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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

Mad in America

This is also the same conference where I listened to a workshop presenter go on at length about the “suicide tumor,” but that’s a story for another time.) I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I Right now self injuring is helping.”

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people. Russell: At this point, many people are aware that trauma is a major factor that can lead to psychosis. Diving into that research was fascinating for me.