Category Archives: making sense of “mental illlness”

got a diagnsis? trying to make sense of what it means?
A diagnosis can be a good place to start understanding – it might even be enough for you.

For most of us it is not the end but the start of making our own sense of what is happening in our life and what we can do about it.

“Depression” : a call to deep rest ?

Posted on January 30, 2023 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The language of “mental health” pretends to an authority and a scientific exactitude it does not deserve and never earned.And, this language rarely offers much help when it comes to really understanding our pain, making sense of how we got … Continue reading →

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Self-Help – a poyem by Len Pennie

Posted on February 21, 2022 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

“Good news, we’ve cracked the codeSome jeanyus on the internet has figured out depression” Len Pennie

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Hearing Voices Workshop #1 Accepting Voices – Thu, 02 May, 2019

Posted on February 2, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Limited Spaces Available. Tilt your universe blowing your mind and / or gaining a whole new perspective on experiences that we’re taught to fear and to believe that we can’t possibly understand in simple, human terms. We’ll be joined by … Continue reading →

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Patient Medicated is NOT a Health Outcome

Posted on January 23, 2019 by dave umbongo

“Patient Medicated” is NOT a Health Outcome. Continue reading →

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Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation By: Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D.

Posted on October 1, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The word “recovery” has now stuck onto every sentence uttered in mental health services just so we’ll know just how “recovery oriented” everything and everyone has now become. “Recovery oriented” is now an established branding but just what does that mean? … Continue reading →

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Workshop#1: Accepting Voices – Thu 29th Nov 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Pleased to announce, in community partnership with Inner City Family Health Team, this special opportunity to participate in our highly valued “liberating” , emancipatory”, even “universe-tilting” Workshop #1: Accepting Voices. This workshop offers a beginning, an introduction to a non-diagnostic, non-medical, human … Continue reading →

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you are not alone…

Posted on July 4, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This post is, in part, a response to an excellent article in Asylum magazine in which Akiko Hart expresses some concerns about the nature of the discourse in “mental health”, and makes a call for less concern with being right … Continue reading →

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Trying to control the mind is like trying to flatten out water – Prince Ea

Posted on May 12, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Trying to control the mind is like trying to flatten out water Prince Ea So your mind is outta control, huh? You wanna control the mind? Well, guess what? You can’t do it. Nobody can do it. Trying to control the mind … Continue reading →

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How the modern world makes us mentally unwell

Posted on May 11, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

From School of Life, Some of the ways that modern world we’ve built for ourselves and each other leads to so many of us struggling and becoming un-well. It’s so prevalent that we had to invent a name to call how we … Continue reading →