Friday, 13, December, 2024

Stop the madness! An indictment against the abuses in Belgian and Dutch psychiatry

Published by Mad in the Netherlands Brenda Froyen is an author, teacher and mental health activist. After two very traumatic experiences of isolation and restraint...

Announcing Oral History Collection on Mental Health Activists in Manitoba

Stories are us.  Finding ourselves in history, we figure out who we are and where we belong and how what we do fits with...

Kassi’s Mom

Thank you for having me. I walk around angry, jaded and bitter. I am not religious but I have begged bargained and negotiated with...

Re-Imagining Psychosis with Filmmaker Rebeccah Love

Photo: Rebeccah Love directing her Eve Parade cast and crew. Photo by Ben Dickey. Artist Bio: Rebeccah Love is a Toronto-based filmmaker, writer, visual artist...

887 Deaths from Psychoactive Meds Reported to Health Canada in 2021

I guess I started seriously considering the potential of antipsychotics to kill after I lost my friend Cameron. Cameron Fray was a husband, father...

The Best (and Worst) That Mood-Tech Can Be

When Ontario was first placed under lockdown in March 2020, I, like many other psych-service users found myself relying on Skype and phone sessions...