mental illness

Just spotted this story today, why we should be worried about things like this should be obvious: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-psychologist-suspended-medium-1.3821754 The above took place in 2012 and it was not the only patient this individual told that they should see if...

I was listening to a CBS Sunday Morning segment on a fellow who began manifesting symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia at early middle age and who dropped out of society, became homeless, and eventually died alone and unknown. Tragic tale...But I wondered if the tendency towards this particular...

This is an interesting speculation. Certainly the man (the Tsar) has a psychological deficiency of some sort, but what? http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/04/putin-aspergers-syndrome-study-pentagon/22855927/

Mental illness affects all of our lives. We all know someone who knows someone who is suffering from a mental illness. It affects my life personally. I've been thinking about this issue from both sides, which are as follows. On one hand, you could make a moral argument that if a person is...

I was reading over this article when I came across the first item on the list. (Several relevant links are embedded in the article itself.) I have noticed that whenever I take an OTC painkiller with anti-inflammatory properties, I feel a little better in terms of my mood. So I asked my...

Lately we've seen some posts hereabouts that various of us have called word salad. Perhaps a clinical psychologist would be a little slower than a layman to use the term, but I think he'd eventually characterize the posts I'm thinking of in that way. Text in the form of "an apparently confused...

Trying to research the ideomotor effect and I am continually coming across references to the use of the Ouija board being linked to the onset of mental illness. A lot of this is probably just silly woo superstition, stories about somebody's mother's sister's friend, usually based on the idea...

Anneliese Michel, was a young Catholic woman from Bavaria, Germany. She has inspired not one but two movies. After 8 months of exorcisms (two or three sessions per week at times) Anneliese died in her sleep on July 1 1976. Some details can be found here I became fascinated with this tragic...

I was surprised to see just how high the figures for mental illness are in Europe. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44394646/#.Tma_hI672_I I maintain that an increase in secularism and decrease in religiosity could be a major reason.

Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shades-of-grief Comment here: Anecdotally, I'd estimate that it took me 2-3 years to get back on track after my father's death. Why is the mental health community so obsessed with defining what the "normal" durations and ranges are for human...

I recently became aware of the term gangstalking and after reading some of it I thought that people were copying the comments I have been making on the internet since 2007 or so. The problem with that is these groups started in 2006 and the first gangstalking posts started about 2003. Let me go...

Some Scottish guy posted an awesome thread over at the ATS loony bin. He is promoting the banning of those with admitted mental illness, since it is being arged that places like that only re-inforce their delusional thinking. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread595425/pg1 Some not so...

This is tragic: Allegedly Shaikh thought he was travelling to China to launch a pop career that would bring world peace. Hopefully China will come to its senses.

Back when my dad was a young man, in the 1940s and 50s, the cutting edge image of rebellion was the deliquent. So we got a whole slew of 'cool' movies with the cool protaganist as some sort of 'rebel'. We didn't know what they were rebelling against, but then even they admitted that they were...

We've all seen them. Talking to themselves and acting irrationally. Alcohol can do it and so can drugs. However did you know that some medicines used to treat these disorders actually make the patient more irrational? Phenthiiazides such as stellazine and thorazine actually to irrational...

Well, I was surfing the internet (as I happen to do quite a bit), and noticed an article that caught my attention. The title of the article is "Atheism is a Mental Illness, a cry for attention". I noticed that the author is bwinwright, who posts here a bit, and admits as such in the article...

As mentioned last month, Kent Hovind's appeal was denied recently so he will be spending all ten years of his sentence in prison. However that has not stopped him from posting his thoughts online. His most recent entry is a "conversation" between Kent, Charles Darwin, and God. Hovind's writing...

I've been meaning to post a thread on how to deal with a mentally ill poster for some time. My experience here gave me insight on how to help someone who is suffering delusions. I want to suggest an outline of how to approach this situation. I am hoping any future person suffering from...

I know autism is a hot topic, especially with many people concerned about what is the cause of autism. Here is a link to a news story by MSN highlighting a new study performed by Julie Daniels of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, linking autism with parents who have schizophrenia...

I said here: “The percentage of "official" people in the twoof movement is comparable to the percentage of officials with psychoses in general society” and I was asked for a source. I must admit that I just made rough estimates using my own general knowledge, but I decided to research and...

Is exorcism a clear example of how mind over matter? Where a person is suffering from a mental illness and due to their cultural values believes that only an exorcist is the cure.If so why do so many people cite witnessed apparent phenomena such as things that go bump in the night? What about...

What are we? Are we the product of our environment/genes, our upbringing, or both? If both, in what ratio does nature vs nurture work out? Do good parents necessarily bring up "good" kids? Can people overcome a genetic predisposition to non-mental-illness issues? Lots of questions and I've...

It just so happens I ran into a 9/11 "Truther" demonstration, at Union Square, in NYC, last night, (March 28). For my own, morbid amusement I decided to listen in on what they had to say, and perhaps probe them with some questions. (Even if it meant catching a later train home than I was...

I know there probably isn't one single answer to this, but are astrologers, psychics and the like, fully aware of their deception? Is there a hidden part of John Edwards or Geller or Sylvia Browne that is fully aware that they are perpetuating a lie? And if that is so, how can such a person...

Mentally ill? No problem! Board of Pardons recommends against? Screw 'em! Yes, welcome to Texas folks. Take in the local culture, the sights and smells. Ah yes, the smell of sizzling retard on a warm spring evening. (Er, mentally ill that is. They won't let us fry the goddamn retards anymore...

Something that might help with debates in P&R. From this page (underlines mine): Delusional Disorder Diagostic Criteria Nonbizarre delusions of at least 1 month's duration. Criterion A for Schizophrenia has never been met. Functioning is not markedly impaired and behavior is not obviously...