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Occupy the American Psychiatric Association in Philly: Boycott Normal!

(Published: Jan 16, 2012 09:00 AM)
Occupy the American Psychiatric Association in Philly: Boycott Normal!
In the spirit of liberty, MindFreedom is taking its nonviolent revolution to historic Philadelphia, PA, USA, and to the doorstep of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Occupy APA! This is part of a global peaceful campaign to boycott normality. You are welcome and invited!
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New, Extra Weird MFI Bumper Stickers are Anything but Normal!

(Published: Dec 30, 2011 05:50 PM)
New, Extra Weird MFI Bumper Stickers are Anything but Normal!
Join us in celebrating the diversity, creativity, and abnormality that makes us human! Sport your mad pride with one of MFI's special edition bumper stickers!
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MFI News

Speak Out About Dr. Oz Show Support of Electroshock

(Published: Jan 19, 2012 01:50 PM)
Speak Out About Dr. Oz Show Support of Electroshock
Influential physician and TV personality Dr. Oz may be showing a segment praising electroshock. You are encouraged to speak out on his own web site.
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MF Free Web Radio: Listen to Us, American Psychiatry!

(Published: Jan 09, 2012 01:00 PM)
MF Free Web Radio: Listen to Us, American Psychiatry!
14 January 2012 Show: Mental health consumers, psychiatric survivors, mental health professionals and other allies are protesting the American Psychiatric Association. Special guests: Ann Rider from Arizona, Debbie Plotnick from Philadelphia, and dissident psychologist Brent Robbins, who is leading one of the petitions against DSM-5. With your live calls. Boycott Normal! Host: David Oaks.
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Global News

John McCarthy - Irish Poet, Mad Pride Leader, Psychiatric Survivor - RIP

(Published: Jan 10, 2012 02:40 PM)
John McCarthy - Irish Poet, Mad Pride Leader, Psychiatric Survivor - RIP
Mary Maddock of the MindFreedom International board of directors just contacted us with the sad news: After a long motor neurone illness, mad pride leader, poet and psychiatric survivor John McCarthy of Cork, Ireland died this morning at 61. Whether you knew him personally or not, John is a hero for our "mad movement." Below are some Mad Pride memories of John. [Updated 14 Jan 2012]
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NEWS: MFI Launches Initiative on Food Justice & Mental Health

(Published: Dec 01, 2011 03:35 PM)
NEWS: MFI Launches Initiative on Food Justice & Mental Health
MindFreedom International is currently collaborating with psychiatric survivor Emma Heath-Engel to launch the MindFreedom Initiative for Food Justice and Mental Health, representing growing supportive connections between the alternative mental health and food justice movements.
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USA News

Christina Walko Alleges Forced Outpatient Psychiatric Drugging in Pennsylvania

(Published: Jan 23, 2012 10:15 PM)
Christina Walko Alleges Forced Outpatient Psychiatric Drugging in Pennsylvania
This MindFreedom International member, Christina Walko of Pennsylvania, is being forced to take many psychiatric drugs on an outpatient basis, even though she is living peacefully in the community. She says, "People do not heal when they are bullied or forced!" Her hearing is this Friday, 27 January 2012. Please take action.
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Why get labeled? Describe yourself in the People's DSM!

(Published: Nov 06, 2011 08:30 PM)
Why get labeled? Describe yourself in the People's DSM!
Here's a peaceful revolutionary response to psychiatry's label bible, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual" (DSM). MindFreedom Portland has launched a "People's DSM" where you can describe yourself!
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Recently published articles of interest

Finding Purpose After Living With Delusion

(Published: Dec 01, 2011 02:10 PM)
This front page NY Times article is about Mr. Milt Greek, a man diagnosed with schizophrenia who has explored his own beliefs and similar experiences and those of others. This is the latest in a series of articles by NYT journalist Benedict Cary that have been giving voice to mental health consumers/psychiatric survivors and questioning the mainstream medical model of what is called "schizophrenia."

Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care

(Published: Dec 01, 2011 01:00 PM)
The NY Times reports on a study in journal Pediatrics about massive drugging of young people in USA foster care homes, especially with so-called "antipsychotic" drugs also known as neuroleptics.

ARE ANTI-DEPRESSANTS THE CURE .... OR THE PROBLEM?

(Published: Nov 29, 2011 04:14 PM)
This article addresses the controversial topic of drug side-effects and raises the question of whether the risks may outweigh the benefits.

Three Ways to Help Wellness Wordworks, an MFI Sponsor Group

(Published: Nov 08, 2011 01:30 PM)
A sponsor group of MindFreedom International based in Kansas, is Wellness Wordworks, a psychiatric survivor business by Corinna West, who is an electroshock survivor. Here are three ways you can help this new sponsor.

Historic Speech by Justin Dart About Mental Health & Cross-Disability

(Published: Oct 06, 2011 09:40 PM)
Justin Dart is considered the "Father of the Americans With Disabilities Act," and was also a key bridge builder in connecting the cross-disability movement, and the psychiatric survivor/mental health consumer movement. One of his last speeches was in front of the major annual meeting of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL).

Lynne Salvi's Open Letter to Her Mental Health Therapist

(Published: Sep 24, 2011 08:20 PM)
Lynne Salvi attended a number of MindFreedom Lane County meetings in Summer of 2011. She was quite a writer. Lynne died when she drove off a bridge in Portland on 23 September 2011. A little more than a month before, on 13 August 2011, Lynne had submitted this "Open Letter" to her mental health therapist Linda, via MindFreedom, to try to explain the extreme trauma she felt in conventional mental health care. [Now updated with editing changes Lynne had submitted 8/14/11.]

Proposal: Mental Health Freedom and Recovery Act

(Published: Sep 24, 2011 07:39 PM)
Here's an article by MindFreedom member Duane Sherry who has a proposed "Mental Health Freedom and Recovery Act" that has been endorsed by MindFreedom Texas.

The Mental Illness Industry Is Medicalising Normality

(Published: Sep 07, 2011 02:04 PM)
The well-respected UK newspaper The Guardian published this piece criticizing the over-use of psychiatric labeling, and the way the process is "medicalizing" what is considered "normal."

Forum Held About Proposed Junction City State Psychiatric Institution

(Published: Sep 06, 2011 11:30 AM)
Lynne Salvi, a psychiatric survivor activist, analyzes a recent 30 August 2011 public forum about the proposed large state psychiatric institution in Junction City, Oregon. The forum was sponsored by NAMI, and their representatives passionately opposed building the new institution.

What's Wrong With Bess?

(Published: Aug 29, 2011 05:25 PM)
A poem about how various family members abuse one member in the family, and then make that person out to be the mentally ill one because of how s/he reacts to their abuse.

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Levi Chambers: Young adult leader

Levi Chambers is a sociology student, organizer, and psychiatric survivor working toward mental health justice in Olympia, Washington. He said: "I am a member of MFI because the organization fights for my rights more effectively than groups with funding from big pharma. My family and I stopped supporting those groups, and have been MFI fans ever since." Levi believes in community mental support, non-pathological and non-chemical treatment alternatives, and declines to use psychiatric labels. Currently a 22-year-old college student involved in the Icarus Project and a member of MindFreedom International, Levi hopes to become a researcher who works to gain scientific acknowledgment for alternative recovery models. If you would like to work with Levi to fight discrimination, build alternatives to conventional psychiatry, and demand a non-violent revolution in mental health in Washington State, please contact him.

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