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• Recommended Reading for November 12

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 650
  Private Practice Takes a Bold Stance against Decent Behaviour There’s a new doctor at Naomi’s practice, Dr. Fife, a genetic engineer who uses a wheelchair who pressures Naomi into agreeing to select for an embryo for two patients with dwarfism to allow them to created a baby who also has dwarfism. Naomi is ...
  11 hours ago

• Stigma Sucks.

  
  Postpartum Progress — Authority: 128
  A young man named Robert Enke, the goalkeeper for Germanys national soccer team, killed himself by jumping in front of a train this week.  Just awful. When writing about his suicide on Psych Central, Christine Stapleton wrote the following : "Sit down, close your eyes and imagine – if you can – what it ...
  15 hours ago

• Apathy Towards Indigenous Language

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 156
  By Jyoti Sonia Dhan It is sometimes argued that when an indigenous language disappears (when there are no longer any speakers of the language) then the group itself no longer exists. Then the group might have merged into another group with other languages. Lnaguage is considered the cornerstone of culture and the ...
  20 hours ago

• The Price of Stigma

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 416
  It has been said that the fight against the generally felt stigma about those with mental illnesses is a vain fight. Particularly, there was an article I alluded to about a  month ago that comes to mind. And this was one of the points that came to mind when considering Robert Enke , the German goalkeeper who had ...
  22 hours ago

• Which Group Of Windows Users Are Switching To Windows 7? Those Who Are Using Vista

  
  The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP — Authority: 570
  Over at InfoWorld there is an article about who is making the switch over to Windows 7. It is no surprise that the bulk of those who are switching are Windows Vista users. It is also no surprise that those who are using Windows XP are still hanging onto to their older operating system. InfoWorld makes these ...
  1 day ago

• The tragic consequences of depression stigma

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Yesterday, Robert Enke, 32, and a goalkeeper on Germanys national soccer team, committed suicide by stepping in front of a train in Hanover, Germany. Read these links for more on this  terribly tragic story . There will be many analyses trying to explain why someone who had so many gifts could be brought to ...
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• Op-ed: ‘Our most vulnerable people deserve a full chance in life’

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 436
  Writing in the Kansas City Star, Lisa Cannady says Kansans like her son Pierce must endure years on waiting lists before they can get the government services they’re entitled to receive. An excerpt:There is something, collectively, in us that has allowed us to ignore the most vulnerable among us. From the waiting ...
  2 days ago

• Michigan State Lawmakers Question Terrorism Charges for HIV-positive Man

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 733
  This article was originally published at Michigan Messenger and is republished here in partnership with Michigan Messenger and the Center for Independent Media. An HIV-positive Macomb County man isfacing charges created under Michigan’s 2004 terrorism laws for bitinganother man in a neighborhood scuffle. ...
  2 days ago

• Making Sense of a Senseless Mass Murder

  
  Notes From Atlanta — Authority: 108
  By Farooq A. Kperogi I was having a meeting with one of my students in my office when my friend from CNN who had paid me a visit got a terse news alert on his Blackberry that a mass murder had just occurred at a military base in Forth Hood, Texas. I frankly didn’t think much of it then. When you live in ...
  3 days ago

• Madness constitute only 15% of all psychiatric diagnoses

  
  moftasa.net — Authority: 98
  Delirium is a totally reversible state, people with dementia need long term care and can never be more harmless. Lots of people recover from psychosis totally and some retain symptoms. Only 10% of violent crime in a society is from people with Schizophrenia .
  3 days ago

• kearns to LA city atty: medical cannabis peace mission letter (2054)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 128
  chers— this is the second publication of this letter, which originally went to rocky degadillo, the LA city attorney at the time (march 4, 2009). in it, i itemize the many problems with a “cultivation only” type ordinance for people who are sick & dying, an ordinance such as the current city attorney, ...
  3 days ago

• ryan vaillancourt, downtown news: “lavender los angeles” opens thru 11-20, exhibit of gay LA from 1880’s (2053)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 128
  Standing Up Before Stonewall Exhibit Illuminates Los Angeles’ History of Gay Life and Activism by Ryan Vaillancourt Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 3:55 PM PST DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - In 1969, the Stonewall Riots in New York ignited the nation’s gay rights movement, proving to be a flashpoint for ...
  3 days ago

• michael weinstein, AHF: join the world AIDS day “testing millions” campaign (2052)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 128
  Dear friends and colleagues, I am reaching out to you today to invite you to join the  World AIDS Day “Testing Millions” campaign .  A global coalition is working hard to make HIV testing free and accessible with linkages to antiretroviral treatment (ART).  Be a part of this worldwide movement to conquer AIDS. ...
  3 days ago

• rebecca roberts, top of the nation (NPR) interviews new US drug czar gil kerlikowske (2050)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 128
  Drug Policy Changes Under New Director Talk of the Nation The Department of Justice will no longer prosecute medical marijuana users who comply with state laws. Some reform advocates hope the move means decriminalization of pot may be in the works. Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske talks about the direction of U.S. ...
  3 days ago

• Juvenile and Restless

  
  PSYCHE ANALYZED — Authority: 112
  9-November 2009Back in the days when girls were supposed to be all sugar and spice and everything nice, we were the clueless angst-ridden rebels who thought its more fun to defy the norms. Some of us were merely getting back at overly stringent parents, others were just into the identity crisis bandwagon and a few ...
  3 days ago

• LA city atty carmen trutanich to appear at LGBT community forum tues nite (2049)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 128
  text transcribed from jpeg follows jump LGBT forum with los angeles city attorney carmen trutanich an evening of discussion on how the los angeles city attorney’s office may address issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities tuesday, november 10, 2009 ...
  3 days ago

• LA city atty carmen trutanich to appear at LGBT community forum tues nite (2049)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 128
  text transcribed from jpeg follows jump LGBT forum with los angeles city attorney carmen trutanich an evening of discussion on how the los angeles city attorney’s office may address issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities tuesday, november 10, 2009 ...
  4 days ago

• Recovery, Scoring and ESA…

  
  Into the system... — Authority: 103
  It’s been a strange week really. I seem to have spent the week being confronted with the fact I’m still a lot more ill than I thought I was. On Wednesday I had an appointment with Dr B. He’s another GP at my local practice and as Dr N is on holiday for two weeks I had to make do with him. He’s okay, but a ...
  4 days ago

• Could gay marriage prevent failed straight marriages?

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 580
  “It’s like you hit a brick wall when they come out. You think everything is fine and then, boom!” Kimberly Brooks • Describing the humiliation she went through when her ex-husband, Robert Webb, came out. Many advocates of gay marriage, particularly spouses of men and women who later came out, argue that if ...
  4 days ago

• Social Privilege and Allocating Blame

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  If a white person commits an atrocity, it’s because that person has mental health problems If a non-white person commits an atrocity, it is because non-white people all have self-control problems of some kind (translation: they’re not as civilized as “we” are) If a person with an Arab name (Note to the ...
  5 days ago

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