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MindFreedom International
Public Service Announcement
http://www.mindfreedom.org
- Thursday, 11 October 2007
How to Screen Yourself for Normality for Free!
by David W. Oaks, Director, MindFreedom International
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Today has been declared "Mental Health
Screening Day" by the psychiatric industry.
But wait! Don't panic!
MindFreedom International, a nonprofit human rights coalition
of 100 groups, launches a campaign today to "Screen the World
for Normality"!
You can screen yourself *now*, wherever you are, in five easy
steps.
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NORMALITY SCREENING SELF-TEST
1. Make an animal noise. Now. At your
computer screen or wherever you are. Make any animal noise:
Meow of a cat. Moo of a cow. Anything. Louder the better.
2. Evaluate yourself. Here is how:
3. Did you make an animal noise of any kind? You show no sign
of normality. Congratulations!!
4. Did you did *not* make an animal
noise of any kind? You show no sign of normality.
Congratulations!!
5. Spread the word: Encourage others to take this simple
Normality Screening Self-Test!
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WHY SCREEN YOURSELF FOR NORMALITY?
This screening was designed by experts. Every normality
screening brings Earth that much closer to declaring victory.
Seriously: End the discrimination and segregation of
"mentalism" in the mental health system today! All of humanity
are in the same mad boat. It is time to ask some of those
"Officially Labeled Mad" for navigation tips.
We normality screeners thank the amazing physician-clown Patch
Adams and his international clown network. Their clown troupe
in Florence, Italy, helped devise and inspire this normality
screening effort.
The Normality Screening campaign is sponsored by MFI's "Voices
for Choices in Mental Health Care Campaign" in cooperation
with the Mad Pride Movement and the International Association
for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment (IAACM), which
is a real organization that Martin Luther King, Jr. called for
creating more than ten (10) times.
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PLEASE LET OTHERS KNOW about this Normality Self-Screening
Test both on and off Internet!
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STAY TUNED HERE for more news.
Just a few hours after e-mailing you this, I and a wonderful
MindFreedom Normality Screening Crew -- that includes both a
physician and a psychologist -- cross the Potomac River with
our rubber chickens and squeaky red noses to peacefully screen
for normality directly in front of the American Psychiatric
Association headquarters.
Really.
Watch here for results.
We are optimistic.
But then again, we're just not normal.
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A FEW NON-NORMAL WEB LINKS FOR MORE INFO about...
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Screenfor Normality Campaign
Other successful MAD PRIDE activities this week include
Belgium (featuring an appearance by Dan Taylor of MindFreedom
Ghana Africa)... An Australian music concert... UK's
Bonkersfest doing normality screenings... a photo op at the
Alternatives 2007 conference in St. Louis:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/screen-normality
or go here:
http://tinyurl.com/3dudcq
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David W. Oaks blogs about normality screening here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-blog
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Mad Pride Movement:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride
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International Association for the Advancement of Creative
Maladjustment (IAACM) which Martin Luther King, Jr. really
truly did call for more than ten times... along with brief
videos about how to screen for normality:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/mlk
or go here:
http://tinyurl.com/2xvqfn
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The only requirement for *you* to call yourself an IAACM
leader is peacefully follow these MLK-inspired nonviolence
guidelines:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride/mlk-iaacm/peace-rules
or go here:
http://tinyurl.com/2cf3u3
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And yes, also in the spirit MLK and Gandhi, MindFreedom is
seeking to engage psychiatric professional organizations in
mediated dialogue.
Videos of MindFreedom activists and allied psychiatric
survivor/mental health consumer groups successfully dialoging
at the World Psychiatric Association conference in Dresden,
Germany in June 2007 are here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/global/world-psychiatric-association
or go here:
http://tinyurl.com/2rfc9x
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In Arlington, Virginia for the next few days you can meet and
hear from the normality screeners themselves, who are
attending and speaking at the International Center for the
Study of Psychiatry and Psychology conference, special theme
of defending youth from psychiatric human rights violations.
David Oaks is one of the keynote speakers:
http://www.icspp.org
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MindFreedom International Live Free Internet Radio this Wed.,
17 October 2007 at 4 pm features an interview with one of the
"normality screeners" in front of the APA headquarters today:
psychologist and author Al Galves of New Mexico. You can call
in live. Host: David W. Oaks.
http://www.mindfreedom.org/radio
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And of course, please visit Normal, Illinois, USA. Because
once you've visited Normal, Illinois then you too can wave
your hands around and honestly say to your friends, "None of
this is Normal":
http://www.normal.org
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PLEASE LET OTHERS KNOW about this
"Normality Screening Self-Test" both on and off the Internet!
Please forward, print out and tell people!
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More news at the MindFreedom News Web Site:
http://www.mindfreedom.org
Don't see a news item? Submit it to
news@mindfreedom.org
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MindFreedom International is a nonprofit human rights group
that unites 100 sponsor and affiliate groups with individual
members. MindFreedom is the only group of its kind accredited
by the United Nations as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
with Consultative Roster Status.
MindFreedom International is also one of the very few totally
independent groups in the mental health field with no funding
from governments, drug companies, religions, corporations, or
the mental health system.
All human rights supporters are invited!
Join or donate here:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/join-donate
For hard-to-find books and gear (including a Normality
Screening Kit, complete with rubber chicken) go to:
http://www.madmarket.org
FOR MORE INFO:
MindFreedom International Office: 454 Willamette, Suite 216 -
POB 11284; Eugene, OR 97440-3484 USA
web site:
http://www.mindfreedom.org
e-mail: office@mindfreedom.org
office phone: (541) 345-9106
toll free: 1-877-MAD-PRIDe or 1-877-623-7743
fax: (541) 345-3737
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