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Read more: Neurodivergent Respect
by Dana Hi, my name is Dana Marie Roark and I’m a female neurodivergent adult on the flip side of50+ years. I’m very glad I grew up in the decades and times I did, prior to theovermedicalization and mislabeling of emotions and people. It’s unfortunate that as anadult, I experienced horrific abuse, exploitation, deliberate mislabeling,…
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Read more: From Personal Lived Experience to Radical Mental Health ActivismBy David W. Oaks Within moments of walking into my first psychiatric institution ward as a troubled young man, I felt a powerful sense of authoritarianism. Sure enough, as soon as I got into my room, I felt bullied to take a cup of liquid psychiatric drugs. The mental health worker offered the cup, saying,…