Many psychiatric survivors have created a gift economy of sorts in offering peer support, and this is by no means to criticize those offering their best guidance freely to those who desperately need it. In fact, the gift economy saved my life when it was threatened by psychiatric drugs. Most of us who have come Read More
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5 Tips to Stop Yourself From Reading Too Much Advice or Too Many Tips
1. Stop reading this article right now. Close your computer/phone/tablet and a) sweep your room b) write a page in your journal c) organize your fridge d) throw away 10% of what’s in your sock drawer e) look at the sky. 2. Assuming you did something and came back, talk to yourself out loud. Again, Read More
How to Get Money If You’re Poor, How to Get Soul if You’re Rich
Due to inequality in the world, if you have a lot of money and resources, others have parts of your soul. If you don’t have money, property or assets, you have parts of other people’s souls they need to pay you for. Same with health. If you are very healthy, people who are sick have Read More
A Poem For When You Don’t Want to Keep on Keeping On
I’m sad that life changes. I don’t need matter of fact slogans, like, “The only thing you can count on is change,” rather I need to weep and mourn change. It seems important to respect sadness as one way to acknowledge the passing of time, the reality that everything is constantly changing, and not try Read More
Last day of our Breaking Free from Psych Drugs Indiegogo campaign!
There are many people who would like to come off psych drugs. Would you like to help them? The opportunity to donate to the Breaking Free from Psychiatric Drugs campaign ends today (Fri Feb 6th) .. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/breaking-free-from-psychiatric-drugs
Choosing Psychiatric Meds: The Pro Choicers Dilemma
The dilemma of choosing psychiatric meds is in some ways like the omnivore’s dilemma… Yes, we all like to say people should be able to choose whether or not to take psychiatric drugs, and for the most part I say the same thing. It’s politically correct and choosing psychiatric meds for oneself sounds diplomatic, it Read More
Leonard Roy Frank’s Apartment, For 50 Years: A Photo Essay
After Leonard Frank’s memorial service, a small group of us went to his apartment on Webster Street to look through his books and publications. Here are some photos (click on each one to see a full sized version):
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[guest post by Alfred Thomas]
Before You Turn 30, Leonard Roy Frank
Leonard Frank died last week. He was 82. The December I was about to turn 24 and living in Northampton, Massachusetts, I took a week long trip to visit my cousin in San Francisco. This was my first time on an airplane, or really on any excursion out of Western Massachusetts, in over 3 years, Read More
A Campaign for Alternatives to Psychiatric Drugs
[ guest post by Alfred Thomas ] The amount of psychiatric drugs being used continues to grow very rapidly. Well over 1 in 5 people in the US, and over 130 million worldwide are now using psychiatric drugs. Over 54 million people worldwide are using anti-depressants. Medicating with pharmaceuticals is becoming the default procedure for Read More