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Issues in psychiatric treatment of psychosis
Inside My Mind: Coping with Schizophrenia | August 15th 2008 by Jen
Tripped-out Supergirl vs the Blessed Middle Way.
Catatonic Kid: A Mind Boiling Over | August 14th 2008 by Catatonic Kid
Susan, the Wellness Writer, has inspired me to discuss a very pertinent, very important working assumption of my life. I’m amongst those who can, most of the time, be termed functional Depressives. We remain of the world even when we’re n read more
All Change with the CMHT
Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive | August 14th 2008 by Seaneen
I am going to start widening the focus of this blog a bit, cos I’m getting irritated just writing exclusively about mental health. It will be 98% mental health, and 2% Other from now on, just so I don’t feel as though this is relentless read more
Speed Kills
What's Mierek Reading? | August 6th 2008
The Game-Players of TitanPhilip K. Dick1963Bindman Peter Garden has just lost his wife and the city of Berkeley in The Game. Luckily he still owns Marin County. Winning or losing at the game of Bluff (a strange hybrid of Monopoly and poker) determine read more
Get some sleep!
Grown up leadership | August 5th 2008
Last week I had one of those “burn the candle at both ends and in the middle” kinds of weeks. I co-facilitated a full day offsite for a client, hosted a breakfast event for 65 professional women, met with several executive coaching clien read more
Living With The Fear
Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive | August 2nd 2008 by Seaneen
I went for a walk last night with Rob. We met a friendly cat and saw a man watching porn on telly with his curtains open. Weaving through the streets of Canonbury, I talked to him about The Fear, the fear of becoming really, really ill again. M read more
The Ultimate Reality TV Psychosis: "The Megan Show"
Megan's Minute | July 29th 2008 by Megan Smith
You know the movie "The Truman Show?" The one about Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) who discovers his whole life is a TV show? Since the day he was born, he lived on a TV set disguised as a town, was... read more
High on Meth: Awake for Days
Some Chick's Blog - Methamphetamine | Crystal Meth | Abuse |… | July 24th 2008 by Some Chick
Define awake when you’re high on meth. Heart is beating, irregular, but beating. Lungs are absorbing oxygen, sorta. I mean what’s left of the tissue that’s healthy enough to function at a working capacity. Brain is partially... [[ read more
Meth Intervention: Cristy
Some Chick's Blog - Methamphetamine | Crystal Meth | Abuse |… | July 22nd 2008 by Some Chick
The show Intervention on A&E is sometimes too painful for me to even watch - Cristy’s story most of all. I saw the story of Cristy (or Christy) on Intervention quite a while back and of all the episodes, this one really affected me the... read more
Project Psychosis
Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive | July 21st 2008 by Seaneen
A friend suggested that stemming from my last post, it would be interesting to do a project on psychosis. A proper project, not like my never-bothered with Mentally Interesting radio. This would be separate from this site. I agree with this and read more
I’m Sufficiently Appeased…For Now.
My Lymphoma Story | July 20th 2008 by Brandi
I have been putting off writing this post since Friday night. I promised a post outlining my doctor's appointment, and I have failed many of you. I'm sure, though, it's not the first or last time that will happen. You wo read more
Are you hearing me/feeling me/seeing me, or do you just think tha…
Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive | July 20th 2008 by Seaneen
I have about a million posts lined up, but first, my unwavering curiousity leads me to asking you a few questions. I’ll apologise once more for not writing in here about much recently other than the continuing dogged depression. Today in “ read more
A lack of insight questioned
Mental Nurse | July 16th 2008
The symptom of ‘lack of insight’ is often a component of major mental illness. Technically referred to as anosognosia, it is the lack of insight that often results in the need for compulsory detention; supervision orders; enforceable medi read more
Time machines and judgement day
Allotment Junkies | July 14th 2008
I wrote this post a while ago, but decided not to publish it. I have changed my mind after seeing that people do stop by here and read my story now and again… So this is part 10 (phew it was never meant to take this long!) of my account of what read more
Mania poems: Hurricane to Rabid Cycle
Cafedog's Canteen | July 5th 2008 by chris DL
hurricane brews. a hurricane brews within my head. thoughts, thrashing like waves against rock, are of the living and the dead. A thousand indecisions drowned quietly in the waves, just then a thunderbolt of urgency unexpectedly invades. S.O.S I am t read more
Skunk ‘psychosis risk’ warning
The Shrink Rap | July 2nd 2008
People who smoke the strongest form of cannabis - known as skunk - may be more at risk of psychosis than those who use milder forms, UK researchers claim. In a study of 300 people, those who had... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we read more
traveler’s computation
thru chocolate eyes | June 30th 2008 by Rioholly
A traveler, whose wandering any nation, will so ponder the route for his destination. Before the trip he must lay out a path to take, and think about the details of expectation. Point of purpose is easier when it’s defined, and perhaps thought can read more
‘I’ve Found a Most Endearing Psychosis.’
