How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain (tags)
In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence making it maladaptive.
Capitalism as Mental Illness (tags)
As to the stress mechanism, Adam Smith supplied that with his theory of “selfish interest” providing collective benefit. And while it’s inarguable that being forced to compete in a self reinforcing and ever accelerating rat race has provided us with many industrial and technological milestones, we must ask ourselves: at what cost? The fracture of social cohesion?
The price explosion of wheat (tags)
Many people in this country develop the willingness to explicitly freeze for an ideal. Whether for freedom of whatever kind or for the climate. Already now one could marvel at signs on "peace demos", on which was written: "Better freeze, than gas from Putin!"
Deadly psyche? What's behind it? (tags)
According to the Federal Statistical Office, 57,839 people across Germany died in 2019 as a result of mental and behavioral disorders. Repeatedly, however, there seems to be more than just a patient's illness behind the death rate, but a sick fascist system ...
Walkthrought: continuity of German national socialist History of Psychiatry (tags)
Hobby Intelligence Service (HobbyIS) Introducing to Who is who in the German History of Psychiatry (Google translated Wikipedia de) which still influencing ICD and DSM diagnosis catalogues...
Derek Chauvin on "Solitary Confinement"....... (tags)
Derek Chauvin on "Solitary Confinement".......
Unhoused and Mentally Ill in Venice (tags)
The way City of Los Angeles deals with unhoused people suffering with mental illness should be dismantled and defunded.
Totalitaianism of Self-Optimization (tags)
"Feel-don't think" is the mantra of the illuminated who accept the social dislocations. This is a withdrawal to private solutions in view of the mounting collective problems. Mindfulness therapy fits perfectly into the contemporary I-fixation that rules many lives.
Text Book by Otto Wahl Indicts Hollywood for 100's of False Images of Mental Illness (tags)
Otto Wahl is a researcher who in the 1990's examined what Hollywood produced in 1 year about brain disorders. He found that 99% of all Hollywood releases in motion picture and Television falsely depicted brain disorders as always axe murderers or other forms of terror
Brain Disorders and Homeless Facts (tags)
The homeless mentally ill are the product of the best of intentions followed by the worst of operations. Their are 3 key reasons why homelessness is so pervasive in our country 1 about 1/3 of us homeless have a untreated brain disorder2 1/3 have a drug-alcohol probleam
For many Americans this government and its servants exemplify evil.
Cost of not caring: THE FINANCIAL AND HUMAN TOLL FOR NEGLECTING THE MENTALLY ILL (tags)
The mentally ill who have nowhere to go and find little sympathy from those around them often land hard in emergency rooms, county jails and city streets. The lucky ones find homes with family. The unlucky ones show up in the morgue.
The fbi's psychological attacks on Target employ high tech equipment and low minded hoods (tags)
The fbi's psychological attacks on a Target employ high tech equipment and low minded hoodlums.
: GOP Congressman Tim Murphy of PA Seeks To Criminalize Mental Illness (tags)
Congressman Tim Murphy is a pawn of international drug cartels. His legislation seeks to remove the right of a prisoner or psychiatric patient to refuse medication.
"History of mental illness " (tags)
The time is come to evaluate the presumed sanity of the community of fbi/police who regularly label their victims as crazy.
Key Declaration about Mental Illness and Homelessness in U.S.A. by E. Fuller Torrey (tags)
Author of the Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill a Text by Harper and Row. Until the laye 1950's most seriously mentally ill lived in state hospitals It became feasible to discharge 100,000's of thousands when medications improved. by 1985 the population had decreased by 80%
Brain Disorders Chemical and Structural Differences that manifest in late teens or 20's (tags)
Mental Illnesses have never been understood well even though they are a minority of health cases in all the worlds ethnic groups. Over the last 100 years physiology , anatomy, bio chem and other forms of gentle probing have illustrated worlds inside our head with MRI PET
Southern US News and Strategy October 2015 (tags)
% Over 5 taxpayer funded state mental hospitals have been closed in AL and GA. The state mental hospital in Georgia is currently under federal control due to a number of suicides in recent years.
