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Category Archives: recovery perspectives
“bipolar” – or waking up?
Many people who have been diagnosed with mental illness find a spiritual dimension in the experience, especially when they have worked their way through and, looking backwards, can connect the dots between what they’ve learned and make some sense from the struggle. “I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in depression, mania & depression, peer support, psychosis, recovery perspectives
Tagged mental health
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Jungle Prescription – encore
Here’s a welcome repeat showing by CBC of Jungle Medicine – the episode of The Nature Of Things With David Suzuki about Dr Gabor Mate and Ayahuasca. Thursday June 28th at 8pm Thursday July 5th at 8pm …set your recorders. or … Continue reading
Posted in addictive behaviours, Healing, mania & depression, psychosis, recovery perspectives
Tagged ayahuasca, Gabor Mate, Healing, mental health
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lust for life
start the day well: play this loud and jump around like Iggy. …works better than a whole sock drawer full of meds – and the only known side effect is that if someone sees you they’ll laugh their socks off and maybe even … Continue reading
Stephen Fry talks about his depression – and voices
This one’s for a friend having a tough time right now…. In this clip from the excellent BBC documentary “Secret Life of a Manic Depressive” Stephen Fry, in midst of a black cloud, talks about how he experiences depression – a wall … Continue reading
Posted in depression, Healing, hearing voices, Ideas, Learning, my story, recovery perspectives
Tagged deprression, hearing voices, mental health, Stephen Fry
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A New Vision of Recovery – Daniel Fisher
Daniel Fisher recovered from schizophrenia, became a psychiatrist and heads the National Empowerment Centre in US. Here in an article published by the Empowerment Centre Daniel Fisher talks of two models of recovery based on different paradigms and looking very different … Continue reading
Posted in human potential, recovery perspectives
Tagged recovery
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If you hear a voice inside your head…
If you hear a voice inside your head telling you not to paint, go ahead and paint. The voice will go away. Vincent Van Gogh man, could that guy paint…. Related articles Hearing Voices – Religion or Madness? (recoverynetworktoronto.wordpress.com) “60 Minutes” Overtime: … Continue reading
Posted in mental diversity, mental skillness, recovery perspectives, The Mad Ones
Tagged hearing voices, Paint, Vincent Van Gogh
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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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Pat Deegan – people are punished for going back to work
Short clip [3mins] from a talk by Pat Deegan “As a person begins to find the energy to say: how can I begin to get back in my life again?”‘ …that’s where we need to eliminate social barriers because this … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Healing, mental diversity, recovery perspectives, resilience, what's going on?
Tagged Healing, pat deegan;, recovery
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