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Category Archives: my story
Wouldn’t it be nice…
Brain Wilson has talked about his experience of how he hears voices, often when he’s writing songs and performing… There’s another version with great clips of the Beach Boys in early pioneering “boy band” mode and goofing round – the embed … Continue reading
Posted in music, my story, resilience, The Mad Ones
Tagged Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, hearing voices
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Mental illness: Medication alone isn’t the answer
A sometimes hard to read article in Toronto Star telling the story of Kit Skelly and the impact on him and the whole family of what all too often happens when people look to the healthcare system for help. A life … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, mania & depression, my story, psychosis, what's going on?, youth
Tagged hearing voices, Psychiatric medication, schizophrenia, SSRI
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Waiting list for mental-health services is a major problem facing patients
Toronto Star Article Chantaie Allick Staff Reporter Waiting list for mental-health services is a major problem facing patients Austin Williamson, 15, has attended 20 schools and been on waiting lists for counselling services most of his life. It is … Continue reading
Posted in family, my story, what's going on?, youth
Tagged mental health, my story, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry
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Mental Health: The road to diagnosis is filled with twists and turns
If you hear voices you are not alone. I do too. Research shows as many as 10 to 15% of us do: that’s about a billion people – it’s more common than left-handedness and more common than living in North … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, my story, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged Healing, hearing voices, mental health, mindfulness, Psychiatric medication, psychosis, schizophrenia
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Innocence Stolen – Corin Lynch
From Australia, A video-poem by Corin Lynch telling of how he had lived for nearly fifty years feeling the shame, disgust and blame of what happened to him since his innocence was stolen from him when he was about eight or nine. … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Healing, my story
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The Maniac in Me – Daniel Smith
great piece from NY Times Magazine By Damiel Smith April 2012 The Maniac in Me Photo illustration by Clang By DANIEL SMITH Published: April 20, 2012 26 Comments My brother Scott and I talk about anxiety the way some brothers talk … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, my story, The Mad Ones
Tagged Anxiety, Buddhism, Health, mental health
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Disturbed minds or manuals?
From TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin Part of series: Mental Health Matters This is an excellent panel conversation with: Dr Allen J Frances, Dr Donna Stewart , Dr Kwame McKenzie, and Historian Edward Shorter. the pool of normal has … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., my story, psychosis, what's going on?
Tagged diagnosis, DSM, hearing voices, mental health, schizophrenia, TVO
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TVO – Mental Health Matters
TVO series on mental health culminates with fours shows this week…two taped yesterday at Hart House, U of T. TVO’s The Agenda has been running a regular series on mental heath the last couple of months – we’ve featured it … Continue reading
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Schizophrenia: A Recovery – Jonathan Benjamin
Jonathan Benjamin describes his experience falling into mental illness, with depression, hearing voices, thinking he was being visited by an angel then possessed by a devil, of self-harming, diagnosis, diagnoses, feeling numbed by medications; hopelessness; suicide – arrest, being sectioned and psychiatric discharge. He … Continue reading
Posted in anxiety, books, depression, hearing voices, my story, psychosis, recovery perspectives
Tagged hearing voices, psychosis, recovery, schizophrenia
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