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Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
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Category Archives: Difference and Diversity
A Tale of Mental Illness – from the inside – Elyn Saks
ceci ce n’est pas “un schizophrenic “ . . . Elyn Saks delivers a powerful and courageous TED talk. “So I’m a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I’ve spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I might have ended up spending … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, family, mental skillness, psychosis, The Mad Ones
Tagged Elyn Saks, mental health, my story, Psychiatric medication, schizophrenia
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Cash for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
Which do you think would offer you a better chance of recovery? a lifetime of free products from the pharmaceutical industry or $200,000 cash This report by the most assuredly excellent Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research may surprise you, or … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, depression, medication madness, recovery perspectives, The Mad Ones
Tagged bonkers, depression, mental health
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Madness – Madness
Not their most famous song, but what a theme tune.
Posted in music, The Mad Ones
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Be yourself – everyone else is already taken
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde knew a thing or two about what can happen to those who might seem a little different to those who think it’s their job to decide how we should … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, The Mad Ones
Tagged Oscar Wilde
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lust for life
start the day well: play this loud and jump around like Iggy. …works better than a whole sock drawer full of meds – and the only known side effect is that if someone sees you they’ll laugh their socks off and maybe even … Continue reading
secrets of the sleeping brain – Matt Walker
Sleep, blessed sleep I think everybody I meet has some kind of trouble sleeping at least sometimes: be it quantity, quality or both. Yesterday I went to take a nap thinking it would be the normal half hour thing that works … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, psychosis, The Mad Ones
Tagged emotion, Matt Walker, psychosis, REM, sleep
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“schizophrenia” – sentence or diagnosis?
TVO The Agenda With Steve Paikin This program was aired Thursday 12 May as part of the Mental Health Matters series: an inquiry seeking to grapple with how much do we really know about what some call “schizophrenia”. Elyn R Saks, Law Professor at USC … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., hearing voices, psychosis, The Mad Ones, what's going on?
Tagged mental health, schizophrenia, Steve Paikin, TVOntario
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Wouldn’t it be nice…
Brain Wilson has talked about his experience of how he hears voices, often when he’s writing songs and performing… There’s another version with great clips of the Beach Boys in early pioneering “boy band” mode and goofing round – the embed … Continue reading
Posted in music, my story, resilience, The Mad Ones
Tagged Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, hearing voices
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The Maniac in Me – Daniel Smith
great piece from NY Times Magazine By Damiel Smith April 2012 The Maniac in Me Photo illustration by Clang By DANIEL SMITH Published: April 20, 2012 26 Comments My brother Scott and I talk about anxiety the way some brothers talk … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, my story, The Mad Ones
Tagged Anxiety, Buddhism, Health, mental health
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diagnosis for dummies
The increasing usefulness of DSM with every revision is clearly illustrated here in this ‘ere photo. DSM-III clearly represented a great leap forward over previous versions… – it can hold open a much bigger, heavier door on a bright, breezy spring day. This … Continue reading
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Tagged APA, DSM, DSM-5, mental health
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