Day 78: Mental Health
Healing Depression with Nutrition, The Biologically Altered Brain; Understanding Addiction as an Evolutionary Impulse
Welcome to Day 78!
How many times have you felt guilty for desiring, wanting, grasping after, or having something? An experience, a person, a relationship, a food…
Understanding Addiction, Attachment, and Habit as the Evolutionary Impulse
An Evolutionary Impulse? What does this mean? I have an overriding craving for chocolate, pizza, sex, TV, a drug, Social Media, … how is that evolutionary?
This is a very, very important question, and its answer gets to the heart of what it means to be a human being. The answer also highlights one of the great themes of my coaching over the years.
In 1977, Ken Wilber wrote a book called The Atman Project, which is an immensely profound discussion of the Unity Project - which is our life. I have also placed a talk by Ram Dass on this page, on the very same reality.
When you were born…you sought Unity with your Mother’s breast and your Mother. Then your Mother and Father. Then the blanket and things around you… your body, your food, your house, your siblings, friends, the outdoor environment, the neighborhood and its inhabitants. From there you unified with cultural norms, subjects and topics, the way social systems worked, ideas about living, examples of how to live… From relationships to experiences, chocolate bars to music and books and every form of connection, we have sought UNITY.
As you look deeply at your own life, you can see this impulse to realize higher, wider, and deeper levels of Unity. And our attempts at experiencing Unity manifest in every aspect of our life, from relationships to work to food to altered states of consciousness to watching movies and having children. Every choice you have ever made - “good” or “bad” or indifferent, has been some attempt or effort to experience a feeling of Unity.
Once you understand your entire life as one effort after another to cultivate, find, and experience Unity after Unity, your entire life takes on a Sacred quality. Out the window is judgmentalism towards yourself or others, as everyone is doing their own version of the Unity Project - sometimes in ways that contribute to health and happiness and meaning, sometimes in ways that are antithetical to health and happiness and meaning. But it’s all the Unity Project.
From that place of recognizing we are all engaging the Unity Project, we drop judgmentalism and can turn our attention to discernment. “Okay, this thing I have been doing - I have been seeking Unity. But it’s also diminishing my life or that of others. Is there something else I can do to experience that positive feeling of Unity, that enhances and benefits my life and that of others? I want Unity, but there must be better ways, and it is my job as the Artist of My Life to figure out - to see my way through to those more skillful means of experiencing Unity with myself, with joy, with meaning, with others, with the Kosmsos.”
For more on this, please consult the Ram Dass lecture posted on today’s page, consider reading The Atman Project by Ken Wilber, and come into The Green Room or join a future Live Q&A with David Rainoshek to explore the Unity Project further.
See you in The Green Room!
John Robbins on Powerful Nutrition and Healing the Brain/Mind.
David Wolfe: Key Depression & Anxiety Secrets
Dr. Mark's Minute - The Real Causes of Depression
Humor: Despondex (by The Onion)
Coaching Insights
Emotional Eating
Emotional Eating is an important topic to many people I coach and teach. I thought that since we are engaging perspectives and practices on Mental Healing and Health, you might like to hear the coaching approach - the perspective shift - that I often share on Emotional Eating with my private clients and students. So here it is:
Emotional Eating is Great. Here's the perspective shift:
The key is to recognize that we *always* eat to change our state of mind. Every single food, conversation, experience... changes our state of mind. And this is okay.
To heal Emotional Eating is to embrace Positive, Affirmative, Meaningful Emotional Eating. The practice is to recognize your current state of mind, and see that you are regularly interested in changing it (often for really excellent reasons). You then engage your ability to seeing your way through to *how* you can change your state with foods and activities and relationships that change your state and make you feel good now and upon later reflection.
Your Feminine (whether you are a man or a woman) finds meaning through an abundance of Fullness - and is the GENERATOR of Fullness. The foods and activities and relationships that can positively change your state are available. And not just available, your Sacred Feminine IS the generator of those things. You thrive on this kind of creative expression at points throughout your day, every day of your life.
You are the artist of your life. A significant feature of your life as an artist is creatively, meaningfully changing your state throughout the day in ways that support the continuation of your sacred feminine to be the artist of your life for the benefit of yourself, and those beyond yourself.
