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Getting Fired

According to Richard Gottlieb, MSW and Diplomate with a capital D, last year at the Empathic Therapy Conference Dr. Peter Breggin said, “If you haven’t been fired at least once, you’re not doing your job.” Dick and I had been engaged in … Continue reading

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“I Alone Am Left . . .”

May first.  Not feeling so good.  Sleeping sixteen hours a day.  Glucose 423 yesterday morning.  Urine output up by 30%.  Doctor says I’ll wind up in the hospital from dehydration within 3-5 days.  That assumes I’ll call for an ambulance.  … Continue reading

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“Ten Ways to Walk Away from Depression”

http://www.gresik.ca/2012/03/10-ways-to-walk-away-from-depression/ By Alison Gresik Check it out; check it out.

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“Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill”

A brief interruption from my “How to Complain” series in order to bring you one of the most awesome essays I’ve every read. Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill Posted on February 26, 2012 by Bruce Levine, Ph.D. In … Continue reading

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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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Re-direct

Please go to http://annecwoodlen.wordpress.com/.  I am too sick to maintain two blogs.

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From Peter Pan to Hypnotherapy

(Continued from yesterday’s “PPP, DDD and Me”) Whoa, dude, I said to the recovering psychiatrist.  I’m not waking up because I have nightmares.  I’m waking up because I have to go to the bathroom.  The anger, pain and self-hatred are … Continue reading

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Happiness is . . .

            In April 2001, despite having about a dozen chronic illnesses, I stopped taking drugs.  So what have I learned in the past decade?             I have learned that happiness consists of a good night’s sleep, a healthy diet, challenging … Continue reading

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Today

No post today.  I am suffering from February.

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Hutchings Psychiatric Center: Notes from a Hospitalization (Part II)

The psychiatrists never came to see us.  Where were they?  In meetings about the patients?  Writing notes in the patient’s charts?  There were five psychiatrists and the patients would go for days without seeing them.  This, compared to a private … Continue reading

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