Empowering individuals to reclaim their lives by challenging the mental health/ addiction system's false narratives.
“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”
I knew, in some abstract way, that one day my father would die. Everyone knows that. But nothing prepares you for what it’s like when the day actually comes — when the phone rings, when the room goes quiet, when the world builds a new shape around the absence of the person who was your anchor. I’m 60 years old. And I just lost my father — the man who wasn’t just my dad, but my best friend . People think losing a parent at this age should somehow hurt less. They say things lik
Every time that headline appears — “Over one billion people worldwide live with a mental disorder” (WHO, 2025) - I feel something close to rage. Not because people aren’t hurting. They are. But because this headline turns human suffering into a neat, sellable crisis — a story that just happens to benefit all the right industries. It treats pain like a commodity. It treats fear like a funding strategy. It treats humanity like a diagnosis. And I’m exhausted by it. 1. The worl