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Judith Haire: Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:08 AM
Healthy bonding and attachment are crucial to development from the first days of life.
Well cared-for babies are able to process and integrate both positive and negative experiences. This helps them add adaptive learning to their repertoire of behaviours and attitudes allowing them to more readily manage the stressors in life.
In addition, positive early experiences are crucial to optimal organization and development of right brain mediated functions.When healthy attachment and bonding does not occur and/or if the child lives in a situation of neglect or abuse, these life circumstances will be processed through the right hemisphere as highly charged emotions and body sensations |
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Judith Haire: Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:05 AM
It is well documented that children who experience difficulties in childhood are at increased risk for various negative mental health outcomes. In the last decade many population based studies have suggested that childhood trauma is a risk factor for psychosis. The link is now well accepted. What do we mean by childhood trauma? Emotional abuse, physical abuse, general abuse, sexual abuse and physical neglect.Possible pathways are the relationships between negative perception of the self and negative affect, and biological mechanisms such as dysregulated cortisol (a stress hormone) and increased sensitivity to stress. Psychotic patients with a history of childhood trauma tend to have post traumatic stress disorder, high levels of depression and anxiety and are responsible for more suicide attempts.Children who have been abused are more likely to seek abusive partners as adults as they unconsciously repeat pattens of the past. They are likely to have very low self esteem and be non assertive.Statistics show that 1 in 4 of us will experience mental health problems; our children are at risk - nearly 12 million of them. That's why it's vital that the government provides adequate mental health services for children. Currently only half of all local authorities provide mental health services for children and this is due to government cuts. Recently the government pledged £22m for children's mental health services but frankly this is a drop in the ocean. If we fail our children and do not protect their mental health we are looking at a ticking time bomb.The greatest gift you can give to a child is to listen. Not medicate, label and ignore, but listen to what they have to tell you.The government has to review its spending on children's mental health or the consequences will be catastrophic. |
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Judith Haire: Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 8:03 AM
According to my local Primary Care Trust, psychiatrists cannot be expected to know about the side effects of the medication they prescribe. What? Yes, it's a given that medication has side effects. I wonder how many people know that lens opacity/cataracts is a side effect of some anti depressants, anti psychotics, and steroids?I was 48 when I was diagnosed with cataracts. When I saw the ophthalmologist he said my cataracts were not the usual ones he saw and asked if I'd ever taken the drug Chlorpromazine. I'd taken large quantities of Chlorpromazine ten years previously, while sectioned under the l983 Mental Health Act. The ophthalmologist said the Chlorpromazine had caused my cataracts.I have had surgery on both my eyes and had artificial lens implants fitted. But, had I been informed of the risks perhaps I'd have had other choices available to me, who knows. I took anti depressants and anti psychotics between l993-2000 and it's been suggested to me that I should take the medication all the time......but what about the side effects I said. Well you can take medication for those was the answer. But what about my eyes I said. I'm still waiting for an answer to that question. |
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Roger Smith: Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:59 AM
Whitney Houston's death has been ruled to be an accidental drowning. Heart disease and chronic cocaine use also contributed. March 22, 2012The above is the headline that has flashed around the world . The message seems to be, “Look after your heart and avoid cocaine" Not many people are going to be looking at the details of the coroner’s report.Did she die of a heart attack? “…plaque in her arteries… …common in drug users… …wasn't clear whether Houston had a heart attack on the day she died. |
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Stuart A Wooding : Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 8:50 AM
The unsupervised rejection of medication can result in terrifying visual and sensory hallucinations by Stuart A. Wooding
I haven’t had either a visual or sensory hallucination for many years but I now know that if I abruptly cease medication I risk both
I’m working now in the mental health field ( www.stuartwooding.com) and I am doing some background research to enrich my offer and culture. I’m re-visiting Divided Self by R. D .Laing. The book takes me right back to when I first fell ill. |
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Lynn C Tolson: Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:48 AM
Guest Post by Lynn C Tolson – On Growing Up Catholic
Adapted from Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor’s Story © by Lynn C. Tolson
Like many Americans of Italian descent, my family was of the Roman Catholic religion. My grandmother had statues of saints on her dresser, and a picture of the Pope over her bed. My mother prayed with me, on our knees, before bed: If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Our family activities were based on the religious calendar |
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Edward Davie: Posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 4:21 PM
Government is not delivering on mental health The government’s mental health strategy set out five key issues affecting mental health, but current policy across departments is failing to address them. – The government has outlined five key issues affecting mental health but has failed to protect them from cuts. Photograph: Matty/Alamy- Hide quoted text -A year ago the government’s mental health strategy, |
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Dr Eoin Clarke: Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:41 PM
WEDNESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2012
E Petition launched calling for the NHS Risk Register to be published.Andrew Lansley is blocking the publication of the NHS Risk Register by appealing the Information Commissioner's order that the Register be published. He is doing so because it contains grave warnings about the risks posed by his Health & Social Care Bill. I promise you that the content of that Register warns about the potential surge in costs associated with the NHS. The Register details a lack of experience in commissioning as well as a diminution in buying power caused by the decentralisation and dismantling of the old structure. |
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Dr Eoin Clarke : Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 6:16 PM
FRIDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2012
If the NHS Bill passes, this private company will care for our mentally ill. Be afraid, be very afraid
.Attendo is a Swedish private healthcare company, who operate elderly care homes that include mentally ill patients. In addition, they employ hundreds of nurses.
