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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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How to Manage Spiritual Crisis

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
  • Posted on August 30, 2017
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  • IMHU, psychic experiences, spiritual crisis, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergence coach, spiritual emergency
30 Aug 2017
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
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Gut, Mood & Mental Health

Beneficial bacteria may serve the same role as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. In one study,  people who took a multi-strain probiotic for at least four weeks reported a lessening of rumination—recurring, persistent thoughts about something
  • Posted on July 31, 2015
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  • anti-anxiety, anti-depressants, micronutrients
31 Jul 2015
in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Micronutrients, Nutrition, Psychiatry
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Define Mental Health

(Excerpted from World Psychiatry, June, 2015) The concept that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness [1, 2]  was unanimously endorsed, while the equivalence between mental health and well-being/ functioning was not, and
  • Posted on July 6, 2015
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  • mental health, mental illness, well-being
06 Jul 2015
in Diagnosis, Health, Mental Health
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Spiritism and Mental Health

Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

  Spiritist psychiatric care is described below…and it’s leading us into new territory that might improve our own healthcare system! Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil  “If the spirit is not acknowledged as existing and real,
  • Posted on April 16, 2015
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  • healing, meditation, mental health, mental illness, schizophrenia, spiritual emergency, spirituality
16 Apr 2015
in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Drugs, Health, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Spiritual Healing, Spirituality
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Paige Bradley

Treating Spiritual Emergency

Treating Spiritual Emergency Learn more about treating spiritual emergency: One of the most unusual ways of looking at mental health crises is they are all “spiritual emergencies”. After volunteering within the Spiritual Emergency Network for
  • Posted on August 7, 2014
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  • psychic opening, shamanism, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, treating spiritual emergency
07 Aug 2014
in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences
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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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02 Nov 2013
in Depression, Diagnosis, Drugs, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Micronutrients, Psychiatry
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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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16 Sep 2013
in Diagnosis, DSM, Meditation, Mental Health, Micronutrients
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