A Garden with Forking Paths: pushing back against a new fundamentalism in recovery and radical mental health, by Tim Kelly

We’ve made a lot of progress over the last decade in the coalition of recovery and radical mental health movements. Now it’s time to work harder to embrace a diversity of experiences and perspectives within our movements. We need to think hard about why certain stories are privileged, and whom we may not be hearing from at all. Those most marginalized at the intersections of extreme distress and disadvantage are the least likely to be heard. When we’re not careful, those of us with more privilege—including by virtue of experiencing less debilitating forms of distress— wind up speaking for folks whose experiences are not much like our own.
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Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - November 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs