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Tag Archives: mental health
There is a Fault in Reality
Excellent 30min movie about people who hear voices. Features Jaqui Dillon, Peter Bullimore and John Swift link… [snagfilm id=”f2511e70-c2b0-11e0-bf7a-0026bb61d036″] Now available on You Tube… -thanks Jacqui Dillon
Symptoms of depression can be reduced with music therapy
Article at Mentally Healthy about a study from Finland that shows how making music helps alleviate symptoms of depression In Finland, the standard treatment for depression includes medication (antidepressants), 5-6 individual psychotherapy sessions and psychiatric counselling. In the study that was … Continue reading
Goar: Micro-loans unlock trap of mental illnes
Toronto Star’s Carol Goar on a research project by U of T Rottman School of Manafement and CAMH to create opportunities for people who experience difficulty finding a job once labelled with a mental illness diagnosis – micro loans and business training to … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, Learning, mental diversity, mental skillness
Tagged Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, mental health, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
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wishes
Event: INTAR/ Leadership Project conference: Toronto November 2011 At the conference in November we asked people to share a personal and heartfelt wish. In the gallery below we share them with the world…. Thanks to Earla for encouraging people to share … Continue reading
Open Letter to DSM 5
Online open letter / petition to the DSM 5 committee from the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. Co-signatories include many organisations from around the world. The DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders, … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, Emancipate yourself..., mental diversity
Tagged DSM, DSM-5, mental health
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Generation Rx
– the use and abuse of prescription pain medication source: wikipedia commons Special town hall edition of the very excellent White Coat Black Art CBC radio show with Dr Brian Goldman: and recorded at Brockville Collegiate Institute in Brockville. According to … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness
Tagged addictive behaviours, epidemic, Health, iatrogenic, mental health, Opioid
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who funds the biggest project ever to house the homeless?
Answer: Stephen Harper …maybe he got a visit from Jacob Marley? and anyhoo, the money comes from Canadian’s taxes. Home Seriously, articles in Toronto Star and on CTV and CBC about the “At Home” programme intitated by the Canadian Mental Health … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, recovery perspectives
Tagged Healing, Health, Homelessness, mental health
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$30m-Rewiring The Brain
Dr Catherine Zahn President, CEO of CAMH and Professor, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto. Interview with Steve Paikin on TVO’s The Agenda. 9 sep 2011 Selected excerpts: [link to the podcast at the end] Understanding what leads to mental … Continue reading
Posted in neuroplasticity, recovery perspectives
Tagged brain connections, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Health, mental health, Neuroplasticity, rewiring the brain, understanding trauma
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Forty is Too Young To Die
A call for action from Toronto’s Early-Onset Illness and Mortality Working Group extract… Introduction “What use is funding for seniors when our tenants die before their 65th birthday?” – Housing Support Worker For Mainstay … Continue reading
out of the abyss and embracing life
Feature in Toronto Star by Leslie Scrivener “young people” tell of their own experiences to Leslie Scrivener. on the front and centre pages of today’s Sunday Star print edition . Kristen Bellows on learning to see the person in the mirror … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, my story, The Mad Ones
Tagged Healing, Madness, mental health, recovery
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