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Old 14-02-2018, 12:16 PM
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What are/were the most significant barriers to your recovery from mental illness?

Pamela Spiro Wagner, Author of two major books on mental illness. 40 years lived experience in System


https://www.quora.com/What-are-were-...8fd&srid=ucFLb


The system is the main problem.
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Old 16-02-2018, 10:53 AM
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World needs “revolution” in mental health care – UN rights expert

GENEVA (6 June 2017) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has called for a sea change in mental health care around the world, urging States and psychiatrists to act with courage to reform a crisis-hit system built on outdated attitudes.

“We need little short of a revolution in mental health care to end decades of neglect, abuse and violence,” Mr. Pūras said after presenting his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.


http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/P...x?NewsID=21689

https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/...df?OpenElement
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Old 16-02-2018, 11:41 AM
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This should all be standard -

Open Dialogue -

http://wildtruth.net/films-english/opendialogue/

Soteria -

http://www.soterianetwork.org.uk/
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Old 17-02-2018, 10:43 AM
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Potential Proposal for UN consideration in 2018

Truth and Reconciliation: Mental Wellbeing

Key Issues

We hold a five day conference to acknowledge the dissonance between mental health
practitioner and patient perspectives, and to brainstorm actions for ways forward.

Topics:

• Migrant and refugee populations: mental health
• Global concerns around institutional racism and category error
• Misinterpretation, misdiagnosis and treatment of symptoms of distress

Project to Address UN Sustainable Development Goals

• #3 Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Wellbeing for All and All Ages
• # 10 Reduce Inequality Within and Among Countries
• #16 Promote Just Peaceful and Inclusive Societies

Potential Hosts

• OSI – Objectif Sciences International
o Meetings that change the world
o GENEVA FORUM is a meeting platform for professionals and individuals

who want to be helpful in advancing solutions

• UNCHR - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• OHCHR - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Conference Process

1. Identify Key Issues around Mental Health

2. Listen to Stakeholder Evidence: of experts by experience, peers, survivors,
psychologists, psychiatrists, critical and anti-psychiatrists, carers
3. Brainstorm Citizen-led Decisions towards direct action for change
4. Executive Round Table to summarise the decisions taken
Define the Problem

Global concerns around category error within psychiatry

• Medication before investigation
• Inequality: teaching around ‘ethnic predispositions’
• Healthy Lives: assumptions around disease and chemical imbalance
• Peaceful Inclusive Societies: why medicate before asking ‘what happened?’

Category errors around interpretation of ‘symptoms’:

• Trauma around migration, separation, persecution, race
• Spiritual emergency, visionary and auditory experiences
• Expanded consciousness: Doors of perception – which may open naturally or due
to trauma (felt, suppressed or repressed)

Present Evidence Base for cultural interpretations

• Academic researchers: e.g. Whitaker, Davies, Kinderman, Fernando, Read
• Evidence for compassionate solutions: e.g. Gnosis, Soteria, Parachute project

Schedule Proposed

Day One

Introduction

1. set out the principles of the meeting
2. introduce the structure of the event
3. networking table

Identify the Key Issues

• Listen to the narratives illustrating direct evidence of experients
• Acknowledge dissonance and chasm between information in
mainstream press and social media

Day Two

Listen to the narratives illustrating direct evidence of experients

o Narratives of migrants and refugees, people colonised, under section
o Those in crisis with extreme experiences, spiritual awakening

Day Three

• Listen to the evidence of critical and anti psychiatry movements
• Brainstorm citizen-led decisions towards direct action for change

Day Four

• Brainstorm citizen-led decisions towards direct action for change
• Executive Round Table to summarise the decisions taken

Day Five

• Meeting of the action takers
- Set out what direct action can be taken with immediate effect, to
promote the decisions taken, and install change in medical schools,
hospitals, universities, and health care teaching establishments.
- Disseminate decisions through mainstream TV, press, social media
Participants and Audience
• Those with direct experience
Peers, patients, psychiatrists, psychologists, carers, families, medical and
health care staff, policy makers, experts by experience
• Researchers and Teachers, critical and anti psychiatrists
• Business and Financiers
• Decision Makers
Students, journalists and Media
• Action Takers

Representatives of UN member countries
United Nations Human Rights Council UNHRC
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR
World Health Organisation WHO
World Council of Churches
CCHR & NGOs

Dr Natalie Tobert
Medical Anthropologist

[email protected]
http://aethos.org.uk/
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Old 19-02-2018, 01:30 AM
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Why Are So Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
Our political and social systems don't support fundamental human needs, says Gabor Mate—which affects our ability to deal with traumatic events.
By Jenara Nerenberg | June 8, 2017

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/art...nted_by_trauma
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Old 20-02-2018, 09:48 AM
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The metaphysical basis for Integral Health will-power and the body
Dr. Soumitra Basu

http://www.myresearchjournals.com/in...icle/view/5846

Mind-body Dualism: A critique from a Health Perspective**
Neeta Mehta, PhD.*

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115289/

Integral Health

Apropos astrology and health

Dr. Soumitra Basu

www.namahjournal.com/editorial.html
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Old 20-02-2018, 09:49 AM
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To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

http://www.gailhornstein.com/_i_to_r...chma_78431.htm
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Old 26-02-2018, 06:50 PM
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"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted."

~Aldous Huxley
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Old 26-02-2018, 09:28 PM
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"Those people who, through their expression of pain or confusion, fall into the arms of the 'helping professions', perhaps becoming psychiatrically diagnosed as psychotic or neurotic or 'inadequate personalities', have in my experience almost all arrived at their predicament through an entirely comprehensible, rational and (of course with hindsight) predictable process.

If you run over a pea with a steam roller you don't blame the pea for what happens to it, nor, sensibly, do you treat its injuries as some kind of shortcoming inherent in its internal structure, whether inherited or acquired.

Similarly, if you place the (literally) unimaginably sensitive organisms which human babies are in the kind of social and environmental machinery which we seem bent on 'perfecting', it can be no real surprise that so many of them end up, as adults, as lost, bemused, miserable and crazy as they do.

The only surprise, perhaps, is that so many pass as 'normal',"

David Smail
Taking Care
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Old 27-02-2018, 04:01 AM
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"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted."

~Aldous Huxley

“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
Welcome to the Monkey House

"The fact is the way society is structured is not okay and many of our daily
issues come as a result of this."
Is Depression A Sane Reaction To An Insane Society?
https://truththeory.com/2018/02/19/d...nsane-society/
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