So Eat Emotionally, consume life emotionally, create emotionally to change your state. Because your state is in a constant state of flow and flux. But AS the Sacred Feminine in the Kosmos, do it creatively with meaning and purpose that grows who you are and grows the fullness of life - yours, those you love, and on and on.
This is not something that comes immediately, but is a training - a retraining or re-orientation of our ways of thinking and being with regards to our emotions and how we navigate them. It is a re-cognizing and a re-membering of our Sacred Feminine as both the desirer and generator of the most banal and the most sublime expressions of fullness in the Kosmos.
So the next time you want to Eat Emotionally on the western carnival rollercoaster of frankenfoods that are so ubiqitous and familiar - the direction almost EVERYONE is running... get curious.
Get curious about your Sacred Feminine, about the state change you want, and how you *really* want to feel. Get curious about what creative ways you have available to you to change your state that are truly generative for your life.
All the best, David Rainoshek, M.A.
Today’s Downloads
seasonal affective disorder
Up to 14 million people in the U.S. alone suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), while about 25 million Americans suffer from the “winter blues,” a condition not as serious as SAD but still requiring attention. People with SAD tend to oversleep and overeat during the fall and winter. They easily tire, and find it difficult to maintain a regular schedule. Some become depressed and irritable, and lose interest in social interactions. Other symptoms include:
• A craving for sugary and/or starchy foods, usually resulting in weight gain • Loss of self-esteem • Difficulty concentrating and processing information • Tension and inability to tolerate stress • Decreased interest in sex and physical contact • Full remission from depression occurs in the spring and summer months
Online Articles
Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been “Treated” For ADHD, Depression by Mike Adams
America seems shocked that, yet again, a young male would pick up an assault rifle and murder his fellow citizens, then take his own life. This is what happened last night in Omaha, Nebraska, where the 19-year-old Hawkins killed himself and eight other people with an assault rifle. Those lacking keen observation skills are quick to blame guns for this tragedy, but others who are familiar with the history of such violent acts by young males instantly recognize a more sinister connection: A history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD.
Natural and Herbal Remedies for Depression by Brigitte Mars
Psych Drug Shocker: Antidepressant Drugs Work No Better than Placebo; Big Pharma Hoax Finally Exposed by Mike Adams
The following is a groundbreaking report from the independent, honest medical journal PLoS Medicine (which accepts no advertising money from Big Pharma). The full study, with sources and attributions, can be found at http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlse…This study is sending shockwaves through the medical community. It finally reveals the Big Pharma hoax behind antidepressant drugs. Through fraudulent science and clever marketing, drug companies have managed to take a drug that works no better than placebo and turn it into a multi-billion dollar scam.
Study Finds Non-Drug Meditation Treatment Beats Depression
Clinical depression is far more than feeling blue. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 20 million people in the U.S. have persistant depression that can interfere with everyday life, impact health and even lead to suicide. Now, for the first time, a study has shown that treatment based on meditation is an effective alternative to prescription drugs, even for people suffering from serious, long-term depression. The research, just published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, found that the group-based psychological treatment called Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was as good or better as treatment with anti-depressants like Prozac in preventing a relapse of serious depression — and the non-drug therapy was more effective in enhancing quality of life. What’s more, the study concluded MBCT is cost-effective in helping people with a history of depression stay well for the long term.
Yoga: An Alternative Treatment for Depression
Eight weeks of mindfulness meditation can rewire the brain and control depression symptoms by J.D. Heyes
Is it possible to sort of “rewire” your brain so you can better control imposing symptoms of depression and angst? The short answer, according to recent new research, is yes, and it all it takes in large part is some “mindfulness meditation.”
According to a study which appeared more than a year-and-a-half ago, in the January 2011 journal of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers reported that an eight-week program called mindfulness meditation was able to make measurable changes in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.
Great Books
by John J. Ratey
Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance.
In SPARK, John Ratey, MD embarks upon a fascinating journey through the mind-body connection, illustrating that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, that has put the local school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run.
