Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Joe S Baletta “The most important thing in a person’s recovery process is to know that someone cares for you, someone outside yourself, and that you can care for yourself and that you can love yourself and get over those demons that haunt us all, that drive us…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Beate Braun “If you are diagnosed with schizophrenia, they talk with you like you are not there. They talk about you but not with you, but you have to hear it. But if you really want to talk, the doctors and nurses in the hospital don’t have time…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Ted Chabasinski “When Miss Callaghan had discovered enough “symptoms,” I was sent to the Bellevue children’s psychiatric ward, to be officially diagnosed and to made an experimental animal for Doctor Bender. I was one of the first children to be “treated” with electric shock. I was six years…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Ted Chabasinski “When Miss Callaghan had discovered enough “symptoms,” I was sent to the Bellevue children’s psychiatric ward, to be officially diagnosed and to made an experimental animal for Doctor Bender. I was one of the first children to be “treated” with electric shock. I was six years…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Oryx Cohen “Meeting so many people who have fought through an oppressive mental health system, who have been forcibly electroshocked and drugged, who have been treated as less than human–and who are now leading accomplished and fulfilling lives as authors, directors of organizations, social activists, etc., has been…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Donita Diamata “I didn’t get better because of anything that the clinicians did for me. I got better because I surrounded myself by people who showed that they cared about me who got me laughing again.” Contact info: private Currently doing: Donita is directing the Renaissance Center in…
Info A listing of guests from past weekly free internet broadcasts of MindFreedom News Hour with host David Oaks interviewing human rights activists and providers of alternatives to the mental health system. Past MindFreedom News Hour Shows 2/14/07 – Sascha DuBrul is a co-founder of the Icarus Project, an underground media project led by individuals…
Info Hazards Anti-depressants: prescription to suicide This is an article critical of “anti-depressant” psychiatric drugs from a publication in Vancouver, Canada called Common Ground. Document Actions Print this
Info Consumer-Driven Resources Directory of Consumer-Driven Services The National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse hosts this federally funded online list of projects run by mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. PeopleWho … “People Who…”, a non-profit organization based in California, is an online community for people who experience mood swings, fear, visions, and/or hear voices.…
Info Non-Drug Alternatives for Label of Schizophrenia Revisiting Schizophrenia: Are Drugs Always Needed? This NY Times article questions whether psychiatric drugs must always be given to people labeled “schizophrenic,” and quotes Will Hall from the Freedom Center of Massachusetts, a sponsor group in MindFreedom International. Football tackles schizophrenia and depression Illustrating the wide range of…