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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: Trauma
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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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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A smart move
Everyone has the right to behave like an asshole every now and then
Occasionally, it turns out to have been a smart move. Continue reading
How new psychiatric diagnoses are established
Let’s just make some shit up. Continue reading
Bad things happen and they f#ck you up
Bad things happen and they fuck you up. Continue reading
Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
“Immigrant Song” Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing … Continue reading
Compassion for Voices
Hearing Voices is a common human experience.
It can often be linked to something difficult or painful that’s happened in the past -or happening right now.
Posted in Healing, hearing voices, Ideas, Trauma
Tagged compassion, Eleanor Longden, hearing voices, Rufus May
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in this world no one can be different or strange or damaged – or they lock you up
In this world no one can be different or strange or damaged
or they lock you up. Continue reading
Life doesn’t frighten me
“I wrote this poem for all children, who for some reason whistle in the dark and who refuse to admit that they’re frightened out of their wits.” -Maya Angelou From the book combining Maya Angelou’s words with Jean Michel Basquiat’s … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, sh!t is f#cked, Trauma
Tagged Angelou, Basquait, life, Life doesn't frighten me
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Psychosis is in the eye of the beholder
What is “psychosis” ? we pretend it’s a fixed thing with clear boundaries, yet it is not. We pretend it’s a thing that some of us have and some of us don’t have and never never will. We do a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, psychosis, Trauma, what's going on?
Tagged psychosis, real, reality, symptom. disconnect
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