“Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” (this quote is attributed to many different people when you google it, perhaps because it’s so incredibly universally applicable)
Drug-Induced Dementia – book review
September 30, 2009 By
A book review by Delores Jankovich (first published in ICSPP Bulletin 2009 – Number 3) Drug-Induced Dementia: a perfect crime Grace E. Jackson, Bloomington, IN. AuthorHouse, 2009, 440 pp., $29.95. Grace Jackson provides detailed substantiation of the chemical injury that is occurring in all ages of people from the use of prescription drugs. Indeed, this [...]
Love
September 29, 2009 By
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen
Judith’s story : Don’t Mind Me
September 29, 2009 By
I was in my teens when I first heard voices. I’d recently lost my beloved grandmother and had been excluded from the funeral. I took it badly. My grandmother had been one of my main carers up until the age of three. After her death I became depressed and got behind with school work. One [...]
My favorite author in high school
September 28, 2009 By
A poem I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to [...]
Mental “disorder” or evolved mental strategy? — by Ron Unger
September 28, 2009 By
By Ron Unger – first printed on his blog. In the mental health field currently, when people experience intense anxiety and depression, and when they experience mania and/or psychosis, the experience is understood to be a “disorder” or a “biological dysfunction” that is of no use and should “corrected” by any means that might be [...]
Conference on Stopping the Psychiatric Abuse of Children
September 27, 2009 By
Today on the Huffington Post Peter Breggin invites you to the conference being hosted by the group he founded. In an email group I’m part of he’s asked that people spread the information any way they like. I hope some of you can attend. Millions of our children are being labeled with false and stigmatizing [...]
Peter Breggin on Madness Radio
September 27, 2009 By
What do modern psychiatric drug treatments have in common with lobotomy? Is informed consent possible when patients’ judgment is impaired by medication? Should psych drugs be banned? For more than 50 years Dr. Peter Breggin has been a leading crusader against psychiatric abuse, Big Pharma, and medication dangers. His latest book is The Conscience of [...]
Socrates
September 27, 2009 By
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. — Socrates
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