Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: In an effort to reduce the harmful experiences occurring in psychiatric hospitals, compassionate alternatives are being created around the world. For people who need a respite from their lives, it’s important to ask, “What would you want that to look like?” One form of crisis…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: In exploring alternative approaches to mental health, it is first important to understand what mental illness actually is. Most psychiatric survivors reject the term “mental illness” altogether, as it supports what is considered the “medical model” of mental health. The medical model is based on…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: If you are experiencing involuntary treatment, you may find yourself in a desperate crisis. Here we will share tools and strategies on how you can fight for your freedom. The typical argument against victims of involuntary psychiatric treatment is that they don’t have the mental…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: Those in favor of forcing psychiatric treatment on people say, “It’s for their own good.” This sounds well intentioned but does not have any bearing on whether involuntary treatment is actually successful at helping most people. Here we will explore several key problems with involuntary…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: Involuntary treatment refers to medical procedures undertaken without the consent of the person being treated. In 1975, the world finally got a peek into this traumatic experience through the award-winning feature film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Involuntary psychiatric treatment has become standard protocol…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: Mental health treatment has come in many forms throughout history. For most of history, people considered “crazy” were banished, beaten, or kept locked away in cellars and attics. In 17th-century Europe, they were confined in large institutions, not for purposes of treatment, but to remove…
Watch the rest of the Voices for Choices series NARRATION: Voices for Choices is the first of its kind. Courageous individuals speak out about their experience with the mental health system’s use of force and coercion. They share about alternative approaches and healing modalities they have explored and their effective approaches to…
Info media-and-mental-health Document Actions Print this Issues involving the way mainstream media has often had bias in reporting stories regarding mainstream corporate mental health system. Just as there’s a movement for accountability in the mental health system, there is also a social change movement of critics of mainstream corporate media calling for more professionalism and…
Info May 11, 2013…Join MindFreedom host, SOPHIE FAUGHT and activist filmmaker, LISE ZUMWALT to talk about forced drugging and her first feature film, “That’s Crazy,” which documents one man’s decision to take his treatment into his own hands, defying a commitment order and an order to treat while searching for recovery. LIVE on Saturday, May…
The proponents of expanded forced psychiatry have already lobbied for outpatient forced drugging laws in almost every state in the union. They’ve succeeded in bringing forced drugging into the homes of those targeted by such laws in most states. It is with great alarm that we have learned that the next domino to fall may…