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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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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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Empathic Therapy Conference
This conference is an absolute must-do for anyone who wants to participate in real healing for people in emotional distress. Richard Gottlieb, MSW, and I will be doing a workshop on “Treating the Maltreated,” i.e., what professionals in the mental health field need to know … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Anne C Woodlen, antidepressants, Bipolar disorder, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, CPEP, depression, Diagnosis, doctor, doctors, Dr. Paul M. Cohen, drug damage, drugs, empathic therapy, empathy, God, hospital, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, inpatient psychiatry, lithium, maltreatment, Medicaid, Medicare, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, NYS Office of Mental Health, Patient, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, physician, power, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, psychiatric treatment damage, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, psychologist, psychotherapy, Richard Gottlieb, schizophrenia, sleep apnea, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, therapist, therapy, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
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A Dialogue, with Anger
An excerpt from LinkedIn. Ebony is a mental health student/worker in Australia; Anne B is a person diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the United Kingdom; Anne W is me, an angry ex-psychiatric patient in New York. Ebony • Reading your … Continue reading
Blog Note
This blog is currently suspended while the author is under reconstruction. Please go to “Notes in Passing” (http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com /) or visit some of the best sellers on this site: How I Got Diagnosed with Unconscious Paranoid Schizophrenia Ativan, Sleep Apnea, and … Continue reading
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PPP, DDD and Me
I went to the Empathic Therapy Conference because it included workshops about drugs and drug damage. (All I understand of empathic therapy is that it’s what you do when you accept people as people, not as diagnosable units of sickness, … Continue reading
Posted in CPEP, doctor, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, mental health, mental illness, Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, NYS Office of Mental Health, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, Suicide, Support line
Tagged anger, antidepressants, chamomile tea, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, Contact, CPEP, DDD, depression, Diagnosis, doctor, doctors, drug damage, drugs, empathic therapy, empathy, handcuffs, Hell, insomnia, lithium, lockup, medical model, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, MPLA, NYS Office of Mental Health, NYS OMH, OMH, police officers, PPP, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, psychologist, psychotherapy, self-hypnosis, suicide, The Alliance, therapist, therapy, treatment
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An Activist’s Creed
I believe that doing something is better than doing nothing. When a bus is stuck and blocking traffic, I call 911 and ask for police to direct traffic. When a spare tire is in the middle of the Rt. 81 … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, activist, authority, Change, committees, community, complaint, courage, ego, God, government, heirarchy, intelligence, law, lawyers, morality, policymaker, power, services, society, standards
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The Undrugging of Annie (Part V)
I was repeatedly admitted to inpatient psychiatry for treatment of suicidal depression. Several times in the decade that had elapsed since Dr. Rich had poisoned me, I had approached her while I was an inpatient. Each time she told … Continue reading
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