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new day rising

Posted in Farewells, Media, Mental illness, Torture, War, Wingnuttia on January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I spent Monday watching the 2003 documentary Control Room, then read a mess of online farewells to George Bush. This one comes closest to what’s inside my own heart: May the Road Rise to Meet You in the Face, You Treasonous Son of a Bitch.
Contrary to the arguments made by your defenders, I didn’t root [...]

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Psychiatric survivors, labels and me

Posted in BPD et al., CBT is shit-for-brains., DSM, Etiological ignorance, Family, Fourth Street, Letters to Woody, Mad in America, Mental illness, Murder is a Crime, Psychophobia, Sexist bastards on January 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. William James
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The deleterious effect of evil, pernicious, stigmatizing labels is at the core of psychiatric survivor discourse™, so of course it makes me wonder why I don’t care about mine so much, like — what am I missing here, am I insufficiently outraged about [...]

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The giving, offering, and forcing of selves

Posted in DSM, Enemies...must...have...enemies, Force, Humanistic psychology, Mad in America, Mental illness, Pharmageddon, Psychophobia, tagged on December 23, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Not another post about nuance! Yes and it all started when I heard benevolent superstar Jon Swift is offering exposure to his blogroll writers with another year-end round up of Best Posts Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves. Last year was a great success, providing hours of enjoyable reading and oodles of new visitors to [...]

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I try to praise the mutilated world

Posted in Art heals, Betrayal, Child abuse, Dirty Fucking Hippies, Family, Force, Fourth Street, Healthy speech is poetry, Liars, Mental illness, Murder is a Crime, NAMI and I are One, Pharmageddon, Psychophobia, Rwanda, Sexist bastards, Torture, War, tagged on November 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »

I often wonder what it will look like to reach the point of not just surviving my misfortunes but being simply and profoundly grateful for every single thing that has ever happened to me. And why people who want things like that are so perplexing to those who don’t. Those who wonder, in their golden [...]

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Ballad of a teenage queen

Posted in Art heals, BPD et al., Betrayal, Child abuse, Family, Feminist therapy, Force, Kick it over, Mental illness, Narrative competence, Pharmageddon, Proper genius, Psychophobia, Semiological guerrilla warfare, Sexist bastards, We Love Women, tagged , on October 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »

She shouts for a reckoning with entire mouth and unspoilt heart. My friend Poodle (“Ursula”) from Christchurch NZ declares her joy, in love with these times. (rule for radicals: that’s why she’s a teacher and you’re not)
so thats me in the corner-thats me over there–was a hard arse interview 2 do-my dyslexia [...]

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Obama to McCain: CBT is shit-fer-brains

Posted in Art heals, Betrayal, CBT is shit-for-brains., Cool things to put on my blog, Enemies...must...have...enemies, Law, Media, Mental illness, Narrative competence, Wingnuttia on August 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Welp, I’m back from my break. Feast your eyes to the right of this blog, after 3 months over-thinking how to set it up we now have a world of VODPOD, and I think it’s going to help. I’m just building the library now but once it holds a hundred or so clips will find [...]

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Diversity at Netroots Nation

Posted in Biobabble, Class, DSM, Force, Mad in America, Mental illness, Pharmageddon, Psychophobia, Sexist bastards, tagged on July 14, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Ah well they rejected my panel so fuck ‘em I said, prepared to be all pissy and dismissive of the convention on its way to Austin town, but that’s just not me. Three thousand progressive bloggers flying into the state responsible for the neocon stronghold on this country is a marvelous event that didn’t [...]

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Busy, busy busy

Posted in Any port in a storm, Child abuse, Class, Feminist therapy, Humanistic psychology, Mad in America, Mental illness, Narrative competence, tagged , on July 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Our sensitive overlords at the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care are holding a conference this weekend; their 3rd in a series spanning two decades. I must be in pretty bad shape to consider this good news, but beneath the layers of shmooze and self-congratulation must lie some potential toward changing hearts and minds in the [...]

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