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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Poignant. Mental illness remains with us. People may no longer be in institutional care but we must not forget in Ireland, our history and the fact that our psychiatric services are brutally underfunded, under staffed. Too many of our homeless and people in prison are lost sight of. We all know, if we choose to, where the psychiatric services are failing another human being.
The Guardian – Back to homeThe Guardian: news website of the year New Zealand The paddock that became a grave for the people New Zealand branded ‘defective’ – and chose to forget Nearly 500 patients consigned to the Tokanui psychiatric … Continue reading
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UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD” (Inclusion Ireland – The National Association for people with Intellectual Disability)
Listen UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Respect Our Rights Report Respect our Rights Report was launched at Inclusion Ireland’s AGM on 15th December 2021. It is the result of the work of a project led by … Continue reading
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Deep understanding because she has had lifelong Aphantasia and SDAM. You can’t rely on your mind’s eye. You can’t imagine go forward; it is a world of living in the now. Aphantasia named by Professor Adam Zeman in 2016. Traumatic Brain injury can bestow this on you and it is a trauma also because you know the alternative of being able to imagine, describe etc.
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Stroke or TBI: Aphasia can be part of the silence of the epidemic. Please share because it can take decades to understand about Brocas and Aphasia. “Psychology Today reported on the study being conducted in partnership between IBM Research and Pfizer. Researchers are using linguistics (the study of language) “as a marker for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Donate Affiliate Login What is Aphasia? Find Support Resources Stories & News About Us New Research for Alzheimer’s Disease Uses a Common Aphasia Test A test commonly used to diagnose aphasia is helping researchers detect early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. … Continue reading
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Why Can’t You Remember the First Years of Your Life? What Scientists Know About ‘Infantile Amnesia’. Source: SingularityHub.
Topics Why Can’t You Remember the First Years of Your Life? What Scientists Know About ‘Infantile Amnesia’ By Vanessa LoBue July 24, 2022 Whenever I teach about memory in my child development class at Rutgers University, I open by asking my students … Continue reading
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Lifelong learning: 30+ years since TBI, interalia there was loss of smell; like the tinnitus and deafness in right ear so often downplayed by others, I am delighted to read this from Nature and to share it also.
View all journals Search Login Explore content About the journal Publish with us nature outlook article Unpicking the link between smell and memories Download PDF OUTLOOK 22 June 2022 Unpicking the link between smell and memories The ability of aromas to bring back … Continue reading
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Ireland spend on mental illness is only 6% of budget when it is double as in the UK. Mental illness is lurking, stigma is prevalent, hidden, shameful yet we can learn from experience in other countries and we can leap frog surely. Mental illness needs to become, like cancer focus a number of years ago, the priority of a root and branch effort based on centre of excellence … it can be done. Mental illness includes so much from anxiety, to depression, addictions, compulsions. We need to tackle it head on. We have not taken account of the impact of COVID-19 and lockdowns and forced suppression which is yet to unfold. Let’s prepare … We can start here. Explore the social connection and mental illness through hip hop. University of Cambridge … 11 Hip Hop artists. Their message, starting 1970’s is so strong it is worth listening to now. Recommend song “Broski” to anyone who has lost a sibling, a family member, a friend to suicide.
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Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) is a syndrome in which healthy people report a failure to re-experience or recollect specific events from their past, although memory for factual information about themselves and the world is intact. For example, they know that they went on a trip to Norway, but they lack a richly detailed and vivid recollection of any events from that trip. (TBI … in my case neuropsychological test done 1994 as recommended by my psychiatrist Dr Jim Maguire)
Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM) is a syndrome in which healthy people report a failure to re-experience or recollect specific events from their past, although memory for factual information about themselves and the world is intact. For example, they know … Continue reading
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Aphantasia (named by Professor Adam Zeman) Exeter University. “Phantasia” is the Greek word for Imagination hence a lack of an imagination (no mind’s eye). Some refer to this as “Defective Revisualisation”. I think this is significant in my case, and that post traumatic brain injury, I lost this. Could this have had the outcome of deep unrelenting depressions post TBI?
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Black Dog: Who fears its recurrence? Netflix docuseries about LSD – its discovery by Albert Hoffman, chemist, in 1943. The link to nature is profound. As a survivor of many pyschotic events which caused great fear in me, having watched this, what struck me was the controlled nature of the experiments giving people LSD under medical supervision. I am not promoting taking these drugs but for people with depression, mental illness, my experience of five decades with same, is knowledge is no load and be prepared to explore but under the guidance of your psychiatrist. Reading and internet are tools to help people overcome suffering.
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