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• Susan commented  ·  February 26, 2012 09:50  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It would be a huge accomplishment if we could begin to identify "behavioral health" in a different context like personal emotional and social development interrupted and offer some strategies to become self determining through experiential learning processes that address those issues.

  We can educate individuals that their distress IS a normal response to life experiences and...that those "extreme states" are often the result of having our power taken from us and our reality denied by those we seek "help" from. In addition....extreme states can be caused by iatrogenic (doctor induced) insomnia and hallucinations, psychosis and "paranoia" can hail from this as well as the nervous system being destroyed by years and decades of toxic poisons called "psych meds". Its a natural thing to experience physical sensations that others say are "hallucinations" when ones nervous system is destroyed by chemicals. So lets frame distress as a normal response to some not so normal life experiences and teach people how to understand their own "symptoms" as normal instead of some psuedo disease and empower through knowledge vs assuming that one so marked as "mental" is also intellectually ignorant and incapable of learning.

• Corinna commented  ·  February 23, 2012 13:09  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Here's another post that explains a little bit more about this idea. The question is, "Were we born at day 0 with a gurantee to have mental illness or have a tendency in that direction?" The evidence is starting to say, no, it's our life events and outlook and supports that determines what happens. All of these things can themselves cause much bigger changes in the brain.

  http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/the-cause-and-solution-for-emotional-distress/

• Anonymous commented  ·  February 14, 2012 03:47  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Great words Corinna!

• Anonymous commented  ·  February 13, 2012 18:50  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  http://wellnesswordworks.com/how-distress-language-cured-corinna-wests-psychosis/

• Anonymous commented  ·  February 13, 2012 18:46  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  http://wellnesswordworks.com/how-distress-language-cured-corinna-wests-psychosis/ This is practically a fabke about the value of distress language over disease language, but it happened just this way long before the idea of distress language or the distress model were invented,

• Ms Sam Schrepel commented  ·  February 13, 2012 15:36  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It's amazing where a little common sense can take a person. Please keep me informed.

• Pamela DeRossitte commented  ·  February 13, 2012 13:32  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  We must make this change. People's entire lives are being harmed by the labels and lack of information for self-care. Non-malfeasance is the first order.

• Corinna commented  ·  February 11, 2012 09:31  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I also want to give credit where credit is due: Personal Power is an adaptation of Pat Deegan's personal medicine concept. Here is also a link to a blog explaining our approach and why pro-distress model messaging is more effective and anti-disease model messaging. http://wellnesswordworks.com/solution-based-advocacy-2/

• Rod McBride commented  ·  February 10, 2012 19:28  ·  Flag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I think she means 'not enough self-care around those events.' That's what folks in my trade call a 'txpo.'