Comments on: Top 10 Myths of Mental Illness

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:59:20 +0000

I agree with the first post I read. It is beyond ridiculous that anyone in this day and age should say that MI is not a medical problem with the brain! Give me a break! You are moving the science of MI back hundreds of years, buddy. I have researched this subject to assist my friends with MI challenges. This is irresponsible, and once again, puts the onus on the person who is suffering the most. Again, they are blamed for circumstances beyond their control. Read my colleague’s book, “Lies in Silence,” SJ Hart; available on Amazon.

By: maybe

maybe — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:07:01 +0000

Read: “Choice Theory”
The surest way to living a more truthful life is improving your relationships. No science in that. Just experience.

By: James Zeller

James Zeller — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:48:28 +0000

Myth or Not

It is easy to throw a remedy over the fence if you don’t understand it or simply put, “it doesn’t relate to your present state of health!”

Dr. Linus Pauling, two time Nobel Laureate, said every disease and disorder could be traced to a deficiency of essential minerals. Of the 75 known trace minerals “…the human body requires at least 60 minerals to maintain a disease and ailment free state.” Gary Price Todd M.D.

Our farm land has been depleted of most of the trace minerals and each year the same 3 minerals are added for fast abundant growth. The other 72 minerals are ignored. As humans, our natural intake of minerals is by consuming plants that have taken the minerals from the soil and stored them for us in their plant tissue.

Our entire body works on a complex electrical system that needs proper minerals to “fire” correctly. As these nutrients are depleted from our system, the cell growth pattern is thrown off, our nervous system breaks down and we become a fertile ground for disease and infection.

Mental illness is a disease.

Colloidal silver is scoffed at by some but was the primary prescription for infection prior to penicillin being invented. The resistance now bred into bacteria because of the use of penicillin, now has pharmaceuticals scrambling. Silver is still used in hospitals today to KILL potential venereal virus in infants eyes at the moment of birth. Silver is also a trace mineral.

More essential trace minerals and less myth!

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By: martha goins

martha goins — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:47:44 +0000

you are giving out false information. i am in the medical field and i have bipolor disease. mental illness has it’s cause in a biological beginning. the brain does not function as it should. the neurons in the brain are malfunctioning. there is a loss of vital messages and substnces that are needed to prevent mental illness.i resent you saying it is not a physical illness. is parkinson,multiple sclerosis, and alzheimers not from the malfunction of a persons brain? mental illness has had a stigma attached to it for years due to people like you. i am appaled that a site that is supposed to give truthful information state this as if it were factual.do you realize how much harm that will cause? i KNOW my diabetis is from a physical cause and i KNOW my mental illness is also from a physical cause. why make mentally ill persons feel ashamed because they are causing their own illness. i will cancel my use of your site and i hope others do not take your information as medical facts!! shame on you!!

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By: Ted S

Ted S — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:55:59 +0000

Great information. Thanks for clearing up a lot of misconceptions about mental illness.

By: marissa

marissa — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:52:07 +0000

#10 is a myth I have yet to encounter.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:31:49 +0000

I wish more people were aware of how many of their beliefs about mental illness are not accurate. Thank you for doing your part to dispel these myths.

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By: L K Tucker

L K Tucker — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:24:44 +0000

I agree with the thesis of your blog article. But you left out one item.

The “Disorders” of the DSM are real diseases? This is false.

The disorders are names given to observed behavior. There is no science involved.

VisionAndPsychosis.Net, a psychology project and investigation, proposes that mental illness is an altered mental state imposed by Subliminal Distraction exposure. (It’s more complicated than that simple explanation.)

Much of the mystery of mental illness is easily explained when schizophrenia is viewed this way. This phenomena explains why schizophrenia usually onsets in adolescence.

Subliminal Distraction was discovered by designers, and engineers not doctors. Therefore there is absolutely no knowledge of it in any area of mental health services.

The DSM starts with these behaviors and attempts to work backward to a cause. VisionAndPsychosis.Net starts with a known problem capable of causing mental events and works forward toward mental illness.

By: M

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:56:40 +0000

Is psychotherapy/psychology really one of the worst-paying professions? Really? I pay $225 for 50 minutes. I know that also covers time my doctor spends analyzing my files without me, etc, but compared to, oh, teaching in a public school? Social work? Public defending? Do you mean one of the worst paying medical professions?