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Category Archives: making sense of “mental illlness”
What is “psychosis”?
Look it up and you’ll find all kinds of nonsense up/downloaded as answer to that question, most commonly: “Loss of contact with reality.” What does that even mean? For sure, whoever says that to you most assuredly has. Truth … Continue reading
Posted in Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., hell is other people, psychosis
Tagged psychosis, reality
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#NOTokay
Reposting a piece by a good friend to recoverynetwork:toronto – one of the millions who shared their first experiences over the last few days. To men everywhere: It’s time to end this crap. #NOTokay #notMYshame #endthiscrap #notokay by … Continue reading
Posted in bad things happen and they fuck you up, Crazy World, Emancipate yourself..., shit is f#cked
Tagged #NOTmyshame, #NOTokay
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Medicating a Prophet
With the kind of fervour that only attaches to false certainty we tell ourselves that which we call “psychosis” is a thing separate from anything else, a thing separate from us, a thing we understand and a thing we know … Continue reading
Posted in Difference and Diversity, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness"
Tagged drugs, prophet, psychosis
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fish on a hook
I think a lot of us are wriggling.
That’s seen as a kind of illness without the vision of the hooks that we’re bound by.
So it seems that our behaviour is very crazy, when in context it isn’t.
Mike Lawson Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, Crazy World, Emancipate yourself..., Healing, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness"
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Open letter from a mother in recovery
The thing we call “Mental Health” system so often clamps its iron jaws around us – disabling not just the person given the diagnosis but also their entire family. The effect can be devastating, and it often takes a decade or … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., family, Healing, Learning, my story, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged family
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I can’t stand up for falling down – Elvis Costello
I can’t stand up for falling down I can’t stand up for falling down “I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down” I’m the living result I’m a man who’s been hurt a little too much And I’ve tasted the … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, life, making sense of "mental illlness", music
Tagged Elvis, I Can't Stand Up
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I am amazed by the strength of the human spirit and never give up hope
Lucy Johnstone walks us through a day in her life working as clinical psychologist on a community mental health team in an area of great social depravation. She explains how, rather than simply hand them a list of symptom to check … Continue reading
A person given a diagnosis of “psychosis” is 15 times more likely to …
Wonder how the “voice inside your head” finished off that sentence… Some straight talking… Here’s some data: A person who has been given a diagnosis of psychosis is three times more likely to have been abused as a child than … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Crazy World, making sense of "mental illlness", mental illness? or..., psychosis, Trauma
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The Sanity of Insanity
Madness is not only understandable – its sometimes necessary Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, Learning, Mad Pride, making sense of "mental illlness"
Tagged Creativity, insanity, Mad Moments, sanity
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we reduce ourselves to fiddling around…
When we reduce our understanding of human struggle
to a problem of brain chemicals
we reduce ourselves
to fiddling around with chemicals Continue reading
Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, medication madness, myths about mental illness, non-compliant, shit is f#cked, what's going on?
Tagged chemicals, fiddle
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