By Gabriel Cousens, MD
Not all depressions are alike. And despite the attention given to Prozac and other drugs, there quite literally is no magic pill. Instead, writes Dr. Gabriel Cousens, someone who suffers from depression needs a customized, individual program, one that attacks the personal, biochemical roots of the problem.
In Depression-Free for Life, Dr. Cousens shows how to heal depression safely by synergistically rebalancing what he calls “the natural drugs of the brain,” using a five-step program of mood-boosting substances, vitamin and mineral supplements, and a mood-enhancing diet and lifestyle. Grounded in cutting-edge science, yet accessible and safe, this book shows how to regain your optimism and energy through balancing your own biochemistry.
By Brigitte Mars
The first comprehensive guide to overcoming addictions by using natural remedies that rebuild health for both body and mind from the inside out.
• Covers a full range of natural remedies, including herbs, homeopathy, aromatherapy, flower essence remedies, color therapy, acupressure, and more.
• Addresses many different substances, such as caffeine and chocolate, and discusses how the body deals with withdrawal, detoxification, and repatterning.
• The natural remedies included in this book can be used in conjunction with conventional therapies.
• By well-known author Brigitte Mars, who has 30 years of experience with natural therapies and is the formulator for UniTea Herbs.
Addiction is one of the most serious health issues facing our twenty-first century culture. Modern lifestyles encourage us to consume excessive amounts of caffeine and sugar and to unwind from our stressful lives with tobacco or alcohol. Left untreated, some addictions can cause metabolic damage, leading to heart disease, high blood pressure, and immune disorders–as well as causing nutritional deficiencies, fatigue, and depression.
Addiction-Free–Naturally offers gentle but effective ways to ease cravings and nourish the body, as well as information on cleansing the body of accumulated toxins and using natural remedies for stress relief. The remedies can be used in conjunction with conventional therapies, such as psychotherapy or Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The author also offers advice on designing a personal program to break addiction and finding a health care professional or program to offer expert guidance as you walk the road to recovery.
By Norman E. Rosenthal, MD
“Winter Blues” is a well-crafted book by Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal, the creator of the contemporary concept of seasonal affective disorder and light therapy, one of the outstanding leaders in the field of mood disorders, and the author of numerous publications including the famous books “The Emotional Revolution” and “St. John’s Wort: The Herbal Way to Feeling Good.” The first edition of “Winter Blues” was published in 1993. In the past 12 years this book has become a classic reference for the thousands of people who experience seasonal changes in mood and behavior.
Winter isn’t a “wonderland” for everyone. Every year, millions of us feel our energy levels ebb and spirits fall as the days grow shorter. The condition is called seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and it can cause depression, reduce your productivity, and make it harder to control your appetite. In this no-nonsense, up-to-date survival kit for weathering the winter blues, Dr. Norman Rosenthal explains what causes seasonal mood swings and what you can do about them. A self-test allows you to evaluate your own level of SAD and helps you determine an appropriate plan of action. The book covers an expanded variety of methods proven to help you feel better–including new developments in light therapy, antidepressant medications, and breakthrough self-help strategies. Convenient menus and easy recipes make sticking to a healthy winter diet more enjoyable, and a new section on the benefits of exercise motivates you to stay active even when it’s gloomy outside. A step-by-step guide helps you organize your yearly schedule to anticipate seasonal changes, and a special chapter for family and friends teaches loved ones effective ways to show support. Like a ray of light on an otherwise cloudy day. Dr. Rosenthal’s expertise, warmth, and enthusiasm will inspire you to reclaim the winter months and find ways to celebrate even the darkest days of the year.
By Ken Wilber
The Simple Feeling of Being: Embracing Your True Nature by Ken Wilber is a compilation of the essential elements of Wilber’s “poetic” writing. Many excerpts are taken from the end of sections, chapters, or books, where he reminds the reader that we are all aspects of Radiant Spirit – All-That-Is – as pointed out in every authentic nondual tradition. The main thrust of this opus reveals that the complexities of his integral theory are _always_ a means toward an end: awakening to who and what we really are.
In short, the simple feeling of being is about “what is” “always already” “just this.”
Remarkable! Simple.
