Category Archives: my story

A Full Life – Paddy McGowan

Posted on November 16, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Had the great pleasure of meeting Paddy McGowan at the INTAR conference in Toronto a few days ago. Paddy spoke at the Psychosium and also co presented on Trialogue with Michaela Amering and Liam MacGabhann . Paddy has a way with … Continue reading →

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hearing voices on the radio

Posted on November 13, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

CBC Toronto Metro Morning with Matt Galloway Wed Nov 2nd, 06.50am. Kevin Healey in the studio with Matt Galloway talking aboiut his own experience of learning to live with hearing voices and living well without medications. An introduction to the Psychosium: … Continue reading →

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JK Rowling: the fringe benefits of failure

Posted on November 11, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

JK Rowling talking to new Harvard graduates in 2008 on the two ideas she had for them: the importance of failure, and of imagination. …how she learned how each of these is more valuable than any qualification that she earned, and each is also … Continue reading →

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madness radio live

Posted on November 1, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Leadership Project and INTAR bring you a free event

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Cabbie’s Tale

Posted on October 10, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Cabbie’s Tale by Hersh and Shell I am a local cab driver working in Manhattan. It is a slow morning for me, perhaps due to the great sunny weather, and the arrival of spring, that my fellow New Yorkers just … Continue reading →

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self-nonmedication

Posted on July 22, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Writer Bruce Stutz tells the story of how he decided he was ready to unmedicate himself, and his experience of discontinuing pychiatric medications. Stutz didn’t just stop – he researched how the meds he was taking were supposed to work, and what changes … Continue reading →

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snapshot: untold stories of CAMH patients

Posted on July 19, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Photos from last week’s theatrical tour of the historic patient-built walls that surround Queen West’s CAMH building. Article and photos in The Grid . Article by: Monika Warzecha. As part of last week’s Mad Pride celebration, the Friendly Spike Theatre … Continue reading →

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Just Crazy Enough?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Joshua Walters at TED on his experience of being locked in a psych ward; on being diagnosed drugs guided by what was written on the side of the Doctor’s pen; investors seeking entrepreneurs with “hypomanic edge”; and reflecting onthe idea that none of … Continue reading →