Quote of the Day
The advantageous effect of religious belief and spirituality on mental and physical health is one of the best-kept secrets in psychiatry and medicine generally. If the findings of the huge volume of research on this topic had gone in the opposite direction and it had been found that religion damages your mental health, it would have been front-page news in every newspaper in the land.
August 12th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
“Science says faith is good for you health…so why isn’t it news wonders Professor Andrew Sims”
The diagnosis and parameters for mental illness in the U.K. are misleading, a strict diagnosis regime would not find (inherent) mental illness in such epidemic proportions but would soon find that the symptoms are the side effects of social conditioning and oppression.
Thats why this story is not headline news.
The Olympic legacy 2012 for a large proportion of the U.K. population outside the progressive patriotism of the Olympic power circles – a catastrophic collapse of morale.
August 12th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Yeah, I often think down those lines Goy.
Firstly, I think there’s mental illness and then there’s mental illness.
The first one is often touted as affecting 1-4 each year. I think this is more folk struggling to cope with life in this system.
And this is understandable.
Then there’s the second type that I would term as ‘serious mental illness’ which is biological or the result of trauma or what have you.
August 13th, 2012 at 11:14 am
In hoc signo vinces†
Something dark about the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony maybe that overwhelming symbolism gives a clue to the power mindset of the great and the good of the U.K.