The video shows me doing yoga as needed: Cobra on a park bench and then I did a little cat cow too. I incorporate my yoga into every moment of daily life so that there is no separation as I slowly rehab over and over again.
Yoga, As Needed
the surrendered path
New Post when I'm in guidance there is no thought whatsoever. I watch and learn. My body is a channel of the divine. This is the nature of the surrendered path I live. the above is true, while I am also in a hell realm most of the time. So it's hard to explain to people. I learn all about humanity, however from here. We really cannot know ourselves without a deep dive into shadow. I, for whatever reason, was called to the fringes of the human experience...all with the afflicted body being mirror for the human condition and that which is happening on the planet right now.
How to use the site
This is how to use the site Many people still ask me for my “protocols.” The message I communicate for healing is that we are all different and our paths are also, therefore, going to be endlessly diverse. I share my experience, not so that it may be copied, but so that the reader can get a sense of process.
What Happened to You?
As a social worker and clinician working with “the seriously mentally ill” for many years, I never came upon someone who didn’t have fairly severe traumas in their histories. ....
Monica’s Story: The Aftermath of Polypsychopharmacology
Update 2026: This article was first posted at rxisk.org, Dr. David Healy's site. Since I'm routinely updating my site, I decided to bring this post to my site as I maintain and update SEO. This article didn't come up in a Google search on rxisk.org, thus it makes sense to publish it here where I can keep it as part of my collected works. I'm reposting it with the original publishing date. 2012: I recently contacted the doctor who is responsible for my iatrogenesis — the doctor who grossly over-medicated me and made me ill. I’ve been corresponding with him for several years now, but this was the first telephone conversation I’ve had with him since telling him what his drug cocktail did to me. He rarely says much in response to my emails where I link to the articles I’ve written casting large shadows on the “treatment” he gave me. So I called him and left a voicemail that I might talk to him. When he returned my call a few days later, we talked for perhaps a half hour.
My experience with traditional Freudian psychoanalysis
I revisited this piece written 19 years ago and it was nice to see that every bit of charge around these issues are gone. Life happens, things change, healing happens. This is distant history for me now. The experience, however, I am quite sure is one that may still resonate with others...the habits of this therapist and how therapy sometimes plays out remains the same.
Neurofeedback, Early history: Coming Off
What is neurofeedback? Update 2026: This is a series I wrote early on. My interaction with neurofeedback predates my interactions with the internet on mental health. I had already started coming off meds when I got radicalized by the early critical psych conversations in the early blogging communities of the internet. This is history and it's why I am going back and updating old posts. The man who did my neurofeedback became a friend and he supported my work. The info on neurofeedback remains an appropriate introduction to the topic.
Dissociation and psych drugs
Here's an important thing to understand about psychiatric drugs. Mental health conditions, just about all of them, are forms of dissociation from the body. Psychiatric drugs, across the board, dissociate one further from the body. Thus, they make the issues worse. When people actually do find relief on psych drugs, that's real and some people find in that kind of relief an opportunity to seek other ways of healing. Other people, however, never get off of the drugs and slowly their metabolic processes and capacity to detoxify diminish further. Thus, we get the statistic that people on psych meds die 25 years earlier on average.
Short Videos of the International Peer Respite/Soteria Summit
This is to let you know the International Peer Respite/Soteria Summit (Summit), with which I am involved, recently arranged for the incomparable Daniel Mackler to edit its over 20 hours of videos into short clips: Included is an list of them all.
Search on Beyond Meds
I use a paid search engine to make this site competitive with what's out there these days (just for accessibility, mind you... I'm not into marketing anymore) ... There a a bunch of staggered payments for upgrades. This one for search caught me by surprise. I would love some help if you feel so inclined.... Continue Reading →
navigating a viral “thread” on social media
being accused of offering up "dangerous misinformation." it's more like the interpretation offered about the actual facts makes the person uncomfortable. I forget how nasty and mean people are when they think that psychiatry is the bees knees and they imagine I'm hardcore anti. I'm not. I have witnessed and supported thousands of people who have been gravely harmed, often to the point of death by psychiatry AND I still support the individual doing what they need to do in terms of psych treatment...because we live in hell and in hell you do what you gotta do. I have numerous posts on my site that make this clear. You do not need to be cruel to people you do not understand. Get a grip.
Ernest Hemingway, the FBI and ECT
Ernest Hemingway killed himself, after a course of ECT. He was given ECT because he got into the hands of psychiatry and they thought he was paranoid because he was saying the FBI was surveilling him. It turns out the FBI was, indeed surveilling him. Given I see how often psychiatry and medicine gaslight all of us who've been injured by psych drugs and disbelieve pretty much anything we might say about our experience, this story is poignant. I like to make it clear that in cases such as these, psychiatry is guilty of murder. Hemingway died at the hands of psychiatry, as many people I know have. Unfortunately some people will only pay attention when a story like this is told. It's then a tiny chip in the fabric of delusion that our society operates under. (excerpt by Bruce Levine follows)
Site traffic and How This Site Is Used in Education
NEW POST ~~ Some interesting facts about how my site seems to continue to be used: I update posts kind of randomly because I need to do busy work occasionally and it fits the bill. There are over 5000 posts that date back to 2007. It's an interesting exercise for me. Those posts get republished and sent out to my email list which is about 6,000 people. So there are those readers. Because I don't actively do much on social media, I don't seem to get a whole lot of attention on social media. That works out for me pretty well since I simply don't have that sort of availability anymore and it's still there for people who want to see it and it does seem like people do peruse it now and then. What's interesting is when I look at the stats. I get a lot of traffic from Asian countries. This is relatively new and I'm not sure how to understand it, but it's significant. The other thing that's interesting is that the site continues to be taught at universities. I don't know how it is used at universities because all I can see are the links to the pages of the universities where syllabuses are kept. They don't actually let me see what the coursework is... So there are some universities that have been repeatedly utilizing my site for many years. What is great is that new universities still show up. For example, Chicago State University showed up yesterday. I would love to know who's teaching and what they are saying about it. The first University that ever taught my work was Florida State, Miami and it was a dear friend of mine who was the professor so I knew what she was up to and she invited me to speak to the class. I would love to do that more, so if anyone actually knows who's doing this let them know I'm available!
Creative medical care: a short story
A couple years ago I had an urgent medical need and I went to an urgent care. Actually I'd been bit by a tick in my backyard and I have Lyme disease. Although I don't even think I got Lyme disease from a tick but that's a whole other story. Still it alarmed me and it was attached to me in my groin area. I needed someone to remove it and Paul was in the UK. So I went to an urgent care and I was nervous because I also wanted very hard-hitting antibiotics because I do have the pathogens associated with Lyme disease and I wanted to make sure to kick out whatever this particular tick was carrying. I was nervous because in Arkansas there are virtually no doctors that treat Lyme disease and there is a statewide denial that Lyme disease exists at all.
Multiple Systemic Infections: a system wide denial of implications
I've been navigating this world of multiple systemic infections for many years now. The pharmaceutical drug injuries which caused Tardive Dyskinesia has made it a potentially deadly undertaking. Doctors, even ones who can hear me, don't want to take me on. Liability and capitalism rules all in their worlds and people like me are left to fend for ourselves. I have watched many people I love succumb to the medical system. It's been excruciatingly painful. So many dead friends. It started in high school for me!
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