Category: mental health

raw smoothie time

ai generated photo of a tomato and blueberry smoothie raw smoothie time

mmm... raw smoothie time ...I just made an incredible smoothie/cold soup sorta drink. It's odd, but when it gets cold at this time of year, I need these sorts of raw fruit and veg smoothies. In general cooked food is better for me, across the board...but there are periods of time in which I do a lot or all raw for brief periods. Right now this is just my lunch today. I had a pure carnivore breakfast. The infections have ruined my gut and it's often easier and better for my gut to do mono meals. ....

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Mindfulness: dangerous business

geometric design mindfulness: dangerous business

As someone who has utilized mindfulness as the cornerstone of my own healing process I have to say that what is wrong with most pop treatments of meditation in general is that they fail to warn the reality. It's taken years of profound mindfulness practice that has demanded going deep into the darkest parts of the human psyche...in this process I've learned how to listen to my body and follow my own guidance. I've learned to shut out all the multiple conditioned voices of our ugly capitalistic system and come back to myself. ... What they don't tell you is that mindfulness in process...deep profound, honest mindfulness can alienate and isolate while on the way to well-being.

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Somatic imperative: collection

woman touching her back somatic imperative

NEW POST -- I coined the term “somatic imperative” a while back as my journey seems locked in by what my body needs. In surrender I watch and learn as my body does what it knows. The animal wisdom, seemingly divine in nature takes over and knows the nature of things. These injuries this body has had to heal are mindblowingly complex. They are interwoven into the body and clearly show that the body and mind are one. I had no choice by to listen to and respond to my body in meditation so that I might heal. Try as I might, no one in medicine or anywhere else had answers. I had become my own doctor and scientist. I researched continually and started to put both my experience and that which I learned in reading together.

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healing is living ritual

yoga "legs up the wall" in the front seat of a car. Healing is living ritual

photo depicts healing as living ritual as what I've called "environmental yoga" is being performed. Yoga. Right here, right now. Who needs a mat? in confidence there is no need for superiority *** healing is living ritual...one must enter another world and listen to that which has been largely forgotten. ...

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A message to those labeled by psychiatry. Audio by Monica

New! A message to those labeled by psychiatry. Audio by Monica

A message to those labeled by psychiatry. Audio by Monica --- I just listened to some of this and thought I'd share it as a new post on the site. I deleted everything on my youtube channel and saved a few of the audios which are now on soundcloud. This is one of them. I was surprised to hear it and frankly needed to remember some of it right now. Ha ha. I often feel like what I say is coming through me and so old stuff can help me from time to time! I hope you enjoy. Love to you all.

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** genetic geniuses everyone of us**

** genetic geniuses everyone of us**

The body electric… genetic geniuses every one of us …we need only pay attention…“There is a wealth of information built into us … tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells … without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there.” – Alexander Shulgin “If the door of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to a man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake

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the rise of coercive treatment in psychiatry and society

cover from book your consent is not required. for coercive treatment in psychiatry

I never stop being aware of is how unsafe it is to be vulnerable in this society. The below book takes a magnifying glass to what is happening all over society, under our noses in the name of psychiatry. Coercive treatment in psychiatry is standard care. Anyone who doesn't fit into the mainstream is vulnerable. Rob Wipond has written a book that takes a detailed look. If you’re not aware of just how brutal and coercive psychiatry can be, it’s well worth understanding. Some of it is so extreme it’s hard for those uninitiated to conceive.

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Growing Up Mad in the South

In southern California I ran a yarn shop, Happy Hookers, and later, in northern California, a drop in center, The Mental Health Client Action Network for the neurologically diverse and frequently homeless. People came to the needlework shop to knit for the pending birth of babies, for crocheted bikinis and for something to do while they sat with the dying. While the south still called a psychotic break with reality a “nervous breakdown,” best kept in the backroom, Californians proudly wore sweat shirts that said “I graduated with a brain chip from UCLA Hospital.” I joined Psychiatric Inmates Rights Collective carrying signs that read “Housing, not Haldol” and became fascinated by the rhyming “word salad” of the so-called “seriously and persistently mentally ill (SPMI)” who were “likely to deteriorate.” While working full time, I have published prose and poetry in 43 mostly small, low circulation journals, magazines, and anthologies, one mimeographed. ...

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wisdom and foolishness

The cycle breaker, the black sheep, the "mentally ill" and the unstable, the creative, the artist, and the mystic. The throw-aways and the odd balls in society have this calling. These days only some of us make it. The chronically ill, those who find themselves without homes, the imprisoned, those who use lots of substances to cope etc are all called to this path. The medicine people of our time need societies support. The fringe is where wisdom is formed.

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Transforming “Codependency”

photo by Monica Cassani

CODEPENDENT? The term codependency as it is commonly used is problematic. We are a species that relies on and survives because of interdependence on one another. In a relationship with two people stripped away from the extended family codependency is absolutely normal and healthy. The issue is awareness. Are we aware of how we impact one another? Are we in some form of self-inquiry or contemplation that helps us become aware of patterns and dynamics from our traumatic childhoods?

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Mad Camp 2023 Scholarship Fund!

Mad Camp

Go here to help -- gofundmeHello lovely mad people! Hello everyone who has escaped from, is on the run from, is trying to flee, or is in hiding from psychiatry! And hello to all our wonderful allies and supporters! We are Will Hall, Dina Tyler and the Mad Camp crew, (including Monica Cassani) survivors of psych... Continue Reading →

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