“Psychosis” is more like a revolution than it is an “illness.”

January 22, 2012

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’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 [...]

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SAMHSA couldn’t quite manage to really support full recovery

January 5, 2012

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 [...]

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What to do when children hear voices

December 26, 2011

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 [...]

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NAMI Lies: A brief analysis of NAMI sponsored misinformation about “schizophrenia”

December 26, 2011

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 [...]

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Why psychosis happens at a young age: the dark side of creativity!

December 9, 2011

According the the UK group Mind, “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.”  Why? The mainstream mental health system just claims that it is the nature [...]

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You can’t heal when you are calling parts of yourself an “illness”

November 27, 2011

When we think that something inside of ourselves is a “symptom of an illness” 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 [...]

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Madness as a journey into the roots of reality

October 6, 2011

While the mental health field is just starting to acknowledge that “madness” 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 [...]

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End all bullying, including mental health system bullying

September 26, 2011

I am writing this for all those who have grown up with abuse and bullying, and then spent years being “treated” 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 [...]

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Are voices imaginary, or real? My (mostly imaginary it turns out) disagreement with Hearing Voices USA

September 24, 2011

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 [...]

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Hearing Voices News

September 18, 2011

Here’s this from Hearing Voices USA: We are pleased to announce that – in honor of World Hearing Voices Day – the Hearing Voices Network USA has chosen today, Wednesday, September 14th 2011 to officially launch our website at www.hearingvoicesusa.org. We are joining countries across the world – including Australia, Greece, England, Wales, Denmark, the [...]

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