Podcasts about oryx cohen

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In this Episode we talk about topics such as Oryx's manic episode and how he saw it as a spiritual awakening, entering into altered states of consciousness and being mislabeled as mentally ill, the medical model system and psychiatric drugs and much more. Timeline: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:00:46 Oryx gives a timeline of his life 0:07:05 Oryx's first Manic Episode and how it was spiritual 0:15:12 How Oryx's Spiritual Awakening was mistaken for mental illness 0:19:15 Oryx hypnotizes people in a college book store? 0:21:25 Visions and Schizophrenia/ How Oryx Receives Visions 0:26:12 Oryx experiences Oneness with everything 0:27:32 Oryx's Visions 0:32:28 Seizures and Altered States of Consciousness 0:34:24 How the mental health system treats/views someone with Bipolar 1 vs How Oryx would treat/view someone with Bipolar 1 (DSM Chart) 0:37:27 How indigenous tribes view mental health 0:38:53 Vision Quests/ Psychosis 0:42:12 The corruption behind the medical model system 0:45:20 Psychiatric Medication and Chemical Imbalance Theory 0:48:46 Spiritual Effects of Psychedelics and Psychiatric Drugs 0:51:53 Fears around psychiatric drugs and being prescribed them 0:56:08 Final Question 0:56:45 Where you can find Oryx Find Oryx Here: National Empowerment Center Website: www.power2u.org Emotional Cpr Training: www.emotional-cpr.org Healing Voices Movie: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Voices-PJ-Moynihan/dp/B0821RFTJY Find me here: Apple Podcast/Spotify (Audio): https://anchor.fm/ezekiel-funches Podcast Clips: https://youtube.com/channel/UC45XsZw4LpPe3HicS4s7KvQ 3rd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVs_dLp5JfFnwSnu2Dsv8Q IG: https://instagram.com/ezekiel011?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/joseph.funches.3 Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTR8CtRS7/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ezekiel-funches/support

In this podcast we discuss an educational program called Emotional CPR (eCPR), a form of peer support anyone can use to assist youth (or adults) in emotional crisis. Our guests are Oryx Cohen and Briza Gavidia of the National Empowerment Center, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit whose mission is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope, and healing to people with lived experience with mental health issues, trauma, and/or extreme states. Oryx Cohen, M.P.A., is a leader in the international mental health consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) or Mad Pride movement. Currently, Oryx is NEC's Chief Operating Officer. Among other responsibilities, he organizes the national Alternatives Conference every three years and assists states that have an underdeveloped consumer/survivor voice to find that voice and then work toward transforming their mental health systems to become peer-driven and recovery-oriented. Oryx is also a lead trainer for Emotional CPR, or eCPR, and has conducted over 50 eCPR trainings around the world. Prior to joining NEC, Oryx was Co-Director of the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community. There, he helped to spearhead an innovative peer-run approach focusing on recovery, healing, and community. Oryx is also the co-founder of Freedom Center, the Pioneer Valley's only independent peer-run support/activist organization. Briza Gavidia is a certified Youth Emotional-CPR (eCPR) Educator. She is 21 years old and is a student at Fullerton College majoring in sociology. Briza is currently employed in a program assisting the elderly with daily activities. Her goal is to work in the mental health field so she can give young people real hope for a better future. She loves sharing her lived experiences with trauma and how she is tackling these challenges so she can become a stronger person.

How experiencing extreme states of consciousness helped a non-profit chief operating officer process childhood challenges, improve his marriage and shift his approach to leadership Oryx Cohen was a leader in an organization training people to better support those in an emotional crisis. He knew about the value of these periods because he experienced several extreme states of consciousness throughout his life. So when he entered an altered state of consciousness suddenly at the end of leading a large conference, he saw this as an opportunity to wake up. In the midst of psychological space travel, he processed the devastating grief of his parents divorce and realized that his wife was indeed his soulmate. In this episode, we explore the value that extreme states of consciousness have in processing unresolved trauma, how we can ground ourselves when we are feeling disconnected through physical touch and present attention, and how feeling connected to people and things influence our care and investment in them. You can find out more about Oryx or his documentary Healing Voices by visiting https://power2u.org/. If you like what you've heard and want to be part of our podcast community, participate in special events, or discover the wisdom waking up in your own breakdown, check out our website at www.breakdownwakeup.com.

Hey everyone its Jason from the Oddball Show, come and check out this podcast with Oryx Cohen, mental health advocate and producer of Healing Voices. We talk COVID 2020, vision quests, and self care during a pandemic. Lots of laughs on this episode, check it out.

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Oryx Cohen of The National Empowerment Center Interview

Here I have Oryx Cohen. Oryx is featured in the film Healing Voices. This film asks us to think about what it means when we use the term "Mental Illness". Learn more about the film at www.healingvoicesmovie.com Read Oryx's recovery journey here: www.power2u.org/articles/recovery/recovery_stories/oryx.html Follow him on Twitter @OryxCohen

Psychiatric survivor leader Oryx Cohen was at a national conference when a seizure suddenly launched him out of his body and into a visionary state of madness. Avoiding medications or hospitalization, friends held a hotel room vigil for Oryx for many sleepless nights, and then drove him 4 days across country to safety. What surprising lessons – about the usefulness of […]

Freedom Center co-founder Oryx Cohen talks about how men can recover and heal from trauma, and creating a trauma-informed mental health system. Oryx also discusses the creation of the new Recovery Learning Community in Western MA.   [Read more...]

July 2007: psychiatric survivors from the Freedom Center in Northampton MA pushed a bed across town and held a rally and speakout against local mental health mistreatment, including at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and ServiceNet. With activists Molly Hurter, Keeley Malone, Chaya Grossberg, Oryx Cohen, Amy Bookbinder, and Abigail Adams.   [Read more...]

Oryx Cohen and Will Hall of the Freedom Center discuss how to reduce and go off psychiatric drugs safely. Oryx is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and Will with schizophrenia, and both are medication-free. They talk about their own experiences as well as general principles and things to keep in mind for anyone working to reduce or go off psychiatric drugs, lessons learned from 5 years of working with the Freedom Center support group and helping people reduce and go off drugs successfully.   [Read more...]