 | Last login: 15 months agoNotOnOurOwn Artistic People Expressing is a person from University of Mental Health, Maryland, USA. Not On Our Own Artistic People Expressing Support. Is a group of folks who once identified as Mentally Ill working on recovery that now identify as Artists and Poets focusing on what we can create, verses what has been destroyed or taken from us with stigma, non-useful labels. Meets at least once a month at On Our Own PGC. Lets create something special! |
- Apr 14, 2008 8:35am
- Apr 8, 2008 8:38am
Don't think of the above logo as chain links holding you down with stigma, bonds of slavery, bonds of the old practice of chaining the mentally ill to their beds. Don't ask why we meet at a church rather than some other space.
"Our mission is to provide advocacy, peer support, and outreach to adults with psychiatric and emotional illnesses. We offer a drop-in center where consumers can socialize, support groups, w/mental health education and training sessions."
Thousands were raped in church's. OOOPG meets in Church's why?
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH will never shake free of the Scandal the actual extent of which will never be known. It would be a mistake to underestimate abuse in other churches, since most are indistinguishable from cults. People suspend normal reason and choose to believe in fantasy and shared delusional states. Kids are indoctrinated at a young age, they even set up there own schools and shelter their members from the media and news of the world. Shameful that OOO of PGC is forced to meet at a church/cult location.
ABUSED MEN/BOYS related books
themenscenter.com/National/national01.htm [themenscenter.com/National/national01.htm]
"If you have a few hundred followers, and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you 'Pope.' It's like, if you can't pay your mortgage, you're a deadbeat. But if you can't pay a million mortgages, you're Bear Stearns and we bail you out. And that is who the Catholic Church is: the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia -- too big, too fat." -Bill Maher
"And that's the Church's attitude: 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it,' which is fine, far be it from me to criticize religion. But just remember one thing: If the Pope was -- instead of a religious figure -- merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of day care centers, where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he'd be arrested faster than you can say 'who wants to touch Mr. Wiggle?'" -Bill Maher
- Apr 8, 2008 8:29am
- Our mission is to promote recovery by providing a safe, consumer-run alternative for the purpose of socialization, self-help, advocacy, recreation, support, and education. We operate primarily during the time traditional providers of mental health services are closed, such as holidays and Saturdays. We employ consumers of mental health services as staff with the belief that they can provide services for individuals. Our staff provides a safe haven for people, making their own lives more productive and meaningful, while enriching the lives of others.
 
Feeling Red, Blue, Violet, Purple or Green? Hang out, meet some peers!
Bethesda Beatnik Dinner Club, Now in its eighth year.
is by far the largest and most successful dinner club for mental health consumers, their family members and friends in North America. We meet at Alfio's Trattoria Italian restaurant in Friendship Heights, Maryland, right on the D.C. border, on the second and fourth Wednesday nights of each month for dinner, conversation and prominent after-dinner speakers.
Pastafarianism is just as valid as Christianity or any other religion. Maybe more so.
In fact, spaghetti is tangible. And if you throw a handful of it through the air you can watch it fly ! There's some verifiable evidence here. ...and you don't have to worry about going to Hell for being a glutton ! Hallelujah ! Praise the pasta !
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion,
however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
- Apr 7, 2008 11:05pm
- Silver Spring Drop-In Center
This is a forum for mental health consumers, advocates, family members, providers, and other interested 'stakeholders' to find resources and post about their experiences. At present, anyone can add comments, and comments are now UN-moderated, to see if that would encourage posting. Welcome!
silverspringdropincenter.blogspot.com [silverspringdropincenter.blogspot.com]
- On Our Own of Howard County - News and Events
 Mar 27, 2008 8:56am  (1 review) mental-health http://ooohci.org/news_and_events
The new computers are up and running.
Calendar:
OOOMD Recovery Training
Arts & Crafts
OOOHCI Fashion Show
Board of Directors Meeting
MD Mental Hygiene Conference
OOOMD Annual Conference
6440 Dobbin Road, Suite B. Columbia, MD 21045
ph: 410-772-7905 fax: 410-772-7906
wesley@ooohci.org
- Fountain House: Portraits of Lives ... - Google Book Search
- Mar 27, 2008 8:25am (1 review) http://books.google.com/books?id=aRHW_ti...
Severe mental illness affects 5.5 million people in the U.S. usually striking between the ages of 15 and 24. Family members are often overwhelmed as they try to cope with their love one's illness and treatment. Fountain...
books.google.com/books [books.google.com/books] +green+door+fountain+house&source=web&ots=uMLaJUodL7&sig=6BnCXkwI_lxCP_XnH2FySsNLqFs&hl=en#PPP1,M1
- Reinventing Mental Health Care by E. Fuller Torrey, City Journal Autumn...
- Mar 27, 2008 8:13am (1 review) mental-health http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_4_a5....
Famously--and for the flimsiest of reasons, ranging from a governmental desire to save money to the once-fashionable belief that mental illness is only a different but perfectly valid form of consciousness--the nation largely dismantled its mental health care system over the last 40 years. Less well known, though, is that the outlines of a reasonable new mental health system have quietly begun to take shape. So far, it is a tentative, piecemeal development; and federal policy, instead of helping it cohere into a rational, comprehensive whole, is stymieing and retarding it at every point. For that reason, it seems important to spell out just what the emerging new U.S. mental health care system looks like--and how policymakers can help ensure that what finally takes form will be as rational, humane, and effective as we can make it.
city-journal.org/html/9_4_a5.html [city-journal.org/html/9_4_a5.html]
- Fountain House :: Leadership
- Mar 27, 2008 8:08am (1 review) mental-health http://www.fountainhouse.org/moxie/who/w...
