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Coming Out Crazy
"Blessed are the cracked for they shall let in the light." Groucho MarxInformation
| Url: | http://thestar.blogs.com/mentalhealth/ |
| Author(s): | Sandy Naiman |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | Mental Health, Recovery, Language |
| Description: | Sandy Naiman's bi-weekly, award winning Toronto Star blog explores many issues of emotional and mental health and well-being – with a focus on recovery and special attention to the language of respect these issues and we deserve. For 30 years, she was a staff reporter, feature writer and columnist for The Toronto Sun. Now, while teaching at Seneca College, she continues giving inspirational keynote speeches, is a passionate mental health advocate and freelance writer. At Seneca, she teaches Women's Studies and in November 2007, she was asked to develop and teach Seneca's first Community Service course called "Leadership in Society for Students Who Want to Make a Difference." She is currently teaching and continuing to develop her course with her fourth semester of 58 students on two campuses in Toronto and Markham. This course is one of her many passions. Others include her dashing darling husband, her two championship Dandie Dinmont Terriers. Her mental health advocacy and keynotes that have taken her all across Canada and into the U.S. – since she began formally "speaking out" in 1998! She's candid and often very amusing about her 49-year psychiatric history, multiple misdiagnoses and how she has not only overcome but thrived despite the serious emotional trauma of living with episodes of psychosis linked to mania. How else to help people understand and empathize! In March 2009, she gave a keynote to the medical students, Class of 2012, at her alma mater Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, during their Mental Health Awareness Week. One point she always stresses is – we're all a little crazy from time to time, aren't we? This never fails to elicit nervous laughter. And it's time we viewed our madnesses less seriously. There's always a little something about being a little crazy that's funny, isn't there? As far as she's concerned, we're all "Next to Normal"... each and every one of us. True? |
| Ratings |  (20 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 150 Followers |
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Dealing with holiday stress
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Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah. Christmas Day is two weeks from today.For the last three or four weeks, I've been deluged with press-releases from public relations firms all over the c...more |
2009-12-11
Lessons on the course of life...
| Yesterday classes ended for the Fall 2009 term at Seneca College where I teach part-time. My course is called "Leadership in Society," but I wasn't feeling very leader-like. I was fe...more |
2009-12-09
Not a real post...
| Hi,I'm just letting you know why I'm not posting today!This bug won't leave me alone. I'm tired, achy, and feeling generally like half the person I really am. Would that this we...more |
2009-12-04
Hidden Homelessness ~ one woman's story...
| I often say to my students that "teaching is learning" and the same is true of journalism and perhaps even more, of blogging. There is a visceral connection between you and me in the blog...more |
2009-12-01
Listening to your body...
| For the second day in a row I've been sick. In case you're interested in symptoms, these are mine – stomach ache, temperature 101.4 degrees Fahrenheit, headache, achy bones generally feel...more |
2009-11-27
Storme warning...
| Post Traumatic Stress has been in the news lately, triggered by the Fort Hood, Texas shootings earlier this month. We're reading more and more about suicides in the military caused by this sev...more |
2009-11-24
A psychiatric chuckle...
| As you know, on Wednesday, I attended a memorial celebration of the life of my husband's closest friend, film and television producer, director, screenwriter, and poet, Bill Davidson.Actually,...more |
2009-11-20
Living in the "now"...
| Tomorrow afternoon, we're going to the funeral of my husband's closest friend. Bill Davidson was the most vibrant, charming, engaging man I've ever known – robust is the word I used ...more |
2009-11-17
Chewing the fat about Fat Talk...
| On our first week at Weight Watchers, I lost 2.8 lbs. and Marty lost 4.6 lbs. On our second, I lost .4 lbs. and he lost .6 lbs. – the morning after a seven course dinner the night before.As of last...more |
2009-11-12
Letting things go...
| Problems have a curious way of working out. With work.Nothing happens all by itself. Timing is everything. Today, I'm feeling weightless. This has nothing to do with the seven pounds I've...more |
2009-11-10
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Lauren LeighOct 25
Sandy NaimanOct 11
I want to express my thanks to you, the community that has grown up, out and around my "Toronto Star" blog called "Coming Out Crazy."
You are very important to me. I spend a great deal of time with you on my mind. I want you to know how much you help me in my recovery. Every day.
It is my dream that we can all participate in each other's recovery, through "talking" about our issues, what ever and how ever we wish to describe them. We are all "Next to Normal" and my hope is for all of us to "Come Out Crazy" – to feel free to be exactly who we are, do what we want to do and accomplish our own individual goals, safely and in a humanitarian spirit.
Be well. Take care. Anything is possible.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speak soon,
xox
sln
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Tracy ClaysonFeb 6
Keep it going - it is good have a well informed spokesperson like Sandy.
Brandie WeikleJan 28