Below, I detail their scandal hit record of neglect that includes rationing of treatments, neglect of patients and ill treatment of staff. I explain how this company are financial backers of the Swedish Conservative Party, & how they fund the UK Tory Party's Deputy Chairman. |
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Mike Skinner: Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 10:50 AM
Hello folks,
Greetings to all…I am glad to be back and so grateful that Judith has asked me to write and share some things about myself and allowing me some flexibility with what I post.
I am mindful that this blog does some wonderful things in helping to raise awareness and highlight helpful ways and information for healing that pertains to the issues of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns and that will indeed be a part of this post. But….given the fact that Judith resides in the United Kingdom and I would imagine a lot of her readers are over there also, I thought a neat thing to write about would be the time I lived in England while touring all of Great Britain as a drummer with the hard rock band, “American Train. |
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Dawn Willis: Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 2:50 PM
For me it's about respect, I respect my children too much to think about inflicting physical or mental pain as punishment. I cannot understand a country which allows me to hit someone physically weaker and smaller than myself without facing legal recourse, but would prosecute me for hitting some 'guy in the street'? How can this country condone the truamatising of children through physical abuse?
We are outraged by stories of 'wife beating', we open refuges for 'adults' who are harmed by their spouses, we encourage these 'grown ups 'to prosecute their abuser and increasing these bullies receive custodial sentences.
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Judith Haire: Posted on Friday, December 30, 2011 1:31 AM
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Dr Eoin Clarke: Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 2:41 PM
WEDNESDAY, 28 DECEMBER 2011
Exposing the 10 biggest lies in the Tory manifesto
The Tories said they would offer personalised tailored help to the long term unemployed but the Tories hid their plans to force disabled young people and others to working for profit making companies like Tescos UNPAID (p.15) .
The Tories said they would create 400,000 work pairing college basedapprenticeship schemes over 2 years but at this moment there are less than 10,000 apprenticeship places UK-wide (p. |
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Judith Haire: Posted on Monday, December 19, 2011 7:13 AM
I've been reading Lynn C Tolson's book Beyond The Tears.
Beyond The Tears is a
compelling read and is both moving and memorable. The reader is
taken on a heart rending journey, beginning with the suicide attempt
of an abused and addicted young woman.
Lynn describes her
experience of mental illness, sexual, physical and emotional abuse,
domestic violence and dysfunctional family relationships. We are
taken through Lynn's therapy sessions as she attempts to integrate
the traumatic life events she has experienced. There is a message of
hope in Beyond The Tears and this book is inspirational. It is
essential reading for anyone wanting to discover the roots of mental
distress and to learn about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Lynn
shows great courage in sharing her story and she demonstrates that
the journey to healing can be long and fraught but that hope is
always present.
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Neiley68: Posted on Friday, December 09, 2011 8:46 AM
Physical
disabilities are a clear and obvious sign that something isn't right
with a person. It needn't take a doctor to give a diagnosis to make
that clear. Even assessors for Atos would see that a DLA claimant
with a clear physical disability isn't fit for work
But what about
autism? It doesn't always manifest itself in physical form, but its
there. It’s a lifelong condition, so there's no cure. It will be
with the "victim" always. It can make life hard and a
challenge, but it’s not the end of life as we know it. |
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Lynn C Tolson: Posted on Monday, December 05, 2011 9:11 AM
Change is a concept that refers to making or becoming different than what came before. Change is anactivitythat requires deliberate steps toward transformation. We have to be conscious about changes that lead to a different way of being.
I’d been allowing bits and pieces of myself to be swept away. I wanted to trek through the wasteland that was my life toward more fertile ground. I wanted to take charge of my life, to be accountable to myself and responsible toward others. I wanted to change
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GiannaKali: Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2011 8:10 AM
A plea to prescribing physicians and psychiatrists: please help us heal |
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Dawn Willis: Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2011 2:43 PM
Go f*cking hang yourself stupid cow.” Is #Clarkson humour really funny? #mhuk #whatstigma “SUICIDE” is not a dirty word! Jeremy Clarkson, what a guy! How funny he is, don’t you love his sardonic wit, and sarcastic humour? Well apparently a lot of people do and many think it’s fine for him to make comments during an early evening BBC magazine programme, watched by families, on the subject of people who take their own lives in rail suicides.Indeed when I had the audacity to say |
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Catherine G Lucas: Posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 8:47 AM
Spiritual Emergency: What the Papers Don’t Tell You Catherine G Lucas
When ex-MI5 agent David Shayler declared himself to be the next Messiah, the media zoomed in on him. But missed the point. This kind of ego inflation is much maligned, yet little understood. It is one of the classic features of spiritual emergency. In this guest blog I’d like to share a way of understanding the phenomenon.
First, let me explain the term ‘spiritual emergency’. |
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Judith Haire: Posted on Friday, November 25, 2011 3:32 PM
I‘d grown up in a in a dysfunctional family and I married an abusive man. I found the courage to leave the marriage and after a breakdown lasting a few weeks I returned to work. With hindsight, bottling up my emotions was wrong. In time my levels of anxietyrocketed and I became agitated, leading to psychosis. I was living alone and it was a week before anyone realised. |
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