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Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
Where do you feel it in your body ?
MAD, innit?
Psychosis 2.0 Infosheet
The Voices are Real – and now The Shirts Are Real Too
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Dr Gabor Mate – coming to Toronto – Apr 2012
Dr Gabor Mate – coming to Toronto Please note this page is for the 2012 conference… for 2013 CDCC click here Child Development and Community Conference (CDCC) Toronto on April 13 and 14, 2012. Regulars here will by now have noticed … Continue reading
come laugh your head off!
Come Laugh Your Head Off! The Mood Disorders Association of Ontario Presents: LAUGHING LIKE CRAZY Comedy Showcase Featuring stand-up comedy performances by graduates of the first ever Young Adult Program! (ages 19 to 32) Writing comedy about experiences of the … Continue reading
Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting Voices
Another piece highlighted by INTERVOICE’s media watch… From NY Times, Aug 2011 view the short video -click on the image below to [2.5mins] to read the article click the link below… Lives Restored Learning to Cope With a Mind’s Taunting … Continue reading
Posted in coming off meds, hearing voices, my story, recovery perspectives
Tagged Health, New York Times
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She let go
This one is for Earla. cartoon by Hugh Mcleod @gapingvoid.com She Let Go After this cartoon went out earlier this year, we received a number of emails from people asking for female version. Here it is! I think the Buddhist … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Healing, mental skillness, resilience
Tagged Hugh Mcleod
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Richard Bentall – Diagnoses are psychiatry’s star signs. Let’s listen more and drug people less
UK Guardian Monday 31 August 2009 Diagnoses are psychiatry’s star signs. Let’s listen more and drug people less The biological approach to treating mental illness has been a lamentable failure. We must focus on a patient as a person Surveying … Continue reading
Posted in depression, Healing, making sense of "mental illlness", mania & depression, medication madness, psychosis
Tagged Health, mental health
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My [Mental] Skillness
Believing she is more than her illness this Toronto based bloger prefers to adopt mental skillness in recognition that the what she experiences diagnosed as OCD brings stuff she’d really prefer not to have in her live , like tormented … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Healing, mental diversity, mental skillness, my story, recovery perspectives, The Mad Ones
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There is a Fault in Reality
Excellent 30min movie about people who hear voices. Features Jaqui Dillon, Peter Bullimore and John Swift link… [snagfilm id=”f2511e70-c2b0-11e0-bf7a-0026bb61d036″] Now available on You Tube… -thanks Jacqui Dillon
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Dr Martin Luther King Jr is Celebrated today in the US with a National Holiday. I received these two quotes in my email from Seth Godin’s blog this morning… They could have been written today. … about recovery? “Change does not roll in … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, Emancipate yourself...
Tagged Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Seth Godin
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Dr. Gabor Maté ~ Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted: The Possible Human
Dr Gabor Mate starts this talk in the best possible way: by confessing he does not know anything about the subject in the title, but that means it offers him the opprtunity to learn something new. And as he talks, … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Ideas, Learning, mental diversity, my story, recovery perspectives, The Mad Ones
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Joanna Moncrieff – Changing the balance of psychosis treatment
Joanna Moncrieff and the Critical Psychiatry Network offer us a different way of thinking about how psychiatric medications work; and ways to use them that assist healing but reduce the adverse effects – and especially the devastating effects that result from long … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Ideas, recovery perspectives
Tagged Critical PSychiatry Network, Joanna Moncrief, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry, Robert Whitaker
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