Covert assaults for hideous agendas (tags)
The fbi uses various departments of government in unlawful assaults & ploys against whistleblowers.
Palestinians frocibly sterilize women with disabilities (tags)
Palestinians forcibly sterilize women they feel are unsuited to be mothers
Geekouts Link's for June and July 2014 (tags)
Links from my facebook account.
Remembering Eyad El-Sarraj (tags)
human rights
Billy Slagle Has Killed Himself Before The State Of Ohio Could Murder Him (tags)
Only 5 US states have murdered prisoners this year. That is 10% of 50. It is the only Northern state. Other executioner states are Florida, Virginia, Georgia and Texas. 88% of the world's countries do not commit government murder. Meanwhile, nationally Obama's attorney general is attempting to force abolition states to kill prisoners
Only Texas Has Killed More Prisoners This Year Than Ohio. (tags)
Only 12% of the world's countries still commit prisoner murder. Only 10% of US states or 5 states have murdered prisoners in 2013.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr Drops Taser Proposal (tags)
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr is the fourth chief in a decade to propose cops use tasers while talking people out of public crisis. For the fourth time, this proposal was met with powerful citizen opposition..
Gaza
Obama Tortures Bradley Manning; Where are CCR & ACLU lawsuits? (tags)
Democrat Obama is now torturing whistleblower Bradley Manning by keeping him in solitary confinement 23 hours per day, with no news contacts and no pillow or sheets allowed so he is now on anti-depressants. Where are the CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights) & ACLU lawsuits?
Horrific Conditions in Los Angeles County Jail (tags)
the same ongoing across America
Punished for having PTSD (tags)
Article on PTSD veterans
Harmful Effects of Prolonged Isolated Confinement (tags)
It crushes the human spirit
Monica Pignotti, Jean Mercer, and Larry Sarner: Members of a Fringe Movement (tags)
Monica Pignott, Larry Sarner, Linda Rosa, and Jean Mercer run a "fringe" advocacy group; instead of performing advocacy, the group's primary activities are defamation and censorship.
The Anarchist School: Education For Equality (tags)
* The following text, published in # 57 of El Libertario, Venezuela, condenses the vision of the theme of the author, who died in the middle of 2009, who thanks to the work developed in her Free School Paideia, in Mérida, Spain, was a contemporary exponent recognized for the practice and the theory of libertarian education.
Thoughts provoked by the comments of preachers at Oscar Grant's funeral (tags)
article published in Revolution on-line
ACTOR CHRIS NOTH & MARK BURK SLANDERED BY MODEL BEVERLY JOHNSON ? (tags)
THIS APPEARS TO BE A TRAGIC AND SAD LEGAL CASE THAT INVOLVES SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES INVOLVING A RICH FORMER FAMOUS CELEBRITY AND A SEMI RETIRED PRO GOLFER MARK BURK. MR. BURK HAS TOLD US THAT MENTAL HEALTH DOCTOR'S (RECORDS & TESTIMONY) WILL SOON GET SUBPOENA'S IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE COURT WITH BEVERLY JOHNSON'S DOCUMENTED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. ALL OF IT WILL BE ASKED TO BE ALLOWED INTO COURT TO BE ENTERED AS EVIDENCE IN THIS FUTURE PALM DESERT TRIAL.
HAVE BOTH CHRIS NOTH & MARK BURK BEEN SLANDERED BY BEVERLY JOHNSON ?? (tags)
THIS APPEARS TO BE A TRAGIC LEGAL CASE THAT INVOLVES THE STATE OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES INVOLVING A RICH AND FAMOUS CELEBRITY AND MR. MARK BURK.
