a whole chorus of someones… | recovery network: Toronto

recovery network: Toronto

people can and do recover from what is sometimes called "mental illness"

Skip to content

Home
About
Contact Us
Groups
HV Cafe
- Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto
- Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto – Jan to April 2018
Ideas
Resources
- coming off medications
- reclaiming your power during medication visits
Stories
Talks
Training & Workshops
- Hearing Voices Training
- Workshop: Healing Our Woundedness

← give up the funk – parliament

Now we’re all crazy – what’s next? →

a whole chorus of someones…

Posted on June 24, 2013 by recoverynetwork:Toronto

Psychiatric patients always have someone (or a whole chorus of someones) telling them what they are supposed to do.
-Elyn Saks

elyn saks 1

a tale of mental illness from the inside recoverynetwork:Toronto
schizophrenia – sentence or diagnosis? recoverynetwork:Toronto

Share this:

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)

Like Loading...

About recoverynetwork:Toronto

We believe people can and do recover from "mental illness" - because we are living it. We believe in the power of supporting each other: learning from and with each other. You are welcome to join us..

View all posts by recoverynetwork:Toronto →

This entry was posted in Ideas, my story and tagged Elyn Saks, psychosis. Bookmark the permalink.

← give up the funk – parliament

Now we’re all crazy – what’s next? →

search recoverynetwork:Toronto

Search for:
Workshops and Trainings
Hearing Voices Workshop:
ACCEPTING VOICES Part 1 | Introduction to HV Approach
HV Workshop | ACCEPTING VOICES Part 1 | FEB 2024
Workshop: UN_ESCALATE
MAR 2024
Workshop: UN_ESCALATE – MAR 2024
Follow recovery network: Toronto on WordPress.com
Subscribe by email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address:

Join 1,230 other subscribers
follow us on Facebook…

follow us on Facebook…
Follow us on Twitter
My Tweets
Gatherings & Get Togethers
Hearing Voices Cafehttps://recoverynet.ca/2023/12/29/hv-cafe-toronto-jan-mar-2024/
HV CAFE Toronto | Jan-Mar 2024
hhttps://recoverynet.ca/2023/12/29/hv-cafe-toronto-jan-mar-2024/
Building a new response to 911 distress calls in Toronto
Building a new response to 911 distress calls in Toronto Building a new response to 911 distress calls in Toronto
FREE Booklet: Hearing Voices - A Normal Human Experience
Choose your language – free, shareable resource
Psychosis is…
Pathways from surviving adverse experiences to being deemed “psychotic”
Staircase of Oppression in Mental Health
Where do you feel it in your body ?
MAD, innit?
Psychosis 2.0 Infosheet
The Voices are Real – and now The Shirts Are Real Too

