Well, that’s one way for the pharmaceutical industry to increase its market size – President Bush’s New Freedom Commission, early mental health screening and testing for all. Don’t you just love Patch Adams’ response! Patch offers to examine the head of the U.S. President Along with his medical advocacy, Adams has been known for his political activism. Among [...]

They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal - by Paula J. Caplan “If we allow others to decide whether or not we are normal, we lose the power to define, to judge, and, often, to respect ourselves…” - Paula J. Caplan Here’s part of an editorial review (Publishers Weekly) ” … Caplan [...]

Thank you Dr. Ratey, Dr. Damasio, Howard Gardner and Dr. Hallowell for your humanity. Psychiatry may be going overboard with all the labeling, but at least it’s looking like neurodiversity may be headed our way. NYTimes.com - May 9, 2004 – NEURODIVERSITY FOREVER – The Disability Movement Turns to Brains – By AMY HARMON  - (my favourite excerpts) “What all [...]

“Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them–and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon–laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution–these can lift at a colossal humbug,–push it a little– crowd it a little–weaken it [...]