Join the Lancet’s “movement for global mental health”. For more information on this volunteer-based initiative (and to view pictures about treatment), type http://www.globalmentalhealth.org/ on your address bar. In July 2008, The Globe and Mail published a series of feature articles on Canada’s mental health crisis. To view it, set your browser to: www.theglobeandmail.com/breakdown , July 2011 articles about prisons and mental illness include: www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/mens-jail-death-puts-justice-system-on-trial/article2112352/ www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hospitals-judges-at-oddsover-how-to-handle-mentally-ill/article2113826 www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/woman-needing-mental-assessment-spends-two-weeks-in-police-cells-prison/article2110851/ Are Tasers dangerous? So far they killed more than 660 North Americans! Read more on http://www.truthnottasers.blogspot.com/ or for an example of abuse check out http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/07/31/fullerton-police-beat-to-death-mentally-ill-homeless-man/ ... and for the Official Truth from the maker of the Taser, visit http://www.taser.com/ Notice that they sell model C2 (smaller and cute design) for the general public in the United States! They also came up with a projectile to be fired by a 12 gauge shotgunfor an extended range. There is also an entertaining video about a simulation where a patrol of soldiers tries to secure a pier where some cool-headed "terrorists" are hiding. "Innocent civilians" interfere by running towards the american soldiers while shouting in a foreign language. In a second run when the soldiers have access to a military Taser, they can zap suspects and ask questions later. This better control of the situation also means that the "terrorists" are less likely to escape. Fun stuff for armchair officers!
NAMI is an American organization which advocates for better care, less stigma. If you register, you can get news by e-mail about (your choice of) : their e-newsletter : Advocate Stigma Buster Alert Crisis intervention teams (police and health care worker) : CIT in action State legislature updates : Statehouse Spotlight Multicultural news : Recovery for all In Spanish : Avanzamos! Discussion groups, walks, etc. at : http://www.nami.org/ Other sites with interesting news and links: http://www.szmagazine.ca/ and their video blog on www.youtube.com/magpiemedia1 for bipolar disorder, http://www.bphope.com/ http://www.pdqhealth.com/ http://www.naemi.org/ http://therideformentalhealth.org/ http://www.nida.nih.gov/ http://www.samhsa.gov/ especially http://www.mentalhelp.samsha,gov/ try also www.homeless.samhsa.gov/Resouce/Supporting-Employment-for-People-who-are-Homeless-QandA-with-John-Rio-37553.aspx on seclusion and restraints: http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/SMA06-4055 on co-occuring problems: http://coce.samhsa.gov/cod_resources/PDF/OP3-overarchingPrinciples-8-13-07.pdf http://www.madnotbad.co.uk/bytopic/content_main.htm http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/ http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/ http://schizophreniadiaries.com/schizophrenic-stories/ http://www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_health/Disorders/Schizophrenia/Personal_Pages http://www.openthedoors.com/ http://www.depressionhurts.ca/ http://www.narsad.org/ http://www.mentalhelp.net/ http://www.mentalhealth.com/ www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/schizophrenia http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/schizophrenia http://www.nmha.org/ www.fda.gov/cder www.who.int/mental_health/mhgap/en www.psychwatch.com/news.htm
About American mental illness policy and corruption : http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/wastereport.pdf
Peer support and recovery (when will this USA site have a canadian branch?) www.warmline.org
Cognitive behavioral therapy : www.copingtutor.com
Excellent 25 minutes video at http://hopeandrecoveryfilm.com/ , related blog: https://embracingmymind.org/
About new medications: http://www.jnjpharmarnd.com/ click our innovation then introduction to drug development.
