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View from the asylum
http://viewfromasylum.blogspot.com
A look at how our mental health and our spiritual identity are interwoven. What is the relationship between religion and madness? How do we distinguish between who we are and what we believe?
- Added on: Jun 9th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: viewfromasylum
- Listed in: Health Religion
- Tags: Spirituality Faith mental health psychiatry wellbeing belonging
Recent Posts
unchanging
So change brings with it hope...things can get better, we won't have to remain as we are. But what about when life feels like a rollercoaster, or when we frantically try to find something stable to hold on to, something that won't change or move or d...
advent
I've been preparing for the start of the year as far as the church calendar goes and have found it to be really rewarding.At this time of year, a time of a new beginning, the church looks to what they anticipate will happen at the very end of time. T...
The chat that never was
Ok ok, no-one likes a whinger...but recently I asked someone who looked pretty down how they were and they just bounced the question back without answering. Now I know there are many reasons not to share how we feel...there were people around, perhap...
Don\'t feel guilty
Sometimes our mental health leads us to behave in ways that we wish we didn't. We might make a spectacle of ourselves in public, or we might mistreat someone we love, or do something that we know to be wrong. It happens, and we wish it didn't. But th...
go it alone?
We are none of us so robust that we will never suffer with mental health problems in one form or another. This may be for a short period, or for a longer time, but it is important to seek help if we feel that we are struggling to cope. If we are will...
Too much to handle
Sometimes people become so unwell they can present a risk to themselves or to other people, perhaps through neglect or through risky behaviours. The Mental Health Act provides a legal framework to make sure such people are properly assessed and treat...
