Coffee and All That Jazz
72 Howard Park Ave
Roncesvalles
T’karonto
Planet Earth
Right on these TTC routes.
506
504
505 [about 300m]
4pm to 6pm
Coffee & All That Jazz is under new ownership.
Big thanks to Mae for your support and welcome.
Coffee and All That Jazz
72 Howard Park Ave
Roncesvalles
T’karonto
Planet Earth
Right on these TTC routes.
506
504
505 [about 300m]
4pm to 6pm
Coffee & All That Jazz is under new ownership.
Big thanks to Mae for your support and welcome.
Or if not wrong, then it at least limits your ability to:
understanding a person’s struggle with experiences like difficult-to-hear voices and others that get called “psychosis” and dismissed as “not real” ?
support them in navigating their struggle and finding ways they might heal?
bring compassion into your relationships with your fellow humans, especially those who do hear voices.
If you are in a leadership position and seeking ways to develop capacity at individual, team and organization level to support clients in ways that fully honours:
If you work in health or social services, and especially supporting those who have been pushed out to the margins of society, then you likely…
This workshop is designed for you.
If you support a loved one who struggles, then you likely do too: to understand the nature of their pain and ways you might best support them and support healing.
This workshop is for you too and you are welcome to join us.
Note:
Refreshments:
We’ll have coffee / tea / water available
Where
Church of The Holy Trinity
Trinity Square
Toronto
[East Side of Eaton Centre]
Fees
Full workshop description follows below the registration box.
Register NOW online- via Eventbrite using the ticketing box below.
This introductory and foundational workshop will open doors of new understanding, in non-diagnostic, non-categorizing ways, of a range of human experiences that get called names like “psychosis”and dismissed as “not real”, when at least to the to the person experiencing them, they are very real indeed.
This workshop is designed especially for those who work in health and social services but is open to all who want to learn how they can better support a person who struggles.
Many who find themselves struggling to support loved ones who struggle and find themselves bewildered and frustrated by the help offered by services have also attended and found it useful for them. Indeed, we find it creates a richer experience when we can come together and learn with and from each other.
The world, society, and culture that we have created for ourselves and each other is not fit for humans. Join in co-creating one that is.
“You gave me a whole new way of thinking about voices.”
“I’m not quite sure what I learned but I feel like my whole Universe has been tilted.”
“Eye opening, Stunned”
“Best workshop I ever attended”
“I learned more from one day with you and Dave than in seven years of training to be a psychologist”
Really, whether you need to attend is your choice, the above is what some who’ve attended said, here’s another.
“Everyone working in mental health. Scratch that: EVERYONE !!!”
This workshop offers a beginning, an introduction to a non-diagnostic, non-medical, human experience perspective understanding of the kinds of experiences – like difficult-to-hear voices- that are often categorized as “psychosis”.
A key part is making connections between pain, trauma psychosis powerlessness and disconnectedness we can experience when we find ourselves feared and discarded by society.
If so, then this workshop might help you tilt your universe and emancipate yourself with very simple and very human ways to understand and begin to act to support a person who struggles with difficult experiences that get called names like “psychosis”.
Note: If you’re looking for a workshop on how to diagnose and categorize your friends, family and colleagues then please know that this workshop really is not that workshop.
Join us in enacting a world that understands voice hearing, supports the needs of people who hear voices and regards them as full citizens.
This Workshop is part of a structured and modular approach to learning ways of supporting people who struggle.
As a first step that is designed to offer a basic grounding but also foundation for further, deeper learning and practice in supporting people who struggle with experiences like difficult-to-hear voices that get called “psychosis”.
Participation in this workshop is step towards to other more advanced and learning opportunities, around Hearing Voices approach (sometimes called Maastricht Approach) to living with and supporting those who live with experiences that, though remarkably common, get dismissed as not real, mystified, made taboo and dismissed as “not real”.
This unique and innovative workshop offers you a non-diagnostic understanding of the kinds of experience like hearing voices that are that are sometimes called “psychosis”.
We offer you simple, everyday language to show you how you can understand such experiences not as “disconnected from” but intimately connected with reality and in ways that can be overwhelming, painful, frustrating, sometimes terrifying response to the reality we share,
It also offers a framework – we call it “The Wormhole”- a heuristic that you can use to held you be more open to your own experiences draw from that to help you truly empathize and understand how better to support people who might be undergoing such difficult experiences.
