Mind over Matter by Carolyn Sprinkle-Bagby, ADN, CNHP

The most recent research, neuroplasticity, has documented cases where brains have been healed of diseases like Parkinson’s, Schizophrenia and given victory over addictions. This is not being declared loudly and one must question why that is. The psychological world created the DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disease, to begin “labeling” symptoms and create disease basics for medication and financial funding. “The Great DSM Hoax” article found in Psychology Today (July 27, 2012) is just one of many where psychoanalyst, physicians and scientists are in agreement that the DSM is creating diseases from human emotions. Many times giving excuses for those emotions to run amuck creating the profit of medication over true therapy such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Nutrition, thought processes, words and phrases that are positive and affirming, exercise and rest are foundational tools used in Neuroplasticity to heal the brain!