Category Archives: Ideas

I want you to act

Posted on July 23, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. I want you to act. I want you to act as you … Continue reading →

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Illness? or Dangerous Gifts? Sascha Altman DeBrul

Posted on July 17, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto Coffee and That Jazz 72 Howard Park Ave 6pm to 8pm. First Monday of each month – except when its the second monday because of holidays. For those willing to open themselves to listen, willing to … Continue reading →

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and you called me…

Posted on June 4, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 drkenplacebo

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 drkenplacebo

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 →