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Jun 11, 2010

We Are Our Own Media! Making News to Change Mental Health in Spring 2010

by David W. Oaks — last modified Jun 11, 2010 03:11 PM

Tomorrow is another MindFreedom Web Radio Show, this time with authors Robert Whitaker and Linda Andre, who are reaching thousands of people about changing mental health care. It's a good time to reflect on "being our own media." This Spring 2010, we've had terrible media and good media, ranging from a professional reporter who called a psychiatric survivor a "crackpot," in print... to a student journalist struggling with the controversy of psychiatric labeling... read more...

Jun 08, 2010

San Francisco Chronicle's Chemical Crusade: Pushing "Laura's Law" Involuntary Outpatient Commitment

by David W. Oaks — last modified Jun 08, 2010 08:50 PM

I challenge the editors of The San Francisco Chronicle to voluntarily try taking a strong dose of an antipsychotic psychiatric medication, also known as a neuroleptic. See what it's like. The Chronicle editors has been spending Spring 2010 promoting and pushing laws to make it easier to forcibly give psychiatric drugs to people living outside of institutions, out in the community. The Chronicle has run columns, editorials and news articles. It's time to speak out. read more...

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Tsuyoshi Matsuo, MD, chair of MindFreedom Japan affiliate

Tsuyoshi Matsuo is a physician who worked in a psychiatric institution in Japan for four years and witnessed how terribly the patients are treated. Dr. Matsuo said he was glad to be an MFI member, "Because I believe MFI is trying to straighten out the mental health system which is insane. I'm proud to be part of the movement to straighten it out!"

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