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Log of a manic recoverer...

Submitted by Machiavelian Teacup on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 3:35pm

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

The Tyranny of Memory

Submitted by blood_money on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 9:06pm

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All conversation is predicated on memory; without memory there is nothing to say save opinions and they prove merely to embarrass those who bear them to any length. Real conversation is grounded in perceptions and facts. We share what we have seen, heard, told, read, conceived, admired, loathed, feared, questioned, etc. All of these require that our minds take in information, process it, and store it for further use.

Harm Reduction Guide To Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs & Withdrawal

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 9:54pm

The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's 40-page guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, withdrawal, detailed Resource section, information for people staying on their medications, and much more. A 'harm reduction' approach means not being pro- or anti-medication, but supporting people to make their own decisions balancing the risks and benefits involved. Written by Will Hall, with a 14-member health professional Advisory board providing research assistance and 24 other collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Ashley McNamara. Download a .pdf to read or a 'zine version to print and fold into a booklet (instructions included). Published copies also available through orders(at)theicarusproject(dot)net.

Also available in Spanish. Tambien disponible en Castellano/ Espanol.

Also available in German

Also available in Greek

Pills and a new psychiatrist- temporarily

Submitted by eilis59 on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 5:05am

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writing from Catalunya.

wings on sabatical

Submitted by jacks_ashley on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 3:38am

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a Thursday night. been listening to housemates singing over guitars and candles. the sweetness of human creation. the persistent sensation that there is a piece of my magic i can't access, and that it is blocked by this psych drug I take. missing missing missing it...