Tag Archives: mental health

we can’t separate

Posted on December 16, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

If we want to understand what leads to people becoming ill, and how better to help them heal, then “we can’t separate the brain from the body and we can’t separate the person from their environment”. Western allopathic medicine is … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas | Tagged chronic illness, environment, Gabor Mate, Health, Medicine, mental health | 4 Comments

World Psychiatry – time to wake up, wise up and fess up

Posted on December 2, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Barely two-score years since the American Psychiatric Association, in a brief moment of rare insight into human nature, came to its senses and voted to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness by removing it from its big book of lies … Continue reading →

Posted in human diversity, mental diversity, myths about mental illness, Psychiatry | Tagged Bhugra, Dinesh Bhugra, Mental disorder, mental health, World Psychiatric Association | 4 Comments

sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken…

Posted on November 11, 2013 by dave umbongo

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Likewise, using the word “recovery” a lot doesn’t meant you are actually supporting people in finding their own personal version . Continue reading →

Posted in Crazy World, Ideas, The Mad Ones | Tagged butt, Chicken, Feather, mental health, recovery | 4 Comments

Tasers no cure-all for police shootings

Posted on November 6, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Is this really the only way that Toronto police can think of to “de-escalate” what they term “EPD” incidents? When the Toronto Sun editorial and campaigners against police shooting of people in mental distress can find themselves in easy … Continue reading →

Posted in policing madness, what's going on? | Tagged Alok Mukherjee, Bill Blair, mental health, Taser, Toronto, Toronto Police Service, Toronto Police Services Board | Comments Off

California police use of body cameras cuts violence and complaints

Posted on November 5, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Police chief Bill Blair’s response to his officers being traumatized by shooting so many distressed Torontonians is that he wants all his officers to be equipped and trained in less-lethal option-taxers-at an initial cost of $386,000 – or about $2,000 for each … Continue reading →

Posted in Crazy World, policing madness | Tagged distressed person, Emotionally Disturbed Person, mental health, Police, Rialto, Rialto California, Taser, Toronto Police | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in rant, Stigma begins with D | Tagged discrimination; diagnostic overshadowing, Health, mental health | 5 Comments

how unequal is your society?

Posted on October 11, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

How society makes us mad. “Mental illness” is more prevalent in unequal societies – and the more unequal a society is, then the more people in that society will be given a diagnosis of “mental illness”, including and especially “serious … Continue reading →

Posted in anatomy of an epidemic, real disorders in a crazy world, what's going on? | Tagged Distribution of wealth, Economic inequality, mental health, Tragedy of the commons | Comments Off

why society drives us mad – Richard Bentall

Posted on September 24, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

The Professor, in the Yurt, with the big TV Richard Bentall dresses up like a bank manager to give a talk in a big tent* with a big TV about how the world we’ve built for ourselves and each other … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged environment, epigenetics, genes, Health, Mental disorder, mental health, psychosis, Richard Bentall, Trauma, Yurt | 2 Comments

Huffington Post Hears Voices – All Weekend

Posted on August 24, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

It’s Hearimg Voices Weekend at Huffington Post. Well, not quite but close enough. The whole weekend Huffpuff is featuring Eleanor Longden’s mind opening TED talk. There’s an op-ed by Eleanor – repeated below – and pieces by regular Huffbloggers. go … Continue reading →

Posted in hearing voices | Tagged Eleanor Longden, hearing voices, mental health, schizophrenia, TED | 5 Comments

Psychiatry: the Drug Pushers – Will Self

Posted on August 21, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Writer Will Self knows a thing or two about drugs – he was once [in]famously sacked for admitting he had snorted heroine on the [UK] Prime Minister’s plane – so he likely also knows how to spot a drug pusher: … Continue reading →