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WunderNutbar Madvocacy, Activism & Social Change in Ontario, Canada

English - Mental Health, Peer Support, Stigma

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WunderNutbar · 1W ago

Mad Pride Toronto 2012: Call for Submissions … and a Hiatus in the Hiatus

Unbeknownst to myself, I’ve found myself on hiatus while I work like the dickens (or Dickens, if you prefer) on literary and musical projects. Yup. My poetry proceeds apace (see here — and note that this page needs updating), as do the song lyrics (a new direction for me!). The stuff has taken ov

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WunderNutbar · 3M ago

Mad Pride: What Is Canada Doing?

I’m Mad and I’m proud. Maybe some of you are, too. I’d define Mad Pride as an international movement which celebrates the achievements and experiences of those who acknowledge their mental, spiritual, emotional, cognitive, psychological and behavioural Otherness. We’re not about diagnoses or ps

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WunderNutbar · 4M ago

Project for Positive Change in Mental Health Care in Grey and Bruce

Friends, neighbours and colleagues, Fellow mental health advocate Melanie Knapp and I are working on a Project for Positive Change in Mental Health Care in Grey and Bruce. We aim to inform people of the nature and context of mental health service delivery in the region – particularly at GBHS – and t

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WunderNutbar · 4M ago

I’m Back, and Crunchin’ Numbers

It’s good to be back. Since I’ve been away, ironically, I’ve started getting attention from the blogosphere and obtaining subscribers. Perhaps going on hiatus was the best thing for me. I certainly feel refreshed, and glad to put a few personal issues behind me. At any rate, all that will be the

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WunderNutbar · 6M ago

MAD PRIDE Flag Campaign, and Some Ideas

OK! Here it is! Sarafin has put up your interactive, collaborative site for designing the Mad Pride flag. Hit it! Mad Pride Flag Design Campaign. It’s going to have PRIDE of place on the Blogroll! Here are a couple of my rather pedestrian attempts, done in Paint. You can tell why she’s the arti

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WunderNutbar · 6M ago

The Breakdown Continues

For five days I have been holed up in my apartment, incapable of facing the outside world. And in an odd twist, my social anxiety doesn’t apply so much to strangers as to my friends. How effed up is that? I can go to the corner store and buy some overpriced tomatoes, communicating with the [...]

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WunderNutbar · 6M ago

Designing the Mad Pride Flag

Can you believe it? The Mad community does not have its own flag! Here’s comic artist and survivor extraordinaire Sarafin‘s proposal, prepared in advance of Toronto’s Mad Pride 2012. Let’s take a closer look! First off, you’ll notice that in its overall structure that it’s readily identifiable as

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WunderNutbar · 6M ago

Kandinsky: The Best of Us Aren’t Crazy

I vowed tacitly to never discuss the connections between mental illness and creativity. That whole mad genius trope (rather, cliché). But I’m in, shall we say, a rather blue period. My productivity has ground to a halt, and what little literary skill I possess is in suspension. Nonetheless, holed

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WunderNutbar · 6M ago

Mental Health, Intimacy, and the 4-Stage Hug

I am a mess of paradoxes. One of the biggest concerns intimacy in all its forms: among them physical, emotional, sexual. Just as much as I require proximity and being held, I am prone to recoiling from close contact – especially the often claustrophobic, smothering acts of encompassment: holding and

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WunderNutbar · 7M ago

“AS YOU WERE!!!” Master Sgt Earl B. O’Dick

Here is something ruff-’n'-tumble from my very first ever headline performance last Saturday, October 8, at the Owen Sound Farmers’ Market (for the SOUNDS Words and Music series, 2nd Saturday of the month at 7pm). I’ve been doing a lot of overtly political “social conscience” stuff recently, and th

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