Category Archives: Stigma begins with D

Wounded Healers: How peer support workers help patients in crisis

Posted on December 18, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Peer Workers do not have magic faerie dust but this podcast sheds light on what’s possible and some of what it takes to integrate peer support into clinical settings, even a busy “Emerge” or “ER”…
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Experiences of being a psychiatric patient in the community, reclassified as “other’’

Posted on February 21, 2017 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

What’s it like being designated as a “psychiatric patient” reclassified from human being to “case” ? I wonder, even,  how many of you have even met a clinician who could be bothered to ask. Here’s one who does ask, Janecke Thesen … Continue reading →

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Discrimination doesn’t dissolve with a few tweets

Posted on January 29, 2016 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Discrimination doesn’t dissolve in a few tweets. We can make a start when we find courage to call it what it is.

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I’m not smart enough to understand

Posted on September 16, 2015 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

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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“Stigma”? – Time to call it by its true name

Posted on October 9, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

There will be, can be, no end to “stigma’ till we find within us the courage to call it by its true name. Continue reading →

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“Stigma” begins with a “D”

Posted on February 7, 2014 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Stigma begins with a “D”
and is pronounced “Discrimination” Continue reading →

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When Doctors Discriminate

Posted on October 24, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Juliann Garey writes in NYT Sunday Review of her experience of her experience of being discriminated against by doctors after receiving a diagnosis of serious mental illness. Doctors do this – some recognise it and some use a fancy name for … Continue reading →

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