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This site is aimed at psychiatrists, but it has useful information for anyone taking meds.
For many who suffer depression, chronic pain is a frequent fellow traveler. As many as half of those with chronic pain or with neuropathic pain disorders, such as fibromyalgia, have depression as well.That the two are so often bound together suggests a complex relationship, and the brain's shared circuitry for social and physical pain may lie at its heart.
Depression and chronic pain are distinct but similar disorders. But both may arise from some faulty wiring in their shared neural circuitry, researchers say. In both disorders, pain continues long after some initial insult has healed, disappeared or moved on, and the experience of social rejection or physical pain persists, feeds on itself and becomes chronic. Both disorders often seem mysterious in that their origins are hard to pinpoint. And both signal their presence with a subtle but powerful physiological marker: systemic inflammation.
via latimes.com
I’ve posted this piece three times since I first started this blog. It’s a primer of sorts to help people start withdrawing psychiatric drugs as safely as possible and includes resources written by professionals that one might bring their doctor that they might get the appropriate supports. It’s no secret I did all the heavy lifting in my care and my doctors at best cooperated with me.
For more extensive information to help in psychiatric drug withdrawal look at the About tab.
MONDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) -- Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) attain more real-world creative achievement and have different creative styles compared to non-ADHD individuals, according to a study published in the April issue of Personality and Individual Differences.
Holly A. White, Ph.D., of the University of Memphis, and Priti Shah, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, investigated real-world creative achievement and laboratory measures of creative thinking among 30 adults with ADHD and 30 controls. The participants were tested using the Conners' adult ADHD rating scale, the Creative Achievement Questionnaire, the FourSight Thinking Profile, and the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA).
via mentalhelp.net
I knew being distractible was good for something.
Whether you choose to see psychosis or other extreme states of consciousness as healing crisis of the psyche or you consider it spiritual emergency, many people find their way through them without meds or with meds only for a short time or intermittently as needed for relief. This is something that is not widely appreciated or understood. If given the right supports and a safe place most people can heal from such situations.
To see documentation of a program that gets these sorts of results in an entire area of Finland see here. They’re seeing an 85 to 90% recovery rate (with very little or NO medication) in a population that in the US is told they will never recover at all!
Available Now!
Recorded live March 14, 2011
at Lansing Community College West Campus
via mirecovery.org
Plus various resource documents.
In order to infuse my posts with humor, I make it a habit to read Cracked.com almost daily; it’s one of the best satirical websites around (superior even to the Onion, in my humble opinion). But when I saw Item #5 in this article today, I didn’t find it particularly funny. It speaks to me of a trend — accelerating rapidly now because of the Jared Loughner incident — towards involuntary institutionalization of the mentally ill. I couldn’t let it stand; I had to raise my voice.
Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors is a weekly Friday feature. My selections are entirely subjective, and I know it will never be possible to include every great resource tweeted. But I can try! I’ve personally read all tweeted links, and believe them to be of great value.
WNUSP is an international organization of users and survivors of psychiatry.This small brochure gives a brief introduction to WNUSP, our history, our plans and how you can get involved.
via wnusp.rafus.dk
Daniel Mackler has just completed yet another inspiring film that shows people heal and transform psychosis routinely when they are given the opportunity. This is the third of what is becoming the best documented collection of programs and people that defy what American and Western psychiatry tell us.