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Category Archives: Ideas
JK Rowling: the fringe benefits of failure
JK Rowling talking to new Harvard graduates in 2008 on the two ideas she had for them: the importance of failure, and of imagination. …how she learned how each of these is more valuable than any qualification that she earned, and each is also … Continue reading
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Tagged failure, good life, imagination, j k rowling, Learning
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Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Event, Healing, hearing voices, mental diversity, my story, recovery perspectives, The Mad Ones
Tagged Healing, liberation, Madness, Toronto
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7 billion ways to be normal
Yesterday, Oct 31st 2011, the world human population reached 7,000,000,000 or seven billion. That’s seven billion ways to be human, seven billion different experiences of the world and seven billion expressions of what it means to be human – alive, right … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, mental diversity
Tagged 7billion, diversity, mental diversity, normal, Psychiatry, recovery
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Language is everything
A nice short essay by Greentongue on everything.2com part of a conversation on how language changes everything. Marvelling at a young daughter’s ability to switch languages when moving between countries, and reflecting on how later as a teen she chose … Continue reading
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Tagged everything, language, speaking my language
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Where is its mind? What the battle over it’s ‘bible’ says about psychiatry
Is the time up for the notion that mental “illness” can be categorised and fixed with drugs? A wry reflective artivle about Elliot Spritzer, whose brainchild it was to collate a handy guide to diagnosis- to make it easier, more … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, Ideas, medication madness, The Mad Ones
Tagged psychiatry;epidemic;psychiatric medications
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Just Crazy Enough?
Joshua Walters at TED on his experience of being locked in a psych ward; on being diagnosed drugs guided by what was written on the side of the Doctor’s pen; investors seeking entrepreneurs with “hypomanic edge”; and reflecting onthe idea that none of … Continue reading
Posted in medication madness, mental diversity, mental skillness, my story, The Mad Ones
Tagged hypomanic edge, one man show, psych ward, zyprexa
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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? Part 1
If you thought Americans were crazy then the US Government’s own data provides powerful evidence that they are getting there. But they are not the only ones – the story is increasingly similar in many western nations that have adopted … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, Ideas, medication madness, recovery perspectives
Tagged Anatomy of an Epidemic;;Psychiatry;, Robert Whitaker, The Trouble With Psychiatry
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Sometimes, life is just really sad
Sometimes, life is just really sad The movement to medicate grief is an insult to the human condition. Opinion piece by Barbara Kay, National Post Apr 27 2011 – Page A14. or… http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Sometimes+life+just+really/4680226/story.html
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Tagged sad;sadness;life
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The Brain That Changes Itself
Norman Doidge, MD The human brain, as we are now quickly learning, has a remarkable ability to change itself : rewire or re-programme itself. Neuroplasticity is the name given to the relatively new understanding that our brain is plastic – meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, Brain That Changes Itself, Healing, Health, Neuroplasticity, Norman Doidge
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Invincible Summer
In midst of winter I found within me an invincible summer. Albert Camus Photo – Ed. Toronto, west end. Mar 4th, 2011
Posted in Healing, Ideas
Tagged Albert Camus, hope, resilience; winter; invincible summer
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