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	<title>Beyond Meds</title>
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	<description>Psychiatric drug withdrawal and alternatives to medications</description>
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		<title>Beyond Meds</title>
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		<title>The chemical imbalance myth: by Chris Kresser</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/chemical-imbalance-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a wonderful article that Chris Kresser first published on his blog, The Healthy Skeptic, a little over a year ago. I linked to it at the time, but knowing that many people don&#8217;t follow links I asked him if I could republish it here and he graciously allowed me to share it.

“A theory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8131&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you feel lost and alone &#8211; Rachel Snyder</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/if-you-feel-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I posted a link to  the prayer of radical forgiveness by Rachel a while ago. I got permission to post a whole poem for today. I also just read yet another awesome piece called Enough! Do go read that too.
Rachel Snyder is a writer, author, poet, speaker, performer, and lover of life in its myriad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8069&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acknowledging The Survivor: Exclusion, Trivialisation and Denial &#8212; By Grainne Humphrys</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/exclusion-trivialisation-and-denial-by-grainne-humphrys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Grainne Humphrys is first and foremost a Mother of two new light beings called Hazel (age 7) and Joshua (age 3). She is a survivor of distress as a transformational crisis and process of renewal, living through her transformation without medication or incarceration but with lots of shiatsu and loving support from her family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8116&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The other side of Mental Health Science &#8212; Steve Morgan</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/the-other-side-of-mental-health-science-steve-morgan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven has now let me publish several pieces of his work. If you like this piece of his do a search with his name in the right hand corner of this blog to see more of his pieces. He&#8217;s one of us making a difference! I&#8217;m always thrilled to publish his work.
The other side of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8022&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes for the week</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/quotes-for-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English &#8212; up to fifty words used in correct context &#8212; no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that: it is its nature. Let [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8094&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vintage drug ads: before ADHD, there was MBD</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/vintage-drug-ads-before-adhd-there-was-mbd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An email sent out by the venerable Dr. Bonkers:
The Institute for Nearly Genuine Research announces two exciting new additions to our Marvelous Mental Medicine Show online gallery of psychiatric drug advertising. One is a 7-page ad for Ritalin; the other is a 9-page ad for Cylert. Both advertisements sell the idea that Minimal Brain Dysfunction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8110&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation and brain neuroplasticity</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/meditation-and-brain-neuroplasticity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with what is becoming a series on brain neuroplasticity and what it means for those of us who have been told we can never recover. I suggest that proclamation is hogwash!
Taken from the Dalai Lama&#8217;s website for educational purposes:
(Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal) Dalai Lama helps scientists show the power of the mind to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=7627&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting links of the week</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/interesting-links-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Controversial psychiatrist to head UM medical school department - Breaking News &#8211; MiamiHerald.com
Drug makers find whistle-blowing a bitter pill to swallow &#124; IndyStar.com &#124; The Indianapolis Star
&#8220;Overmedicating our kids&#8221; by Wanderings and Musings of a Stubborn Woman
Mindfulness Meditation + Neuroscience = Healthier Relationships &#124; Psychology Today
At Top Schools, More Than Half the Profs Have Industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8090&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness, mindfulness</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/awareness-mindfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Kabat-Zinn, the wonderful scientist, who has made meditation and mindfulness household terms gives a lecture here on this youtube video that takes place at Google.
In it he covers lots of scientific studies of the healing nature of meditation. There is no mysterious religious dogma here&#8212;what he presents has been studied clinically.
A couple of notes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=7569&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starry starry night</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/starry-starry-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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Posted in youtube       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8050&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do people suffer from psychiatric disorders/diseases or do people experience varying degrees of human suffering in their own idiosyncratic ways? &#8212; Tim Desmond</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/do-people-suffer-from-a-certain-number-of-psychiatric-disordersdiseases-or-do-people-experience-varying-degrees-of-human-suffering-in-their-own-idiosyncratic-ways-tim-desmond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I have the pleasure of posting something that was submitted to me for publication. It&#8217;s written by an interesting man, whom I really don&#8217;t know but with whom I seem to share some quite similar ideas.
From Tim&#8217;s about page:
My work is informed by my study of coherence therapy with Bruce Ecker, its co-founder, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8071&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On children</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/on-children-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had this poem taped on the wall of my bedroom above my bed from about the age of 12 until I moved out of the house to go to college. It was a rebel voice for me&#8212;it spoke to me of the freedom I knew should be mine.
Ironically enough, as an adult I found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=7960&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survivor mission&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/survivor-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pat Deegan who I&#8217;ve mentioned on this site before speaks in this video of her experience of being diagnosed with schizophrenia and recovering. She also talks about what all of us who have been labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis experience&#8212;the loss of identity as it&#8217;s handed over to us being our disease.
I met Pat Deegan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=7756&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A celebration of fall</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/a-celebration-of-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a couple of years ago here where I live.




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		<title>&#8220;Schizophrenia&#8221; in an insane world &#8212; recovery story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karen Bartz &#8212; copyright 2009

I was asked by Gianna to write this account. There are many out there battling &#8220;mental illness&#8221; and they often find their way to the pages of somewhere like facebook looking for answers they do not get from orthodox medical treatments and as a way to communicate with the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=8044&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WOW! above the clouds very near my home</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/wow-above-the-clouds-very-near-my-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sunrise in the Blue Ridge Mountains&#8230;amazing!!

(via Ashvegas)
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		<title>The invitation</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/the-invitation-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=7777&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More interspecies love!</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/more-interspecies-love-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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		<title>Alan Watts on insecure societys and hermits</title>
		<link>http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/alan-watts-on-insecure-societys-and-hermits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>giannakali</dc:creator>
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If you like this lots more of Watts on youtube if you click through.
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		<title>The possible hazards of benzodiazepine use (Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, Valium etc)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another post from very early on in the life of my blog (day three to be precise.) I&#8217;ve amended it quite a bit as I&#8217;ve learned much more and my circumstances have changed significantly, so it&#8217;s up to date:
Except in the population of people taking only benzodiazepines and suffering as a result of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bipolarblast.wordpress.com&blog=1281489&post=7553&subd=bipolarblast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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