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Mental health professionals along with police, teachers and the corporate...
"I am a clinical psychologist, and Zinn is correct that mental health professionals also serve as guards who are given small rewards to keep the system going. The corporatocracy demands that...
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Study shows 31 prescription drugs (mostly psychiatric) associated with...
I thought it was a good time to repost this article from a couple of years ago. This is a discussion no one seems to want to have. What happens when a small percentage of the MULTI MILLIONS of people...
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Demands that it be easier to involuntarily commit the mentally ill are...
This is an article that I posted during the last “crazed shooter” fallout. Because of all the painfully ignorant reactions after these tragedies happen I feel it’s important to add some perspective...
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Blaming the mentally ill for violence is bad public policy as well as just...
Another repost of an article that talks sense from the last time we had a tragic shooting. The aftermath of these things are always horrifying in a completely other way as “normal” people completely...
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What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs? (resounding SUCCESS)
The government in Portugal has no plans to back down. Although the Netherlands is the European country most associated with liberal drug laws, it has already been ten years since Portugal became the...
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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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