Madness Radio: Buddhist Meditation and Schizophrenia Ed Knight
First Aired 5-28-2008
Recovery leader and survivor Ed Knight talks about Zen, Insight, and Christian meditation and "schizophrenia," including discrimination against people with psychiatric labels at meditation retreats, the link between spiritual awakening and madness, and living beyond "managing symptoms." www.professored.com, and www.recoverycircles.org.
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Being born and raised a Buddhist, it does sadden me to learn of the discrimination that those with issues face. I thank you for making your struggles public so that others may learn and benefit from them. I hope that others who want to know what the meaning of Buddhism will continue to search the path and avoid the shortcut of labeling others.
Ed and Will, I utiliize both of your works to legitimize my advocacy efforts within the belly of the beast here in Massachusetts.
My dedication is to public mental health clients, people who are the most disenfranchised, because these are the folks who are most resemble me when I entered the mental health system at age sixteen, some 45 years ago. Because I have white skin privilege and speak enough of the King's English, my "denial" of my 'mental illness' was not challenged by the mental health authority as it is so often today. [I believe the nine diagnoses I have accumulated over the decades is a profound reaction to childhood trauma and trauma of homelessness caused by childhood trauma.]
I find psychistry the primary arm of facism today. We need to move past identity politics and join with others to create a new civil rights movement in the USA and world wide.
People with mh diagnoses lack any and all civil rights, hence, although I qualified academically several years back to practice both rehabilitation and mental health counselfing I work instead in human rights. This is far more satisfying and real.
Your program is wonderful and your work revolutionary!!!Thank YOU!!! Naomiruth
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