Globe and Mail – Breakdown Canada’s Mental Health Crisis
admin September 27th, 2008
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Welcome to the official Facebook group for The Globe and Mail’s landmark series, Breakdown: Canada’s Mental Health Crisis.
The series aims to sweep away the myths and stigma around mental illness. It includes the stories of several Canadians who live with a mental illness and looks at public policy and how it is failing. It also invites readers to tell their stories and offer recommendations for ways to bring about change, which we invite you to do here as well. |
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I was upset by the article in the Globe and I feel deep concern regarding the lack of care for children with mental health needs.
I would also like to bring your attention to the work done by environmental physicians, regarding environmental and food sensitivities that could play a big roll in mental health problems. The now so popular debate around brain plasticity has opened up the possibility of rehabilitation and the rewiring of the brain and thus modifying behavioral.
15- 20 % of children are slow learners or exhibit learning disabilities. For some of them working with the primitive reflexes seem to help. I was introduced to this kind of work as a physical education teacher in Stockholm Sweden in the 1970’s. The primitive reflexes are a set of movement patterns in the newborn that emerge during the prenatal period. The reflexes are present at birth. The reflexes are movements that are automatic and do not require thinking. The reflexes help in the birthing process; they help the newborn adjust; and help to build a base for further motor and cognitive skills. They are integrated and modified into the more complex patterns which lead to voluntary movement and skills. Lack of integration of these primitive reflexes can lead to may cause information processing problems in the future. A retained Moro reflex depletes energy and can cause fatigue and mood swings and an over stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
See http://www.akcsm.com/RPR.htm
Many thanks for the article
Louise Lettstrom-Hannant
Certified personal trainer and fitness trainer
613 747 1514