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David Oaks is a human rights activist and the director of MindFreedom International, a nonprofit organization that works to protect the rights of people with mental health issues. He was born on 16 September, 1955 in Chicago, IL. Oaks has been a mental health advocate since the 1970s, when he was a student at Harvard University. He has worked with a variety of organizations, including the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the National Mental Health Association, and the National Empowerment Center. He has also served on the boards of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse and the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery. Oaks has written extensively on mental health issues, including his book, "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche." He has also been featured in numerous documentaries, including "The Corporation" and "The Sane Revolution." Oaks is married to his wife, Mary, and they have two children. He currently resides in Eugene, Oregon.

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Occupation human rights activism and directing MindFreedom International
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 16 September 1955
Birthday 16 September
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois
Nationality United States

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2012

On December 2, 2012, Oaks fell from a ladder, suffered a broken neck and is now paralyzed. He stepped down as executive director of MindFreedom in December 2012.

1998

David Oaks' organization MindFreedom International includes psychiatric survivors and psychiatrists who reject the biomedical model that defines contemporary psychiatry. They believe that "mental illness is caused by severe emotional distress, often combined with lack of socialization", and they "decry the pervasive treatment with prescription drugs, sales of which have nearly doubled since 1998". Further, "they condemn the continued use of electro-convulsive therapy—or ECT, also known as electroshock—which they say violates patients' human rights."

1970

Oaks was institutionalized and forcibly medicated in the 1970s, while studying at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for what was diagnosed as schizophrenia. He has stated that he recovered by rejecting drugs and getting support from family and friends. Oaks "maintains his mental health with exercise, diet, peer counseling and wilderness trips — strategies that are well outside the mainstream thinking of psychiatrists and many patients". He is on the board of directors for the United States International Council on Disability.

1955

David William Oaks (born September 16, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is a civil rights activist and founder and former executive director of Eugene, Oregon-based MindFreedom International.