I’m so excited for our Reading Circle today! I refreshed our list of potential books we’ll be choosing from over the coming months. I kept some favorites from our previous Reading Circle, added a bunch of new ones, and included several wonderful suggestions from members of our community. 💙 Today’s meeting will be a little different—we’ll spend our time reading brief summaries of these books together so we can narrow down which one we’d like to read next as a group. 📖 Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen – A literary memoir exploring psychiatric hospitalization, identity, and recovery through a feminist lens. 📖 Mad in America – A landmark examination of the history of psychiatric treatment and long-term medication outcomes. 📖 Living with Voices – Introduces the Hearing Voices approach, encouraging people to understand and relate to their voices rather than simply suppress them. 📖 Agnes’s Jacket – Explores stories of madness and recovery from psychiatric survivors around the world, highlighting diverse paths to healing outside conventional systems. 📖 The Book of Woe – An engaging behind-the-scenes look at how psychiatric diagnoses are created and the debates that shape the DSM. 📖 Outside Mental Health – Offers practical ideas and survivor perspectives for navigating emotional distress beyond the traditional mental health system. 📖 Beyond Survival – Explores disability justice, transformative justice, and community-based alternatives to policing, punishment, and institutional responses to crisis. 📖 Care Work – A collection of essays on disability justice, mutual aid, interdependence, and building communities where everyone belongs. 📖 Models of Madness – Presents evidence-based psychological, social, and trauma-informed alternatives to the biomedical model of mental illness. 📖 Emergent Strategy – Invites readers to imagine social change through relationships, adaptation, and collective care, with lessons that translate beautifully to peer support communities.

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Hey Ward Wreckers! I made a document for Psychiatric Harm Supportive Measures about the various ways that the mental health system can harm us and the ways we can fight back against those destructive forces. Also added abolitionist principles to the document if anyone is interested. You can find the file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14wqehmXjIv4vMbsvjpYcarGPS4DUg7up/view?usp=sharing

This space is for what can’t always be said directly. Share your art, your writing, your poetry, your music, your sketches—anything that helps you express your inner world. Whether it’s raw, unfinished, messy, or something you feel proud of, it all belongs here. Creative expression can be a way to process, to reclaim your voice, to witness yourself, and to be witnessed by others. I also wanted to share that I make a lot of designs—stickers, t-shirts, and more—and I genuinely love doing it. I recently got a thermal sticker printer and it’s been so much fun bringing my designs to life. Right now they’re black and white only, but if you’d ever like some stickers sent your way, let me know. 🤍 I’m also working toward getting a larger printer so I can create 4x6 prints and eventually open an Etsy focused on mental health art. If you ever want to check out what I’m working on, I have a store page here: https://unlockpsych.com/unlock-psych-store/ You don’t need to explain your work unless you want to. You can let it speak for itself, or share what it means to you. When responding to others, receive their work with care. Honor the vulnerability it takes to share. This is a space to create, to feel, and to be seen. 🤍