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POPSAn Unquiet Mind: the importance of jagged edges and restlessness Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison is a Professor of Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She has written about her own battle with manic-depression in the best selling books, “An Unquiet Mind" and “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide." She was honored with a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001.
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POPSTop 100 Overcoming Addiction Blogs If CM is roughly representative of the general populations in wealthy western economies, this clip should be relevant and hopefully helpful to between a quarter and a third of us who have or are recovering from addiction(s), and to virtually all of us who have a loved one so beset by affliction.
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POPSSicknesses Unto Death: extreme and ordinary madness <<<And in the middle of the spectrum lies the grand majority of society's normal, those whom Kierkegaard calls the "philistines." The philistines are those whom one observer calls the "normal neurotics," whom Freud considered repressed by their psyches for their own good because they are not capable of too much reality. They are easily duped by the powerful to do their bidding in relative silence, to pursue their pleasures in stupefying doses, to contribute to society, that great edifice of somnolence and enslavement about which Nietzsche railed. The philistines walk about in "fictitious health," says Kierkegaard, alluding to their contentment with conventional norms, tastes, and values.>>>
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POPSDepression: a Journey Through Darkness <<< This is the worst part of being at the mercy of your own mind, especially when that mind lists toward the despondent at the first sign of gray: the fact that there is no way out of the reality of being you, a person who is forever noticing the grime on the bricks, the flaws in the friends — the sadness that runs under the skin of things, like blood, beginning as a trickle and ending up as a hemorrhage, staining everything. It is a sadness that no one seems to want to talk about in public, at cocktail-party sorts of places, not even in this Age of Indiscretion. –//– This was enraging in and of itself — the fact that severe depression, much as it might be treated as an illness, didn’t send out clear signals for others to pick up on; it did its deadly dismantling work under cover of normalcy. The psychological pain was agonizing, but there was no way of proving it, no bleeding wounds to point to. . .
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POPSGreat Depression 2 But such is ignorance that even six months ago the idea of even a recession was being scorned by many. I'd have thought if people don't wake up now and take action they never will.
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POPSEconomic Crisis Just Beginning It seems like a hundred years ago but it was less than twelve months, that politicians and their Believers were scorning the idea of any sort of recession. The economic collapse here predicted will, if right, be a further factor in the conditions that make totalitarianism on a dreadful scale ever more likely.
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POPSThe Cost of Alcohol in UK A fifth of all hospital beds. These bare figures, dreadful as they are, do not begin to convey the devestation caused by alcohol to individuals and their families.
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POPSWorld Mental Health Day Although mental health problems occur on a massive scale across the world, discrimination, stigma and silence about the facts are routine. With stress, depression, anxiety increasing across the world it is bizarre that there is so little media coverage,
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POPSThe Hollow Lives of the Happy <<<Who wouldn't question this apparently hollow form of American happiness? Aren't all of us late at night, when we're honest with ourselves, opposed to shallow happiness? Most likely we are, but isn't it possible that many of us fall into superficiality without knowing it? Aren't some of us so smitten with the American dream that we have become brainwashed into believing that our sole purpose on this earth is to be happy? Doesn't this unwitting affection for happiness over sadness lead us to a one-sided life, to bliss without discomfort, bright noon with no night? My sense is that most of us have been duped by the American craze for happiness. We might think that we're leading a truly honest existence, when we're really just behaving as predictably and artificially as robots, falling easily into well-worn "happy" behaviors, into the conventions of contentment.>>>
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POPSTen Dubious Clip Tips for Mental Health <<<Transcultural Psychiatrists would certainly have a few dilemmas with the above list. The serious Neuroanthropologist probably does too! But what the heck, I put them here just for fun! Mind you, the list might lead to some interesting questions about what could be considered the definitive TOP 10 FOR BRAIN HEALTH applicable across cultures!>>> (article author). There are grains of truth floating about in this fun , of course. I infer the writer is inviting readers to confirm the state of their own mental fitness by indulging in a healthy demolition of such breezy tips lists. I'd say you should be able to rattle off ten major objections to the list fairly quickly if your mental health is robust.
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POPSDownward Spiral of Empire <<<The human ego loves to be "right", and some people prefer to watch the world burn with great glee and vitriol. But this is not the time for ego my friends; ego is what got us here. We have been called "lunatics", and now we are being called wise women and men, but it isn't about labels. It's about moving into the next phases of collapse with sensitivity, compassion, and humility, realizing that when people take their own lives in the throes of their own private and our collective collapse, there but for the grace of Something Greater goes any of us. Perhaps if they had been willing to look at the truth, they might have been able to hang around a little longer-or not. Nevertheless, our work is to continue waking ourselves and others up, which may be easier than it was five years ago, and meet everyone with kindness and empathy. It was very painful, yet sometimes a little bit fun to be called a lunatic, but now, the lunatics rest their case>>>
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POPSThe Tyranny of Niceness Related to passive-aggression as a cultural descriptor rather than an individual pathology. Fear of authority, chronic anger, bitterness, and the masochistic self-disempowerment of submission (see Fromm).
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POPSOne in Four Struggle with Anger Anger is related to anxiety is related to fear. Anger is hostile, aggressive, destructive in word and deed. It is a sign of our cultural values, our moral values and our spiritual values. People are frightened.
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POPSUntangling Depression A good article on the complexities and difficulties unvolved in discussing depression and seeking to bring relief. I just want to say personally that I believe medication is right for some people, but other people will find relief in other ways. Many will need a combination of medicayion and pther approaches. And to restate what a dreadful condition real depression is.
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POPSDepression can be Good for You There is serious depression that needs help. There are poverty, abuse, bad circumstance that need addressing. But for most of us, a bit of depression, the article suggests, is a catalyst for refelction, change and growth
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POPSAnti-Depressants Little Use That the SSRI drugs such as paraoxetene, citalopram, the well known 'Prozac; drugs do help a small number of severely illi people should not disguise the fact that they do little for the majority, that the word 'depression' is thrown around liberally to cover general unhappiness, misery and spiritual crisis. There is tons of evidence that the current ideological fetish of reducing the human being to a network of chemical interactions is itself a sign of deep cultural malaise
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