Ruth's post at Off Label, got me started thinking about my patchy and unsuccessful relationship with therapy. Her title to the post "psycho-the-rapists" struck me as brilliant. Did you come up with that Ruth? I resisted therapy for many years after being diagnosed bipolar. And before said diagnosis it had never crossed my mind to... Continue Reading →
Life–Drug Free — because antipsychotics kill you early otherwise
What? Is it possible that not all of us labeled with mental illness actually need meds for the rest of our lives? See this abstract. If anyone has access to the article please let me know. And here we see that psychiatric patients die 25 years earlier than other people. Adults with serious mental... Continue Reading →
Mish Mosh–simply not an inspired post
Not doing so good, so just a couple of links to articles today. First from Friday's Salon, "Psych meds drove my son crazy." And then an article from the New York Times that was all over the web last week that is mentioned in the above article--mostly about how doctors are in the pockets of... Continue Reading →
Back in California
So I've managed to say virtually nothing about the circumstances with my brother for a few days. I'm actually in California now and have been here since Monday the 14th. I saw my brother on Tuesday for the first time. It was literally like a blow to the stomach. I had to work at not... Continue Reading →
Antipsychiatry
I've begun thinking about the "antipsychiatry," movement and concepts as a result of reading Philip's post the other day on Furious Seasons. I was triggered by both his post and the comment made by Ruth (author of Off Label) which you can read below the post. I made a comment as well, but not a... Continue Reading →
Normal?? Me?
The other day I made a comment on Polly's blog, polarcoaster on this post. I said that my mood ranges these days were "in the realm of normal." I've spent the last couple of days wondering what that meant and whether or not others who read my blog might agree. What might be more precise... Continue Reading →
Dog is Love
After writing yesterdays post I took my dog for a walk. She is an absolute joy. She is a reminder of the beauty of life. She approaches everything with exuberance and loves us like no creature has ever loved me. At this time of somber searching she hints at the divinity of life for me.... Continue Reading →
More on the Post Below
Zoe at Roses on the Moon responds to my post.
Looking at Psychiatry and Mental Illness from a Sociological Perspective
The ideas of psychiatric intervention being a form of social control is quite compelling to me. I intend to do some reading in the future by authors like the much maligned Thomas Szasz. For now I'm going to take some excerpts as found on John Breeding's website from his book, "The Necessity Madness and Unproductivity."... Continue Reading →
Bipolar Disorder Everywhere
I've been wanting to write a response in reaction to this study. It's about the rampant diagnosing of bipolar disorder and the need for more aggressive and long-term maintenance drugging--most disturbing is the creation of a new diagnosis, "subthreshold bipolar disorder" and the whole idea of a spectrum of bipolar disorder. I wish I was... Continue Reading →
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