Beyond Meds
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| Blog Name: | Beyond Meds |
| Url: | http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/about/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | psychiatry, mental health, alternative medicine |
| Description: | This blog is documentation of my journey off psychiatric medications as well as an introduction to alternative forms of care for mental health disorders regardless of whether one is on medications, off medications, or coming off medications. This blog is not only for people with bipolar disorder. As I say in my “Undiagnosing Myself” post I do not believe I’m bipolar but I did for many years and I chose the URL and original title of the blog to attract people who may have experiences like mine and believe themselves to be bipolar. This blog can also be for anyone who does identify bipolar or who identifies with any other psychiatric diagnosis. All diagnosis can potentially respond to natural treatments. It’s possible for anyone to consider life without medication. And so this is above and beyond all else a blog that is a contemplation about healing ourselves through means other than medication whether you’re on medications or not. And I might add whether you choose to stay on them or not. |
| Popularity: | 328 Followers |
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that: it is its nature. Let [...]
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that: it is its nature. Let [...]
Vintage drug ads: before ADHD, there was MBD
An email sent out by the venerable Dr. Bonkers: The Institute for Nearly Genuine Research announces two exciting new additions to our Marvelous Mental Medicine Show online gallery of psychiatric drug advertising. One is a 7-page ad for Ritalin; the other is a 9-page ad for Cylert. Both advertisements sell the idea that Minimal Brain Dysfunction [...]
An email sent out by the venerable Dr. Bonkers: The Institute for Nearly Genuine Research announces two exciting new additions to our Marvelous Mental Medicine Show online gallery of psychiatric drug advertising. One is a 7-page ad for Ritalin; the other is a 9-page ad for Cylert. Both advertisements sell the idea that Minimal Brain Dysfunction [...]
Meditation and brain neuroplasticity
Continuing with what is becoming a series on brain neuroplasticity and what it means for those of us who have been told we can never recover. I suggest that proclamation is hogwash! Taken from the Dalai Lama’s website for educational purposes: (Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal) Dalai Lama helps scientists show the power of the mind to [...]
Continuing with what is becoming a series on brain neuroplasticity and what it means for those of us who have been told we can never recover. I suggest that proclamation is hogwash! Taken from the Dalai Lama’s website for educational purposes: (Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal) Dalai Lama helps scientists show the power of the mind to [...]
Interesting links of the week
Controversial psychiatrist to head UM medical school department - Breaking News – MiamiHerald.com Drug makers find whistle-blowing a bitter pill to swallow | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star “Overmedicating our kids” by Wanderings and Musings of a Stubborn Woman Mindfulness Meditation + Neuroscience = Healthier Relationships | Psychology Today At Top Schools, More Than Half the Profs Have Industry [...]
Controversial psychiatrist to head UM medical school department - Breaking News – MiamiHerald.com Drug makers find whistle-blowing a bitter pill to swallow | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star “Overmedicating our kids” by Wanderings and Musings of a Stubborn Woman Mindfulness Meditation + Neuroscience = Healthier Relationships | Psychology Today At Top Schools, More Than Half the Profs Have Industry [...]
Awareness, mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn, the wonderful scientist, who has made meditation and mindfulness household terms gives a lecture here on this youtube video that takes place at Google. In it he covers lots of scientific studies of the healing nature of meditation. There is no mysterious religious dogma here—what he presents has been studied clinically. A couple of notes [...]
Jon Kabat-Zinn, the wonderful scientist, who has made meditation and mindfulness household terms gives a lecture here on this youtube video that takes place at Google. In it he covers lots of scientific studies of the healing nature of meditation. There is no mysterious religious dogma here—what he presents has been studied clinically. A couple of notes [...]
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