Mad Pride

"Mad Pride is a mass movement of the users of mental health services, former users, and their allies. The first known event specifically organized as a Pride event by people who identify as psychiatric survivors/consumer/ex-patients was in Toronto, Canada when it was called "Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day", held on September 18, 1993. It was first held in response to local community prejudices towards people with a psychiatric history living in boarding homes in the Parkdale area of the city, and has been held every year since then in this city except 1996.By the late 1990s similar events were being organized as Mad Pride in London, England and around the globe from Australia to South Africa and the United States, drawing thousands of participants, according to MindFreedom International, a United States mental health advocacy organization that promotes and tracks events spawned by the movement.

Mad Pride activists seek to reclaim terms such as "mad", "nutter" and "psycho" from misuse, such as in tabloid newspapers. Through a series of mass media campaigns, Mad Pride activists seek to re-educate the general public on such subjects as the causes of mental disorders, the experiences of those using the mental health system, and the global suicide pandemic.[citation needed] One of Mad Pride's founding activists was Pete Shaughnessy, who later committed suicide. Robert Dellar and "Freaky Phil" Murphy were among the other founders of the movement. Mad Pride: A celebration of mad culture records the early Mad Pride movement."
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"What is Mad Pride? Mad Pride is a movement that celebrates the human rights and spectacular culture of people considered very different by our society.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., said over and over that "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." That's us!

There's no one right way to hold a Mad Pride event. Just find a way to get together with others and celebrate who you are!

Just think: The most successful Mad Pride event in the movement's history, in Ireland, was based on the simple idea of "Food, family and fun.""


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