UK Premier of MARS PROJECT (a HVN fundraiser)
A decade ago rapper Khari ‘Conspiracy’ Stewart was diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, but he has rejected the label and is pursuing a spiritual path. A fundraising and consciousness raising event on behalf of the Hearing Voices Network. 19th July 2104 at 2pm Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High St, Dalston, London E8 2PB www.riocinema.org.uk £5 […]
Surviving Diagnosis
Contributed by Jo Twist I was given a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia nearly twenty years ago. Although this was initially a relief, it gradually became a problem in itself. The diagnosis serves to explain to yourself, family and friends why you have been behaving like this for so long, in my case for the last four […]
An Evening with Robert Whitaker, 19/10/11
Hearing Voices Network Fundraiser, 19th October 2011 Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, will be visiting London on 19th October. Why have the numbers of people disabled by ‘mental illness’ skyrocketed over the past fifty years? Why does this epidemic […]