Tag: mental illness
Mental Health – She escaped
6 Good Things That Happened When I Stopped Believing in ‘Mental Health’
By Charlotte Beale
In my late twenties, I had a series of crises. I realised I was far unhappier than I had been at seventeen, when I had first sought treatment. The pursuit of mental health had made me mad.
A pseudoscientific model of thought, bankrupt ethically, intellectually and philosophically, stole twelve years of my life. By some measures, I am lucky to have escaped it when I did..
Mental Health – New Paradigm ?
988 Suicide Crisis Number going nation wide
Before the Trump admin
the UK was discussing dropping the DSM as a legitimate guide .
There was also talk of specialist in service to show up to treat attempted suicide .
What’s Destroying Collective Mental Health
A summarized collection and critical assessment of the ongoing research that exposes the sickening effects of capitalism on mental health was recently published as a chapter in the Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry by epidemiologists Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot and Seth Prins.
Psychiatry and social sciences’ focus on individual factors has failed to account for the role of structures and systems – such as capitalism – in developing mental illness and the disparities in psychological forms of suffering.
The authors write:
“What explains these trends and inequities? While this question has been a primary concern of quantitative social science, the resulting answers have not always engaged directly with capitalism—a socio-economic system that not only structures societal distributions of health-affecting resources and power but also modulates our experiences of reality and the production of knowledge within it. Instead, mental health researchers have focused on the roles of individual-level factors like ‘risk behaviors’ or socio-economic status. Moreover, capitalism’s ubiquity makes it difficult to isolate pathways through which it affects any single outcome like mental health.”
www.madinamerica.com/2022/11/capitalism-whats-destroying-collective-mental-health/
Post Lockdown Suicide Tsunami that never came
As we near the third anniversary of COVID-19, international suicide statistics reveal that the suicide epidemic that was widely predicted to ensue after the lockdown never happened.
Understanding how these predictions failed reveals the limitations of mental health modeling, challenges our assumptions about suicidality, and begs the question, “why wasn’t there a suicide epidemic?” A viewpoint article recently published in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry offers some answers.
The Australian authors, Nick Glozier, Richard Morris, and Stefanie Schurer, quote Nobel prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman:
“People cannot be faulted for failing to predict the unpredictable, but they can be blamed for lack of predictive humility.”
www.madinamerica.com/2022/11/post-lockdown-suicide-tsunami-never-came/
61 benefits of Marijuana
I was exposed to 1952 era termite spray in 2012 ; after assurances of not having to leave the house and developing flu like symptoms with in days , after being poisoned.
I am very careful not to allow infection deep into my chest and if I react to COVID shedding, or seasonal allergies I can cough up clear mucus which is rather thick but NOT infected !
Not infected though dry cough and clear film and very runny nose .
I include the many chemicals that exist in our environment that we know of and many we do not .
I’m lucky not to have inherited the COPD of my Dad and his Dad along with asthma . WHEW
I have not utilized marijuana all my adult life , but I’m not sorry for many of the listed pluses for its use have benefited me greatly .
Including not being able to eat from grief 🙏
So for me and many others it’s a natural Blessing that we pray doesn’t get adulterated like cigarettes ( 150 chemicals in each ) .
I don’t vape due to studies that indicate a negative side effect on the interior of lungs .
I am grateful for the Ozone treatments and have faith that the future holds more healing treatments than the past has afforded me .
I have major dental work to be done and that includes abscesses from heavy metal poisoning in a rental pre COVID
I am legal for Marijuana in the Commonwealth of Virginia!
* You know you and your body !
Blessings & Peace ☮️
Dona Luna
Worse outcome for diagnoses of ADHD
A teacher tried to diagnose middle son who was active but I did not feel overly so.
Our pediatrician prescribed Ritalin . In less than 1 week I flushed it down the toilet!
The change in our son was extreme and I have never been sorry to have prevented a travesty for such a unique , sweet child .
www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/adhd-diagnosis-leads-worse-quality-life-increased-self-harm-kids/
Manufacturing Madness -Thomas Szasz
2000 or so My distorted body on Psychiatric RX , blank eyes
A marriage , a grandson , were weaponized to block me after I failed to be able to help with childcare ; I was DOA .
It’s very sad to know and accept that our sons would prefer my death and that hasn’t changed in 20 years .
It’s easier
GreatCosmicMothersUnite 