Massachusetts Mental Health and the Boston Globe

Late Night with Hero present Sera Davidow Courtney Tara Neely and Naomi Ruth Pinson on  MA under Fire.    

The Boston Globe has been running a sensational one sided piece on people with mental illness designed to encourage forced interventions and to silence those who speak up for  Human Rights. 

Tara Marie McNeely is a certified peer specialist, photographer, blogger, and activist living in central Massachusetts with her teenage daughter, fiance, and two kitties. Her involvement with the mental health system began at the age of seven-and-a-half when trauma and ensuing anxiety were labeled as anything but, causing further trauma.  . As a teen she decided that, once she found her voice, she would use it in service of the voiceless, work to change the mental health system, and do her part in the fight for social justice.

Sera is an activist and advocate who has used her own experiences in the psychiatric system to guide her in her work as a part of the leadership team with the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community for going on 10 years. She is also a regular blogger at Mad in America, a filmmaker, and mother of two.

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Naomi Ruth Pinson has been in recovery for the past 51 years from the ill treatment she received at the hands of the mental health system. Naomi was a part of the early protest movement in Boston, Mental Patient Liberation Front, and then joinded it's successor M-POWER (Massachusetts People/Patients Organizing for Wellness Recovery and Rights). Naomi created and directed the second peer support/recovery group in the nation (first one being Ed Knight and Howie Vogels group in upper NY state).