Fri.Nov 24, 2023

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Letting Go of Lithium

Mad in America

“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that really isn’t you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.” —Paulo Coelho I never wanted to take psych drugs. I took them because I was desperate to get out of pain, but not the kind of pain most people associate with psych meds.

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Podcast with Robert Whitaker on the Media

Mad in America

From Mad in Norway podcast: Birgitte Valla from Mad in Norway interviews Robert Whitaker on the media in psychiatrist. English discussion begins at 4 minutes. The post Podcast with Robert Whitaker on the Media appeared first on Mad In America.

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Our Millions Years-Old Embodied Wisdom: Kinship and the Indigenous Worldview

Mad in America

From Kindred Media : “Most philosophical positions are rooted in Western enlightenment assumptions of human superiority to and separation from nature, the notion of human cultural progress, and individualism—all part of what anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called the ‘Western illusion of human nature.’ Virtually all prior and contemporaneous cultures had a different orientation, one of human interconnectedness and partnership with the biocommunity and a cyclical panpsychism.

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