The Mad Bench I Can't Bring Myself to Leave
My contact with psychiatry was brief. My attachment to this mad position is not. Why am I still here?
6 pieces
疯言疯语 / Notes
Essays, reflections, and ideas.
Questions We Are Living With
Questions about representation, labour, harm, collaboration, refusal, and what it takes to act together without pretending to be one.
A Moment Without the Balancing Act
For once, we could speak without immediately adding that there are good psychiatrists too. Then I caught myself doing it again.
Inside Survivor Research and Mad Studies
I went looking for people who might already have solved our problems. I found living arguments, labour boundaries, and no finished answers.
When Can We Say What We Actually Want to Say?
Shared commitments can create relationships we feel forced to maintain. Where does that leave anger, dislike, and the wish to speak honestly?
A Question for Mad Studies: What About the Non-English-Speaking World?
I asked about the non-English-speaking world. Why did the answer return to differences within the English-speaking one?