Category Archives: Ideas

Illness? or Dangerous Gifts? Sascha Altman DeBrul

Posted on July 17, 2019 by

To label a state of being as “extreme” is  to pass judgement and to seek to box the unboxable, impose some prefered state order upon necessary chaos ? So who gets to judge if what you experience is “extreme” ? … Continue reading →

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Hearing Voices Cafe – Toronto 2019

Posted on June 4, 2019 by

Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto Coffee and That Jazz 72 Howard Park Ave 6pm to 8pm. First Monday of each month – except when its teh second monday. For those willing to open themselves to lisetn, to be changed by what … Continue reading →

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and you called me…

Posted on June 4, 2019 by

I shared with you some of how I struggle sometimes. And you called me…                                 SCHIZO… I said that I saw things differently, and that I … Continue reading →

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Choose your language…

Posted on May 13, 2019 by

This is not offered as a piece about “right language” and “wrong language”. It is clearly about language but it is really about choice- and the many choices we make whenever we use language to describe another person. Especially, for … Continue reading →

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The Immutable Law of Interminable Bollocks

Posted on March 3, 2019 by

There’s a lorra lorra  bollocks in this world, and sure is a lot of bollocks in mental health world. From another world that too has a lorra lorra bollocks – football – here’s a wee bit of inter-cross-diciplinary sharing and … Continue reading →

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Spot The Difference: Sewage and Mental Health

Posted on February 12, 2019 by

The shared language of two worlds: treating shit from people and treating people like shit people.
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That’s not ‘trauma’ that’s ‘traumatic’…

Posted on February 4, 2019 by

We have come to think and talk of traum as evil things that happend to us perpetrated by evil people. That’s a fairly new way of thinking about it, made up on the back of an envelope by a small number of people – you might be surprised where it comes from.
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Wide Open- Chemical Brothers ft. Beck

Posted on January 26, 2019 by

Wide Open The Chemical Brothers   I’m wide open But don’t I please you anymore? You’re slipping away from me You’re drifting away from me I’m wide open But don’t I please you anymore? You’re slipping away from me You’re … Continue reading →

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Patient Medicated is NOT a Health Outcome

Posted on January 23, 2019 by

“Patient Medicated” is NOT a Health Outcome. Continue reading →

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Mind, Mindfulness, Meditation and Bollocks

Posted on January 18, 2019 by

If you’ve been told “you should nmeditate”- you’ve been fed some right ol’ bollocks. If you’ve been told meditation is about quieting your mind, you’ve been fed a special kind of bollocks. Anyone who tells you that knows knob all. … Continue reading →

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