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In 1990 Hall began to suffer a deterioration of his mental and emotional health and was involuntarily committed to San Francisco General Hospital in 1992. He spent a year in the public mental health system, including more than 2 months in locked wards at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and time in restraints and solitary confinement. He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia. |
In 1990 Hall began to suffer a deterioration of his mental and emotional health and was involuntarily committed to San Francisco General Hospital in 1992. He spent a year in the public mental health system, including more than 2 months in locked wards at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and time in restraints and solitary confinement. He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia. |
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After leaving the traditional mental health system in 1993 Hall began to recover using holistic health, spiritual training, and social supports. After another crisis in 1999, he spent six months at the alternative residential facility Burch House in New Hampshire. In 2000 he moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he worked for five years at Broadside Bookshop. In 2001 he co-founded with Oryx Cohen the Freedom Center and began organizing in the [[psychiatric survivor]] movement. In 2002 Hall joined activist Ed Russell to initiate a low-power FM community radio station, Valley Free Radio. In 2004 he |
After leaving the traditional mental health system in 1993 Hall began to recover using holistic health, spiritual training, and social supports. After another crisis in 1999, he spent six months at the alternative residential facility Burch House in New Hampshire. In 2000 he moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he worked for five years at Broadside Bookshop. In 2001 he co-founded with Oryx Cohen the Freedom Center and began organizing in the [[psychiatric survivor]] movement. In 2002 Hall joined activist Ed Russell to initiate a low-power FM community radio station, Valley Free Radio. In 2004 he joined the co-coordinator collective of [[The Icarus Project]] and is author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs [[http://theicarusproject.net/HarmReductionGuideComingOffPsychDrugs Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs]]. |
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Revision as of 12:15, 25 April 2009
Will Hall (Wilton Hall) (born 1966), is a mental health advocate, writer, and counselor. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is recognized internationally as a leading organizer with the psychiatric survivor movement. In 2001 he co-founded the Freedom Center and in 2005 became a co-coordinator of The Icarus Project. He has consulted with Mental Disability International the Family Outreach and Response Program, and the Federal Office on Violence Against Women. Will hosts the weekly FM radio program Madness Radio[Madness Radio], syndicated on the Pacifica Network, and in 2009 co-founded Portland Hearing Voices. He lives in Portland Oregon.
Career
After graduating from the Community Studies program at the University of California Santa Cruz in 1986, Hall worked as a staff reporter for the Santa Cruz Sun newspaper and for the Brazil program of the Resource Center for Nonviolence. In 1988 became a Co-Director of the Earth Island Institute's Environmental Project on Central America, and traveled to El Salvador and Nicaragua during the civil wars in those countries.
In 1990 Hall began to suffer a deterioration of his mental and emotional health and was involuntarily committed to San Francisco General Hospital in 1992. He spent a year in the public mental health system, including more than 2 months in locked wards at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and time in restraints and solitary confinement. He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia.
After leaving the traditional mental health system in 1993 Hall began to recover using holistic health, spiritual training, and social supports. After another crisis in 1999, he spent six months at the alternative residential facility Burch House in New Hampshire. In 2000 he moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he worked for five years at Broadside Bookshop. In 2001 he co-founded with Oryx Cohen the Freedom Center and began organizing in the psychiatric survivor movement. In 2002 Hall joined activist Ed Russell to initiate a low-power FM community radio station, Valley Free Radio. In 2004 he joined the co-coordinator collective of The Icarus Project and is author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs [Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs].