Tonight at 10pm eastern time on Primetime ABC will air a show on "mad pride". According to the two part article that was written to lead up this show, we have some idea of what is going to be on the show. Below I am including a response I wrote to the two articles that... Continue Reading →
Recovery, lasting and real
Part of the reason some people are so skeptical about real and complete recoveries is because a lot of people who achieve it move on. The don't hang around the mental health blogosphere and most of them don't go into working in mental health like I probably will. Most of them go off and live... Continue Reading →
Solutions
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Shelby’s recovery story
I met Shelby in one of my many email groups. Shelby agreed to share her story on my blog. It is a story of a trauma which led to legitimate suffering leading to psychiatric diagnosis and the spiral downhill once on the drugs that happens to too many people. Thank god Shelby finally escaped and... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day — the mirror
"What appear to be faults in others may actually be reflections of our own emotional afflictions." ~Geshe Dhargyey
Recovery stories and old posts to be republished for a while
Starting today and for a while old faves will be republished on this blog.
Song for today
Why worry? Baby I see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the things they say But baby Ill wipe away those bitter tears Ill chase away those restless fears That turn your blue skies into grey Why worry, there should be laughter after the pain There... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day — somebody
If you see a problem, it's yours. If you think somebody should do something, remember that you are a somebody. - Cheri Huber
Quote of the day
"It's far more useful to be aware of a single shortcoming in ourselves than to be aware of 1,000 in someone else." -- Dalai Lama
Warning
Just want to add a warning to this blog. So that it will be at the top of the page. Withdrawing from psych meds is DANGEROUS. Way back when I started my blog I understood this. I linked to a paper by Joanna Moncrieff that makes plain as day the dangers. I said it was... Continue Reading →
Quote of the day — you’ve seen this one before, but it’s so lovely
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. -- Henry David Thoreau
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