Darby, I love that you pointed that out. I call it ‘work with our symptoms’. Though I do not want to say it is a symptom however, due to the lack of understanding by others I have to frame my words in a certain ‘conformity’. Although, I realized by after doing that, they could see beyond the symptoms (especially if they did not have a background in psychology). I often have a difficult time explaining it to those within the practice or who have just graduated.
Hi Sandra,
I just read your article but the comment section was closed.
I’ve been off my meds for quite a while now and my relapses haven’t been as traumatic as they were while being on the meds. The side effects were a lot more than my benefits and kept me more numb, though I was still hearing voices and seeing things but couldn’t respond to them.
Thankfully my only support person turned out to be my psychiatrist and the one person I could trust during those periods of relapse given I had substance abuse issues too.
Thank the universe for those like you who see us more than just an object to be flooded with medications and kept locked away.
This made such a great read for me firstly because of the fact that when it concerns legal capacity in incapacity laws it is the same all over the world.
At the moment I am trying to frame my thoughts into ‘correct’ sentences in reply to some of the Bills here in India and it is such a blessing that I decided to read your article today! It’s given me an understanding to my first thoughts on the issues here and how I should frame them.
In terms of reform – I see India as perhaps a possibility to be able to create that or maybe I am the ever all hopeful just hoping that would be the case here since we are not a developed nation. But irrespective of being developed or not – the issues back in my home country (which is a developed country) are way behind the issues in India!
Leave aside the big pharma and the existence of mental illness- even in the comparison of depression and schizophrenia people there think it is one and the same.
Darby, I love that you pointed that out. I call it ‘work with our symptoms’. Though I do not want to say it is a symptom however, due to the lack of understanding by others I have to frame my words in a certain ‘conformity’. Although, I realized by after doing that, they could see beyond the symptoms (especially if they did not have a background in psychology). I often have a difficult time explaining it to those within the practice or who have just graduated.
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Hi Sandra,
I just read your article but the comment section was closed.
I’ve been off my meds for quite a while now and my relapses haven’t been as traumatic as they were while being on the meds. The side effects were a lot more than my benefits and kept me more numb, though I was still hearing voices and seeing things but couldn’t respond to them.
Thankfully my only support person turned out to be my psychiatrist and the one person I could trust during those periods of relapse given I had substance abuse issues too.
Thank the universe for those like you who see us more than just an object to be flooded with medications and kept locked away.
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Hi Tina,
This made such a great read for me firstly because of the fact that when it concerns legal capacity in incapacity laws it is the same all over the world.
At the moment I am trying to frame my thoughts into ‘correct’ sentences in reply to some of the Bills here in India and it is such a blessing that I decided to read your article today! It’s given me an understanding to my first thoughts on the issues here and how I should frame them.
In terms of reform – I see India as perhaps a possibility to be able to create that or maybe I am the ever all hopeful just hoping that would be the case here since we are not a developed nation. But irrespective of being developed or not – the issues back in my home country (which is a developed country) are way behind the issues in India!
Leave aside the big pharma and the existence of mental illness- even in the comparison of depression and schizophrenia people there think it is one and the same.
Report comment