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Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
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Category Archives: Emancipate yourself…
Stomp! Brothers Johnson
Ev-er-y-bo-dy-take-it-to-the-top We’re Gonna Stomp all night… THE BROTHERS JOHNSON “Stomp” (Johnson and Temperton) Steppin’ out the weekends open wide Fill it up let’s blast the jams and ride While we’re cruisin’ around in the street Listen up for … Continue reading
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Tagged Brothers Johnson, disco, move your ass and your mind will follow, party!, Stomp
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the sky’s ablaze
The sky’s ablaze with ladies legs, he’d say
They’re kicking from the clouds, shoes fall through the morning haze
And splat like eggs amongst the crowds, can you see it, boy Continue reading
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Tagged Hallucination, Was (Not Was)
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ADHD Nation
From New York Times Book Review, a review by Steve Silberman of ADHD Nation written by Alan Schwarz and telling the story of the Making of an American Epidemic, one that has sadly been followed in many other countries. Disorders … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., sh!t is f#cked
Tagged ADHD, attention, epidemic, Kids, Schools
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Gandhi – the hearing of the Voice
No, it’s not the TV show. For those who prefer a more spiritual explanation, weaver Mahatma Gandhi on hearing the Voice, preceded by great struggle within him, then it came to offer him clear direction of “right path”. His commitment … Continue reading
Open letter from a mother in recovery
The thing we call “Mental Health” system so often clamps its iron jaws around us – disabling not just the person given the diagnosis but also their entire family. The effect can be devastating, and it often takes a decade or … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., family, Healing, Learning, my story, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged family
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likely the effects of a particularly powerful psychological trauma…
“may well be the effects of particularly powerful psychological trauma” These are the words of Eugene Bleuler when he first coined the term “schizophrenia” as a way of naming and understanding what he had been observing in patients in his … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Trauma
Tagged Eugene Bleuer, Healing, Psychological trauma, Thorns in the spirit, William James, wounded soul
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One-in-three people suffer paranoia induced by researchers with clipboards on subway
From our Placebo Psychiatry Correspondent DrKen Placebo As my mentor, Dr Stanley Unwin said: ooH! Frabjous, frabjous Joy! Enfoldiwold manifestunfoldywoldy. Article published in Brexit Journal of Pigeon Pokers: BJP Article Telegraph: … Continue reading
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Define: how power-over works…
In physics, power is the capacity to do work – like lift a weight or boil water to make steam- work is something that might be exploited in some useful in some way. Human systems are far messier and … Continue reading
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Tagged define, Dr Robin Smith, Klaatu, power, power-over
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The voice you hear when you read silently – Thomas Lux
The Voice You hear When You Read Silently is not silent, it is a speaking- out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*, a voice is *saying* it as you read. It’s the writer’s words, of course, in a literary … Continue reading
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Those fighting to be included…
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive.
Those fighting to keep those people out,
are.
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Tagged equality, Inclusion, John Stewart
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