Calendars of activities and events related to Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition (OCSC) Free Webinar: Coalition Building 101: Mental Health Consumers & Psychiatric Survivors Find Common Ground with Each Other & Allies This is a free webinar you can view either live now, or later via archive. Co-presenters are Nancy Snider and David Oaks, both of the…
This is a free webinar you can view either live now, or later via archive. Co-presenters are Nancy Snider and David Oaks, both of the board of directors of OCSC (Oregon Consumer/Survivor Coalition). David Oaks is also executive director of MindFreedom International. Nancy Snider directs Project Able. what when Sep 30, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM…
Info MindFreedom has been informed that member Lynne Salvi died on 23 September 2011, according to police after driving her car off of a bridge in Portland. Everyone in the MindFreedom community sends our deepest support to family, friends and loved ones of Lynne. Here is a link to the news item about Lynne’s death,…
Info MindFreedom has been informed that member Lynne Salvi died on 23 September 2011, according to police after driving her car off of a bridge in Portland. Everyone in the MindFreedom community sends our deepest support to family, friends and loved ones of Lynne. Here is a link to the news item about Lynne’s death,…
Info Document Actions Print this Lynne Salvi attended a number of MindFreedom Lane County meetings in Summer of 2011. She was quite a writer. Lynne died when she drove off a bridge in Portland on 23 September 2011. A little more than a month before, on 13 August 2011, Lynne had submitted this “Open Letter”…
Info Document Actions Print this Here’s an article by MindFreedom member Duane Sherry who has a proposed “Mental Health Freedom and Recovery Act” that has been endorsed by MindFreedom Texas. Proposal: Mental Health Freedom and Recovery Act Date Published: Sep 24, 2011 12:00 AM Author: Duane Sherry, M.S. Source: MindFreedom Texas Click here to read…
Info Here’s the latest information about Boycott Normal, a campaign by MindFreedom International to show there is hope for those given psychiatric labels. There is Life After Labels, and life after psychiatric drugging, too. Fly your brain balloon far beyond normal with the Boycott Normal Campaign! Click here for information about the 10-10…
Rose and Bill West are MindFreedom members in Nebraska. They have issued a public alert about the years of psychiatric abuse they say Bill has experienced. MFI Member Cindi Fisher prepared this alert. Bill and Rose West of Nebraska are looking for support in dealing with their mental health system. The below alert was prepared…
Info Linda Eiden was 33 when she was diagnosed and involuntarily committed. At the time of this report Linda is 50 and lives in an assisted care facility, Care Partners, in Stevens Point Wisconsin. For the last 17 years, she has been involuntarily committed to live in a supervised facility and court ordered to take…
A poem about how various family members abuse one member in the family, and then make that person out to be the mentally ill one because of how s/he reacts to their abuse. What’s Wrong With Bess? Author: Liz Purcell What’s Wrong with Bess? What’swrongwith Bess? They like to say. She seldom ever. Wants to . . . play. Or have her hair. Done up in curls. As is the way. Of normal . . . girls. What’s wrong with Bess? She sure is queer. It’s good the rest of…