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MY SOUL SPEAKING
There is a debate going on in the world of psychiatry about the efficacy of antidepressant medications. There is also a debate about the (FDA's) pending decision on the reclassification of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) devices and if it will affect patient access to what some consider effective and potentially life-saving treatment for severe depression.
I have no idea how any of these debates will come out, but I do know that people are suffering. “Although research has found that 1 in 5 Americans will suffer from either depression or bipolar disorder in their lifetimes, there are an insufficient number of effective, evidence-based screening and treatment tools for physicians to use, and the ones that exist are poorly disseminated. The result is that the illnesses go undetected and untreated in half of the people who suffer from them, according to the Senate sponsor of legislation to help address the issue.” (Psychiatric News January 1, 2010 Volume 45 Number 1 Page 7 © American Psychiatric Association)
This is a crime since depression is the second-leading cause of disability for individuals aged 15 to 44. Not to mention how many of the elderly suffer from depression and attempt or complete suicide. Maybe it is time the special interests stopped fighting and a people first approach was taken. They write about person-centered approaches, but they fight among themselves like folks with depression aren’t family. Folks with depression are family. Stop fighting and find a real strategy.
by ed cooper
January 21, 2010

Project Dream Again
1) We respect the reality of others and believe that is the starting point for any relationship if one intends to be helpful in the facilitation of healing and recovery even when the other person's reality appears not to be based on one's own understanding of reality or in the larger community's collective understanding of reality.
2) We believe that all human beings are of equal value even while recognizing the apparent inequity in the distribution of abilities and resources found within the human race.
3) We consider the recovery journey to be a path that can be supported by others, but that only the individual can determine the direction, pace, and destination of the recovery journey.
4) We know that authentic recovery is possible and that it should be the goal rather than reform or rehabilitation.
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