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Tag Archives: Health
What Causes Wellness ? Sir Harry Burns
Transcript [ via youtube auto transcript] Okay the title of this session is ”The Common Wealth’ and Katherine and I thought I would play around with the title because the Commonwealth has connotationsof money and riches and economic growthand to … Continue reading
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Tagged chaotic early life, Harry Burns, Health, Poverty, salutogenesis, Trauma, wellness, wellth
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NOT COOL: Toronto’s heat-relief network not enough…
Article from Samantha McCabe at Globe & MAil on how City of Toronoo’s latest approach to offereing refuge from heat falls short. Experienced RNs and Street Nurses Roxie Danielson, Cathy Crow, Joyce Rankin speak to how it impacts health and … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Heat, Heat illness
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we can’t separate
If we want to understand what leads to people becoming ill, and how better to help them heal, then “we can’t separate the brain from the body and we can’t separate the person from their environment”. Western allopathic medicine is … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged chronic illness, environment, Gabor Mate, Health, Medicine, mental health
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The strange powers of placebo effect – TheProfessorFunk
“Placebo effect” is often dismissed as just a fake pill, yet most fancy expensive drug trials often struggle to show that medicines are better than placebo – even when half the unfavourable data is kept out of sight. In North … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Ideas
Tagged chemical imbalance, Health, medication, Medicine, Placebo
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When Doctors Discriminate
Juliann Garey writes in NYT Sunday Review of her experience of her experience of being discriminated against by doctors after receiving a diagnosis of serious mental illness. Doctors do this – some recognise it and some use a fancy name for … Continue reading
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Tagged discrimination; diagnostic overshadowing, Health, mental health
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why society drives us mad – Richard Bentall
The Professor, in the Yurt, with the big TV Richard Bentall dresses up like a bank manager to give a talk in a big tent* with a big TV about how the world we’ve built for ourselves and each other … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, epigenetics, genes, Health, Mental disorder, mental health, psychosis, Richard Bentall, Trauma, Yurt
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the six blind men and the elephant
The blind men and the elephant is an ancient folklore tale from India that has been told many ways and incorporated into teachings of Jain, Hindu, Buddhism, and Sufi traditions. It is a tale of how, when we focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, mental illness? or...
Tagged Blind men and an elephant, Elephant, Health, Hindu, John Godfrey Saxe, Mumbai
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if you knew what I know…
It’s always easier to list tools and rules and pretend that’s all folks need to do a difficult, complex job, under pressure and midst competing demands and increasing pressure to monitor performance. Tick the box training Its a game: boards, funders , … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Learning, mental health, Training
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parental stress and it’s impact on kids – Gabor Mate
Canadian doctor and author Gabor Mate on how stress experienced by parents impacts on children’s brain, emotional development and learning and biology – and how that comes to impact in later life on all areas of health and wellness. Short … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, what's going on?, youth
Tagged Child, epigenetics, Gabor Mate, Health, mental health, Parent, Stress
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Addicted to healthcare
Interesting perspective from Stanton Peele on what might be called the placebo effect of receiving attention from healthcare professionals. As, collectively, we loose faith in our own self to live well we turn to “professionals” to fix us, reassure ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, Health
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