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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Why do we dream?
More on sleep and how we are beginning to understand what it’s about. This time dreams . From the BBC popular science show Horizon. There are many links with and references to mental wellness: fear, anxiety, depression, trauma, talk therapy, creativity, problem solving, and the … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, depression, Ideas, mental diversity, mental skillness, psychosis
Tagged dream, mental health, sleep
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Gabriel – Lamb
From Manchester but sounding a like they spend more time in Bristol : Lamb with some food for the soul. After a break, they’re back playing together, here playing live in a radio studio in The Netherlands….. the sound quality on this live version … Continue reading
Learning from the voices in my head – Eleanor Longdon
Eleanor Longdon at TEDx London in 2012 telling her story of going to university, eagerly entering the student life fine times, but underneath deeply unhappy but skilled at hiding it. Then she began hearing a voice – ” my strange commentator” – and mistake … Continue reading
mars project – Jonathan Balazs and Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart
Help support an important local movie project about mental health, labelling people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and the right to choose own explanations of our experiences. ‘A decade ago rapper Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart was diagnosed with a psychological disorder, but … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, mental diversity, The Mad Ones, what's going on?, youth
Tagged hearing voices, mental health, movie, schizophrenia, Toronto
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born slippy
this live version is from Pink Pop Festival, Landgraaf, Netherlands caution…contains some strobe effects Songwriters: KARL HYDE, RICHARD SMITH, DARREN PAUL EMERSON Drive boy dog boy Dirty numb angel boy In the doorway boy She was a lipstick boy She … Continue reading
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Brown Paper Bag – Roni Size and Reprazent
Bristol Drum and Bass collective Roni Size and Reprazent in Toronto a few years ago: loopin’ the space-time continuum and really, really messing with the TTC timetable… …and back in Brizzol recently with William Goodchild, The Bristol Ensemble orchestra and gospel choir: still packing … Continue reading
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Tagged MmmmmmmmmmmmStep, Reprazent, Toronto
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Addicted to healthcare
Interesting perspective from Stanton Peele on what might be called the placebo effect of receiving attention from healthcare professionals. As, collectively, we loose faith in our own self to live well we turn to “professionals” to fix us, reassure ourselves … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, what's going on?
Tagged addiction, Health
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A Tale of Mental Illness – from the inside – Elyn Saks
ceci ce n’est pas “un schizophrenic “ . . . Elyn Saks delivers a powerful and courageous TED talk. “So I’m a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I’ve spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, family, mental skillness, psychosis, The Mad Ones
Tagged Elyn Saks, mental health, my story, Psychiatric medication, schizophrenia
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The gift of a free-spirited daughter
The gift of a free-spirited daughter MARY D’EON The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, May. 24 2012, 1:24 PM EDT When people ask me what my 20-year-old daughter is currently doing, I tread carefully, weighing how much I … Continue reading
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