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Colleague or Therapist?
So I called him up and asked him to be my therapist. He laughed and said I couldn’t afford him, then went to work. It wasn’t as if I hadn’t tried to find someone local. I called my ex-therapist, who … Continue reading
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Tagged psychiatrist, inpatient psychiatry, psychotherapy, hospital, drugs, suicide, therapist, therapy, Medicaid, Psychiatry, Medicare, Patient, Medicine, medication, doctor, psychiatric hospital, mental illness, Peter Breggin, Posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, colleague
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Breggin Conference 2013, and Why to Not Attend
I got a shock this morning. While checking out the latest on Facebook, I came across a post from Peter R. Breggin, MD, about the Empathic Therapy Conference 2013. Then I discovered that Dr. Peter and Mrs. Ginger Breggin have … Continue reading
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Tagged therapist, therapy, Psychiatry, Patient, Medicine, medication, mental illness, Mental disorder, Peter Breggin, Ginger Breggin, Richard Gottlieb, PTSD, psychiatric abuse, toxic pschiatry
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What is Empathic Therapy?
I went to Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference because I knew Dr. Breggin to be opposed to psychiatric medications—drugs—which had grievously damaged me. I also knew that without drugs there can be no hospitalization. Only a chemical straightjacket can keep people … Continue reading
Posted in CPEP, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, mental health, mental illness
Tagged anger, Diagnosis, Drug, empathic therapy, empathy, fear, medication, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Patient, Peter Breggin, Psychiatry, psychotherapy, PTSD, therapist, therapy
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Exercise, Depression and Drugs, not to mention Fibromyalgia, Hormones and Wisdom (part II)
But I digress—back to depression and exercise. For decades, I tried to exercise. I tried every kind of exercise, including calisthenics, jogging, yoga and a bunch of other stuff. I quit them all because I’d become too depressed to continue. … Continue reading
Posted in depression, drugs, mental health, mental illness, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist
Tagged Activism, aging, antidepressants, depression, doctor, drugs, endocrinology, exercise, Exercise And Depression, fibromyalgia, Hormone, hormones, immune dysfuction, immune system, medication, Medicine, menopause, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, pharmaceuticals, Physical exercise, Physical therapy, PNIE, post traumatic stress disorder, psychiatric patient, psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology, PTSD, wisdom, Wise Women
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After the Anger, Peace
I am at peace, and I wonder if it’s because I’ve finally blown out my anger at the inpatient psychiatric system. For three decades on inpatient psychiatry I was treated with disrespect, callous indifference, and physical danger. It was the … Continue reading
Posted in Community General Hospital, CPEP, depression, doctor, drugs, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Inpatient psychiatry, mental health, mental illness, patient, physician, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, St. Joseph's Hospital, Suicide, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
Tagged anger, antidepressants, Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, CPEP, danger, depression, doctor, drugs, healing, hospital, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, inpatient psychiatry, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Patient, powerlessness, Psychiatry, PTSD, terror
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Anger
I have post traumatic stress disorder as a result of having been hospitalized on inpatient psychiatry. I wake up at 2:00 a.m. and it’s all there: At St. Joe’s: I walked down the hall to the nursing station. In front … Continue reading
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Righteous Anger
When I stopped taking drugs ten years ago, I was angry—very, very angry. There are several possible explanations for all that anger. First was the fact that I have bipolar disorder, type 2. Professionals say that in some people … Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Ativan, Bipolar disorder, control, doctors, Drug, drug damage, drugs, guilt, hospital, Hutchings Psychiatric Center, inpatient psychiatry, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental illness, Patient, pharmaceuticals, physician, Posttraumatic stress disorder, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, PTSD, safety, St. Joseph's Hospital, Unit 3-6, Upstate Medical Center
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St. Joseph’s: The Perverse Pathology of Mary Corbliss (Part V)
On December 31, 2010, I began a four-part post about Mary Corbliss. It is one of the top three posts that readers are going to, so it deserves a final note. Mary Corbliss was (and probably still is, judging from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Chemical imbalance, CPEP, drugs, hospital, inpatient psychiatry, Mary Corbliss, medication, Medicine, Mental disorder, mental health counselor, mental illness, Patient, post traumatic stress disorder, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, Psychiatry, psychopathology, PTSD, St. Joseph's, St. Joseph's Hospital, suicide, Unit 3-6
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