These are books for people who are thoughtful, want to think for themselves, want to learn to trust themselves rather than party line of the mainstream mental health system.

1. Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry, editor Peter Lehmann
2. Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, editor Peter Lehmann
3. A Dose of Sanity, by Dr. Syndey Walker III
4. The Myth of Mental Illness, by Thomas Szaz

(The first three are available from www.mindfreedom.org)

We DO NOT say any of these books is saying THE TRUTH. What we DO SAY is THE TRUTH is worth QUESTIONING because maybe what's true for one person IS NOT true for another.

Is there such a thing as mental illness? What is it? Isn't this too general a concept? Are there acceptable extreme states of consciousness? What if others don't like who you are, are you mentally ill? Why don't psychiatrists believe in the Soul? What do you believe in? How do you know/trust that your beliefs are based in Reality? Do you believe what your psychiatrist tells you unconditionally? Do you believe what your family tells you unconditionally? What is normal? Isn't normal a bogus concept?

How would YOU define mental illness, without cracking the DSM? Look in your heart and soul and then define it. Does it make you feel safer or better or more compassionate to call a family member or a person on the street mentally ill? What do YOU get out of calling somebody mentally ill?

Is normal a mental illness? SOme Buddhists sects understand normal human life and desires as insanity. Have you checked them out? Do you hurt your family members by the way you try to help them?

Anyway, enough questions for now.....

Contact us to get a copy of our new issue on sexuality! Email us at ekaitz2000@msn.com
We feature 3 thoughtful articles by people who have been through the system. We also feature art and poetry. Here are some poem samples:

I Submit
I submit myself to you:
for your perusal of me,
for your fantasy;
for sexual exploration and being explored;

To offer you, the opportunity,
to knock at my doors -
all of them!
Call to them!
Ball them!

I bend for you, my ends are for you;
In fact, I yen for you,
for you entering me,
when will it be?

I smell this marvelous sea of sex,
your seed, my need, what’s next?

Hot, I heed your breath and hands;
I lie and kneel, for you, my man;
most humble and submitting,
but never frail, or quitting!

Let me worship you,
your feet, your sweet......face;
your grace, your sweat,
your wet and lovely lips, your hips!

Order me, inform me, conform me to your desire!
I’m for hire, inspire me, conspire with me!

I wait for you, in these starts and fits,
I’m lit on fire, I submit to you my desire!
- anonymous

The Hex

Seems a hex to me,
that my sexuality
may be over;
that a lover,
may not come,
that I’m done
and
the closeness of bodies -
the pleasant, the naughty,
the bliss of a kiss
may have left
me bereft,
so what’s next,
so what’s next?
- Ted