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Antidepressants, Pregnancy, and Autism: Time to Worry?

SSRI antidepressant use during pregnancy is linked to pregnancy complications and risks for the baby, including what may be an increased risk of autism. These complications might be considered tolerable if there was solid evidence

Posted on April 24, 2014
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anti-depressants, autism, pregnancy

Say No to Kids and Pharmaceutical Drugs?!

Saying No to Kids and Pharmaceutical Drugs? A new article by Peter Breggin, MD in the journal Children & Society, outlines The Rights of Children and Parents In Regard to Children Receiving Psychiatric Diagnoses and

Posted on April 24, 2014
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ADHD, Breggin, drugs, kids

4 Reasons for Integrative Psychiatry

Four Reasons for Integrative Psychiatry, aka Green Psychiatry Steven Goldsmith, a psychiatrist from Oregon is kindly allowing me to share the blogpost about why he turned away from the limitations of conventional psychiatry and turned

Posted on February 13, 2014
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mental health, mental illness, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry

The Effects of Meditation on Mental Health

When an individual meditates, he/she comes into more contact with the Soul and Spirit. The delusion that one is a separate self, an ego, begins to dissolve. As more connection is forged with the Soul

Posted on December 22, 2013
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meditation, mental health, spiritual

Do Vaccines Cause Autism?

Do vaccines cause autism? This is a powerful 5 minute video showing the difficulties consumers face regarding vaccinations. Although some vaccinations have clearly helped save lives, it appears that others are contributing to disabilities, like

Posted on December 13, 2013
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Better Mental Health Care Treatment Needed

CBC News from Toronto, Canada reported in November 2012 that drugs given for mental illness are not as effective as we had assumed. CBC reported that even though there is greater awareness that one in

Posted on November 2, 2013
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A Better Way to Treat Anxiety and Depression

“I am feeling so down, and nervous these days. It’s been going on for a while. My doctor has tried many different medicines, and I keep getting side effects, and don’t want to depend on

Posted on October 30, 2013
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Reflections on Spiritual Healing #1

More and more people are turning to spiritual healing to find relief from their pain and suffering that conventional, biologically-based medicine can not provide. In his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, Paramahansa Yogananda, a self-realized

Posted on October 2, 2013
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healing, mental health, mental illness

Sex, Spiritual Growth, and Psychiatry

Freud believed that people suffer as they try to manage the tension between good and evil, noble and selfish intentions, fulfilling social norms versus indulging sexual desires and fantasies. Freud saw that these personal inner

Posted on September 29, 2013
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The Newest DSM*

The Newest DSM*: Deliberately Seeking Mental Health A colorful, informative and humorous view into the causes of mental disturbance and the symptoms they produce… recommends some effective treatments, too. (Older DSM books say very little about causes

Posted on September 16, 2013
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