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New! A message to those labeled by psychiatry. Audio by Monica -
A message to those labeled by psychiatry. Audio by Monica --- I just listened to some of this and thought I'd share it as a new post on the site. I deleted everything on my youtube channel and saved a few of the audios which are now on soundcloud. This is one of them. I was surprised to hear it and frankly needed to remember some of it right now. Ha ha. I often feel like what I say is coming through me and so old stuff can help me from time to time! I hope you enjoy. Love to you all.
Ego anonymous: a practice - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to psychiatry
Ego anonymous: a practice -- I think of my "path" in many different ways. This is something I rewrote to work for me.The 12 step program as practiced by the organization didn't work out for me, but not because of the actual 12 steps which I found deeply inspiring.
Wonder woman - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to psychiatry
We are living, walking, talking miracles. Every one of us. Even though I have been insanely and gravely ill for far too many years, the wisdom of my body continually blows me away. What happened to this body was egregious. It is simply doing what it must to survive and heal In a world that left it for dead. I cooperate in awe. My body is wonder woman. So is yours.
Battle of the disabilities - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to psychiatry
Battle of the disabilities: I hardly ever get out of the house. I have tics and strange movements and I often have a raging swollen face and mouth due to the infection and tardive dyskinesia that causes the tics and movements and general disability.
Somatic living is life itself speaking to us - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to psychiatry
Somatic living is life itself speaking to us. -- Dissociation is the norm among human beings, it's not just those with psychiatric labels who partake. Projection (something pretty much everyone does) is a form of dissociation. Disembodiment is the norm.
About the times I've almost died - Beyond Meds: Alternatives to psychiatry
The below video about the times I've almost died was recorded four years ago today. This sort of thing is still happening though I get better and better at moving the crud of detox (micro-organisms, metals and nanoparticals from pharma) out of my brain.
Dina Tyler: Psych survivor at Psychiatric Grand Rounds, SF - Everything matters
I remember the first time I watched Dina Tyler on stage in 2014 on a youtube video and fell in love! Here she presents her psych survivor story and the story of so many of us with open vulnerability in front of a room filled with psychiatrists. I am in awe.
Time to upgrade the site… – Everything matters
Everything has changed in how the internet is organized. Beyondmeds.com (Everything Matters) is no longer competetive on search engines and doesn’t get the traffic it used to get. So, I'd like to upgrade. Among other things the SEO that is included in the wordpress upgrade will make the site more algorithmically effective and thus the…
Healing is here – Everything matters
Healing is here. It's a misconception that healing is ever over. If your body is wounded in certain ways physical debilitation can take a long time or not disappear at all. Having been in surrender for a long time i have been living in healing and thus, health. The world is unkind to those they…
“change your thinking, change your life” – Everything matters
I wrote this in 2018 ... every now and then a piece arises from the past that has a lasting quality. IMO this is one of them. Please enjoy again or for the first time! https://beyondmeds.com/2018/10/11/change-your-thinking/?fbclid=IwAR1P-05d9qK6PPuMDdUwUP5SYRjDseet7AGhpFpX7kX6Ky7ThZd_Hse-Bl0?page_id=55080
Let the light of your sensitivity shine – Everything matters
Madness remains an important concept in the literature of those who been psychiatrized. People who study Jung have a very difficult time with the Red Book. They often react to the fact that Jung, within his own psyche, allowed and embraced what is often labeled psychotic in those less resourced.
How to use the site – Everything matters
Everything Matters MONICA CASSANI *** Many people still ask me for my “protocols.” I suggest browsing the website for methods.The message I communicate for healing is that we are all different and our paths are also, therefore, going to be endlessly diverse. I share my experience, not so that it may be copied, but so…
Tardive Dyskinesia – Everything Matters
New page with collection of my articles on TD. The link can always be found in the menus at the top of the site. There remains little information on tardive dyskinesia that is anything other than convenient for psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry to spread in order to continue giving dangerous pharmaceuticals to those who…
the rise of coercive treatment in psychiatry and society – Everything Matters
I never stop being aware of is how unsafe it is to be vulnerable in this society. The below book takes a magnifying glass to what is happening all over society, under our noses in the name of psychiatry. Anyone who doesn't fit into the mainstream is vulnerable. Ron Wipond has written a book that…
SSRIs cause bacteria resistance – Everything Matters
there is so much supporting evidence about what I'm saying about tardive dyskinesia, psych meds and systemic infections..... this is the latest... in Nature magazine: How antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics!! if you don't know what I'm taking about see: Tardive Dyskinesia, Chronic Lyme Disease, and Infection – Mad In America I've been writing about…
Growing Up Mad in the South: Stories, Poems, and Other Aberrations – Everything Matters
In southern California I ran a yarn shop, Happy Hookers, and later, in northern California, a drop in center, The Mental Health Client Action Network for the neurologically diverse and frequently homeless. People came to the needlework shop to knit for the pending birth of babies, for crocheted bikinis and for something to do while…
Mad Camp (July 20-24 2023) – Everything Matters
Madness radio announces:Mad Camp is Coming! July 20-24 2023 Mad people are gathering for summer camp in the forested mountains two hours north of San Francisco. You heard that right! Swimming, hiking, campfires, hanging out, napping, dancing, music, art, dancing, the stars… Mad Camp is all about community friendship and connection. And there are also stirrings of…
The gut microbiota and ancestry (depressive symptoms) – Everything Matters
Ancestry is absolutely critical in understanding individual microbiomes. I've only begun to really address it publically as it's taken a while to figure out how to articulate what I've come to know ..I got clear on how to eat when I remembered my own upbringing with a very traditional and healthy Italian mediterranean diet... ...it…
wisdom and foolishness – Everything Matters
The cycle breaker, the black sheep, the "mentally ill" and the unstable, the creative, the artist, and the mystic. The throw-aways and the odd balls in society have this calling. These days only some of us make it. The chronically ill, the homeless, the imprisoned, those who use lots of substances to cope etc are…
Intro to Ayurveda (for chronic illness, psych drug withdrawal, TD) – Everything Matters
I have gone to practitioners but, Ayurveda, at foundation, is about learning to listen to your body and know how to feed it, move it, rest it and take care of it as needed. That is always our job in the end. I never found a practitioner who could deal with my extreme and multiple…
Tardive Dyskinesia is brain injury – Everything Matters
Tardive Dyskinesia is brain damage. It is a medically induced (iatrogenic) INJURY caused by 500 different drugs often used in psychiatry, gastroenterology and Parkinsons. People are rarely told of the risk. It's often referred to as a side effect of the drugs. This is offensive. A side effect is not a crippling life long disease…
Codependent? – Everything Matters
Making codependence a pathologizing term suggests difficult situations cannot be transformed while they often can. When they cannot be changed or are dangerously destructive we should move along as necessary. It does seem however that a lot of people don't really understand the nature of commitment which is always hard for everyone some of the…