Writing is resistance. It’s saying no, for however brief an instant, to the notion imparted on me that I’m here solely to respond, that I’m here to be nice, a good girl, cooperative and kind, that I’m here to play out the role I was assigned: to be convenient for others. Writing is the only Read More
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A Million and One Reasons I Need to Get Out of Dodge
My mind is racing. I need a shower, a walk, an artists date, time with a friend, a break from the computer. I need to de-clutter, go through stuff, edit and type blog, learn a new language, play piano, practice Spanish, read Hebrew, and get out of dodge. That’s a lot. Oh, I also need Read More
All These Names are Within You
by Ben Ross Names for the Unnamed There’s a pressure not to name it abuse or to claim the vulnerability and sensitivity of the heart reflective, wind-responsive as a river or to see the full ecosystem of a child’s inner life more vast and intricate than a coral reef. How it’s all still here in Read More
Post-Pharma Party Cocktail
May psychiatry fall into its own trap May its karmic destiny finally come May it become disabled and disenfranchised as it has made me and my people May it like all things have its day May its sun set in the heavens the post psychiatry mystics and seers shining and glowing in Read More
Sharing Day
When I was a senior in high school, my poetry class had sharing day every Friday. We were all writing poetry from our own experience, and I thought, Wow, what if all of life was like this? Heaven on Earth. Now we have that, to some extent. That’s why I’m somewhat addicted to Facebook Read More
Missing Puzzle Pieces
Every one of us is needed for our collective liberation, every single one, therefore it’s important, necessary, really, that everyone’s experience be deemed valid. To call any experience of reality crazy is to cut ourselves off from that piece of the puzzle we are all working on. Someone might be working Read More
Love and Fear on Planet Earth
by Ben Ross What I Want More Than Anything Else Sometimes I think what I want more than anything else is to be rejected, and find out if love is here anyway – to fail, and find out if there’s an acceptance larger than achievement – to actually miss out on life, until I can Read More
The Art of the Blog
Tomorrow, Wednesday April 15th at 6pm PST, 9pm EST I will be going on Talk With Tenney to talk about my experiences with blogging. I will discuss how important blogging is for our movement and for us as individual psychiatric survivors because surviving psychiatry is being silenced, so every one of us has a lot Read More
An Emergency Call to the Sensitive Ones
by Joey Von Hoven This is a call-out. I normally choose my words carefully and with beauty, but I don’t have the time to do that right now. I take that as a sign that I’m ready; this is a message to myself as much as to you. This is a message for a small Read More
My Story Is Your Story
My story is your story even though you don’t know. Your story is my story even though I may never know the details. I may see them in your face, the way your jaw slants, hear them in your voice, how it’s hard for you to speak at times; I may sense your story as Read More