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Consumer-Driven Resources

Link Directory of Consumer-Driven Services
The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse hosts this federally funded online list of projects run by mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors.
Link PeopleWho ...
"People Who...", a non-profit organization based in California, is an online community for people who experience mood swings, fear, visions, and/or hear voices. People Who is a gathering place on the internet for advocacy, support, or simply to experience each other. A truly pioneering online disability support community from the early days of the world wide web, People Who is accredited to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Ad Hoc Committee for the Comprehensive and Integral International Convention to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
News Item A Mental Health Alternative for Youth in Denmark May Be Shut Down: Save Gaderummet!
Gaderummet is an innovative psychosocial alternative for young homeless people in Copenhagen, Denmark that may be replaced by a more traditional mental health service. Here's an easy e-mail action you can take to help show there is international support.
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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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