Author: karin.jervert
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Sound After Psychiatry
When Kim Wichera asked me to be on a panel co-sponsored by SoundsAbout Gallery and CTM Festival on the theme of sound and psychiatry, I immediately understood the potential of…
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Burning Down the House of Psychiatry During COVID
If there was ever a time to re-evaluate how we as a society deal with human suffering, I assure you, it is now. The…
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A Sigh of Survival…So Far
Midnight, And a sigh of survival…so far. At least, through this, And then, a sigh of bracing.
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Surviving the Bipolar Label
I am a woman who fully identified with the label bipolar for almost 20 years and, according to psychiatry, rightfully earned it with four…
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De-Weaponizing Empathy
As published in Mad in America I am not immune to what I call weaponized empathy, which I see as the pure intention of…
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Can We Allow Suffering?
As published on Mad in America Of all the labels placed on me throughout my 20 years as a consumer in the psychiatric industry,…
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Lightning Bugs
As published in audio on Litro Lab Podcasts When we were kids, my brother and I waited for the sun to set, for the…