Four of his students – Mark Palmer, Sean Hargens, Vipassana Esbjörn, and Adam Leonard – assembled this “greatest hits” compilation. I really enjoyed seeing some of my favorite excerpts from various books in a new context. Readers of his books will likely find this to be the case, too. A relatively easy read, there’s no need to worry about long endnotes, complex diagrams, or overly long technical explications.
Thus, we are treated to an array of Wilber’s poetic riffs on concepts like the Witness, spirit-in-action, immediate awareness, passionate philosophy, always already, being-in-the-world, One Without A Second, and the brilliant clarity of ever-present awareness. There are also excerpts from The Collected Works, forewords to lesser-known books by other integral thinkers, and more obscure writings.
Moreover, there is a Memoirs chapter of personal material that casts Wilber in a human and vulnerable light. My favorite excerpt is still when he comes to terms with his second wife’s – Treya – approaching death in a German beer hall, drinking, crying, and dancing with complete strangers whose compassion and acceptance allow his many conflicting feelings to surface.
The Simple Feeling of Being is a tour de force by one of the great integral philosophers of our era. Echoing three decades of Wilber’s nondual experience, research, and personal meditation practices, it is _relentless_ in pushing one’s awareness back into itSelf, towards its ineffable Source. In this sense, it is closer to One Taste than A Theory of Everything or A Brief History of Everything.
By Ken Wilber
A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women’s place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, written by an author of whom New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: “No one has described the path to wisdom better than Ken Wilber.”
Wilber examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter to life to mind, including the higher stages of spiritual development where Spirit becomes conscious of itself. In each of these domains, there are recurring patterns, and by looking closely at them, we can learn much about the predicament of our world—and the direction we must take if “global transformation” is to become a reality.
Wilber offers a series of striking and original views on many topics of current interest and controversy, including the gender wars, modern liberation movements, multiculturalism, ecology and environmental ethics, and the conflict between this-worldly and otherworldly approaches to spirituality. The result is an extraordinary and exhilarating ride through the Kosmos in the company of one of the great thinkers of our time.
By Ken Wilber
Wilber traces human development from infancy into adulthood and beyond, into those states described by mystics and spiritual adepts. The spiritual evolution of such extraordinary individuals as the Buddha and Jesus hints at the direction human beings will take in their continuing growth toward transcendence.
By Ken Wilber
“Wilber’s unprecedented work offers diamond-like clarity, brilliance, and many-faceted reflection, and his writing speaks with an unencumbered authority.”— NAPRA Review
“One of the most important thinkers of our age, and certainly the leading authority in the field of transpersonal psychology . . . The scope of his scholarship and of his understanding of the psychological development of the individual from early body awareness to the higher (and ultimately non-dual) experiential levels is quite simply breathtaking.”—The Middle Way
“The first truly comprehensive map of the human mind.”—Larry Dossey, author of Be Careful What You Pray For . . . You Just Might Get It
“Ken Wilber is a national treasure. No one is working at the integration of Eastern and Western wisdom literature with such depth or breadth of mind and heart as he.”—Robert Kegan, Professor of Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and author of In Over Our Heads
“In ages to come, historians may well view Wilber’s work as the pivotal insight that legitimized the return of consciousness and spirit to our age. For this exciting page-turner, psychology owes him a millennial debt.”—T. George Harris, founding editor, Psychology Today and American Health
“In a single publication Wilber strides over the entire history of psychology to create new and comprehensive strategies for human survival in the next millennium.”—Don Beck, coauthor of Spiral Dyanmics
“Integral Psychology is so all-encompassing, lucid, and well written that Ken Wilber deserves the recognition of having single-mindedly brought conceptual order to psychology of the East and West.”—Susanne Cook-Greuter, coeditor of Transcendence and Mature Thought in Adulthood
By Peter R. Breggin, MD
Prozac, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugs–and dozens of other short-term “solutions”–are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost?
In this searing, myth-shattering exposé, psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and false promises surrounding the “New Psychiatry” and shows how dangerous, even potentially brain-damaging, many of its drugs and treatments are. He asserts that: psychiatric drugs are spreading an epidemic of long-term brain damage; mental “illnesses” like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorder have never been proven to be genetic or even physical in origin, but are under the jurisdiction of medical doctors; millions of schoolchildren, housewives, elderly people, and others are labeled with medical diagnoses and treated with authoritarian interventions, rather than being patiently listened to, understood, and helped.
