A Mix of Medicines That Can Be Lethal

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Info Document Actions Print this Psychiatric drugs administered along with other prescriptions (psychiatric polypharmacy) often leads to fatal results. Libby Zion, whose premature demise resulted from ingesting a prescription cocktail, was administered an anti-depressant and a painkiller, both of which targeted the 18 year old college student’s central nervous system. Such deaths and related polypharmacy…

Mother’s Day 2007: Toronto, Montreal and Ireland all protest electroshock.

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Info — expired Toronto, Montreal and MindFreedom Ireland all protested electroshock on Mother’s Day 2007. Here is background, announcements, press release and posters, along with links to reports. MindFreedom International endorsed these peaceful protests of electroshock. Don Weitz, Bonnie Burstow and Paivi Laine at news conference in Toronto about 13 May 2007 protest of electroshock.…

Mother’s Day 2007: Toronto, Montreal and Ireland all protest electroshock.

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Info — expired Toronto, Montreal and MindFreedom Ireland all protested electroshock on Mother’s Day 2007. Here is background, announcements, press release and posters, along with links to reports. MindFreedom International endorsed these peaceful protests of electroshock. Don Weitz, Bonnie Burstow and Paivi Laine at news conference in Toronto about 13 May 2007 protest of electroshock.…

Psychiatric Survivors

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Info Psychiatric Survivors Psychiatric Survivors Spotlighted in Radical Psychology Journal The publication Radical Psychology announces a special issue of, by and for the voice of psychiatric survivors. Document Actions Print this

It’s a beautiful mind: Schizophrenic experience leads man to medicine

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Info Document Actions Print this Oregon’s largest newspaper describes a visit by psychiatric survivor/psychiatrist Dan Fisher to eastern Oregon to provide training about ‘recovery’ following a psychiatric diagnosis. It’s a beautiful mind: Schizophrenic experience leads man to medicine Date Published: Feb 10, 2007 03:00 AM Author: Kathy Aney of the East Oregonian Source: The Oregonian,…

Recovery and Mental Health

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Info Recovery and Mental Health Full and complete recovery — meaning re-integration into society without dependence on the mental health system, is an achievable goal for every known problem labeled as a “psychiatric disorder.” Overcoming the Impossible: My Journey Through Schizophrenia Psychiatric survivor, psychologist and author Ron Bassman wrote this breakthrough article that was published…