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depression

Update: What’s Most Effective vs. Depression?

Early in the pandemic depression tripled, from 8.5% just before to 27.8%, then skyrocketed to 32.8% in 2021.  For Perspective…   Depression Rates Soar In the U.S. in 2017, an estimated 17.3 million American adults,
  • Posted on May 6, 2022
  • Emma Bragdon
  • anti-depressants, depression, evidence-based medicine, exercise, integrative mental health, major depression, psychiatric medication, suicide
06 May 2022
in Depression, Integrative Mental Health
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WHO

Human Rights in Mental Health: A Paradigm Shift At WHO

 Human Rights Model Promoted in New Guidance There is new guidance for mental health clinics published at the World Health Organization that represents a paradigm shift from a biomedical model to a human rights model. 
  • Posted on June 15, 2021
  • Emma Bragdon
  • community mental health guidelines, CRPD, human rights approach, mental health, mental health services, mental illness, Michelle Funk, recovery approach, rights of persons with disabilities, WHO, World Health Organization
15 Jun 2021
in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Illness
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power-threat-meaning

Beyond the Mental Health Paradigm: The power threat meaning framework

Not only is it time to abandon psychiatric diagnosis, it is time to move beyond the medicalised perspective of ‘mental health’. A new framework for understanding how we all cope with distress – the power
  • Posted on June 3, 2021
  • Emma Bragdon
  • alternative to psychiatric diagnosis, diagnosis, Diagnositic and Statistical Manual, DSM, Lucy Johnstone, mental health, mental health paradigm, mental illness, power-threat-meaning
03 Jun 2021
in Diagnosis, Integrative Mental Health
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mass shooting

A Cause of Mass Shooting?

Dr Peter Breggin, a psychiatrist, was interviewed by Thom Hartmann, on September 23, 2013, about his book Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime.   Psychiatric Drugs and Mass
  • Posted on March 26, 2021
  • Emma Bragdon
  • mass shooting, medication madness, Peter Breggin, psychiatric medication, shooters
26 Mar 2021
in Medication
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withdrawal

Withdrawal Info & Invitation to a Film Screening

See the blog to get your invitation to view “Medicating Normal” and to read about components of successful withdrawal from psychiatric medications written by Kelly Brogan, MD, psychiatrist. Case Report: Successful Discontinuation of Psychotropic Drugs
  • Posted on August 3, 2020
  • Emma Bragdon
  • Kelly Brogan, medicating normal, withdrawal
03 Aug 2020
in Drugs, Integrative Mental Health
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Watch New Film Aug 12: Medicating Normal

You’re invited to join us for an online community screening of Medicating Normal, a 76-minute documentary film exploring through stories our current mental health care system’s over-reliance on psychiatric drugs. An interactive community discussion will follow immediately
  • Posted on July 24, 2020
  • Emma Bragdon
  • alternative mental health, Emma Bragdon, holistic mental health, IMHU, integrative mental health, lynn Cunningham, medicating normal, medication withdrawal, pam shervanick
24 Jul 2020
in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Illness
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manage anxiety

7 Tips To Manage Anxiety Naturally

  We all need effective ways to manage anxiety.  Facing a pandemic and conflicting views of how to manage life create some degree of worry for everyone.  Of course, we need to turn to our
  • Posted on May 7, 2020
  • Emma Bragdon
  • anxiety, crisis management, manage anxiety, micronutients, nutirition, pandemic, resilience, yoga
07 May 2020
in Anxiety, Integrative Mental Health
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shamanic

The Shamanic View of Mental Health: A Holistic Approach

In November 2014, the peak psychology body in the UK, the British Psychological Association, released its new flagship report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. It was a watershed moment in the mainstream treatment of mental illness, containing statements such as
  • Posted on February 25, 2020
  • Joshua Beil
  • alternative mental health, crazywise, Eleanor Longden, holistic mental health, integrative mental health, John Weir Perry, Jonathan Davis, Joseph Campbell, mental health, mental illness, Phil Borges, psychosis, shamanism, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology, Stanlisav Grof
25 Feb 2020
in Mental Health, Mental Illness, Shamanism, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences
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slow psychiatry

Slow Psychiatry: A New Form of Integrative Practice

  Before Slow Psychiatry: Drug-centered and Needs-adapted Approaches A “drug-centered approach” acknowledges that we do not fully understand the causes of peoples’ troubles. We understand more about drug action although our knowledge is certainly incomplete
  • Posted on January 27, 2020
  • Joshua Beil
  • alternative mental health, complementary mental health, concept of mental illness, integrative mental health, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, SAMSHA, Sandra Steingard, slow psychiatry
27 Jan 2020
in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatry
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integrative mental health

Book Review: Our Woes are Not Signs of Mental Illness

Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes by Richard Hallam, PhD Rethinking Woes In this timely publication (2018), Richard Hallam – a British clinical psychologist – questions the main tenets
  • Posted on January 13, 2020
  • Joshua Beil
  • concept of mental illness, integrative mental health, online courses mental health, psychiatry, psychology, spiritual healing, spiritual mental health, spiritual psychology
13 Jan 2020
in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Spiritual Emergence, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritual Healing, Spirituality
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