Toxic Psychiatry sounds a passionate, much-needed wake-up call for everyone who plays a part, active or passive, in America’s ever-increasing dependence on harmful psychiatric drugs.
By Robert Whitaker
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world’s poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In what is perhaps Whitaker’s most damning revelation, Mad in Americaexamines how drug companies in the 1980s and 1990s skewed their studies to prove that new antipsychotic drugs were more effective than the old, while keeping patients in the dark about dangerous side effects.
A haunting, deeply compassionate book—now revised with a new introduction—Mad in America raises important questions about our obligations to the mad, the meaning of “insanity,” and what we value most about the human mind.
by Gary Greenberg
“Gary Greenberg has become the Dante of our psychiatric age, and the DSM-5 is his Inferno.” —Errol Morris
Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has set down the “official” view on what constitutes mental illness. Homosexuality, for instance, was a mental illness until 1973. Each revision has created controversy, but the DSM-5 has taken fire for encouraging doctors to diagnose more illnesses—and to prescribe sometimes unnecessary or harmful medications.
Respected author and practicing psychotherapist Gary Greenberg embedded himself in the war that broke out over the fifth edition, and returned with an unsettling tale. Exposing the deeply flawed process behind the DSM-5’s compilation, The Book of Woe reveals how the manual turns suffering into a commodity—and made the APA its own biggest beneficiary.
by James Davies
Controversial and powerful – a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry.
One in four people in the UK and US will develop a mental disorder in any given year. That’s what psychiatry tells us. But many – even most – will not actually be mentally ill. Thanks to pseudo-science and corporate greed, psychiatry is letting us down.
Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone each year – and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?
The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now ‘medicalised’ into illnesses that require treatment – usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being.
The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing.
Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.
Media, Films, & Documentaries
My Stroke of Insight | Jill Bolte Taylor | TED Talks
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment.
This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
Understanding Depression | Dr. Russell Blaylock
Recent scientific studies have discovered evidence linking depression and inflammation. Dr. Russell Blaylock explains how a person's mood can be negatively influenced by the presence of inflammation in the body as well as dietary changes one can make to reduce this inflammation.
My Broken Brain | Interview with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Dr. John Gray | Depression & Anxiety Secrets | Key Takeaways
Highlights from Jonathan Otto's interview with Dr. John Gray, for the Depression & Anxiety Series.
Get Ready to TAKE NOTES.
The Nutritional Approach to Anxiety and Depression | Chad Krier, N.D., D.C.
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Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride and she discusses all of the important information about gut and psychology syndrome and the autism in children.
The interview above features Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a Russian-trained neurologist with a full-time medical practice in the UK. She treats children and adults with autism, learning disabilities, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, immune disorders, and digestive problems, using her Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) Nutritional Program.
The importance of your gut flora, and its influence on your health cannot be overstated. It's truly profound. Your gut literally serves as your second brain, and even produces more of the neurotransmitter serotonin—known to have a beneficial influence on your mood—than your brain does.
Your gut is also home to countless bacteria, both good and bad. These bacteria outnumber the cells in your body by at least 10 to one, and maintaining the ideal balance of good and bad bacteria forms the foundation for good health—physical, mental and emotional.
The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? | Documentary
This video documents the story of the high-income partnership between drug companies & psychiatry that has created an $80 Billion psychotropic drug profit center and the flaws in the drug approval process.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has been on the cutting edge of exposing the criminal enterprise we know as psychiatry. The documentary, Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, chronicled the sordid history of “diagnosed” mental illness and the birth of the psychiatric industry, and became CCHR’s classic debut in professional documentaries. Their latest documentary, The Marketing of Madness, is professionally produced and well organized – in three parts separated into 13 chapters, including a great booklet for summarizing what was presented, and ending with a list of 11 important actions that can be taken after viewing this shocking and compelling documentary.
