"So did you think about me?"
"What do you mean?"
"Did you think about me when you entered that booth? Your Black female child-of-immigrants client?"
"No, I don't think about you like that. I come here to listen to your problems. That's my job."

And that said everything

https://youtu.be/FvX7hj736SE

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A Mad Turn
Edited by Phil Smith

Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

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I’m interested in memoirs, blogs etcetera telling stories of resilience, surviving psychiatry, trauma (developmental). Please share them if you know any.
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Lisa Wallace on why she left psychiatric care and why she may return one day

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/guest-post-a-psychiatric-survivor?r=c50ah&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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The Soteria model relies on personal relationships, interactive activities, and minimal use of psychiatric medication within a comfortable “living community” as opposed to a conventional psychiatric setting.

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How Does the Soteria House Heal?
The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/09/soteria-house-heal/

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Empire of Normality
Neurodiversity and Capitalism
by Robert Chapman

This is a priority read for me!

I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.

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…the need to offer a positive account of mental illness—one that does not define the essence of mental illness exclusively as the absence, lack, or failure of the power of reasoning…

On the Importance of Conceptual Contrasts Madness, Reason, and Mad Pride
Awais Aftab

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/916209 (open source)
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Still a lot of work to be done.

Mad Pride and Neurodiversity
Personal Perspective: Parallel movements of lived experience.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-mental-health/202312/mad-pride-and-neurodiversity?fbclid=IwAR0u8DfRIP4cLRQu_t0uA7MqwJfNTE9WQPwUFHzms7AQ7hbS9z4B226gDko_aem_Abdvn_RWjUPuiUr977ry7-2Dm1fT1OTQR4WSHVutATg7Y9n0HiugSwNLeguoMzZY_x0

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“No More Doctors” - - - I made a Zine to help channel my frustration and concerns

https://youtu.be/kJGNs_ddbQc

Download and print it for free -> https://parasocial.work/#zine

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I’m currently working on a radical mental health iceberg video and it’s so fucking odd and hard and interesting having thoughts like “oh shit yeah there’s so much cool and awful shit to discuss” and “oh fuck my head is getting so fucking full can’t this be simpler” all bubbling the fuck up at once

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from lived experience to theory
Open access article

The Lived Experiences of Family Members and
Carers of People with Psychosis: A Bottom-Up
Review Co-Written by Experts by Experience and
Academics

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36689938/

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