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POPSEinstein, Newton displayed autistic traits "Psychiatry tends to focus almost exclusively on the negative side of different forms of mental illness," Fitzgerald said in statement. "I want to show that psychiatric disorders can also have positive dimensions."
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POPS10 Common Myths about Mental Illness 8. Children can’t have serious mental disorders. 9. Doctor/patient confidentiality is absolute and always protected. 10. Mental illness is no longer stigmatized in society.
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POPSWhat is a Confessing Sam? Researchers ironically note that it is often just as difficult to know whether or not someone is telling the truth when they plead against themselves as when they plead for themselves. Dr S M Kassin and two colleagues from the Department of Psychology at Williams College in Massachusetts report in the April, 2005 Law and Human Behaviour that when college students and police investigators judged 10 prison inmates confessing to crimes (half the confessions were true, half were false as they were concocted for the study), the students were more accurate than the police in determining who told the truth. -More than 50 people confessed to having committed the famous and still unsolved Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947. -At least six people have confessed to being the Zodiac Killer. -At last count, 20 individuals have confessed to the 1996 murder of child beauty queen Jon Benet Ramsey.
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POPSPathologising Human Unhappiness It is the last sentence that expresses my anger. I work with the severely mentally ill and I am sick and tired of resources being diverted to privileged, spoilt, articulate miseries. Sure, the latter need help but not from doctors.
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POPSFaith is a mental illness. The article goes off in another direction, but I think this quote nicely describes the box of mirrors people with religious faith lock themselves into. Let the games begin.
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POPS"Lefty Gene" discovered An interesting story but as a lefty, I didn't like the comment about the link between left-handedness and schizophrenia. :)
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POPSStop Alien Abductions! Trivia titbit of the day! Tin foil hats are now officially called thought screen helmets! *LOL* (Note to self: Avoid Velcro at all costs!)
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POPSHow to Get Well <<<Once you have shifted your experience, your feelings will also shift. Once your feelings have shifted, you'll be able to get rid of the medication. Regrettably, in this culture of victimhood, we are all to willing to abdicate responsibility for ourselves and look elsewhere for solutions that are often better addressed through introspection and self-sufficiency. As we choose to take responsibility for ourselves by virtue of our actions, we undertake to reinvent or change our lives and experience. Should we fail in this, we will continue to be a slave to our neuroses.>>>
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POPSLook Closely, Doctor: See the Camera? Psychiatrists say that other movies whose characters are living in a unreal world or being watched by malevolent forces, including “The Matrix,” “Edtv” and even the film based on George Orwell’s “1984,” have come up in conversations with psychotic patients. But the premise of “The Truman Show” (“What if you were watched every moment of your life?” according to a promotional blurb) is strikingly similar to what patients describe as their own experiences. Reinforcing their beliefs is the fact that in the movie, Truman is right about being watched and recorded at all times. Every other character is part of the conspiracy.
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POPSRace, mental illness, & the death penalty Tommy Munford hired Guy LeGrande to kill Munford's wife. Munford's friend supplied the murder weapon. LeGrande killed Ellen Munford. Munford and his friend are white. LeGrande is black. And mentally ill. LeGrande is now set to be executed on December 1st. Munford testified against LeGrande and received a life sentence. Munford's friend wasn't even charged.
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POPSMental Illness: Myths and Facts From a site offering support, this pages outlines some of the myths and provides the facts that demolish them. Since everyone is likely to be affected by illness, either as a sufferer or as a friend, family member, neighbour, work colleague, it is important to be aware of the facts.
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