Shocking videos and article: http://psychcentral.com/bolg/archives/2011/07/31/fullerton-police-beat-to-death-mentally-ill-homeless-man/
A former drug addict talks about his life (27 minutes audio clip) : www.cbc.ca/meta/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2250069887
www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/schizophrenia http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/ this american woman who grew up in squalor with drug addicted parents, but turned her life around against the odds to graduate from Harvard university: obtain her book or watch this 26 minutes video:
20 min. course for policemen : www.cityoforange.org/depts/police/mental_health_resources/mental_health_video.asp
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2009/03/000000_outlook.shtml
For three decades, Judy Graves has helped the homeless get welfare or disability payments and get into an appartment. She met them under bridges, in gardens in entrances in the wee hours of the morning. She has now retired. Read about her on http://thetyees.ca/News/2013/04/12/Judy-Graves or www.vanmag.com/News_and_Features/Profile_Judy_Graves .
Bloggers www.christinabruni.com/blog.html http://www.wanderer62.blogspot.com/ and http://www.gaining-insight.blogspot.com/ .
Many links to first-person accounts, poetry and visual art: http://www.1stpm.org/ more art: www.psycheundkunst.bizland.com/Thumbnail%20Images.htm http://emedicine.medscape.com/psychiatry www.mdlinx.com/psychlinx/ http://www.psychmedaware.org/ http://www.schizophreniaconnection.com/ http://www.world-schizophrenia.org/ http://www.iris-initiative.org.uk/ http://www.reintegration.com/ http://www.kristinbell.org/ http://www.beyondalabel.com/ http://www.karensearchformeaning.blogspot.ca/ http://embracingmymind.org/
http://sports.nationalpost.com/2013/02/20/rebecca-marino-another-athlete-helping-to-remove-stigma-of-depression
http://www.peoplesayimcrazy.org/stories
www.dmoz.org/Health/Mental_Health/disorders/Schizophrenia/ http://www.paranoidschizophrenia.co.uk/ http://www.schizophreniaandsubstanceuse.ca/ or http://users.erols.com/ksciacca http://www.camh.net/ http://www.camimh.ca/ www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/09/22/mental-illness-human-rights-and-us-prisons www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/st-lawrence-valley-correctional-and-treatment-centre/article1877960/ www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/senator-battles-warehousing-of-mentally-ill-in-prison/article1805245 www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/mental-health-care
European survivors of psychiatric treatments : www.enusp.org/newstetter/2010/1.pdf
Women prisoners : www.elizabethfry.ca/eweek09/pdf/menthlth.pdf and www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prisons-grapple-with-increase-in-mentally-ill-female-inmates/article1884243/%20/ The prison hunger strike in american prisons started july 1, 2011 at the secure housing unit of the Pelican Bay State prison in California and more than 6000 hunger strikers joined in : http://www.prisonhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/ .The strike was called off around july 30,2011. How to health guide for family at www.healthcharities.ca . www.opdi.org . http://patientsassociation.ca
Consumer and family forum: www.heretohelp.bc.ca/forum/ Who will help the Flagg family now that Trevor is 20 ? www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/26/bc-kidsremoved.html Books and posters etc. http://www.recoverresources.com/
About stigma: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTIZ_aizzyk
About involuntary treatment orders: http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/
Sites about housing: www.toronto.ca/housing/pdf/news-housingfirst-report.pdf or http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/05/09/streets-to-homes-program-draws-praise-criticism.aspx and in New York city: http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/3140 About Dr. Mosher and Soteria House: www.moshersoteria.com/crazy.htm
Sites about early intervention and treatment: http://www.eppic.org.au/ http://www.iepa.org.au/ and http://www.pepp.ca/ http://www.earlypsychosis.com/ www.psychosissucks.ca/epi/
