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Category Archives: Suicide
The Death Place
I didn’t kill myself yesterday—almost, though. Almost. Here’s what happened: about three and a half weeks ago I discovered that my glucose level was 423. It’s supposed to be around 100. I used to be able to control my diabetes … Continue reading
Posted in drugs, mental illness, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, Suicide
Tagged antidepressants, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, CPEP, diabetes mellitus, doctor, drugs, Emotion, Glucophage, immune system, lithium, medication, Medicine, mental illness, Metformin, Patient, pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, suicide
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The Game Plan
What’s it all about? Life, I mean. Is it micro or is it macro? Take, for example, the death of my fiancé, Bob Dobrow, in 1974. Was that because something like an O-ring broke, or because of some master game … Continue reading
Posted in doctor, drugs, Suicide
Tagged antidepressants, death, depression, drugs, God, life, mental illness, suicide
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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
Posted in Benjamin Rush Center, Community General Hospital, CPEP, depression, doctor, drugs, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, NYS Office of Mental Health, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, Suicide, Support line, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
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
Posted in depression, doctor, drugs, mental illness, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, Suicide
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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Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference 2012
One of the greatest things in the world is coming home. I come through the front door, crawl into my jammies, pour a big glass of my usual iced tea and sink into bed. The hotel where the Empathic Conference … Continue reading
Posted in doctor, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, Suicide
Tagged abuse, action, anger, antidepressants, depression, dick gottlieb, drugs, Empathic Therapy Conference, inpatient psychiatry, knowledge, love, maltreatment, medication, Mental disorder, mental illness, NIMH, Patient, Peter Breggin, pschiatric maltreatment, psychiatric abuse, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Seroquel, suicide, Surviving Psychiatry, therapist, therapy
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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
Posted in Benjamin Rush Center, Community General Hospital, CPEP, depression, doctor, drugs, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, NYS Office of Mental Health, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, Suicide, Support line, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
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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The Antecedents of Survival
Richard Gottlieb, MSW, SOB and MBF (My Best Friend), says that what interests him most is how I got the strength to survive all the crap I went through, said crap being twenty-six years of taking psychiatric drugs, which resulted … Continue reading
Posted in depression, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, mental illness, psychiatric patient, Suicide
Tagged antidepressants, depression, drugs, Elizabeth Copeland, equal, family, farm, God, Hannah Hope, Hope, inpatient psychiatry, Mary Hope, medication, mental illness, psychiatric patient, Quakers, strength, survival, William Penn
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From Your Friend at NAMI
The following exchange is between me and a complete stranger on Facebook. She had been blocked from the site she was posting on so she started messaging me privately. Katie Tate Uh..being fat is a direct result of unexpressed depression. … Continue reading
Posted in drugs, Suicide
Tagged Antidepressant, antidepressants, depression, drugs, Katie Tate, medication, NAMI, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Obesity, suicide, weight gain
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From Compliant to Complaint: Moving the I
An activist is someone who takes action to fix a problem while everybody else walks around it and complains. My friend Arleen and I—and thousands of other people—went to the Fourth of July concert at the NYS Fair grounds. Arleen went to use … Continue reading
Posted in depression, drugs, mental health, mental illness, psychiatric patient, psychiatry, Suicide, Upstate Medical Center
Tagged abuse, action, activist, antidepressants, bad medicine, Call-a-Bus, Centro, City of Syracuse, complaint, compliant, damage, depression, Disability, drugs, executive dysfunction, FTA OCR, healing, MAS, Medicaid, Medical Answering Service, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, OMIG, power, powerlessness, recovery, suicide, transportation, Upstate Medical Center, VESID
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