Recent content by jlin

talk therapy during psychotic periods is hugely beneficial and amazing amounts of work and gain can and are done during these times, but it all hinges on trust between the people involved and massive skill on every level of the therapist. These requisites are so seldome filled so as to be mere...

Managing physical health while in a coma is definitely an issue. It is also an issue if you are too poor to afford real food, & naturopathic paradise. It is also an issue if your world is telling you to do things for your physical health that are judgments of community both internalized and...

And being able to make very behavioural judgements like checking on insulin is exactly the sort of thing that would fill a salary and do nothing for mental health. The problem lies in the valuing of disease-forms as diagnosis; which is individual laden. When we veiw statistics on a community...

on my scale of mental illness, depression rates a three out of ten. I am not being a snob, it's just that being forced to play the mental health game because of my vulnerability to the system of psychiatric/social work/et al mental health business (like educatin business, having little to do...

I disagree that the cause is psychological. I think that mental illness can be traced back to a variety of issues from autism spectrurm to diabetis. The problem is that when we begin to manifest psychological issues our very puritan look at medicine and society establishes a separation. We do...

Mental illness is biochemical and therefore physical; however, medicine faultily judges biochemistry to exist withouth interweave of intellectual and emotional process. There is a reason that talk therapy works and meditation works. Great Yogi's really do all that stuff. Great Buddhists...

I am not impressed with this document. First of all, the language is miserable, subserviant, slavemaster and utter nonsense. It is everything that the UCC can not be if it wants to be alive. This is a dead idea from dead people who are politically ignorant, dangerous in their hometowns...