You’ll leave feeling more at ease with both yourself and your ability to offer yourself as a one-person safe-space to people who struggle.
Join us in enacting a society that understands voice hearing, supports individuals who hear voices and views them as full citizens…
We believe the hearing voices approach is part of broader human liberatory approaches around the world and is emancipatory for all. As Lilla Watson is credited with put it so wonderfully…
“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
This is an intensive workshop covering a lot of ground, together we will :
You will not become an expert in one day but you’ll have a good basis for starting and feeling more comfortable – and more human – as you do.
Please feel free to help us let other people know about this workshop by printing, posting, distributing, however you can with your networks…
hears more voices than you can shake a stick at, so many that even his voices hear voices, and has done so for longer than either he – or they – care to remember but its over fifty years.
Founder and coordinator of http://www.recoverynet.ca, Toronto Hearing Voices group, Anglophone Canada’s longest running, and of the Hearing Voices Café.
Creates and delivers innovative, taboo-busting talks, trainings and workshops that enable people to find new language, and simpler ways to understand surprisingly common human experiences that we’ve made fearful and taboo, so making life even harder both for those who struggle and also for the rest of us to understand.
Shows how we can make simple sense of trauma, pain, psychosis, taboo, and butt-hurt voices, and how they interweave and interconnect our inner-struggle with living in an outer-world that is fast becoming unfit for humans who built it and in which we keep creating results that nobody wants. After you’ve heard him talk you may join those who say they don’t hear voices but now wish they could.
For many years Dave would only say only one word, now he authors articles at http://www.recoverynet.ca and moderates online support groups for voices to talk directly with each other round the world, he codesigned this workshop – in fact there’s a lot of Dave in this workshop – if you come you’ll get to meet him/ them.
Enjoys creating memes: out of things voices say, about living in a universe that mostly comprises what he refers to as The Weird, and his own wry observations on the human obsession with calling each other horrible names, categorizing and crushing each other into boxes that don’t fit.
As Dave points out, voices have stories too.
Dave’s favourite pastime is pretending to be a jelly while swearing a lot.
Next second is remarking upon how “voices” and “humans” behave in ways that are often very much the-one-is–like-the-other. Dave doesn’t really have a bio – like other superheroes he has an “Origins Story”, and like “The Truth…”, at least some of it, is already “ Out There…”
Mark has many years experience as “worker” with a major social services agency, and has worked with many who struggle with the kind of experiences that get called “psychosis”.
He shares his personal perspective of how being confronted with his own dark side enabled him to relate more simply and authentically with difficult experiences of the people he works with, in-process, freeing himself from merely following “the script” and playing “invisible worker” so that he can be both more professional and more human.
His ability to share stories of his own experience of learning how to do this work offers others hope that they can too.
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Why we choose to use the term hearing voices, what we mean by it…
Hearing voices is intentional, ordinary language descriptive of a range of human experiences that in Western cultures has been mystified and made taboo, and that we have been taught to fear – and yet which are also remarkably common, likely much more common than you think. No everyone uses this language, all kinds of people live with experiences they might call voices, some choose other languages.
Hearing voices does not presuppose neither that a voice can only come from a human body, nor must be heard by more than one person, or more especially must be also heard by someone called a “mental health professional” .
Hearing Voices as Approach also refers to broadly emancipatory ideas and ways of working that accepts such experiences as very real and meaningful- if sometimes difficult to live with, and that seeks to share ways we can learn to live with such difficult experiences and support and connect with each other.
This approach also includes many other similar experiences that can be hard to live with and harder to talk about and make sense of.
When we learn to put aside our fear of both ourselves and each other we generate possibilities, to create new roles, to connect with each other, and to find richer experiences of being human and co-create a world that’s easier to live in for all of us.
Note:
If you’re looking for training on “how to deescalate anyone, in any scenario, in three-easy-steps”
…then you’ll not find it here.
However, if you are looking for opportunity to both examine the orthodoxy and trenchant mental models that underpin and restrict our thinking and acting, and how we design and operate services in way that all to often are experienced by those who rely on them as dehumanizing, oppressive, and traumatizing; and that lead us to believe that is our only option; and if you believe that “we can do better – and we must,” then this may a good place to start.
The overall aim of this workshop is that participants are better able to reduce the number and impact of situations in which those seeking support from services experience that in ways they find dehumanizing, degrading and oppressive.
