Surviving Depression :: Grassroots Strategies

Bi-Polar Comedy at TED

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:28:00 +0000

Mental dis-ease continues its slow walk out of the closet.

Tags: Self-Help Mental Illness Depression

Courage Comes in Many Flavors

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:43:00 +0000

Many flavors of courage.

WLOLL :: The Faux Press Conference and Portrait Painting

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:00:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

The "Faux Press Conference & Portrait Painting" was the third in the series of five live promised performances from "The World's Longest Open Love Letter" and leads to sitting for a multitude of nude portraits.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: wloll, documentary, surviving, survival, childhood, sexual, abuse, art, portrait, painting

Dr. Drozy's Nose :: a Short Story from The World's Longest Open Love Letter

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:55:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

Dr. Drozy's Nose :: a Short Story from The World's Longest Open Love Letter.

Yup.

EXPLICIT.

Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3)

Tags: wloll, short, story, worlds, longest, open, love, letter

Re-vlog :: TED :: Happiness & Science

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:02:00 +0000

There's good news in research.

"Know thyself."

[source]

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

Jeffrey Anderson Achieves Legal Victory in Vatican Lawsuit

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:33:00 +0000

This is very good news indeed.

Jeffrey Anderson & Associates kicking legal butt.

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

Sexual Abuse & the Roman Catholic Church = R.I.C.O.

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:34:00 +0000

Lawyer Jeffrey Anderson and his associates have filed multiple RICO lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church.

RICO is the only just legal action I've imagined for this travesty against humanity.

Anderson put this video introduction to his firm and their ongoing defense of survivors of childhood sexual abuse up on his site, where you will also find .pdf's of various court documents and updates on the various lawsuits in progress.

What I'd love to see from Anderson is an overview of how the various RICO lawsuits are proceeding. In the meantime, I wish them luck.

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

Coquette Trades Her Peugeot for a Tank

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:11:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

Poem.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Third Generation Platform (.3gp), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: jan, mclaughlin, poem, love, survival, understanding, poetry, poet, wloll

WLOLL Interview :: Forgiveness & Happiness

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:01:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: wloll, documentary, longest, open, love, letter, jan, mclaughlin, interview, happiness, forgiveness

NWS :: Teaser #1 :: The World's Longest Open Love Letter

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:30:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

Nor work-safe. "I have looked the devil in the eye." Yup. This teaser is published in pursuit of finishing funds to hire an editor & shoot some b-roll in the amount of $5K. See the rough, rough cut here: http://depressionstrategies.blogspot.com/2008/12/worlds-longest-open-love-letter.html

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: wloll, documentary, jan, mclaughlin, teaser, childhood, sexual, abuse, film, movie, funding, fundraising, depression, surviving, thriving, strategies

Who Would Marry the Waitress

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:01:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

A meditation on self worth.

Written and recorded by Jan McLaughlin.

Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3), Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: florida, poems, poets, jan, mclaughlin, marriage, meditation, self-worth, value

Inside/Outside :: Jan Bruce

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:14:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

'Jan Bruce' is the collaborative entity comprised of Jan McLaughlin & Bruce Weber. This poem originated on the pages you see in the video and never went anywhere until now.

Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: poem, poetry, poets, poet, jan bruce, jan mclaughlin, bruce weber, collaboration, florida

Faux Parade :: Faith, courage

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:50:00 +0000

.:. Winner .:.

Previously unpublished excerpt from "The Faux Parade" which is a couple of pages of "The World's Longest Open Love Letter'.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: faux, parade, wloll, longest, open, love, letter, jan, mclaughlin, williamsburg, brooklyn, adam, merton, cooper, steve, bennett

Extend Statute of Limitations in NY Child Sexual Abuse Cases!

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:10:00 +0000

It's clearly the right thing to do, dagnabbit.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

For decades, priests who preyed sexually on children did so with shocking ease and impunity. Their superiors acted as functional accomplices, shuttling abusive priests among parishes and buying or bullying victims into silence. Shame and guilt did the rest, burying abuses under a shroud of secrecy that often far outlasted the statute of limitations for prosecutions or lawsuits.

Those victims deserve a day in court. The New York Legislature should grant it to them, by passing a bill that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits involving the sexual abuse of children.

Exposing abuse is also a matter of public safety. It is wrong to allow the institutional shame of the Catholic Church to remain hidden in church files and in the anguished hearts of victims.

Their continued suffering and the prevention of future abuses are the strongest arguments for passage of the Child Victims Act.

Religious Leaders Battle Abuse Bill in New York

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:45:00 +0000

Important legislation in New York relative to temporarily extending statute of limitations on filing civil suits in child sex abuse cases. Of course, church officials are against this bill. It's long been my belief that the RCC is guilty of racketeering under the RICO statutes and if the RCC goes bankrupt as a result, so be it.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children.

the bill is now widely supported by the new Democratic majority in that chamber, and for the first time is given a good chance of passing.

