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.

Hearing Voices Training – Workshop #1: Accepting Voices – Fri 14th Oct 2016

Posted on April 19, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This unique and innovative workshop offers you a non-diagnostic understanding of the kinds of experiences like hearing voices that are that are sometimes called “psychosis”. Continue reading →

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“Schizophrenia” does not exist

Posted on April 18, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Jim Van Os and his big list of schitzo stereoptypes “Schizophrenia” does not exist. That some people struggle and suffer and become isolated by that is not in doubt, especially here. That they suffer because they have a “thing” and … Continue reading →

Posted in Adversity, hearing voices, hell is other people, Ideas, myths about mental illness, psychosis, real disorders in a crazy world, what's going on? | Tagged bollocks, Jim van Os, schizophrenia, sciencey, stereotype | 13 Comments

I’m the Map!

Posted on April 7, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

If there’s a place you gotta get… I’m the map. -The Map Maps are useful – they can help us making sense of our world and for navigating our way round. A map is not the territory it represents. … Continue reading →

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How new psychiatric diagnoses are established

Posted on February 26, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Let’s just make some shit up. Continue reading →

Posted in Crazy World, making sense of "mental illlness", manamana, mental illness? or..., myths about mental illness, Trauma | 6 Comments

What’s spaghetti sauce got to do with it?

Posted on February 19, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Malcom Gladwell’s TED talk about spaghetti sauce tells the story of how Howard Moskowitz changed not only the world of spaghetti sauce but started off how these days we shop for pretty much anything. As Malcom Gladwell says, go into … Continue reading →

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Me-n-The Universe

Posted on January 5, 2016 by dave umbongo

Funny creatures, humans, as if the entire universe is created for them to judge, to decide decide: good- evil, stuff I like-stuff I hate so it can be filed categorically and permanently in convenient little boxes fixed for eternity – … Continue reading →

Posted in Crazy World, Philosopy or Pill-osophy ?, sh!t is f#cked, shit is f#cked | Tagged Martin Buber, Stuff I hate, Universe | Comments Off

We live in a kingdom of bullshit…

Posted on December 1, 2015 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Is any of it real?
We live in a kingdom of bullshit.
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Connecting To Madness – Jim van Os

Posted on November 2, 2015 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Jim van Os is a psychiatrist who knows understands the devastating consequences of the widespread stereotype of schizo diagnoses. He has been actively researching into relations between environment and diagnoses, especially early adverse experiences and how they relate to becoming … Continue reading →

Posted in Adversity, Healing, hearing voices, Ideas, intrusive thoughts, Psychiatry, Weird | 5 Comments

Psychosis is in the eye of the beholder

Posted on October 28, 2015 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 | 3 Comments

Talk therapy shown to be effective for those experiencing first episode psychosis

Posted on October 27, 2015 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Since Freud, psychiatry and medicine has held with the assumtion that talk therapies can not work for “the psychoses”. Of course, that notion was never founded upon anything other than some beardy bloke’s prejudices, and reinforced by the beardy, patrician … Continue reading →