About reframing: embrace your experience

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless. — Salman Rushdie

Below from Everything Matters is a collection of links all of which have been catergorized “reframe your experience.” Psychiatry generally wants to pathologize your very normal and necessary experience. There are many other ways to consider such habits, behavior, feelings and experiences. Being human need not be pathologized.

• Mental wellness: empowering ways to consider our difficult experiences

• Reframe your insomnia

• Story telling as means for transformative growth

• Madness as a reckoning of one’s own psyche. Yes.

• The pain of heartbreak and mourning

• Fear and anxiety: coping, reframing, transforming…

• Schizophrenic or shamanic experience?

• There is nothing wrong with you

• Isolating? Withdrawing? Or do you just need alone time?

• What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital

• Just accept it: The voices are real

• Undiagnosing myself

• the PRACTICE of embracing what is…
  

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*it is potentially dangerous to come off medications without careful planning. Please be sure to be well educated before undertaking any sort of discontinuation of medications. If your MD agrees to help you do so, do not assume they know how to do it well even if they claim to have experience. They are generally not trained in discontinuation and may not know how to recognize withdrawal issues. A lot of withdrawal issues are misdiagnosed to be psychiatric problems. This is why it’s good to educate oneself and find a doctor who is willing to learn with you as your partner in care.  Really all doctors should always be willing to do this as we are all individuals and need to be treated as such. See: Psychiatric drug withdrawal and protracted withdrawal syndrome round-up

For a multitude of ideas about how to create a life filled with safe alternatives to psychiatric drugs visit the drop-down menus at the top of this page.  

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