"Why We Should Stop Calling People 'Crazy''" by Lauren Messervey is a must read on why we too often refer to other people as "crazy", the negative and hurtful effects such a term can have on others, and why we should all make a conscious effort to take it out of our vocabulary. Check it out now!
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Brandon Marshall, wide receiver for the Chicago Bears, captured the attention of many today when he signed his 3-year extension for $30 million dollars live on The View. What makes this story even sweeter though is that Marshall then pledged to donate $1 million of his earnings to mental health initiatives, something close to his heart as he had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) a few years ago. You can find out more about this story here: http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/10953888/brandon-marshall-chicago-bears-signs-extension-view A must watch! In this 2 minute video mental health advocate Becca Calla, who has been diagnosed with Tourette's, OCD, Pervasive Developmental Disorder, and ADHD, talks about her experiences with stigma and mentalillness. She also helps to demonstrate just how important receiving love and support is, and encourages us all to rethink our own perceptions of mental illness and take action to eliminate the stigma and stereotypical views of those suffering with mental health issues. "Becca proves that her mental illnesses do not define her or will stop her from achieving her goals ... "Ask anyone that knows me now. I'm the happiest girl because I know I'm getting the right support and help I need."" "How Do Psychiatrists Manage Clinical Uncertainty" is an interesting read from KevinMD.com written by a psychiatrist on the topic of uncertainty ... In his post, Dr. Steven Reidbord describes how uncertainty should not be perceived as a personal failure, rather as we come to gain more experience we will also develop more comfort with not knowing all the answers right away. He also delves into the topic of uncertainty specifically within the field of psychiatry and comments on strategies that may help to reduce the unknown or the stress of the unknown in a specialty where uncertainty is an inherent part of the job. Although a fictional novel, Addiction on Trial was written by Dr. Steven Kassels who is an emergency medicine physician who has also received certification in addiction medicine. Though the novel is an intriguing and gripping medical murder mystery/legal thriller, Dr. Steven Kassels is able to weave in his clinical experiences with medicine, and more specifically addictions, in a way that not only gives insight into some of the current drug problems our cities face, but also leads readers to contemplate current societal views on addiction, and even challenges us to reformulate our ideas of addictions that are more in line with how chronic diseases are perceived and managed. Recommended For: Those interested in a good summer read, those who enjoy mysteries/thrillers, or those interested in law or addictions. "Blackness Ever Blackening" is a descriptive and enlightening account of writer Jenny Diski's lifetime of depression, or more specifically PDD (Persistent Depressive Disorder). In her story, Diski describes her "moodiness" which began in childhood, the science and culture behind these mood disorders, her avoidance of antidepressants, and how writing has helped her. "I know that this place that I enter, the inner-space surrounding me – in which I can’t be, can’t breathe, can’t exist, but can’t not exist – also itself can’t be. A room for which there is no room. A place that makes no sense, that no sense can be made of, but which is all there is when I am in it. It is negative upon negative. Blackness ever blackening. Obscurity and obstacle always increasing, arriving at a point where nothing can be retrieved, mended – and then more and further, beyond my capacity to imagine more. A struggle that only and always resolves itself into a further impossibility, to infinity, eternity; a terrifying forever, in the most inexplicably inhuman sense of the word. And this place, this condition that has me in it, while the world mouths at me on the outside, is where I am, is what has happened, is why; and makes everything, inside and out, life itself, simply, really simply, impossible. I am islanded in the impossible, and unreachable. Yet, always the impossibility gets worse. There is no end to the worseness, the tumbling of can’tness down and down, in and in, to can’tnesses that I have never before imagined, or at any rate have forgotten, that imply further depths or intensities of can’tness that I haven’t dared to fear, but I can see coming, or me moving towards. That, roughly, is what it is like being at the blackest end of the continuum. It is like living inside this paragraph, which in its speed and insistence, melodrama and bumbling words fails to convey how awful and how physical it is, and how much I don’t want to be in it..." 1 in 4 Canadians over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's Disease. That's not even mentioning other forms of dementia such as vascular dementia, Lewy Body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, or types of dementia associated with other diseases like Parkinson's. The Current at CBC Radio, recently collected stories from a number of seniors and their family members/caregivers about what it's like living with a dementia diagnosis. You can read some of these moving stories or listen to podcasts here: "Canadians share their stories about life with dementia" (CBC Radio - The Current) Put your knowledge and skills to the test with the case of a 30 year old graduate student with schizophrenia, who is treated for psychosis, but then subsequently her menses stop. Can you determine the cause of her menstrual abnormalities or come up with a treatment plan? "Psychosis resolves, but menses stop" by Nicole Renee Graham, Mustafa Pirzada, Almari Ginory, Laura Mayol-Sabatier, and Mathew Nguyen (Current Psychiatry). |
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