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Coping with and healing body pain of withdrawal & withdrawal syndromes
I've collected several things I do to cope with the pain I experience as a result of long-term psychotropic drug use and the subsequent withdrawal pain I find myself in. Many people suffer from these...
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Radical Acceptance is one of the most challenging and liberating of practices
Sensations are always changing and moving. When we interrupt and constrict their natural process of unfolding and transformation by resisting them or trying to hold onto them, by tightening against...
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Fierce Grace: one of my favorite films ever (whole thing here)
After any major physical “insult,” as they call it, it’s all too easy to see yourself as a collection of symptoms rather than as a total human being, including your spirit — and thus to become your...
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A simple observation
When I consider my body is healing rather than thinking of it as sick I have a completely different relationship to the pain and malaise...
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Health care is a human right
Yes, health care is indeed a human right…now lets just transform medicine which is widely corrupted by pHARMa and actually provide care that HEALS and doesn’t depend on creating drug dependent zombies...
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A doctor who talks sense about the all too frequent use of coercion in medicine
There is pressure on doctors to ‘follow the evidence’ even though the evidence may be deeply flawed and biased due to considerable conflicts of interest. Another concern is the fact that doctors are...
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Gluten-Intolerant: Myth, Meme or Epidemic?
Many people have a hard time believing that food and what we eat could possibly make some of us very sick. I’ve been covering gluten as one of the potentially offending foods lately as I’ve come to...
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Heal your IBS (irritable bowel syndrome): heal your body and mind
As I have often mentioned on this blog, people who have taken psychiatric drugs often have gut issues. Irritable bowel syndrome is the most common diagnosis for these phenomena. IBS is basically a...
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Childhood trauma once again linked to mental health issues in adulthood
Since I began my work with those labeled mentally ill it’s been clear that trauma plays a large part in the lives of most of those with psychiatric labels. This blog covers this reality again and...
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Encouraging people to make healthy life supporting choices is not the same as...
Yesterday I found myself on a website that claimed to offer inspiration about healing from a variety of illnesses. The post I read said that people earned their health. If you are ill you earned it and...
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Immune disorder and inflammation and gut health….implications for many folks...
This article I'm excerpting from below is talking about a topic in reference to that which gets labeled autism, but the subject has implications for anyone with auto-immune issues as well as many sorts...
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healing journey — part 1 (brief thoughts from this morning to a friend)
The truth is my journey to healing has been so isolated, by necessity and because there has been NO available professionals with the appropriate skill sets, I’ve had to find my own healing path. This...
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Thank you Ashley Judd, she speaks about sexual assault and abuse and trauma...
I've heard her speak before. She's a wonderfully articulate woman who gets it right.
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The aftermath of polypsychopharmacology: my story on Dr. David Healy’s site...
The aftermath of polypsychopharmacology: my story on Dr. David Healy's site today
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DSM‘s Somatoform Disorders: millions more might be diagnosed (those with...
The Somatic Symptom Disorder category is also of particular concern to those who are suffering from drug iatrogenesis and particularly psychiatric drug withdrawal syndromes. One of the common...
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Chronic pain (psych drug withdrawal induced and chronic pain in general too)
I use many methods for relief of the pain at once...including yoga and meditation and supplements and diet and epsom salt baths...like all aspects of health I've learned, that pain too is a deeply...
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This is what it’s like to be chronically ill: Ken Wilber shares his experience
This sort of illness tends to be an up and down sort of thing. It can be very difficult to deal with and unaffected people rarely understand. I lately had a serious setback and I've learned it's not...
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The difference between pain and suffering
I've learned what is spoken about in this video is true. Acute pain will never be easy, but it is possible to no longer suffer in many regards. Also as one moves into this much pain actually starts...
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More on When Friends Disappear During a Health Crisis
Anyway...this is someone that while I was here in NC was one of my closer friends...I hadn't lived here long so these were not long-term or developed friendships and when I got sick EVERY SINGLE ONE OF...
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Illness is a monastery
Illness is a monastery with its own rules, asceticism, silence, and inspiration. — Albert Camus I have so often said that my plight was one of forced monasticism...one that bore much good fruit even if...
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