Mad Pride

“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”

“"Mad Pride" is the new twenty-first century rallying cry of three generations of radical ex-mental patients who refuse to genuflect before the altar of Psychiatry. ... The Mad Pride movement is not merely a movement for mental patients' rights. It is a movement about the right to be different.”

“Diagnosing people as mad has more to do with social control than therapy. Many of those labeled as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other kinds of "mad" are not ill. ... They are seeing and feeling what is wrong with society and what needs to be done to change it.”