"Schizophrenia" recovery --- Take these Broken Wings

I did a post a while back about Daniel Mackler’s film, “Take these Broken Wings.” Marian at Different Thoughts has now seen the film and writes an awesome and compelling review. Here is a taste, but go to her site because not only does she have brilliant insightful things to say she also documents all her writing with multiple very short videos from the film. This is clearly a must see:

And awesome it is! The film’s main interest is to show that recovery from what psychiatry calls “schizophrenia” is possible, that “schizophrenia” is not per se a lifelong, chronic condition, that needs lifelong – and, by the way, often chronifying – medication. And, in fact, as the documentary looks at both the scientific data, reported by Robert Whitaker, the stories of Joanne Greenberg and Catherine Penney, told by themselves, and the experiences of several professionals, among them Peter Breggin, Ann-Louise Silver, Bertram Karon and Daniel Dorman, it becomes, once more, clear that recovery, full recovery, from “schizophrenia” isn’t only possible, but should be expected as a matter of course.—emphasis mine (please click through to the rest of her post!)