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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mad Pride: Mental illness and recovery

The NY Times has an article on anti-stigma efforts by mentally ill people.

This caught my attention in relation to all of the attention that harm reduction has been getting recently. There has also been a mental illness consumer advocacy movement demanding a recovery orientation in mental health services. This movement emerged in response to psychiatry's harmfully low expectations for people with serious mental illness.

I see a parallel.

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