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Tuesday, 13 January 2015
quote [ We met at 18. We wed at 24. At 27, I checked my wife into a psych ward?for the first time. ]
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lilmookieesquire said @ 1:32am GMT on 13th January
"The doctor disagreed. She sent us to El Camino Hospital Mountain View, an hour’s drive south from our house. "
oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit that's like mookie turf.
lilmookieesquire said @ 8:34pm GMT on 12th January
"The doctor disagreed. She sent us to El Camino Hospital Mountain View, an hour’s drive south from our house. "
oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit that's like mookie turf.
edit: also whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
"Laing’s book helped spawn the Mad Pride movement, which modeled itself on gay pride, reclaiming the word mad as a positive identifier instead of a slur. Mad Pride came out of the psychiatric survivor movement, with its goal of taking mental health treatment decisions out of the hands of doctors and well-intentioned caregivers and putting those decisions into the hands of patients. I admired all of those rights movements—every person deserves acceptance and self-determination, as far as I’m concerned—but Laing’s words hurt. I’d made loving Giulia the center of my life. I put her recovery above all else for almost a year. I wasn’t ashamed of Giulia. Just the opposite: I was proud of her and how she fought her illness. If there was a green or orange psychosis-supporter ribbon, I would have worn it."
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lilmookieesquire said @ 1:32am GMT on 13th January
"The doctor disagreed. She sent us to El Camino Hospital Mountain View, an hour’s drive south from our house. "
oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit that's like mookie turf.
edit: also whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!
"Laing’s book helped spawn the Mad Pride movement, which modeled itself on gay pride, reclaiming the word mad as a positive identifier instead of a slur. Mad Pride came out of the psychiatric survivor movement, with its goal of taking mental health treatment decisions out of the hands of doctors and well-intentioned caregivers and putting those decisions into the hands of patients. I admired all of those rights movements—every person deserves acceptance and self-determination, as far as I’m concerned—but Laing’s words hurt. I’d made loving Giulia the center of my life. I put her recovery above all else for almost a year. I wasn’t ashamed of Giulia. Just the opposite: I was proud of her and how she fought her illness. If there was a green or orange psychosis-supporter ribbon, I would have worn it."
2) MAD PRIDE! (I had no idea it was a real thing)