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How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

Posted on August 30, 2017 by admin

Spiritual Crisis and Spiritual Emergency Since psychic and spiritual experiences have been pooh-poohed in our culture—to the point we have considered talking to God as a sign of psychosis?-most people are scared of them. But when people get the right kind of support, they find the experiences to be positively transformative! The process of integration,

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anomalous Experience, Diagnosis, Hallucinations, Mental Health, Mysticism, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Paranormal, Peers, Psychic Experiences, Psychosis, Spiritual Crisis, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spirituality IMHU, psychic experiences, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergence coach, spiritual emergency

Guest Blog: Kelly Brogan, MD

Posted on July 31, 2017 by admin

An Open Letter to the Spiritual Community About Psychiatry By Kelly Brogan, MD There’s life with the experience of mental illness and then there’s life as a mental patient. I’ve been told that both entail a large serving of unfathomable suffering. Suffering that brings you to the brink of something you can’t imagine tolerating one more

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Bipolar, Drugs, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Nutrition, Psychiatry, Spirituality, Suicide Kelly Brogan, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker, spirituality

Pharmaceutical Use & The Sedated Society

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Emma Bragdon

‘The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Prescribing Epidemic‘ (Palgrave Macmillan 2017) Pharmaceutical Use in the UK Over 15% of the UK and 20% of the US adult population take a psychiatric medication, aka pharmaceutical, on any given day, and the numbers are only set to increase. When these figures are set

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Medication, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Research drugs, holistic health, mental health, pharmaceutical, pharmaceuticals, psychiatric, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, sedated

The State of Mental Health in America

Posted on December 31, 2016 by admin

Mental Health USA: How Are We Doing? Mental Health USA Facts, Stats, and Data: Key Findings (2016) 1 in 5 Adults have a mental health condition.That’s over 40 million Americans; more than the populations of New York and Florida combined. Youth mental health USA is worsening. Rates of youth depression increased from 8.5% in 2011 to 11.1% in 2014.

Posted in Mental Health depression, health reform, mental health, mental health in america, statistics mental health USA, suicide

What’s the Harm in Taking an Antidepressant?

Posted on December 1, 2016 by admin

By Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM Side Effects are explained clearly in this article. We know that all drugs have side effects. That’s just part of the deal right? But is it really possible that an antidepressant can cause a sane person to act like a cold-blooded criminal? I imagined my audience would be wondering as much

Posted in Anti-Depressants, Depression, Drugs, Health, Medication, Mental Health, Research, Suicide anti-depressant, depression, mental health

Our Fear of Psychic Phenomena

Posted on October 6, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

Spiritist Medical Congress I just returned from a fantastic conference: the 2nd International Spiritist Medical Congress, “The Dawn of a New Era in Medicine”, October 1-2, 2016, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. The roster of speakers was world class–almost all of them were MDs and PhDs with superb presentations. The event hall was modern,

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Hallucinations, Meditation, Mental Health, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spirituality, Spiritually Transformative Experiences anomalous experience, hallucinations, health, past-life experience, psi, psychosis

The Epidemic of Drug Overdoses in the USA: Ibogaine Can Help If We Allow It

Posted on July 14, 2016 by admin

“From 2000 to 2014 nearly half a million persons in the United States have died from drug overdoses. In 2014, there were approximately one and a half times more drug overdose deaths in the United States than deaths from motor vehicle crashes. Opioids, primarily prescription pain relievers and heroin, are the main drugs associated with

Posted in Addiction, Health, Ibogaine, Mental Health addiction, ibogaine, mental health

Transgenerational Memory

Posted on March 16, 2016 by admin

People experiencing extreme states of consciousness, sometimes labeled psychosis, often wonder why they have content in their minds that doesn’t seem to belong to them. These might include fears, anxieties, grief and anger. An adage taken from Christian scripture notes that the sins of the fathers are passed down to the sons and on down the

Posted in Mental Health, Psychiatry DNA, transgenerational memory

Mysticism and Psychosis

Posted on January 1, 2016 by admin 4 Comments

The following article is about mysticism, spiritual experiences, spiritual emergence and extreme states of consciousness, aka psychotic process. It was originally published in Seeds of Unfolding, Vol. VI, No. 4, Fall 1989. It is one of a number of papers written by Dr. Tomás Agosin, a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College

Posted in Mental Health, Mysticism, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences mystic, mysticism, psychosis, psychotic, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

India Uses Peer Support for Mental Health

Posted on December 18, 2015 by admin 2 Comments

Dr Vikram Patel is on Time magazine’s annual list of 100 most influential people in the world. He has been revolutionizing the way mental health issues are approached and treated, not just in India but across the world Dr Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist aged 51, is arguably the best known Indian mental health professional in the world today. Patel and his colleagues

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health, Peers, Psychiatry Integrative, Peers, psychiatry

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