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Mad Pride events taking place in the United Kingdom in 2009.

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Event "Recovery and Beyond" Conference (Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, The Precincts, Canterbury, Kent, UK, from Feb 19, 2009 10:00 AM to Feb 20, 2009 04:30 PM)
Asylum Associates presents a two day conference “Recovery and Beyond" and the launch of the International Paranoia Network.
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Samantha Johnson, psychiatric survivor, MFI intern

Samantha Johnson is a 22-year-old psychiatric survivor who is interning at the MindFreedom International office. "I was absolutely in disbelief at how the people were treated at the hospital. It was an environment of emotional abuse interspersed with 'treatments' and 'policies' that could be more accurately described as assault. The tragic thing is that there really are some good people working there, but they are unable to provide people with the help they need inside a system that prioritizes profits over people. It might take five years of counseling for someone to truly recover from a mental health crisis, but it takes five minutes to tranquilize them. This is why I started working with MindFreedom. For 25 years MFI has been challenging the mental health system to see us as human beings- to treat us as human beings- through peaceful activism. At MFI we emphasize individual choice, empowerment, and compassion as necessary aspects of a true healing process."

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