being a nobody: social media take heed

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Here is to being nobody with everybody! Yes a celebration of being a nobody. To grasp our nobodyness and celebrate it seems to be at the essence of successful nonhierarchical living. If we all understand and embraced the nobody nature of our existence things would be different. Granted, it's only something to think about since as we, as western people, are about as far away from embracing this deeply as is possible. We might say our lack of understanding our nobodyness is what is ailing us in the most profound way.

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Yoga, As Needed

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The video shows me doing yoga as needed: Cobra on a park bench and then I did a little cat cow too. I incorporate my yoga into every moment of daily life so that there is no separation as I slowly rehab over and over again.

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the surrendered path

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New Post when I'm in guidance there is no thought whatsoever. I watch and learn. My body is a channel of the divine. This is the nature of the surrendered path I live. the above is true, while I am also in a hell realm most of the time. So it's hard to explain to people. I learn all about humanity, however from here. We really cannot know ourselves without a deep dive into shadow. I, for whatever reason, was called to the fringes of the human experience...all with the afflicted body being mirror for the human condition and that which is happening on the planet right now.

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How to use the site

This is how to use the site Many people still ask me for my “protocols.” The message I communicate for healing is that we are all different and our paths are also, therefore, going to be endlessly diverse. I share my experience, not so that it may be copied, but so that the reader can get a sense of process.

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Gestalt: individuality and acceptance

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The below words from Gestalt are good to contemplate when considering the nature of coercion…the impetus is in all of us…think about how often we’ve thought we knew what someone else should do or think or feel. Force in psychiatry is violent and it harms people permanently. "I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. "

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Revisiting hospitalization records: more early history

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Update 2026: Revisiting hospitalization records is another very early post from the site. Always odd for me to reread these articles. They can still hurt and my openness at the time is sometimes difficult to read. This site got very popular and now it's been on the internet for a long time but I didn't know what was going to happen with the internet 20 years ago when I started writing. None of us knew how things would go with the internet. And I didn't know my site was going to be widely read and popular either. I felt like I was writing to friends when I started. Because I was. All I can say is I'm glad I lived the golden age because the internet now is a pale shadow of what it was at the beginning. It's very sad to see what has happened.

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Mad Camp 2026

There's still time to apply for Mad Camp in Northern California in July. Madcamp.net for all the information you need. Also: Apply here  https://forms.gle/sUMwbJSR18qEeon5Ahttp://madcamp.net/SUBSCRIBE https://madcamp.substack.com/ Join us for a 5 day summer camp!Mad Camp 2023 and 2024 were absolute amazing smash successes! AND 2025!!! So YES let’s do it again everyone! July 16-20 2026! APPLY... Continue Reading →

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Dissociation and psych drugs

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Here's an important thing to understand about psychiatric drugs. Mental health conditions, just about all of them, are forms of dissociation from the body. Psychiatric drugs, across the board, dissociate one further from the body. Thus, they make the issues worse. When people actually do find relief on psych drugs, that's real and some people find in that kind of relief an opportunity to seek other ways of healing. Other people, however, never get off of the drugs and slowly their metabolic processes and capacity to detoxify diminish further. Thus, we get the statistic that people on psych meds die 25 years earlier on average.

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Short Videos of the International Peer Respite/Soteria Summit

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This is to let you know the International Peer Respite/Soteria Summit (Summit), with which I am involved, recently arranged for the incomparable Daniel Mackler to edit its over 20 hours of videos into short clips:  Included is an list of them all.

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Search on Beyond Meds

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I use a paid search engine to make this site competitive with what's out there these days (just for accessibility, mind you... I'm not into marketing anymore) ... There a a bunch of staggered payments for upgrades. This one for search caught me by surprise. I would love some help if you feel so inclined.... Continue Reading →

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navigating a viral “thread” on social media

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being accused of offering up "dangerous misinformation." it's more like the interpretation offered about the actual facts makes the person uncomfortable. I forget how nasty and mean people are when they think that psychiatry is the bees knees and they imagine I'm hardcore anti. I'm not. I have witnessed and supported thousands of people who have been gravely harmed, often to the point of death by psychiatry AND I still support the individual doing what they need to do in terms of psych treatment...because we live in hell and in hell you do what you gotta do. I have numerous posts on my site that make this clear. You do not need to be cruel to people you do not understand. Get a grip.

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Ernest Hemingway, the FBI and ECT

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Ernest Hemingway killed himself, after a course of ECT. He was given ECT because he got into the hands of psychiatry and they thought he was paranoid because he was saying the FBI was surveilling him. It turns out the FBI was, indeed surveilling him. Given I see how often psychiatry and medicine gaslight all of us who've been injured by psych drugs and disbelieve pretty much anything we might say about our experience, this story is poignant. I like to make it clear that in cases such as these, psychiatry is guilty of murder. Hemingway died at the hands of psychiatry, as many people I know have. Unfortunately some people will only pay attention when a story like this is told. It's then a tiny chip in the fabric of delusion that our society operates under. (excerpt by Bruce Levine follows)

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Site traffic and How This Site Is Used in Education

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NEW POST ~~ Some interesting facts about how my site seems to continue to be used: I update posts kind of randomly because I need to do busy work occasionally and it fits the bill. There are over 5000 posts that date back to 2007. It's an interesting exercise for me. Those posts get republished and sent out to my email list which is about 6,000 people. So there are those readers. Because I don't actively do much on social media, I don't seem to get a whole lot of attention on social media. That works out for me pretty well since I simply don't have that sort of availability anymore and it's still there for people who want to see it and it does seem like people do peruse it now and then. What's interesting is when I look at the stats. I get a lot of traffic from Asian countries. This is relatively new and I'm not sure how to understand it, but it's significant. The other thing that's interesting is that the site continues to be taught at universities. I don't know how it is used at universities because all I can see are the links to the pages of the universities where syllabuses are kept. They don't actually let me see what the coursework is... So there are some universities that have been repeatedly utilizing my site for many years. What is great is that new universities still show up. For example, Chicago State University showed up yesterday. I would love to know who's teaching and what they are saying about it. The first University that ever taught my work was Florida State, Miami and it was a dear friend of mine who was the professor so I knew what she was up to and she invited me to speak to the class. I would love to do that more, so if anyone actually knows who's doing this let them know I'm available!

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