Category Archives: mental illness? or…

How new psychiatric diagnoses are established


Let’s just make some shit up. Continue reading

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What’s spaghetti sauce got to do with it?


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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If you have come to help me you are wasting your time…


If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. Continue reading

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Brene Brown on Blame


Brene Brown at RSA Shorts Brene Brown at a meeting of  Blamers Anonymous… How many of you are blameless? How many of you when something goes wrong, the first thing you wanna know is whose fault is it? . “Hi, My … Continue reading

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We are deep down inside you. Mr Robot


We are deep down inside you. You can’t leave us and we can’t leave you, ever. Continue reading

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I SEE WORDS, I HEAR VOICES


How do you share an experience when it does not come through the usual senses, common to others? recoverynetwork: Toronto is honored to be invited to collaborate with international artist Dora Garcia as her exhibition visits Toronto and The Powerplant. … Continue reading

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I’m not smart enough to understand


If someone says something I don’t understand it doesn’t mean they are crazy
– it means I’m not smart enough to understand.
V.S. Ramachandran Continue reading

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Inside Homer’s Head


What’s it like inside your head?
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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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Giant In My Heart – Kiesza


Wow doo doo doo doo dow           “Giant In My Heart” I’m trying to pretend it isn’t true But even when I want its like I can’t get over you Over you Over you, over you … Continue reading

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