Category Archives: Mental Disability

We’re Not Crazy, the System Is

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Adrienne

Listen 28 min “Hey man, are you crazy?”   “Sister Friend, I think you need some counseling.”  “Are you off your medicine bro?”   Many of us hear those phrases everyday.   They’re said teasingly by friends or rudely shouted from a car waiting … Continue reading →

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Bug or a Bump? Living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Adrienne

Listen 28 min Howie Mandel, Roseanne Barr, Justine Timberlake and . . .  our guest  Naomi  have something  in  common; they  live  with  obsessive-compulsive disorder.  This mental disability is becoming better known, offering less stigma and more hope to those … Continue reading →

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Disabled Musicians Ring in the New Year!

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Today we ring in the new year with a program featuring some of the many musicians who live with disabilities.  More musicians and music videos. Staff Benda Bilili hales from Kinshasa, Congo.            … Continue reading →

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Mental Disability Within Occupy

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) The stereotyping of people living with mental disabilities and homeless people during the Occupy encampments could have set our mutual liberation back for decades.  If it doesn’t, it will be due to a radically different story from … Continue reading →

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The Promise and Repercussions of the Olmstead Decision

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Adrienne

Listen (28 min) In 1999, the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia’s department of human resources could not segregate two women with mental disabilities in a state psychiatric hospital long after the agency’s own treatment professionals had recommended their transfer to … Continue reading →

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Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Adrienne

Listen 28 min “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So,”  Mark Vonnegut’s new book takes up where his first memoir, “The Eden Express” left off.  Here are more adventures in living with a mental disability while working as … Continue reading →

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Disabled Vets: Homeless for the Holidays

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Adrienne

Listen  (Part 1 – 28 min) Listen (Part 2 – 28 min) A look into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the reintegration of our vets at home.  Host & Producer Shelley Berman joins disabled vet Steve Howdyshell for a look … Continue reading →

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“Crooked Beauty”

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Adrienne

Listen through KPFA’s Archives: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/69940 Excerpts of personal narrative by Jacks McNamara from the documentary, “Crooked Beauty”; a poetic chronicle of her transformative journey from psych ward patient to pioneering mental health advocacy. The film supports McNamara’s voice with an evocative, original music … Continue reading →

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