will hall
[oakland, ca]
intro’d to will via crazywise
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‘Experiencing mental health crises and personal critical responses’
Will Hall speaking at INTAR India 2016 Lavasa, India.
4 min – i don’t know if i identify so much with that word recovery .. what i really identify with is really a process of liberation.. because i think all of us are in a process of liberation..
free\dom ness – a nother way.. to set/keep 7 bn free.. as the day [aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…]
what was really important for me in my own liberation process was an ongoing struggle with what could really be understood as a de colonization of my mind from psychiatry
5 min – when i was in the hospital.. i was really implanted with a lot of beliefs/frameworks/scientific-understandings.. that really came from a position of power not from truth.. and it was really a colonization of my own psyche.. and so i’ve been going thru a de colonization process
sounds like all the institutions.. ie: school.. science of people ness
huge – supposed to’s.. killing us
recent interview on mad in america. . about the connections between transforming the mental health system and struggling with the legacies of colonialism and *oppression.. because i believe that
anywhere we don’t listen to all the voices.. aka: any type/space of public consensus.. there is oppression.. of people/being
each of us is learning how to find our authentic voice
let’s make this equitable.. (everyone getting a go every day).. and try hosting-life-bits via self-talk as data..
7 min – this legacy to see human *difference as normal.. that no human being is other..no human being is less than
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
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