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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; Ron Unger</title>
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	<description>New understandings of the mind and of madness can open new doors to full recovery - thoughts from way outside the straightjacket of the &#34;medical model.&#34;  By Ron Unger LCSW</description>
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		<title>Listening for the Truth Within Talk that Sounds Delusional: a Key Yet Rare Mental Health Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Lehrman, M.D. recently posted his story of how he became psychotic, how he was treated, and then how he recovered despite the fact that much of his treatment was misguided.  This story provides some good insight into some of the dynamics that are common in the way our mental health system, which is supposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Psychosis&#8221; is more like a revolution than it is an &#8220;illness.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone I know recently challenged me when I asserted that people could oppress themselves, and said he believed that oppression required someone outside the person doing the oppressing.  I didn&#8217;t agree, but in explaining my disagreement, I came up with some thoughts relevant to psychosis which I decided to share here. One thing that my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>SAMHSA couldn&#8217;t quite manage to really support full recovery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2012/01/samhsa-couldnt-quite-manage-to-really-support-full-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2012/01/samhsa-couldnt-quite-manage-to-really-support-full-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["mental illness"]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SAMHSA just came out with a new document called “SAMHSA’s Definition and Guiding Principles of Recovery – Answering the Call for Feedback.”  While the document sounds very positive when read superficially, it seems to me it is still contaminated with the kind of thinking which actually makes it harder for people to achieve a full [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>What to do when children hear voices</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/12/what-to-do-when-children-hear-voices/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/12/what-to-do-when-children-hear-voices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[childhood schizophrenia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[coping strategies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Schizophrenia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading the book “Children Hearing Voices:  What you need to know and what you can do.”  It is a curious fact that this book is both completely down to earth, common sense and practical, and yet also completely revolutionary in its field.  That it can be these two things at once is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>NAMI Lies:  A brief analysis of NAMI sponsored misinformation about “schizophrenia”</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/12/nami-lies-a-brief-analysis-of-nami-sponsored-misinformation-about-%e2%80%9cschizophrenia%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/12/nami-lies-a-brief-analysis-of-nami-sponsored-misinformation-about-%e2%80%9cschizophrenia%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least as of today, if a person Googles “schizophrenia recovery” the first link that is not an advertisement is to a document titled “Understanding Schizophrenia and Recovery” authored by NAMI.  (I would link to it for your convenience, but I hesitate to do anything that would further increase the Google rankings of a site [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why psychosis happens at a young age:  the dark side of creativity!</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/12/why-psychosis-happens-at-a-young-age-the-dark-side-of-creativity/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/12/why-psychosis-happens-at-a-young-age-the-dark-side-of-creativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According the the UK group Mind, &#8220;Schizophrenia seems to affect roughly the same number of men and women. Most people diagnosed with schizophrenia are aged between 18 and 35, with men tending to be diagnosed at a slightly younger age than women.&#8221;  Why? The mainstream mental health system just claims that it is the nature [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t heal when you are calling parts of yourself an &#8220;illness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/11/you-cant-heal-when-you-are-calling-parts-of-yourself-an-illness/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/11/you-cant-heal-when-you-are-calling-parts-of-yourself-an-illness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["mental illness"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delusional thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dissociation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery from schizophrenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rethinking madness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When we think that something inside of ourselves is a &#8220;symptom of an illness&#8221; then we very naturally want to get rid of it.  But what happens when what we are trying to get rid of is actually a vital, if not always helpful, part of ourselves? If you look into the very origin of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Madness as a journey into the roots of reality</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/10/madness-as-a-journey-into-the-roots-of-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/10/madness-as-a-journey-into-the-roots-of-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[emotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inner journey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[panpsychism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the mental health field is just starting to acknowledge that &#8220;madness&#8221; or psychosis is often a response to trauma, I think it is important to notice that it often has other dimensions, such as a search for a deeper meaning than what is often provided by a given culture.  (Of course, these two things [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>End all bullying, including mental health system bullying</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/end-all-bullying-including-mental-health-system-bullying/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/end-all-bullying-including-mental-health-system-bullying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this for all those who have grown up with abuse and bullying, and then spent years being &#8220;treated&#8221; by the mental health system, but treated in a way that itself came across as bullying, and then committed suicide as a result. Mental health workers are in a tricky spot, in that the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are voices imaginary, or real?  My (mostly imaginary it turns out) disagreement with Hearing Voices USA</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/are-voices-imaginary-or-real-my-disagreement-with-hearing-voices-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/are-voices-imaginary-or-real-my-disagreement-with-hearing-voices-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hearing voices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing voices movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing voices USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imaginary]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who attempts to list a “hearing voices” group at the new Hearing Voices USA website will find that they are asked if their group assumes that “voices, visions, and other experiences are real” or if the group assumes that “voices, visions, and other experiences are imaginary.” In this case, it seemed clear that the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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