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Category Archives: Crazy World
Generation Rx
– the use and abuse of prescription pain medication source: wikipedia commons Special town hall edition of the very excellent White Coat Black Art CBC radio show with Dr Brian Goldman: and recorded at Brockville Collegiate Institute in Brockville. According to … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness
Tagged addictive behaviours, epidemic, Health, iatrogenic, mental health, Opioid
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Paddy McGowan: Recovery – time for a change
Recovery- time for a change Guest Post by Paddy McGowan Dec 2011 When I first got involved in the struggle with and in, the survivor movement we were very clear I think about the problem. The problem was what brought … Continue reading
CBT – the new magic pill ?
There’s a growing body of evidence that many people find CBT helpful for unpicking complex emotional knots and retraining their own habits of thinking. There are also a growing number of folks touting CBT as the new cure all for mental … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, medication madness, The Mad Ones
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Why one in four women is on psych meds
read it at… http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/21/one-in-four-women-psych-meds
Posted in advocacy and rights, Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, medication madness, mental diversity, The Mad Ones
Tagged attitude, discrimination, Healing, Psychiatric medication
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healing medicine – jungle prescription
Dr Gabor Mate is not your typical doctor – more’s the pity, perhaps. He works with compassion and understanding helping us heal. Recently successful in gaining legal decision in Canada’s Highest court to continue operation of Insight – Vancouver’s safe injection site, he … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, medication madness
Tagged ayahuasca, Gabor Mate, Healing, nature of things
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Toronto Conference – Nov 3rd, 4th
Only days to go to the INTAR/Leadership Project Conference Challenging Our Understanding of Psychosis and Exploring Alternatives to Recovery You can read some of their work on this site, find more info and links to their work on the conference … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Healing, medication madness
Tagged conference, mental health, psychosis, recovery, Toronto
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Despondex
from the Onion News Network comes a report on an important new breakthrough drug aimed to cure the unsufferable cheeriness experienced by millions of N Americans. The report includes the usual rebuttal by some Doctor who says we can get the … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, The Mad Ones
Tagged epidemic, Madness, Psychiatric medication
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self-nonmedication
Writer Bruce Stutz tells the story of how he decided he was ready to unmedicate himself, and his experience of discontinuing pychiatric medications. Stutz didn’t just stop – he researched how the meds he was taking were supposed to work, and what changes … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, my story, recovery perspectives
Tagged choice, coming off, my story, NY Times, recovery, zaps
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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? Part 2
The Illusions of Psychiatry Article by Marcia Angell in New York Review of Books Second part of an article on three books examining modern psychiaty’s reliance on unproven science, unscientific diagnoses and unproven medications to treat the increasingly large portion of the human condition that it … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, medication madness
Tagged epidemic, Psychiatric medication, Robert Whitaker
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Where is its mind? What the battle over it’s ‘bible’ says about psychiatry
Is the time up for the notion that mental “illness” can be categorised and fixed with drugs? A wry reflective artivle about Elliot Spritzer, whose brainchild it was to collate a handy guide to diagnosis- to make it easier, more … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, Ideas, medication madness, The Mad Ones
Tagged psychiatry;epidemic;psychiatric medications
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