Recent times have made yet more visible the extent to which those who have been pushed out to the margins of society are stressed, beyond their “zone of tolerance” for the way they find themselves treated: the way services deem is the best they can expect.
Workers in services equally feel stressed, and struggle to reconcile best supporting those who come to them and the demands of the organization they work in.
When most stressed we tend to default mode: we download language of “escalation”, “de-escalation”; we heap expectation on staff to be experts in “deescalating” those we deem to be “escalating” and in-need-of “de-escalation”. Behaviour interpreted as aggressive is responded to with yet more aggression and authoritarianism: sometimes overt, more often pernicious yet equally injurious.
“The system” is not failing: it produces the results it was designed to produce. Services are all too often experienced by those who find they need to access for support in meeting needs as injurious, traumatizing and oppressive. Meanwhile service organizations espouse values of “anti-oppression” and “trauma informed”.
Models of “de-escalation” are typically used in trainings are typically rooted in war studies.
So, are we waging (yet another) war ?
Or are we seeking to the needs of those who have been most marginalized- cast out – from society in ways that can support (re)connecting, learning, and healing ?
Q. How can we begin to question current practices and habits – and the underlying assumptions they are both built upon and limited by ?
Q How might we begin to build approaches and practices at individual, team, and organization levels that are rooted not in fear, authoritarianism, containment, compliance and control but in connecting, and learning, and healing?
Q. How might we build a different approach to working through difficult situations that rely less on more authoritarianism, control, coercion, and compliance and instead focus on building relationships that can enable and support healing ?
And why its not just another “de-escalation training” ?
UN_ESCALATE is about much more than what to do in a situation where a person seeking services behaves in a way that gets interpreted as “escalating”, and as someone deemed to be “in-need-of-‘de-escalating’; and tools and techniques “techniques” workers can use to “de-escalate them”.
Those seeking support from services and those who work in them, especially in front line services are stressed too.
These situations are on the rise and in each instance, it comes down to two individuals both of whom are enmeshed in complex systems.
None of us can escalate all by ourselves.
the only person we can “de-escalate” is ourselves.
“Escalation” is not a thing that one person does all by themselves, and “de-escalation” is not what them.
Both are caught up in a complex dynamic situation we can understand as “escalation”.
We are each shaped by our experiences in life, and as we move forward we are shaped differently by our different experiences of life.
We are enmeshed in complex systems that shape our experiences, condition how we respond, shape our experience in the world and shape our behaviour in any moment, especially those where we feel stressed, and overwhelmed.
First, if we’re using the T-word, it is important to set out that UN_ESCALATE is rooted in an understanding that trauma is not what we’ve come to think it is.
Trauma is not an event – nor a whole series of ongoing, unending events.
Trauma means wound. And life can be very wounding, indeed. Trauma is not at all hard to understand.
Trauma is not in the past: trauma is now – the wounds we live with now, today. and that resulting from the way we experience what we experience and the way we did not get the support we needed in order to not be left wounded.
Trauma can affect any and all aspect our lives – in all kinds of ways : indeed, there is no aspect of life that cannot be affected.
Trauma is an experience – fundamentally, the experience of having been wounded being left feeling disconnected from ourselves, disconnected our whole being, from our [whole] body, and left feeling disconnected from ourselves disconnected from others, and dis-empowered.
We feel left alone to survive and stuck in patterns that seem to rule our lives, make life difficult, painful. Patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving that kept us alive also start to wreak havoc with our relationships, health and entire lives. We are separating us further from
So too, our society, institutions, service organizations and workplaces are also similarly shaped. And we can – if we allow ourselves to see it – understand how many of our institutions are rooted in unhealed trauma that is centuries – at least – old.
Just as an individual can hold onto patterns they can recognize, deep-down, as ultimately damaging and yet also feel powerless to change, the same also is true for the organizations we build and uphold.
The vast majority of those who come to services have experienced very difficult lives, and often since even before they emerged from their mother’s womb.
Then on, living a life of having been marginalized, even expelled from society compounds that and makes lie harder than can be imagined by those of us who have been fortunate enough to escape that.
The pain of living life in such a way means living with immeasurable inestimable pain.
Then being expected to contain that pain, and to put up with the many ways we can be treated leads to yet more pain.
And pain shapes us: like nothing else can shape us.
