Bearing Witness
By Eva SchollePublished: November 6, 2008
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EmailImagine you are in a small room that is practically bare and you are locked in it. You bang on the door, nobody comes. You are trapped, for an indefinite period of time, without hope for escape. Eventually, someone comes and releases you. You try to tell your story, of your entrapment and what transpired that got you trapped. Nobody listens. You force your story to be heard. Nobody believes you. They tell you it didn’t happen; you are making it up. They say it wasn’t so, the person who released you told a different story. That person is believable, not you. I ask you to consider: What happens when one has experienced an extremely difficult situation and no one will hear it? Read More...
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The Ex-Patients' Movement: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
By Judi Chamberlin Print EmailA complete history of the mental patients' liberation movement is still to be written. Like other liberation struggles of oppressed people, the activism of former psychiatric patients has been frequently ignored or discredited. Only when a group begins to emerge from subjugation can it begin to reclaim its own history, This process has been most fully developed in the black movement and the women's movement; it is in a less developed stage, in the gay movement and the disability movement (of which the ex-patients' movement may be considered a part).
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New York City Federation
By FederationPublished: April 9, 2008
Print EmailThe Federation is comprised of committees at three levels, including 15 Borough Councils representing each of three disability areas in each borough; three Citywide Committees, one for each disability area; Special Populations Committees; and the Citywide Interdisciplinary Committee. Borough Council meetings are open to individuals working within the designated borough, including consumers, family members, providers, advocates, and other interested parties.
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