Iraq Vet Paul Rieckhoff Speaks at City College (tags)
Paul Rieckhoff, Iraq War veteran, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and author of a book about his war experiences called "Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Façades in Iraq," spoke October 4 at San Diego City College about the war, the needs of returning veterans and how various elected officials are responding to the veterans' issues his group regards as priorities.
Scientologists in Action: The True Nature of Scientology's "Vulture Ministers" (tags)
One of the Scientology cult's many front operations is called the "Volunteer Ministers." Scientology delights in relentlessly producing an endless supply of "press releases" extolling the pure, selfless altruism of these heroic humanitarians, who, according to Tom Cruise, are the ONLY ones who REALLY know what to do at the scene of a disaster or emergency. Namely, to deliver "touch assists" (a sort of creepy, inappropriate massage), take down names and addresses, and give out their bizarre "Way to Happiness" pamphlet.
“Committed To Healing: Involuntary Commitment Procedures” : A Fraud (tags)
The law invites the ruling class, the government , the intelligence services, etc., to silence their adversaries while pretending to heal them.
Los Angeles Festival of Recovery (tags)
This event constitutes a common-ground breakthrough. Over 30 self help support group meetings, workshops and exhibits will provide information from traditional & alternative addiction recovery and mental health organizations and agencies and will be available throughout the day.
African Americans Are Spellbound (tags)
African Americans from all walks of life-ranging from doctorate degree owners, academia professionals, ministers, politicians, or corporate executives, to ill-educated people-share a commonality when it comes to the n-word: They are mesmerized by its hypnotic influence.
Blooming Bush Demockracy *** (tags)
This is a Forum Topix post being removed everywhere. The only way that I could keep it posted was to keep posting comments on it. 3/14 Nazi Death Doctor fixes Governor's sexual problem. Oh gee! Plant a tree!
Justice for NY's Stud Guv? (tags)
"Here I am thinking up against this family a calamity from which you people will not remove your necks!" (Mic. 2:3)
When the Center Collapsed (tags)
The year 2007 may well be remembered by future generations as the year the Earth tipped,the moment when this 30,000 generation-long experiment of ours on Planet Earth suddenly veered out of control.
War is the disease of which PTSD and other mental illnesses that plague our soldiers and veterans are merely symptoms.
I want to preach this morning from the subject, "The Birth of a New Nation." And I would like to use as a basis for our thinking together a story that has long since been stenciled on the mental sheets of succeeding generations...
Will the Chad Castagana Case Self-Destruct? (tags)
…from KNX1070: "A Woodland Hills man who allegedly sent letters containing white powder to Jon Stewart, David Letterman and incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, among others, pleaded not guilty today to charges of mailing threats."
Mental Menudo Artists Exhibit New Work (tags)
Chicano: Pronouncing Diversity. Mental Menudo Artists Exhibit New Work in Landmark Show.
SUV hit & run driver prompts pharma treatment (tags)
The recent tragedy when a "mentally-ill" SUV hit-&run driver plowed into pedestrians in SF is being used by pharma corporations (& neo-liberals) to advertise their "mental hygiene" products..
California Legislature passes involuntary outpatient commitment bill (tags)
With bipartisan super-majority votes that stunned and dismayed mental health clients and advocates, the California Senate and Assembly passed involuntary outpatient commitment (IOC) bill AB 2357, sending the bill to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign or veto. The bill would extend Laura's Law, California's existing outpatient commitment law, by five years.
Final vote on involuntary outpatient commitment bill AB 2357 held over until August 14 (tags)
Mental health clients mobilize last-minute letter-writing campaign to stop bill in Senate
Legislative recess stalls final vote on outpatient commitment bill AB 2357 until August (tags)
The California Senate adjourned Friday without having voted on involuntary outpatient commitment extension bill AB 2357, affording the bill's opponents an additional month to defeat the legislation.