The film starts out with a brief history of psychiatry and psychology, and how the drug industry reclassified apparent mental disorders of a soul/psyche basis to a brain disorder that required shock therapy, lobotomies and finally drugs (chemical lobotomies) for treatment. To date, psychiatrists have never had to prove that mental conditions they prescribe drugs for have a physical disease basis in the brain.
Furthermore, no nutrient deficiency is ever explored in this Pharma-controlled racket to explain various mental anomalies such as depression, bi-polar, schizophrenia, etc., even though countless independent studies using orthomolecular nutrition and diet have been used successfully. Articles printed in medical journals and funded by drug companies claim there is a chemical imbalance in the brain for which psychotropic drugs are necessary to correct the imbalance despite the fact there are no tests performed to support such a claim.
Making A Killing: The Untold Story Of Psychotropic Drugging | Documentary
This video provides the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry.
These drugs are not safe and have not been on the market long enough to provide sufficient long term studies regarding their effects. These drugs do cause addiction, however most "doctors" would call this dependence because you do not have to take an increasing dose over time. They are completely fine with you being addicted to the same amount of any given drug on a daily basis. Over half of the people that commit suicide in the United States are prescribed to psychotropic drugs. (Ex: Paxil (Paroxetine), Zoloft (Sertraline), Prozac, Wellbutrin (Bupropion), Effexor, Seroquil, Ultram (Tramadol), etc.)
Diagnostics & Statistical Manual: Psychiatry’s Deadliest Scam | Documentary
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DVD) An elaborate pseudoscientific sham… It’s 943 pages long and lists out 374 mental “disorders” and counting . . . Zero Cures! It is the basis for the listing of mental disorders in the International Classification of Diseases that is used throughout the world. And though it weighs less than five pounds, its influence pervades all aspects of modern society: our governments, our courts, our military, our media and our schools.
Using it, psychiatrists can enforce psychiatric drugging, seize your children and even take away your most precious personal freedoms. It is psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and it is the engine that drives a $330 billion psychiatric industry.
But is there any proof behind the DSM? Or is it nothing more than an elaborate pseudoscientific sham? From the makers of the award-winning documentaries Making a Killing, The Marketing of Madness and Dead Wrong, comes the shocking truth behind psychiatry’s deadliest scam. To me this [DSM] is a house of cards and you cant take off one or two cards at the top or you can knock over the whole thing. I prefer knocking over the whole thing. – Dr. Thomas Szasz, M.D.
Attachment and Addiction with Ram Dass
Ram Dass answers questions from an audience surrounding attachment, addiction and relationships. The root of suffering is the clinging of the mind to the things which separate one from all of it. When that separation happens, there is incredible pain and in some profound way all of our actions henceforth are an attempt to return back into the One…
Brain Drain | Dr. Dan Kalish on Underground Wellness
Dr. Dan Kalish stops by UW Radio to discuss the safe and proper way to treat depression and anxiety through the consumption of amino acids. Topics will include how the use of a single amino acid such as tyrosine or 5-HTP can actually deplete neurotransmitter levels, Common conditions associated with depleted neurotransmitters, and how to know what amino acid protocols are both safe and effective.
Dan Kalish, IFMCP, is founder of the Kalish Institute, an online practice implementation training program dedicated to building Integrative and Functional Medicine practices through clinical and business courses. Since 2006, the Kalish Institute has helped develop practice models for over 1,000 practitioners world-wide. Graduates of The Kalish Institute include practitioners ranging from the Director of Integrative Medicine at Mayo Clinic to Cleveland Clinic Functional Medicine physicians.
In 2016, working with the Mayo Clinic’s Director of Integrative Medicine, Dr. Larry Bergstrom, Kalish published a research study on the Kalish Method. The study analyzed the impact of treatments used by Dan in his practice. Kalish is the author of three books, “The Five Pillars to Building a Successful Practice,” “The Kalish Method: Healing the Body Mapping the Mind” and “Your Guide to Healthy Hormones.”
Cosmic Creativity: How Art Evolves Consciousness | Alex Grey | TEDxMaui
About the Presenter: Visionary artist Alex Grey began his career as a medical illustrator at Harvard Medical School, but is best known for paintings that present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution.