BOM DIA A TODOS!!

VAMOS DIZER NÃO AO ESPANTALHO DA VIOLÊNCIA VIRTUAL!!
ELE NÃO PODE PERMANECER ENTRE NÓS. VAMOS ESPANTAR OS ESPANTALHOS DO MAL.


APÓS MUITO TRABALHO, CONSEGUIR ORGANIZAR O BLOG DE DE NOVO.
INFELIZMENTE, NÃO SE SABE O POR QUE, A MALDADE, POR PARTE DE PESSOAS TÃO INTELIGENTES E SÁBIAS, CONSEGUEM FAZER OS ABSURDOS NOS BLOGS AS PESSOAS BOAS.
ACHO QUE NÃO SÃO NEM INTELIGENTES E NEM SÁBIAS.
PORQUE, SE ASSIM O FOSSE, NÃO USARIAM ESTA MEIO DE COMUNICAÇÃO PARA DESTRUIR O QUE É FEITO COM TANTO CARINHO E DEDICAÇÃO.
MUITAS PESSOAS, JÁ FORAM LESADAS.
NADA É FEITO, OU SE É, AINDA CONTINUAM FAZENDO AS MALDADES.
PESSOAS, ASSIM, DEVERIAM DE SEREM DESCOBERTAS E NÃO TEREM MAIS O DIREITO DE UTILIZAR E INTERNET.
ASSIM COMO TANTAS PESSOAS DE BOAS ÍNDOLE, EXISTEM AQUELAS QUE ESTÃO AI, SÓ PARA ATRAPALHAR.
MAS, CADA UM DE NÓS, QUE SÃO PESSOAS HONESTAS, DEDICADAS, QUE USAM ESTE MEIO PARA COMPARTILHAR, APRENDER E SE SOCIALIZAR, NÃO VÃO SE DEIXAR ABATER, POR TANTO POUCA MESQUINHARIA.
PESSOAS DESUMANAS, QUE USAM DA VIOLÊNCIA VIRTUAL, DEVERIA DE SER RISCADA DESSE MEIO. INFELIZMENTE, AINDA NÃO SE CONSEGUIU CRIAR UMA VACINA CONTRA ESSES DITOS TRANSGRESSORES VIRTUAIS.
POR ISSO ELES ESTÃO AI, PARA ACABAR COM OS BLOGS, EMAIL DE OUTRAS PESSOAS. QUE SÃO HONESTAS, VERDADEIRAS E SINCERAS.
FICA AQUI O MEU PROTESTO CONTRA AS PESSOAS DO MAL.
TEMOS QUE DIZER NÃO A VIOLÊNCIA VIRTUAL...
FORA ESPANTALHO DO MAL.


VAMOS SER FELIZES E COMPARTILHAR MUITAS ALEGRIAS.
SOMOS MAIS NÓS. SOMOS FELIZES UNIDOS.

VENHA CONFERIR:Blog Coletivo-Uma Interação de Amigos


Poetas-Um Vôo Livre

Sinal de Liberdade-uma expressão de sentimento

Meus Mimos!

BOM DOMINGO A TODOS!!!

DEPOIS DA CHUVA E VENTO FORTE, TEMOS ESTE LINDO CÉU AZUL,COBERTO PELO SOL.
AGRADEÇO A DEUS POR MAIS ESTE DIA DE VIDA!

E PEÇO PROTEÇÃO A ELE, PARA MIM, E PARA VOCÊ!

MUITO OBRIGADA PELA SUA COMPANHIA MEU AMIGO. UM GRANDE ABRAÇO.

RECEBI, ONTEM ESTA LINDA MENSAGEM DA ANGELA, E COMPARTILHO, COM VOCÊ MEU BOTÃO DE ROSAS:
OBRIGADA ANGELA!

