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POPSThe myth of the self "WHAT is the self? One answer is that it is the diamond in the rough that is you, the unique, immutable and indestructible jewel that makes each person who they are, the being amidst the becoming, the unfluxable within the flux.Kant called it the Transcendental Ego, which stands behind experience as the condition of its possibility. An alternative view endorsed by Buddha, Heraclitus, John Locke, David Hume and William James is that the self does not exist."
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POPS10 Common Myths about Mental Illness 8. Children can’t have serious mental disorders. 9. Doctor/patient confidentiality is absolute and always protected. 10. Mental illness is no longer stigmatized in society.
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POPSYou Know Who We Really Hate? As I contemplate how to pry a few dollars from these systems designed to humiliate and degrade my clients, already struggling with being social outcasts, chronic illness, drug addiction and mental illness I sigh audibly. I read of billion dollar bailouts and disappearing pallettes of cash as I ponder how to help a family with $400.00 so they will not be homeless in three days. I am so very tired.
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POPSThe problem of evil "I have other issues with the label "evil", especially as it has come to be used in our largely secular society. It is often used in a dynamic way, as in "the Devil has the best tunes", so that it becomes something aggressive and almost seductive." Interesting account on the usage of (in this case) evil, and the lack of depth due to the common use of it.
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POPSPsychiatric Emergency Rooms are Appalling My dissertation research uncovered dozens of stories of abusive and incompetent psychiatric emergency rooms. I hope at least these woman's death will draw attention to an invisible and longstanding American problem.
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POPSHas American Society Gone Insane? Diabetes, obesity, heart disease, physical weakness, osteoporosis, asthma, bodily misalignment and chronic pain... I'm fully in favor of adding depression and mental illness to the list of ways our society makes us unhealthy. The very nature of how we live is unhealthy.
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POPSFive Reasons Insanity Is the New Normal In America Since Barack Obama has been elected, gun sales and copies of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged have flown off the shelves. Meanwhile, there's a Russian academic all over the news predicting that America will soon collapse, "tea parties" springing up all over the country, and the stock market has been doing a great impression of Michael Richards' career since he left Seinfeld. Is that because people have gone crazy? No, it's the reaction of sane people to the crazy as a football bat insanity that has begun to pass for conventional wisdom in large swathes of America. Living in this country today is like sitting in the back seat of a car that's hurtling towards the edge of a cliff at a hundred miles an hour while the driver fiddles with the radio and the guy in the passenger seat mocks the very idea of using brakes.
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POPSGreat Quotes Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different. Author Unknown
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POPSNew Benefit Rules will Drive Mentally Ill into Poverty Often as the last sentence above shows, those who feel well enough to work cannot or must do so without support or understanding. As ever, the suffering of mental illness is amplified often beyond the pain of the illness itself by structural and societal factors.
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POPSWhy government has to care for the poor In recessions, when more people need help, donors give less, for donors have less to give. Charities turn away from the more expensive long-term indepence-development programs, to simply keeping up with short-term emergencies. And many simply go out of business. For example:
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POPSEinstein, insanity and the war on drugs We have wasted countless billions of dollars trying to enforce a failed policy. We should have learned from the dismal and costly failure of prohibition that the government cannot and should not dictate what people do to themselves. Legalize drugs and regulate them just as alcohol and tobacco.is now regulated. Education is a much more sane and humane method of countering substance abuse than prison and murder on the streets. Illegal drug traffiking is supporting criminal gangs, Taliban and al Qaeda. Where is the sanity in this? Our health is more threatened by processed foods than what marijuana does to us. People will always need their occassional 'escape from reality' or a little something to 'take the edge off'. Wars should not be funded, prisons should not be filled and people should not die to support a demand that clearly will not be controlled.
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POPSNo More Drug War? Surprising is the total omission of the term Drug War or War on Drugs in this article. Could this be a signal that admits the total failure of this much maligned and largely ineffective "War". It certainly won't happen any time soon but maybe eventually people will come to realize that punishment and intimidation is the wrong way to go about dealing with drug addiction. How many more lives will be ruined and families split apart by needless imprisonment and ineffective treatment?
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POPSNot Just in the US I've read many articles criticizing the US because we have a 'drug problem'...basically, if Americans didn't buy drugs, the Mexican and Colombian drug cartels would be out of business. Interesting that Europe has a cocaine problem! And that the entrance point - "HUB" - is in Africa. Hey EUROPE! Stop buying drugs and the cartels will go out of business and will stop destabilizing small, impoverished countries and killing their leaders! Don't ya just love the hypocrisy?
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