From Psychobabble to Biobabble – Mental Illness and Medication Mind Candy

Medication for mental illness at the alarming rate it is being prescribed is nothing more than dangerous mind candy. Mind candy that cannot effectively address most challenges in mental illness. If one pathologizes mental illness in the narrow and rigid ways of psychiatry and its pseudo-science then one might want to fall in line with the illusion that pills are the long-sought after cure-all. However, they are not any cure-all whatsoever.

The View’s Joy Behar Stigmatizes Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder has long been the most stigmatized mental illness. Add to this now The View Co-host Joy Behar stigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder ever further. On The View’s Wednesday October 21, 2009 show in an interview with Glenn Close and her sister who were guests to talk about the importance of combating the stigma against mental illness, namely Bioplar Disorder, which Close’s sister has. Joy Behar, for some reason, who knows why, first had to further stigmatize BPD with inaccurate, uneducated information.

Is Your BPD Loved One Serious About Therapy?

Is Your BPD Loved One Serious About Therapy? – What Every Family Member and Loved One with Someone With BPD in Their Lives Needs to Know – BPD and Life Coach A.J. Mahari stresses that it is important for any family member or relationship partner of borderline to be able to evaluate how their loved one with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is progressing in terms of recovery, if in fact they are in therapy. It is equally as important for the family member or relationship partner of the person with BPD to understand that if the borderline in his or her life isn’t in therapy and continues to choose to not face their issues there is absolutely no way to effect change in that person. This is, for many, in and of itself, a crucial thing to radically accept and often is a pivotal choice point as well.

The Surprising Truth About Weight Gain, Body Image and Eating Disorders

Love Your Body, Love Your Life: 5 Steps to End Negative Body Obsession and Start Living Happily and Confidently. So much has been written on the topic of weight gain, eating disorders, and body image, and, by all appearances, the problem is getting worse. Statistics show that 95% of women dislike their bodies and their physical appearance, and now this rampant dissatisfaction has extended to men as well. Once thought to be the focus of teenage girls, studies are showing that eating disorders are increasingly prevalent among middle-age adults, and even beyond.

Borderline Personality Disorder – Acceptance of Paradox & Recovery

It is the acceptance of the paradoxical irony of the core wound of abandonment coupled with the abandoned pain of BPD that is both the cause and at the epicenter of recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It is the paradox of radical acceptance of BPD that is the epicenter of realizing the awareness necessary to get on the road to recovery.

Mental Health

Dialectic Magazine will be providing information, people’s experiences, and opinions on the subject of mental health. Contained within the scope of mental health is both all that comprises and supports mental health, wellness, and a balanced emotional approach to life along with understanding more about the challenges faced when one has a mental illness.