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Mar 23 •
New Unlock Psych Flyer
Hey Ward Wreckers! I created a new flyer. I needed to make something to use when I email organizations for outreach and share about our community. What do you all think? 😁
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It's both eerie and incredibly precise.
5d •
✨ Reading Circle Book Ideas ✨
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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I lose track of time a lot, and before I realized it, another hour had passed and I missed the group again. I also wanted to say how much I appreciate this approach to a book club. It's such a refreshing change from the traditional format. Instead of expecting everyone to work through a dense book on their own, you're creating a space where people can learn together, ask questions, and process the material as a group. That makes these complex topics much more approachable and far less overwhelming. I really think this has the potential to reach a much wider audience. We should find a way to extend your outreach beyond just the Skool community so more people and organizations can benefit from what you're building.
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My vote is for a book that focuses on solutions. Like Outside Mental Health. Our last book was incredibly informative, but it was also intense and, at times, difficult to digest because it was unsettling to realize how much of the system still hasn't changed. This time around, I'd love to focus on something that offers practical knowledge, actionable ideas, and hope for moving forward. Learning about the problems is important, but I think learning about the solutions is what empowers people to create meaningful change.
15d •
Psychiatric Harm Supportive Measures
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
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WOW! Cristine, this is an awesome pool of information. In my opinion, this lays the groundwork for reducing the criminalization of mental distress. You've done a great job illustrating what the current system does to people while also helping readers envision what it should do instead. I have two suggestions that might make it even stronger: - Consider adding page numbers to make it easier to navigate and reference specific sections. - It may also be helpful to include something about dietary restrictions or preferences, since those can have a significant impact on a person's well-being and should be part of a more holistic, person-centered approach. Overall, I think this is incredibly well done
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Most importantly, I don't think this should sit on a shelf. You need to share this with organizations, policymakers, hospitals, advocacy groups, and others working to improve behavioral health systems. I believe it has the potential to educate, influence policy, and inspire meaningful change. Thank you for putting so much thought and care into creating something that could make a real difference.
20d •
Please make “Sexy But Psycho” Thursday’s reading
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them (2022) by Dr. Jessica Taylor is a fierce critique of the psychiatric and mental health systems. Taylor argues that society pathologizes women’s natural responses to trauma, poverty, and abuse, using clinical diagnoses to discredit and control them. [1, 2] Key Themes and Arguments: - Pathologization of Survival: The book asserts that labels like "Borderline Personality Disorder" are weaponized to dismiss women as "crazy" or "difficult" when they react to patriarchal oppression. - Historical Control: Taylor explores how women have long been medicated and locked up for defying traditional gender roles and societal expectations. - De-medicalizing Trauma: She advocates for removing the clinical labels from women's trauma, arguing that their psychological distress is a symptom of a sick society, not a brain defect.
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OMG! I’m so dealing with that same exact thing. It sux and it’s really demoralizing.
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I joined late. Did I miss the discussion?
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