Category: mental health

Rethinking Antidepressants for the 1000th time

picture from the guardian. Rethinking Antidepressants for the 1000th time

Rethinking Antidepressants for the 1000th time: chemical imbalance is BS. New cycle of horror and shock. Depression isn't caused by low serotonin! ~~ (photo is a news headline from the Guardian...it was covered in news all over the world) Yes, it's happened again. Mainstream outlets everywhere are decrying this travesty. This "news" about the chemical imbalance theory cycles through the media every few years. (for at least the last 20 yrs)...Always presented as though it's new and shocking

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the dispossessed

shout out to all of us fighting a battle that most people don't understand...keep hanging in there. for the dispossessed

...the farther out we go the fewer we meet who can understand, but we're out here...always... those who trust your experience is just as you say it is...

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Invitation to ecstatic dance…music included

the truth is a moving target. DANCE on a graphic with a dancing woman and psychedelic background for invitation to dance

free download! Ecstatic movement has been a critical part of my healing. Ecstatic dance practiced with intent is movement meditation. Below is compilation from my favorite “wave” ever. You don’t need to read anything about it…just start moving to the music.

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Speaking Out About Research Misconduct: Live and Learn Inc. and Open Excellence/Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care

by Will Hall, Monica Cassani, and Dina Tyler In the world of innovations in how we treat survivors of psychiatric crisis, Live and Learn Inc and Open Excellence/Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care do valuable work. Live And Learn is a research company owned by Laysha Ostrow that collects and analyzes data on the viability of alternative mental health treatments, and Open Excellence/FEMHC is a philanthropy started by patients' family members that channels funding into promising projects. They're colleagues with us in the broader "critical psychiatry" movement ((Will was one of the original founding board members of Open Excellence/FEMHC) and we've all known each other for many years. At the same time, after collaborating with Live and Learn and Open Excellence/FEMHC on a past project, we are left very concerned by apparent ethical irregularities, including possibly crossing the line into research misconduct and plagiarism.

I AM WHAT I AM

ducks on pavement photo by Monica Cassani

I AM WHAT I AM ~~ "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman I needed to share Walt as I write from several different physiologies, thus perhaps appear inconsistent. It is my reality, however -- as my physiology switches so does my reality...

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Center for Spiritual Emergence – Brack Jefferys PhD

close up of dew on evergreen needle twig for Center for Spiritual Emergence – Brack Jefferys PhD

it's been some years now. never got an apology or acknowledgment. I remain uncompensated for my time. the center is still in operation as far as I can tell. Update: I have heard from two women who have reported similar abuse. One of them has known Brack for many years and says this is a... Continue Reading →

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Narcissism (the plague of our times?)

did you know that daffodils are narcissus flowers? for narcissism the plague of our times

did you know that daffodils are narcissus flowers? Narcissism is a coping strategy for when one has been wounded in profound ways. Anyone who makes it in this world has to find some sort of narcissism in order to heal. What gets called malignant narcissism is only one manifestation. Survival demands narcissism. ...

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Nothing Matters

incense burning in a tasteful burner nothing matters

By Georgi Y. Johnson What should we do when we feel as if nothing matters? A nondual look at the power of passion and its connection with boredom and the dense psychological sense of 'nothing'.

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darkness, light, marriage of opposites

Let your body guide you out of the darkness. The body is our only way into the light which holds the darkness so that we can be part of healing the whole world...trust the light so that we can trust the darkness...the willingness to embrace the whole shebang is the domain of the animal... In... Continue Reading →

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Healing is not linear

Healing is not linear ...healing is like a spiral staircase with a good dose of yoyo all the way up

Healing is not linear. (we hear that all the time, for good reason). For me healing is like a spiral staircase with a good dose of yoyo all the way up

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Trauma patterning and raving loonies

image of large pink flower for trauma patterning on beyondmeds.com

"I’d much rather be with a raving loony who was directly confronting their bullshit than someone who spends all their energy repressing it. The cloaking thing always strikes a tinny note that would register as jarring and discordant to anyone able to “hear” it." -Jed McKenna

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