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Mental Disorder - Articles
Mental “disorder” or evolved mental strategy?
by
Ron Unger
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 ...
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What's Normal, What's Not: Messing with Mental Disorders is Messy
by
Dr. Polly
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 ...
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First Person Stories of “Mental Disorders” & Recovery
by
Ron Unger
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
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Yin and Yang Mental Disorders
by
Leslie A.
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 ...
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Maybe we need to start stigmatizing for not having a mental disorder?
by
Laura
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 ...
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