spinning in circles holding hands the world is a blur except when you’re standing . dripping wet completley soaked no rubberboots running inside of us wants to burst out of the shell [Hopelandic – translated from original Icelandic] Hoppipolla … Continue reading →

I can’t concentrate, I’m in a state I don’t feel straight, I can’t love or hate I can’t feel nothing, can’t feel no sting Only just learning, I ain’t no king You’re in a rut, you gotta get out of … Continue reading →

If we want to understand what leads to people becoming ill, and how better to help them heal, then “we can’t separate the brain from the body and we can’t separate the person from their environment”. Western allopathic medicine is … Continue reading →

An excellent and most welcome piece in Washington Post Dec 9 by Psychiatrist Dr Sandra Steingard reflecting on her own struggle, wanting to do the best for patients who struggle but also her own struggle with knowing what best to … Continue reading →

This is an extended [14min] clip from the excellent movie Zeitgeist: Moving Forward by Peter Joseph . It includes interviews with people you’ll recognize here – Gabor Maté and Robert Sapolski – plus a couple of new ones Richard Wilkinson and … Continue reading →

Got my mojo working Got my mojo working Got my mojo working Got my mojo working Got my mojo workingGot my mojo working, but it just won’t work on you Got my mojo working, but it just won’t work on … Continue reading →

Do you live with…? voices? visions? dissociations? “delusions” difficult thoughts? other altered, “extreme” “unusual” states and exriences? all kinds of “crazy batshit stuff” others just don’t “get” or understand? Are you looking for… a safe place to explore different understandings, … Continue reading →

Important landmark ruling by a court in Aotearoa / NZ, dated 22nd Nov, 2013 and upholding an appeal against a lower court ruling in a claim for compensation. LS v Accident Compensation Corporation [2013] NZACC 385 (22 November 2013) Judge … Continue reading →

Barely two-score years since the American Psychiatric Association, in a brief moment of rare insight into human nature, came to its senses and voted to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness by removing it from its big book of lies … Continue reading →

December | 2013 | recovery network: Toronto

Monthly Archives: December 2013

Hoppipolla – Sigur Rós

in a rut – The Ruts

we can’t separate

Some patients are better off without antipsychotic drugs – psychiatrist

the genetics myth – from Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

got my mojo working’ – Muddy Waters

living with extreme states and difficult experiences – Jan 2014

Nelson Mandela

Judge rules sufficient evidence that appellant’s “schizophrenia” caused by trauma

World Psychiatry – time to wake up, wise up and fess up