I came across an extensive article that is quite helpful in terms of tips and validation about the vast myriad of possible manifestations after brain injury. It's written about the more conventional TBI, you know, car accidents and violent blows to the head. You will see that pharmaceutical injuries are very similar in terms of symptoms.
Does the mourning ever end? Of course not silly, one loses more and more before the end of life. Mourning and loss are the natural order of things. I suffered from delusional optimism for many years in order to survive. There is no shame in that and I did it elegantly at times.
(Update 2026: I only watched the first season of The Sinner: Netflix. The story is new each season. After the first season, I'd had enough. It's a very heavy series. Still at the time I watched the first season it was the perfect medicine.)
BY Noël Hunter ~~ On trauma and madness in mental health services Each day the news appears to top itself with stories of the various ways in which we, as humans, suffer and cause suffering. There are endless tales of abuse, racism, violence, gaslighting from those in the highest of powers, oppression, and injustice that challenge the lengths to which our minds and bodies can cope. What happens when people seek out help for their suffering? How do people heal from the atrocities that life throws our way? ...
It’s strange how it works, or maybe it’s not, but trauma, injury and illness can truly be passageways to waking up and it’s not generally appreciated at all in western medicine which seeks to suppress everything and thus stop that process. Tragic really.
The catch - 22 I thought about the other day: The mental health system tells clients/patients/consumers that they need better boundaries while expecting them to ignore their boundaries.
I see in retrospect that some core, vital part of me was always there during the drugged years, learning and remembering much that would help me in these years of coming off meds and now being med free. I no longer believe that I “lost” my life to drugs. This is, as Mary Oliver, puts it, my "one wild and precious life."
Woke up to energy that was needing expression. Fighting. I turned on youtube and searched kickboxing. OMG where have you been all my life? Anyone with stifled fight or flight energy (from PTSD) would likely benefit from this at some point. I've been stuck in passive attention. That is over. What a most delicious RUSH.... Continue Reading →
Hello, terror, my old friend... I was born into a home filled with terror and grief. Terror and grief, thus, became the most familiar thing in my reality. (this terror and grief was largely unconscious and unspoken, so uncovering it took the willingness to honestly look at what was really there) And to be clear: we are all born into a world filled with terror and grief. ...
Our bodies are incredibly knowing animals that we've systematically learned to ignore, shut down and ultimately poison. Healing is about letting the wisdom of the body re-emerge. ... and "In a mad world, only the mad are sane." - Akira Kurosawa ... (reflections and links...click through for more)
*for me a good part of protracted withdrawal issues from psych drugs has been extreme exacerbation of auto-immune issues which seems to be very common among those of us impacted. Often the auto-immune issues go unrecognized as they do with the mainstream population as well.
