- "HEALING VOICES" @ IG // Twitter // Official site
- Check out Pride In Madness (dot) wordpress
- Bonkers Institute - "At the Institute for Nearly Genuine Research, we specialize in:Psychiatry, psychology, biopsychiatry, biopsychology, psychobiology, neuropsychiatric behavioral pathology, psychoneuropharmacology, biochemical transmission reuptake inhibition, magnetic resonance image exhibition, clinical cohort victim randomization, reliably verifiable albeit statistically invalid diagnostic replication, amplified bio-reductive materialistic determinism, prescribed medical iatrogenesis imperfecta, nonlinear pharmacokinetic drug-drug interactions, asymptomatic depression screening, therapeutic intoxication, state-of-the-art disease mongering & medicalization of behavioral, emotional, social or spiritual problems... and much, much more.... Since its founding, the prestigious Bonkers Institute for Nearly Genuine Research has been a beacon of integrity and enlightenment in this dark age of shameless disease mongering and unprecedented pharmaceutical profiteering. Our mission is to expose fraudulent medical pseudoscience wherever it is found, and nowhere is fraud more prevalent than in the branch of medicine known as psychiatry. We march into the field of battle armed with a powerful weapon: our sense of humor. Fighting pseudoscience with pseudoscience, we shall vanquish our foes by revealing them to be the incompetent quacks, criminal charlatans, nefarious con artists and slimy medical imposters they truly are."
- Honest Words, Open Minds: destigmatizing mental illness through socially engaged theater
- MindFreedom
- Mad Pride
- The Growing Push for "Mad Pride" BY NEWSWEEK STAFF " We don't want to be normal," Will Hall tells me. The 43-year-old has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and doctors have prescribed antipsychotic medication for him. But Hall would rather value his mentally extreme states than try to suppress them, so he doesn't take his meds. Instead, he practices yoga and avoids coffee and sugar. He is delicate and thin, with dark plum polish on his fingernails and black fashion sneakers on his feet, his half Native American ancestry evident in his dark hair and dark eyes. Cultivated and charismatic, he is also unusually energetic, so much so that he seems to be vibrating even when sitting still."
Mentalism (discrimination) / Sanism
Instead of "curing" people who handle emotions differently than others, why don't we cure people who think those people need to be cured.
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- Economic and ecological collapse? What a great time to question sanism! — MFIPortal - "eople have heard of racism, sexism and even ablism and classism.What is sanism? There are many differences between people, and we all ought to embrace that diversity when it makes sense. But when mental and emotional differences are distorted by society into enormous and impassable canyons? You have sanism. Sanism is a clearer word than mentalism, I've been told, because the latter is also a school of philosophy and even a type of magic trick that claims to read minds. In 2009, sanism is apparently the oppression that is not named, at least not very much. The brilliant Prof. Michael Perlin of New York University Law School has written about the topic, you can Google him and the word sanism. Or better, ask him at the annual conference of our founding group National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA) this fall where he will again present like a flowing waterfall of legal insights But 2009, a year of crises, is exactly when we ought to be talking about sanism. Why? Consider: Differences between people based on perceptions of their gender and race certainly exist in our society, and when irrationally amplified in an unfair way can become sexism and racism.
- Everyday Sanism @ FaceBook // @ Twitter // Official site - "The #EverydaySanism project is a creation of the North East Mad Studies forum. We want sanism to have the same recognition as racism, ageism, classism, sexism etc. which isn't easy when many have never heard of the term sanism (or mentalism) before."
- 'You Have Discussed Lepers and Crooks': Sanism in Clinical Teaching @ Research Gate - " Sanist myths exert especially great power over lawyers who represent persons with mental disabilities. The use of stereotypes, typification, and deindividualization inevitably means that sanist lawyers will trivialize both their clients' problems and the importance of any eventual solution to these problems."
