-
-
-
hhttps://recoverynet.ca/2023/12/29/hv-cafe-toronto-jan-mar-2024/ -
Building a new response to 911 distress calls in TorontoBuilding a new response to 911 distress calls in Toronto -
Choose your language – free, shareable resource
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: November 2013
ode to my family – The Cranberries
Understand the things I say, don’t turn away from me, ‘Cause I’ve spent half my life out there, you wouldn’t disagree. Do you see me? Do you see? Do you like me? Do you like me standing there? Do you … Continue reading
Posted in music
Comments Off on ode to my family – The Cranberries
A powerful gesture of absolute despair
Feeling pressurized to adjusted well to a sick society? Fractured by dissonance twixt your beliefs and values? shattered by expectations heaped on you by others?, is your soul crumbling so you can just hang in there in a minimum wage … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., The Mad Ones
Tagged angst, despair, Police state, Pyotr Pavlensky, Red Square, scrotum, society
Comments Off on A powerful gesture of absolute despair
sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken…
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Likewise, using the word “recovery” a lot doesn’t meant you are actually supporting people in finding their own personal version . Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, The Mad Ones
Tagged butt, Chicken, Feather, mental health, recovery
4 Comments
cross-eyed and painless – Talking Heads
Facts are simple and facts are straight Facts are lazy and facts are late Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around Facts are living turned inside … Continue reading
Posted in music, The Mad Ones
Comments Off on cross-eyed and painless – Talking Heads
an Irish pub song – the rumjacks
Whale, oil, beef, hooked! I swear upon the holy book, The only ‘craic’ you’ll get is a slap in the ear, Whale, oil, beef, hooked! I’ll up & burst yer filthy mug, If you draw one more shamrock in me … Continue reading
consciousness really digs everything – Jack Kerouac
The human experience can be wonderful, wacky, weird and downright frightening and overwhelming. Choosing a stance that we can learn how to live with whatever the universe might find toss way through, takes endless small acts of courage – but … Continue reading
The strange powers of placebo effect – TheProfessorFunk
“Placebo effect” is often dismissed as just a fake pill, yet most fancy expensive drug trials often struggle to show that medicines are better than placebo – even when half the unfavourable data is kept out of sight. In North … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Ideas
Tagged chemical imbalance, Health, medication, Medicine, Placebo
Comments Off on The strange powers of placebo effect – TheProfessorFunk
Tasers no cure-all for police shootings
Is this really the only way that Toronto police can think of to “de-escalate” what they term “EPD” incidents? When the Toronto Sun editorial and campaigners against police shooting of people in mental distress can find themselves in easy … Continue reading
Posted in policing madness, what's going on?
Tagged Alok Mukherjee, Bill Blair, mental health, Taser, Toronto, Toronto Police Service, Toronto Police Services Board
Comments Off on Tasers no cure-all for police shootings
California police use of body cameras cuts violence and complaints
Police chief Bill Blair’s response to his officers being traumatized by shooting so many distressed Torontonians is that he wants all his officers to be equipped and trained in less-lethal option-taxers-at an initial cost of $386,000 – or about $2,000 for each … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, policing madness
Tagged distressed person, Emotionally Disturbed Person, mental health, Police, Rialto, Rialto California, Taser, Toronto Police
Comments Off on California police use of body cameras cuts violence and complaints
Beyond madness: a modern approach to hearing voices
Not sure why the authors feel the need to label it “modern” since hearing voices its mostly about about really, really, really old stuff like listening, which is as old as the hills, but this is a nice piece by … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, work
Tagged dishes, Hallucination, hearing voices, Hearing Voices Network, inner speech, keys
Comments Off on Beyond madness: a modern approach to hearing voices
agnotarte
dave umbongo
drkenplacebo
highfellow
recoverynetwork:Toronto
recovery network: Toronto 
You must be logged in to post a comment.