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Childhood is not a mental disorder – CCHR International
Eloquent film from CCHR International, making its – vitally important – point in under two minutes. Here’s a link to CCHR International’s site, co-founded by Thomas Szasz, and fighting for human rights in ‘mental health’. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter
Posted in anger, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, borderline personality disorder, child development, civil rights, clients' perspective, compulsive behaviour, creativity, cultural questions, diagnoses of bipolar, diversity, emotions, empowerment, equality, ethics, external locus, growing up, hearing voices, internal locus of evaluation, non-conforming, paradigm shift, parenting, perception, person centred, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, trauma, vulnerability, working with clients
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Neuroscientist News – The science behind commonly used anti-depressants appears to be backwards, researchers say
http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/science-behind-commonly-used-anti-depressants-appears-be-backwards-researchers-say Brief but interesting article. We have already posted here on the ever-mounting evidence questioning the efficacy of commonly used anti-depressant drugs in most cases, high-lighting the prevalence of side-effects and drug withdrawal issues/iatrogenic illness, and concerning the escalation in … Continue reading
Posted in anti-depressants, cultural questions, ethics, external locus, iatrogenic illness, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, neuroscience, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, reality, research evidence, sadness & pain
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The Scarlet Label: Close Encounters with ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’ Jacqueline Simon Gunn & Brent Potter
http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/10/scarlet-label-close-encounters-borderline-personality-disorder/ Click on the link for Jacqueline’s and Brent’s article for Mad in America, which makes some interesting points, as do some of the comments (for example around the medicalization of distress/the human condition, and around gender bias in the … Continue reading
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Laura Delano on Reclaiming what it means to be Human
‘For a long time, I believed that Psychiatry or Death were the only solutions to my life. As I sit here in this coffee shop, the sun’s light coming in to touch my cheek through the vines of the hanging … Continue reading
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