| | GMC Guidance on Personal Belief | | Rob Waller was on BBC Radio 4 this weekend talking about the place of faith in the doctors consulting room, especially from a psychiatric point of view
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| Stop, Rest, Listen | | The words of Scripture can be so restful, yet so often what is available is so cheesy that any mouse would be envious! Find out about a new online resource.
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| Talks from HTB Leadership Conference | | Dr Rob Waller spoke on two panels at the recent HTB Leadership Event in London at the Royal Albert Hall. You can download the audio from their site or listen online
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| Passion-ate Food | | What will you be eating this Easter - sweet sickly chocolate, or something that more accurately captures both the pain and the promise - perhaps a tension you feel in your mental health as well.
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| Religious Trauma Syndrome | | When people leave cults, it can be very damaging. But does this also happen in main stream churches? And how common is it? Read about a recent debate.
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| Deliverance and the NHS | | Dr Rob Waller is quoted in an article in Times 2 [page 7] on the role of deliverance in the NHS - 1st November 2011.
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| Sin, Sickness and Salvation | | What happens when we lose our focus on mental health as sickness, or on Christianity as a gospel. Some thoughts on walking the line...
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| Beyond the Violence | | With all the street violence this week, should we be looking to blame or help those who behave like this. Where does the responsibility lie, and who should be blamed.
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| Regaining Trust | | All the phone-hacking stuff makes it hard to trust anyone! However, trust is a vital part of being mentally healthy. Here are ten things it is helpful to know about trust.
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| Let's reverse the drought | | With hose-pipe bans threatened, are there not similar droughts of love and compassion? What can you do to channel God's love, and receive a blessing too?
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| Chaplains are very useful | | Do you want to see your local hospital chaplaincy service cut. They are vital for mental health and a large number of other areas.
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| YAMHS - not a fruit | | How can we best understand growing up and the problems it presents? How should Young Adult Mental Health Services be set up to fit with this?
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| Happy Christmas or Joyeux Noel? | | Do the words Happy Christmas make you cringe, or worry that you are far from happy? Joyeux Noel is a different persepective - one that is achievable and yet also full of hope
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| Fasting and Easting Disorders | | How does helpful fasting, as a spiritual discipline, relate to eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia? This article explores what true fasting is and how food restriction due to illness is very different.
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| Future Orientation | | As the old proverb says, a stitch in time saves nine. But what does it
mean to live with half an eye on the future. How is it possible to do
this well, and how is it possible to do this very unhelpfully?
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| A GROWTH plan | | How can we strive for growth? Look for growth in Grace, Relationships, Overflow, Wisdom, Truth and Health
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| Animated Minds | | Animated Minds is a series of short animated documentaries which use real testimony from people who have experienced different forms of mental distress.
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| What's in a Diagnosis? | | Last week, I was able to listen to Thomas Szasz and David Goldberg in the same day, Some will know these names, and their views on the benefits of diagnosis vary hugely
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| Minds are Like Parachutes | | What are you doing to keep your mind open at the moment? What have you heard, seen or read recently that has challenged you? How have you changed?
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| Christmas present | | If depression is being tied to the PAST and anxiety is being tied to the FUTURE, how can we spend enough time in the PRESENT to enjoy the other Present that Christmas brings?
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| Fractured self-esteem | | Last month I broke my collar bone - and I am finding it hard to do what i usually do. My self-esteem has been affected...
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| Building Resilience | | As we face social stress as part of the recession, how can we build resilience - how can we make people more likely to be effective? A faith perspective has key things it can bring
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| Good-enough God | | How do you grow from being an emotionally fragile baby who cries at the drop of a hat to being an emotionally stable adult who can tolerate a large degree of distress?
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| We agnostics | | We keep on saying that spirituality is essential for your mental health - but what if you don't believe?
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| Life in the burbs | | In polite society we can wear masks so easily. Do we need a dose of reality to make us find a better way of life?
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| The 7000 | | Do you feel alone? Are there others working along side you? There are, even if you can't see them, and we want to point them out
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| TWLOHA | | To write love on her arms - is better than her carving HATE into her skin. Read about self harm and a new charity that wants to help
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| Joy to the world? | | The carols promise Joy, but what if you are not participating in the Joy of Christmas? Depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder are not about being a Humbug or a Scrooge
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| The new priests | | Jung said psychiatrists are the new priests, but are they really and do they want this role?
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| Opinion and Hubris | | When am I dispensing pearls of wisdom and when am I merely enjoying the sound of my own voice? And how can I tell...
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| A bias for the poor | | Because of the uphill battle the poor and the mentally ill face, do we need to make the slope run downhill for them? Did Jesus?
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| My fellow lepers | | When we have something to say, we had better make sure we are not sharing it from a position of fragile and false superiority. We have so much to learn...
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| Inside-out Spirituality | | Intrinsic and Extrinsic are two words used in researching spirituality - the man who embodies his religion vs the man who practices it. Is one more useful for mental health than the other?
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| Beattitudes for today | | The beattitudes require you to be something, not do something. For some barely being alive is a struggle, so this is good news
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| The law of least love | | Have you ever felt wronged and been unable to do something about it. Jesus understands because he has been there and felt the helplessness of love
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| The three degrees | | My mental health is affected by my religiosity [behaviour], my spirituality [beliefs] and my personal relationship with God - which is paramount?
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| Famous and Flat | | Why do famous people often seem so unhappy? It is an issue to do with identity, aspiration and a need to keen on achieving
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