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Beyond the Mental Health Paradigm: The power threat meaning framework

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Emma Bragdon
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 threat meaning framework – can lead the way to a more honest and effective paradigm, writes clinical psychologist Lucy Johnstone.
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Posted in Diagnosis, Integrative Mental Health alternative to psychiatric diagnosis, diagnosis, Diagnositic and Statistical Manual, DSM, Lucy Johnstone, mental health, mental health paradigm, mental illness, power-threat-meaning
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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,
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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
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Gut, Mood & Mental Health

Posted on July 31, 2015 by admin
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 distressing that has or may happen, which tends to create anxiety. Ninety percent of the neurotransmitter serotonin, (which is thought
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Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Micronutrients, Nutrition, Psychiatry anti-anxiety, anti-depressants, micronutrients
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Define Mental Health

Posted on July 6, 2015 by admin
(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 a definition leaving room for a variety of emotional states and for “imperfect functioning” was drafted. The proposed definition is
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Posted in Diagnosis, Health, Mental Health mental health, mental illness, well-being
Spiritism and Mental Health

Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil

Posted on April 16, 2015 by admin 1 Comment
  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, psychiatrists will only pay attention to effect. They will be impeded from divining the root causes and will never cure
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Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Drugs, Health, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Spiritual Healing, Spirituality healing, meditation, mental health, mental illness, schizophrenia, spiritual emergency, spirituality
Paige Bradley

Treating Spiritual Emergency

Posted on August 7, 2014 by admin 3 Comments
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 7 years, and dedicating much of my lifework as a therapist to facilitating a safe spiritual emergence process, I also
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Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences psychic opening, shamanism, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency, treating spiritual emergency

Better Mental Health Care Treatment Needed

Posted on November 2, 2013 by admin
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 five people are now suffering from mental illness, we find ourselves not knowing how to meet the growing need for
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Posted in Depression, Diagnosis, Drugs, Integrative Mental Health, Medication, Meditation, Mental Health, Micronutrients, Psychiatry
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The Newest DSM*

Posted on September 16, 2013 by admin
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 & treatments.)  Perfect waiting room fare for the office of a health professional, and a heart-warming, fun self-help manual!  19
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Posted in Diagnosis, DSM, Meditation, Mental Health, Micronutrients

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