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Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
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Category Archives: human potential
Voices Matter
Voices Matter is a 23 min movie documenting the World Hearing Voices Congress 2013 in Cardiff, Wales. The hearing voices movement is 25 years old began when Patsy Hague asked of her psychiatrist Dr Marius Romme : “how come you believe in … Continue reading
born to learn – adolescence is not a mental disorder
How did we come to see adolescence as a problem? Worse yet, how did we come to accept some dodgy doctor’s treament of adolescence as some kind of diagnosable mental illness? and one that is best dealt with by administering … Continue reading
Posted in human potential, Learning, what's going on?
Tagged Adolescence, Albert Einstein, Education, evolution, Learning, Mental disorder, mental health
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Thank God For That -Hugh McLeod
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: The world will always, ALWAYS conspire to make you less than you are. Even the well-intentioned parts of it. The question is, do you let it? Decide. ________________________________________
Mental illness at work: the last taboo
Article from [UK] Daily Telegraph , stories of three women and their experiences of difference, disability and the difficulty of staying in or getting back into work. Includes the very wonderful Rachel Waddingham who joined us by Skype in September … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., human potential, mental diversity, recovery perspectives, work
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Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do – Oliver Sacks
Opinion piece by Oliver Sacks in NYTimes Sunday review yesterday . Sacks is a neurologist and author of many books. He has a new book – published tomorrow – Hallucinations. The only part of this article I’d ask Dr Sacks to … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, human potential, Ideas, mental diversity, psychosis, The Mad Ones, what's going on?
Tagged Hallucination, Oliver Sacks
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Peel schools Stand Up for student mental health
School’s in today! here’s a fine short info film produced by Peel District Schoolboard… A simple reminder how easy it is to be left feeling alone, bewildered and strange, that we ar ethe only one who stuggles and that whatever is … Continue reading
haunted by voices
Article today 23 Aug 2012 in The West Australian From Western Australia, a nice snippet on the Hearing Voices approach and how its working out in Australia. Lest you think that if a person hears voices then they must be ill, then … Continue reading
Learning from the voices in my head – Eleanor Longdon
Eleanor Longdon at TEDx London in 2012 telling her story of going to university, eagerly entering the student life fine times, but underneath deeply unhappy but skilled at hiding it. Then she began hearing a voice – ” my strange commentator” – and mistake … Continue reading
The gift of a free-spirited daughter
The gift of a free-spirited daughter MARY D’EON The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, May. 24 2012, 1:24 PM EDT When people ask me what my 20-year-old daughter is currently doing, I tread carefully, weighing how much I … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., human potential
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