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Will Hall at Unitarian Church Vancouver Canada March 2012 - Transcript | Madness Radio
My friend Irit Shimrat of Vancouver Canada, author of Call Me Crazy: Stories From The Mad Movement, transcribed the talk I gave at Unitarian Church in Vancouver last March. You can read the entire transcript here, thanks Irit! Will Hall, March 16 On the evening of March 16, 2012, the Adult Education Program at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver hosted the first of several events featuring Will Hall. Stephen: Welcome to an extraordinary evening and also a fabulous weekend. This year, at the Unitarian Church, we are focusing on promoting emotional, mental and physical well-being. Which leads me into introducing our evening’s speaker. [applause] Thank you so much, Stephen, for that nice introduction, and thank you, everybody, for coming out. I want to welcome all the different roles that are here. One of the things that often happens when I give talks is that people look at me and think, “Gosh, he doesn’t look schizophrenic!” [five minutes of discussion within audience] [laughter] And I did.
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This Fifth Estate documentary was filmed in 1994 and is about a troubled 11 year old called Evan and his family. His parents agreed to have video cameras installed in their home for a 3 month period which resulted in recording Evan’s emotional... In Holding the Sun we get to look into a Canadian family’s struggle to save their son from schizophrenia and cope with the consequences of the condition. Would you cross the Atlantic on a sailboat? Interesting documentary which examines the myth and reality behind some of the most famous cases of feral children, who have been discovered around the World. In 2012, Plymouth born Sarah Colwill was rushed to hospital with what seemed to be a severe migraine. Michael Mosley explores the latest science about how our personalities are created and whether they can be changed. There are approximately 5.7 million people in the United States with bipolar disorder.
Brain Self-Help: An Incomplete List of Resources » Ashley Miller
Yesterday Andy pointed out that a list of non-going-to-therapy resources would be useful. Insurance, time, frustration with therapeutic experiences, inability to tell parents, etc, can make seeing a therapist either impossible or unappealing. Here’s a (totally incomplete) list. Please please please add other suggestions in the comments! Relevant disclaimer: I’m not a therapist. The below are first general resources, then sorted specifically by disorder, followed by some resources if you do decide to seek therapy. Miscellaneous/Multi-Disorder Help & Information DBT WorkbookThis is one of many, but it’s received very positive reception from the psych community and did get an award for being evidence based. Mindfulness Course 8-week course on mindfulness, suggested by commenter kabarett. CBT Workbook Again, one of many, but I’ve looked through this one, and liked the formatting and set up. What It’s Like in a Mental Hospital Breakup Girl Advice and relationships. Dr. Depression Mood Gym
You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now? — Matter
Adam was at his desk in the second-story bedroom of his family’s suburban home when he came across it. He had recently switched file-sharing programs to one that offered more content and faster browsing, and his downloading habit had increased in kind. There was now a constant stream of files whose names included acronyms such as PTHC, or pre-teen hardcore. The boy in this video was fair-haired and looked to be about one and a half, his small, naked body tied up to restrict movement. A man’s torso entered the frame and the child began to scream. He moved over to his bed, a twin with a sturdy, wooden frame, and lay down on the crumpled blue and white cloud-print sheet. Seeing that toddler trussed up and in pain confirmed something he’d long suspected but now had to acknowledge. We have a few go-to archetypes when it comes to pedophilia: There is the playground lurker, the chat-room predator, and the monstrous (often religious) authority figure. “My name is Adam,” it read. Dr. Mike: yeah
Should we do more to help paedophiles?
By Rebecca Roache Follow Rebecca on Twitter here Luke Malone has published an extremely moving, disturbing, and distressing article in Medium, entitled ‘You’re 16. You’re a pedophile. You don’t want to hurt anyone. There is currently no mechanism for treating someone who has pedophilic urges and hasn’t acted on them. (Malone focuses on the US context. That non-offending paedophiles tend not to make themselves known to medical staff—or, indeed, to anyone else—means that not only do they not receive professional help to curtail their urges, but also that very little is known about them scientifically. The result is a very uncomfortable and disturbing situation. Well, it looks like our strong desire not to tolerate child abuse is itself obstructive to efforts to prevent it. In attempting to extend help to those like Adam, there are at least two major problems to overcome. The second problem is more theoretical.