Final vote expected today on involuntary outpatient commitment bill AB 2357 (tags)
Invoking an obscure senate rule Monday, California Senate Appropriations Chair Kevin Murray bumped involuntary psychiatric treatment bill AB 2357 to the Senate Floor, scuttling public input and fast-tracking the bill to its final vote today. Ardently opposed by a coalition of consumers, survivors, ex-patients and allies, the bill seeks to extend "Laura's Law", the state's soon-to-sunset outpatient commitment law.
Outpatient commitment extension bill AB 2357 to be heard in Senate Appropriations June 26 (tags)
Join the CNMHC and other advocates at the State Capitol on June 26th, as we speak out in opposition to involuntary outpatient commitment extension bill AB 2357.
Senate Health Committee narrowly passes forced treatment extension bill AB 2357 (tags)
In a contentious hearing Wednesday, a bill that would extend the sunset date of involuntary psychiatric outpatient commitment law AB 1421 ("Laura's Law"), was passed by the State Senate Health Committee with a vote of 5-3. Strongly opposed by mental health clients, survivors and allies, the bill, AB 2357, will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Mental "Health" as Stealth warfare--a radically critical approach (with art) (tags)
Radical's radical comments on the widespread way in which so-called mental "health" ideology has integrated itself into the very psyches of those claiming to see the value of dissenting from all manner of corporate hold on people. Question: is psychiatry and formal therapy, corporate? anti-copyright.
URGENT!!!
Postal Shooting: S.B County Could Have Stopped Extreme Violence (tags)
An experimental treatment direct to the unconscious mind that can end tendencies for extreme violence or other destructive behaviors was proposed as experimental in 1999. S.B. County Mental Health Approved and provided a letter to show they were taking the request to administer experimental treatments to the State Mental Heath Department and that the State response would be provided in writing.
Is Normal Now A Mental Illness? (tags)
Is your child easily distracted? Or perhaps he talks excessively, or can become impatient?
White House as Madhouse (tags)
"Brains are not only washed but spin-dried. Soldiers become murder machines or pro-fessional killers..The Bush cavemen are convinced that they liberate their victims. Hitler was also convinced he had liberated Czechoslovakia.."
Experimenting from Nova Scotia to Nazi Germany (tags)
Eugenics is about ridding the world of undesirable human beings. It was practiced by the Nazis and before that, it was the cure for future social ills for many so called progressives in the West. What they did not know was that they, the judges of the unfit, were themselves one of the worst social ills of modern times.
Inymedia is a tool of the right-wing fascist media establishment. (tags)
This IMC is, like all indymedia, meant to confuse and destroy the anti-war movement.
California Clients Fight Forced Mental Health Treatment (tags)
In a move that has angered mental health clients and spurred mounting criticism of voter betrayal, state officials announced Tuesday that counties will likely be allowed to use taxpayer money from recently passed ballot measure Proposition 63 to fund involuntary treatment, including court-ordered outpatient commitment. In response, clients have launched a letter-writing campaign to demand the state reverse its course.
LA' Skid Row Homeless Shelter Residents Deliver Aid to Victims of Tsunami (tags)
A rousing spirit of giving prompted formerly homeless members of Skid Row’s Lamp Community to raise over $500 in two days to give to tsunami victims.
Beyond Violence and Domination (tags)
Responsibility is completely ignored by fundamentalism of all origins. Fundamentalism thwarts the change to mature towards human autonomy.
Mental Health & Activist Workshop CANCELED (tags)
A radical mental health workshop was supposed to occur on December 4th but was canceled. If anyone is interested in this project please visit http://www.theicarusproject.net
Mentally ILL Woman Raped by Attorney Brother! (tags)
According to official court transcripts, from the time she was 8 to 15, she was continuously raped by her attorney brother Allen D. West…who lived by the adage that “incest is best”
So-Called Mental Illness is Myth Masquerading As Science--new book will rock your world! (tags)
This dialogue between Dr. Szasz and his critics allows him to once again articulate the argument he has presented so brilliantly and passionately for over four decades. . . . A profession that fails to learn from and respect those who confront it with controversial and discomforting ideas loses strength and vibrancy. Hopefully, at least some younger psychiatrists will be encouraged to read this book. They will find that their intellectual and professional lives will be enriched.
