Category Archives: Crazy World

M.U.D.D. – Medically Unexplained Disorder Disorder

Posted on March 6, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Sounds like something from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. In fact it sounds just like Catch #22 itself. When they got you they got you, you can’t escape because escaping is why they got you in the first place. Certainly sounds … Continue reading →

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I wanna be sedated – The Ramones

Posted on March 5, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Twenny-twenny-twenny-four-hours ago-oho! “I Wanna Be Sedated “Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothin’ to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated Just get me to the airport put me on a plane Hurry … Continue reading →

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you see all kinds of weird shit

Posted on February 23, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Hector DeJean, played by Rhys Ifans, is a stereotypical hard-ass-jerk character in “Berlin Station”, here he’s being interviewed/ interrogated for an investigation into an “op” that went “bad”. This is his response to being asked : Tell me more … Continue reading →

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Experiences of being a psychiatric patient in the community, reclassified as “other’’

Posted on February 21, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

What’s it like being designated as a “psychiatric patient” reclassified from human being to “case” ? I wonder, even, how many of you have even met a clinician who could be bothered to ask. Here’s one who does ask, Janecke Thesen … Continue reading →

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Suicides in northern Saskatchewan a result of colonization, not mental illness

Posted on February 16, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

From December, report at CBC News on a community Medicine Gathering to talk about a wave of young people ending their lives. Psychologist Dr. Darien Thira explains how suicide is not a sickness but a response to terrible unbearable pain; … Continue reading →

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Diagnostical Bolloxupification

Posted on February 6, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

If the institution and business of psychiatry can make up disorders “because we could” then we can make up names for what that their doing that does to we humans. Neologism is not, as they would have it, a “symptom” … Continue reading →

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The Bottle – Gil Scott Heron

Posted on February 5, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

See that black boy over there, runnin’ scared His ol’ man’s in a bottle. He done quit his 9 to 5 to drink full time So now he’s livin’ in the bottle. See that Black boy over there, runnin’ scared … Continue reading →

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CRAZYWISE – documentary trailer

Posted on January 31, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Phil Borges is a photographer filmmaker storyteller whose work takes him all over the globe. Much of his work is documenting human rights stories of peoples from other cultures than the one that increasingly dominates the surface of our planet, … Continue reading →

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