Info A free lecture by David Oaks at Harvard University. What Conference When Oct 04, 2009 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM Where Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Add event to calendar vCal iCal Three Decades of MAD PRIDE: Community Organizing By Mental Health Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors Sunday, October 4 @ 3:00pmLowell House Junior Common Room(10…
Info Here are a couple of brief quotes in US Supreme Court rulings about how the First Amendment guarantees freedom of thought and freedom of mind, even to have so-called “irrational” beliefs. US Supreme Court rulings in: Democratic Party of U. S. v. Wisconsin: “And as is true of all expressions of First Amendment freedoms,…
Info The first meeting in the United States of EleMental, an international organization introducing and developing the elements of Recovery and Thriving. What Meeting When Jul 27, 2009 from 12:00 PM to 03:00 PM Where Aurora, Colorado, USA Add event to calendar vCal iCal Where: Community Connections Empowerment Center10004 East ColfaxAurora, Colorado 80010 When: July…
Info This folder contains links to blogs and other web resources devoted to the topic of quitting psychiatric drugs. Beyond Meds From the blogger: “I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1985 at age 19. I was medicated off and on from 1985 to 1988 and then medicated in 1992 to the present after having…
Info Document Actions Print this Vets’ Mental Health Diagnoses Rising Date Published: Jul 16, 2009 08:00 PM Author: By JAMES DAO Source: The New York Times THE NEW YORK TIMES original story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/health/views/17vets.html?em A new study has found that more than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who enrolled in the veterans health system…
Info Here is a forwarded message via Michael Hlebechuk about a memorial for Oregon mental health consumer/psychiatric survivor activist David Romprey, a MindFreedom member, one year and one day after his death. All are welcome. Please forward to others, thanks. What Gathering When Jul 31, 2009 from 06:00 AM to 08:00 AM Where Salem, Oregon,…
Info Long-time MindFreedom member and supporter Al Siebert has died at the age of 75. Al was well known as a psychologist, author and lecturer on the topic of resiliency, and surviving even the most traumatic of events. His books on resiliency and mental health alternatives were very popular. What is less known is that…
Info Document Actions Print this A weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon covers “mad pride” alternative medicine, and profiles MindFreedom member Will Hall. A New Group for People Who Hear Voices Celebrates Mental Illness Diversity Date Published: Jun 24, 2009 08:00 PM Author: Marjorie Skinner Source: Portland Mercury – Portland, Oregon, USA original article in Portland…
Info MindFreedom member Godly Mathew won a prize on Facebook today 22 Sept. 2009. Nice end of his summer. In an unrelated victory, Godly vigiled this summer at least one hour each and every day, in front of a psychiatric facility where he said he was abused, Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. In this…
Info MindFreedom is one of the co-sponsors of a national tour by the US Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. Here is current information available. The U.S. Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry presents THE “HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL” TOUR COMMUNITY TEACH-INS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY FOR USERS AND SURVIVORS OF…