Category Archives: Crazy World

The Politics of Memory

Posted on November 17, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Beware “The Master Narrative”. The Politics of Memory and mental health services. Continue reading →

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What we hold inside…

Posted on November 16, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“Trauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in absence of empathetic witnesses”. Peter Levine Continue reading →

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Can CBT help you not get eaten by lions today?

Posted on November 13, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

CBT – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – has, by now, been through the full cycle of having been the latest fad in “mental health” services. It starts with being trialled, then touted as the latest cure-all, then operationalized and stripped-down, manualized, … Continue reading →

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It’s weird, but…

Posted on November 4, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

It’s weird, but I guess we passed weird a long fucking time ago…
– Darlene Continue reading →

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Dancing With My Inner Critic – Steve Chapman

Posted on October 17, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“This talk isn’t very good.” “Thoughts” “voice”, inner voice” “inner critic” – whatever you call yours there are at least as many ways of learning to live with it as there are ways of learning to live amongst humans. Many … Continue reading →

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I feel no shame about my mental breakdown: it helped make me who I am – David Harewood

Posted on October 14, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This week’s World Mental Health Day saw the global mental illness industry work itself into lather: Twit-storming wave after wave of stats and scary numbers at us of just how many of us are diagnosed, have yet to be diagnosed … Continue reading →

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There is a way to prevent so many teenage girls being depressed – but no one wants to admit it

Posted on September 25, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Powerfully written piece by Glosswitch in The Independent’s VOICES column… Nothing at all to add about the piece, since there is nothing I could possibly add. I though add how some respond to such truth-speaking: if you venture into the … Continue reading →

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Grenfell Tower – Ben Okri

Posted on September 16, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

It was like a burnt matchbox in the sky. It was black and long and burnt in the sky. You saw it through the flowering stump of trees. You saw it beyond the ochre spire of the church. You saw … Continue reading →

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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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I’m just a girl – Do Doubt

Posted on September 10, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

I’m just a girl In the world that’s all you’ll let me be Oh, I’ve had it up to! Oh, I’ve had it up to!! Oh, I’ve had it up to here Take this pink ribbon off my eyes I’m … Continue reading →