Polly Toynbee, Jeremy Corbyn and the limits of acceptable politics

Polly Toynbee, Jeremy Corbyn and the limits of acceptable politics.

Taking anti depressants like Prozac in menopause raises risk of broken bones

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3139691/Taking-Prozac-menopause-raises-risk-broken-bones.html

This Woman Is Jailed For Starving Her 10 Pets To Death. | ViralSpell

This Woman Is Jailed For Starving Her 10 Pets To Death. | ViralSpell.

Auschwitz – memory and truth – how trauma passes down the generations

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/27/auschwitz-memory-and-truth-how-trauma-passes-down-the-generations?CMP=fb_gu

Perpetuating unkindness

Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network

We are very grateful to Dr Alec Grant, who has contributed the following post. Alec is Reader in Narrative Mental Health in the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton. He originally trained as a mental health nurse in the 1970s, then as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. After teaching and writing in these areas for many years, his academic work is now informed by his narrative research. We find his view that “…institutional psychiatric treatment spaces create possibilities for already damaged bodies to perpetuate unkindness on other bodies” to be one of the most simply provocative statements we have yet published.

Alec made contact with us through this website, and we very much hope that readers will continue to do so. The website is now being viewed by hundreds of separate individuals every week, mostly in the UK, Ireland, the USA, and Australia – and 32 other countries! We feel that this website is beginning to…

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How To Permanently Detach From A Narcissist

Free From Toxic

There is a lot of information already on the internet about the “no contact rule” and how to implement it. The problem is with the passage of time, people develop relationship amnesia and just around the time relationship amnesia begins to set in, the narcissist, like a tornado will regenerate and strike again. No contact is good but going Stover is even better. No that wasn’t a typo. Stover is a term a friend of mine coined that means the relationship is “So Totally OVER” or Stover. Going Stover is a lot like going no contact only on Red Bull, and best of all it protects against dreaded relationship amnesia.

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Getting Ahead: Leading London employers pave the way in prioritising mental health at work | Mind, the mental health charity – help for mental health problems

Getting Ahead: Leading London employers pave the way in prioritising mental health at work | Mind, the mental health charity – help for mental health problems.

Recognizing Ashton Syndrome

Recognizing Ashton Syndrome.

Child protection a ‘big focus’ for government over the next five years, Cameron says

Child protection a ‘big focus’ for government over the next five years, Cameron says.

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