Yet, also, many of those working in services have also experienced difficulties, often of the same kind of adverse life circumstances as clients, have or do live with pain and are also shaped by that pain.
It also is true though, and important to acknowledge, that if we have been able to find ourselves working in services then we have had some good fortune, some support, some advantage or advantages that went at least some way in enabling us to get to that place, and that those who find themselves having to rely on services to meet their basic needs did not, and have yet to.
“People are punished or being in pain and for expressing their pain.
No matter how hard we might find our own lives to be less than rosy, we may not have experienced the kind of difficulties that others, and especially those needing support from services people find themselves in
life circumstances in which people seeking support find themselves are hard to endure, and then on top of that they must also endure being treated the way they can be treated and then expected to endure that too: daily, often many times a day.
Such life experiences also offer limited opportunities to learn different ways we can respond in such difficult situations, instead we learn to survive in a world of pervasive, insidious and sometimes even overt, unadulterated, and unvarnished ultraviolence.
We can easily be, or become blinded to the advantages we have had, to learn, or the support from family members, friends, or community, the advantages we have had in learning how to navigate such situations.
When we are thrust to the margins of society such opportunities are rare and also we need to adapt to the violence we will face many times each day, and we will need to learn other ways.
We can lapse into what in the language of UN_ESCALATE we call US-and-THEM-ism: unconscious, unaware patterns of separation and fragmentation, where we divide the whole of humanity US and THEM.
We are good at this, we could even say it is what we do best. We have created, and create more all the time, endless variations, categories we use to separate others from us.
We come to see an individual, -or whole groups – as “not us”, not-like-us”, we categorize them thus, and then treat them differently: as less than us, as ‘less worthy’, ‘less human’, even ‘not worthy’, ‘not human’.
And then we blame them, and we blame them for leaving us feeling uncomfortable around them.
And then we blame them for behaving in ways that “act out” how they don’t like being treated the way they get treated.
Now, we could view this as feedback, information that something ain’t right, something is amiss, wrong even, with the system in which we are all enmeshed.
We tend not to though: a huge, collective societal, blind spot means we tend default to a collective, defensive, trauma-conditioned response.
We are shaped to interpret things as being their fault, a non compliance [on their part that needs to be judged, and corrected [by us].
When a person then behaves in a way that leaves us feeling uncomfortable we might then interpret that as “aggressiveness”, even intentionally so, and requiring correction of some sort.
And we might respond with “counter-aggressiveness”.
Then we might say that they need to be “de-escalated” – by “us”.
Yet, in truth, any “escalation”, such as it is, actually started way, way, way before that, even centuries ago.
…and is deeply embedded in unquestioned beliefs, attitudes, ways-of-doing, orthodoxies, and power relations. And of which is unconscious, unquestioned and un-interrogated.
We might call this “systemic escalation” as [usually] no one actor sets out to escalate but every actors in the system plays some part in creating the effect.
Q. How could we..
participate in systems of oppression?
Well, we tend to assume participation is always by some conscious choice, but is this always so? This assumption tends to make it difficult to see when we do, for doing so casts us as a “bad” person: and we don’t like to cast ourselves as that, so develop a blind spot.
More often than not, it tends to be that we have yet to become aware that we have become so enmeshed within complex systems, and shaped by the domains that shaped us especially and including the society, culture, institutions and life experiences, and how they shape our lives, and shape us.
The answer to this question is more often because we are unaware of how our role plays a part, how we have yet to become aware of the choices we can make to stop taking part, minimize or negate that effect, dismantle and create new ways and then to play a different role to shape a different world -in the part of the world we do have influence have .
Q. How could we not have known ?
Downloading – automatic, reflex, unthinking thinking and acting – demands for yet more “more de-escalation” only gets us more of eth same, we create a “spiraling” vicious cycle. This too can be viewed as rooted in trauma, and unhealed trauma at that. Recourse to authoritarianism, us of power is a symptom of a fear-based, and trauma-organized-system. We could also say, that it reveals roots of how we organize services in long ingrained patterns of colonialist thinking and behaving.
Typical models of “de-escalation” are rooted in war studies, or of compliance [e.g., in education systems where models emphasize bringing student behaviour to compliance in a behavioural health framework”.
They typically take no cognizance or understanding of complexity of dynamics and multiple factors at play, like, for example.
“De-escalation trainings” tend to focus on in-the-moment situations that arise when an individual is said to behave in a way that service deems unacceptable and requires the individual’s behaviour to be corrected, non compliance results in the person
being “service restricted” : even further ostracized, excluded, or even punished for their behaviour.
