Advocates For Humanity

03/15/2026

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260311-cognitive-shuffling-the-micro-dreaming-technique-that-helps-your-brain-to-rest

For over a decade, this image-based technique has helped people switch off their busy brains and fall asleep at night. How exactly does it play upon the mind?

01/01/2025

https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/12/a-place-to-grow-the-promise-and-challenges-of-recovery-oriented-therapeutic-farms/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3Vy27AaLe5JIe0HU5ul7S2pGvFvfX6cTOeNA2XXSCTZ6MfwQie564KEYg_aem_ASj_63-jpB6oEI02tuU8-Q

A study of therapeutic farms reveals how shared humanity and interdependence foster healing.

11/14/2024

When I was young people pointed (rightfully) at the USSR for how it used psychiatry to squash dissidents. Some new that the N***s did the same thing in their run up to full scale brutality. People of the US tended to think it was only a problem of extreme regimes not realizing how our mh system has always tended to enforce rigid social roles, and the status quo norms that enable our own society's oppressive aspects to continue. Anyway here it is in Iran:

Iranian women who resist wearing the hijab are to be given treatment at a specialist mental health clinic in Tehran.

10/25/2024

Where and how have you learned and used new thinking about neurodiversity - especially where and how have you used for advocacy and social change policy? I heard a strong recommendation of "unlock the power of neurodiversity" at adaptEd