one and/becauseno one is the same

all systems of oppression are based on the idea that there’s a normative standard..

of math and men.. our craze/oppression of measuring things.. of thinking we can exchange/compare  ..value.. leading us to not be us..as we perpetuate not-us ness.. via broken feedback loop/assumptions/supposed to’s based on what we’ve boxed ourselves into..

imagining.. a mech simple enough.. to listen to all of us.. everyday.. as the day..

no agenda… no labels.. even no words ness..

no partial listening..

no people (land.. animals.. et al) on hold..

that when you’re disabled.. you’re broken.. not quite as fully normal..

i really believe that what we’re here about is to ..

overcome that other\ing that happens

overcome those systems of oppression.. that one person is fully human and another person isn’t

8 min – all of those systems of oppression.. have always been based on a kind of false science.. false/pseudo-scientific claims of biological superiority of one group over another.. that rationalize and give legitimacy to systems of oppression..

science of people ness

turns out.. all experiences that are called psychotic.. are normal expressions of human diversity..

why i believe idio jargon may be our means for ps in the open (aka: free dom – ability to io dance)

9 min – my mother was part of choctaw tribe.. when i was in hospital.. hearing voices considered abnormal.. but in my mother’s culture.. if you don’t hear voices.. that’s considered abnormal

so transcultural perspective.. turns out all the experiences.. we call psychotic.. are actually normal human expressions that can be induced experimentally if you control the environment..

begs we experiment with rat park.. for the well being of all of us..

11 min – (joke) offering workshop to teach you how to hear voices.. 128 hours long.. can’t leave.. can’t sleep.. i guarantee you’ll hear voices

solitary ness

exaggerated startle response.. found by scientists in (and to reinforce abnormality ness of) schizophrenics.. turns out.. can be induced..  by ie: maternal neglect.. isolation..

so all the things we call psychotic differences.. are actually expressions of adaptation.. of responses to environment

so evidence that a person is alive/antifragile/emerging.. ha.. we are so upside down on this.. human being ness..

12 min – if you put a person in the right circumstance.. (depravation) .. you will generate these psychotic experiences… so..

what does that say to us..

that the things we call mental-illness/psychosis/craziness/insanity.. are actually normal expressions of being human.. all of us have that potential w/in us..

so again.. mental health.. all about the environment begging we try rat park for humans

what i believe we’re working on.. is not to promote some normal standard.. not about making people be normal.. but helping them overcome their isolation and their powerless ness…

not trying to be normal by some oppressive normal standard..

not normal ness

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find/follow Will:

Counselor, teacher, writer, and community development worker; PhD candidate at Maastricht University. New book! http://www.outsidementalhealth.com 

http://willhall.net/

crazywise (doc) – (Gabor Maté –maté basic needs law, Will Hall, Phil Borges et al)

instrumental

hari rat park law via ..

a nother way

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Christopher Knight and crazywise.. et al..

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Will’s free download of outside mental health

Will Hall (@willhall) tweeted at 4:55 AM – 9 Nov 2017 :

Early antidote to holiday spending? Free download of Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness book by @willhall, with 60+ interviews! https://t.co/26i2VcfdnWhttps://t.co/LYe9KeeNEU (http://twitter.com/willhall/status/928591987456004096?s=17)

holy cow.. what a read

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15 min video from nov 2017

INTERVOICE (@VoicesUnLtd) tweeted at 6:05 AM – 24 Nov 2017 :

Psychosis And Normality https://t.co/1KC5mnXjxN (http://twitter.com/VoicesUnLtd/status/934045231024164864?s=17)

i think that the wall between the normal people and the crazy people is an artificial one..

1 min – when some individual exhibits an extreme state of consciousness in a more pronounced/prolonged/expressive way.. it really is about the social context/history of that person and what they’ve been thru that accounts for that experience.. it’s not some malfunction or difficulty that resides exclusively inside the individual.. because i think fundamentally we can’t actually demo that there are individuals.. i think that we’re fundamentally social creatures

2 min – i think the validity of diagnosis itself is very much in question.. it wasn’t until the 1980s that the american pych assoc included ho

4 min – actually what we call psychosis is normal.. what we call a psychology of going mad.. should be seen as a normal human expression of difference/diversity

6 min – the suffering that people get into is from the social/internal response (not from the difference).. so instead of judging.. we should as how are they suffering..

7 min – ie: hearing voices.. only problem if adds to isolation and disempowerment

9 min – so really the line we need to draw is around empowerment and isolation

13 min – we need to start thinking of psychosis as an adaptation.. a response.. to a double bind..

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