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MADNESS is an online discussion place where people who use mental health services join in dialogues towards improving community service systems. The tone is inclusive, respectful and pluralist. Consensus positions are developing.
Subscribers feel kinship and pride at the dialogues established with each other, with the cross-disability community, and with mental health professionals who are online.
A file of resources that might be of interest to people who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions (People Who) is available. Our unrefined gopher site at St. John's holds many essays about advocacy and medication, as well as personal experiences and non-electronic resource information. The listserv filelist associated with MADNESS is a source of more information about using the list.
There are many other related sites; MADNESS especially welcomes and invites requests to crosslink with other PeopleWho and Consumer/ Survivor/ Ex-Patient/ User (C/S/X/U) Internet resources worldwide.
MADNESS has been an evolving Internet mailing list, online community and discussion place since January 27, 1994. In January 1997, MADNESS had 233 subscribers from 12 countries and averaged 50 messages a day.
To join the MADNESS email list, you can send an email message to:
LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
with the following single line in the body of your message:
SUBSCRIBE MADNESS yourfirstname yourlastname
If you wish, after you reply ok to the email request for confirmation, you
may send a message to
LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
with the following single line in the body of your message:
SET MADNESS DIGEST
This will set your subscription to the Daily Digest format, so that all of
the messages posted to the MADNESS email list each day will be sent to you
in one long single daily email message.
Our thanks to
Dr. John Grohol
for offering MADNESS this service.
To leave the MADNESS email list, you can send an email message to:
PLEASE NOTE: this message must be sent from the same online address
where you originally subscribed to MADNESS.
If you are having difficulty unsubscribing to MADNESS, please do not send
mail to the list; the listmembers can't fix the problem for you. Instead,
you can mail the MADNESS listowner Sylvia Caras at
SylviaC@netcom.com.
Please send your comments and suggestions for additional information
or deletion to the MADNESS webminder
(madness@icomm.ca), or to
Sylvia Caras
(SylviaC@netcom.com),
the MADNESS email list owner, or to
Patrick Burton
(madmagic@icomm.ca)
Program Coordinator of
iComm.
If you would like to mirror this document, or exchange links with any
other sites of Internet resources for People Who and Consumers/ Survivors/
Ex-psychiatric Patients/ Users, please send an email message to any of the
addresses listed above. MADNESS especially welcomes and invites requests
to crosslink with other PeopleWho and C/S/X/U-maintained Internet
resources, worldwide.
How to Subscribe to MADNESS on the Web
You can now subscribe to MADNESS with a short and easy two-line web form
on the
Mental Heath Net
website. Select the [Subscribe to MADNESS] link right below, fill in your
name and email address, then select the 'Subscribe Me' link.
How to Unsubscribe to MADNESS
LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
with the following single line in the body of your message:
UNSUBSCRIBE MADNESS
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To get a list of our Internet electronic resources, you can send an email
message to:
LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
with the following line in the body of your message:
GET MADNESS PSYCHRC
About This Document
The original and most up-to-date version of this document can be found
on the World Wide Web server at
iComm
in Toronto, Canada.
The home URL is
http://www.icomm.ca/MADNESS
[About MADNESS]
[Resources]
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[Related Sites]
Related Sites
Other electronically connected sites that may be of interest are:
Related Organizations
in Philadelphia, PA, USA
in Lawrence, MA, USA
in Eugene, OR, USA
in MI, USA
in New York City, NY, USA
in Northampton, MA, USA
in Lane County, OR, USA
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
in The Netherlands
Related Internet Resources
a collection of news stories from around the world about current and
recent psychiatric abuse and fraud
Resources for Persons with/or Perceived to have Psychiatric
Disabilities
Consumer/ Survivor/ X-psychiatric patient Links
Resources for Survivors Of Sexual Abuse
Survivors Of Sexual and Spiritual Abuse
A mailing list and resources on depression
A mailing list and resources on bipolar disorder (sometimes called manic
depression)
The home of the Bipolar Disorder FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file
People Who
Some words by a longtime MADNESS poster about a famous English writer's
struggles with depression
Other Internet Resources
at
Yahoo!
(a very large, searchable index of Internet resources)
[About MADNESS]
[Resources]
[About this document]
[Related Sites]
The MADNESS website is sponsored and supported by
iComm
in Toronto, Canada.
madness@icomm.ca
was the first community account created on
iComm
on December 7, 1996, and MADNESS was one of the original five accounts
created on June 1, 1995 in the former
io.Community
program.
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