- Mentalism (discrimination) @ Liquisearch - "Susan Fraser, a lawyer in Canada who specializes in advocating for vulnerable people, argues that sanism is based on fear of the unknown, reinforced by stereotypes that dehumanize individuals. She argues that this causes the legal system to fail to properly defend patients' rights to refuse potentially harmful medications; to investigate deaths in psychiatric hospitals and other institutions in an equal way to others; and to fail to properly listen to and respect the voices of mental health consumers and survivors."
- Madtrivial Official Site - " Blogging For or About the Mad Movement in Some Form "
- The Oppression That Is Sanism and A Call To Question Our Own Views @ Madtrivial - "If all out there were to question their own views, to look more deeply into the issues primarily from the perspective of the oppressed, and try and see more clearly their own acts of oppression against the "mad" then first off there will be positive change emerging and second we all would learn and gain what we loose when discriminating at face value which is having our eyes opened and seeing the world more clearly. There is perspective to be gained, and it lies in the experiences of these oppressed individuals who often go without being noticed.What I found and have come to believe is that the true danger in all this is not the "mad" but it's all of us continuing to live in this darkness of hate and discrimination toward those it's easier to simply pass off as insane. I found evidence the treatments, if one can call them that, by providers, if one can call them that, are often more of a danger to the individual then they would be to themselves, so the conclusion I reached is the only safe option for anyone involved is in acceptance of the marginalized, and to speak out against the oppression that is sanism."
- Beyond Stigma: Considering 'Sanism' In Occupational Therapy - "Background: The issue of stigma surrounding mental illness has received increasing attention within occupational therapy in the last decade. However, focus has been primarily limited to the individual(s) being stigmatized, rather than on the underlying processes that give rise to stigma. This paper explores ‘sanism’, described by Perlin (2003) as a deeply embedded and prevailing system of thought that provides a foundation upon which stigma and an irrational prejudice thrives - much like racism, sexism, or homophobia - against persons with mental health diagnoses. "
- Call Me Crazy: Why Sanism Matters to Queer and Feminist Activists | Queereka - "Even the words “schizo” or “psycho” have negative connotations. Serial killers are often called “psychotic”, which leads many to believe psychosis is a violent outburst, and not a period of being out of touch with reality. The reality is that most often, those with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than the perpetrators....Misogyny, transmisogyny, heterosexism, and cissexism are all strengthened by sanist ideas about what constitutes as “normal”. It seems in our society if you are different, or behave in a misunderstood way, you are “crazy”.Queer and feminist activists need to pay attention to mental health issues because of how interconnected sanism is with other –isms. But further than that, mental illness issues are human rights issues. Just because someone has a mental illness does not mean they are not intelligent, cannot love, cannot feel, or cannot lead productive lives. Allies need to start fighting for those with mental illness. Us mad people must be able to tell our stories without stigma or shame. Finally, we all need to be critical of sanist structures and attitudes, even within our own activist communities."
- VM -- Sanism and the Law, Oct 13 ... Virtual Mentor - "Thus, it is no surprise that courts selectively accept stereotypes to exert social control—engaging in gross stereotyping about the impact of mental illness on behavior when sentencing persons convicted of crime or deciding on involuntary civil commitment and rejecting the stereotypes when acknowledging them might lead to a socially undesirable result, such as an insanity acquittal [19]. This stereotyping of the effects of mental illness also flows from the meretricious impact of a false “ordinary common sense” (“OCS”) and the pernicious impact of heuristic thinking on judicial decision making. OCS is self-referential and non-reflective (“I see it that way, therefore everyone sees it that way; I see it that way, therefore that’s the way it is”). Not surprisingly, many of the greatest areas of OCS-caused dissonance emerge in cases involving family relationships (“If Joe was that bad...why didn’t the defendant divorce him? Why didn’t she just leave him?”), sexual assault (“Look at the way she was dressed; she was asking for it”), and mental illness (“If he had just tried harder, he really could have gotten better”). Areas such as these are treasure troves of self-righteousness, narrow thinking, and “atrophied moral development” "
- | Poole | Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice
- Sanism and the language of mental illness | Iva Cheung - "Mental illness, particularly mood disorders and substance misuse, is also associated with an increased suicide risk. Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour, a 2008 literature review funded by the Scottish government, reported that among the 894 cases of suicide they studied, “the majority of cases (88.6%) had a diagnosis of at least one mental disorder. Mood disorders were most frequent (42.1%), followed by substance-related disorders (40.8%).” It also reported that “risk of dying by suicide in those diagnosed with schizophrenia as 4.9%,” compared with 0.010% to 0.015% in the general population. However, as Simon Davis reports in Community Mental Health in Canada, “often [suicide] occurs not in response to symptoms, such as command hallucinations, but when the individual is seeing reality clearly and facing (apparently) a future of diminished prospect and social rejection.”"
