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Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses his new book Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy, an insightful exploration of the social and political causes of depression and how to heal by rebuilding communities. http://www.brucelevine.netThe post America’s Depression Epidemic: Bruce Levine first appeared on Madness Radio.

Latin America Program Director Alison Hillman of Mental Disability Rights International talks with Will Hall in Buenos Aires Argentina about the campaign to reform the country’s brutally abusive mental health system, and the work she and Will have been doing with the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales to support the emergence of the user/survivor movement. http://www.mdri.org http://www.cels.org.arThe post Human Rights in Argentina with Mental Disability Rights International first appeared on Madness Radio.

Icarus Project organizers Madigan Shive, Molly Sprengelmeyer, Will Hall, Neil Gong, and Sascha DuBrul visit Virginia Tech, site of the violent tragedy, and discuss campus mental health issues with students.The post Virginia Tech Icarus Project Dialog first appeared on Madness Radio.

Psychiatric survivor and leading advocate Leah Harris reads her powerful poem “I Was a Teenage Mental Patient” and discusses how communities can work to prevent suicide by looking beyong mainstream approaches and rethinking our alienating school system.The post Youth Suicide with Leah Harris first appeared on Madness Radio.

Freedom Center co-founder Oryx Cohen talks about how men can recover and heal from trauma, and creating a trauma-informed mental health system. Oryx also discusses the creation of the new Recovery Learning Community in Western MA.The post Men and Trauma with Oryx Cohen first appeared on Madness Radio.

Psychotherapist and MindFreedom activist Matthew Morsey discusses the deeper meaning of “psychosis,” his own healing journey, and his past work at a unique center that focused on facilitating recovery from what are classified as “major mental disorders.”The post What Is Psychosis? Matthew Morsey first appeared on Madness Radio.

Phenix City, Alabama mobile DJ John Rice describes how he spent decades on neuroleptic drugs after being dragged into the psych system in the Deep South, and his discovery of Jamaican dub reggae music as a pathway to recovery and spiritual connection. An amazing interview.The post Jamaican Dub Music and Recovery: John Rice first appeared on Madness Radio.

Patricia Deegan, a leader in the consumer-survivor movement, discusses her journey surviving a schizophrenia diagnosis, empowered medication decisions, and her development of innovative assistive technology. Topics include rejecting a prognosis of doom, the impact of medication on mental health, a peer-run decision support center, prevalence of diagnoses and personal medicine, assessing medication costs and personal motivation, establishing a personal medicine program, and spreading the concept of personal medicine.

Psychologist and advocate with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the Marijuana Policy project, Mitch Earleywine discusses medical marijuana, dangers and uses, and the relationship between marijuana and psychosis. NORML http://www.norml.org the Norml podcast http://www.normlaudiostash.com the Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.orgThe post Medical Cannabis w/ Dr. Mitch Earleywine first appeared on Madness Radio.

July 2007: psychiatric survivors from the Freedom Center in Northampton MA pushed a bed across town and held a rally and speakout against local mental health mistreatment, including at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and ServiceNet. With activists Molly Hurter, Keeley Malone, Chaya Grossberg, Oryx Cohen, Amy Bookbinder, and Abigail Adams. http://www.bedpush.comThe post Escape from Psychiatry Bed Push first appeared on Madness Radio.