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Category Archives: Mental Disability
Police Violence and Disability
Listen (28 min) In the consistent violent incidents between people with disabilities (often non-white) and police, the losers are almost always our disabled community members. This week, we’ll be joined by: Jesse (DJ Quad) Morin, a Los Angeles area DJ, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Disability Justice, Eddie Ytuarte, Mental Disability, Music, Protest, Race
Tagged DJ Quad, Emmitt Thrower, Ferguson Protests
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Sally Zinman on Forced Treatment of People with Mental Disabilities
Listen (29 min) Information on the danger of current psychological drugs. Madness Network News. Documents from the early days of the consumers-survivors movement. One of the hardest things in the world is to be… is a long-time activist who is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Individual disease and identity groups, Mental Disability, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged AB 1421, Berkeley Drop-In Center, California Network of Mental Health Clients, Laura's Law, Madness Network News, Sally Zinman
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Biography of Sally Zinman
(as published by the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Committee.) Sally was born in 1937. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in English with honors. She also has an M.A. in English from the University … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Cognitive Disabilities, Mental Disability, Protest
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Dangerous Drugs; Dangerous to Stop
Research currently demonstrates that most people live better lives over time if they are not using psychological drugs. The short and long term trade offs are extreme. Current use of drugs for those with mental disabilities deserves much more attention … Continue reading
Posted in Individual disease and identity groups, Mental Disability, Research
Tagged AntipsychoticMedication During the Critical Period Following Remission From First-Episode Psychosis - Less Is More, Journal of American Medical Association
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Forced Drugging of Mentally Disabled People
Listen 28 minutes Two days before this program, Ivan Lopez killed four people and then himself at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. The very next day, Pennsylvania Republican Representative Tim Murphy held a hearing on a bill which … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Individual disease and identity groups, Mental Disability, Politics, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged Fort Hood Shooting, H.R. 3717. Representative Tim Murphy, Mental Health Association of San Francisco, Michael Gause
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Integrating New Disability
Listen (29 min) Brook was doing well living with her multiple personality disorder.  It had been a long road, but she was comfortable and able to spend more hours at work then ever before. . . Then, she had a stroke. … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Individual disease and identity groups, Mental Disability, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Story Telling - Disability, Teens
Tagged Celiac Disease, Multiple Personality, stroke, Theodore Berman
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Pushing Limits Goes to the Dogs
Listen Who only wishes for you to succeed? Who only wants to fulfill your every need? Who will be there through thick or thin? Your mother? Think again. It’s those guide dogs and service dogs, People. When you’re down they … Continue reading
Posted in Blind, Call In Program, Leah Gardner, Mental Disability, relationships, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged guide dogs, Johanna Ruesli, Service dog Lily, service dogs
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Veterans Facing PTSD Together – Part 1
Friday, December 21, 2:30 pm PST on KPFA They taught me that I could hurt somebody and I don’t want to hurt anybody. Veteran Jim Swasey. Four white Vietnam Vets, disabled by their military service, talk about PTSD. They discuss … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Community, Head Injuries, Mental Disability, Politics, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability, Veterans
Tagged anger, Cary Oswald, Community-based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC), Jim O'Neil, Jim Swayze, Larry Kozlowski, Patrick Reilly PhD., PTSD, Steve Howdyshell, Steve Weigert, Sunny Campbell
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“Tumor Boy” & “Healing Homes”
Friday, Dec 7, 2-3 pm PST 94.1 fm or KPFA.org Head trauma and emotional trauma. . . this week we take a look. . . with hope and humor. An hour-long fund drive special which begins 30 minutes early, at … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Arts, Caretakers/Attendents, Community, Head Injuries, Housing, John Healy, Mental Disability, Poetry & Prose, relationships, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged "Healing Homes", "Tumor Boy", Ann-Christin Svensson, brain tumor, Carina Hackansson, Daniel Mackler, Gothenburg Sweden, Jonas Svensson, Olle Jideborn, surgery, Therese Johannsson
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Fat, Fit and Disabled
Listen 29 minutes Three women take a frank look at a fitness challenge geared towards fat people. They talk about how weight interacts with their disabilities. And how the judgment and disdain of society toward fat people gets in the … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Education, Mental Disability, Recreation, Shelley Berman, Sports
Tagged Biggest Winner Fitness Challenge, Cora Neal, Erbs Palsy, Fatness, Fitness, Leti Flores, mental illness
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