Resources that aren’t focused on critiquing but rather on exploring other frameworks, understandings, models, theories, and practices entirely beyond the mental health system and medical model; where spiritual emergence model, trauma model, politicizing suffering, beyond mind-body dualism, etc. would go. Personal blogs and stories about leaving behind labels, leaving behind therapy, leaving behind professionals (excluding withdrawal stories, which belong at TWP). Organizations, trainings, models, etc. that are entirely outside medical model.

Hearing Voices Network offers information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.

"Referencing Joanne Greenberg’s book I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, this collection demonstrates the challenge, determination and successes of the authors in working towards a paradigm shift in the understanding of madness and distress."

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"#Emerging Proud is ultimately a campaign about providing hope; that breaking down does not mean we are broken; it means that we can be amidst a difficult journey to ‘breakthrough’."

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David Webb, PhD, says about his website, "Thinking About Suicide includes the story of my own history with suicidal feelings. But it is not an autobiography, nor is this website a blog about me. Rather, Thinking About Suicide is an invitation to think and talk about suicide in a new and different way."

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