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Category Archives: Ideas
knowledge and power and lifecrap – Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault rocked the world with his ideas and his efforts to reveal and question the relationships between claims to knowledge, claims to power and authority over others. No claim to authority, no matter how banal, comes without a corresponding … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, Philosopy or Pill-osophy ?, power, The Mad Ones
Tagged authority, Foucault, knowledge, Michel Foucault, power, support
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we can’t separate
If we want to understand what leads to people becoming ill, and how better to help them heal, then “we can’t separate the brain from the body and we can’t separate the person from their environment”. Western allopathic medicine is … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged chronic illness, environment, Gabor Mate, Health, Medicine, mental health
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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
Nelson Mandela
Posted in human diversity, human potential, Ideas, resilience
Tagged Nelson Mandella
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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]
The perils of categorical thinking
Dr Robert Sapolsky in the introductory lecture in his series – Introduction to Human Behavioural Biology. He spends the hour outlining and giving examples of the perils of categorical thinking. Most phenomena we might study exist on a continuum. To … Continue reading
sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken…
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Likewise, using the word “recovery” a lot doesn’t meant you are actually supporting people in finding their own personal version . Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, The Mad Ones
Tagged butt, Chicken, Feather, mental health, recovery
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consciousness really digs everything – Jack Kerouac
The human experience can be wonderful, wacky, weird and downright frightening and overwhelming. Choosing a stance that we can learn how to live with whatever the universe might find toss way through, takes endless small acts of courage – but … Continue reading
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