Voice of Soul Association

Our experience is that we must make up for so much what seems natural for those who have never had close encounter with psychiatry not because we are handicapped, disabled or biochemically ill. Rather we have to make up for lost time we spent with artificial and reduced lives shaped most often by psychiatry itself. Some of us had already had deficiencies in certain social or other skills contributing to our breakdown when we met the psychiatric system. Again the common experience is negative: instead of empowering us psychiatry deepened our hopelessness. Thus, we must recognise that self-rehabilitation means rehabilitation from our restricted roles forced by psychiatry. 15-35 members visited our weekly empowerment club. Total number of users/survivors attending this club was about 70. In October this club signed a contract with the local government and we could use the building of one of their Clubs for the Elderly.

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