As someone with left leaning political views who also identifies as a feminist I am repeatedly frustrated, disappointed and angered by the left's neglect of the human rights of those who have been psychiatrized. On this blog I tend not to emphasize my politics outside the political issues surrounding mental health because regardless of our political... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Agnes’s Jacket
At Alison Bass's blog, sounds like a great book. Excerpt here: When people exhibit signs of psychosis – they hear voices, they think someone is out to get them – more often than not, they are referred to psychiatrists who immediately put them on powerful drugs like Haldol, Depakote, Abilify or Seroquel. These drugs sometimes... Continue Reading →
Jim Gottstein’s recovery story from psychosis and psychiatric care and how he now fights for the rights of those less fortunate
I've been traveling in some of the same online communities with Jim Gottstein in the last couple of years and had the pleasure to get to know him a bit. We talked today and I told him that early on in the creation of this blog, before I knew the rules of the blogosphere I'd... Continue Reading →
Loren Mosher speaks about Soteria house, where “schizophrenics” recovered without drugs
The late great Loren R. Mosher, M.D was the Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia, and the National Institutes of Mental Health when he founded Soteria. I've talked about Soteria numerous times on this blog and linked to it's website and the book about it many times. Now you can here it's founder,... Continue Reading →
No fixing “chemical imbalance”….
This video is excerpted from a full length documentary entitled "The Truth about 'Schizophrenia': Loren Mosher & Bob Whitaker visit Zuzu's Place." Loren Mosher was the first Chief of Schizophrenia Studies at NIMH and the founder of Soteria House, the wonderful residential treatment center where drugs were not used for psychotic individuals and there was... Continue Reading →
What happens if we listen to psychosis and other forms of mental anguish?
Knowing what I know now about outcomes for people labeled with schizophrenia, or people experiencing delusions, who are listened to, who are not told their delusions are crazy or wrong--that many of these people who are taken seriously recover, I often wonder what would have happened had someone listened to my delusions. If it had... Continue Reading →
Meanderings and Soteria House
This is an edited version of something I posted the first month I wrote this blog about a year and a half ago. I've grown since I wrote this and learned more about treating mental health issues naturally, I've left most of this piece unchanged, even though there is much more to add on this... Continue Reading →
Soteria Alaska opening in the fall—Staff needed
THIS POST IS FROM 2008. Soteria Alaska has actually closed down since opening. If I was younger and single and done with my withdrawal, I'd be there in a minute. Info on the original Soteria House run by Loren Mosher here. Key is that drugs are used very minimally and generally extremely short term. People... Continue Reading →
Just an article and another link
Congress Pummels Establishment Psychiatry but Neglects a Brave Psychiatrist---Bruce Levine and the brave psychiatrist and his wonderful work: Mosher's Soteria House
Listening to Psychosis (or other forms of mental anguish)
Knowing what I know now about outcomes for schizophrenics, or people experiencing delusions, who are listened to, who are not told their delusions are crazy or wrong--that many of these people who are taken seriously recover, I often wonder what would have happened had someone listened to my (drug-induced) delusions. If it had not been... Continue Reading →
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