Category Archives: Adversity

Baboons in suits

Posted on September 12, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Robert Sapolsky on how hierarchy has a destructive force in body and psyche in individuals and community. He is talking about baboons, the ones he’s observed for decades along with the effects of stress upon health and behaviour. His observation … Continue reading →

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Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic

Posted on August 2, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 above … Continue reading →

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Hurt – Johnny Cash

Posted on February 27, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →