Monday, September 28, 2015

Reason # 2 to Grow Beyond the Medical Mindset of DSM Diagnosis (Essay Series on Mental Diversity vs. Mental Illness)

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Trauma is Pervasive - and That Explains A Lot In 2011, the National Council  for Behavioral Health  ‘broke the silence’ on the impact of ...

Mental Diversity or Mental ‘Illness’? 10 Good Reasons to Grow Beyond the Medical Mindset of DSM Diagnosis (In Progress)

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Reason 1. Life is Challenging - and That Explains A Lot http://wellnessrecoveryrights.blogspot.com/2015/09/reason-1-to-grow-beyond-medica...

Reason #1 to Grow Beyond the Medical Mindset of DSM Diagnosis (Essay Series on Mental Diversity vs. Mental Illness)

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Life is challenging - And That Explains A Lot Death and Loss Life is fragile. We are all vulnerable to loss and death. There is n...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Reason, Conscience and the Unaffordable Opportunity Costs of TreatmentAs Usual

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[draft, still rough, comments welcome] For decades, medical model 'treatment' has consisted largely of pressuring people to confor...

The Human Rights Path to Recovering Humanity in Mental Health Policy

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No Rights, No Recovery The Human Rights Paradigm offers more than critique of medical model 'mental illness'.  It offers a com...
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But, It Can’t All Be Human Rights …Right?

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If you’re asking this question, you’re in good company. In fact, there are a lot of questions we need to be asking. For years now, we’v...

Human Rights and Mental Distress - It’s Time We Made the Connection

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Missing human rights can cause a lot of distress. Think about what it’s like to be treated unfairly, go hungry, be thirsty, have nowhere sa...