I’m pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 1st Annual Psych Central Conference — a meeting designed to bring together people with a passion for mental health, psychology, self-help and relationship topics. This is a conference for ordinary folks who are interested in these kinds of topics, and who love reading them on Psych Central.
Years in the making, we’re taking the conference plunge because I felt it was time to feature all the great writers, bloggers, therapists and contributors to Psych Central — and elsewhere online and in real life.
It’s an opportunity to learn how to become more mindful in your life, become a better parent, or help improve your relationship. It’s also a chance to hear some great writers speak, to meet some of your Psych Central favorites, and hang out in a historic New England mill town to boot.
Interested? Read on for more details or go register now!
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recommend you list conference dates on all info. you have to search for them. they should be more readily available.
Would have loved to attend…nonetheless, all the best to the first Psych Central Conference. Psych Central has been vital to my healing (as diagnosed bipolar). Although I’m no longer in crisis, I receive very useful information from the site which my students at university (here in the Philippines) also appreciate much.
Where?? That is the first question that came to mind. Why should I read it all if its not even in my country. Please revise to include this important info
That’s great! I hope you guys talk or focus on some key issues: creating awareness, combating stigma and alienation, successful therapeutic methods, work and school in relation to mental illness, and financial support for those in need of assistance. Also, maybe lobbying about laws that protect a person’s safety before being forcibly hospitalized.
And yet, make hospitals about getting people well, and make sure there’s a distinction between a correctional facility and a mental hospital, where people go to get well and who need support because while brain imbalances are part of the problem, they make only a portion of the issue in mental health. Focusing solely on medications for people makes them sicker. For instance, many people with anger issues get angrier when anti-depressants increase their rage/passion/excitability.
Case in point. But instead of just making it about medication for people who need it, make it specialized to each individual instance so that people are given INDIVIDUALIZED care, that doesn’t group them in with other people. It’s kinda important anyways IMO. We need to distinguish between those who do well, off or on medications, with bipolar or adhd or autism or schizophrenia, and those who don’t get better. It can’t be based on medications, because what if we got better with or without them? Statistically, there’s nothing contradicting that possibility. Some people are sick, some people need help when they’re lost, but not everyone is so ill that the can’t recover without new advancements in therapy, open dialogue, neuroplasticity, science and medicine.
Chalking unique differences to a diagnosis is discrimination and labeling. Just like it’s wrong to label a gay person a deviant, or in the past, mentally ill for being gay. When that too is a natural behavior. Some people behave unnaturally to unnatural conditions, and that’s usually the case when ur sitting under that umbrella, and it’s pouring outside, and the umbrella that kept you dry becomes the very thing you learn to fear–like yourself, that word: crazy.