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Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
Where do you feel it in your body ?
MAD, innit?
Psychosis 2.0 Infosheet
The Voices are Real – and now The Shirts Are Real Too
Category Archives: Ideas
The Sanity of Insanity
Madness is not only understandable – its sometimes necessary Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, Learning, Mad Pride, making sense of "mental illlness"
Tagged Creativity, insanity, Mad Moments, sanity
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we spend billions…
Billions on Bollocks: that ‘s what mental health spending looks like. Continue reading
Posted in bollocks, Crazy World, Ideas, medication madness, policing madness
Tagged Billions, bollocks
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we reduce ourselves to fiddling around…
When we reduce our understanding of human struggle
to a problem of brain chemicals
we reduce ourselves
to fiddling around with chemicals Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, medication madness, myths about mental illness, non-compliant, shit is f#cked, what's going on?
Tagged chemicals, fiddle
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The Schizo Stereotype
Jim Van Os and his gert list of “schizo” stereotypes “Schizophrenia” is not a thing its an idea. Its not a thing we can catch or contract , become infected with or born with. Its an idea, a story. And if … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, psychosis
Tagged Franz Fanon, non-human, Schizo, stereotype
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K.K.P.D. – Christian Scott
Christian Scott a Tunde Adjuah Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Difference and Diversity, Ideas, Listening, music
Tagged Christian Scott, K.K.P.D.
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nonconformity and the creative life
Jason Silva on living life as creative process, escaping the orbit of others’ ideas of who or what they want us to be, becoming our own ordinary hero, and choosing our own reality tunnels. Diagnose that….eh? Related
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas
Tagged Jason Silva, Reality Tunnel; Hero's journey., Shots of Awe
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A long, complex and stubborn history with trauma
Bessel van der Kolk at bigthink.org offers a potted history of psychiatry and society’s difficult relationship with trauma. Psychiatry started as study of what were then deemed bizarre behaviours, but discovered they were understandable when considered in context with extraordinary … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, anatomy of an epidemic, Crazy World, Healing, making sense of "mental illlness", medication madness, real disorders in a crazy world, Trauma
Tagged Bessel Van der Kolk, Healing, Trauma
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when we change the way we look at things…
When we change the way we look at things what we look at changes -Max Plank There is no such thing as “objective reality” that can be observed by wholly objective observer. The very act of observing changes what is … Continue reading
Those who hear voices…
There are those who hear voices and those who haven’t yet. Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Difference and Diversity, hearing voices, human diversity, Trauma
Tagged hearing voices, voice hearer
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