Category Archives: human diversity

Those who hear voices…

Posted on June 8, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

There are those who hear voices and those who haven’t yet. Continue reading →

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no measure of health…

Posted on October 31, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti Continue reading →

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stranger than we can think – Heisenberg

Posted on March 24, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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escaping the asylum mentality – Rufus May

Posted on March 21, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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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there’s a voice inside everyone – Bob Marley

Posted on March 3, 2014 by dave umbongo

this is to the people that have a voice inside of them that talk to them,
you know, that is the voice that people must listen to,
because in everything you gonna do there is a wrong way and a right way,
and if you listen good you will know the right way,
because there is a voice inside talking to everyone, seen?
Robert Nesta Marley
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Seeing things? Hearing things? Many of us do – Oliver Sacks

Posted on January 31, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Short piece by Oliver Sacks from Nov 2012 in the lead up to publication of his book “Hallucinations”. Seeing things, hearing things, thinking things, feeling things that others don’t is what humans do- we all see, hear feel think in … Continue reading →

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who – David Byrne & St Vincent

Posted on January 26, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Who walks this dusty road? Who always pulls their weight? Who’s this?! Inside of me Who made a big mistake Who sees these constellations Seen in those spinning round Carry these men and women Who get lost when the sun … Continue reading →

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Midnight’s Children

Posted on January 20, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Salman Rushdie’s magical realism tale of children born around  midnight on August 15, 1947, when India transitioned into independent Republic of India – “born in the hour of freedom, handcuffed to history”. The central character Saleem is born on the … Continue reading →

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not being like everybody else is not the same as being sick…

Posted on January 9, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“…if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but … Continue reading →

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living with extreme states and difficult experiences – Jan 2014

Posted on December 7, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Do you live with…? voices? visions? dissociations? “delusions” difficult thoughts? other altered, “extreme” “unusual” states and exriences? all kinds of “crazy batshit stuff” others just don’t “get” or understand? Are you looking for… a safe place to explore different understandings, … Continue reading →

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