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Category Archives: making sense of “mental illlness”
Dying By Prescription: Oxycontin controversy
Global TV’s Current affairs show 16×9 [Canada] Published on Aug 22, 2012 Part 1 – Oxycotin was touted as a miracle, pain relief with few side effects and less addictive than morphine. Soon it was the most prescribed drug in … Continue reading
Posted in addictive behaviours, medication madness
Tagged addiction, iatrogenia, iatrogenic, oxy, Oxycodone
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If I hear the voice of an angel – Jean Paul Sartre
On 28th October 1945, Jean Paul Sartre gave an important lecture titled: Existentialism is a Humanism. He included a passage about a woman who heard a voice she interpreted as the voice of God. If a voice speaks to me it is I … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, psychosis, The Mad Ones
Tagged Existentialism, Existentialism Is a Humanism, God, Humanism, Jean Paul Sartre
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DSM5 – mad, bad, or just plain daft ?
Only days to go in the countdown to the publication of the worlds most expensive doorstop DSM5. If you really do need a doorstop try your local dollar store – mine has two for $1.29 and they work perfectly well. … Continue reading
dustbin dance – Spike Milligan
when you’re feeling low down and you can’t find rom-a-a-a-nce leap into a dustbin and dance and why not? when you’re feeling low down and you can’t find rom-a-a-a-nce leap into a dustbin and dance!!! when your freinds forsake you … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness", The Mad Ones
Tagged Arts, Dance, dustbin dance, Skiope Milligan
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From psychiatric patient to human being: My journey in a nutshell.
A wonderfully open and frank piece by Flo Bellamy about her struggles and her encounter with psychiatric services that could only medicate her: so making her even more ill. Then how she and her family discovered the movie “The Doctor Who hears Voices” … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, medication madness, psychosis
Tagged Flo Bellamy, Healing, hearing voices, Psychology, recovery, Rufus May
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Risk of death in road traffic accident 1,100 times greater than homicide by a stranger with psychosis
It’s a truism that the media likes to make a splash of stories of people involving people with mental illness committing violent crimes: trumpeting how “these people” represent a grave danger to society and fuelling often hysterical calls for … Continue reading
Posted in psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged discrimination, human rights, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, schizophrenia, violence
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CDCC 2013 – From Chaos To Calm: Reaching Youth
Chaos to Calm-Reaching Youth 2013 Child Development and Community Conference The 2013 Child Development & Community Conference (CDCC) is expected to address areas surrounding relationship building and attachments with children from birth through to adolescence. This year’s conference will foster … Continue reading
Posted in Event, family, youth
Tagged Child development, compassion, family, mental health, resilience, Teen, Teenager
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Recovery From Schizophrenia – An International Perspective
“In the late 1960s, the World Health Organization initiated a series of international studies of the incidence, characteristics, course, and consequences of schizophrenia. Those studies – the largest ever in the history of psychiatry – provided important data … Continue reading
is marriage a leading cause of serious “mental illness” ?
Still think people hear voices because they have a broken brain/ serious “mental illness”? Maybe they’re just married and their spouse has died. Try this… From research … Almost half of married people experience some form of seeing, hearing or … Continue reading
Posted in family, hearing voices, The Mad Ones
Tagged DSM-5, Hearing Voices Movement, mental health, schizophrenia, Stanley Cup, Wales
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