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Category Archives: recovery perspectives
Joanna Moncrieff – Changing the balance of psychosis treatment
Joanna Moncrieff and the Critical Psychiatry Network offer us a different way of thinking about how psychiatric medications work; and ways to use them that assist healing but reduce the adverse effects – and especially the devastating effects that result from long … Continue reading
Posted in Healing, Ideas, recovery perspectives
Tagged Critical PSychiatry Network, Joanna Moncrief, Psychiatric medication, Psychiatry, Robert Whitaker
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Coming Off Psychiatric Medications – Will Hall
.. http://willhall.net/comingoffmeds/ Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Medications The booklet Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Medications [ pdf] printer/ paper friendly version… [version for double side printing to make into a booklet]
Posted in coming off meds, Healing, medication madness, recovery perspectives
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Robert Whitaker – Anatomy of An Epidemic – videos
The Book Robert Whitaker is a great writer – the book reads like a gripping detective novel – and a thorough researcher. This book is likely one of the most impressive and important pieces of journalistic research and reporting of our time. … Continue reading
Dr Joanna Moncrieff – The Myth of The Chemical Cure
From BBC (uk) radio 2 Today Programme, 2009 Dr Joanna Moncrieff interview …. Taking a pill to treat depression is widely believed to work by reversing a chemical imbalance. But in this week’s Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, of … Continue reading
Posted in coming off meds, Healing, medication madness, recovery perspectives
Tagged Health, Mental disorder, Psychiatric medication
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wishes
Event: INTAR/ Leadership Project conference: Toronto November 2011 At the conference in November we asked people to share a personal and heartfelt wish. In the gallery below we share them with the world…. Thanks to Earla for encouraging people to share … Continue reading
Aimee Mullins – The Opportunity of Adversity
TED Talk by Aimee Mullins Aimee Mullins invites us to challenge our own ideas of “disabled” encouraging us to choose to understand it not as we commonly do… She was born without shinbones -fibulae- and amputated at age one. “I was born … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Ideas, Learning, my story, recovery perspectives
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blessings from schizophrenia
Thanks to Bruce for finding this one. A short essay published in Globe and Mail Life Section by Anne Aspler Anne Aspler talks of her own experience growing up with a mother living with a diagnosis of schizoprenia – She tells of … Continue reading
who funds the biggest project ever to house the homeless?
Answer: Stephen Harper …maybe he got a visit from Jacob Marley? and anyhoo, the money comes from Canadian’s taxes. Home Seriously, articles in Toronto Star and on CTV and CBC about the “At Home” programme intitated by the Canadian Mental Health … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy and rights, recovery perspectives
Tagged Healing, Health, Homelessness, mental health
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$30m-Rewiring The Brain
Dr Catherine Zahn President, CEO of CAMH and Professor, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto. Interview with Steve Paikin on TVO’s The Agenda. 9 sep 2011 Selected excerpts: [link to the podcast at the end] Understanding what leads to mental … Continue reading
Posted in neuroplasticity, recovery perspectives
Tagged brain connections, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Health, mental health, Neuroplasticity, rewiring the brain, understanding trauma
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