Recovery Michigan

One of our primary purposes is to help promote, market and sell the creative works of those affected by trauma, abuse and mental health concerns at fair market prices. It is hard enough to make a living as a professional artist, musician, author, etc, but when someone has to deal with the above mentioned health issues, that creates even more problems to contend with in trying to pursue your muse. Our webstore contains both resources for our visitors and features work by those who have been affected by trauma, abuse and mental health concern

MindFreedom is creating a much-needed Global Mental Health Empowerment Handbook, thanks to a grant from CBM. The handbook aims to empower psychiatric survivors, mental health consumers/users, and their allies to be heard more effectively by their communities, care providers, and policy makers. Participation is encouraged internationally, especially in poor and developing nations.

“Pain may actually be functional in many ways,” explains Brock Bastian, a psychologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. Psychologists working with self-mutilating pa­tients have long suspected this to be true, and leaders in the field de­scribe an intense overlap between emotional and physical pain. But Bastian has demonstrated the first results in a nonpatient population.

Exercise and physical activity play a crucial role in both maintaining one’s mental health condition and in recovering from a mental illness. Breaking research indicates that exercise actually produces a chemical that stimulates the growth of brain cells, thus allowing for recovery from sever substance abuse disorders. furthermore, physical activity and mental health recovery coincide in fostering a social network and encouraging self-reflection, both of which are crucial on the path to mental health recovery.

The human mind evolved in an environment which required it to travel over twelve miles daily. and no, that drive to work in the morning does not count…but that would make things easier, no? This evolution was due to survival instincts when humans migrated from the jungles into the flatlands. Humans also developed an adrenaline reaction which both encouraged movement and triggered immediate learning reactions; as Doctor Carl Clark from the Mental Health Center of Denver once stated, when early man saw that saber-tooth tiger charging out of the brambles, the neurons must have been firing pretty fast to teach them to stay away from the bushes next time…that is assuming their get away was fast enough to allow for a next time!

Walk like a Hunter-Gatherer...

New research suggests that statins might have a very helpful antiviral effect at high dose, and they may even hold promise as an effective new treatment for CFS and fibromyalgia if special (and simple) natural precautions are added in. The new theory I will present today also offers new possibilities for helpful and easy testing and treatment, while offering an understanding of a large new piece of the CFS/FMS puzzle.

Although time will tell how big a role this new concept will play in CFS, it offers simple testing and treatment that can be helpful now!

I can't vouch for this, but it is an interesting discussion.

When hormones and antidepressants didn't work, her local doctor recommended the radically different approach. Yet after getting the treatment "Everything became brighter," she says. "I wasn't as overwhelmed and had more energy. My husband said I was transformed." '

"My team and I weren't surprised," says Eugene Lipov M.D, Founder of Advanced Pain Centers. "We often see an emotional boost after giving pain patients Stellate Ganglion Blocks. What's more we've recently shown the procedure helps veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.[1] Our PTSD results were recently replicated at Walter Reed Army Hospital.[2]"

He continues, "The question has always been why would a treatment for physical pain have such an emotional effect?"

Now a groundbreaking study involving Tylenol may explain why.

"Those with a diagnosis of severe mental illness were 14% less likely to receive essential coronary care procedures following their heart attack.

"Such procedures include coronary artery bypass graft and coronary angioplasty which have been credited with improving outcomes after heart disease in the general population. In 10 studies that specifically addressed care for people with schizophrenia, those with the disease received only half the interventions offered to those without schizophrenia."

Peter Ashenden has been diagnosed with several mental illnesses. He was institutionalized and given no hope for recovery. In August 2007, he was the keynote speaker at the Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network summer conference. This video highlights some of the most powerful statements in his speech.

People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD - a severe mental illness characterized by debilitating misperceptions that one appears disfigured and ugly - process visual information abnormally, even when looking at inanimate objects, according to a new UCLA study.

First author Dr. Jamie Feusner, a UCLA assistant professor of psychiatry, and colleagues found that patients with the disorder have less brain activity when processing holistic visual elements that provide the "big picture," regardless of whether that picture is a face or an object.

Giving pedometers to patients screened for depression, HealthPartners Medical Group (HPMG) is prescribing walking or exercise in addition to medication and/or therapy as an effective tool in helping patients with depression.

I suppose walking the dog would count, too.