The negative effects of captivity and air pollution on mental health
Captivity in zoos increases the chances that a chimp will behave bizarrely. This is the situation described in a report to Global Animal, Captivity Fatal To Chimps’ Mental Health? The documented...
View Article2 Wrongs Don’t Make A Right Even In California
Voice of OC (Orange County) covered community response to Kelly Thomas being beat to death by the police in an article with the heading, Families of Mentally Ill Question Supervisors in Wake of Police...
View ArticleThe Latest Development In Psychobabble
Psychobabble is also a psychological term used to denote the misdiagnosis and misclassification of natural variation in human psychology as psychopathological, or mentally disordered, and is based upon...
View ArticleFeds Investigate Mental Health Care In Missippi
The US Justice Department is investigating mental health care in Missippi according to an article in the Hattiesburg American, Mental health system probed. “They don’t think our state has made a...
View ArticleA Fighter For The Better Use Of Language
One of the voices most vehement in his opposition to the use of the word “stigma”, when it comes to dealing with people who have experienced the mental health system first hand, is that of Harold A....
View ArticleWallowing In The Mess Age
Things used to be much simpler before the economic bubble burst, and we developed this homeless problem we’ve got today. I continually find myself amused by stories arising from this situation, like...
View ArticleIgnore History At Thy Peril
How do you dialogue with psychiatry when psychiatry doesn’t dialogue with you? You don’t. This leaves psychiatrists rehashing things the psychiatric survivor, mental patients’ liberation, movement...
View ArticleInterview with Brian Henley
This interview took place on Wednesday, July 25, in Ocala, Marion County, Florida. It’s been said of any one speaking event that it is difficult for the mind to digest more than three new ideas at any...
View ArticlePoor and struggling people “mental disorder” prone. Duh!
The UK Daily Mail reports, The true cost of debt: People struggling to pay loans are ‘three times more likely to have mental health problems’, as if this were news. Why am I not at all surprised? Among...
View ArticleFlorida panel protects abusive assisted living facilities
Can you imagine a panel put together to do something about death and abuse in assisted living facilities that winds up doing the diametric opposite of what it was designed to do, and instead puts its...
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