My Alternative to the Disease Model, Part 1 of 2
Label and Medicate: The Disease Model of Emotional Distress The Disease Model of emotional distress victimized and traumatized me inexcusably several times in the past. Eighteen months ago, in the...
View ArticlePeople With No Alternatives to the Disease Model Are Satisfied With It
This post was originally published on MadInAmerica.com, Robert Whitaker’s website about creating alternative approaches to mental health care. Peer support is an alternative to the disease model Four...
View ArticleHaving Your Own Website, Part 1: Learning to Speak “Website”
It’s best, before you start your own website, to state in one or two simple sentences what it will be for. You can always change, add, or subtract from that, or have more than one purpose, but...
View ArticleBy Shirazeh Tabibi – Forced Medication and Eating Disorders
The eating disorer “bulimia” is binge eating followe by forced purging It could be my sister, niece, or best friend slowly trying to kill herself with an eating disorder It is a quiet, unintelligent...
View ArticleTalking Back to The Language Police
Language police control ideas as well as words Recently, I got “beat up” by the language police in a bloody Facebook fight. I was charged with: 1. Using the term “SMI” to refer to the “Seriously...
View ArticleWhy We Insist on Documenting Medication Claims and Opinions
The one thing we know for sure about psych meds is that nobody knows anything for sure about psych meds. Everyone reacts differently to every difference drug, and most of what people say is based on...
View ArticleWhat to Say When Peers Are Asked to Work for Free
Editor’s Note: As a mental health consultant with lived experience, I identify with this piece by Corinna West. More often than not, invitations from mental health providers to keynote conferences,...
View ArticleBonnie Castro – People, Not Treatment Models, Change Lives
Editor’s note: This came from a discussion in an email group for all the peer support centers in Missouri. Bonnie Castro is a peer support specialist. Some Peers Change Lives So many folks in the...
View ArticleMy Experience of the Three Phases of Internal Stigma Reduction
By Ken Braiterman, Wellness Wordworks Board Chair I came out to my family and trusted friends right away, when I was diagnosed in 1977, not with people who only knew me a short time, or at work. I...
View ArticleMedication users call for respect from psych med critics
Editors note: We recently got challenged by one of our supporters who is a medication user and wants people to stop invalidating medication users. We are going to intersperse our challenger with data...
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