Category Archives: Difference and Diversity

David Webb – Talking about Suicidal Feelings

Posted on November 21, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Changing the way we think about the urge to die David Webb is opening up a different conversation worldwide about suicide and what it means to individuals, and our understanding of ourselves that sometimes some of us have the urge to … Continue reading →

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mental illness system ?

Posted on November 13, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

just a question… what is this thing: the mental health system? …and do we actually have one? A society that treats every human fallibility as a deficiency, defect, or disorder that needs to be eradicated, cut out, drugged-away seems less about … Continue reading →

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madness radio live

Posted on November 1, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Leadership Project and INTAR bring you a free event

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Despondex

Posted on October 14, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

from the Onion News Network comes a report on an important new breakthrough drug aimed to cure the unsufferable cheeriness experienced by millions of N Americans. The report includes the usual rebuttal by some Doctor who says we can get the … Continue reading →

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Mad Pride Week 2011

Posted on July 12, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

What is Mad Pride? Mad Pride events take place around the world in growing celebration of our individual and collective power to live through mental challenges and to campaign for more humane approaches and equality of rights for those labelled by … Continue reading →

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Where is its mind? What the battle over it’s ‘bible’ says about psychiatry

Posted on July 11, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Is the time up for the notion that mental “illness” can be categorised and fixed with drugs? A wry reflective artivle about Elliot Spritzer, whose brainchild it was to collate a handy guide to diagnosis- to make it easier, more … Continue reading →

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Just Crazy Enough?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Joshua Walters at TED on his experience of being locked in a psych ward; on being diagnosed drugs guided by what was written on the side of the Doctor’s pen; investors seeking entrepreneurs with “hypomanic edge”; and reflecting onthe idea that none of … Continue reading →

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Sometimes, life is just really sad

Posted on April 28, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Sometimes, life is just really sad The movement to medicate grief is an insult to the human condition. Opinion piece by Barbara Kay, National Post Apr 27 2011 – Page A14. or… http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Sometimes+life+just+really/4680226/story.html

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recovery – with attitude

Posted on January 3, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Recovery is more about living than defining how we should live. It’s about being who we can be, about me living the life I can live rather than the life you want me to live so that you can feel comfortable. It’s … Continue reading →