Monthly Archives: November 2019

working class hero – John Lennon

Posted on November 29, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

As soon as you’re born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all They hurt you at home and they hit you at … Continue reading →

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The real history behind “thanksgiving”…

Posted on November 27, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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Every evil begins with: “I am going to help you”

Posted on November 18, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Every evil begins with someone saying to another: “I am going to help you”. Milos Foreman From Completely Cuckoo: Documentary of the making of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

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You must stand on your own feet…

Posted on November 18, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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Shitzophrenia- If you don”t give it to me I wont need to recover from it

Posted on November 18, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Had the privilege of having my voice heard at World Hearing Voices Congress in Montreal last week. This is for all those who were there with us, and especially those who appreciated this one. And even more, it’s for for … Continue reading →

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Facts continue to change their shape…

Posted on November 11, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →

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FREE Booklet: Hearing Voices – A Normal Human Experience

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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

The Politics of Memory – Pat Deegan

Placebo Psychiatry Shown to be Effective in Totally Random Trials

You are not alone…

Remembering is not required – Babette Rothschild

What do we mean by Expert by Experience and how might we get there?

An Indigenous Path To Leadership

Thorns in the spirit

Wounded Healers: How Per Support Workers can help patients in crisis

Trauma means Wound

We envision and enact a society that understands…

Hearing Voices can be a good thing – Jeanette Winterson

“Schizophrenia” does not exist

The myth of “schizophrenia” as a progressive brain disease

The voices are real – “schizophrenia” is mere delusion

Psychosis is in the eye of the beholder

Born to learn

Escaping the Asylum Mentality – Rufus May

A new vision of “Recovery”

Recovery – Time for a Change

Bad things happen and they f#ck you up

How culture makes a difference to experiences of psychosis

Why society drives us mad – Richard Bentall

Understanding Psychosis – BPS Report

Time for a Harm Reduction Approach to Using Psych Drugs Too

Talk Therapy shown to be effective in Early Treatment of First Episode Psychosis: RAiSE

Fri 29 April – Premier: Healing Voices Movie

Blame – Brene Brown

David Mitchell – conversing with the characters in his novels

Your Elusive Creative Genius – Elizabeth Gilbert

Zero F*cks what judgemental people think

F#cking Perfect – PiNK

The Monster – Eminem

A full life – Paddy McGowan

A Useful Diagnosis

“Stigma” begins with a “D”

F#ck “Stigma”

Toronto Mad Pride

Psychiatry – in recovery

When Doctors discriminate

Coming out of your closet – Ash Beckham

Blame – Brene Brown

Do you pop a pill when you’re feeling ill?

Pill Poppers – BBC Documentary

What Doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe

The blind men and the elephant

What limits our freedom – Simone De Beauvoir

what next for the truth? –Suzanne Beachy

Childhood adversity and psychosis – John Read

Bingo! Differential Diagnosis of Psychotic Symptoms

the myth of “mental illness” as degenerative brain disease

the myth of genetics

the myth of the chemical cure

“chemical imbalance” my ass

sticking feathers up your butt

the only way to deal with an unfree world…

not being the same as everyone else is not the same as being sick

Thud – On being sane in insane places pt1

The Backlash – on being sane in insane places pt2

Rosenhan – on being sane in insane places pt 3

INSiDE

Cuckoo – On being sane in insane places pt 4

secrets of the sleeping brain

the perils of categorical thinking