Project LETS
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We build non-carceral community mental health collectives + provide political education & advocacy. By/for mad, mentally ill, Disabled, neurodivergent folks.
A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age A Review of @LauraDelano ’s “Unshrunk” “The reason I’m no longer mentally ill is that I made a decision to question the ideas about myself that I’d assumed were fact & discard what I learned was actually fiction.” Delano psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-memoir-for…
“In a span of just two weeks, a dozen Black men at Red Onion prison in Virginia took the same desperate measures, setting themselves ablaze. These are not acts of protest. These are human beings driven to extreme lengths, hoping for relief from torment.” prisonradio.org/news-update/se…
No matter how bad you think the euthanasia stories coming out of Canada are, there's always a worse one.
I said the quiet part out LOUD!
"Drivers of self-harm have been neglected by governments. Self-harm is not a psychiatric diagnosis; it is a behaviour shaped by society, culture, and individual factors." - this is such a crucial insight; responses to self-harm need to be wide-ranging and not just clinical 2/
Marginalized people, poor people, disabled people etc. are always the first to warn society about an impending crisis. And they are almost always ignored. Yet, when everything collapses, they are the first to be abandoned. This is an unacceptable moral injustice.
