Page 5 - From Mad News Today

This is not a book review. Because what the author just so importantly points out is that it is when we review or evaluate someone that we deprive them of the opportunity to be themselves. Therefore, this is a description of how the book has made an impression on us as people and employees in the treatment system for people who are called mentally vulnerable - precisely the employees the book is addressed to.

A story of suffering, rejection, bad relationships, up to the turning point: opening up, listening, being heard and trusting. Listening to a good psychotherapist is important and fundamental if you find the person who understands the discomfort you feel and knows how to give a good key to reading.

Another key issue when a listener is needed is why anyone should listen. What would these people have to say that is so important that anyone should be interested in it? Two arguments come to mind above all others: quality of care and money.

Knowledge about epigenetics definitely invites self-examination, self-understanding and self-help and offers people who work within mental health care promising and hopeful insights for their treatments.

The question is though, is the answer to numb ourselves and learn to deal with lives that we don't feel good about? Shouldn't the solution be to heal and live lives that don't make us stressed, unhappy and sick?

Spiritual experiences should be understood as valuable for recovery, and not treated as illness or madness. The Swedish social therapist Savannah Rosén gives advice on how we can help people in crisis who have had transpersonal experiences.

The conversation starts casually, we started talking about the weather, for Emiliano1 at that time it is in winter, he comments on the inconveniences that arise during the time by not having heating or electric oven, for my part we were going through a heat wave, which I was suffering a lot, during the talk we talked about those comments where we are in the "warmest summer, so far" emphasizing that because of global warming the situation is becoming more and more complex, the most extr...

Psychiatrist Yousaf Raza details the problems with psychiatric health care in Pakistan and shows how to find a way forward.

However, whilst folk argue over semantics and stifle open debate, are we losing sight of the purpose of grassroots awareness-raising campaigns and social activism?

Maybe more psychiatrists are needed but their current approach in seeing all human distress through a biomedical lens does not present a comprehensive view of human health and is often also dangerous and damaging.