Oi Sandra!!!
"PORQUE ESCOLHI VOCÊ?
Escolhi você, porque faz
parte do rol de amigos
que sempre que possível,
se faz presente em meu espaço
Escolhi você, porque me
faz sentir gente e sempre
retribui minhas mensagens
Escolhi você, porque me
sinto muito feliz com sua presença
Escolhi você, porque mesmo
sabendo que sou virtual,
acredita em minhas mensagens
Escolhi você, porque sinto
muita paz e tranqüilidade
Escolhi você porque
contribui para minha felicidade
Escolhi você, porque somos
parecidos, na forma de
transmitir sentimentos
Escolhi você, porque me
escolheu para fazer
parte de sua vida
Enfim... escolhi você,
porque contribui para um
mundo melhor, digno de ser vivido
Então...
Obrigada por
você existir..."
Beijinhos
Ângela

ESCOLHO VOCÊ MEU AMIGO VIRTUAL.
POR QUE ÉS A ALEGRIA DE TODOS OS DIAS.
MUITO OBRIGADO POR VOCÊ FAZER PARTE DESSE MUNDO VIRTUAL.
COM MUITO CARINHO
SANDRA

DEIXEI UM ALERTA NESTE BLOG: Blog Coletivo-Uma Interação de Amigos

That Sinking Feeling?

Sinking and Swimming is a paper just out from the Young Foundation, a British think-tank. It "explores how psychological and material needs are being met and unmet in Britain." I'm not sure how useful their broad concept of "unmet needs" is, but there's some rather interesting data in this report.

On page 238, and prominently in the executive summary, we find the following terrifying graph, which comes with warnings like "anxiety and depression looks set to double during the course of a single generation..."

The % of the population self-reporting suffering from depression or anxiety seems to have been consistently rising since 1990, from less than 6% to almost 10% today. And the line continues ever upwards. Eeek!

Is Britain really becoming more depressed and anxious? No, and that's what makes this graph terrifying. According to the large government Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, the prevalence of self-reported depression and anxiety symptoms rose slightly from 1993 to 2000 (15.5% to 17.5%) and then stayed level up to 2007 (17.6%). Not very scary. Even the Young Foundation note (on page 80) that when you look at "well-being"

analysis of the English health survey that uses a variation of GHQ [General Health Questionnaire] suggested that the proportion of the working age population with poor psychological well-being decreased from 17% in 1997 to 13% in 2006.

On that measure, we're getting happier. And the rate of new diagnoses of clinical depression fell over the past decade.

So what about that ominous line? Well, that graph was based on "self-reported anxiety or depression", but in a specific sense. People were not reporting feeling scared or unhappy (see above for the data on that), but rather, reporting having anxiety or depression as medical disorders. Curiously the % of people reporting having every other sort of health problems (except with vision) increased from 1991 to 2007 as well:


What seems to be happening is that British people are becoming more willing to label our problems as medical illnesses, although in fact our mental health has not changed much over the past two decades, and may even have improved slightly. This is what's terrifying, because medicalizing emotional issues is a bad idea.

Mental illness does exist, and medicine can help treat it, but medicine can't resolve non-medical problems even if they're labelled as illnesses. Antidepressants, for example, are (imperfectly) effective for severe clinical depression but probably not for "mild depression"; much of what is labelled "mild depression" is probably not, in any meaningful sense, an illness.

Why does this matter? Drugs have side effects, and psychotherapy is expensive. The cost-benefit profile of any treatment is obviously negative when there are no benefits because the treatment is being used inappropriately. My biggest concern, though, is that if someone is unhappy because of tensions in their marriage or because they're in the wrong job, they don't need treatment, they need to do something about it. Labelling a problem as an illness and treating it medically may, in itself, make that problem harder to overcome.

[BPSDB]

That Sinking Feeling?

Sinking and Swimming is a paper just out from the Young Foundation, a British think-tank. It "explores how psychological and material needs are being met and unmet in Britain." I'm not sure how useful their broad concept of "unmet needs" is, but there's some rather interesting data in this report.

On page 238, and prominently in the executive summary, we find the following terrifying graph, which comes with warnings like "anxiety and depression looks set to double during the course of a single generation..."

The % of the population self-reporting suffering from depression or anxiety seems to have been consistently rising since 1990, from less than 6% to almost 10% today. And the line continues ever upwards. Eeek!

