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Mental health is a topic we collectively need to take more seriously. We can't just write everyone off as crazy. No one asks to be depressed. Show empathy and compassion for those living with a mental health condition And ignoring your depressed friend or family member could lead to fatality. Being that I've seen many suffered severe depression for years, I feel that I can be one of the voices of the voiceless. Most people don’t realize that having they are having a problem or even understand the symptoms of depression. Talk openly about mental health, You can observe your negative thoughts without accepting them as truth or allowing them to dictate your actions. It is painful to hear that you are feeling so lonely and that you feel as though you don’t know what to do anymore. When we feel isolated and alone, we often turn against ourselves. You should never be too proud to ask for help, and should take what’s offered to you. I’ve found that holding in the pain, causes so many emotionally problems for yourself. Be courageous fight your insecurities, face the challenges try to expand your mind. At some point in your life, you may discover your true purpose in life. Ignore the scoffers and those that send you messages with full of ignorance,just block them from your sight,watch them disappear. .

Choice Is Yours……..

Fruit Of The Spirit

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Vitamin B17 (Laetrile) which is found mostly in Apricot fruit seeds can eliminate Cancer due to the compound "Hydrogen Cyanide" that's toxic to the cancer cells. This is why the FDA had it banned from the United States as well as the natural organic herb Cannabis Oil.. #StayHealthy According to the National Cancer Society, Laetrile is staggeringly lethal, and even makes cancer tumors grow larger. The US government has madeB17 downright illegal, so why are many naturalists saying apricot seeds, which are naturally full of vitamin B17, are extremely effective at curing cancer?

DO NOT EAT THOSE BABY CARROTS IN BAGS, EVER!
Did You Know?: The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots.
Once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots, they are dipped in a solution of water and chlorine in order to preserve them. This is the very same chlorine used in pools. Since they do not have their skin or natural protective covering, they give them a pretty hefty dose. You will notice that once you keep these carrots in your refrigerator for a few days, a white coating will form on them. This is the chlorine resurfacing. Chlorine is a very well-known carcinogen, which causes cancer. Stick with carrots the way they grow in nature. They are a little more work to slice, but it’s worth it to avoid dosing yourself with chemicals.

You are not alone. Do not doubt. Do not be afraid. There is love for you. For a long time. Only you often do not see it. Do you often have grief and pain. Then you need to experience it. How many helping hands are there for you?

Just saw the film "A Beautiful Mind", which had great acting and directing, but fell a little short on the medical consultant input. Before the increased use of electric convulsant (read 'shock") therapies, insulin shock was used to bring about grand mal seizures, which for some with severe illness, helped reduce symptoms, but we still aren't sure why. Insulin abruptly reduces blood sugar, among other things, and the brain responds with generalized seizure activity, with the muscles of the body following suit. Before electroencephlograms, watching the muscles move, especially the feet moving downward, was the way to monitor seizure duration. Now such crude approaches to treatment are rarely used for psychotic symptoms, but inducing such seizures, these days with electricity to the head, is considered the most effective way to break severe depression, in folks so sick, that if let out of your sight, will off themselves, actively or passively, in short order. It seems to work in a few other restricted situations, but like almost all medically oriented treatments to mental health issues, comes with tons of side effects. The film does briefly hint at the s*xual problems of treatment with thorazine, our oldest such agent. But perhaps the worst of such problems is severe weight gain, which often reduces overall health and life span for many. If you see someone balloon up over a short period of time, having formerly been slim, think treatment with one of these medicines. Most medicines have their place, but rarely work without causing their own issues. Just watch a TV advert for such treatments, and hear the list of potentially deadly side effects read to us, while we see smiling beautiful people enjoying the help from a given medication. Marketing, medical capitalism, lawyers. Aa-V.

When one thinks of it, can it get any more an oxymoron? After all, while there are a few uses for the human stuff, as in some aspects of medicine ( diagnoses, colonic seeding-the latter still has the jury out as to efficacy), and fetishes for the really sick, with only limited ways to use the animal varieties, ---but Bravo disagrees now and again---is there any substance more useless?. But down through history, in many languages, we see such usage. Consider, Joe is a really GS--generous to a fault, wouldn't hurt a fly. Present in Shakespeare sometimes, and who hasn't seen it in jokes about health, comfort and longevity. But when one thinks about it, and compares how such things were in youth, and how less enjoyable they now can be, the meaning of a GS broadens. But CS Bloggers may have other takes on this timely and delightful topic. V-Aa-A.

Part 1:
Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?

By Eric Klinenberg

Feb. 9, 2018

Last month, Britain appointed its first “minister for loneliness,” who is charged with tackling what Prime Minister Theresa May called the “sad reality of modern life.”

Public-health leaders immediately praised the idea — and for good reason. In recent decades, researchers have discovered that loneliness left untreated is not just psychically painful; it also can have serious medical consequences. Rigorous epidemiological studies have linked loneliness and social isolation to heart disease, cancer, depression, diabetes and suicide. Vivek Murthy, the former United States surgeon general, has written that loneliness and social isolation are “associated with a reduction in life span similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day and even greater than that associated with obesity.”

But is loneliness, as many political officials and pundits are warning, a growing “health epidemic”?

I don’t believe so, nor do I believe it helps anyone to describe it that way. Social disconnection is a serious matter, yet if we whip up a panic over its prevalence and impact, we’re less likely to deal with it properly.

Anxiety about loneliness is a common feature of modern societies. Today, two major causes of loneliness seem possible. One is that societies throughout the world have embraced a culture of individualism. More people are living alone, and aging alone, than ever. Neoliberal social policies have turned workers into precarious free agents, and when jobs disappear, things fall apart fast. Labor unions, civic associations, neighborhood organizations, religious groups and other traditional sources of social solidarity are in steady decline. Increasingly, we all feel that we’re on our own.

The other possible cause is the rise of communications technology, including smartphones, social media and the internet. A decade ago, companies like Facebook, Apple and Google pledged that their products would help create meaningful relationships and communities. Instead, we’ve used the media system to deepen existing divisions, at both the individual and group levels. We may have thousands of “friends” and “followers” on Facebook and Instagram, but when it comes to human relationships, it turns out there’s no substitute for building them the old-fashioned way, in person.

In light of these two trends, it’s easy to believe we’re experiencing an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. Surprisingly, though, the best data do not actually show drastic spikes in either loneliness or social isolation.

The main evidence for rising isolation comes from a widely reported sociology journal article claiming that in 2004, one in four Americans had no one in their life they felt they could confide in, compared with one in 10 during the 1980s. But that study turned out to be based on faulty data, and other research shows that the portion of Americans without a confidant is about the same as it has long been. Although one of the authors has distanced himself from the paper(saying, “I no longer think it’s reliable”), scholars, journalists and policymakers continue to cite it.

The other data on loneliness are complicated and often contradictory, in part because there are so many different ways of measuring the phenomenon. But it’s clear that the loneliness statistics cited by those who say we have an epidemic are outliers. For example, one set of statistics comes from a study that counted as lonely people who said they felt “left out” or “isolated,” or “lacked companionship” — even just “some of the time.” That’s an exceedingly low bar, and surely not one we’d want doctors or policymakers to use in their work.

One reason we need to be careful about how we measure and respond to loneliness is that, as the University of Chicago psychologist John Cacioppo argues, an occasional and transitory feeling of loneliness can be healthy and productive.