Leaving the Mainstream for the Ocean...

Submitted by courtneyawalsh on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 2:24pm
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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...

hmmmmm - don't know how I feel about this

Submitted by annihilatetoddy on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 11:27am
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MTV & Schizophrenia?

Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin

Submitted by courtneyawalsh on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 10:30am
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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....

Aftermath of attempting to survive without professional help

Submitted by LoveLight on Tue, 10/02/2007 - 3:14pm
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I'm placing my faith in what psychology and science (psychology is science based correct o.O?) for now

MIND-UK Coping With Coming Off Psych Drugs Guide

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 4:52pm
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MIND is the leading UK mental health charity. This is their excellent guide to coming off psychiatric drugs, available at http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Making+sense/Making+sense+of+coming+off+psychiatric+drugs.htm http://snipurl.com/MINDComingOffGuide

"Recent advances in understanding mental illness and psychotic experiences: British Psychological Society"

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 4:41pm
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Despite the intimidating title, this is a very clearly written report, with input from people who've been through the system, of what is know and not known about 'mental illness.' Though it doesn't recognize the dangers of the 'atypical' drugs, the report is a great, solid-research antidote to biased info coming from Big Pharma and mainstream medical model psychiatry.

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