Posted in antidepressant, anxiety, anxiety/panic, big pharma, bipolar, depression, mania, Mental health, mental illness, panic, psychiatry, psychosis, videos on March 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Drugging of our Children is a documentary film highlighting the increasing pathologisation of child-hood and the use of psychotropic drugs to ‘cure’ these ‘conditions’. An increase in violence, suicide and psychosis has been some of the results of this.
The documentary explores safer and more humane ways of helping little ‘uns to cope with mental distress.
It is available to watch on google videos here
Please spread the word about this film…
cheers keener
Posted in Allotment, allotmenteering, dogs, gardening, Mental health, self sufficiency, sustainability, Uncategorized, videos on March 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We have thought of another reason why its good to have an allotment – basically its very good for dog mental health.
This video shows the lovely Cassie, a beautiful Staffordshire Bull Terrier, who is a real softy – don’t believe the hype about Staffs!!
She is on her way to the allotment and is a little bit excited! She needs reassurance that in fact, yes, she is going to the allotment.
Cynics may say that shes doing this because shes in a car – its not that – as soon as she smells that she is near the allotment she just can’t hold the excitment and happiness in….
Posted in Allotment, allotmenteering, antidepressant, anxiety, anxiety/panic, compost, depression, gardening, Mental health, mental illness, videos on February 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Things have been a little heavy on our blog lately…. So we have decided to post some rather silly videos of ourselves, that Keener re-discovered on her phone today..
It was taken at the beginning of winter, when leaf raking was going on big time in our day jobs.
Gardening allows both of us to reconnect with child-like qualities – of mischievousness and exploration. Or to put it another way – having a laugh. Jumping/falling into piles of leafs, soil, manure, chippings is a particular favourite. Its very hard to stay sad, distracted by daily concerns, angry or whatever after completing this exercise!
Also, as you can see on the video, we have seen ‘You’ve been Framed!’ and other home video shows many times!
The second video develops the theme further. Keener is explaining that she often wishes that she could just sleep and hibernate for the winter:
Posted in Allotment, allotmenteering, gardening, Rotavator, videos on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who have never seen a rotavator in action, here is a video of me using one. For those of you who are professional/proficient – I do apologise but you should have seen me at the beginning of the day!!
As ever, all feedback welcome …..
keener
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