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 →
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.
An ancient Hawaiian tradition: "In these communities no one was considered an isolated individual. Every single person was a member of the interdependent community and bloodline. Every single person in some way or another represented their clan/family/lineage/village. - So If one single person behaved criminally then the whole family, clan and village felt they were responsible for that behaviour. A criminal action belonged to and was the responsibility of the whole community. - If there was a wrongdoing therefore the whole family and village would come out to take responsibility for it, to redress it and to heal it." …
By Leah Ida Harris Having spent my entire adolescence either medicated on psychotropic drugs or trying to kill myself (in large part due to the side effects of psychotropic drugs I was on), one could say that I never really developed any coping skills. After I escaped the system, my habit was to get lost in activity. At first it was academic achievement – supposedly to prove to myself that I had value and something to contribute. But it never brought satisfaction. I always felt inferior to the other students, even if my grades were high. Below the surface, there was always a nagging sense of something being wrong. Often I would get pangs of panic and dread twisting my stomach, for reasons I could not fathom...
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.
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 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)
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!
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.
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!
have learned that there is much you can say about chronic illness in general. I have spent almost a full 2 decades studying all manner of chronic conditions. My condition led me to do this as I have rotating symptoms that fit a multitude of diagnosis. Because of that I gave up on diagnosis a long time ago and started noticing that from where I stood all chronic illness has undeniable similarities with a lot of crossover symptoms from one condition to another. Every human being is unique and no two illnesses are the same even when a diagnosis is the same.
The last time I did an anniversary post was 8 years ago. It's my birthday too. I was born on this day. So it's been my anniversary and my birthday for 16 years. I'm drug injured and seriously so. I've never regretted coming off psych drugs.
It seems that a lot of peoples most common trauma response is *freeze*. Americans feel helpless. Learned helplessness might also be considered a trauma freeze response. The first action one must take is to become aware of the potential for freezing. Once you recognize it you can start listening to the freeze and responding to your own body and how it wants/needs to unfreeze. It's critical that we all learn to unfreeze now. Look/feel within and follow your heart. Your heart knows the way out of freeze. Your journey out of freeze will be your own. Trust/feel your body and respond. Get creative. It's within us all. The body is the only way back to humanity.
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