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Case Studies and Personal Experiences
Mike ---
Do you have a Mr. Miyagi? The one thing many people forget in #recovery from addiction or in healing form mental health problems is that there's no finish line. We take it one step, one day at a time. Here's a reminder to those that need one. I certainly do!
Do you find yourself getting caught up in the future or where you think you should be?
Here’s a blog I wrote about it a little while ago. https://startswithme.ca/karatekid
Betty-Lou ---
On Tuesday Mar 3 2020, I did the opening speech at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences for the Deputy Premier & Minister of Health Christine Elliot (pic attached) and also the Associate Minister of Mental Health & Addiction, Michael Tibollo (pic attached). Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliot announced the Roadmap to Wellness: A Plan to Build Ontario's Mental Health and Addictions System. Government, healthcare leaders and media from across Ontario listened as I shared from my personal experience of the system gaps, unmet ser
Betty-Lou ---
No words lately...
Just frustration, pain & grief....
Below is Pete's memorial for the 18th year of his overdose death-Dec 23 2001
Community ---
In the largest-ever study of its kind, researchers identified more than 100 genetic variants that affect the risk for more than one mental health condition.
Last year, scientists edited the genes of babies to make them HIV resistant (the result of this "experiment" is still unknown). This led to outcries and stricter regulations.
Community ---
The Japanese government says there are roughly one million hikikomori, or people who have played no part in society for over six months, and who've locked themselves at home, away from the public.
Community ---
Concussion, the most common form of traumatic brain injury, has been linked to an increased risk of depression and suicide in adults. Now new research suggests high school students with a history of sports-related concussions might be at an increased risk for suicide completion.
In 2018, Ontario enacted Rowan's Law (Concussion Safety). It is now mandatory for sports organizations to:
Beth Mares ---
Does anyone know of an interactive (interpersonal) psychotherapy group in Scarborough or easy to reach from central Scarborough? It could be either a mixed group or a men's group.
FFakour ---
This must have been discussed before but just to gather your input on the best plan of action.
53 years old female with chronic pain and fibromyalgia on codeine contin tablets with no positive UDS s in the past now has cocaine metabolites in her urine. I had just increased her codeine dose due to insufficient pain control. Her current dose id 100 mg bid. She has bipolar disease on mood stabilizers and Crohn's disease.
Would you stop her narcotics with this urine result?
Thank you
Beth Mares ---
The Missing Persons Act was recently passed without publicity and apparently without opposition from MLAs. However a close look at the wording of the law raises concerns about possible consequences, especially for the practice of psychotherapy, that seem to have been overlooked.
I have explained my concerns at https://www.therapytorontotherapist.ca/pp2.htm
Beth Mares RP
Kimberly ---
Ever since I was a child, I have been told to sit down, lower my voice, stop talking to those people. I was pointed in the direction that I was expected to go in and told what I was supposed to like, follow, enjoy and engage in.