I'm very happy to share the news that Will has been honored for his fine work. Will Hall often contributes and edits Beyond Meds too. He is a close friend and I know very well just how much he deserves this award. These words written by his friend and fellow activist, Oryx Cohen, were read by the presenter when he was given the award:
The Emerging Mind: How relationships and the embodied brain shape who we are -- We can change how our brain functions. We can change the very structure of the brain. Yup, more on neuroplasticity. This man believes in the very real potential of healing change in our lives and helps inform us about how to do just that.
Many people are lost to psychiatry and neurotoxic drugs for life because too few people who might be in a position to help want to really delve into the dark and difficult content that the psyche sometimes presents and then those people experiencing such difficulties are all too often tossed away and drugged for life...a few of us escape to tell the tail of neglect. We too have stories of transformation albeit with some additional struggles that had there been people around to recognize our process and support us we might have been spared some suffering.
I love the part in the below excerpt about meditating on a noisy train. This is something I often do, that is, meditate in places people don't conceive of being appropriate spaces. Meditation is much more about being wherever you are fully in the moment then it is about being in a silent place with... Continue Reading →
We will attempt to explain that you have been unable to fix yourself because there is nothing wrong with you, but there is quite a lot wrong with what you have been taught to believe about yourself and about life.
A Japanese artist travels to the salt flats of western Utah to discuss life, death, rebirth, and making art from salt.
The aftermath of polypsychopharmacology: my story on Dr. David Healy's site today
"Unless you've been through it, it's impossible to know how bad it is."
This is not to be taken lightly. Many people come off meds with relative ease. Some of us, though, become crippled with iatrogenic illness. You will need to educate yourselves. Once you start making it be known that you can help -- those of us who've been seriously and gravely harmed will start appearing on your doorstep. Most doctors never see (or recognize) us because once they deny our reality those of us who understand what has happened to us don't hang around to be further abused. The doctors then move forward believing we don't exist and spread that dangerous misconception to other doctors. It creates a treacherous world for those of us who are very ill with nowhere safe to go.
This is about our children, our lives and everything. It covers trauma too. Trauma is associated with almost all that gets called mental illness. We're building the connections of the future right now and how human beings interact via the internet. This is BIG. Be mindful of what we let into our brains. Strengthen the good things in life.
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