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Listed below are comments made by AmyJo_Sydney between Thursday, 30th October 2008 and Saturday, 1st November 2008.

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Is depression an embarrassment? 03:14am on 01 Nov 2008 Ooops. In regard to comment 107, i stated that there is no correlation between violent outbursts and mental health. While correlation studies may reveal relationships between violent outbursts and a number of factors such as personality, mood, life stress, and mental health. This is still only speculative.

In essence correlation is NOT CAUSATION. in response to "Crawleygat37", NO a history of mental health is not an indication of the potentiality to cause a future violent outburst. In addition, your comment was an after the fact explannation which blamed your colleagues illness. Any number of factors could be related to the violent outburst, which may have been buffered or prevented...
Is depression an embarrassment? 02:31am on 01 Nov 2008 Attention to all:

I have just joined a facebook advocacy group- "StrikeOutStigma.ca", help put an end to the stigma of mental illness.

Although unfortunately in this forum there are only 3 members, myself and the two administrators... So if anyone on this blog would be interested in joining and further discussing the issues addressed by Dr Sarah Jarvis, or other mental health issues, please join-up and start the chat.

Cheers,
Amy
Is depression an embarrassment? 01:59am on 01 Nov 2008 In response to "Crawleygat37",comment 6. There is absolutely no correlation between a history of mental illness and potential violent outbursts in the future. Unfortunately, the person in your workplace was not identified as vulnerable earlier. I think the issue here is not one of lost productivity due to mental health issues rather one of accepting mental illness as a health issue and fostering work environments which support people experiencing mental health problems.

Mental health issues should be viewed in the same way one might view other medical conditions such as cancer, HIV, coronary heart disease, and diabetes. If people started to recognise that mental health disorders are in fact medical condtions, with identifiable symptoms, psychophysiological differences, and subsequent effective treatments both socially and with psychopharmocolgy, then we as a society could support people rather than discriminate against people with mental health issues.

In response to "Wreck the disco", comment 8. It was mentioned that the job was given based on a "strength" gained from personal experience with mental illness. In this example the position of counsellor may indeed benefit from the insight and empathy that this person has gained from firsthand experience. Although unfortunately many prejudiced people (e.e.Crawleygat) still only view mental illness as a "weakness". It is imperative to debunk the stigma and to implement a culture of understanding, acceptance and support in our workplaces.
Sir David Attenborough answers your questions! 10:12pm on 30 Oct 2008 Last year while walking through a local park i was shocked to see a flock of parrots attacking an injured member of the flock. For me with my limited wildlife knowledge and experience, this scene was quite profound and disturbing.

I am curious, from your experience and expertise have you ever actually been shocked by an organisms responses? and if so, which organism and why? (For me personally, i would never have expected parrots to attempt to kill a member of their own group).

Regards,
Amy
Sydney

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