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Tag Archives: Healing
Disempowered and disconnected
The core experience of trauma is feeling disconnected and disempowered.
Ironic then, that so often our approach to mental health and the systems we build leave people feeling disconnected and disempowered. Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, sh!t is f#cked
Tagged disconnected, disempowered, Healing, Trauma
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likely the effects of a particularly powerful psychological trauma…
“may well be the effects of particularly powerful psychological trauma” These are the words of Eugene Bleuler when he first coined the term “schizophrenia” as a way of naming and understanding what he had been observing in patients in his … Continue reading
Posted in Emancipate yourself..., Trauma
Tagged Eugene Bleuer, Healing, Psychological trauma, Thorns in the spirit, William James, wounded soul
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A long, complex and stubborn history with trauma
Bessel van der Kolk at bigthink.org offers a potted history of psychiatry and society’s difficult relationship with trauma. Psychiatry started as study of what were then deemed bizarre behaviours, but discovered they were understandable when considered in context with extraordinary … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, anatomy of an epidemic, Crazy World, Healing, making sense of "mental illlness", medication madness, real disorders in a crazy world, Trauma
Tagged Bessel Van der Kolk, Healing, Trauma
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Fifth of children hear voices in their head
Just because a person hears voices does not necessarily mean they are ill. Many people hear voices – research shows about ten percent of us between hear voices on a regular basis and even as many as 70% will do … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Healing, hearing voices, Hearing Voices Movement
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From psychiatric patient to human being: My journey in a nutshell.
A wonderfully open and frank piece by Flo Bellamy about her struggles and her encounter with psychiatric services that could only medicate her: so making her even more ill. Then how she and her family discovered the movie “The Doctor Who hears Voices” … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, medication madness, psychosis
Tagged Flo Bellamy, Healing, hearing voices, Psychology, recovery, Rufus May
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hearing voices – worker training Jan 2013
We’re pleased to announce… hearing voices – worker training workshop 1: accepting voices. 25th Jan 2013. note click on image to make bigger, printable version below. We’re also working on other learning opportunities for voice hearers and for families – watch … Continue reading
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Tagged accept, Healing, hearing voices, mental health, Toronto
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Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia – Rossa Forbes
Here’s an excellent article by Rossa Forbes on MadInAmerica telling of her experience after her son began to struggle and was diagnosed. Rossa tells of her frustrations with the institutionalised limitations of support provided by healthcare system, the kind of well-meaning care that, at best, typically turns people … Continue reading
Living With Voices – T M Lurmann
Here’s a very well written article published in American Scholar magazine, written by TM Lurhmann [thankyou M ] about a “new” way to live with voices. In North America it’s called “new”:. Compared with the “New World”, which to some of … Continue reading
Posted in hearing voices, mania & depression, mental diversity, psychosis
Tagged community, Healing, hearing voices, mental health
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