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Webinar on Dissociation as a common factor in many “mental disorders” including psychosis by Ron Unger Patient Expert

Posted Mon 02 May 2011 12:00am Here’s my first, very amateur webinar – this is using software that is just for pre-recorded webinars, if I really get into doing them it’s best to do them live with software that costs money to use. Understanding Trauma Related Dissociation and Its Role a Wide Variety of Disorders, including Psychosis This is a free Webinar, 50 minute ... Read on »

Mental “disorder” or evolved mental strategy? by Ron Unger Patient Expert

Posted Sun 20 Sep 2009 12:00am In the mental health field currently, when people experience intense anxiety and depression, and when they experience mania and/or psychosis, the experience is understood to be a “disorder” or a “biological dysfunction” that is of no use and should “corrected” by any means that might be effective in doing so. The most straightforward way of d ... Read on »

Mental Disorders Common Predictor of Suicidal Thoughts | Psych Central News by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional

Posted Thu 20 May 2010 12:04pm I found the following article when looking through a back log of other material. It is again a good indication of the consequences of not providing adequate mental health care to people who need it badly. Mental Disorders Common Predictor of Suicidal Thoughts | Psych Central News . Read on »

Report: Many Kids With Mental Disorders Don’t Get Proper Care | Psych Central News by Larry Drain Healthy Living Professional

Posted Sat 19 Mar 2011 9:31pm Report: Many Kids With Mental Disorders Don’t Get Proper Care | Psych Central News . Read on »

What's Normal, What's Not: Messing with Mental Disorders is Messy by Dr. Polly Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Wed 03 Mar 2010 11:32am What's normal? What's not? What's not normal enough to be a disorder? What's further evidence some parents have simply lost their perspective? Ah, the fuzzy border between normal and disordered...the hot topic among mental health peeps these days as we await the new edition of our bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorde ... Read on »

Majority of Youth with Mental Disorders May Not Be Receiving Sufficient Services by Kev Leitch Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 12 Jan 2011 10:31pm The National Institute of Mental Health in the U.S. posts periodic science news stories. A recent article, Majority of Youth with Mental Disorders May Not Be Receiving Sufficient Services , caught my eye. I’ll quote a few paragraphs here, but it is worth following the link to the short article. Inequities in service delivery, be it by ... Read on »

First Person Stories of “Mental Disorders” & Recovery by Ron Unger Patient Expert

Posted Sun 26 Apr 2009 12:00am I’m pasting in below, with permission of the author, a summary of some sources of first person accounts of experience with mental health issues and with recovery. These are the stories, too often suppressed, that could help guide us into a very different sort of mental health system ************************************************************ ... Read on »

Yin and Yang Mental Disorders by Leslie A. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 02 Aug 2010 8:12am The other night in the Indian food cooking class, we were talking about extreme foods and how according to macrobiotic philosophy, they can tip us out of balance. Here are the foods and the resulting characteristics.... True? You decide! Yin Mental Disorders Over-consumption of sugar and other sweeteners, fruits, fruit juice, chemicals, m ... Read on »

Maybe we need to start stigmatizing for not having a mental disorder? by Laura Patient Expert

Posted Sat 20 Dec 2008 5:46pm I note, among my parenting peers, a sort of prissy superstition about kids and mental illness in the form of "if we don't speak it aloud it won't happen to us, and if we listen to YOU speaking it aloud that's like saying it too." Individually and collectively we're horrified by it. If it happens in our own families we hide it, and therefore ra ... Read on »

A video; The Failure of Reform from the News Observer Mental disorder: The failure of reform by Naturalgal Patient Expert

Posted Thu 18 Dec 2008 7:18pm I don’t know how to upload this video to wordpress, but you can watch this interactive video posted to the Charlotte News Observe r http://www.newsobserver.com/1181/story/958236.html Mental disorder: The failure of reform News & Observer Average rating ✭✭✭✭✭ 0 comments First submitted by travis Produced by ... Read on »