-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
- Benjamin Rush Center
- Community General Hospital
- CPEP
- depression
- doctor
- drugs
- Hutchings Psychiatric Center
- Inpatient psychiatry
- mental health
- mental illness
- Mental Patients Liberation Alliance
- NYS Office of Mental Health
- patient
- physician
- psychiatric patient
- psychiatrist
- psychiatry
- St. Joseph's Hospital
- Suicide
- Support line
- Uncategorized
- Unit 3-6
- Upstate Medical Center
Meta
Category Archives: mental health
Surviving without Dr. Peter Breggin
— On Sat, 12/24/11, ginger breggin <grbreggin@hotmail.com> wrote: From: ginger breggin To: “Anne Woodword” Date: Saturday, December 24, 2011, 11:54 AM Dear Anne, This is Peter, as well as Ginger writing to you. Ginger and I both love your writing. … Continue reading
Posted in mental health, mental illness, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry
Tagged anger, empathic therapy, Patient, Peter Breggin, Psychiatry, survivors
Leave a comment
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
Posted in depression, doctor, drugs, mental health, psychiatric patient
Tagged Amelia, Call-a-Bus, drugs, Federal Transit Administration, God, Haiti, recovery, Upstate New York
Leave a comment
Mind, Spirit or Soul
The issue is soul murder. The psyche is defined as “mind, soul or spirit.” Psychiatry has claimed the mind, but ignored the spirit or soul part. If you are hospitalized on a medical floor then the hospital will give you a Holy … Continue reading
Posted in drugs, mental health, mental illness, psychiatric patient, psychiatry
Tagged Drug, God, Mental disorder, mental health, mind, Psychiatry, soul, spirit
1 Comment
Two Hearts on Whole Wheat
A year ago I met Richard Gottlieb at the Empathic Therapy Conference. Dick is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work and a really nice guy. In Hindu terms, he has risen to the level of sattva, i.e., calm goodness. … Continue reading
Posted in doctor, drugs, mental health, mental illness, patient, physician, psychiatrist
Tagged American Diabetes Association, antidepressants, cholesterol, Cleveland Clinic, coronary heart disease, diabetes, diet, doctor, Dr. Esselstyn, drugs, Glucose, Health, heart, heart-healthy, medication, Medicine, Patient, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, physician, plant-based, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Richard Gottlieb, Sanjay Gupta, stress test, surgery, whole wheat, whole-food
1 Comment
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
How to Complain: Pride of Person
There are two directions to go in filing an effective complaint. One is to follow the money and the other is to follow the licensure path. In short, threaten the abusive person’s livelihood. That gets their attention real fast. In … Continue reading
Posted in mental health, mental illness, patient, psychiatric patient
Tagged abuse, complain, complaint, degradation, God, humiliation, injury, maltreatment, management, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, mistreatment, pain, Patient, person, power, pride, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric patient, Psychiatry, self-respect, supervisor
Leave a comment
How to Complain: An Introduction
Last night I had a phone call from a fellow who had just discovered my blog. He was frustrated and overflowing with stories of the abuse he’s suffered at the hands of the psychiatric system. He also was off on … Continue reading
Posted in mental health, mental illness, patient, psychiatric patient
Tagged abuse, boundaries, civil rights, complaint, courtesy, CQC, degraded, doctor, God, humiliated, maltreatment, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, OPMC, PAIMI, Patient, physically damaged, physician, power, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric patient, Psychiatry, push back, respect, self-respect, valuable, worthy
4 Comments
Empathic Therapy Conference 2012
Dr. Peter Breggin’s Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Education and Living In partnership with ICSPP.org: International Counselors, Social Workers, Psychiatrists and Psychologists Presents The Empathic Therapy Conference 2012: The Power of Empathic Relationship with Critiques of Biological Psychiatry … Continue reading
Posted in depression, doctor, drugs, mental health, mental illness, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry
Tagged anger, Antidepressant, Bipolar disorder, depression, Diagnosis, doctor, drugs, empathic, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Patient, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, psychologist, Richard Gottlieb, schizophrenia, Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Syracuse, therapist, therapy
4 Comments
Kid’s Grandparents
In the beginning, I believed that I was depressed because I was a bad girl. If I would just learn to do what my mom and dad and the teachers told me to do then I’d be all right. If … Continue reading
Posted in depression, drugs, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry
Tagged anger, antidepressants, depression, drugs, family, Grandma, Grandparent, learning, Medicine, mental illness, Mom and Dad, Parent, Psychiatry
2 Comments
