arising out of human contexts. As such, they can be understood in an intersubjective manner, removing the stigmatizing boundary between madness and sanity. Utilizing the post-Cartesian psychoanalytic approach of phenomenological contextualism, as well as almost 50 years of clinical experience, George Atwood presents detailed case studies depicting individuals in crisis and the successes and failures that occurred in their treatment. Topics range from depression to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder to dreams, dissociative states to suicidality. Throughout is an emphasis on the underlying essence of humanity demonstrated in even the most extreme cases of psychological and emotional disturbance, and both the surprising highs and tragic lows of the search for the inner truth of a life – that of the analyst as well as the patient. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Great sorrow is a blow to the whole physiological as well as psychological being

When there is sorrow it is a great shock to the nervous system, like a blow to the whole physiological as well as psychological being. We generally try to escape from it by taking drugs or drinks or through every form of religion. Or we become cynical or accept things as inevitable. Can we go into this question very deeply, seriously? Is it possible not to escape from sorrow at all? … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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