Eric Coates

Eric Coates

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Eric Coates is a writer and psychiatric resister. Despite numerous hospitalizations, he does not feel that drugs or psychiatry are effective, but that what people now call a "mental illness" is a form of spiritual awakening that contains meaning and purpose. He is the author of Hearing Voices: A Memoir of Madness.

The Day I Became Schizophrenic

Eric Coates - January 12, 2020

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There Is No Such Thing as a Side Effect

Eric Coates - October 23, 2019

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Lithium Toxicity and an Almost-Human Hospital

Eric Coates - August 24, 2019

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Escaping from AOT: The Importance of the Incident with the Candle

Eric Coates - November 11, 2018

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Waiting for Gravity

Eric Coates - August 26, 2018

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Escaping from AOT: Letter to the Judge

Eric Coates - July 22, 2018

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Selling Nicotine on a Psych Ward

Eric Coates - June 30, 2018

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Learning to Speak Psychotic

Eric Coates - June 16, 2018

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Neurofeedback is Not For Everyone: The Dangers of Neurology

Eric Coates - May 25, 2018

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How to Get So You’re Running the Psych Ward

Eric Coates - April 28, 2018

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On Being Mad in Public

Eric Coates - April 20, 2018

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Stealing Blankets from the Hospital:  How Life Really Works on a Psych Ward

Eric Coates - January 5, 2018

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Channeling Dead German Poets: Taking Other People’s Alternate Realities Seriously

Eric Coates - October 18, 2017

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The Invisible Holocaust and the Gene Hypothesis

Eric Coates - September 3, 2017

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Voices in our Heads: The Prefrontal Cortex as Parasite

Eric Coates - July 29, 2017

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