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Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
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MAD, innit?
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Category Archives: Adversity
A town called malice – The Jam
Struggle after struggle, year after year
The atmosphere’s a fine blend of ice
I’m almost stone cold dead
In a town called Malice Continue reading
Living With My Voices – Kevin Healey
Brief film interview with Kevin Healey, about his a personal journey of learning to live with and interpret the voices only he hears; then learning to using that to offer training for people who work those who might struggle with voices they hear. @The Trauma and Mental Health Report.
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Posted in Adversity, hearing voices, Ideas, psychosis
Tagged hearing voices, Kevin Healey, Trauma
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you just have to go through a life… Bobby Womack
Posted in Adversity, The Mad Ones
Tagged Bobby Womack, life
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voices: symptom of illness – or creative, ingenious survival strategy? Eleanor Longden
EleanorLongden’s talk has been heard over three million times and nominated as one of @0 online talks that could change your life.
Hear Eleanor Longden talk in person as part of the innovative international conference: Psychosis2.0 – Toronto – Fri 13th June 2014. Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, books, Event, Healing, hearing voices, resilience
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Keris Myrick – Game Changer
CBC’s radio show The Current featured Keris Myrick in their Game Changer series in November 2011. Keris manages to do most, if not all, of the things “experts” told her that she would never be able to do: like work as the CEO, … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Crazy World, Event, hearing voices, non-compliant, skin I'm in
Tagged hearing voices, Keris Myrick, KerisWithaK, MentalSkillness
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restraint and seclusion: torture, not “treatment”
We ran a series of posts the last few days on the effects of isolating people , and depriving them of sensory stimulation. We propose that anyone – without exception would be tested by being forcibly kept in a … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged Psychiatry, Torture, treatment, UN Special Rapporteur
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Brian Keenan – Music
Brian Keenan wrote an account of his own experience of being kidnapped and held in confinement – “An Evil Cradling”. Here he is reading from chapter seven “Music”, accompanied by animations by Kavaleer productions. The result is a brief but … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, hearing voices, my story, resilience
Tagged An Evil Cradling, Brian Keenan, confinement, hearing voices, kidnap, music, seclusion
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How isolation warps the mind
“the results were very unsettling to us… It is one thing to hear that the Chinese are brainwashing their prisoners on the other side of the world; it is another to find, in your own laboratory, that merely taking away … Continue reading
Suicide Stories
Slowly waking from a science and dugs-induced slumber, clinical and academic practice is awakening to the importance of story in a human life. There is much talk these days of the importance of “narrative”. Narrative is just a fancy word … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, The Mad Ones
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