Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Victoria D Gaines “I am just naturally an energetic, passionate, playful enthusiastic, non-conformist weirdo who can be taken for a nut when it so suits peoples’ fancies. Once I realized what was going on in my life, I made sure I got away from those in the mental…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Robert J Gray “At first, I was tricked into voluntarily taking Navane and Haldol by being told that I had to take them as a condition of having shelter.” Born: 31 July 1962 Contact info: St. Paul, Minnesota,USA Currently doing: Robert is a 411 operator. Mental health experience:…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Barb Greene “Looking back, I realize that I was heartbroken because I was in this horrible living situation and not getting any support or validation for how I was feeling. Instead of dealing with that, they shocked my mind. This treatment was completely and totally irrelevant to what…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Jody A Harmon “I’m a psychiatric survivor, and I don’t use that term loosely. I have been stored in warehouses labeled hospitals. I have endured weekly lectures termed therapy. I have been zapped until my brain burns white. I have been held down, tied down, put down. I…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Leah I Harris “How wrong it all was I wouldn’t realize until over a decade had passed and I began to educate myself about the psychiatric survivor movement. Now that I look back, I think it’s obscene that a traumatized little child would be drugged up. It makes…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Mike Hlebechuk “Why did the doctors tell me–an intelligent, gifted person–that I would never work, would never get through school, would be on medications for the rest of my life, and should stay on social security disability indefinitely? I tend to excel at whatever I do, but I…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Susie K Irwin “I want to be a part of connecting to other people–letting them know they’re not alone, and helping them discover within themselves that they can do whatever they can set their minds to.” Born: 06 July 1969 Contact info: Portland, Oregon, USA Currently doing: Susie…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Paul Levy “We, as a society, need to recognize the existence of genuine spiritual emergences. It is crucially important for us to do this, for those who pass through this process successfully and become accomplished shamans, healers and teachers, have enormous gifts and blessings to share that will…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Anthony S Lipinsky “The worst part of the mental health system is that there are so many well-meaning professionals that look at you as a lesser order human being–a human being who has to be controlled, made dependent, ordered about. That is not the way to treat a…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Victoria Molta “I can only say I have been through a spiritual transformation. A snake slips off an old, useless piece of skin and I too discarded a part of myself, the victim.” Born: 28 August 1961 Contact info: New Haven Connecticut USA Currently doing: Victoria now works…