tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.comments2024-02-21T11:40:12.974-05:00BizOMadnessJerky LeBoeufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06022293362312800819noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-89399266424713268112018-01-14T06:41:53.260-05:002018-01-14T06:41:53.260-05:00I hope that you have had a chance to pick it up, A...I hope that you have had a chance to pick it up, Anonymous.<br />I hope you have had a chance to pick it up and read it, Anonymous. It really is an amazing experience<br /><br /><br />bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-49628271382515950862016-04-27T08:29:31.869-04:002016-04-27T08:29:31.869-04:00No problem,Anonymous. And thank you for writing ba...No problem,Anonymous. And thank you for writing back on this. And I get and respect your position. For myself, I handle things differently. I tend to give almost no one short shrift. Nonetheless, as I engage with people and positions with which I have major disagreements, I do make a point of staying as clear as I can, who I am and what I stand for. bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-25157891569295364072016-04-27T08:12:20.310-04:002016-04-27T08:12:20.310-04:00I do indeed get that, Anonymous. I do indeed get that, Anonymous. bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-22102234048676699112016-04-27T04:06:28.310-04:002016-04-27T04:06:28.310-04:00Live by the state, die by the state, the state'...Live by the state, die by the state, the state's dictated way. <br /><br />Me? Private exit with peaceful pills in my private home, in total secrecy. Number of minutes paid of attention between now and the end of my life to what the statists are 'debating' when it comes to their preferred method of meddling in the exit decisions of strangers? zero. I can't imagine many things more degrading than begging a government bureaucrat and filling out government forms during my final months, weeks or days. I hope on the day I die I don't see a single government thing, person, act, anything. Getting away from the government is the best thing about dying. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-80363501164917859792016-04-27T04:01:29.523-04:002016-04-27T04:01:29.523-04:00Saying it 'hurts your credibility' was too...Saying it 'hurts your credibility' was too harsh I take that part back. I just give pro forced psychiatry people short shrift. Thank you. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-34329886502912008342016-04-26T12:18:16.035-04:002016-04-26T12:18:16.035-04:00Note, in this blog article, I disagreed with profo...Note, in this blog article, I disagreed with profoundly with her on that issue as well as many others. I nonetheless agreed to review it when asked by Robert Whitaker and for me that meant showing both its strong points as well as its deficits, on which I was very clear, and which I without qualification depicted as major. That said, Anonymous,I totally get how you feel. bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-79083295197379545592016-04-26T11:41:03.657-04:002016-04-26T11:41:03.657-04:00Author is pro forced psychiatry in 'some insta...Author is pro forced psychiatry in 'some instances' = wont' be reading, waste of time. I don't have any time for anybody who thinks I should be forced to live in terror of cops bashing down my door and hauling me away for thought crimes. Disappointed to see this review. Hurts your credibility.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-88130434724973279922016-03-20T05:57:25.818-04:002016-03-20T05:57:25.818-04:00Erin: In case you were thinking of coming to the l...Erin: In case you were thinking of coming to the long talk that I am doing at the Toronto Reference Library, I just wanted you to know that the date of it has been changed to December 6.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-78260685074955682032016-03-13T23:44:52.691-04:002016-03-13T23:44:52.691-04:00Us and them. "It is an awful lie."Us and them. "It is an awful lie."Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09748673942487221230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-65383559071367027712016-01-13T15:51:54.016-05:002016-01-13T15:51:54.016-05:00So good to hear from you, Erin. I do have a major...So good to hear from you, Erin. I do have a major speaking engagement on June 21 at 6:30 at the Toronto Reference Library. It is connected to my book Psychiatry and the Business of Madness, but it is a much larger speech about psychiatry. I will posting a notification of it soon in the events section of the blogsite. bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-9707443694551630282016-01-05T09:05:11.343-05:002016-01-05T09:05:11.343-05:00thanks for this. when i heard that he had died i ...thanks for this. when i heard that he had died i realized the world would be praising his "wonderful contributions" but the truth is, of course, far from wonderful.<br /><br />i have been part of the anti-psychiatry movement for a couple of years now ( husband fell for the scam and nearly/kind of destroyed our family). i attended your book launch in ny several months ago and felt so at peace the entire evening. it was a rare feeling, as i often feel alone with the truth.<br /><br />just wondering if you have any speaking engagements planned. i am in the ny area but would consider travelling.<br /><br />thank you for all you do. i applaud your taking such a strong, unwavering position against the current psychiatric/big pharma/etc system.<br /><br /><br />all the best,<br /><br />-erin<br />erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08160112081321184371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-60270315106849581882015-12-25T10:45:51.655-05:002015-12-25T10:45:51.655-05:00It has taken hold in a number of countries that ha...It has taken hold in a number of countries that had not heretofore been substantially effected by western hegemony through leverage exercised by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. That said, I very much like your idea of a Museum dedicated to psychiatry's victims.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-70839090260972926542015-12-25T10:40:56.223-05:002015-12-25T10:40:56.223-05:00Much thanks, Anonymous.
