Given the strained and occasionally deadly nature of the overall relationship between psychiatric survivors and law enforcement agencies, it really begs the question: should the police even become involved in situations where someone is experiencing an emotional or mental crisis?

Today I begin the return to med free living!!!!

I've become embroiled in a discussion about how psychiatry is being utilized within the prison system as an additional means of punishment under the guise of 'penal reform'. No doubt psychiatry is inherently punitive when it functions in this capacity as partner to the judicial apparatus. But this is to say nothing of those innocents who find themselves incarcerated and punished in psychiatric prisons (euphemistically referred to as 'hospitals') without even having broken any laws. (This actually means the vast majority of psychiatric 'patients'.)

Several years back, the City of Toronto initiated a 'pilot project' where a male psychiatric nurse would be teamed up with a plainclothes cop on patrol in the city's east downtown.

To be honest, the concept of 'recovery' is being turned into just another buzzword from the 'mental health' industry. In reality, the only 'recovery' the system appears to promote or perceive as possible is within the context of the existing medical model, through aggressive lifelong tinkering with peoples' brain chemistry or genetic makeup, and with diagnosed people still expected to occupy the same narrow, oppressive social niche as has been the case all along.

it's more obvious every day that this society is not working.

It angers me beyond all imagination that psychiatric incarceration, police brutality, forced drugging and complete negation of our humanity or worth is the best our supposedly 'enlightened' society can offer to distressed people.

i wanted me first blog entry to be more philosophical...but...right now i'm just fucking pissed off

Bipolar author of "Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin" describes the limits of psycho-logical language, the contraints vs. liberation of diagnoses and how symptoms are signals to pay attention to, but not be afraid of necessarily...

MTV & Schizophrenia?

Is left right on consumer survivor issues...?

Bipolar author goes from Rock Bottom to Rock ON! In "Lipstick and Thong in the Loony Bin" Courtney A. Walsh offers a survival story of hope healing and humor about the taboo subject of suicide. Pandora's Box?...is OPEN....

I'm placing my faith in what psychology and science (psychology is science based correct o.O?) for now

.... and said "lamictal," implying that it was cause of her inability to lose weight....And she is full of such shit.

105 degree fever, close brush with death, and weeklong hospital ordeal with four days in critical care -- directly the result from off-label prescription for the so-called "mood stabilizer" Lamictal.

Icaristas Jonah Bossewitch, Madigan Shive, and Will Hall were hosted by a local Icarus website member at the Bay Area John F. Kennedy University forum with clinical psychology graduate students. 2-07

Video about Teen Screen and mental health screenings for suicide, depression, mental illness as a pharmaceutical company marketing scam backed by the Bush administration.

By March 15th, 2007