Marci A. Hamilton, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University who has argued that states should remove all statutes of limitation on child sex abuse claims, said the principle is comparable to the way industrial pollution is treated under the law.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

He said that opponents’ claims of unfairness were not compelling, and that warnings of bankruptcy for religious institutions, which he dismissed as unlikely, missed the point.
“It’s not about money,” he said. “It’s about giving people the right to seek justice.”

Survivor Radio cafe

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:53:00 +0000

Folks are doing lots of things these days via multi-media to get the word out about how to thrive.

Survivor Radio cafe is just one.

This internet radio show features a LOT of artists, writers, musicians, who healed by creating, by telling their stories.

Watched a documentary about Harvey Milk last night. One of Milk's speeches gave me pause. He said that every gay person had to come out of the closet.

I'm just saying...

What if every survivor of violence came out of the closet?

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

WLOLL :: New Media & Documentary Film Making :: Utterz & Seesmic

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:01:00 +0000

[source]
[Rough cut]

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

Voluntary Madness :: a New Book About Depression

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:22:00 +0000

A new book about depression and possibly a 'review' of the state of the psych industry.

Here's an interview with the author by Mother Jones Radio podcast.

Though I've never been hospitalized, feel as though I know enough about how psychology and psychiatry are practiced to know the hospitals can't be doing very well by their patients.

[source]
[mp3 link]
[NY Times Review]

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

Voluntary Madness :: a New Gonzo Journalist's Book About Madness

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:20:00 +0000

Sounds fascinating and confirms my opinion that modern psychiatry pretty much has no idea what it's doing re: ameliorating depression.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

At the unfortunate cost of narrative suspense, Vincent discloses her biases early: like a growing number of Americans, she’s fairly certain that America’s love affair with modern-day psychiatry is nothing less than a subprime crisis, with the F.D.A., the DSM, Big Pharma and your harried family doctor in on the scam. She’ll even go so far as to describe depression as “bratty rebellion,” many diagnoses as “a guess” and most psychiatric drugs as “of dubious or at best limited efficacy and usually unfathomed toxicity.”

It is astounding how little it takes for Vincent to begin to recover at her last stop, a cognitive-behavioralist facility advertised for patients in mental distress but in practice a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center — a little bit of sympathy, a movement class, a therapist who finally zeroes in on the anger and breaks down the emotions around it.

Sit with your anger, and its handmaiden, shame.

Frederick Broden

Voiceover for Faux Parade :: Faith / courage

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:17:00 +0000

Voiceover rehearsal for "The World's Longest Open Love Letter" documentary.

Mobile post sent by TheFauxPress using Utterli. Replies. mp3

Hope's Messengers Screening 1/30/09 in Boston

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:54:00 +0000

Teaser for Joe Pantoliano's documentary on mental illness. Joey Pants, founder and president of No Kidding, Me Too! (NKM2.org), is fighting the stigma on brain dis-ease. Coming in 2009. Teaser premiered on August 25, 2008 at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Produced at Palace Digital Studios in South Norwalk, CT. Edited by Ben Churchill and David Russell. Executive Produced by Joe Pantoliano and Chris Campbell.

Go HERE to learn more about the screening and Joey's movement to remove the stigma from mental illness.

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

1/30/09 Boston Screening :: No Kidding, Me Too! Removing the Stigma from Mental Illness. - Boston doc screening 1/30

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:47:00 +0000

Special Screening - NKM2 Documentary

Friday, January 30, 2009
6:30 PM - VIP-only Reception
7:15 PM - Screening and Discussion
Semel Theater at Emerson College
10 Boylston Place
Boston, MA

To purchase your ticket and attend this special screening of the NKM2 Documentary please complete the online form HERE .

I will attend. You?

Tags: Self-Help Art Depression

Ghosts of the Heart - Part 3 of 3 :: The Priest, The Princess & The Bride :: 11211 Magazine Article

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:48:00 +0000

Ghosts of the Heart - Part 3 of 3 :: The Priest, The Princess & The Bride :: 11211 Magazine Article
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan

The End.

Ghosts of the Heart - Part 2 of 3 :: The Priest, The Princess & The Bride :: 11211 Magazine Article

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:47:00 +0000

Ghosts of the Heart - Part 2 of 3 :: The Priest, The Princess & The Bride :: 11211 Magazine Article
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan

Difficult to read on line, but so-it-goes.

Ghosts of the Heart - Part 1 of 3 :: The Priest, The Princess & The Bride

jannie.jan@gmail.com (http://depressionstragegies.blogspot.com) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:45:00 +0000

11211 Magazine Article
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan

Prose, from 11211 Magazine.