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Comment on Special offers for fans: blog readers, Twitter Fans, and Facebook followers by Spiritual Emergency Round 2: Smashing Warped Philosophies | Mad In America

Spiritual Emergency Round 2: Smashing Warped Philosophies | Mad In America — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:04:45 +0000

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Comment on Some Non-Demonimational Tools for Removing Spiritual Beings by bipolar blog

bipolar blog — Wed, 01 May 2013 19:10:42 +0000

It’s wonderful that you are getting thoughts from this piece of writing as well as from our dialogue made here.

Comment on By Sarah Knutson – Treating Trauma is an Urgent Public, Not Personal, Need by Sarah Knutson

Sarah Knutson — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:51:20 +0000

Thanks so much to Wellness Wordworks for getting these ideas out there! The only thing I might add – that perhaps got shifted in the editing – is that many of us are thinking about trauma as more of a human rights reparations issue rather than an mental health treatment issue. We think that society should be diagnosing and treating communities for their failure to protect human rights and providing support/reparations to trauma survivors who have suffered such human rights violations under their watch. Thus, Shery Mead has gone on record as saying that the core aspiration of Intentional Peer Support is human rights-oriented social change and community development rather than a mental health approach to individual trauma treatment or recovery.

Comment on By Liza Casey — “I Get By With “a Little Help From My Friends” by Karol

Karol — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:17:01 +0000

I appreciate the mention in this blog, however, I had some shameful behavior that I was also forgiven for. Love and understanding and forgiveness, we are given freely so we should give it freely.
I’m proud of you, Liza, for the positive changes you are making and recognizing that we all need a little help from our friendS!

Comment on How to Move Beyond Trauma by Jered Feldman

Jered Feldman — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 05:42:21 +0000

i waited too long to voice my trauma. sure, i lived it these last 15 years since, and i will never forget or let go what it’s done to me, to my relationships, that left me, time and time and time again and still. the hurt comes out in song. the anger comes out in spoken words. i’ve been hurt too long and no one listened. now i’m getting angry. so i will revoice my voice and voice my words. i have much to write about. much to rap about. still sing in my heart, but speak from my being. my mind was supposed to be lost and damaged too much from birth then life then death then new life then loss then gain then loss and now, i just dangle in the unknown to the mockery of by standers. words of wellness i hope works. word.

Comment on How Forgiveness Heals Your Wounds by Igomene Joseph

Igomene Joseph — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:44:08 +0000

Delightful post. Down to Earth message. Practical application for using forgiveness as a form of metaphorical medicine. I’m so very proud and grateful to be in such wonderful company of peers!

Comment on Clif Wright – How to Prevent Mass Shootings by Paul Komarek

Paul Komarek — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:27:28 +0000

You’re right.

Suicide prevention is the path to mass killing prevention. People are capable of doing anything once they lock into a path of willed self-destruction.

I’ve been writing quite a lot about this — see my post How to Smoke Out a Suicidal Spree Killer Before Anyone Gets Hurt. http://redesigningmentalillness.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-smoke-out-suicidal-spree-killer.html.

Comment on David Hilton, Part 3: The End of the Trail by Jeanne Peschier

Jeanne Peschier — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:36:14 +0000

I think that it’s important to include that just a few months before David’s death, his short-lived marriage to a psychiatric nurse, who he met at the mental health center, had fallen apart. I spent a good amount of time with him after Melissa moved out, and he was clearly struggling with this. When he went to Spokane to help his stepdaughter, he called every night to check-in with myself and others. It was clearly a very stressful situation. One night I did’t hear from him. I called him the next day, and was told by the person who answered the phone, “Dave is dead. He was hit by a train.” David and I were involved romantically, on-and-off for several years, and I lived with him for awhile. I do not believe that alcohol or anger were his main problems. I believe that he just simply reached a point where he felt like he couldn’t take anymore pain. Like most of us, David was a contradiction. He was a very gentle, giving, and caring soul who felt so passionately about changing the system that he was unwilling or unable to cut others any slack when it came to this work. I guess I’m more like him than I thought because personlly, I think we could use a lot more leaders like him.

Comment on Learning Social Media for Baby Boomers, part 1 by Ken Braiterman

Ken Braiterman — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:15:01 +0000

Interesting. I always thought my year, 1948, was the babiest year of the boom. Boomers have always been a generation of firsts:

First born into the nuclear age.
First Freudian generation
First TV generation
First to be aware that population growth could ruin the Earth for everyone.
First with easy access to the birth control pill.
First to be recognized as a separate market with money to spend on records, movies, the sponsors of TV shows, and taste different from people older or younger
First to look back from space, and see Earth as a tiny blue ball suspended in a black void
First to think globally about the environment
First to realize Earth’s resources were finite and could be used up
And so on.
First to think of ourselves as “a generation,” with a different name and description for every stage of our lives: teenagers, college kids, yuppies, hippies. It drove the generations behind us crazy. “What’s so special about you

Each first changed how we see ourselves and our planet, and separated us from our parents and grandparents..

Comment on Learning Social Media for Baby Boomers, part 1 by Obdulia Chism

Obdulia Chism — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 06:41:47 +0000

Almost exactly nine months after World War II ended, “the cry of the baby was heard across the land,” as historian Landon Jones later described the trend. More babies were born in 1946 than ever before: 3.4 million, 20 percent more than in 1945. This was the beginning of the so-called “baby boom.” In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born; 3.9 million were born in 1952; and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964, when the boom finally tapered off. By then, there were 76.4 million “baby boomers” in the United States. They made up almost 40 percent of the nation’s population.;

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