World Mental Health Day 2014: The misconceptions broken down World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilizing efforts in support of mental health. The Day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide. The focus this year is on … [Read more...]
Madhavi Kukreja – WOMAN of ACTION™
October 10, 2014 by
A Celebration of Women™ is elated to Celebrate the Life of this woman leader, one that is taking the lowest rung in Uttar Pradesh’s feudal system—lower-caste, Dalit women—and turning them into respected and influential “instruments of development” for the entire village. Her key insight is using the promise of development to force the higher castes, especially men, to acknowledge and respect these women, thereby completely changing the power dynamics in UP’s patriarchal … [Read more...]
The Voices in my Head, Eleanor Longden
October 9, 2014 by
To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, hospitalized, drugged, Longden was discarded by a system that didn't know how to help her. Longden tells the moving tale of her … [Read more...]
Missing Him or Her?
October 7, 2014 by
I once had a relationship that didn't work! When she called it quits, I was a wreck. I couldn't focus on much of anything. I got distracted very easily and often would do my best to hide my tears. I felt sad. Alone. I felt separated from the world. I was hurting and often it was a visible hurting that was noticeable by my friends. I wanted desperately to stop the pain. I needed to quit clinging on to the past. It’s normal to feel sad, angry, exhausted, frustrated, and confused and these … [Read more...]
A tale of mental illness — from the inside, Elyn Saks
October 6, 2014 by
Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007. Saks is also a cancer survivor. "Is it … [Read more...]
Synchronistic Alignment of Angels & Numbers, Doreen Virtue
October 4, 2014 by
Angels and Numbers Angelic guidance and assistance does not always appear as expected. Sometimes Angels and Archangels will answer your prayers directly by intervening , bringing miraculous healing, or a synchronistic alignment. Other times, and perhaps more often than not the guidance and wisdom of your angels will appear more subtly. Guidance from Angels can appear in the form of a dream, overhearing something that is said in passing, an intuitive nudge, a flash of inspiration, a … [Read more...]
Confrontation is Not a 4-Letter Word, Larry James
October 3, 2014 by
For a healthy relationship to survive, confrontation is often necessary. However, it is one of those words that seem to evoke negative emotions and responses. Many couples do their best to avoid any confrontation. What you don't say if often the very thing that can drive a wedge between couples that can be difficult to move past. We often perceive confrontation as conflict. It is not. Conflict and confrontation are not really synonyms, but we do behave and speak as if they are. Some people … [Read more...]
Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha, which overlap in 2014
October 3, 2014 by
Oct. 2, 2014: Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Hassidic sect Vizhnitz gather on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel. (AP) JERUSALEM – Israeli police were on high alert Friday to avert possible clashes as Jews and Muslims prepare to observe their faith's major holidays of Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha, which overlap this year for the first time in more than three decades. Reinforced police contingents had been deployed across … [Read more...]
Dalai Lama Scandal explained, Desmond Tutu
October 2, 2014 by
The Dalai Lama, left, sits with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, of South Africa, Tuesday, April 15, 2008 prior to speaking at the University of Washington in Seattle. Photograph: Indian Country Today Network Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu chose not to beg the South African government to grant a visa to His Holiness the Dalai Lama to enable his friend and fellow Nobel Peace Laureate to attend the Nobel Summit scheduled to be held in Cape Town this month, Reverend Mpho Tutu, Executive Director of … [Read more...]
