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This is a link to an excellent book. Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry edited by an old friend of mine Peter Stastny, MD. As Robert Whitaker points out in the introduction, since the introduction of Chlorpromazine in 1955 there has been a very dramatic increase in the number of people disabled by mental illnesses. So the wonderdrugs perhaps aren't so… Continue

Putting people in prison with mental illnesses is a process in which little justice is involved. A person commits a petty crime and objects to being "mauled" by police. That is immediately a felony. "crazy" person against a "police person" not a chance. Mental institutions are costly. Prisons produce "wealth" for the owners through slave labor and drive labor costs down for the poor joes who work for minimum wage at the cost of their souls. The same i suspect is true of poor people in general… Continue

i volunteer at a drop-in center run by clients of mental health services. The staff and board are all people with serious mental health diagnoses. Many of the board are still living in the streets. Many have prison or jail in their background. I teach meditation and run a 12 step group called Double Trouble in Recovery. it is open to people with any addiction and any mental health issue they feel like talking about labelled or unlabelled. We are listed in the local AA service directory and… Continue

We are all wired to feel what others feel. The harmful, the healing, the joyful, the painful. This is true even in denial. When we look away from someone who is in the streets, covered with dirt, black eyed and bruised, ask why we look away. Because we feel their pain immediately and intimately and can't take it. We don't know what to do. We hesitate to get involved. Perhaps they will stab me, or barf on me. But the immediate reason for turning our gaze is because we know intimately the…

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