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Category Archives: depression
Post-Recovery
Good morning, peeps—how are you all doing today? With your depression, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar—how are you all doing? I’m doing fine, thank you, after having recovered from all those wrong-headed labels they stuck on me. It’s a gray, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia, Call-a-Bus, drugs, Federal Transit Administration, God, Haiti, recovery, Upstate New York
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My Mother’s Meatloaf
I have quit the vegan diet, and here’s why. Ten days ago I wrote “Two Hearts on Whole Wheat” (http://behindthelockeddoors.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/two-hearts-on-whole-wheat/) about Dick and me. We both had gone vegan about eight months ago, and he had just had his annual … Continue reading
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Tagged cholesterol, Comfort food, depression, diabetes, doctor, drugs, Glucose, Health, Meat, Meatloaf, medication, Medicine, Patient, pharmaceuticals, vegan, Veganism, vegetarian
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Women and Power
I do not have bipolar disorder, type II. Students are being taught that bipolar disorder, type II, is a genetic, congenital condition consisting of episodes of depression alternating with periods of hypomania. I have never had hypomania; I have had … Continue reading
Posted in depression, drugs, mental illness, psychiatry
Tagged Antidepressant, Bipolar disorder, Golda Meir, Hypomania, Major depressive disorder, Margaret Thatcher, power, women
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“All we have to offer . . .”
THE EFFECTS OF MEDICATING OR NOT MEDICATING ON THE TREATMENT PROCESS Bertram P. Karon, Ph.D. Michigan State University and the Michigan Psychoanalytic Council As Johanna Tabin (2003) pointed out, medicating or not medicating has meanings for psychoanalysts and patients, including transferences and countertransferences. Helpful are … Continue reading
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Tagged Michigan State University, Peter Breggin, Psychiatry, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, therapy
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SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY: A User’s Manual
SURVIVING PSYCHIATRY: A User’s Manual by Anne C Woodlen This 60-page collection of 23 essays recently sold out at Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference and now is available for sale to you. “The great jazz bassist Ron Carter once … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Antidepressant, Bipolar disorder, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, CPEP, depression, Diagnosis, doctor, drugs, Emergency psychiatry, God, hospital, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, inpatient psychiatry, Lorazepam, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, Patient, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, physician, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, sleep apnea, Social work, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, survivor, therapist, therapy, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
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Empathic Therapy Conference: Treat with Kindness, not Chemicals
If you attended the Empathic Therapy Conference, please contact me at psychsurvivor@yahoo.com. On Sunday morning at the Empathic Therapy Conference, feeling pretty sick as result of the damage I suffered from psychiatric medications, I pulled on minimal clothing and struggled … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, Diagnosis, dick gottlieb, doctor, drug damage, drugs, Empathic Therapy Conference, Health, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental illness, pain, Patient, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, physician, psych meds, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, suicide, therapy, trauma
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Fat = Happiness
What is wrong with me? How many times have we each asked ourselves this question? Am I coming down with a cold? Was it something I ate—or didn’t eat? We keep trying to figure out what makes us sick so … Continue reading
Surviving Psychiatry: About the Author
About the Author, Anne C Woodlen I am a tenth generation American, descended from a family that has been working a farm that was deeded to us by William Penn. The country has changed around us but we have held true. … Continue reading
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Tagged Daughters of the American Revolution, District attorney, Mental disorder, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, Onondaga Community College, Patient, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, physician, power, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, psychologist, sleep apnea, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, Syracuse University, Temple University, therapist, therapy, Unit 3-6, United States, Upstate Medical Center, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, William Penn
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Surviving Psychiatry: A User’s Manual
Surviving Psychiatry A User’s Manual Anne C. Woodlen The great jazz bassist Ron Carter once described good jazz as a delicate balance of the predictable and the unpredictable. Too predictable and it bores the listener, too unpredictable and it … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne C Woodlen, Antidepressant, antidepressants, Dr. Nasri Ghaly, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, drugs, Elizabeth C. Woodlen, God, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, inpatient psychiatry, medication, Mental disorder, Milton C. Woodlen, Peter Breggin, psychiatric hospital, Psychiatry, psychsurvivor, Richard Gottlieb, Stephen Wechsler, survivor
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How to Complain: U.S. Dept. of Justice
“Frequently Asked Questions about Filing an ADA [Americans with Disabilities] Complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice” http://www.ada.gov/fact_on_complaint.htm Courtesy of Peter Berg, Project Coordinator of Technical Assistance, Great Lakes ADA Center, University of Illinois/Chicago (800) 949-4232 (V/TTY)–(312) 413-1407 (V/TTY)–(312) 413-1856 … Continue reading
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Tagged access, accommodate, ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, civil rights, complaint, depression, Dept. of Justice, Disability, disability access, disability rights, Disabled, Discrimination, DOJ, Dr. Ronald Fish, equal opportunity, Medicaid, Medicare, Mental disorder, mental illness, mobility devices, Patient, power, powerlessness, Psychological HealthCare, psychologist, psychotherapy, U.S. Dept. of Justice, walkers, wheelchair
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