The ERNI Declaration: Making Sense of Distress Without âDiseaseâ
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The ERNI (Emotions aRe Not Illnesses) declaration is based on the idea that distress does not equate to disease, dysfunction, dysregulation, or chemical imbalance. Signatories believe that there needs to be a shift from illness and diagnosis ideas to personal narratives and understandings.
The declaration was created with the appreciation that there are many like-minded people out there who share opinion, research, ideas, and experiences with others within many contexts but are frustrated by subsequent lack of action or change within mental health and other related systems.
The Disease Model
The disease model for understanding emotional distress has been the primary paradigm in Western cultures for a hundred years, with roots that stretch back even further.
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Shakespeare’s Ghosts Live! What Secret Messages do The Spirits Reveal about the Nature of Reality?
When one of us began studying psychology he was told that if the aim was to understand human relationships, it would be better served by studying literature especially Shakespeare. Since then, at least as concerns
clinical psychology , the subject has moved on to become an evidence-based humanistic alternative to psychiatry s rather mindless medical model. Yet some of Shakespeare s insights do still remain unrecognized. Despite all the innumerable treatises on Shakespeare, there is a near absence of any discussion of what can be inferred from his works concerning his view on the paranormal.
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Written by Ana Sandoiu on March 11, 2021 Fact checked by Jasmin Collier
The early stages of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdowns were hard on all of us, in different ways. Isolation, joblessness, childcare, and many other challenges severely affected the mental well-being of many people around the world. Yet here we are, a year on. How are we coping?
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The physical health effects of COVID-19 and the countless deaths the pandemic has claimed have been, and continue to be, devastating on a global scale.
However, the mental health of people across the globe also took a hit. Last year, dozens of
UK study challenges use of mental health impact to justify ending COVID-19 lockdown
Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic there have been repeated alerts about an escalating mental health crisis. Psychiatrists’ warnings from last May of a potential “tsunami of referrals” after lockdown were seized on by the right-wing media to fuel demands for a return to work.
Ongoing research by the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) paints a more nuanced picture of the mental health crisis, and suggests a more rational response that protects both physical and mental health.
C19PRC is an international multidisciplinary team of clinical and research psychologists centred at Sheffield University, studying the psychological, social, political and economic impact of the pandemic. Their research points to interpersonal trauma as having a more damaging effect on mental health than collective trauma.