- At Fountain House, we believe that anyone with the right medication, the right support and, perhaps most importantly, a sense of hope for the future, can and will succeed. We see it everyday behind the green door of Fountain House.
I would like to speak to the people visiting this Web site who have been told by professionals or others that people who have mental illness have a chronic disease from which they will never recover: usually meaning that they will never work again, complete their schooling, or have a healthy and happy social life. What they meant to say to you was that, while you may have some symptoms of the illness, and you may need to take medication for a long time, you can still sing and dance and fall in love and go to school and get a good job and have a home and meet some friends and do whatever you please.
Fountain House can't take everyone who would like to come here, but the good news is that more and more Fountain House model programs (generally known as Clubhouses, or ICCD-certified Clubhouses) are developing around the world. We have a link to the Web site of the ICCD, which has a directory of Clubhouses, the best of which can be identified by their three-year certification from the ICCD. As they say in the commercials, don't be fooled by the other places, which use our name or the name Clubhouse: only ICCD-certified Clubhouses are the real thing.
Finally no web site, even with a virtual tour, will ever capture a Fountain House Clubhouse. Only a visit to the real thing will give you a sense of the power of regenerative recovery to be found within the four walls of the Clubhouse. So come and visit us in New York City, or see a place closer to you. And remember never to give up hope, for yourself or anyone else you care about.
Kenn Dudek has been the President of Fountain House since 1992 and has worked as a social worker in community mental health for over twenty-five years.
fountainhouse.org/moxie/who/who_lead/index.shtml [fountainhouse.org/moxie/who/who_lead/index.shtml]
- Mar 26, 2008 10:10pm
The right to practice religion, or no religion at all, is among the most fundamental of the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. This essential freedom is protected by keeping the government out of religion is guaranteed to all Americans.
Empower yourself and others, find a peer to peer program in your area and plug in!
On Our Own of Roanoke Valley, Inc. is a Drop-in Center that strives to improve the quality of life of mental health consumers by sponsoring self-help groups ...
rvonourown.com/Services.aspx [rvonourown.com/Services.aspx]
On Our Own of Charlottesville developed after a core group of consumers came together to discuss the unmet needs of individuals in the Charlottesville area ...
avenue.org/onourown/ONOUROWN.HTML [avenue.org/onourown/ONOUROWN.HTML]
- http://www.ooo-mc.org/
- Mar 24, 2008 6:10pm (1 review) http://www.ooo-mc.org/
- Burning time victims: People Persecuted by the Church.
Most victims of the burning times seem to have been a
diverse group, who did not share a common factor. Many were:
- Midwives,
- Native healers,
- Single women who lived alone, and/or who owned property,
- People against whom neighbors had a grudge,
- Practitioners of ancient Pagan rituals,
- Innocent individuals who were accused by other victims, often under torture,
- People who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
There is no evidence that any such "Witches" actually
existed, beyond a few 'delusional', 'mentally ill', people.
religioustolerance.org/wic_burn1.htm [religioustolerance.org/wic_burn1.htm]
For three centuries of early modern European history, diverse societies were consumed by a panic over alleged witches in their midst. Witch-hunts, especially in Central Europe, resulted in the trial, torture, and execution of tens of thousands of victims, about three-quarters of whom were women. Arguably, neither before nor since have adult European women been selectively targeted for such largescale atrocities.
gendercide.org/case_witchhunts.html [gendercide.org/case_witchhunts.html]
By the 12th century, this had changed, and the Church suddenly realized the sword is actually a lot mightier than the pen.
The first implementations of this policy were the Crusades, which involved sending armies out to forcibly convert those who didn't agree with the Pope (specifically the Muslims inhabiting the Holy Lands). The first Crusade went really well, but subsequent efforts to recapture the magic were miserable failures.
After a series of embarrassing setbacks, the Church turned its attention inward, busying itself with the task of rooting out the disloyal and misguided within its own domains, primarily Europe.
That's when the Inquisition was born.
Technically, the Inquisition is an ongoing function of the church (more on this below), but when people talk about "the Inquisition," they're usually referring to one of two historically notable incidents: the Albigensian Inquisition, or the Spanish Inquisition.
rotten.com/library/history/inquisition/ [rotten.com/library/history/inquisition/]
ACLU Says Bush Initiative Represents Faith-Based Prescription for Discrimination 01/29/2001
... initiative represents a faith-based prescription ... Rights, say that the Bush faith-based initiative would both violate the separation of church and ... "But many individuals faced with drug addiction, mental illness and ... ...
aclu.org/religion/govtfunding/16334prs20010129.html [aclu.org/religion/govtfunding/16334prs20010129.html]
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ACLU Calls on Congress to Reject Funding of Religious Activities, Says Faith Based Initiative Goes Too Far and Threatens Civil Rights 06/21/2005
... Religious Activities, Says Faith Based Initiative ... funnel taxpayer dollars to faith-based organizations to provide social services. At today's hearing, witnesses in support of the faith based-initiative offered truly startling ...
aclu.org/religion/govtfunding/16263prs20050621.html [aclu.org/religion/govtfunding/16263prs20050621.html]
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ACLU succeeded in killing several faith-based measures that violated the separation of church and state ... ) | Trackbacks (0) Warehousing the Mentally Ill Ensuring proper care for incarcerated people with mental illness has ... ...
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