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Category Archives: mental diversity
Chris Evans on learning to live with his “noisy brain”
Captain America offers a little peer support. Continue reading
Posted in human diversity, human potential, Ideas, Learning, mental diversity, mental skillness
Tagged brain noise, Captain America, monkey mind, noisy brain
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not being like everybody else is not the same as being sick…
“…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
Posted in human diversity, mental diversity, power
Tagged Borg, difference, diversity, institutions ressistance, knowledge, mental diversity, mental illness, Michel Foucault, Phil Thomas, power, sickness
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living with extreme states and difficult experiences – Jan 2014
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
World Psychiatry – time to wake up, wise up and fess up
Barely two-score years since the American Psychiatric Association, in a brief moment of rare insight into human nature, came to its senses and voted to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness by removing it from its big book of lies … Continue reading
Sometimes… Jonny Benjamin
Sometimes I eat cereal for breakfast Sometimes I eat toast for breakfast sometimes I eat breakfast on the go Sometimes I get intrusive thoughts… I won’t act on them and you probably don’t even notice. Sometimes I like nothing more … Continue reading
Posted in human diversity, intrusive thoughts, mental diversity
Tagged hearing voices, Intrusive thoughts, Jonny Benjamin, schizoaffective, schizophrenia
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I’ve always been a creative person… Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga talking on The Graham Norton Show about how she harnesses her voices to inspire her creativity… Short Clip [45sec] Full episode [37min]
DSM5 – mad, bad, or just plain daft ?
Only days to go in the countdown to the publication of the worlds most expensive doorstop DSM5. If you really do need a doorstop try your local dollar store – mine has two for $1.29 and they work perfectly well. … Continue reading
A disease called “childhood”
An opinion piece by Dr Allen Frances in New York Post pointing out how difficult it is to diagnose mental illness in teens, and all young people, and how the current practices lead to high levels of overdiagnosis, which in … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, mental diversity, what's going on?
Tagged ADHD, ALLEN FRANCES, Big Pharma, childhood, DSM-5, magical thinking
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fuck “stigma”
easy print [pdf] version fuck stigma – understanding stigma
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., mental diversity, The Mad Ones
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recovery without medications
A brief clip by Daniel Mackler, in interview with Dr Ross talking about a patient who was experiencing horrific voices . After being able to talk with Dr Ross and explore what the experience might mean, she was able to … Continue reading
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