The Politics of Memory – Pat Deegan
Placebo Psychiatry Shown to be Effective in Totally Random Trials
You are not alone…
Remembering is not required – Babette Rothschild
What do we mean by Expert by Experience and how might we get there?
An Indigenous Path To Leadership
Thorns in the spirit
Wounded Healers: How Per Support Workers can help patients in crisis
Trauma means Wound
We envision and enact a society that understands…
Hearing Voices can be a good thing – Jeanette Winterson
“Schizophrenia” does not exist
The myth of “schizophrenia” as a progressive brain disease
The voices are real – “schizophrenia” is mere delusion
Psychosis is in the eye of the beholder
Born to learn
Escaping the Asylum Mentality – Rufus May
A new vision of “Recovery”
Recovery – Time for a Change
Bad things happen and they f#ck you up
How culture makes a difference to experiences of psychosis
Why society drives us mad – Richard Bentall
Understanding Psychosis – BPS Report
Time for a Harm Reduction Approach to Using Psych Drugs Too
Talk Therapy shown to be effective in Early Treatment of First Episode Psychosis: RAiSE
Fri 29 April – Premier: Healing Voices Movie
Blame – Brene Brown
David Mitchell – conversing with the characters in his novels
Your Elusive Creative Genius – Elizabeth Gilbert
Zero F*cks what judgemental people think
F#cking Perfect – PiNK
The Monster – Eminem
A full life – Paddy McGowan
A Useful Diagnosis
“Stigma” begins with a “D”
F#ck “Stigma”
Toronto Mad Pride
Psychiatry – in recovery
When Doctors discriminate
Coming out of your closet – Ash Beckham
Blame – Brene Brown
on Twitter
Tweets by recoverynet
Do you pop a pill when you’re feeling ill?
Pill Poppers – BBC Documentary
What Doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
The blind men and the elephant
What limits our freedom – Simone De Beauvoir
what next for the truth? –Suzanne Beachy
Childhood adversity and psychosis – John Read
Bingo! Differential Diagnosis of Psychotic Symptoms
the myth of “mental illness” as degenerative brain disease
the myth of genetics
the myth of the chemical cure
“chemical imbalance” my ass
sticking feathers up your butt
the only way to deal with an unfree world…
not being the same as everyone else is not the same as being sick
Thud – On being sane in insane places pt1
The Backlash – on being sane in insane places pt2
Rosenhan – on being sane in insane places pt 3
INSiDE
Cuckoo – On being sane in insane places pt 4
secrets of the sleeping brain
the perils of categorical thinking
Consciousness really digs everything…
The hidden costs of stress – Gabor Maté
Seriously folks…
Living with the voices in my head – Eleanor Longden
DSM5 and the Crisis in Psychiatry – Phil Thomas
The Message – Grandmaster Flash
violence and psychosis
The Red Book – Carl Jung
The power of vulnerability – Brene Brown
Toronto doctors say no to free drug samples
stuff folks are reading the most…
Latest stuff
- HV CAFE Toronto | Jan-Mar 2024
- HV Workshop | ACCEPTING VOICES Part 1 | FEB 2024
- Workshop: UN_ESCALATE – MAR 2024
- This will change the way you think about attachment styles | Forrest Hanson
- Out Of My Mind – podcast series
- Attachment | Jacob Ham
- The impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain… David Foster Wallace
- Do Anything You Wanna Do | Eddie and The Hot Rods
- The Shit…
- It’s a shitshow…
- WELCOMEness and UNWELCOMEness: Experiences in healthcare settings of people living in homelessness
- Welcome to FUCKTOPIA…
- Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto | FALL 2023
- Workshop: UN_ESCALATE – OCT 2023
- Workshop | TRAUMA: less bollox, more healing- November 2023
- Mandate My Ass!
- Workshops: Summer 2023 “Collection”
- Judith Herman | She redefined trauma. Then trauma redefined her.
- Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto | May-Jul 2023
- Workshop | TRAUMA: LESS BOLLOX, MORE HEALING – July 2023