Much thanks, Anonymous.<br />bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-71218445577224074782015-12-25T06:20:22.437-05:002015-12-25T06:20:22.437-05:00I'm having awful trouble getting my comments t...I'm having awful trouble getting my comments through.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442236063999945385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-84619508965320059812015-12-25T06:18:48.783-05:002015-12-25T06:18:48.783-05:00I won't see them asked the question, `Did you ...I won't see them asked the question, `Did you really electroshock people, Grandpa?', but they will. What will they say then?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442236063999945385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-59400188431909196642015-12-25T06:15:41.421-05:002015-12-25T06:15:41.421-05:00The psychiatric holocaust Museum that our grandchi...The psychiatric holocaust Museum that our grandchildren will find horrifying. And I do see a day when the question will be asked of a lot of today's psychiatric heros, `did you really do that, Dad/Mum?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442236063999945385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-35133914565770523602015-11-03T04:32:33.997-05:002015-11-03T04:32:33.997-05:00I'm looking forward to it as well. The gains M...I'm looking forward to it as well. The gains Mad people have made in reducing the social stigmatization of our lives and anti-psychiatry's evolutionary breakthrough of retooling extreme states into assets for Mad people are, have been, and will forever be accomplished through no means other than by elucidating the culture of Madness, telling the stories of Mad people, and using fiction as a vehicle for presenting as parables the wisdom and experiences that are held in common by all Mad people. Ms. Burstow, you are a scholar of the highest caliber.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-9327650557449941142015-10-25T13:34:06.250-04:002015-10-25T13:34:06.250-04:00Much thanks for the comment, Julie. and really go...Much thanks for the comment, Julie. and really good that you were left eventually with a fairly in tact memory. All the bestbonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-22858373212167965882015-10-25T12:33:15.663-04:002015-10-25T12:33:15.663-04:00This is so wonderfully written. I never realized S...This is so wonderfully written. I never realized Sue was only a few years older than me. I now know I was one of the lucky ones since the damage "only" lasted a year and a half and now my memory is fine. Thanks to heroes like Sue, I have learned that many suffer permanent damage. However, oddly, my memory is now one of my best assets, since I can write the truth and enjoy pissing them off.Julie Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09895968596207825498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-46174687397049153942015-10-03T13:42:48.247-04:002015-10-03T13:42:48.247-04:00We really are on the move. My advice, sign the co...We really are on the move. My advice, sign the contract, and then be prepared to do a whole lot of work bringing people to read it. For if you put in the work, read it, they will<br />bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-10694905637592928902015-10-03T09:38:30.588-04:002015-10-03T09:38:30.588-04:00Bonnie, thanks and congratulations! I believe we a...Bonnie, thanks and congratulations! I believe we are moving forward even though often it doesn't look that way. My book was accepted by my publisher but I have yet to sign the contract since I'm afraid no one will buy it or read it. Julie GreeneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-91277149719633532902015-09-04T07:57:27.251-04:002015-09-04T07:57:27.251-04:00Bonnie, I'd like to link to this in my blog. T...Bonnie, I'd like to link to this in my blog. This is hopeful news indeed. We here in Uruguay from developed countries have been debating whether shrinkage will take hold here. I don't think so. It's unpopular and no one wants it nor can afford it. It does exist, though, and seems to have trapped a small number of people into its fold. I don't think psychiatry will get any further than it has come here so far. I think the regime will fall first, or falter enough for people everywhere to reject it. I dream of a museum of psychiatry much like the Holocaust Museum, that honors those killed by it and upholds the sacred voices of the handful of us who lived through it all and are still alive.Julie Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09895968596207825498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-60792715731513908792015-08-11T15:45:48.027-04:002015-08-11T15:45:48.027-04:00Much thanks, Anonymous.Much thanks, Anonymous.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-83156554011603966012015-08-11T14:00:43.019-04:002015-08-11T14:00:43.019-04:00Brilliant tribute.
MindFreedom did a tribute to S...Brilliant tribute.<br /><br />MindFreedom did a tribute to Sue too with video and photos.<br /><br />http://www.mindfreedom.org/in-memorium-sue-clark-wittenbergAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162219926742636994.post-63282441957211787792015-07-09T13:54:48.908-04:002015-07-09T13:54:48.908-04:00Terrfic, Erin. We are in this together. Terrfic, Erin. We are in this together. bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18085948021344637537noreply@blogger.com