Posts Tagged ‘kendra’s law’
Naming Madness & Saving Normal
Imagining Something New They did it. They succeeded in helping me see myself as a bipolar defective again instead of the talented, strong, intelligent and beautiful human being that I really am. In the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, starring Robin Williams and Matt Damon, psychologist Sean Macguire tries an alternative approach to reach…
Read MoreMy Case Against the Psychiatric Institution: The Full Report and Nothing But The Truth
A Cause Worth Fighting For: My Freedom The Politics of Psychiatry Critics of psychiatry encompass far more than the scientologists. Many are affected by the institution’s wrongdoings. Over two decades have passed since I was first labeled a bipolar mental case, and psychiatry has never evolved in its perception of the human mind. Their theories…
Read MoreOn Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Must Not Forget the Jew, the Nazi, and the Mentally Ill
We Must Remember I’m either mentally ill or Jewish. I can’t sometimes tell the difference.”—Rosanne Barr Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, began at sundown on Wednesday night. A memorial day for those who died in the Shoah, which means catastrophe or utter destruction in Hebrew and “sacrifice by fire” in Greek, it awakens…
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