- Everyday Sanism - MAD Studies North East - "People having their psychiatrised status used against them.Defining someone because of their psychiatric label.Not allowing people with mental distress to define their own experiences in a way that makes sense to them.
Claiming the language of lunacy.Some believe that the term "mental illness" itself is sanist because it pathologizes mental distress." - Sanism: Dr. Jennifer Poole at TEDxRyersonU uploaded by TEDx Talks
- "Mentalism or sanism is a form of discrimination and oppression because of a mental trait or condition a person has, or is judged to have. This may or may not be described in terms of mental disorder or disability. The discrimination is based on numerous factors such as: stereotypes about neurodivergence (e.g. autism, ADHD, bipolar, schizophrenia, personality disorder diagnoses), specific behavioral phenomena (e.g. stuttering, tics), or supposed intelligence." - Wikipedia
- How to Fight Mental Illness Stigma @ Psychology Today - 1. Self Stigma 2. Public stigma 3. Professional Stigma 4. Label Stigma 5. Stigma by Association
- Acknowledging Sanism @ Race and Social Justice Review - "This type of disconnect between our perception and reality can be attributed to sanism. “[S]anism is an irrational prejudice of the same quality and character of other irrational prejudices that cause (and are reflected in) prevailing social attitudes of racism, sexism, homophobia, and ethnic bigotry.”[10] As Michael Perlin argues, sanism affects our jurisprudence and lawyering practices; it remains largely invisible and socially acceptable. Sanism permeates all kinds of mental disability law, including: involuntary civil commitment, the right to treatment, the right to refuse treatment, the right to sexual interaction, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the competence to plead guilty and the competence to waive counsel, the insanity defense, and the federal sentencing guidelines among others. Sanism is not only present in mental disability law but also in all other aspects of society, as the media coverage example shows."
- Sanism, stigma and the belief in dangerousness by Christopher Ryan @ Academia.edu -" It is true that the class of people with first episode psychosis are more likely to commit homicide than other classes of people, but that does not make any individual person with first episode psychosis dangerous purely because they belong to that class. Young men are much more likely to commit homicide than women or older men, but it obviously makes no sense to regard any individual male youth as dangerous, purely because they are young and male"
- #EverydaySanism
Psychophobia
- Psychophobia – Causes of Psychophobia @ All About Counseling - "Psychophobia, like many phobias, is dangerous because it is irrational. Essentially, the mind is working irrationally against itself, fearing itself. It is dangerous because it can cause stress and anxiety in individual lives, but when it’s in the form of discrimination against people with mental disorders such as schizophrenia or Tourette’s, it is hurtful to their emotional is psychological self, and can even turn violent. Surely we have experienced or witnessed young children with mental disorders being bullied by other children who view them as the “other” or less human than they are. This happens in adult life as well, and is a vicious cycle that achieves nothing but negativity and inequality." *Trigger warning. Talks about seeking help for being bullied by other people. Victim blaming.
