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Austen Riggs Center Explained by Richard Cole - A patient's view of the Austen Riggs Center, a psychiatric hospital in Stockbridge, MA.
 
Bud Powell 1924-1966 - Taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, he wrote on the admittance form: 'Pianist and composer of over 1,000 songs.' To which the attending doctor wrote, 'delusions of grandeur' and put him in a straitjacket.
 
Defining Sanity - A unique resource for an inside look at mental disorders from the viewpoint of a sufferer. Includes on-line novels, personal journal, original lyrics, poetry and music.
 
Dick Sutphen's Brainwashing: The Battle for Your Mind
 
Finding Yourself Without Paying Through the Nose - Finding self improvement, respect, esteem, confidence,discipline,great attitude and yourself without paying through the nose.
 
Gaines, Victoria - The Story of a Proud Nutcase - Story of author's escape from domestic and psychiatric abuse, discusses civil and human rights violations that are involved in the involuntary commitment of those alleged to be mentally ill. Includes personal information, photographs, and poetry.
 
Hope and Help Web site - Personal suggestions for decreasing depression, stress, chronic pain syndromes and TV watching.
 
Ink Droppings - The site provides editorials on current mental health issues. It also includes abuse survivor poetry/prose.
 
Introduction to Psychotherapy - From the patient's perspective. Written by a patient of a London Freudian psychotherapist.
 
Janet Frame: 'An Angel at My Table' - Janet Frame, the noted New Zealand author, was devastated by her experiences in a psychiatric hospital.
 
Journals of a Child Molester - An accurate daily journal of events and feelings from the perspective of the perpetrator. "My reason for making this journal public is simple. If anything in this journal helps someone in any way so that one less child in this world is hurt, then it is all worth it."
 
No More Shame - Information on self-injury, depression, and suicide. Includes a journal, poetry, smiles, and useful links.
 
On the 8th day - Hazel Gay. Online book "To Heal the Broken-Hearted" that chronicles a woman's 18 year journey through hell and back with what is called "mental illness" to healing, wholeness and a new outlook on life.
 
Sally Clay Zangmo Blue Thundercloud - Essays and poems on the path of spirituality and madness. Alternative to psychiatry.
 
Something Ain't Right in the Cuckoo's Nest - Having gone through psychiatric system as a "consumer," as well as worked in the mental health system, I am familiar with states of mind that are referred to as "mental illness" and stigmas that go along with being so labeled.
 
Struggles of the Heart. abuse survivors site - A resource on child abuse, including personal story and links.
 
The Show Must Go On - Errol McInnes journals in detail the events of an episode of Major Depression aggravated with psychosis, and the recovery from that episode and how psychiatric intervention has affected his life.
 
To be a Mental Patient - To be a mental patient is to be stigmatized, ostracized, socialized, patronized and psychiatrized.
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