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Tag Archives: schizophrenia
Severe abuse in childhood may treble risk of schizophrenia
Article in the Grauniad about recent report demonstrating link between early childhood difficulties and adult diagnosis of scizophrenia. children who experience abuse are three times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in adulthood those who experience sustained or repeated abuse are … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, depression, hearing voices, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged Abuse, Bentall, mental health, schizophrenia
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Mental illness: Medication alone isn’t the answer
A sometimes hard to read article in Toronto Star telling the story of Kit Skelly and the impact on him and the whole family of what all too often happens when people look to the healthcare system for help. A life … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, mania & depression, my story, psychosis, what's going on?, youth
Tagged hearing voices, Psychiatric medication, schizophrenia, SSRI
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Mental Health: The road to diagnosis is filled with twists and turns
If you hear voices you are not alone. I do too. Research shows as many as 10 to 15% of us do: that’s about a billion people – it’s more common than left-handedness and more common than living in North … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, my story, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged Healing, hearing voices, mental health, mindfulness, Psychiatric medication, psychosis, schizophrenia
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The brain is the ‘most complex thing in the universe’ – Robin Murray
Article and radio interview with Prof Robin Murray on BBC Radio Scotland This is a piece more about Dr Murray and his career, his endless curiosity and his charm than it is about the lives of the people he studies – … Continue reading
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Tagged Cannabis, schizophrenia
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The Doctor Who Hears Voices – Rufus May [subtitulado]
Full version of this remarkable movie now on YouTube – with subtitles in Spanish. Related articles Rufus May (madinamerica.com) the life scientific – Robin Murray (recoverynetwork:Toronto) Brain Gym – Rufus May (recoverynetwork:Toronto) The Doctor Who Hears Voices – Rufus May … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Healing, hearing voices, mania & depression, mental skillness, psychosis
Tagged hearing voices, Rufus May, schizophrenia
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Childhood Trauma Linked to Schizophrenia
More research data showing the connection between early trauma and psychosis from an international study based in Liverpool and Maastricht. Researchers found that those who … had experienced any type of trauma before the age of 16 were three times more likely to … Continue reading
Posted in psychosis
Tagged Liverpool, Maastricht, Psychological trauma, psychosis, schizophrenia
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Disturbed minds or manuals?
From TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin Part of series: Mental Health Matters This is an excellent panel conversation with: Dr Allen J Frances, Dr Donna Stewart , Dr Kwame McKenzie, and Historian Edward Shorter. the pool of normal has … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., my story, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged diagnosis, DSM, hearing voices, mental health, schizophrenia, TVO
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“Antipsychotics made me want to kill myself”
An article yesterday May 5th on BBC News at bbc.co.uk/news… The story of one man David Strange’s story , stuggling to balance the benefits and side effects of the medications he takes to manage his difficult experiences . It also shows … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, mania & depression, psychosis
Tagged Antipsychotic, mental health, schizophrenia
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the inexplicable is not a synonym for insane
Excellent opinion piece by Globe and Mail’s André Picard on the unfolding case of Anders Breivik and how it cuts open the chest cavity of our society to reveal deep assumptions about violence, evil, inexplicable acts of violence and mental illness. And … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, what's going on?
Tagged discrimination, mental health, psychosis, Robert Whitaker, schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: A Recovery – Jonathan Benjamin
Jonathan Benjamin describes his experience falling into mental illness, with depression, hearing voices, thinking he was being visited by an angel then possessed by a devil, of self-harming, diagnosis, diagnoses, feeling numbed by medications; hopelessness; suicide – arrest, being sectioned and psychiatric discharge. He … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, books, depression, hearing voices, my story, psychosis, recovery perspectives
Tagged hearing voices, psychosis, recovery, schizophrenia
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