For several years MindFreedom Lane County has asked the mental health agencies LaneCare and Lane County Mental Health to adopt specific guidelines to support the empowerment of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. Instead of quickly adopting specific and strong guidelines, Lane County has delayed for years, issuing draft guidelines that leave out many key…
Recently, the American Psychiatric Association announced a one year delay in publishing the next version of their “label bible.” Good, let this delay be extended forever. In fact, concern about psychiatry’s bullying labeling of people is uniting both the right wing and the left wing! I was heartened to read that the American Psychiatric Association…
What is Mad Pride? Mad Pride is a movement that celebrates the human rights and spectacular culture of people considered very different by our society. Here you will find information about Mad Pride, news alerts, event announcements, and more. Mad Pride 2009 Click here for MindFreedom News Release about upcoming and already-completed Mad Pride 2009…
MFI Sponsor Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) proved that a mental disability facility in Massachusetts, the Judge Rotenberg Center, is torturing young people diagnosed with psychiatric and other mental disabilities using extreme and repeated pain from electrical jolts. So what is the response from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, via their Dept. of Mental Health General…
Filed Under: Zyprexakills “Netroots” makes end run: Eli Lilly seeks to keep documents about how they used fraud in marketing and pushing their powerful psychiatric drug Zyprexa, but grassroots Internet campaign resists. Hopefully everyone has already seen that we have a news item on the MindFreedom web site about how the NY Times covered Eli…
Here is a plain text version of the MindFreedom “Truth Injection” brochure to bust myths in the mental health system. Accessible MindFreedom International Truth Brochure: Does Your Mental Health System Need A TRUTH Injection? [Image: A hypodermic needle labeled “truth” injecting the round top of a building with a sign saying “Mental Health.”] Your local…
This is a news release from the Freedom Center, a sponsor group of MindFreedom, about their Creative Protest and Speak-out Sunday, July 29th, 2007, at 2PM, in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. How about a bed push in your area? For Immediate Release: From Cooley Dickinson Hospital into downtown Northampton,Massachusetts, USA. Dozens of local residents will symbolically…
We currently offer two informational brochures. You are welcome to print them out, photocopy them, and fold them in thirds for distribution. Hand them out at a local mental health care center, insert them in literature racks at your library or community center, or simply give them to your friends, family, students, or colleagues! You…
Speaker Ron Unger will talk about, “Changing Mental Health Care in Lane County, Oregon.” what Meeting when Jan 06, 2010 from 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM where MindFreedom office, 454 Willamette, Suite 216. contact name David Oaks contact phone 541-345-9106 attendees All are welcome. add event to calendar vCal iCal First Wednesday MindFreedom Roundtable – FREE. WHEN: Wednesday,…
Date Published: Nov 30, 2009 12:00 AM Author: Mary Maddock Source: MindFreedom Ireland Where ‘mental health’ problems abound worldwide, the emphasis has shifted from religious beliefs to pseudo science, particularly in the form of medicine. Many of us live in a world where health is one of our main obsessions. We have only to look at our…