Case histories: http://www.mikesstory.com/ http://www.schizo.contactbox.co.uk/ http://www.chovil.com/ http://www.kurtsnyder.net/ http://books.trafford.com/06-1263 http://4thavenueblues.blogspot.com/ A long bibliography of first-person accounts was available on: www.isps-us.org/bibliographies/Bibliography_4th_edition.pdf now can be found at: http://phsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Narratives-of-Mental-Illness-Gail-Hornstain.pdf For other narratives, try: http://psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com/ http://ezinearticles.com/?Surving-Mental-Illeness---A-Personal-Account&id=1513181
www.experiencepeoject.com/stories/Am-Bipolar/1072503
www.experienceproject.com/stories/Am-Bipolar/534032
http://www.diaryofaschizophrenic.co.uk/ http://www.kristinbell.org/ http://tonysschizophreniacorner.blogspot.com/ http://www.mentalhealthhero.com/
http://home.acor.de/pahaschi/diary.htm http://www.h13.com/
To fight stigma : http://www.bringchange2mind.org/
Ashley Smith died in detention on October 19, 2007 after mutilating herself 168 times. She was not cooperating, often breaking hospital property and obstructing door windows. Read the coroner's report including exerpts from her journal at www.gnb.ca/0073/PDF/AshleySmith-e.pdf For more autobiographical case histories in English, Google: "first-person account" AND "Schizophrenia Bulletin". www.healthline.com/channel/schizophrenia.html www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/bedlam www.openthedoors.com/english http://www.eufami.org/ http://www.sane.org/ http://www.reintegration.com/ www.shineonline.ie/ http://www.seemescotland.org/ http://www.tasksunlimited.org/ about depression and bipolar illness: http://www.dbsalliance.org/
About depression leading to suicide for adolescents and teachers: http://www.morethansad.org/
What should I do about a family member who is losing it? or sudden changes I notice about myself? http://www.refer-o-scope.com/
About hallucinations: www.youtube.ca/watch?v=T14ne5m599g&feature=related and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeXqe85cuA Other videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=86-9LTx5d7w&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGJZQI_k2Y&NR=1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4R6jln_eZg&feature=related
The Judge Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, an american institution, has posted legal briefs and judgements etc. including settlements forcing state agencies to provide community services and supervised appartments: http://www.bazelon.org/ http://www.schizophrenia.com/
For youth: http://www.youthnet.on.ca/ The mental illness awareness week : http://www.miaw.ca/
For youth attitude towards drugs (USA) www.casacolumbia.org/absolutenm/articlefiles/380-2009%20Teen%20Survey%20Report.pdf
For medical research in peer-reviewed journals, go to www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ or http://medlineplus.gov/ or you may prefer http://www.pubmed.gov/ or www.apa.org/psycinfo or www.ovid.com/site or for nursing www.cinahl.com/library .
Subscribe to SZ magazine, 19.95 for 4 issues of about 50 pages - one year: 1-866-672-3038 or http://www.mentalwellnesstoday.com/
The journal Sante mentale au Quebec, which may stop publication soon, has back issues available at www.erudit.org/revue/smq also these sites in French: http://www.textes-psy.com/ and http://www.toxquebec.com/ and http://www.guidesante.gouv.qc.ca/fr/ and http://users.skynet.be/sisyphe and http://www.schizophrenie.qc.ca/ about drugs : http://www.cqld.ca/ for local services, hospitals: www.hclm.qc.ca/fr http://www.hlhl.qc.ca/ other community services: http://www.centregens.ca/ www.serviceespoir.com/html http://www.ourharbour.org/ http://www.impatients.ca/ http://www.amiquebec.org/ http://www.apammrs.org/ for Laprairie Chateauguay: http://www.accoladesantementale.org/ Also l'association canadienne de la sante mentale at http://www.acsm.ca/ and the research foundation devoted to mental illness: http://www.fondationdesmaladiesmentales.org/ IPS supported employment in Quebec : www.aetmis.gouv.qc.ca/site/phpwcms_filestorage/df2282e48c60cb58f51fed4e42d688fe.pdf we manage three other websites in French. They are: http://www.schizophrenie-monteregie.com/ http://www.schizomonteregie.blogspot.com/ and http://www.schizolongueuil.blogspot.com/
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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