Category Archives: Difference and Diversity

call us crazy

Posted on July 14, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Greg MacDougall who wrote this piece on peer and survivor organising in Southern Ontario. Greg’s article made the cover of Canadian publication  The Dominion for it’s May 2013 edition. Greg also … Continue reading →

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crazy – Seal

Posted on July 13, 2013 by dave umbongo

No we’re never gonna survive unless We get a little bit crazy… . . .     In a church by the face He talks about the people going under Only child know A man decides after seventy years That … Continue reading →

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the combo – psychiatric soup

Posted on July 12, 2013 by dave umbongo

[…continued from Reducing the pool of normal] The Big Book of Woe, soup-in-a-can, psychiatrists as car mechanics and dreaming of white lavender scented  sheets… DSM and inclusion For all the fuss, at least DSM5 is, unlike  its predecessors,  inclusive – since its … Continue reading →

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reducing the pool of normal

Posted on July 11, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Has the biomedical myth : the one that has so completely dominated psychiatry and so, by extension, all “mental health” services , either by design or accident,  succeeded in reducing our idea of normal human experience  to the point that … Continue reading →

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mad reign, eh?

Posted on July 10, 2013 by dave umbongo

One way to enjoy Toronto’s new climate – mad rain /mad reign season. . . . Rain – enough to make you go hmmm! eh?   So, what’s with all the mad rain, eh? And how come it come midst this most … Continue reading →

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Mad Pride – The Great Escape 2005 – Bradford to Manchester

Posted on July 8, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The  Great Escape Bedpush 2005: Bradford to Manchester  Mad Pride is international – here’s an event a few years ago in England, trekking  40miles across the Pennines: from Bradford to Madchester and featuring, amonst others: a giant syringe, a porter’s trolley, Rufus … Continue reading →

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mind games – Kwame McKenzie

Posted on July 4, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Wonderful article by Kwame McKenzie in Walrus Magazine,  March 2013. In Mind Games, Kwame McKenzie takes us on a brief tour through the history of attempts to regularize and standardize diagnosis in psychiatry, encoded in three major systems of diagnosis – … Continue reading →

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is this the real thing…?

Posted on July 3, 2013 by dave umbongo

Is this the real thing or is this just fantasy? What is “real”? Is it just the crap on TV? If so, is it only real if it’s called “reality TV”? And  if it is reality TV whose reality is it … Continue reading →

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the mad ones – Jack Kerouac

Posted on July 2, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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groove is in the heart – Deee-lite

Posted on July 1, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

ooo laa- laa! Deee-lite-full ! We’re going to dance, We’re going to dance, We’re going to dance Andhave some fun The chills that you Spill up my back Keep me filledwith Satisfaction when we’re done Satisfaction of what’s to come … Continue reading →

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