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What happens if we listen to the mental anguish of others? (healing occurs)
Knowing what I know now about outcomes for people labeled with schizophrenia, or people experiencing delusions, who are listened to, who are not told their delusions are crazy or wrong--that many of...
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Are normal people really sane?
So R.D. Laing refers to the DSM 3 in this video. We need to understand that the DSM throughout it's entire history has been gravely flawed. There are some people who criticize the DSM 5 (Allen Francis...
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Question authority
I had a thought: If I ever had any faith in “authorities” it’s all gone now…completely…we are all, regardless of socio-economic status, education, gender or race bumbling along together…here is to us...
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Spirituality and Politics (activism)
In the tradition of Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr, truly spiritual people do not leave anyone behind. As long as we're on the planet it's our duty to care for it and everyone (of all species) on it....
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Will Hall: Keynote speech at Alternatives 2012
Will Hall did the Keynote speech at Alternatives 2012. It's another inspiring and deeply moving talk. He got a standing ovation for very good reason. Things are changing! In the several years I've been...
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Research in child abuse/neglect shows that violent people are created, not born
The good news is as the brain can be damaged in childhood, our brains can also heal at any time in life. Our brains are neuroplastic and we can turn around the negative wiring of our childhood and...
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The chill of forced incarceration and psychiatric “care” (otherwise known as...
The distinction between thoughts (fantasies) and action is an important one here. Most people who think horrible thoughts NEVER ACT ON THEM. You've thought horrible thoughts before. We all have. Can...
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Day of Action to Stop Mental Health Profiling
To protest the scapegoating of people labeled with mental illness by politicians, media, gun control advocates and the pro-gun lobby ● In particular to protest the "NY SAFE Act" pushed through NY's...
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Ari Ne’eman: Stop blaming the ‘other’: comments about mental health policy...
American autism rights activist talks to Al Jazeera about the role of mental illness in the US gun control debate. " I think that it’s obvious there is a lot to be done on mental health policy in this...
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Breaking Through A Toxic Environment
All my work has been around understanding why human dysfunction happens. Not looking at causes - not at people’s pre-dispositions or genetic inheritance - but what actually happens in people’s lives....
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“This is not a war to control dangerous drugs. This is a war to control the...
For over forty years, America's "War on Drugs" has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs in...
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Redefining mental illness — Robert Whitaker and Allen Frances on Al Jazeera...
Inside Story Americas, with presenter Shihab Rattansi, discusses with guests: Dr Allen Frances, former chair of the psychiatry department at Duke University and author of the book Saving Normal; and...
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What do we have to be afraid of and who is to blame?
Our capacity for whole-heartedness can never be greater than our willingness to have our heart broken. … [click on title for the rest of the post]
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People are told they are “disordered” when in fact, it is in society that...
To tell a person they are “disordered” for life, when in fact, it is in society that our true disorder lies, is one of our gravest, most perpetrated acts of existential violence. … [click on title for...
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Mental Illness as Rebellion Against Society
The most deadly criticism one could make of modern civilization is that apart from its man-made crises and catastrophes, is not humanly interesting. . . . In the end, such a civilization can produce...
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Here we see that normal isn’t something to aim for…
The struggling self is one that is aiming to be true. ... The majority of well-adapted individuals that they have lost their own self at an early age and replaced it completely by a social self offered...
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Our problem is civil-OBEDIENCE (Matt Damon reads Howard Zinn)
Matt Damon, a lifelong friend of Howard Zinn and his family, read excerpts from a speech Howard Zinn gave in 1970 as part of a debate on civil disobedience. … [click on title for the rest of the post]
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The politics of food, nutrition, vegan, paleo, etc. etc.
I mindfully use diet and food and herbs to heal my body/mind/spirit. Natural healing depends on it, but the information out there is sometimes very difficult to navigate. … [click on title to read and...
View ArticleThe Election: Of Hate, Grief, and a New Story
By Charles Eisenstein first published on his site and offered freely via a creative commons copyright. Thank you, Charles. - Normal is coming unhinged. For the last eight years it has been possible for...
View ArticleResisting-Illegitimate-Authority — By Bruce E. Levine
New book: Bruce Levine has been one of my very favorite authors in the world of critical psych for a long time. He's got a great new book available now. I highly recommend it. This article includes a...
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