Madness as a reckoning of one’s own psyche. Yes.

Faith’s understanding of her experience resonates very much with my own. I love this video. She articulates the issues with brilliance. This is a very good way to spend a little more than six minutes. Watch the video.

Faith Rhyne is a parent, educator, and a radical mental health activist. She became interested in psychology and psychiatry at age 13, when she was put into forced treatment for the first time. Faith has abandoned her old diagnosis of bipolar 1, severe with psychotic features, in favor of a holistic understanding of madness. She deeply values the human right to define one’s own experiences in ways that encourage wisdom, gratitude, strength, and possibility. She writes about neurodiversity, narrative, and healing the relationship between self and world. (bio from Mad in America)

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