May 2012
23 posts
beautythroughhealth:
Numbers that don’t define you:
The amount of pounds you weigh
The circumference of your waist
The number of people you’ve had sex with
Your age
The number of scars on your body
How many calories you ate today
Your GPA
The amount of money in your wallet
Numbers that do define you:
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[Trigger Warning: Trans* discrimination]
junkyard-bodhisattva:
Medical Doctor (MD): Marcus, I have a patient I’d like for you to see for therapy.
Me: Great. What’s the referring problem?
MD: She’s Transgendered. She’s had all the surgeries and now is a woman.
Me: Transgender. And, I’m sure she probably was always a woman.
MD: What?
Me: Never mind. Oh, so she is a Transwoman, or more correctly a woman, but is there a problem or...
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junkyard-bodhisattva:
my last patient, a very depressed and traumatized man with several chronic health problems, said something inadvertently and morbidly funny. i laughed really hard on impulse, a really belly-laugh, and immediately felt like i’d majorly fucked up. my patient looked at me quizzically and stunned and then laughed very hard himself until he cried. it was exactly what he needed.
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To whoever left me an anon message in three parts: I only got parts one and three so please write back! I can’t help at present as I didn’t get the middle part of your correspondence! Thanks.
“Importantly, a human rights approach to mental disability requires a paradigm...”
– Burns (2009), Mental health and inequity: A human rights approach to inequality, discrimination, and mental disability
“The institutionalized medical language of mental disability is, at best,...”
– Burns (2009), Mental health and inequity: A human rights approach to inequality, discrimination, and mental disability
I don’t know, I’m on a language kick today. Finding some very interesting perspectives.
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“From a philosophical perspective, people with an illness are considered ‘people...”
– Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health (read Chapter One for free here)
File under: language is important.
See also: persons of colour, persons with disabilities…
strawberryjamsandwich asked: Hi! After reading your response/solution to my problem. I discovered the Canadian Alzheimer's Foundation and have collected information on a Support Group for Care-Takers that have a family member with the disease, as well as a Alzheimers Help Hotline. Thank you so much for your help, I wasn't aware of the many options available. I have a lot of hope that my Father can finally accept and...
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thepersistence1931:
Black men opening up to combat mental health stigma
mindovermatterzine:
A Sheffield men’s mental health group has made its voice heard by pressing for changes in the way inpatients are restrained.
This is great. We need to stop institutional racism and unsafe restraint procedures in our hospitals. Let’s learn from mistakes made with Rocky Bennett, and so many others.
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“People with mental illness were eight times more likely to be robbed, 15 times...”
– Levin, (1985)
“I make the modest proposal that psychiatric care should be as easy to get as...”
– Andy Borowitz Accessible, flawless, & reasonably priced - what all health care should be.
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People with mental illnesses still live 15-20... →
“If such a disparity in mortality rates affected a less stigmatised section of the population, then we would witness an outcry. The fact that life expectancy remains about 20 years less for men with mental illness and 15-years less for women with mental illness, denotes a cynical disregard for these lost lives and shows, in stark terms, by just how much people with mental illness are valued less...
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“It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be...”
– Bentall (1992): J Med Ethics. 1992 Jun;18(2):94-8.
This guy is such a badass.
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Freud works on the web
thisisnotpsychology:
The Interpretation of Dreams (3rd. edition). Translated by A.A. Brill (1911).
Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Translation by A. A. Brill (HTML at York).
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis (1910). American Journal of Psychology, 21, 181-218. [Freud’s lectures at Clark University; the introduction of psychoanalysis to North America.]
A Young Girl’s Diary...
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strawberryjamsandwich asked: Hi! Regarding your post on, "What If We Treated Every Illness the Way We Treat Mental Illness?" My grandfather has has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and my Father is in denial over his diagnoses and reacts in frustration causing my Grandfather further confusion/sadness. Do you have any suggestions/solutions to this problem? Thank you and I really enjoy and find your blog...
thurmanhubbard reblogged your photo: [Image: A black and white illustrated poster…
Or autoimmune disorders like Lupus
Yes, you’re right: it’s an important point that I should have made with my post: there’s definitely not parity of treatment across “physical”* illnesses either!
*I use “physical” in quotation marks because the divide is often made...
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Anonymous asked: Hi there, not sure how you feel about sharing your opinion on this without knowing much about myself. How do you feel you know when therapy isn't working for you or if you're not allowing the therapy to work? I've had sessions for over a year, recently started recieving more help than before & feel that in all this time it isn't improving things. I feel under great pressure...
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[Trigger Warning: Discussion of suicide and...
rabidbits:
Why do people seem to think that suicide is some kind of joke?
A girl in a cute skirt with a gun to her head is not fashion, it’s disturbing. A ‘suicide rehearsal kit’ is not some kitschy item to have lying around your house. I keep seeing this garbage on my dash and every time I do, all I can think is “What the fuck appealed to all of the people that reblogged these posts?”...
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New research from The Carers Trust reveals the... →
A poll carried out by the Carers Trust has revealed nearly 60 per cent of adult carers reported suffering mental health problems due to the strain of caring and juggling other responsibilities.
Just over a quarter experienced both physical and mental health problems, with muscular strains, insomnia and exhaustion common complaints. Almost 60 per cent said caring had damaged their careers.
The...
