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- Emotional Invalidation Questions, Take Twoon May 23, 2013 in Bipolar East Van Family Feminism and Madness Mad Society Meds, Meds, Meds! Sociology of Medicine Transcend borderline personality disorder emotional abuse emotional invalidation emotional invalidation and worst abuse father and emotional invalidation invalidating your husband invalidating your wife psychological abuse verbal abuse www.emotionalinvalidation.com<emotional invalidation: /the failure to recognize the legitimacy of someone else’s feelings or consider their unique experience (phenomenological theory in practice). The best examples are very simple, and include the statements, ̶...
- Top 10 Hospitals In the USon May 21, 2013 in "Health Care" Sociology of Medicine best hospital for cancer treatment best hospital for diabetes best hospital for geriatrics best hospital for opthalmology best hospitals in us best hospitals in us and mayo clinc best hospitals in us for pediatrics Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia + best hospitals in us johns hopkins mayo clinicEvery year, U.S. News and World Report does a ranking of the best hospitals in the United States. They subdivide these into areas of expertise. Using their rankings, we will go through our perception of what the top ten hospitals are in the United...
- America With No Clothes Onon May 16, 2013 in Mad Musicwhat are you listening to? please post links!
- Can Trazodone Kill You, Risperidone Overdose Death, and Other Scary Wordson May 15, 2013 in Bipolar Transcend can risperidone kill you can you overdose on trazodone daddy daddy issues family and verbal abuse family of trees falling father and emotional invalidation father daughter abuse father daughter emotional abuse father daughter relationship photographs and deciduous forest photos and deciduous forest sister and disown stepmother and abuse Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath and daddyI’ve been keeping track of what search terms people use when they land at Practice of Madness. I’ve also been feeling discouraged as hell about myself – my job, my relationships, <is this some kind of looming depression>, m...
- Vintage Advertising for Psych Meds: New Galleryon May 14, 2013 in Ads and Commercials advertisement antidepressant advertisements antipsychotic advertisements pharmaceutical advertisement thorazine ads valium ad valium ads valium advertisement vintage antidepressant ads vintage antidepressant advertisement vintage pharmaceutical ads vintage pharmaceutical advertising vintage psych med ads vintage psych med advertisement vintage thorazine ads vintage thorazine advertisements...
- The Funniest Psych Med Advertisement…on May 9, 2013 in Ads and Commercials Feminism and Madness Laughter = Survival 1950s ads and women 1960s ads and women funny ads Miltown and children Miltown and pregnancy psychiatric medications psychopharmacological ads sexist advertising vintage pharmaceutical ads vintage pharmaceutical advertisingSure, this one’s a giggle… And this one’s a real chuckle: …but the, what is the funniest psychopharmacological print ad I’ve seen since “Thorazine for Cancer”? (hint: it features two things together that ar...
- Digging in the Dirt 2: Uncharted TerritorySadly, this Sunday I did not have time to dig in the backyard or go to the park. Zip, zilch, nada. I was too busy digging in some other dirt, the dirt that we associate the word dirty with, and then smelly, gross - ultimately - garbage! Lu...
- Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing? (full documentary)on Apr 30, 2013 in Documentaries My Favourite Authors Other Survivors Transcend did you used to be rd laing documentary full emotional invalidation existential therapy full documentary rd laing laing therapy demonstration rd laing rd laing documentary rd laing piano reframe it therapeutic phenomenologyFor anyone else who needs a smile, have a great big belly laugh. Famed existential psychotherapist and cultural hero R.D. Laing was a man of many talents. It is hard for us, who have to make a choice. People romanticize having a “calling&...
- Latuda: A New Atypical Antipsychotic, More of the Sameon Apr 29, 2013 in Ads and Commercials Laughter = Survival Mad Society Meds, Meds, Meds! antipsychotic Latuda Latuda and side effects Latuda and weight gain Latuda for schizophrenia lurasidone new atypical antipsychotic nothing makes sense anymore schizophrenia schizophrenia can tear your life to piecesWhile checking out an article on “Medical News Today” about information released to the public in Japan related to SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) related “hostility and violence”. Japan also released informati...
- Everything I Learn, I Learn Digging in the Dirt….yes there are many different kinds of metaphorical dirt. But since spring arrived a couple of weeks back where I’m living, I’ve been doing a lot of digging in the actual dirt. My summer garden is always very sacred to me, and...
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