Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 6, 2009, 10:37 am
An email sent out by the venerable Dr. Bonkers: The Institute for Nearly Genuine Research announces two exciting new additions to our Marvelous Mental Medicine Show online gallery of psychiatric drug ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 5, 2009, 6:52 am
Jon Kabat-Zinn, the wonderful scientist, who has made meditation and mindfulness household terms gives a lecture here on this youtube video that takes place at Google. In it he covers lots of scientif...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 4, 2009, 11:06 am
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 4, 2009, 6:01 am
Today I have the pleasure of posting something that was submitted to me for publication. It’s written by an interesting man, whom I really don’t know but with whom I seem to share some qui...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 3, 2009, 12:47 pm
I had this poem taped on the wall of my bedroom above my bed from about the age of 12 until I moved out of the house to go to college. It was a rebel voice for me—it spoke to me of the freedom I...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 3, 2009, 7:52 am
Pat Deegan who I’ve mentioned on this site before speaks in this video of her experience of being diagnosed with schizophrenia and recovering. She also talks about what all of us who have been l...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 2, 2009, 11:58 am
From a couple of years ago here where I live. Posted in 1
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 2, 2009, 6:23 am
By Karen Bartz — copyright 2009 I was asked by Gianna to write this account. There are many out there battling “mental illness” and they often find their way to the pages of somewhe...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 1, 2009, 8:53 am
A sunrise in the Blue Ridge Mountains…amazing!! (via Ashvegas) Posted in youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Nov 1, 2009, 7:31 am
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 31, 2009, 7:44 am
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 30, 2009, 12:47 pm
If you like this lots more of Watts on youtube if you click through. Posted in youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 29, 2009, 11:24 am
Joy and Sorrow Then a woman said, ‘Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow.’ And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes fi...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 29, 2009, 10:37 am
I’ve excerpted the first few paragraphs from an opinion piece today–continue there if you like. Some interesting thoughts to peruse: All progress paves over some bit of knowledge or washes...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 29, 2009, 5:30 am
Today’s piece is by Robert Whitaker, author of Mad in American a very compelling history of psychiatry. I post an interesting excerpt from this book here. Apparently a lot of “mad” f...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 28, 2009, 11:02 am
Trauma is often the cause of mental illness. John Breeding again offers wonderful commentary on this phenomena. Hundreds of thousands of people are misdiagnosed with mental illness when their issue is...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 28, 2009, 9:36 am
Ordinarily we do not discover the wisdom of our feelings because we do not let them complete their work. - Alan Watts Posted in quote of the day, spirituality
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 27, 2009, 4:27 pm
I’m on Vera Sharav’s mailing list and asked permission today to reprint what she sent out today. Thank you Vera. ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION A Catalyst for Public Debate: Promot...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 27, 2009, 11:12 am
This critique of conventional, medical treatments for schizophrenia—and an analysis of the negative effects of Big Pharma—is from unused interview footage from Take These Broken Wings, a 75-minute...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 27, 2009, 6:00 am
I wrote the below in a withdrawal group I was part of. Sometimes people find us when they have gone off too quickly and are suffering terribly and are very much afraid. Fear is our worst enemy: I am g...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 26, 2009, 10:55 am
Wow, what repression of our thoughts and feelings can do. And what a brave therapist to let it be known how he feels. Not many do that. I want to add my opinion that schizophrenia is an artificial con...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 26, 2009, 6:06 am
This piece came to me in an email group I’m part of. I looked for it online and it only appears on a blog now, one I have always had on this blogroll. It is a partial transcript from a radio pro...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 23, 2009, 12:02 pm
Real life spider man. Posted in youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 23, 2009, 5:42 am
This paper is originally from Nexus Magazine. It is all over the net, so I’m assuming it’s okay to use the fair use clause in copyright law and present this here for educational purposes. ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 22, 2009, 12:35 pm
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 22, 2009, 6:11 am
I’m going to take some excerpts as found on John Breeding’s website from his book, “The Necessity Madness and Unproductivity.” Just some ideas to get the juices flowing. IR...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 21, 2009, 1:23 pm
Included in this beautiful man’s dance are one handed hand stands. Stunning. Posted in youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 21, 2009, 6:26 am
This was first published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 21 (2009) 171–173 Linda Andre alerted me to it’s being available. Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Wan...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 20, 2009, 6:44 am
We can heal through meditation and by using our brains in the right ways. An ongoing sub-theme of this blog. A wonderful message of the nature of our beings — being that we are healing machines....
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 19, 2009, 11:58 am
A book: Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom: How Pathological Labels and “Therapeutic” Drugs Hurt Children and Families “Maelstrom” is an apt metaphor for the inexorable ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 19, 2009, 11:08 am
From Democracy Now: Author Barbara Ehrenreich on “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America” In her new book, author Barbara Ehrenreich documents what ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 18, 2009, 8:35 pm
From Intervoice. Thank you to everyone who participated in getting this very important letter out. Dear Oprah: We are writing this letter in response to your programme about “The 7-Year-Old Schizoph...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 18, 2009, 7:23 pm
Oz did a nice job. I can’t listen to this stuff anymore and only heard the first minute or so, but perhaps some one out there will enjoy. Be sure to check out Madness Radio for lots of awesome s...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 18, 2009, 12:28 pm
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 18, 2009, 8:14 am
Action isn’t a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we have to do can be seen as a kind of coming alive. More than some moral imperative, ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 17, 2009, 8:53 am
“I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 16, 2009, 10:00 pm
Peter Stastny,* MD, writes about an upcoming conference (Nov 23): “Alternative responses to first psychotic breaks: Rethinking psychiatric crisis.” After several years, there is a renewed ...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 16, 2009, 12:39 pm
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearl...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 11, 2009, 12:15 pm
From Tricycle By Barry Magid MY TEACHER Charlotte Joko Beck pretty much sums up her attitude toward relationships when she says, “Relationships don’t work.” Rather than talk about everything we...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 11, 2009, 7:50 am
This is a text of The Tao Te Ching I studied in college. This exact translation, in fact, and though I’ve been told by many it lacks scholarliness, I’ve always liked it. Perhaps because it...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 10, 2009, 12:53 pm
Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing, what we need to acknowledge is something natural. Something uncontrived. The uncontrived state is actually very special. Being natural is very special. And...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 10, 2009, 9:28 am
Less than 40 seconds of pure inter-species love: Posted in youtube
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 9, 2009, 11:47 am
“People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, people with great minds and a strong personality rarely come out of good little children.̶...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 9, 2009, 5:58 am
I’ve had the honor lately of getting to know a wonderful activist and leader in the civil and human rights movement for people with psychiatric labels.The internet is a wonderful thing and allow...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 8, 2009, 12:16 pm
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Posted in quote of the day
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 8, 2009, 6:00 am
Steven Morgan has now contributed to this website a number of times. His writing is all inspired and I’m always grateful when he allows me to publish a piece of his. This piece I solicited recen...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 7, 2009, 11:51 am
One of the things that most nourishes true compassion is clarity—when we know what we are thinking and know what we are feeling. This clarity differentiates compassion from shallow martyrdom, when w...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 7, 2009, 4:39 am
I bought a magazine today. The Sun—it is among other things also a spiritually oriented magazine. I bought it because I saw there was an article and interview about a woman named Miriam Greenspa...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 6, 2009, 1:15 pm
On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a fl...
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Gianna K. posted an article on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery—a journey - Oct 6, 2009, 4:05 am
Ron Unger again contributes a piece today. Changing focus is a key part of recovery: to recover from a “symptom” it is often necessary to quit focusing on trying to get rid of the symptom, at leas...
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