Beyond Borders of Mind ( Mental Health Awareness )

20/10/2018

10/04/2017

An autistic child in 2nd grade was given this assignment. Take a close look at the paper. Slow clap. :)

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Photo courtesy of Autism Spectrum Disorder, through my eyes.

20/06/2015

With a minimum of effort, change the way you see your world.

06/12/2014

26/10/2014

What Depression feels like..

04/09/2014

Medication tends to only help symptoms like attention, concentration and focus, leaving symptoms like disorganization, procrastination, and impulsivity untreated.

29/05/2014

Have you ever been in a situation where your “gut feeling” told you one thing, but your rational mind said…

21/04/2014

How to Talk to Animals !

You don't have to be Dr. Dolittle to create a level of communication with Animals, in fact, it's simpler than you think. You actually do it every time you interact with an animal, believe it or not. The trick is recognizing what you're saying to them, and what they're saying to you, and then communi…

12/01/2014

The Aviator

The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film.
The film depicts the true story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, who later became the world's wealthiest man.

The picture centers on Hughes' life from the late 1920s to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) exacerbated by airplane crashes.

This movie shows some of the OCD behaviors like :

-Fear of being contaminated by germs or dirt or contaminating others.

-Excessive double-checking of things

-Repeating certain words, or doing other senseless things to reduce anxiety.

-Spending a lot of time washing or cleaning.

-Accumulating “junk” such as old newspapers or empty food containers ( This behavior can be seen in other scenes of the movie).

11/01/2014

Music Therapy (MT)

Music therapy (MT) is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.

MT with seriously mentally ill clients is a psychotherapeutic method that uses musical interaction as a means of
communication and expression.

The aim of therapy is to help people with mental illness, including serious mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia or like illnesses) to develop relationships and to address issues they may not be able to using words alone. MT sessions include the use of active music making, music listening, and discussion.
MT includes both individual and group therapy.

According to studies,Music therapy as an addition to standard care helps people with schizophrenia to improve their global state and may also improve mental state and functioning if a sufficient number of music therapy sessions are provided.

11/01/2014

Dr.Ben Carson (born September 18, 1951)

Carson was a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics, and he was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. At age 33, he became the youngest major division director in Johns Hopkins history, as director of pediatric neurosurgery. He was also a co-director of the Johns Hopkins Craniofacial Center.

Carson believes his hand-eye coordination and three-dimensional reasoning skills made him a gifted surgeon. After medical school, he became a neurosurgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Starting off as an adult neurosurgeon, Carson became more interested in pediatrics. He believed that with children, "what you see is what you get, ... when they're in pain they clearly show it with a frown on their face or when they are happy they show it by smiling brightly."

In 1987, Carson became the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins, the Binder twins, who had been joined at the back of the head, making them craniopagus twins. The 70-member surgical team, led by Carson, worked for 22 hours. At the end, the twins were successfully separated and can now survive independently.

Carson figured in the revival of the hemispherectomy, a drastic surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe pediatric epilepsy. He refined the procedure in the 1980s, encouraged by Dr. John M. Freeman, and performed it many times.