Category Archives: Ideas

in many ways voices are just like people…


In many ways voices are just like humans
sometimes we have important, insightful and worthwhile things to say, so you may want to listen…
but mostly we’re just full of crap.
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Bullied children five times more likely to suffer psychotic episodes


More from the work of Dieter Wolke and his team who research the effects of  bullying. They found that… children who are bullied in younger years are almost five times more likely to have difficult time with  experiences like hearing voices … Continue reading

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Writer David Mitchell- on conversing with the characters in his novels


Hearing voices others don’t and think you’re going crazy? Think again. In some cultures it’s those who don’t, or can’t  hear voices  who are regarded as troubled. Know that all kinds of people do hear all kinds of voices – … Continue reading

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66% of world leaders hear voices


We know that two of these three world leaders heard voices.
All we know about the third is that he never told us he did.
Would you? Continue reading

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the power of networks


We like networks. In a network no one of us gets to be in charge of the rest of us. No one of us gives ourselves the job of telling the rest what to do and how to do it. Networks mimic nature instead … Continue reading

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Prescription, Peer Support and the Pharaoh


Peer support : what have prescription, Opression and Yul Brynner got to do with it? Continue reading

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walls come tumbling down – The Style Council


You don’t have to take this crap…           Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down Lyrics You don’t have to take this crap You don’t have to sit back and relax You can actually try changing … Continue reading

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The wisdom of Cows


Some days it seems we could learn from others… From The School of Life, a few things we might learn from our bovine better angels… Some highlights…  It’s weird they exist at all You can’t tell what a cow is … Continue reading

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Freedom is what we do with what’s been done to us


Freedom is what we do with what’s been done to us.
Jean Paul Sartre Continue reading

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I don’t want other people deciding who I am.


I don’t want other people deciding who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
Emma Watson Continue reading

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