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Crys Raffa profile image88

So, I am Bipolar and considering getting off my meds. Any thoughts on the subject???

I'll say this up front, after almost three years off my meds, I just got back ON THEM and I'm glad! I was diagnosed as a Bipolar with suicidal tendencies and ideations almost seven years ago. I was suspected...

9 comments    health life advice
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Lifespan Development

Lifespan Development The study of lifespan development grew out of Darwin’s desire to understand evolution.  The first study of children was published by G. Stanley Hall.  Hall’s book introduced...

3 comments    education children knowledge
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (1308 - 1332). 186765

Paradise Lost meet Dante's Inferno

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (1308 - 1332). 1867 Almost ten years ago now it was decided by those in the know that I suffered from Bi-Polar disorder with a splash of schizophrenia thrown in. In order to...

9 comments    literature lifestyle psychology
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Book Review: Many Lives, Many Masters

In this book author Brian Weiss, a psychiatrist and researcher at Mont Sinai, Miami, FL., documents the past lives a patient by using a hypnotic regression technique. Through regression both doctor and...

1 comment    science anxiety meditation
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What is Repression?

WHAT IS REPRESSION? It is unconsciously denying or ignoring painful feelings. Louis van Dans puts it very aptly: "Repression is a psychological swallowing, a pushing down, an exclusion from our...

0 comments    health fear emotions
MsPenny profile image65

So, I am Bipolar and considering getting off my meds. Any thoughts on the subject???

 For me I have said, thought and done but I'm always right back to square one. Only this time as all the others it is a "New and Improved" medication.  Although I think and feel like I am better it seems...

1 comment    health life depression
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Top 20 Jobs in Arkansas

The Top 20 Jobs in Arkansas are in the Information Technology (IT) industry. These are followed by Oil, Gas and Mining operators that join related careers in Logistics,...

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Some ADHD children seem extra sensitive to certain foods, sounds, touch and texture.74

Sensory Stimulation and ADHD

Diagnosed at age 4 with ADHD, the first grader is struggling to conform in his first grade class. During "story time" - he plays with his hair or drums his fingers. Antsy to get up and move around, the boy...

2 comments    health family education
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The Power Of Self-Talk - Part 2

Human actions are limited to or determined by "environment". Human beings become what they are at any given moment not by their own free decisions, taken rationally and in full knowledge of the conditions,...

3 comments    success psychology mind
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Therapeutic Writing

The simple act of writing can act as a form of therapy which can actually promote better health, both mental and physical. If you have never experienced the therapeutic aspects of writing you may end up...

2 comments    psychology emotions hub
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