Generals share their experience with PTSD (POSS TRIG)

Army generals aren't known for talking about their feelings.

But two high-ranking officers are doing just that, hoping that by going public they can remove the stigma that many soldiers say keeps them from getting help for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Brig. General Gary S. Patton and Gen. Carter ( Read more... )

Meant to link this earlier... a wonderful post from cheshire_bitten on mental illness and the stigma around "crazies" having sex and sexualities. I reproduce it here in its entirety because it is just that important.

Mentally ill people are denied their sexuality. We are either predators (schizophrenia) or we are poor dears, to scared to be touched (depression, ( Read more... )

The verses from the Bible that I am about to quote are often taken to justify anti-choice views. But I don't want to talk about that now. I want to talk about something entirely different. First, read:
Psalm 139:13-16 (New International Version)

13 For you created my inmost being;
       you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you ( Read more... )

This article doesn't conclude anything interesting, really, but I'm free-floatingly glad it's out there:
This month the American Psychiatric Association announced the names of “working group” members who will guide the development of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, the codex of American psychiatry.

Not ( Read more... )

From the Washington Post:

Most PTSD Treatments Not Proven Effective

The report by the National Academies emphasized that the therapies might not be useless. Rather, it said, the evidence is weak when it comes to drawing any kind of conclusion about most of them. The findings of the panel, widely considered the nation's most influential scientific ( Read more... )