- Workshop: UN_ESCALATE – JUNE 2023
- HV Workshop: Accepting Voices Part 2 | Aug 2023
- HV Workshop | ACCEPTING VOICES Part 1 | JUN 2023
- “Depression” : a call to deep rest ?
- Workshop | Trauma: less bollox, more healing
- Put on Your Attachment Hat & Change Your Attachment Style | Ashley Harvey
- The forgotten history of autism | Steve Silberman
- What Causes Wellness ? Sir Harry Burns
- Hearing Voices Cafe Toronto – Jan – Mar 2023
- Embracing Confusion and Uncertainty
all the stuff
- Abuse (14)
- Adversity (63)
- art (1)
- attachment (1)
- bollocks (30)
- bollox (2)
- book (2)
- books (10)
- Cartoons (2)
- Colonialism (8)
- Crazy World (414)
  - anatomy of an epidemic (53)
  - if its forced then its not "treatment" (3)
  - medication madness (74)
  - non-compliant (12)
  - policing madness (4)
  - real disorders in a crazy world (10)
  - sh!t is f#cked (66)
  - skin I'm in (13)
  - what's going on? (121)
- DECOLONIZEYOURMIND (5)
- dialogue (12)
- Difference and Diversity (269)
  - The Mad Ones (234)
- Do Something (1)
- Emancipate yourself… (278)
  - advocacy and rights (42)
  - be awesome (10)
  - Don't Suck-Dance ! (13)
  - Expert by experience (6)
  - learn about your medications (7)
  - Zero F*cks (7)
- emergency (1)
- Event (113)
- group (6)
- Healing (176)
  - Chinese Medicine (2)
  - coming off meds (16)
  - food (3)
  - nature (1)
  - Philosopy or Pill-osophy ? (11)
  - resilience (26)
- hearing voices (198)
- Homelessness (1)
- Ideas (463)
  - change (2)
  - human diversity (25)
  - human potential (37)
  - mental diversity (53)
  - mental skillness (22)
  - neuroplasticity (11)
  - perception (8)
  - power (8)
  - reality (6)
  - sleep (5)
  - spirituality (4)
  - Trauma (24)
  - Umbongoism (4)
- inequality (6)
- Learning (41)
- Life (2)
- Listening (8)
- mad (2)
- Mad Pride (8)
  - Mad Pride Toronto 2013 (2)
- MADx (1)
- making sense of "mental illlness" (183)
  - addictive behaviours (6)
  - anxiety (14)
  - bad things happen and they fuck you up (3)
  - bullying (6)
  - compulsive behaviours (4)
  - depression (19)
  - family (20)
  - intrusive thoughts (5)
  - mania & depression (24)
  - obssessve thoughts (8)
  - psychosis (72)
  - shit is f#cked (23)
  - youth (20)
- manamana (20)
- mental illness? or… (64)
  - hell is other people (8)
  - Isolation & seclusion (1)
  - kink (1)
  - life (15)
  - stress (9)
  - too f*ckin' hot (3)
  - work (5)
- movie (3)
- music (378)
- my story (59)
- myths about mental illness (14)
- neurodiversity (1)
- peer support (11)
- poetry (5)
- Psychiatry (11)
- psychosis (6)
- rant (5)
- recovery perspectives (76)
- resilience (3)
- Scorchio!! (1)
- shit is f#cked (2)
- spirit (4)
- Spoken Word (4)
- Stigma begins with D (7)
- story (4)
- stuff that makes you go uh! (3)
- Training (22)
- Trauma (22)
- Uncategorized (270)
- Use The Force (8)
- violence (3)
- Weird (20)
- workshop (10)
- woundedness (6)
- zombie (2)
who writes the stuff...
- agnotarte
  - I am learning how to feel alive – Agnotarte
  - New Year’s Recognitions!
- dave umbongo
- drkenplacebo
- highfellow
  - Some catches of the mental health system
- recoverynetwork:Toronto
Blogroll
- AntiUniversity
- asylumsquad
- behind the label – Rachel Waddingham
- beyond meds
- bipolarblast
- Brain Rules
- Chris Emmanuel
- Critical Psychiatry
- CriticalThinkRx
- Daniel Mackler
- dissociative initiative
- Equitable Education.ca
- Ethan Watters
- Freedom Centre
- Gail Hornstein
- Healing From The Freeze
- Healing From The Freeze
- history of madness.ca
- Institute of Traditional Medicine
- INTAR
- Intervoice
- Jonathan Prousky ND
- Jungian Approach to Psychosis
- Living Life Gently
- Madness Radio
- MentalHealthCop
- mentalskillness.com
- mind your mind
- MindYourMind.ca
- MS Pals
- National Paranoia Network
- Neuroskeptic
- Open Minds Online
- paxilprogress.org
- Peerly Human
- Psych Ward Reviews
