In the blog project Blog for Mental Health 2012, a summons went out to all mental health bloggers. In this summons, Blog for Mental Health 2012 asked mental health bloggers from all reaches of the world with any diagnosis (es) to take a pledge. This pledge was the following:
I pledge my commitment to the Blog for Mental Health 2012 Project. Continue reading
The topic of week 2 of The Compassionate Brain series focused on mindfulness and the term Mindsight, which was developed by Dr. Dan Siegal. Definitions of these terms are as follows:
Mindfulness: Staying in the present. Being aware of your feelings and separating them what is actually happening around you.
Mindsight: the ability to see the inner life of a being, such as feelings, thoughts, or ideas. Continue reading
I try not to think about my days as a medical doctor too much but sometimes I can’t help it.
That was the case today. My mind drifted back to when I was an intern at the same hospital where I trained as a student. A big third-level referral centre* with the faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Microbiology, Physiotherapy and Nutrition Science attached to it and the off-campus Ophthalmology and Cardiovascular hospitals a stone throw away. Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my own personal journey through recovery. I can’t say it’s been a smooth ride, but there has always been some sort of progression. Whether it was achieving a goal, or rebounding from a relapse, I have always taken a lesson from each pit stop, pot hole, and detour I’ve encountered along the way.
That doesn’t mean that it was easy. Management of disorder(s) is often a confusing and sometimes a painful process. Continue reading
The first week of The Compassionate Brain series focused on the link between compassion and neuroplasticity of the brain. First let us start with some definitions:
Neuroplasticity: The brain’s ability to change due to environmental changes or training. These changes can be both structural and functional. All events in our lives affect the neuroplasticity of the brain. Just reading this post is changing the neuroplasticity of your brain.
Compassion: A recognition of another’s suffering and a desire to end that suffering. Continue reading
There is a completely free webinar series on compassion and the brain/mind. This is something my pdoc recommended so I decided to check it out. It’s pretty interesting so far, and I’ve decided that I would like to blog the series for those who would like to know the information without sitting through an hour long webinar. Since I am a couple of weeks into the webinar series, I will have to play catchup, but after that it will be a weekly publish. Continue reading
This month’s Let’s Talk About topic was chosen by DeeDee. She thought that since we have authors and readers from so many different countries, discussing both the way health care is structured and the way this affects the care available to consumers would be valuable. And as it happens, she’s psychic! DeeDee brought this up many months ago, and recently some of our own authors, as well as others not directly involved with Canvas, have had reason to mention it in their personal blogs.
I live in the United States, and I have had some fairly unique experiences with mental (and general) health care. Continue reading
A Canvas Of The Minds 