Comments on: What I Learned from the Suicides of My Two Brothers http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/2009/11/04/suicide-depression-choices/ Bold Moves in International Lifestyle Design Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:36:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Charlie A. Roy http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/2009/11/04/suicide-depression-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-8161 Charlie A. Roy Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:23:47 +0000 http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/?p=640#comment-8161 Thank you for sharing this reflection. It is not always easy to do but your words provide much. Thank you for sharing this reflection. It is not always easy to do but your words provide much.

]]> By: Tony Hollowell http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/2009/11/04/suicide-depression-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-8160 Tony Hollowell Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:29 +0000 http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/?p=640#comment-8160 "It's never too late to become the person you are supposed to be"-sign on a friend's desk We always have choices, but it always involves taking a risk that gets amplified by fear. Let fear control your destiny once, and it seems to get bigger every subsequent time. “It’s never too late to become the person you are supposed to be”-sign on a friend’s desk

We always have choices, but it always involves taking a risk that gets amplified by fear. Let fear control your destiny once, and it seems to get bigger every subsequent time.

]]> By: Bob Collier http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/2009/11/04/suicide-depression-choices/comment-page-1/#comment-8150 Bob Collier Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:19:49 +0000 http://www.mayafrost.com/blog/?p=640#comment-8150 I read at that website: "1 in 6 adults and almost 1 in 10 children suffer from a diagnosable mental illness". This is misleading. There's a difference between suffering from a mental illness and being diagnosed with a mental illness. Back in the days when my dad spent most of his adult life in a psychiatric institution, you had to be chronically incapable of functioning in society to qualify as "mentally ill". These days it seems, the definition of "mental illness" has been expanded to such an extent that there are people who have been persuaded they're "mentally ill" because they're not constantly happy. As for the "mental illnesses" that are no more than a figment of the psychiatric profession's collective imagination, where to start with that pernicious can of worms? Actually, having now read the page entitled "Learn the Facts" and been told that mental illness is "a disorder of the brain" - which it's not - and that it's "a disease" - which it's not - I would say bringchangetomind.org is misleading the general public in a number of ways. Interested parties might like to do some due diligence: www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html www.psychdisorders.org www.adhdfraud.com www.breggin.com I read at that website: “1 in 6 adults and almost 1 in 10 children suffer from a diagnosable mental illness”.

This is misleading. There’s a difference between suffering from a mental illness and being diagnosed with a mental illness.

Back in the days when my dad spent most of his adult life in a psychiatric institution, you had to be chronically incapable of functioning in society to qualify as “mentally ill”.

These days it seems, the definition of “mental illness” has been expanded to such an extent that there are people who have been persuaded they’re “mentally ill” because they’re not constantly happy.

As for the “mental illnesses” that are no more than a figment of the psychiatric profession’s collective imagination, where to start with that pernicious can of worms?

Actually, having now read the page entitled “Learn the Facts” and been told that mental illness is “a disorder of the brain” – which it’s not – and that it’s “a disease” – which it’s not – I would say bringchangetomind.org is misleading the general public in a number of ways.

Interested parties might like to do some due diligence:

http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html
http://www.psychdisorders.org
http://www.adhdfraud.com
http://www.breggin.com

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