Tag Archives: choice

Choose your language…

Posted on May 13, 2019 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This is not offered as a piece about “right language” and “wrong language”. It is clearly about language but it is really about choice- and the many choices we make whenever we use language to describe another person. Especially, for … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas | Tagged categorizing, choice, labelling, language, oppression | Comments Off

you are not alone…

Posted on July 4, 2018 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This post is, in part, a response to an excellent article in Asylum magazine in which Akiko Hart expresses some concerns about the nature of the discourse in “mental health”, and makes a call for less concern with being right … Continue reading →

Posted in Healing, Ideas, shit is f#cked | Tagged choice, mess, Suck, suckingness | Comments Off

what limits our freedom?

Posted on May 1, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Now, I don’t know if this is something that she said or wrote, nor do I know if it simply Wes Cecil reporting his idea of her ideas or his idea of the general idea of the group known as … Continue reading →

Posted in Emancipate yourself... | Tagged choice, Existentialism, freedom, mindfreedom, Simone De Beauvoir | Comments Off

100 ways to support recovery

Posted on February 18, 2012 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

This is the 100th posting on recoverynetwork:toronto. so it seems an appropriate time to share this…. one hundred ways to support recovery … find link to pdf at bottom of this post rethink.org is the biggest membership-based mental health charity in … Continue reading →

Posted in Healing, Learning, recovery perspectives, The Mad Ones | Tagged choice, expet recovery, Health, mental health, recovery, support | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in medication madness, my story, recovery perspectives | Tagged choice, coming off, my story, NY Times, recovery, zaps | Comments Off

recovery – with attitude

Posted on January 3, 2011 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Recovery is more about living than defining how we should live. It’s about being who we can be, about me living the life I can live rather than the life you want me to live so that you can feel comfortable. It’s … Continue reading →