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Background of this Piece This writing is in response to a conference call held by my friend Chaya Grossberg (“Blogging Class for The Silenced”), where she outlined her vision for how expressing our voices and putting them out there can both transform our lives and rewrite the story of our culture. She invited everyone on Read More

by Jon Keyes As a therapist I work with many people who feel a range of emotions-  sadness, grief, anxiety, confusion, hatred and anger.  Linking all these emotions is difficulty with feeling pleasure.   Pleasure is a complicated for many of us.  Too much pleasure is often linked with addiction, and many of us are Read More

by Ben Ross Things I Need to Speak Before I Can Fall Asleep Maybe before I can fall asleep tonight, I need to speak my truth. My truth is that grief is with me nearly every day of my life. And I’ve had to work very hard, to look deeply into my experience again and Read More

In order for an experience to create a life mission and strong sense of purpose, it has to affect you to the core. Though I was only on psychiatric drugs for a few years of my life (and the very lowest “clinical” doses available), they affected me so strongly and took away so much that Read More

Are you a writer who wants to get your thoughts out to a wider audience but is terrified or otherwise blocked? Would you like tips on how to start a blog, opportunities to guest blog and proven methods for getting your message out to the masses? One of the biggest problems I see in the Read More

guest post by Ben Ross I’d rather listen to someone than suggest they take psych drugs:    Because I know listening has helped me through times of powerful anxiety and despair, when medications did not. Because I know listening and connection have effects on the brain that are more powerful and lasting than psychiatric medications. Read More

Disclaimer: I am not suicidal, nor did I have a plan for suicide when I wrote this piece. And Gosh I wish disclaimers like this didn’t feel so necessary. Gosh I wish the psychiatric pharmaceutical industrial complex police state could not monitor my written medicine even one iota. I’m so alone in this world-yet I Read More

Guest post by Dabney Alix. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer I love this quote. I see it as particularly relevant to the complex intersection between mental health and spirituality. In the psychiatric camp, a chemical imbalance in your brain can be fixed Read More

A woman who lives in Australia contacted me recently for support.  She has been isolated in her desire to be free of psychiatry and needs to remain anonymous due to a court order but asked that I share her email address here so that others who are seeking mutual support by Skype might contact her: Read More

by Tina Minkowitz Survivors Need Our Own Media originally posted at https://chrusp.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/survivors-need-our-own-media/ Survivors* have a complicated relationship to the Mad in America blog site.  Many of us blog there and the subject matter is of vital interest as it concerns our lived experience, but the site is not survivor-controlled and it is not meant to be accountable Read More