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Category Archives: making sense of “mental illlness”
Mental health: The challenges of having a mentally ill parent
Article from Saturday’s Toronto Star, by Joanna Smith, part of a series. Mental health: The challenges of having a mentally ill parent Published on Friday October 12, 2012 Peter McCabe/For the Toronto Star Mike Santoro, 44, who has schizo-affective disorder, and … Continue reading
Posted in family, mania & depression, psychosis, The Mad Ones, what's going on?
Tagged mental health
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Schizophrenia – is one hundred years enough? Robin Murray
Sir Robin Murray is a Psychiatrist and one of the world’s leading researchers into what Psychiatry has, for the last 100 years, called “schizophrenia”. He spoke last week at the World Hearing Voices Congress, held in Cardiff [that’s the capital city … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged mental health, Paul Baker, Psychiatry, Robin Murray
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chemical warfare on children
An homage to Private Eye magazine The fastest growing “market” for so-called”antipsychotic” drugs is children. That the condition even exists is unproven. That the medications are any more effective than placebo [sugar] is unproven. That the medications are safe even in adults, … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, family
Tagged mental health
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The Medicated Child
If you found yesterdays’ post difficult to watch then gird yourself for this one. From 2008, PBS Frontline documentary The Medicated Child.
America’s Medicated Kids – Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux spends time with America’s diagnosed and medicated kids. You may be left wondering just who’s disorder is being treated by the kids taking the medications. Phamily mental health In one family mom proudly displays the phamily pharmacy – even … Continue reading
Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, family, medication madness, youth
Tagged Louis Theroux, mental health, Psychiatric medication
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coping with psychosis – PsyCope
If you live in a westernized society and experience “psychosis” – voices, visions; beliefs; altered states and other stuff then you likely have discovered that if you talk about it with friends family and strangers, and especially people with stethoscopes, … Continue reading
Posted in psychosis, The Mad Ones
Tagged hearing voices, mental health, psychosis, Support group
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Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia – Rossa Forbes
Here’s an excellent article by Rossa Forbes on MadInAmerica telling of her experience after her son began to struggle and was diagnosed. Rossa tells of her frustrations with the institutionalised limitations of support provided by healthcare system, the kind of well-meaning care that, at best, typically turns people … Continue reading
I hear, I hear what you don’t hear [documentary] – Robin Timmers
Robin Timmers’ experience with voice hearing. “I’m Robin Timmers and I hear voices – and I’m mentally healthy” A short [10 mins] documentary/ artistic interpretation of a common experience. Robin Timmers first hears voices after his mother passes away and he … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, psychosis, spirituality, The Mad Ones
Tagged hearing voices, mental health, psychosis
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Living With Voices – T M Lurmann
Here’s a very well written article published in American Scholar magazine, written by TM Lurhmann [thankyou M ] about a “new” way to live with voices. In North America it’s called “new”:. Compared with the “New World”, which to some of … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, mania & depression, mental diversity, psychosis
Tagged community, Healing, hearing voices, mental health
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