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Journey to Wellness ~
Recovery from Trauma, Mental Illness, or Overwhelming Stress Little improvement has been made since. Grading The States, NAMI's report card on mental health gives both the State of Nevada and the Nation a failing grade of D.
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We presented Enhancing What’s Right: Alternative and Complementary Treatments at April 8th, 2009 WELLNESS AND RECOVERY CONFERENCE PINE MANORS, EDISON, NEW JERSEY MARCH 19-20, 2009
Approach to Balance has not yet been able to overcome the various bureaucratic obstacles
in our way, and must go into a sort of hibernation. As individuals we will continue to advocate for change in the mental
health systems (including criminal justice) in order to make Nevada, The U.S. ..and the world, experience greater harmony. We
expect to maintain this website for an unknown period of time, but the lack of funds as well as support from the mental health
system require us to let our business license expire at the end of January 2010. The bureaucratic obstacles had prevented
us from having any income producing activities, so in a way it will not be a major change. Hopefully we... and the mental
health system will flower. We recommend that anyone with a mental health diagnosis obtain a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis to determine if either a mineral deficiency/ overabundance exists, a toxic substance is present, or if mineral ratios are out of balance. In addition, we recommend that the individual visit a chiropractor (preferably a soft touch or NSA practitioner) to check the alignment of the skull with the atlas, or top of the spinal column. These conditions can cause symptoms which can result in a mental health diagnosis. Unfortunately, the medical community often turns to drugs without eliminating other possibilities. Stress typically plays a significant part both during the onset of mental illness, and at times of relapse. At Approach to Balance we use proven and promising methods to help individuals with a mental illness deal better
with the stresses in their lives. According
to the bio-medical model there are four main causes of brain dysfunction: 3. Electrolyte imbalance 4. Neurotransmitter deregulation; the imbalance of brain chemistry.
From Vibrational Medicine for the 21st Century Conventional Medicine Vibrational Medicine Based on Newtonian Physics
Based on Einsteinian and Quantum Physics
...When Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that an accidental infestation of the mold Pencillum notatum
had killed his bacterial cultures, he made the crowning discovery of scientific medicine. Bacteriology and sanitation
had already vanquished the great plagues. Now penicillin and subsequent antibiotics defeated the last of the invisibly
tiny predators. The drugs also completed a change in medicine that had been gathering
strength since the nineteenth century. Before that time, medicine had been an art. The masterpiece ~a cure~ resulted
from the patient's will combined with the physician's intuition and skill in using in using remedies culled
from millennia of observant trial and error. In the last two centuries medicine, more and more has come to be a science,
or more accurately the application of one science, namely biochemistry. Medical techniques have come to be tested as
much against current concepts in biochemistry as against their empirical results. Techniques that don't fit such
chemical concepts - even if they seem to work- have been abandoned as pseudoscience or downright fraudulent.
The philosophical result of chemical medicine's success has been belief in the Technological
Fix. Drugs became the best or only valid treatments for all ailments. Prevention, nutrition, exercise, lifestyle,
the patient's physical and mental uniqueness, environmental pollutants- all were glossed over. Even today, after
so many years and millions of dollars spent for negligible results, it's still assumed that the cure for cancer will be
a chemical that kills malignant cells without harming healthy ones. (The Body Electric by Robert
O. Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden - 1985) Mental Illness
A Guide to Recovery By
Bob Bennett Reviewed
by Edith Cleveland, Director &David Farrell, Social Steps Program, as appeared in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Vol.
28 # 4, Spring 2005. I personally enjoyed reading
his book and found it very informative and enlightening with segments I plan to incorporate into our current program.
To recommend it as additional reading to those in the field would be an understatement. He brings
to the mental health industry further cause that recovery is not only possible but its seeds are flourishing everywhere. From Chief Kathryn Landreth, Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police: You have made a complex issue easier to understand.
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