MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'confinement'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:34:14 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5118645&cid=t_229032_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-do-monks-psychiatric-patients-and-prison-inmates-have-in-common%2F2011.08.10 I’ve always been struck by the similarity between solitary confinement inmates and monks. Historically, monks were kept under the vow of silence. They could only leave their cells to attend religious services. The only visitors they were allowed tohave were their religious advisors. (If any of you have seen the movie Into Great Silence you’ll know what I’m talking about.)  The idea of the modern penitentiary came from this ‘penitence’ process: put someone in a room by himself, give him religious guidance while he’s there and he’ll reflect, repent and reform. This was how prisons were run in the Nineteenth Century too: prisoners were kept under the rule of silence and they could only come out of their cells for religious services or for work. No o... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5118645 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:00:00 +0100 5118645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560497&cid=t_229032_133_f&fid=35124&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspergerwoman%2F%7E3%2F7TVVciqs80E%2Fspring-new-horizon.html We have shared many beautiful moments together. But sometimes one needs to continue his own way. After 1.5 years a beautiful love story has come to an end. I thank my former boyfriend for all the love, inspiration and much more he has given me. Time to set a new horizon. Each day I am grateful for my freedom. Think about all those people worldwide, abused, locked up and treated inhumane. Bradley Manning in prison for over 280 days now. Speaking about solitary confinement and autism, for me it is clear that the loneliness felt inside is often related to my Aspergers. But do not feel that sorry for yourself having autism. Unless you are physically disabled too, we have the ability to walk around freely despite our autism. There is a world outside worth to be explored. Walk in the light a... The Art of Being Asperger Woman blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560497 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:34:00 +0100 4560497 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4281468&cid=t_229032_133_f&fid=35124&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Faspergerwoman%2F%7E3%2Fy5IX4Si7nBk%2Fautism-lifelong-solitary-confinement.html It's always a great pleasure to see the amount of people following this blog has increased.Thank you my dear followers, please let me know if you miss something I should blog about. As Julian Assange - heaven thanks- was released from prison last week, he spoke about his nine day stay in solitary confinement. People with autism can be seen as potential prisoners in their own lifelong solitary confinement I think. We have freedom of speech, freedom to walk around, no bail needed to explore the outdoor world. But somehow autistic people are locked up in their own mind, not to be able to share things, express their deepest inner feelings and many more. Just a thought. Soon one of the world's most famous cities will be visited again! My ex-bf is coming with me! Happy with this! Happy X-mas e... The Art of Being Asperger Woman blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4281468 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:17:00 +0100 4281468 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3339666&cid=t_229032_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F03%2Fam-i-normal.html Paperdoll commented that ?she (?he-- do paperdolls have gender?) likes posts about "normal."The quick answer is: No, you're not normal! Normal people don't call themselves "paper doll." Normal people also don't write blogs called "Shrink Rap" or post photos of their feet all over the internet.I'm a psychiatrist and people ask me all the time "Is that normal?" or worse, "Am I normal?"And we start with a semantic disconnect here: I equate "Normal" with "Booooring!" and would gladly wear a pin that says "Why Be Normal?" Like Why? What is normal? Why would anyone aspired to that. Normal is an IQ of 100, corn flakes for break fast and tuna fish for lunch (ok, I like tuna)..normal entails conforming to some exact mediocre standard. Why would you want to be Normal. Please don't call me normal (I ... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3339666 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:44:00 +0100 3339666 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2313402&cid=t_229032_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F06%2Fthe-situation-of-solitary-confinement%2F Atul Gawande has a remarkable and important article, titled “Hellhole” in the most recent issue of The New Yorker.  In it, he examines some of the consequences of U.S. policy to hold “tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement” and it’s relationship with torture.  Here are some excerpts. * * * Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people. Children provide the clearest demonstration of this fact . . . . * * * . . . . [P]sychologists produced evidence of . . . deep and sustained damage in neglected and or... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2313402 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:01:13 +0100 2313402 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232834&cid=t_229032_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fcaged.html It's a dog's life = I swear this was voluntary.If you enjoy caption competitions and photographs, you may wish to nip along to"DJ Kirkby" over at "Chez Aspie" and test your brain power.If you like what you read, send it to someone in 'need.' (Source: Whitterer on Autism) Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232834 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:59:00 +0100 2232834 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1593804&cid=t_229032_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Feat-pray-love-one-womans-quest-to-find.html  Elizabeth Gilbert is a novelist.  In her non-fiction real life, she had a bad spell: a contentious, ugly divorce, an overly needy relationship with a distant rebound lover, a bout of depression.  She goes on a journey to heal, to find herself-- a pre-planned, publisher-financed 4 months of pasta and language classes in Italy, 4 months of meditation at an ashram in India, 4 months with a medicine man in Bali.  It's kind of everyone's fantasy, no?  Okay, parts of it are kind of my fantasy.  Parts of it.When I read a book, or listen to a lecture, or turn on the TV, grab my popcorn at a movie, I'm looking for something.  Sometimes, I simply want to be entertained (a worthy goal in and of itself).  Sometimes, I want to learn something that will change how I see the world, or how I rela... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1593804 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:40:00 +0100 1593804 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1512138&cid=t_229032_109_f&fid=34730&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychiatrist-blog.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fleave-me-alone-does-shu-syndrome-exist.html [Note: This is the second in a two part series discussing the effects of longterm segregation. The first part in the series can be read here.]When you read legal opinions or listen to professionals talk about the psychiatric effects of longterm segregation you will sometimes hear them refer to something called the "SHU syndrome". The "SHU" stands for Special Housing Unit, another name for a control unit prison or a tier in a regular prison where inmates are kept in longterm segregation.The commonly accepted definition of "syndrome" is a constellation of signs and symptoms that are common to all sufferers of a disease. Syndromes are validated by showing that the particular syndrome can distinguish between people who have the disease versus those who don't, and can distinguish one disease fr... Shrink Rap blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1512138 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:46:00 +0100 1512138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=763041&cid=t_229032_133_f&fid=35084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballastexistenz.autistics.org%2F%3Fp%3D426 Just got this comment from Irit Shimrat: Please contact me. I’m locked up and being given harmful “medications” in a town called Comox in British Columbia. I can no longer access my main (gmail) account on the computer for use by patients so I googled myself and found you. I can be phoned at 250-339-1490 but e-mail is probably better. The hospital is called St. Joseph’s General Hospital and I’m in the inpatient psychiatric ward. I’ve been here since July 5 or 6 and was in “seclusion” 12 days; don’t know quite how or when I’ll get out but have a paradoxical reaction to a drug my psychiatrist, though a good man, can’t understand he needs to stop giving me every day - it makes me quite ill. I thank you for having found me and very much wish you to find me again. Yours in... Ballastexistenz blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=763041 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:04:25 +0100 763041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=735548&cid=t_229032_133_f&fid=35084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballastexistenz.autistics.org%2F%3Fp%3D420 Joel wrote about how people think about him when he’s using a communication device versus when he’s speaking, in You Must Not Want Company. One remark made was that when someone’s using a communication device, they obviously want to communicate or they wouldn’t be using it. I wanted to write a bit about when I’m communicating but not speaking or using a communication device. I’ve had a few different friends remark that they were sort of amused by something about me. That was, that they could go for half an hour to an hour of having a conversation or other interaction with me, before noticing that I wasn’t actually talking or typing at all. One of them was a friend where whenever she visited me (we lived near each other for awhile, now we’ve b... Ballastexistenz blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=735548 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:59:12 +0100 735548