Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Barbara Nichols “I can’t tell you how happy I was to get my degree from Portland State. My father was a physician and he told me when I was 18 that I was not smart enough to go to school. Now I’m the only one out of five…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Carol J Patterson The truth is, you can’t heal me without my cooperation, you cannot. There’s no such thing as forced healing. Born: 28 June 1954 Contact info: San Francisco, California, USA Currently doing: Carol is currently the BUILD Program Coordinator at the Independent Living Resources Center. When…
Info MFI is reaching the public with its own media and mainstream media. How you can work with MindFreedom as we break the silence! For some of the mainstream and alternative media coverage of MindFreedom, click here. It’s been difficult, but MindFreedom has been able to get information about our work into several larger and…
Info MFI is reaching the public with its own media and mainstream media. How you can work with MindFreedom as we break the silence! For some of the mainstream and alternative media coverage of MindFreedom, click here. It’s been difficult, but MindFreedom has been able to get information about our work into several larger and…
Info Krista Erickson (psychiatric survivor, blind activist, MFI board member), Jim Gottstein (attorney, psychiatric survivor, PsychRights founder), and Grace Jackson (psychiatrist and author) show the power of coalition at the MindFreedom Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 985.2 kB Document Actions Print this
Info Contributors: John Ryan By John Ryan, MFI Media Chair You and your family have a right to safe alternatives to psychiatric drugs. The mental health industry is targeting all Americans, especially youth. Here are two of their marketing strategies: “Mental health screening programs” for mental illness in your school and physician’s office are often…
Info Stay in touch with the campaign led by youth and for youth in USA (and a number of youth outside of USA) with MindFreedom International Youth Campaign. A number of youth are working on our MindFreedom Youth Initiative. One of their goals is to organize a youth summit. Are you interested in helping?…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Pat Risser “I had been brainwashed by the psychiatric system to be hopeless, helpless and overly dependent. So now I’ve dedicated the greater part of my life to try and reach people who are currently affected by the system and deprogram them from the cult of psychiatry.” Born:…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Gail Roberts “My first stop was the ecstatic and exotic mania of a completely different reality, Japan, where I quickly attained a celebrity status as I have a resemblance, at least according to the Japanese, to Elizabeth Taylor. I started to get rich teaching English and had to…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Clover Smith “One morning, 12 drug years later, engulfed in sickness, I called the current psychiatrist and yelled, “What do psychiatrists think in their head? My mind is cured when my body is dead!” I slammed the phone down and never swallowed their pills again; I had taken…