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
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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
Pulse: Writing Because Alive (A Vision)
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
In Praise of Pleasure
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
Grief is Full of Stars
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
84 Capacities That Can Return When Getting Off Psychiatric Meds
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
Blogging Class For The Silenced
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
11 Reasons I’d Rather Listen to Someone Than Suggest They Take Psychiatric Drugs
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
How Writing Turns Suicidal Feelings into Medicine
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