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Cause of death
Sophie didn’t mean to die. She had simply arrived at the point where she was prepared to try anything to feel better.
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The pressure to be cured
Both professional and popular psychology are focused on “curing” individuals of distress. But without looking at a person’s social and political context, the pursuit of a cure can do more harm than good.
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The Deep
If you’re like me, your path out of this prison will follow the path of grief: denial, anger, negotiation, depression. But only acceptance and behavioural modification open the Big Locked Door. The staff say you are here to get better, but you are here to mourn your illusion of sanity.
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Two poems from prison
No bullet, no sword, nor anything formed, / nothing short of a category 4 storm, / Could ever kill an Indian that’s immortal
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Ingesting surveillance
A new digital pill that tracks whether it has been ingested is poised to enter the Canadian market. But for people who are incarcerated and medicated, it threatens to expand surveillance both inside and outside prisons.
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“We have buried too many”: A Q&A with Tristen Durocher
Durocher, a 24-year-old Métis fiddler, has walked from Air Ronge to begin a hunger strike on the lawn of the Saskatchewan Legislature, demanding resources for suicide prevention.
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Mental health professionals are not the solution to racist police violence
While mental health interventions have been touted as an alternative to policing, the mental health field has a long history of perpetrating racist and colonial violence.
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We don’t need to be friends to be comrades
To ask activist groups to take on responsibility for members’ emotional well-being is to saddle them with an impossible burden – something that makes activist burnout more likely.
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Process of depression
In 2016, Nicholas Dinardo was arrested and sent to remand at the Regina Correctional Centre. After remaining in segregation for most of the last year, he wrote this poem.
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The Second Crisis
How workers on the front lines of Canada’s opioid crisis are coping – and what organized labour can do to support them.
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150 Years Of Mad Love
Mad people’s history holds up a mirror to the exalted Canadian story of universal health care, revealing a movement led by people finding and providing care for themselves and each other.
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“We Continue to be Magical”
Five young Black folks speak to the challenges and strategies for building and sustaining the Black liberation movement.
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When psychiatry burns
From ADHD to major depression, a family doctor takes a critical look at the power of modern psychiatry and the forces that shape it.