Mad Radio Night Friday 11/6, sort of

Friday night at 1 a.m. (yes, I know, it’s really Saturday- relax, it’s only radio) will be the usual night of lunacy on KBOO 90.7 FM (or streamed at KBOO.FM).
Mental Health consumer-talk-radio
Friday night,
1 a.m. to 2 a.m.-
Archived shows are available at
http://rickpdx.wordpress.com/mad-liberation-by-moonlight-archives/
Remember: Call in at 503-231-8187 to be on the radio
(or show up at the studio).

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Sunday Brunch

Appetizer

Playing with Hugh
Or, rather, hue (and contrast, and saturation etc.). All these taken in the past week or two. Click for real size, which is big, btw.
I call this one “very close to fall”.

Oregon Rainforest- Silver Creek trail

Ground Foliage

“General Pictures, Sir!”

From:
MindFreedom Oregon News Alert – Please Forward
http://www.mindfreedom.org/oregon

MindFreedom International News – 22 October 2009
Ray Alert [...]

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MLBM Announcement

Re: Looney Radio 4/17/09
Mental Health consumer-talk-radio
This Friday night, 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.-
April 17th, 2009
KBOO 90.7 FM or streamed on the web: kboo.fm
Call in at 503-231-8187 to be on the radio (or show up at the studio).
Please set your alarm if you aren’t up at that time- we need your voice.
There are people listening
(all over [...]

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Ray Update from MindFreedom

MindFreedom News – 15 April 2009
Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health
http://www.mindfreedom.org/ray – please forward
    Ray Sandford Declares “Guarded Victory” for MindFreedom Ray Campaign
    Because of Public Pressure, Ray’s Psychiatrist May Quit Case
The bad news is that this morning, 15 April 2009, Ray Sandford of 
Minnesota had another involuntary, outpatient electroshock, also 
known as electroconvulsive therapy or [...]

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Study 15

From the Washington Post:
A Silenced Drug Study Creates An Uproar
By Shankar Vedantam
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 18, 2009; A01
 
The study would come to be called “cursed,” but it started out just as Study
15.
It was a long-term trial of the antipsychotic drug Seroquel. The common wisdom
in psychiatric circles was that newer drugs were far better than [...]

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News from MindFreedom and other discussions

It’s been a while since I posted information from MFI or other mental health consumer discussion, so, here, from old to newer; have a full bowl-

NY Times says minor reform is not enough, but stops short of calling
for what is needed: Laws that criminalize extreme psychiatric
corruption. Please forward. See BOTTOM for actions, including
nonviolent protest, you [...]

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Interview with/ about Ray

Forced Electroshock-
Question: Is “forced treatment” really “treatment” or is it “Torture”?
This is an interview on NPR (click on link):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98273451
Background (mostly from MindFreedom):
Ray Alerts
(I apologize for repetitive information)
MindFreedom International – 16 November 2008
Ray Human Rights Alert #3: Please Forward
Now see a photo of Ray here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield/ray
    Media ought to ask, “What is Minnesota Governor Pawlenty’s 
position on [...]

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Mental Health Round-up

Unlike the Pendleton Roundup there will be no bull(s).
We’ve known this for a while- the evidence simply piles up:
Lilly, J&J Antipsychotics Don’t Top Old Drugs in Kids (Update1)
By Rob Waters and Tom Randall
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Best-selling antipsychotic medicines by Eli Lilly & Co. and Johnson & Johnson caused more side effects and were [...]

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Oregon Consumer/ Survivor Coalition & stuff

Oregon Consumer Survivor Coalition delegation meets with Oregon’s
governor
by Rebecca Eichhorn
In June 2008, representatives from the Oregon Consumer Survivor
Coalition (OCSC), Mental Health America, and several individual
consumers were invited to meet with Governor Ted Kulongoski. The
purpose of this historic meeting was to brief the Governor on matters
concerning mental health and consumer affairs in Oregon.
The hour long conversation [...]

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The world is so full of a number of things…

I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
I digress….
had to post this picture:

Mental Health and Mortality
Per our last post, we reported that in Oregon one-third of people treated for mental health diagnosis die before age 50. If you add “co-occurring disorders”, 89 percent of people treated for both mental
illness and substance abuse [...]

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