Is Britain really becoming more depressed and anxious? No, and that's what makes this graph terrifying. According to the large government Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, the prevalence of self-reported depression and anxiety symptoms rose slightly from 1993 to 2000 (15.5% to 17.5%) and then stayed level up to 2007 (17.6%). Not very scary. Even the Young Foundation note (on page 80) that when you look at "well-being"

analysis of the English health survey that uses a variation of GHQ [General Health Questionnaire] suggested that the proportion of the working age population with poor psychological well-being decreased from 17% in 1997 to 13% in 2006.

On that measure, we're getting happier. And the rate of new diagnoses of clinical depression fell over the past decade.

So what about that ominous line? Well, that graph was based on "self-reported anxiety or depression", but in a specific sense. People were not reporting feeling scared or unhappy (see above for the data on that), but rather, reporting having anxiety or depression as medical disorders. Curiously the % of people reporting having every other sort of health problems (except with vision) increased from 1991 to 2007 as well:


What seems to be happening is that British people are becoming more willing to label our problems as medical illnesses, although in fact our mental health has not changed much over the past two decades, and may even have improved slightly. This is what's terrifying, because medicalizing emotional issues is a bad idea.

Mental illness does exist, and medicine can help treat it, but medicine can't resolve non-medical problems even if they're labelled as illnesses. Antidepressants, for example, are (imperfectly) effective for severe clinical depression but probably not for "mild depression"; much of what is labelled "mild depression" is probably not, in any meaningful sense, an illness.

Why does this matter? Drugs have side effects, and psychotherapy is expensive. The cost-benefit profile of any treatment is obviously negative when there are no benefits because the treatment is being used inappropriately. My biggest concern, though, is that if someone is unhappy because of tensions in their marriage or because they're in the wrong job, they don't need treatment, they need to do something about it. Labelling a problem as an illness and treating it medically may, in itself, make that problem harder to overcome.

[BPSDB]

Neuro4Kids Stuff

Neuroscience For Kids is a long-standing website hosted by the University of Washington and run by Dr. Eric H. Chudler.


It's extremely good, and even if you're no longer a kid you'll find it an interesting resource - I'm not ashamed to admit that I learned stuff from pages like this one on ancient Egyptian brain damage or the questions and answers section.

Anyway, Dr Chudler has just launched the Neuro4Kids.com store where you can buy brain-based items. I particularly like the Stroop effect bag (also t-shirt) and the "I misplaced my brain" late-birthday cards...

Neuro4Kids Stuff

Neuroscience For Kids is a long-standing website hosted by the University of Washington and run by Dr. Eric H. Chudler.


It's extremely good, and even if you're no longer a kid you'll find it an interesting resource - I'm not ashamed to admit that I learned stuff from pages like this one on ancient Egyptian brain damage or the questions and answers section.

Anyway, Dr Chudler has just launched the Neuro4Kids.com store where you can buy brain-based items. I particularly like the Stroop effect bag (also t-shirt) and the "I misplaced my brain" late-birthday cards...

BOM SÁBADO A TODOS!!

QUE DEUS ABENÇÕE A CADA UM QUE PASSA POR AQUI NESTE DIA!!!!

HOJE TENHO A CERTEZA QUE UM GRANDE CIRCULO DE AMIGOS SE FORMARAM, AQUI NESTA CASA. PESSOAS QUE VIERAM DE TÃO LONGE, DE TODOS OS CANTOS, SÓ PARA COMPARTILHAMOS, ESTA AMIZADE. A VOCÊ EU DEIXO UM BRINDE A NOSSA A AMIZADE SINCERA.
E SOU MUITO FELIZ COM A SUA COMPANHIA.

"SOMOS ETERNAMENTE, RESPONSAVÉIS POR AQUILO QUE CATIVAMOS".
(ANTONINE DE SAINT-EXPÉRY)

COM MUITO CARINHO,SANDRA.

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TE ESPERO LÁ. VENHA CONHECER UM POUCO DO NATAL LUZ DE GRAMADO/CANELA.