Are You a Psychiatric Survivor in the USA? What Helps Us Speak Up?
Those of us who have experienced human rights challenges because of the mental health system, have often been marginalized and silenced. Our viewpoints are diverse, and need to be part of the national conversation. Here in the USA, the debate over gun safety often involves mental health, yet we in the public seldom hear from psychiatric survivors. Personally, what is very horrifying to me is the USA federal government currently has programs in 17 cities to support court-ordered involuntary outpatient mental health. That is right, USA taxpayers...
read moreHelp Wanted in Eugene: Join Our Amazing Homecare Team!
Paid Home Care Worker Wanted Spring 2018: Part-Time, Eugene, OR Have a Current S&DS Home Care Provider Number? Here in southwest Eugene, on a quarter-acre of wild garden, in our little creative home, I have a great team of five fantastic folks. They provide about 85 hours per week to help me get out of bed, do hygiene, eat, get back to bed and various activities of independent living that allow me to live in our community with my amazing wife, Debra. My workers all say they love this job. But one is leaving for a full time position:...
read moreYour Vision for Thanking Leaders Under 30: How Should We Nominate Youth for Awards?
Let us thank young people for their leadership, vision, creativity and for just putting up with the bullshit that is piling up all around us! Yes, we should give everyone an award, just for existing! But where do we start? I agree with the philosophy shared by many and credited to the Iroquois Confederacy: think ahead seven generations. How about we start with folks under 30, the ones we in the counterculture are supposed to trust. I figure that seven generations from now would be a few years after the turn of the century, 2200. That might...
read moreHappy Groundhog Day! Friday, Feb 2, 2018, Win Human Rights in Mental Health!
Especially for those of you who live in Eugene, this Friday you are invited to join us at the LILA Peer Support Club, free. We will build MindFreedom Oregon and then have fun on the stage with folk singer David Rogers and others. Here is more info, and you can download this flyer: 2018-02-02-mf-oregon Facebook event here. Text: HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY! Win Human Rights & Humane Alternatives in the Mental Health System in Lane County! Where: Cuckoo’s Nest Stage LILA Peer Support Club 990 Oak St, Eugene (NW corner 8th & Oak) Date:...
read moreDocumentary on Involuntary Mental Health Has Interview with Me: Free Showing in Eugene 1/30/2018
I’ll go to free showing tomorrow of new documentary about controversy of involuntary mental healthcare. Movie is appropriately called “Crazy” and appropriately I am one of those interviewed in the flick. If you are in Eugene Tues 1/30, more info about the 5:30 showing is here on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1078812778925476/ Here is a PDF of the flyer: crazy-eugene-20180130-flyer (1) Please note that you can help prep for the showing and chat with me after 4 pm tomorrow. See...
read moreEugene Men Who Survived Sexual Assault Now Have Free Weekly Support Meetup
Thankfully, the USA culture is discussing more than ever the hidden oppression of sexual assault against women. However, men who have had their lives disrupted by unwanted or abusive sexual experiences might not have felt the same level of support or not known where to turn. A local respected nonprofit here in Eugene, Oregon, Sexual Assault Support Services, has mainly worked with female survivors, but they have a resource for male survivors. Many group meetings for counseling have a formal expectation for attending, but this meetup is more...
read moreWow, it has been 5 years since I broke my neck… time to party!
Download a pdf flyer of the below here: 12-1-2017-mf-oregon.4 You are invited to a free celebration by David Oaks: “It’s Been 5 Years Since My Accident!” Where: Cuckoo’s Nest Stage LILA Peer Support Club 990 Oak St, Eugene (NW corner 8th & Oak) Date: Friday, Dec 1, 2017 Time: Starts at 3 pm Who? Confirmed: David Rogers, folk singer. Howard Falk, stand-up comedian. Sarah Smith, MindFreedom International. Chrissy Peirsol & David Oaks, revolutionary psychiatric survivor activists. Libbie Rascon, Office of Consumer Activities....
read moreCelebrate a Victory! Kesey Square is now officially Kesey Square in Eugene, Oregon.
This Friday, November 3, 2017 at 3 pm we have a special free event planned, especially if you are in or near Eugene, Oregon. Celebrate the fact that the City Council has officially proclaimed that the center square in our city is Kesey Square, named after a wonderful writer and friend of our movement, Ken Kesey (1935-2001). Here is the PDF flyer: new_2017-11-3-cuckoo Below is the text from this PDF: You are invited to a free celebration of Kesey Square is now officially Kesey Square! Where : Cuckoo’s Nest Stage LILA Peer Support Club 990...
read moreRise of Involuntary Mental Health in Key US Agency: What is Your Resistance Strategy?
Update: 10/5/2017 Rep. Murphy has quit Congress effective 10/21. Many advocates for human rights in the US mental health system already know this sad fact: The main US government agency that addresses mental health is increasingly under the influence of a special interest group, founded by extremist psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey. This group, Treatment Advocate Center, promotes court-ordered involuntary outpatient mental health treatment, even if the client lives outside of a psychiatric institution. However, even after working for decades for...
read moreHurricane Harvey, Trump, USA Mental Health: We Are All Mad, 100%!
Dear Year 2192 & Year 2017: Can our two years talk? Let’s use our imaginations. The Iroquois Native Americans wisely advised us all to think ahead seven generations. As Hurricane Harvey attacks the Houston area in this year 2017, seven generations ahead (each generation is now about 25 years) would be the year 2192. Wow, you in the year 2192, that is the 700th anniversary of the invasion of this continent by us Europeans. I hope someone is there to read this message? Perhaps if we here in the year 2017 are effective and ignite a...
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