Category Archives: sh!t is f#cked

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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Chokehold: Stop and Frisk

Posted on August 14, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Stop-and-frisks are brutal assertions of police dominance on African American men, through sexual harassment, torture and even terrorism. Continue reading →

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How I feel – A tribe Called Red

Posted on July 1, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

And it’s hard to listen- but listen
Cause it’s much harder living it than listening…
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Wonder Woman at the UN

Posted on June 19, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Next instalment – Dainius Pras reveals his superpowers…

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Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis ?

Posted on May 3, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Op-Ed piece in New York Times by Psychiatrist and Psychopharmacologist Richard A. Friedman on the limitations of his own profession’s claims to being the world’s foremost authority and body of knowledge but yet limits its own understanding of the struggles … 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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the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority

Posted on January 16, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority. Martin Luther King Jr.

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documentary – history of the madhouse

Posted on January 5, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Unglossy telling of the story of Asylums from their opening to closing and “Care in The Community” and draconian laws to control those we fear “might do something”.
– How did we come to were we are?
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