New freedom..more..now that
Mental health in america is being addressed in a fascist way by Bush.
While Mental health is being adressed liberation oriented way by the consumer rights/psychiatric survivor movements.
Nami is funded by big pharmacy and is trying to co opt the consumer rights orgs or it may be trying to break away from the Big Pharma stranglehold, it's hard to tell what's happening with Nami.I don't trust them myself..
There is alot of stuff happening in mental health in America, it's
just under the radar right now.
Here are some links to info on a lot of things..
An org I highly recommend, Mindfreedom
http://www.mindfreedom.org/About Bush's new freedom initiative
http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/8030More..
http://www.iahf.com/20040719a.htmlAimed at kids, it's called teen screen
http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.htmlhttp://www.newstarget.com/001688.htmlAn article I wrote about Bush's new freedom initiative
http://www.unknownnews.net/040712a-upits.htmlOn our own & Consumer run orgs..and the stuff they do.
On Our Own is nationwide here is a link to the Maryland Chapter
http://www.onourownmd.org/Here is a psych survivor group for GBLT people I used to go to in Baltimore.
http://www.heartsandears.org/And more survivor stuff
http://www.survivorlink.org/How bush fucked the psych survivors over, and still does..
http://namiscc.org/MentalHealthRecovery/PeoplesTrueFreedomCommission.htmhttp://www.activist-trauma.net/survivingclassstruggle.htmThere is alot on that monster Sally sadist Satel if you poke around . As for me,I hate her guts. She is a fascist pig of the most vile sort. And my hate of her is personal.She wants to pretend trauma does not leave scars.PSTD is all fake..And..She pissed me off when she chickened out on a speaking engagement Q&A session with On Our Own,I was at a conferennce,at the time Bush was trying to sell the idea to the psych survivors that the new freedom initiative wasn't a fucking fascist scam. I got there early sat in the front row with a bunch of my Maryland OOO cohorts, and I had written up a tasty list of hardball questions to pose to Satel that would reveal the real ugly agenda of the "new freedom initiative". But in true fascist pig style she chickened out and ran away from a real face to face confrontation with us and sent us a mealy mouthed video of herself one we could not question..Behavior typical of a scared bully and that's what Satel and her neoCON cabal is all about.
Read more about this creep Bush put to"lead" the advisory board of mental health.
http://www.counterpunch.org/willson03182006.htmlAnd here is another link on her typical sick control freak additude
http://namiscc.org/Editorial/2003/ForcedDrugging.htmSatel is a bully to the core She wants to claim pstd isn't really a problem, she hates victims that been through abuse,she thinks war vets claim PSTD to get a "free ride" ..This monster is straight out of AEI. The neocon fascist"think tank"..More like skank tank to me.
This creep Satel is a MENACE to sound mental health,at best she's a fucking narcissistic asshole.
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/52/5/691-b