- Psycope
- ReachOut.com
- Recovering Nancy
- Recovery Wirral
- Recovery Wirral
- Roots To Sky
- Rufus May
- Sirius Project
- The Art of Healing Trauma
- The Big Mad Experience
- The Bonkers Institute
- The Icarus Project
- The Peter Breggin Hour
- TopDog Speaks
stuff in a cloud
Adversity advocacy and rights anatomy of an epidemic bollocks Crazy World Difference and Diversity Emancipate yourself... Event Healing hearing voices human diversity human potential Ideas Learning making sense of "mental illlness" mania & depression medication madness mental diversity mental illness? or... music my story psychosis recovery perspectives resilience sh!t is f#cked shit is f#cked The Mad Ones Trauma Uncategorized what's going on?
Upcoming Events
community…
Stuff you may have missed…
- December 2023 (7)
- November 2023 (5)
- September 2023 (1)
- July 2023 (2)
- June 2023 (1)
- May 2023 (2)
- April 2023 (5)
- January 2023 (6)
- December 2022 (1)
- November 2022 (1)
- October 2022 (3)
- September 2022 (2)
- July 2022 (4)
- June 2022 (1)
- May 2022 (4)
- April 2022 (3)
- March 2022 (13)
- February 2022 (9)
- September 2021 (1)
- August 2021 (1)
- July 2021 (3)
- June 2021 (1)
- February 2021 (2)
- January 2021 (1)
- December 2020 (3)
- November 2020 (2)
- October 2020 (1)
- August 2020 (3)
- July 2020 (2)
- June 2020 (1)
- May 2020 (1)
- April 2020 (1)
- March 2020 (4)
- February 2020 (3)
- January 2020 (7)
- December 2019 (5)
- November 2019 (6)
- October 2019 (2)
- September 2019 (6)
- August 2019 (5)
- July 2019 (9)
- June 2019 (3)
- May 2019 (4)
- April 2019 (1)
- March 2019 (2)
- February 2019 (4)
- January 2019 (16)
- December 2018 (11)
- November 2018 (5)
- October 2018 (4)
- September 2018 (2)
- August 2018 (6)
- July 2018 (10)
- June 2018 (11)
- May 2018 (13)
- April 2018 (8)
- March 2018 (3)
- February 2018 (12)
- January 2018 (17)
- December 2017 (12)
- November 2017 (12)
- October 2017 (14)
- September 2017 (13)
- August 2017 (10)
- July 2017 (16)
- June 2017 (20)
- May 2017 (18)
- April 2017 (12)
- March 2017 (16)
- February 2017 (17)
- January 2017 (19)
- December 2016 (17)
- November 2016 (21)
- October 2016 (15)
- September 2016 (25)
- August 2016 (22)
- July 2016 (22)
- June 2016 (20)
- May 2016 (13)
- April 2016 (13)
- March 2016 (14)
- February 2016 (9)
- January 2016 (10)
- December 2015 (19)
- November 2015 (18)
- October 2015 (22)
- September 2015 (13)
- August 2015 (18)
- July 2015 (15)
- June 2015 (11)
- May 2015 (16)
- April 2015 (3)
- March 2015 (6)
- February 2015 (4)
- January 2015 (16)
- December 2014 (10)
- November 2014 (13)
- October 2014 (9)
- September 2014 (10)
- August 2014 (1)
- July 2014 (4)
- June 2014 (12)
- May 2014 (11)
- April 2014 (19)
- March 2014 (17)
- February 2014 (22)
- January 2014 (18)
- December 2013 (12)
- November 2013 (24)
- October 2013 (23)
- September 2013 (7)
- August 2013 (22)
- July 2013 (23)
- June 2013 (30)
- May 2013 (21)
- April 2013 (26)
- March 2013 (21)
- February 2013 (21)
- January 2013 (21)
- December 2012 (16)
- November 2012 (26)
- October 2012 (19)
- September 2012 (30)
- August 2012 (19)
- July 2012 (24)
- June 2012 (23)
- May 2012 (39)
- April 2012 (22)
- March 2012 (17)
- February 2012 (22)
- January 2012 (22)
- December 2011 (10)
- November 2011 (17)
- October 2011 (6)
- July 2011 (6)
- June 2011 (3)
- May 2011 (4)
- April 2011 (1)
- March 2011 (5)
- February 2011 (1)
- January 2011 (7)
- December 2010 (1)
wordpress stuff
- Register
- Log in
- Entries feed
- Comments feed
- WordPress.com

WRAP for people who hear voices
learning to live with extreme states

Training for Workers – Accepting Voices – 28 March 2014

recovery network: Toronto

Blog at WordPress.com.

Reblog
Subscribe Subscribed
- recovery network: Toronto
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

Loading Comments...

You must be logged in to post a comment.

%d