“Mental health” liberation supports all liberation work. In this time of increasing challenges, we are increasingly seduced into numbness. In July 2019, in connection with the Climate Summit in New York (New York, USA), Janet Foner (then International Liberation Reference Person for “Mental Health” Liberation) wrote, “[Psychiatric] drugs are not only physically damaging, they also make people quieter and less motivated to be activists.”


Tim Jackins reminds us we have a wealth of knowledge and experience at our fingertips in the already-published RC journals. Recovery and Re-emergence, the journal for “mental health” liberation, continues to be an incredible resource. 


Issue No. 6 is entirely devoted to the issue of psychiatric drugs. Here are some of the topics that are covered: including people in RC who are taking psychiatric drugs, supporting people who want to stop taking these drugs, and supporting people who are affected by the “mental health” system in other ways (all of us). There are also examples of fighting the oppressions that lead people to choose (in desperation) to take these drugs.


Here are titles of some of the articles by Janet Foner: “Taking a Principled Stand on Psychiatric Drugs,” “What the RC Policy on Psychiatric Drugs Is Really About,” “RC Policy and Psychiatric Drugs,” and “More on Fundamentals Classes and Psychiatric Drugs.” 


Here are titles of some of the articles by other RC leaders: “Children and Psychiatric Drugs,” by Jenny Sazama; “Going Public with the Psychiatric Drug Policy,” by Jo Saunders; “Why Are We Drugging Our Children?” by Julian Weissglass.


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