This results in an individual who has already been excluded from and pushed to the margins of society or community being further excluded, pushed further our beyond the margins.
This is itself an escalatory approach, is designed as such: it is literally an escalation in the use of power by the organization [acting on behalf of society] against the individual.
In systems thinking, particularly systems dynamics this is known as a fix-that fails.
This offers a short term value in individual situations but does nothing to examine the root causes othat give rise to the pattern of increase in these type of events.
Eventually, fixes that fail approach tends to give rise to another familiar pattern: known in systems thinking as “shifting the burden”
but more commonly known as “addiction”,
…in which focus on short term solution – “fix” – diverts attention, focus and energy eventually disabling ability to execute, or even imagine a different, long term solution that might reduce, or even do away with, the need for the short term action.
Current focus on, and the calls for “more de-escalation!” is a response to an incident, and event, events that keep arising and keep arising more and more.
What does it do to reduce the number of events ? and the number of times we hear reactive cries for “more de-escalation!”
We will need to have difficult conversations. We will need to go beyond events, automatic thinking, reactivity, increased aggressivity and accepting the inevitability that the only possible response is more of the same.
If we truly want things to change we need to change how we go about this.
We will need to learn to observing the patterns behind the incidents, the events; we will need to examine the structures that create these events – and the rising tide of such events; and we will need to be open to changing our mental models – the deep-seated, and unquestioningly held beliefs upon which these structures – and services, and the way services are designed and run, are founded.
UN_ESCALATE is an opportunity to begin doing that.
So that’s why we called it something else.
Note – This workshop is in person only.
Note – This workshop takes place on 1st Floor, there are two flights of stairs.
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If we do this then, maybe, we’ll find ourselves thinking that we need to “de-escalate” another person less often.
“Yeah, we do things round here all the time that ‘escalate’ people.”
This is a TWO DAY workshop.
Two full days
IN PERSON [How we gonna change the world by hiding behind screens and sitting in our pyjamas?]
The overall aim of this workshop is that participants are better able to reduce the number and impact of situations in which those seeking support from services experience that in ways they find dehumanizing, degrading and oppressive.
And, especially ..
When working with individuals who have been pushed out to the margins of society:discarded and stigmatized…
In those encounters that that lead a person seeking support to react in ways that services then deem that individual to be “escalating” and “in need of de-escalating”.
Also, that staff in services feel better equipped, more competent, and better able to work in ways that they can bring forth their full humanity and enjoy their work.
The goal? :
Number of encounters experienced by clients as as oppressive: zero.
Participants in this workshop will be better enabled to:
Sharing ideas, thinking tools and practical stuff you can use so you can suck less.
This workshop is designed to share some ideas , tools and approaches we can use to examine how we can change the way we approach situations in which it is usually said that an individual is “in need of de-escalation”.
Kevin Healey
Church of The Holy Trinity
10 Trinity Square
[next to Eaton Centre]
Register online now via Eventbrite using the checkout box below.
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From Aotearoa / NZ, this is an excellent podcast series of first-person accounts .
In each of the seven episodes of Out of My Mind, one person talks to journalist Adam Dudding about their life, and the view from inside their head. These first person dispatches from the front lines of mental health are moving, yet also full of moments of surprise, tenderness and humour.
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/
I remember the doctor saying to my parents:
‘Your son Egan? He’s not coming home. He’s completely untreatable.’And I remember the look in my parents’ eyes:
Egan Bidois
it was the look of someone’s hope dying.
Listen: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/#episode-one
I’ve tried a lot of things: Meditation. Hot yoga. Cycling. Saunas. Cold showers. More sleep. Less sleep. Acupuncture. Therapy.
Ashleigh Young
I tried giving up caffeine and it was awful!
I believe in the power of a cup of tea.
Listen: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/#episode-two
That damned voice was going round in my head:
“Hanna Smith”
‘Why can’t you do this?
Other mothers manage to defrost chicken without burning down the house.
And sure,
they get angry at their kids
but they don’t lash out.’
Listen: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/#episode-three
We put ourselves in glossy brochures,
Jami-Lee Ross
looking the perfect picture
of what we want the public to believe we are.
It wasn’t until it all exploded
that I realised what was going on in my head.”
