Tag: alternative mental health narratives

Engaging “Madness”: A Guide for Significant Others and Families

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Using personal stories from my own family, my new booklet Engaging 'Madness' paints a clear picture of what an alternative healing journey outside the biomedical paradigm can look like.

Validating Psychosis: The Missing Narrative Ā 

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I am here today because I didn't take the psychotropic medication I was prescribed. Because I didn't accept someone else's narrative about MY story. Because I listened to my voices. Because I let them guide me— into the underworld, and back.

INTAR 2016: A Global Call for a New Paradigm In Psychiatry

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ā€œWe need a new paradigm,ā€ said Alberto Vasquez, research coordinator of the office of the special rapporteur to the United Nations on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. ā€œPeople are clamoring for change. We want to see something else.ā€

The Difficulty of Challenging Deeply Personal Narratives

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We should all tell our stories, not to prove other people wrong or to shame them, but to offer an alternative narrative. A narrative that recognizes that symptoms of mental disorders are cries for help, means of communication, and normal responses to an unjust society.