What I'd tell you if you were looking for a therapist
some basic tips on navigating the mental health system (for mania, psychosis, etc)
psychcrisis.org
Updates from a new nonprofit to reform psychiatric crisis care
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Funding a weird new psychiatric publishing project
Psych Crisis ventures into experimental fundraising methods with impact certificates
A Peer to All is a Peer to None
Or, what happens as 'peer work' is professionalised
When it's illegal to ‘first do no harm’
Why do involuntary psychiatric commitment laws regularly make doctors break their Hippocratic Oath? And what could we do instead?
The Problem with Prop 1
On California’s enormous mental health ballot measure, or, what it looks like to try and steer a ship with no rudder
Will has been a key figure in the psychiatric survivor movement for decades
The psychiatric survivor movement is a movement working to change the mental health system, led by people who have been patients in the system, or experienced their own mental health challenges.
Paradigms, processes, and payment
An assessment of leverage points, 2 years in
Kevin secured state funding for peer respites
Kevin Fitts is a mental health consumer advocate who lives in Oregon.
Rob wrote a book on involuntary psychiatric commitment and forced treatment
Rob Wipond is an investigative journalist who recently published a book titled Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abuse of Guardianships. In this episode, he provides insights into the contentious realm of psychiatric involuntary commitment and shares his research findings on the challenges and flaws within the mental health system.
A note on knowing things
Or, practical epistemology for solving socio-systemic problems