U proar in Australia Over Plan to Block Web Sites December 26, 2008 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A proposed Internet filter dubbed the ”Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Consumers, civil-rights activis...

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light V anessa Vega. AMACOM 2007, Hardcover, 240 pages, $3.98 Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light: A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope  is a powerful new book by Vanessa Vega about her journey into therapy for self-injury and an eating disorder. The book is not ...

I don’t normally engage in discussions or debates about politics or religion. However, a series of news items in late August has my blood boiling. After five long years, a law passed by the Quebec provincial government of the day and recognized by everyone outside Quebec and most people insid...

Royal College of Psychiatrists Disappointed At Government’s Failure To Recognize People’s Capacity To Make Decisions For Themselves (04 Jul 2007) The Royal College of Psychiatrists is deeply disappointed that government has failed to recognize that most people who suffer from mental illn...

C ompostannie, one of the most hard-working, most honest, and most principled of the mixed bag of DMOZ editors and arguably one of the best ambassadors DMOZ ever had, has been removed by the scurrilous crew that makes up the DMOZ inner sanctum. Debates over the cowardly and shameful way this was don...

T his was inspired by a reaction to a post at the Psychlinks Forum about health care and mental health. At moments like this, I feel like Albert Finney screaming “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more” out the window. “Why are doctors in Canada always in...

F ile under “Whose Interests Are You Really Trying To Protect?”  The Mental Health Bill Will Not Help Vulnerable Patients, Say Doctors, UK 25 Apr 2007 With the Mental Health Bill for England and Wales going through Committee stage in the House of Commons, the BMA is concerned that the p...

I ’m a little late finding this but… I was tagged by Jeremy Mayes (aka GuyFromChicago) back in December 2006: After you’ve been tagged you’re supposed to spill the beans on 5 things people don’t know about you then tag a few other people . Here’s mine: I was the s...

T his kind of reaction from so-called “civil liberties” factions both amazes and enrages me: Child porn rings hard to track Wed Feb 7, 2007 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer The numbers behind an international child pornography bust Wednesday were themselves disturbing: Nearly 2,...

S panish authorities have taken strong action against a website actively promoting anorexia: Spanish health authority bans website promoting anorexia MADRID, Jan 10, 2007 (AFP) - Spanish authorities have banned an internet site which was about to run a competition for young women suffering from anor...