Info Anna Schuleit’s Flower Art in “Mass Mental” Just before the infamous “Mass. Mental” (formally known as Massachusetts Mental Health Center) was being shut for good, artist Anna Schuleit created an art installation with nearly 28,000 potted flowers. Here are news items about the art event. Bloom: 28,000 Potted Flowers Installed at the Massachusetts Mental…
Wild folksinger songwriter Brian Cutean is the featured performer, along with an open mike. Celebrate a nonviolent revolution in the mental health system, and the rights of psychiatric survivors, at the next free Opal Cabaret. Co-sponsored by MindFreedom, OCSC, Opal Network and LILA Peer Suport Club. what Cabaret when Apr 05, 2012 from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM…
Too often I have rued, lamented, the fact that I am so demented. I wonder what the reasons are that cause me to be so bizarre. While other people act quite sane I do strange things that are inane. Against my plight I’ve raged and railed; I’ve grieved, protested, shrieked and wailed. I’ve searched for…
Info New release about protest co-sponsored by MindFreedom International of American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. MindFreedom International News Release Updates: For more info about protest click here. Download flyer here. For photos & bio’s of some of the protest speakers, click here. More about participating, wherever you live. Press Release – For immediate release Protesters, Rejecting…
Info Paula Caplan, PhD: Psychologist, author, playwright and activist who is challenging the harm caused by psychiatric labeling. Paula is a long-time member of MindFreedom International. Author of 12 nonfiction books. Her latest book, “When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans,” uncovers the way too many people traumatized…
A poem by Tom Greening. DRUG EFFECTS I will ignore your righteous shrugs and keep on gulping lots of drugs. I know they are not good for me but they fend off reality. Some drugs are pink and others blue, but all I care is what they do. They cheer me up, they calm…
Why do I have these wild relapses? I blame them on my sick synapses. My brain lacks neural density resulting in sub par plasticity. With neurons frayed, flawed, and deficient my coping skills are insufficient. That’s why I want to kiss and hug the doc who gives me some new drug each month and blithely…
Although I think that I’m just fine my friends claim that I’m borderline. Each time I rant and rave a bit they say that I have had a fit. They diagnose me as a nut and then they try to drug me but I know that God is on my side and that I’ll soon…
by Tom Greening QUACK I could lose my license for offering this experimental treatment unproven by clinical trials and double-blind studies. No glossy brochures or stylish advertising with testimonials tout its benefits and safety. Still I go on peddling my home brew to those who suffer, and hope someday scientists will find a way…
Tom Greening has been writing serious and comical poetry for over 50 years and has had poems published in such diverse places as The American Scholar and Ski Magazine. A set of his poems about his trips to Russia has been translated into Russian. Tom says, “Writing poems about psychology, some of them satirical, has…