Date Published: Nov 28, 2011 12:00 AM Author: Anita Guidera Source: Irish Independent You may access the original articles here: http://www.independent.ie/health/health-news/are-antidepressants-the-cure-or-the-problem-2947170.html ARE ANTI-DEPRESSANTS THE CURE …. OR THE PROBLEM? With record numbers of people being prescribed the drugs, doctors on the frontline are divided over their use. Anita Guidera reports. Anti-depressant use is at an…
Info The “Opal Social Hour” at LILA Peer Support Club You are invited to fun, friends and freedom at the “Opal Hour” at the LILA Peer Support Club. Here’s the latest info about this fun event with music, refreshments and the latest news about activism to change the mental health system. Flyer for Opal Hour…
Info Long-time activist Don Weitz has composed this list of his favorite books critical of psychiatric drugs. CRITICAL AND RECOMMENDED READINGS ONPSYCHIATRIC DRUGS compiled by Don Weitz Peter Breggin. Talking Back toRitalin: What doctors aren’t telling you about stimulants forchildren. (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1998) Peter Breggin & David Cohen. YourDrug May Be Your…
Info Here are some tips on traveling, parking and staying in Philadelphia, thanks to Susan Rogers, one of our friendly welcoming host organizers in Philadelphia. (Disclaimer: We are just providing these as suggestions to get you started, and can’t be responsible for any results. Unless you are familiar with the resource, please be sure to…
Info Here are some tips on traveling, parking and staying in Philadelphia, thanks to Susan Rogers, one of our friendly welcoming host organizers in Philadelphia. (Disclaimer: We are just providing these as suggestions to get you started, and can’t be responsible for any results. Unless you are familiar with the resource, please be sure to…
Info Samantha Johnson is a 22-year-old psychiatric survivor who is interning at the MindFreedom International office. “I was absolutely in disbelief at how the people were treated at the hospital. It was an environment of emotional abuse interspersed with ‘treatments’ and ‘policies’ that could be more accurately described as assault. The tragic thing is that…
MindFreedom sponsored a teleconference on the Occupy Movement & Movement to Change Mental Health System. You can listen for free! You can listen to the teleconference for free by clicking here. October 23, 2011 This teleconference was open to both MindFreedom members and non-members. In particular, we encouraged supporters of the Occupy movement to participate. The…
Info Document Actions Print this A sponsor group of MindFreedom International based in Kansas, is Wellness Wordworks, a psychiatric survivor business by Corinna West, who is an electroshock survivor. Here are three ways you can help this new sponsor. Three Ways to Help Wellness Wordworks, an MFI Sponsor Group Date Published: Nov 08, 2011 12:00…
Kevin McGehee, President of the ShelterCare Consumer Council, appreciated a presentation by David Oaks on 21 October 2011 at the Bill Uhlhorn Program, part of ShelterCare in Eugene, Oregon. David’s commitment to fight “normality,” his desire to help reform mental health services, his empowering others to do the same, and his sense of the absurd……
Rollin Shelton, a long-time advocate for human rights and alternatives of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors, gives a recommendation on a number of talks he has heard by David, including “Forming a New State-Wide Coalition in Oregon of Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors!” at the Portland Public Library on 15 February 2008. (A…