I’ve been misunderstood many times in my life, which has lead to over twelve forced institutionalizations in, shall we say, “the cuckoo’s nest.” This is an attempt to glean from those experiences the essential dos and don’ts of living in a community of the mentally ill and their caregivers.

NO TABLETS WOT ABOUT THE FREE MONEY

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?

One group of humans get to decide, another is supposed to just follow orders, and trust that the other group will make the right decisions. One group gets heavily funded and carried aloft on the shoulders of the Status Quo and heralded everywhere as heroes, the other gets to remain passive, waiting in silenced trust to be served. One group gets to engage in "reputable" dialogue with each other, the other group gets to  "rant" and "rave" and can only be viewed in a very narrow, paternalistic way. All of these ways have a lot of bigoted assumptions within them and end up tooling all the otherwise beautiful human beings involved. 

History of Superstition

The Satanic Witch

I'm not quite sure what a "teaser" is to this project, but you may want to consider the audience!

The flesh would penetrate and be penetrated with alacrity and great skill should circumstances arise that might demand it.  Sex is not a sentimental journey;  it is a sword with which the body can finally carve out its most daemonic and forensic needs upon those others who remain shivering in the dark.

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'.)

At the end of the day, 'partial equality' is not an option. What's important is for us to be able to figure out what is realistically achievable over the short, medium and long term.

I've run into a situation of blatant discrimination in my own home city. While I'm not going to go into specifics about this case, the complicating factor is that it arises out of a situation that many would not consider 'politically correct', ergo, the person involved is considered by some as perhaps not deserving of support or protection.

This is the question I dread the most. It is also the query that is made of me in the initial stages of just about every acquaintanceship. And whenever it is asked, invariably said ship is sunk.

Three as in three AM. Three in the morning. Three hours past midnight.

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.

My bullshit detector's been activated once again.

Is left right on consumer survivor issues...?

I really don't know what is going to happen. I can't control it. I am an agent of change, but I am not the change. I can choose how to act, but forces greater than me govern what happens. This truth keeps me from worrying too much.

This angle on things may interest the strategically challenged (i.e. "consumers" and survivors of authoritarian abuse who want to make a clean break from controls on our collective alienation); my own interest is to use my art to inspire discussion along lines of visionary ways to respond, re-create, and design our lives as we'd like to live.

Here are a bunch of art images i made. They are all "anti-copyright" and may be used by anti-authoritarians and others critical of psychiatry and authority in general; any other use, please contact me... i invite input from folks in general, whether challenging or whatever. I would especially like to have more ideas for art, or ideas on how to make these existing ones even more clear and coherent. Let's see if this works...(i see no limit on attachments; is there one?)

"The problem with children, and with working class children in particualr, was that they refused to be integrated smoothly into an oppressive society. ...The child savers turned political problems into adjustment problems. Instead of seeking political solutions to the problems of young people, they chose therapeutic remedies, thereby deflecting criticisms of capitalism onto its victims."

Anyone dealing with the hierarchical structure of institutions these days may want to understand them better so to more meaningfully challenge those portions (or entireties) in which they feel pained by. These excerpts may be pivotal.