Normalcy: The Most Common Mental Illness (tags)
Just what is mental illness?
Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior (tags)
The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both his physical capabilities and his ability to respond to a crisis, administration aides admit privately.
BTL: U.S. Prison System Requires New Commitment to Treat Mentally Ill Inmates (tags)
...Interview with Mike Lawlor, Connecticut state representative, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus.
Beanymedia Central Exposes June GWB plan to drug all and the preschool kiddies (tags)
community mental health for all including disruptive preschoolers. plan calls for drugs for preschoolers. see repost on AZ IMC as a ...(something) 'zombies ' article.
U.S. has the highest rate of mental illness (tags)
June 2, 2004 CHICAGO - Mental illnesses including anxiety disorders and depression are common and undertreated in many countries, both developed and developing, with the highest rate found in the United States, according to a study of 14 countries.
George Bush's Book of Days (tags)
George Bush's Book of Days Documenting his Near-term Future by noted astrologer Mike Jordan of the Harmonic Astrology Project
Catholics try a spin on health professionals (tags)
Today in Boston at a local catholic college 200 therapists and other clinicians were spoon fed a skewed perspective on the sexual abuse crisis in the church by a panel of clinicians hand picked by church leaders.
Special Report
Proof that bigotry and stupidity are linked (tags)
A new study by a multiracial group of Dartmouth College researchers (published in the journal Nature Neuroscience) has found that bias toward people of another race, or people who are "different," can drain mental function and make people dumber.
The "hunger strikers" although they were on a liquid diet of the same stuff as if you had a broken jaw quit after 22 days!
insight into working with people with mental health problems (tags)
insight into working with people with mental health problems
HUNGER STRIKE! Activists Demand An End To Psychiatric Repression (tags)
Posted on behalf of Mind Freedom. Mental health reform activsits are trying to bring to light the quiet state of terror that exists in the so called field of psychiatry today. Educate yourselves about how psychiatrists are an alternative to the police and prisons as a form of repression and social control:
Enough Bush bullsh-t already... (tags)
The land of the SATOMASICHIST and the home of the MENTAL SLAVE!!!
There is no shame in seeking treatment for mental illness... what's holding Bush back?
Liberal L.A. Civil Servants Beware! (tags)
Psychological operations and disability are the tools used for decades to remove effective liberal workers and whistleblowers.
Swedish and Finnish Security Police technique (tags)
"...one of the used technique is to hurt citizen and close him/her into mental hospital for observation purpose..."
LA Billboards: Patriotism or Pollution? (tags)
Another example of God-Bless-America propaganda? A self-serving ploy for a Disney-employed billboard artist who hides his commercial interests behind "patriotism" and the (misguided?) protection of the ACLU? Or just another piece of pollution on the landscape of the Los Angeles mental environment? Whatever the true nature and intent of this Westwood billboard, it has made a new, hard-to-ignore contribution to our blighted mental landscape of countless billboards and ads.
National Day of Prison Protest: Speak Out and Demonstration @ Las Colinas (tags)
The San Diego Chapter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, in solidarity with the National Prison Reform Unity Project, is organizing a Speak Out and Demonstration in front of the Women's Detention Facility in Las Colinas. Saturday, July 14th, 2001: 10am-12pm 9000 COTTONWOOD AVE, SANTEE
Use of Spiritual Abilities in Ecodefense. (tags)
Operating outside of the adversary's mental boundaries.
warning: Hunger Strikes w/o WATER (tags)
It is our experience that people in jail or prison need to build and conserve our physical and mental strength so that we can help move the struggle forward, not deplete our strength and risk our lives so that others have to leave their posts to come to our aid.