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.

Sleep deprivation induces psychosis in healthy humans


More research telling us what we already know – lack of sleep can lead to your world starting to look and feel very strange, and people treating you as less than human-  it is after all the the basis if … Continue reading

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“schizophrenia” – an idea, not a thing


“Schizophrenia is a number of symptoms that have been put together to say that ‘this is an illness’.
And that’s an idea, not a thing.”
Dr Kwame McKenzie Continue reading

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the hardest thing…


The hardest thing for people who hear voices
is the way they get treated by people who don’t. Continue reading

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beating me with that strop taught me something… Charles Bukowski


Hitting me with that strop taught me something…
how to type.
-Charles Bukowski Continue reading

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Tell Me That I’m Dreaming – Was (Not Was)


One man liked milk, now he owns a million cows Can you imagine all that milk?           MORE! Tell Me That I’m Dreaming – David Was, Don Was “Members of the Congress, I have the high … Continue reading

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I wonder: what do the voices say?


I don’t know about all “the voices” but here’s one word my voices say a lot. Continue reading

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Order of Canada for Pat Capponi recognizes advocacy for those living with mental illness


Pat Capponi had an extra birthday present yesterday – she was awarded the order of Canada yesterday in recognition of her tireless spirit and many years inspirational work advocating for and helping make change possible for the one-in-five [six million] Canadians who … Continue reading

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Bullied children five times more likely to suffer psychotic episodes


More from the work of Dieter Wolke and his team who research the effects of  bullying. They found that… children who are bullied in younger years are almost five times more likely to have difficult time with  experiences like hearing voices … Continue reading

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SUCK – Shriekback


I rattle like a train sometimes I take so much, Suck suck suck… Suck suck suck…     Suck Suck Quick glance at the primal soul red and black Flexing breathing out fire Suck Suck Copper teeth on the mainline … Continue reading

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UK: Totally F#cked?


The Three Stooges of Westminster Continue reading

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