I’ve had two hospitalizations for clinical depression. Looking back on the whole experience, one of the things I learned was the ignorance of my older sister and my older son about psychiatric meds. I believe it’s because they haven’t researched like I have. I took the meds ONLY TO PLEASE THEM! I’m well and drug-free now and have gained confidence in my own mind from the whole experience. My sister and my son were wrong about meds, but they were very right in their acts of kindness toward me during the same time frame, which is what helped lift my second bout of depression. Meds did nothing but harm me. Bottom line I’m better armed now to avoid a relapse.
Even family can be a liability when they insist that the answer is “just finding the right drug.”
Thanks.
I love your post. But I can’t figure out what “kirist” means! I searched in my online dictionary and googled it to no avail. Did you coin the term yourself? If so, based on what?
You are making a very good point. I think using the word “labeled” rather than “diagnosed” would be much more accurate, because the word “diagnose” suggests something that has a medical test of some kind backing it up. I think a simple change like that would be very meaningful.
I’ve just read this personal story for the first time.
What is Reid’s present status?
It is healthy that you are a rebel, and I agree that you simply have to not take the rubbish you’re being told to go along with seriously. You know more than they do.
Are you planning to have a website to promote your ideas?
You are extremely articulate!
What a spokesperson you are for changing the paradigm for psychiatric care.
You are very perceptive!
Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful story! I am a participant on a forum and I have posted a thread under the category The Medical Establishment “Rethinking the Current Paradigm of Psychiatric Care.” I started the thread after finding this trail-blazing website. I have posted your article on the thread.
I am very interested in psychiatry because I, also, have had bouts of depression and spent 2 1/2 weeks in a psychiatric hospital in 2018. I went on antidepressants only to please my family but got off of them under the supervision of a psychiatrist soon after I was discharged. Thankfully, I had resisted the pressure I was under while in the hospital to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). I shudder when I think about that.
I’ve had two hospitalizations for clinical depression. Looking back on the whole experience, one of the things I learned was the ignorance of my older sister and my older son about psychiatric meds. I believe it’s because they haven’t researched like I have. I took the meds ONLY TO PLEASE THEM! I’m well and drug-free now and have gained confidence in my own mind from the whole experience. My sister and my son were wrong about meds, but they were very right in their acts of kindness toward me during the same time frame, which is what helped lift my second bout of depression. Meds did nothing but harm me. Bottom line I’m better armed now to avoid a relapse.
Even family can be a liability when they insist that the answer is “just finding the right drug.”
Thanks.
I love your post. But I can’t figure out what “kirist” means! I searched in my online dictionary and googled it to no avail. Did you coin the term yourself? If so, based on what?
You are making a very good point. I think using the word “labeled” rather than “diagnosed” would be much more accurate, because the word “diagnose” suggests something that has a medical test of some kind backing it up. I think a simple change like that would be very meaningful.
I’ve just read this personal story for the first time.
What is Reid’s present status?
It is healthy that you are a rebel, and I agree that you simply have to not take the rubbish you’re being told to go along with seriously. You know more than they do.
Are you planning to have a website to promote your ideas?
You are extremely articulate!
What a spokesperson you are for changing the paradigm for psychiatric care.
You are very perceptive!
Thank you for sharing your story.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful story! I am a participant on a forum and I have posted a thread under the category The Medical Establishment “Rethinking the Current Paradigm of Psychiatric Care.” I started the thread after finding this trail-blazing website. I have posted your article on the thread.
I am very interested in psychiatry because I, also, have had bouts of depression and spent 2 1/2 weeks in a psychiatric hospital in 2018. I went on antidepressants only to please my family but got off of them under the supervision of a psychiatrist soon after I was discharged. Thankfully, I had resisted the pressure I was under while in the hospital to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). I shudder when I think about that.