Category Archives: The Mad Ones

when reality resembles the wildest imagination – Gabriel Garcia Marquez


  Related… reality leaves a lot to the  imagination  https://recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/reality-leaves-a-lot-to-they-imagination-john-lennon/ is this the real thing?  https://recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/is-this-the-real-thing-2/ reality used to be a friend of mine   https://recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/reality-used-to-be-a-friend-of-mine-pm-dawn/

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I just want to be me – Small Potatoes


boom da boom da boom da boom da da da boom badoom boom boom… I think punk rock is somewhere like where the really cool people like do their own style of music… one! two! three! four!  

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fascination – Cabaret Voltaire


Slipping into new disguise, Your eyes know, your body lies. This fascination. This fascination. This, fascination.           Slipping into new disguise, Your eyes know, your body lies. This fascination. This fascination. This, fascination. Your thoughts, closed … Continue reading

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the unreasonable man -George Bernard Shaw


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Hearing voices can be a good thing – Jeanette Winterson


  Jeanette Winterson, author, playwright, on how hearing voices can be a good thing,  and on how madness is not the end but the start of a healing process. And if, because of that, you want to put her in … Continue reading

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There is no should – Yoda


   Okay, so Yoda may not have said it exactly like this in the movie but if humans can hear voices then a voice can hear little green fella, Guiness, or no Guiness.  Next time you find yersel surrounded by … Continue reading

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CRAAZY – Rebel Diaz, ft C-Ray Walz


listen herewe done preachin to the choirwe stayed on the block took the neighborhood higheri guess i just listen to the little voice speakinthe one that saidneva deny what u seekinthat made me a believerque todo es possiblemi flow como … Continue reading

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escaping the asylum mentality – Rufus May


In an article in Occupied Times Rufus May announces his plans to leave the NHS [National Health Service] in  UK where he attempted, for  eighteen years working as a clinical psychologist to bring change to services from the inside – … Continue reading

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diagnose this…..


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Rio – Samba is Mental Health


Get your dancing shoes on. Mental Health services Rio style, as reported in NY Times. NYTimes 3rd Mar, 2014 RIO DE JANEIRO — Standing high atop a truck rigged with speakers, André da Silva Lisboa cried out to hundreds of … Continue reading

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