Personal Empowerment

 
 
 
 

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival
Coming Off Psychiatric Meds.
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The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Medications.



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pro- nor anti- medication, the guide provides valuable information for making wiser decisions, and supports people coming off as well as staying on meds. It was developed with the editorial involvement of 14 health care professionals, including psychiatrists, registered nurses, and acupuncturists, and published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center. You can find out more about the Guide by clicking on the link in the Title. PLease make sure you scroll down far enough.

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Anxiety Symptoms

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Four Ways to Get Over Trauma
Video by Psychotherapist Bill O'Hanlon

 

Gaining Self Control- Self Advocacy

Self Determination
PDF File

University of Pennsylvania
Measuring Empowerment

File: ASAP GUIDEBOOK_12.15.08.pdf


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Ten Commandments For Changing the World Reprinted here as well as on Patricia’s Razor by permission of Angela Bischoff of Greenspiration.org Please click on link on title to visit Angela’s Site Changing the world is a blast. It's all the more achievable if you have some basic skills, and lots of ... More>
 
Power of Humour 11/15/2009
Now Take My Psychiatrist...PLEASE! Using Humour To Defuse Difficult Situations BY Patricia Lefave, Labelled D.D.(P)..har har har There is a great deal of untapped power to be had in the use of humour. That may seem a strange idea to many as the topic we are discussing here ... More>
 
Personal Pick Booklist 10/31/2009
Which Have Validated My Own Personal Experience within the Mental Illness System By Patricia Lefave, Labelled, D.D. (P) Many of these are VERY old but I have found that it really doesn't matter where, or even WHEN, you find your truth validated, as long as you find it. One person who understands ... More>
 
Denial of Dysfunction 10/16/2009
The Deniers and Justifiers of the Whole Event: First Posted Dec. 2006 We are going to have to SHOW them, like the Show and Tell that we used to have in elementary school, what it looks and feels like to be on the receiving end of this group madness. To get it turned around, we are going to have to turn it ... More>
 

For individuals, members of a people can have a sense of 'belonging' to people's 'reality', only if the others around them are prepared to respond to what they do and say seriously; is if the are treated as a proper participant in that people's 'authoring' of their reality, and not excluded from it in some way. For only then will they feel that the reality in which they live is as much theirs as anyone else's (39)..

John Shotter's

Conversational Realities
Constructing Life through Language


Sage Publications, 1993

Part I: A Rhetorical-Responsive Version of Social Constructionism

Wellness is About Understanding Personal Boundaries; BOTH Yours and Others and Knowing What is in Your Power to 'Fix" and What is Not. If You are from a Dysfunctional Family You May Never Have Really Known This.

 
   
 
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