Knowing what I know now about outcomes for schizophrenics, or people experiencing delusions, who are listened to, who are not told their delusions are crazy or wrong--that many of these people who are taken seriously recover, I often wonder what would have happened had someone listened to my (drug-induced) delusions. If it had not been... Continue Reading →
Response to Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons: What is mental health recovery?
Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons wrote a very thought provoking post on "recovery" today. Please go to his site and read it--I take excerpts out here, but they don't cover all that he talks about and it is only fair that you see where I got my ideas to respond from. Also, I don't trust... Continue Reading →
Meanderings
Though I am turning away in radical fashion from psychiatry, I cannot pretend to know what to do in all instances of supposed mental illness, most particularly how does one treat, if not through psychiatry, the acutely psychotic individual. The only instances in which I became psychotic, as I've said many times now, was when... Continue Reading →
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