May 2013
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“Eventually Dr. Kaplan decided I was well enough to be released. I was still on...”
– Irit Shimrat, Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement, p 16.
May 21st
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Call Us Crazy: Mad movements organize against... →
madvocate: Abla Abdelhadi, a Palestinian activist living and organizing in Ottawa, has been surprised by the lack of support for her in dealing with mental health related issues. “It’s almost like, ‘Get better, and then when you do get better, come back and join us,’ as if struggling through and surviving through having mental health issues—in a capitalist, colonial, racist society—has no room...
May 19th
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May 19th
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rebloggable by request: Madness, Mental Illness,...
hi. thanks for running this blog! I was wondering what you consider the difference between mad and mentally ill. and also, do you consider mental illness a disability? I’m new to all this mad pride stuff but I have recently begun to identify as mentally ill (depression, anxiety, & ptsd) and have found it empowering. I also am starting to see connections to disability rights stuff. would...
May 18th
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Anonymous asked: Hi, do you think you could turn that last ask into a post so people could reblog?
May 18th
mskaylee asked: Wow, your answer to the mental illness v. mad and disability question was fantastic. Any way you could make that rebloggable?
May 18th
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May 18th
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“The authority of the clinician has been further naturalized in both clinical...”
– Nev Jones & Robyn Lewis Brown in their essay “The Absence of Psychiatric C/S/X Perspectives In Academic Discourse: Consequences and Implications” from Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 33, No 1 (2013), Disability and Madness.
May 18th
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Anonymous asked: hi. thanks for running this blog! I was wondering what you consider the difference between mad and mentally ill. and also, do you consider mental illness a disability? I'm new to all this mad pride stuff but I have recently begun to identify as mentally ill (depression, anxiety, & ptsd) and have found it empowering. I also am starting to see connections to disability rights stuff. would...
May 17th
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“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings....”
– Angela Davis (via socialjusticewarriorgirl)
May 17th
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May 16th
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i always have this urge to simplify my...
frankocean: which always results in further complications. 
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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lordoftheinternet: some thoughts are so private that you only share them with a therapist or 17,000 people on the internet Ahahaha
May 16th
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“Even if a whole world is out of joint, the all-embracingness of the dark soul...”
– Carl Jung
May 16th
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May 16th
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Freudian Emoji:
when  you’re trying to type one emoji but end up with another which actually betrays something unconscious. hahahaha :$
May 15th
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crumbduck: *choking back tears* wanna fight  aahahahahhahaa
May 14th
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egg-rolls: i just remembered something i did when i was 13 now my day is ruined
May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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queeraztlan: fuckyeahmadpride: looking for genetic answers to mental illness is a creepy, expensive and extremely narrow way of researching the (somewhat irrelevant) “why” of mental illness instead of doing social justice work that cares about the “how” of mental illness. finding a schizophrenic gene doesn’t get anyone with schizophrenic symptoms any closer to housing, meaningful work, good...
May 13th
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May 13th
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“While every disabled person will have their own take on this for themselves, i...”
– Building Radical Accessible Communities Everywhere, dis/diss/differently/abled by Sprinkles McGillicuddy (via fabianromero)
May 13th
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soy tortillero y capitan: Shit storm's brewin'... →
tortillero: Psychiatrists Under Fire in Mental Health Battle http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/12/psychiatrists-under-fire-mental-health Psychiatry Divided As Mental Health Bible Denounced  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23487-psychiatry-divided-as-mental-health-bible-denounced.html DSM-V Is Guide Not Bible — Ignore Its Ten Worst Changes...
May 13th
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It’s my birthday.
May 12th
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“It is relatively unimportant whether the doctor understands or not, but...”
– Carl Jung, from the anthology Psychological Reflections, editted by Jolande Jacobi, 1953
May 12th
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May 12th
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Al Phlipp and The Woo Team - Koo Koo →
Koo Koo… Koo Koo.. Oh, life always used to get me down I spent my days running ‘round Trying to do what people told me to Oh, it used to be that bad But that’s all through I used to work, I used to slave Working myself to an early grave I felt no pleasure, only pain But now that’s all changed Cause I’ve gone insane Oh, now nothing ever bothers me I live my life in...
May 12th
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madpridemtl asked: Hi, we are from the collective MadPride Montréal. We want to make buttons with ''Miss Diagnose'' writting on them. Since we took this idea from you, we were wondering if you're okay with that. If you want, we can send you some buttons by the mail afterward. Thanks a lot.
May 12th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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“In my reality I’m crazy. I’m one of the crazy ones, but it’s good. I look at the...”
– John Trudell (In My Reality I’m Crazy) The whole 10min clip of this speech is worth watching in its entirety. I’ve been mulling it over for the past 6 months and this speech has become a huge part of the way I am beginning to conceive decolonization and consciousness-praxis of being. (via...
May 7th
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looking for genetic answers to mental illness is a creepy, expensive and extremely narrow way of researching the (somewhat irrelevant) “why” of mental illness instead of doing social justice work that cares about the “how” of mental illness. finding a schizophrenic gene doesn’t get anyone with schizophrenic symptoms any closer to housing, meaningful work, good food,...
May 7th
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Chair of DSM-5 Task Force Admits Lack of Validity →
madness-narrative: David Kupfer, Chair of the DSM-5 Task Force, admits in a press release that ”biological and genetic markers that provide precise diagnoses that can be delivered with complete reliability and validity” are still “disappointingly distant. We’ve been telling patients for several decades that we are waiting for biomarkers. We’re still waiting.”
May 7th
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“Do they really think that we won’t notice that Dr. Cuthbert’s cheerleading and...”
– 1boringoldman, old news… (via madness-narrative)
May 7th
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quantumwobbles: Today’s food for thought: I would rather spend my time convincing people that it’s okay to be crazy than getting everyone to use a different word. Because the last time someone hurled an ableist insult at me, it was actually this: “You’re mentally ill, is what you are!”
May 6th
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May 5th
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diorpaint: Please dont make fun of peoples breath sumtimes its a health issue beyond there control, i love you - Lil B
May 4th
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“When I have given lectures on the material in this book at public and private...”
– Emily Martin, xviii, Preface, Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture, 2007
May 3rd
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May 3rd
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whatevskies: sorry i couldn’t hear you over my internal monologue : /
May 2nd
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rnackenzie: i contribute to group conversations by saying what every five minutes
May 2nd
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May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2013
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Apr 30th
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dosopod: “you don’t look depressed though” oh yeah sorry i forgot to bring my literal dark cloud with me today
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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