Category Archives: Difference and Diversity

song 2 – blur


Song 2 – Blur Songwriters: ROSS, ATTICUS / REZNOR, TRENT Whoohoo! Whoohoo! Whoohoo! Whoohoo! I got my head checked By a jumbo jet It wasn’t easy but nothing is No Whoohoo! When I feel heavy metal Whoohoo! And I’m pins … Continue reading

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Thanks Brain!


My fiend Skillzy over at MentalSkillness.com – or is it Skillzy’s brain?- contemplating on and giving thanks for having a remarkable brain that mostly does a great job, sometimes does an amazing job and which now and then has a … Continue reading

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these boots are made for walking – nick cave


are you ready boots? start walking…

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the cave – mumford & sons


tis a weekend of  footstomping head banging drum thumping banjo playing mandolin thashing life affirming singalongin’ with mumford & sons’… “The Cave” It’s empty in the valley of your heart The sun, it rises slowly as you walk Away from all … Continue reading

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World Hearing Voices Day – Friday 14th September 2012


World Hearing Voices Day for updates, including programme for afternoon session click here World Hearing Voices Day, Friday, 14th September celebrates hearing voices as part of the diversity of human experience, increasing awareness of the fact that you can hear … Continue reading

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See a psychiatrist? Are you mad?


This is a great article from the UK’s The Observer [ Guardian] three years ago, now.  A review  by a former psychotherapist-turned author Salley Vickers.of a book by Prof Richard Bentall: Doctoring the Mind – probably his easiest book to read. … Continue reading

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who are the brain police – Frank Zappa


In 1966 England won a game of football but more importantly,Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention invented psychedelia as a musical form…. What will you do if we let you go home, And the plastic’s all melted, And so … Continue reading

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Architecture of Mad


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Learning from the voices in my head – Eleanor Longdon


Eleanor Longdon at TEDx London in 2012 telling her story of going to university, eagerly entering the student life fine times, but underneath deeply unhappy but skilled at hiding it.  Then she began hearing a voice – ” my strange commentator” – and mistake … Continue reading

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mars project – Jonathan Balazs and Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart


Help support  an important  local movie project about mental health, labelling people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and the right to choose  own explanations of our experiences. ‘A decade ago rapper Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart was diagnosed with a psychological disorder, but … Continue reading

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