Therapists and psychiatrists: your patients and clients need love. Can you give them that?

Therapists and psychiatrists: your patients and clients need love. Can you give them that? Someone in the comments said, that no, they do not offer their clients love because it breaks ethical codes. My response to her was this: love doesn't break, indeed, cannot break, any ethical code...that is a misunderstanding of what love is. If love breaks a rule on the other hand, perhaps it needed to be broken!! Love is the highest ethic there is! … [click on title for the rest of the post]

I shared at a NAMI meeting last night

I went to a NAMI meeting tonight and my story came out (the guest speaker knew who I was and asked me to introduce myself -- as the author of Beyond Meds -- being the subject of the meeting was psych drug withdrawal) Telling my story in a NAMI gathering was a rather intense and scary thing. I would not have chosen to expose myself that way, but given that it happened it was very interesting. Those folks don’t want to hear my story. (at least the ones that were vocal) It seems to be very threatening to them. I told them that their story is valid and so is mine. Not either/or, but both can be true. That idea seems to make people’s head explode and people on both sides of the divide don’t like hearing that actually. Which is interesting in general. What I personally didn’t like about being in that position was that this group of people project all their terror -- I must be wrong. I must be mentally ill -- I left feeling empowered but I was also shaking. Visibly. So yeah, that was a trip … [click on title for the rest of the post]

We don’t know what is right for another. I practice that in speech and deed.

It is not a good idea to tell people what they need in the way of supplements and it can sometimes be dangerous...especially if folks are taking psychiatric medications and/or are in the process of withdrawal from psych drugs. Supplements in a hypersensitized body (as many are after having been on psychiatric drugs) can be quite dangerous. It's not okay to assume that something that worked well for you or someone you know is safe for someone you've never met here on this page (or anywhere else you might be likely to hand out such advice) You can share your experience here, but I ask you to refrain from directing people to what they should take and to refrain from thinking you know anything about what might be appropriate and safe for someone you do not know (or for that matter someone you do know, too as you won't know their body) basically everyone needs to find their own sense of guidance and intuition. Your experience may help inform their experience but it's rare that someone can safely simply copy what another has done and it's not a good idea to tell folks what to do...pretty much ever. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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