This is so beautiful: “But what about standing in it? Feeling it? Being with it? Knowing that even as a storm begins to rage there is nourishment that is sinking down into the dark earth. There is a purpose. There is a cycle. A Necessity and a Rhythm of Nature.”
Like you, I also am very familiar with these storms, can enjoy “standing in the rain”, have also chosen a path without medications, and feel much better since.
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s extremely comforting to know, there are people who have chosen a similar path and are also doing well.
I definitely want to check out your sculpture garden in Queens on my next visit to NYC. Looks wonderful on photos. In 2014/2015 I was involuntarily locked up in a mental ward at East 68th street facing the East River, for dancing in the Carl Schurz Park alone…. so right across the river from your sculpture garden. Most likely you can see the Carl Schurz Park and maybe also the hospital from that sculpture garden?
Ingrid (presently in Berlin)
tenderheartedguardians.org
Streetphotobeing, it would be great if someone could submit this story to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CIDTP) Nils Melzer, who is collecting submissions until November 25, for a report he plans to submit to the Human Rights Council in March 2020. I will also submit my story from my involuntary hospitalization at the New York Presbytarian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City in 2014/2015 as well. My story is not as dramatic, but I do see what happened to me as a violation of my human rights. More information on how to submit you can find here: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/Call.aspx.
This is unacceptable! Where did this happen? In the US? This needs to change.
This is a very good question. I experienced a couple of incidents with psychiatrists in New York City in the 15 years I lived there that – to my humble opinion – go against my human rights, and I wouldn’t know where to complain about this. Here in Berlin, there are different places where you can go to complain. (Only here in Berlin, I luckily found a great psychotherapist who is also an MD, who encouraged me to tamper off of medications. So far I’ve been lucky in Berlin, nothing terrible has happened here yet….but I’ve also heard terrible stories from others, so bad things can happen here too.) One of the institutions in Berlin, where you can complain is the BIP, they even offer their services in different languages, and this is their flyer in English: https://www.psychiatrie-beschwerde.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BIP/Flyer/BIP-EinlegerENG-web.pdf, and there are many more all around Germany. This is another leaflet I found: https://www.dgsp-ev.de/fileadmin/user_files/dgsp/pdfs/Publikationen/Unabhaengige_Beschwerdestellen_in_der_Psychiatrie_-_Ein_Ratgeber.pdf, I don’t think they offer this booklet in English, but you could always copy and paste the text into an online translator.
This is so beautiful: “But what about standing in it? Feeling it? Being with it? Knowing that even as a storm begins to rage there is nourishment that is sinking down into the dark earth. There is a purpose. There is a cycle. A Necessity and a Rhythm of Nature.”
Like you, I also am very familiar with these storms, can enjoy “standing in the rain”, have also chosen a path without medications, and feel much better since.
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s extremely comforting to know, there are people who have chosen a similar path and are also doing well.
I definitely want to check out your sculpture garden in Queens on my next visit to NYC. Looks wonderful on photos. In 2014/2015 I was involuntarily locked up in a mental ward at East 68th street facing the East River, for dancing in the Carl Schurz Park alone…. so right across the river from your sculpture garden. Most likely you can see the Carl Schurz Park and maybe also the hospital from that sculpture garden?
Ingrid (presently in Berlin)
tenderheartedguardians.org
Hello Tina,
Thank you for all your incredible work!
I hope it’s OK that I posted the joint statement on my very new blog?
https://bipolartendencies.com/covid-19-and-persons-with-psychosocial-disabilities/
Stay safe and healthy
Ingrid
Streetphotobeing, it would be great if someone could submit this story to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CIDTP) Nils Melzer, who is collecting submissions until November 25, for a report he plans to submit to the Human Rights Council in March 2020. I will also submit my story from my involuntary hospitalization at the New York Presbytarian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City in 2014/2015 as well. My story is not as dramatic, but I do see what happened to me as a violation of my human rights. More information on how to submit you can find here: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Torture/SRTorture/Pages/Call.aspx.
This is unacceptable! Where did this happen? In the US? This needs to change.
This is a very good question. I experienced a couple of incidents with psychiatrists in New York City in the 15 years I lived there that – to my humble opinion – go against my human rights, and I wouldn’t know where to complain about this. Here in Berlin, there are different places where you can go to complain. (Only here in Berlin, I luckily found a great psychotherapist who is also an MD, who encouraged me to tamper off of medications. So far I’ve been lucky in Berlin, nothing terrible has happened here yet….but I’ve also heard terrible stories from others, so bad things can happen here too.) One of the institutions in Berlin, where you can complain is the BIP, they even offer their services in different languages, and this is their flyer in English: https://www.psychiatrie-beschwerde.de/fileadmin/user_upload/BIP/Flyer/BIP-EinlegerENG-web.pdf, and there are many more all around Germany. This is another leaflet I found: https://www.dgsp-ev.de/fileadmin/user_files/dgsp/pdfs/Publikationen/Unabhaengige_Beschwerdestellen_in_der_Psychiatrie_-_Ein_Ratgeber.pdf, I don’t think they offer this booklet in English, but you could always copy and paste the text into an online translator.