mad pride
Mental illness advocacy
Mad pride is a movement and identity stance embracing mental illness or neurodivergence as part of human diversity rather than something requiring cure or shame.
Paralleling gay pride or disability pride, it reclaims terms like "mad" and "crazy" while challenging psychiatric authority and forced treatment.
Participants may celebrate their experiences as valid ways of being: The mad pride march drew hundreds of psychiatric survivors.
- neurodiversityInnate cognitive differences concept
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
- survivorOne still alive after
- activismDirect effort for reform
- liberationRelease from constraint
stigma · mental health · mental · illness · recovery · identity · coming out · empowerment · voices · hearing voices · antipsychiatry · movement · peer · peer support · solidarity · lived · lived experience · experience
mad pridemental illness stigma
Discrimination against psychological disorders
concealment · passing · shame · hiding · denial
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