Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Mike Hlebechuk “Why did the doctors tell me–an intelligent, gifted person–that I would never work, would never get through school, would be on medications for the rest of my life, and should stay on social security disability indefinitely? I tend to excel at whatever I do, but I…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Susie K Irwin “I want to be a part of connecting to other people–letting them know they’re not alone, and helping them discover within themselves that they can do whatever they can set their minds to.” Born: 06 July 1969 Contact info: Portland, Oregon, USA Currently doing: Susie…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Paul Levy “We, as a society, need to recognize the existence of genuine spiritual emergences. It is crucially important for us to do this, for those who pass through this process successfully and become accomplished shamans, healers and teachers, have enormous gifts and blessings to share that will…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Anthony S Lipinsky “The worst part of the mental health system is that there are so many well-meaning professionals that look at you as a lesser order human being–a human being who has to be controlled, made dependent, ordered about. That is not the way to treat a…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Victoria Molta “I can only say I have been through a spiritual transformation. A snake slips off an old, useless piece of skin and I too discarded a part of myself, the victim.” Born: 28 August 1961 Contact info: New Haven Connecticut USA Currently doing: Victoria now works…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Barbara Nichols “I can’t tell you how happy I was to get my degree from Portland State. My father was a physician and he told me when I was 18 that I was not smart enough to go to school. Now I’m the only one out of five…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Carol J Patterson The truth is, you can’t heal me without my cooperation, you cannot. There’s no such thing as forced healing. Born: 28 June 1954 Contact info: San Francisco, California, USA Currently doing: Carol is currently the BUILD Program Coordinator at the Independent Living Resources Center. When…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Pat Risser “I had been brainwashed by the psychiatric system to be hopeless, helpless and overly dependent. So now I’ve dedicated the greater part of my life to try and reach people who are currently affected by the system and deprogram them from the cult of psychiatry.” Born:…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Gail Roberts “My first stop was the ecstatic and exotic mania of a completely different reality, Japan, where I quickly attained a celebrity status as I have a resemblance, at least according to the Japanese, to Elizabeth Taylor. I started to get rich teaching English and had to…
Info Document Actions Print this Personal Stories Clover Smith “One morning, 12 drug years later, engulfed in sickness, I called the current psychiatrist and yelled, “What do psychiatrists think in their head? My mind is cured when my body is dead!” I slammed the phone down and never swallowed their pills again; I had taken…