A Distorted Reality. | June 28th 2008 by Alexander Young
I like my people a little damaged: it’s no secret. No secret at all. However, this liking of mine for this genre of people is taking a dreadful toll on my perception of said people: the more and more that I think about it, the greater the impul read more
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Bipolar Mo | June 26th 2008
So I went to see Portillo on Monday about my raised valproate levels. He wasn't particularly concerned about it and said he wanted to leave it to "the experts"... I presume by "the experts" he means the new magnificent all powerful psychiatrist "Dr X read more
Attack of the Mad Scientists?
Mind, Soul, and Body | June 18th 2008 by Doc
I recently had the opportunity to listen to a rather provocative podcast at All in the Mind about cognitive enhancing drugs. Specifically they discuss Modafinil, a drug used to treat Narcolepsy, a disease in which sleep comes suddenly and often, to read more
Revolution Roulette (2008)
Chad Guevara Revolution!!! | June 17th 2008 by ChadGuevara
Revolution Roulette is the third album by the Finnish rock band, Poets of the Fall. It was released in Finland on 26 March 2008 and went straight to the top of the Finnish charts. It was certified gold by IFPI Finland two weeks after being released read more
Aileen Wuarnos, Psychosis and the Death Penalty
Inside My Mind: Coping with Schizophrenia | June 15th 2008 by Jen
Know your drugs: smoke cessation drug varenicline causes psychosi…
Battling Heart and Stroke | June 11th 2008 by HART (1-800-HART)
Last May 21, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the government agency that is in charge of civil aviation safety issued a ban on the use of the smoking cessation drug varenicline by airline pilots and air traffic controllers, as reported b read more
Oh no you don’t Alopecia!
On The Wings Of My Dream | June 3rd 2008 by bluepanjeet
Have you lost your hair lately? Are you experiencing receding hairlines on your forehead? or you are having some troubles with the strands of your hair when trying to comb it? Then you are probably suffering from Alopecia. Alopecia is the medical te read more
138 a WEEK?!: "Heavy pot smoking could raise risk of heart attac…
ThisCanadian | May 13th 2008
BigPharma is busy patenting every bio-active plant they can get their hands on. meanwhile... a study of people who smoke **138 joints/week** suggest there might be health consequences for a **lack of moderate behaviour** or vice indulgence. If you read more
Madonna Plays Dumb Regarding Britney Spears
Aisha Music | May 13th 2008 by Aisha
Spears Going Broke In more “Madonna is being delusional” news. She has blamed Britney Spears’ terrible fall from grace on not having a childhood. Oh please, Michael Jackson didn’t have a childhood and he turned out just f read more
Teen marijuana use can worsen depression, trigger psychosis
iHealthBulletin News | May 12th 2008
Washington, DC - Millions of American teens report experiencing weeks of hopelessness and loss of interest in normal daily activities and many of these depressed teens are using marijuana and other drugs, making their situation worse, according to a read more
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The Army of Epiphenomenon | April 28th 2008 by Thaddeus Stanley
It's Not You, It's HimSponsored Editorial by Thaddeus Stanley, Senior Publications OfficerIt's not your fault that PMS happens, why should your mate or loved one get irritated by your hormonic breakdown? Now you can help him be a better man! Simp read more
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