Sane privilege / neurotypical privilege
- Sane Privilege Exists @ Tumblr
- Sane Privilege @ Tumblr
- Psychodiagnosticator: Unravelling Sane Privilege - "1. Sane-privilege is communicating only in the set of academic-linguistic rules we have learned in our professional or academic training....8. Sane-privilege is presuming to tell someone how significant their history of abuse should be to them. 10. Sane-privilege is deciding which risks in a person's life are acceptable and which are not."
- Psychodiagnosticator: Unravelling Sane Privilege - 9. Sane-privilege is telling someone how they could redirect their overwhelming desire to self-harm, in a way that won't disturb other people." - THIS.
- Mental Health Privilege Checklist (neurotypical privilege through the lens of mental illness) @ Medium - 12.When I want to avoid an activity that I don’t like, people don’t try to talk me into it to “help me get over it.” 17.I do not have to worry that if my house is messy, people will take it as a sign that I should be locked up or have my legal rights taken away.. 18.If I share a strong emotion, I am more likely to receive empathy than for people to dismiss my emotion as ‘not real’ due to my mental state/type. 20.If I am bullied or abused, people will not assume that my mental state/type means I am at least partially to blame, or that the abuse would stop if I tried harder to behave like someone else. 42. I do not have to worry that people are attracted to me due to their perception that my mental state/type will make me easier to control...."
- The Billy Wilson: Differing Perspectives: The Neurotypical Advantage (Privilege Checklist Included) - 4. I do not fear that my mental health issues will be attributed to being my own fault.... 21.It is not as important for me to keep a list of positive thoughts, reasons why I matter, and that I possess the right to live despite my mental disabilities.... I do not feel challenged if my perspective as a person with mental issues happens to differ from those who are neurotypical." - Don't agree with all of this list.
- A Checklist of Neurotypical Privilege @ girl-mom - "1. I have never been told, because of my neurology, that I am incapable of feeling pain....8. People of my neurology are not generally considered burdensome to our families or to tax-payers..23. No one sees my neurology as being in need of elimination or cure.....48. I can discuss my interests at length without this being viewed as a “symptom.”
- Sane Privilege by Nabila Acra
- The Able-Bodied and Neurotypical Privilege Checklist @ The Unholy American - "18: I don't have to worry about institutions claiming to be fighting for me, but are really just trying to get rid of, or "cure", what makes me, me....19: I don't have to search for forms of media, like television or movies, that portray me in a positive or non-stereotypical way....23: I don't have to try and look, sound, or act like a "normal" person....
- Clink Your Cookies Together: Mental Health Privilege Checklist - "The most important people in my life will not feel like my everyday problems exceed the scope of their friendship and the capacity to deal with them, the abilities of ordinary individuals. .....-If I need medical care, I will not be deterred from seeking it due to stigma. Health care packages are more likely to consider my needs basic and quintessential. I can openly discuss my medical ailments in social spaces without having to worry that I am shooting myself in the foot. "
- Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms & Definitions
- Mental Diversity, Not Mental Illness uploaded by Natalia Nodiff
- Category:Neurodiversity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Neurodiversity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Myth of the Normal Brain: Embracing Neurodiversity, Apr 15 - AMA Journal of Ethics (formerly Virtual Mentor)
- Neurotypical?: Why "Neurotypical?
NEURODIVERSITY MOVEMENT
neurodivergent / NEURODIVERGENCE
Neurodiverse
NEURODIVERSITY PARADIGM
NEUROMINORITY
NEURODIVERSITY
lies we spread about "mentally ill" people
While mentalism & sanism on the Anti-psychiatry page is more for information I am making this page...
- 3 Lies We Need to Stop Telling About ‘Negative People’ @ Everyday Feminism - 1. There Are Positive People, Who We Should Aspire to Be Like, and Negative People, Who We Should Avoid Being Like 2. We Would All Be Happier If We Just Cut ‘Negative People’ From Our Lives 3. ‘Negative People’ Are Only Unhappy Because They Choose to Be