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POPSThe Urge To End It All "Quite inadvertently, the British gas conversion proved that the incidence of suicide across an entire society could be radically reduced, upending the conventional wisdom about suicide in the process. At least a partial answer is that many of those Britons who asphyxiated themselves did so impulsively. In a moment of deep despair or rage or sadness, they turned to what was easy and quick and deadly — “the execution chamber in everyone’s kitchen,” as one psychologist described it — and that instrument allowed little time for second thoughts. Remove it, and the process slowed down; it allowed time for the dark passion to pass."
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POPSObama Shifts on Abortion Another disappointment , really. Obama's not a doctor -- and it shows. By making a distinction between "mental distress" and "a serious physical issue," he makes the far too common mistake of discounting mental illness -- like depression -- as a "real" and damaging illness. What he should do is leave the medical stuff alone and think like a lawyer -- which he is. Is there a reason to limit a woman's choices at a certain stage of pregnancy and, if so, what are they? Arguing from a position of ignorance is never a good idea.
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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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POPSExtreme cuts to vital health services for Santa Cruz residents planned
At first glance the complicated 13 page budget cut document seems to deal with mostly mental health cuts, which are important. However, it goes far beyond that, impacting all aspects of health care from HIV/AIDS prevention and care to elimination and reduction of Health care for poor and/ or homeless families. dental care, Planed Parenthood and much more, including 106 job losses. A rally is planned by many impacted agencies and citizens. I do encourage people to go, if only to make contact with others concerned and to plan for more direct action at the June 20th meeting. Eliminating a flawed system with no plan for the backlash is ridicules. Emergency rooms will flood, jails will fill, and Ryan Coonerty will continue to say we have the best care for the poor than any City within 100 miles. His mileage changes speech to speech. Although I support this rally in the sense that it brings together the community surrounding the issue. Email and phone call campaigns followed by a rally
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POPSInternet Addiction A Mental Illness? Yet more psychiatrists with way too much time on their hands have identified another area of relaxation for busy, stressed out people that is being classified as illness. If it is clean, fun and relatively innocuous, it is a mental illness. If something is disgusting, offensive and violates the laws of nature....it is normal. Such is the world we live in.
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POPSSummary of Thursday's Supreme Court actionsSummary of Thursday's Supreme Court actions Do you think that if I commit a massive crime, like say, I spill several tons of oil into my surrounding environment while in a drunken stupor, that the courts would give me two decades to work on my defense? Would they wait 2 decades while I fought it. It's the Exxon Valdez issue at the bottom of the clip that really gets me. How could it have gone on this long, unless Exxon paid for preferential treatment. If this isn't a sign of oil/government alignment, then nothing is. Exxon will never pay even a fraction of what the judgment against them deigned.
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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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POPSHow to Get Well <<<Once you have shifted your experience, your feelings will also shift. Once your feelings have shifted, you'll be able to get rid of the medication. Regrettably, in this culture of victimhood, we are all to willing to abdicate responsibility for ourselves and look elsewhere for solutions that are often better addressed through introspection and self-sufficiency. As we choose to take responsibility for ourselves by virtue of our actions, we undertake to reinvent or change our lives and experience. Should we fail in this, we will continue to be a slave to our neuroses.>>>
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POPSBrain drug abuse on the radar 
They restrict the damage that is caused by this kind of drug, in a similar way to the way they have restricted the damage caused by addictive drugs in the present, and the past. One dangerous side effect of 'stay alert' or 'thought accelerators' is that often they can be taken at the expense of the minimum required amount of sleep (which can vary from person to person.) Sleep is necessary for our brains to operate properly, and they've yet been able to find any cases where it can be compromised to any great extent. Sleep deprivation can lead to delusion and psychosis, poor concentration, and performance, and both short and long term memory loss. A bad combination. Where too many 'flashes of brilliance' are really just flashes. By the way. Who is going to test these drugs. Perhaps we'll have some smart monkeys that will unify Einstein's 'Grand Universal Theory' for us. I'm sure they'd find it much easier to be objective. (Douglas Adams told us what happens when you have smart mice
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POPS cooking fat low Weight loss is accompanied by unstable thirst and hunger, which may indicate diabetes mellitus. This chronic disease characterized by accretion of carbohydrates
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