Listen: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/#episode-four
When my father arrived
his face morphed into something devil-like.
People that I loved shape-shifted right in front of me.
And you can’t stop it just because you don’t believe it’s true.Karlo Mila
Listen: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/#episode-five
The Foreign Legion parachute out of aeroplanes, fight wars and slither through jungles,
Andy Cawston
and for some people
that might have some appeal.
But for me it was an opportunity to reboot and start again.
Listen: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/#episode-six
One place was like the best Betty Ford Clinic
Taimi Allan
– all tempura fish and espressos
and people walking around
with floaty scarves.
And then there was the other extreme,
with padded walls
and barbed-wire fences.
Listen: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/08/out-of-my-mind-podcast/#episode-seven
If you look up attachment or attachment style, you’ll find a whole bunch of right old guff– that suggests that your early life experiences have left you with what is known as an attachment style : that we are “a type”, that is fixed, and that – unless you’re one of the very lucky very few who’ve been left with a perfectly perfect attachment style known “secure attachment” then – you’re fucked for life.
It starts off as an adaption, a survival strategy, how we learned to survive as kids surrounded by whatever adults we were surrounded by, and depended on to survive.
Attachment styles are not fixed, and we likely use different styles in different situations, wit different people. That its leaned thing means we can also learn different ways.
But there’s a much simpler way to understand attachment and attachment styles, including how understanding how we’ve been shaped by our early life experiences we can learn and adapt and heal, grow and become who we can become.
-and it comes your way from Jacob Ham.
The first three videos give a simple description of the three main “attachment styles”.
In the latter two he goes on to show ways we can use understand how this plays out in us, particularly when we are challenged and stressed, for connecting, nurturing and healing.
As he says, at the beginning of the fourth video here…
Now that I’ve made three videos about attachment and the different types of attachment,
I kind of want you to forget everything I said…
because the worst thing
that can happen
is that you start going around
trying to simply reduce everyone
to being named…
– avoidant
– or ambivalent
– or secure
– or whatever.
and it’s just not that simple..
People have different types of attachment styles
with different people.
… but for me to explain what I mean by
how to track person state of mind
I think it makes sense to talk about
adult attachment
Below is a series of short videos from Jacob Ham.
Jacob Ham is the bomb.
Boom !
This is a simple description of secure attachment and its impact on student’s behaviours.
This is part 2 of 5 in my series of attachment.
This video is about anxiously ambivalent attachment and how it shows up in students.
This video is about how attachment impacts the way we think and talk to another person, especially when we talk about stressful things.
Part 5 of 5:
This video concludes the attachment series by explaining how mentalization is the key to fostering secure attachment.
Lyrics
Gonna break out of the city
Leave the people here behind
Searching for adventure
It’s the type of life to find
Tired of doing day jobs
With no thanks for what I do
I’m sure I must be someone
Now I’m gonna find out who
Why don’t you ask them what they expect from you?
Why don’t you tell them what you are gonna do?
You’ll get so lonely, maybe it’s better that way
It ain’t you only, you got something to say
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do
Don’t need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn’t be
Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see
No one tells you nothing even when you know they know
But they tell you what you should do
They don’t like to see you grow
Why don’t you ask them what they expect from you?
Why don’t you tell them what you are gonna do?
You’ll get so lonely, maybe it’s better that way
It ain’t you only, you got something to say
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do
Gonna break out of the city
Leave the people here behind
Searching for adventure
It’s the type of life to find
Tired of doing day jobs
With no thanks for what I do
I’m sure I must be someone
Now I’m gonna find out who
Why don’t you ask them what they expect from you?
Why don’t you tell them what you’re gonna do?
You’ll get so lonely, maybe it’s better that way
It ain’t you only, you got something to say
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do
Songwriters: Eddie Lee Hollis / Edwin James Hollis / Graeme John Douglas
Never mind the diagnostical bolloxupification,
whatchagonna do?
-ooh! ooh?
In the end, and whatever your path, this is what it comes down to..
It’s the shit,
innit ?
In four easy-to-remember steps.
1. Find The Shit that works for you.
2. Do more of The Shit that works.
3. Do less of The Shit that doesn’t.
4. Keep finding new shit.
“The mental health system in Canada
has tens of thousands of smart, very well educated people
but when we put it all together,
it’s a Shit show.”
–Stephane Grenier
Related:
Alex Jadad: Its not about health, its not very caring, and its not a system.
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