Category Archives: anatomy of an epidemic

American Psychosis- Chris Hedges

Posted on October 28, 2020 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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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 →

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Because we fear we don’t listen…

Posted on June 13, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“Because we fear them we don’t listen, and because we don’t listen we tend to hurt them. What we’re treating is our own desire to feel safe.”
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I’m the Map!

Posted on April 7, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

If there’s a place you gotta get… I’m the map. -The Map Maps are useful – they can help us making sense of our world and for navigating our way round. A map is not the territory it represents. … Continue reading →

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‘They’re waking up’: Reducing drugs for dementia patients yields dramatic results

Posted on March 21, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Sounds like a lot like a plot for a movie based on a true story based on an older movie based on a true story. Maybe someone’s been watching “Awakenings” and getting ideas. Whilst care in Ontario care homes increasingly looks … Continue reading →

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drugging seniors in “long term care” – Ontario

Posted on April 15, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Toronto Star again, this time shining a light on the prevalence of using potentially deadly drugs to restrain seniors in care homes. “Ontario nursing homes are drugging helpless seniors at an alarming rate with powerful antipsychotic drugs, despite warnings that … Continue reading →

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papering over the cracks in a fractured society

Posted on April 14, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Sort of disclaimer for talk about Psych Meds Here at recoverynet.ca we believe that medications are not a moral issue. Taking meds is not a moral issue – no more than not taking meds is a moral issue. For each … Continue reading →

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knowledge and power and lifecrap – Michel Foucault

Posted on January 7, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Michel Foucault rocked the world with his ideas and his efforts to reveal and question the relationships between claims to knowledge, claims to power and authority over others. No claim to authority, no matter how banal, comes without a corresponding … Continue reading →

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Is The Chemical Imbalance theory a myth?

Posted on October 21, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This is the question question posed in a Toronto Star article by Joseph Hall. The answer is of course, a resounding “D’oh!”…. or, if you need a translation: “yes, of course”. The real question would be: is psychiatry beginning to … Continue reading →

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how unequal is your society?

Posted on October 11, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

How society makes us mad. “Mental illness” is more prevalent in unequal societies – and the more unequal a society is, then the more people in that society will be given a diagnosis of “mental illness”, including and especially “serious … Continue reading →