Chronic illness: a kaleidoscopic view

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.

Withdrawal anniversary: 16 years

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.

Freeze trauma response

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.

Steven Morgan: friend, colleague and super human being

Stephen Morgan has died. Here is the Facebook Announcement from Intentional Peer Support He was a rare individual, loved by everyone who knew him. A beautiful light gone from this plane too soon I've never forgotten the first time I met him. He came to my home in Asheville at the beginning of all the beautiful connections made among those in the mad movement online. He was 26. He literally shone like a light. His face is etched in my memory when I opened the door and saw him for the first time and he felt like my brother. He shared eight articles that he wrote here on Beyond Meds. In his memory I ask that if you've not read them before, please do. And if you have read them, you might just find that they're wonderful a second time around. I felt honored at the time that he would want me to share his work. And now I'm so glad that I have this small body of his beauty kept here in the archives. the collection is below:

Recover loudly

that's right. I also wouldn't be alive if I hadn't been the voice of Beyond Meds...an early, now prototype, of all the relentless chatter out there. It's weird because it brought so much chaos as well. And I've had many tell me the words I shared altered their lives for the better. My entire life is paradoxical and I also know without my incessant need to **speak it** I would not be alive.

be the snake: eat yourself

I feel the spirochete — lyme “disease” causing bacteria like a spiral snake…kundalini, no less, clearing out my body like KALI…goddess of destruction and creation be the snake. eat yourself. includes: Ouroboros image collection (a symbol that appears in many cultures) be the snake: eat yourself - was first published a couple of years ago on All Signal. (monicacassani.com) The Ouroboros snake symbol is a live metaphor for my somatic process. I am posting it here in the event that it resonates with others. If it does I'd love to discuss. The facebook page or the comment section on this site are both available

Center for Spiritual Emergence – Brack Jefferys PhD

it's been some years now. never got an apology or acknowledgment. I remain uncompensated for my time. the center is still in operation as far as I can tell. Update: I have heard from two women who have reported similar abuse. One of them has known Brack for many years and says this is a... Continue Reading →

Joel Marcus, MD : A Call for Accountability in Psychiatry

Joel Marcus, MD was the doctor who prescribed the drugs that harmed me. Many lives have been harmed by psychiatry.  Too many people have been abused, sickened, disabled (and died too) by psychiatry and no one takes responsibility for it and most of society refuses to acknowledge it’s happening. It’s time to end such treatment and trauma. Psychiatric drugs cover up pre-existing trauma and then deeply ingrain that trauma into the nervous system effectively becoming a brain injury. It becomes impossible to work through any of it at all if we remain on the drugs.

Undiagnosing myself

(2013)  I sometimes want to take down old posts because they no longer convey how I feel, but I realize that they may still be helpful to people who are going through something similar now. The journey got me to where I am today, it’s just odd to have some of it in writing here... Continue Reading →

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