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I am just back from a lovely day on the river, though I was somewhat psychological about it. We paddled "the Farmlands" a class IV section of the White Salmon River in Washington. The last time I was there I had a bad experience--I nearly drowned. The time before that was even worse--somebody died. These events have had a definite impact on my enthusiasm and confidence. I have avoided the place. I'm trying to get over my phobia but I am done running this section for this year. I am not motivated to go there again at low water. The smell of cattle is unappealing. It really does go through farmland.
It's a narrow little stream in a basalt gorge pretty much the whole way. Sometimes, like at Chris' place, the cliffs are 70 feet above the water. Other places, like at Sidewinder, they're more like 5-15 feet high.
I was ready to take out at someone's property but decided to continue downstream and ended up having some fun. I stopped dropping into my fear posture so fast and reminding myself to sit up and open my heart.
I did hurt myself. I dropped the end of my boat on my own foot but it was not broken. And my right shoulder is tweaked again. These are the complaints of a kayaker who doesn't have anything better to complain about. I could complain about my job but it's not that bad. I could complain about W but he's gone for 4 days. I am happy to be at home alone where I can eat an apple, cheese and crackers for dinner if I want to.
The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.
~ Alice Miller
OHSU Psychiatry grand rounds 10.18.16
Her interest: Trauma and substance abuse
Conventional and alternative treatment is merging-->integrative health
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About 50 percent of the population, the APA admits, will have one of its listed disorders at some point in their lives. Shy, like Emily Dickinson? You have "avoidant personality disorder." Obsessed with abstractions and numbers? You have "autistic spectrum disorder," like Isaac Newton. Suffer form "narcissistic personality disorder," with some hypersexuality thrown in? You must be a politician. To be skeptical of these neat categories isn't to deny that minds get broken, stuck, or lost, and need help finding their way out of misery. But psychotherapy remains an art, not a science; there is no bright line between nuts or not. If you're an old lady who lives amid piles of newspapers and personal treasures, you have "hoarding disorder." If you're a CEO who exploits sweatshop labor to pile up countless billions, you're on the cover of Forbes.
--William Faulk (editor-in-chief) in The Week, May 24, 2013 issue.
--Credo Mutwa
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Also interesting, the mortality gap between normal people and those with mental illness is getting larger. All current mental health efforts are not yet improving the odds of survival for those with bipolar and shizophrenia. SOURCE: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749687?src=mpnews&spon=12
On managing aggressive schizophrenics: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749195?src=mp&spon=12
about 4% of their vets have PTSD
rate is stable there
the US rate is 10-15% and climbing
maybe it's not the fighting that's making everyone jumpy
the article suggests that the use of alcohol in bonding and stress relief of servicemen may be causal
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