Category Archives: Adversity

Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

We will likely be told we have “lost touch with reality”, whatever that means, when the truth is it’s really not hard to understand: we are struggling to feel safe in the world. Continue reading →

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Zen-ass-dude in The Pain Cave

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

Taylor Phinney, “zen-ass-dude” and pro-cyclist and time-trial specialist on how all the voices in his head are “bread-and-butter “ “you kinda got to get to that point to be able to win any of these bike races”. The image below … Continue reading →

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Hurt – Johnny Cash

Posted on February 27, 2017 by

I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that’s real         Johnny Cash I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the … Continue reading →

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the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority

Posted on January 16, 2017 by

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. Martin Luther King Jr.

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I can’t stand up for falling down – Elvis Costello

Posted on August 28, 2016 by

I can’t stand up for falling down I can’t stand up for falling down   “I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down” I’m the living result I’m a man who’s been hurt a little too much And I’ve tasted the … Continue reading →

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Trauma means Wound

Posted on July 26, 2016 by

Trauma means “wound”.
That’s it, no shit. Continue reading →

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A person given a diagnosis of “psychosis” is 15 times more likely to …

Posted on July 25, 2016 by

Wonder how the “voice inside your head”  finished off that sentence… Some straight talking… Here’s some data: A person who has been given a diagnosis of psychosis is three times more likely to have been abused as a child than … Continue reading →

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A long, complex and stubborn history with trauma

Posted on June 28, 2016 by

Bessel van der Kolk  at bigthink.org offers  a potted history of psychiatry and society’s difficult relationship with trauma. Psychiatry started as study of what were then deemed bizarre behaviours, but discovered they were understandable when considered in context with extraordinary … Continue reading →

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Those who hear voices…

Posted on June 8, 2016 by

There are those who hear voices and those who haven’t yet. Continue reading →

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Dicks on the subway

Posted on May 30, 2016 by

Jessica Valenti on her experiences growing up in New York City, especially experiences of dicks on subways, of the very real and lasting effects it can have and the compromises that women and even young girls have to make in … Continue reading →

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