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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: Healing
Medicating a Prophet
With the kind of fervour that only attaches to false certainty we tell ourselves that which we call “psychosis” is a thing separate from anything else, a thing separate from us, a thing we understand and a thing we know … Continue reading
Posted in Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness"
Tagged drugs, prophet, psychosis
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More to dying than meets the eye
Anyone over a certain age has likely had the kind of experience of a family member having died and being laid out in the poshest room of the house for a couple of days. These days that’s not how we … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, hearing voices, human diversity, Ideas
Tagged deathbed, vision
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fish on a hook
I think a lot of us are wriggling.
That’s seen as a kind of illness without the vision of the hooks that we’re bound by.
So it seems that our behaviour is very crazy, when in context it isn’t.
Mike Lawson Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Crazy World, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness"
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Understanding Trauma – Peter Levine and his Slinky
Peter Levine’s work unlocks our understanding of how trauma works within us – and how we can heal ourselves and find ways to support others in their healing, In this short [6min] clip he uses a slinky to demonstrate how … Continue reading
Posted in Abuse, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, Learning, Trauma
Tagged Peter Levine, Slinky, Trauma
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Heidegger in the Kitchen
I’m a Jelly Baby, You’re a Jelly Baby. Let’s cook. Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Philosopy or Pill-osophy ?, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged Heidegger, heisenberg, Let's cook, Walter
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reality is whatever you can get away with
What we can learn to make sense of is without limit. Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Healing, Learning
Tagged consciousness, Hunter S Thompson, lear, reality
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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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From Reductionism to Humanism, ISPS-US, Boston, Oct 28-30th
At the centre of any “mental illness” story is a person- a human being- who is in pain and who is struggling to find their place in the world – and it is they who do the real work.
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Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Event, Healing
Tagged Boston, conference. ISPS. ISPS-US, Expert by experience
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Trauma means Wound
Trauma means “wound”.
That’s it, no shit. Continue reading
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