Category Archives: psychosis

Hearing Voices Workshop #1 Accepting Voices – Thu, 02 May, 2019

Posted on February 2, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Limited Spaces Available. Tilt your universe blowing your mind and / or gaining a whole new perspective on experiences that we’re taught to fear and to believe that we can’t possibly understand in simple, human terms. We’ll be joined by … Continue reading →

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Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation By: Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D.

Posted on October 1, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The word “recovery” has now stuck onto every sentence uttered in mental health services just so we’ll know just how “recovery oriented” everything and everyone has now become. “Recovery oriented” is now an established branding but just what does that mean? … Continue reading →

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Workshop#1: Accepting Voices – Thu 29th Nov 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Pleased to announce, in community partnership with Inner City Family Health Team, this special opportunity to participate in our highly valued “liberating” , emancipatory”, even “universe-tilting” Workshop #1: Accepting Voices. This workshop offers a beginning, an introduction to a non-diagnostic, non-medical, human … Continue reading →

Posted in Event, Healing, hearing voices, human diversity, Ideas, making sense of "mental illlness", psychosis | Tagged hearing voices, human experience, psychosis, Training, workshop | 1 Comment

psychosis is…

Posted on April 27, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Psychosis is a situation in which I’m struggling so much that you notice and you want me to take drugs so you can feel better. from psychosis2.0

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What is “psychosis”?

Posted on October 17, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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 | 2 Comments

The Schizo Stereotype

Posted on July 12, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Jim Van Os and his gert list of “schizo” stereotypes “Schizophrenia” is not a thing its an idea. Its not a thing we can catch or contract , become infected with or born with. Its an idea, a story. And if … Continue reading →

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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

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 →