| Two Years Out
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 5th, 2007, 11:03 am | |
| Current Mood |
- |  accomplished | |
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- | air purifier | |
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Today marks 2 years since I was released from Cahill 3, the last time I was on a locked psych unit.
For years, I was constantly in and out of hospitals. Throughout that time I was put on various medications: prozac, geodon, seroquel, zyprexa, depakote, lithium, ativan, klonopin, celexa, zoloft, and too many others to list here.
At times, the medications seemed like it was helping, but what it was really dong was preventing me from getting better. It wasn't until I stopped taking the medications that I started truly improving. It wasn't until I stopped taking the medication that I was able to stay out of the hospital.
Mental problems need a mental solution. Mental "illness" is not like diabetes or cancer. The speculation that mental "diseases" are biologically based is just that — speculation. There is no evidence to back it up, but the idea is treated as gospel. It is more religion than science.
Without the medications obscuring my real issues or slowing my brain down to the point that thinking was a labourious activity, I was able to directly address my problems and I was able to make myself better. I've been out of the hospital for 2 years and I'm sure that if I had continued to take their drugs, I wouldn't be able to say that.
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Big congratulations ! We look forward to the day when and if we get off of
the anti-convulsants. Anti-depressants are kicked as being like poison to
us.
--- Miri of Mtribe
"Mental problems need a mental solution. Mental "illness" is not like diabetes or cancer. The speculation that mental "diseases" are biologically based is just that — speculation. There is no evidence to back it up, but the idea is treated as gospel. It is more religion than science."
You're so totally right! Congrats!
We are just different. Probably on the autistic spectrum so being in an
environment built by people who do not understand the needs of a being that
is sensitive to noise and chaos is very very difficult. If we were to move
back to the countryside we most probably would not have very many
difficulties at all, though we probably would not give up coffee which is
also a psychoactive drug ;-)
--- Miri and Marina of Mtribe
Whoops, I replied to you instead of neitherday!
Can I still say "hear, hear!" even though I still am on 2.5 mg/Abilify every other day? :)
Happy Anniversary of Freedom!
your journal makes me smile and makes me think.
keep being that beautiful person!
hugs,
e
Yeah, the idea that you need to add drugs to your brain to make it healthier is pretty screwed up.
Mental illness is certainly a biological situation, since the brain is a biological entity, but saying that the brain chemistry is the cause of the mental illness is like saying that blood is the cause of a knife wound.
Anyway, yay! for enlightenment, and for learning something that most doctors haven't lerned yet. And here's to hoping that we who have learned how to heal can teach the doctors how to do it.
Yay! to no meds. I hope one day I can say the same. A pill can't fix everything. *hugs*
 I am glad you are here. Keep up the good work.. hugs
*cheers* This post should be spammed to all the emails of the big pharma companies. Awesome.
I've been reading your LJ for over 4 years and I can definitly see an incredible difference and improvement since you've been off meds. its been the same in my own life. they told me if I stopped taking them, I'd be suicidal. well, I was clearly suicidal anyway. I have not been hospitalized in almost 2 years. (feb) while I was taking meds, I was in and out all the time.
I still see a pdoc and they still prescribe me stuff sometimes but after a week or so I end up refusing it again. I don't want to take a pill that may or may not help. I want to face the issues.
It's awesome that you've discovered what's right for you and have been able to do it and it's working. I do want to say that for some of us, me included, the mental illness is a chemical imbalance in the brain and the right combo of meds is helpful. When I go off my anti-depressants I go straight to the dark place and become depressed to the point of being suicidal. On them, I'm able to clear the darkness away enough to function and think clearly and work on my issues and make progress. Without them, I'd likely be dead right now.
But I do agree that psych meds are WAY over prescribed and mis-prescribed and mis-used, etc. For most people, it probably isn't the answer and often is the problem. And I'm angry about the situations in which they are pushed on people who don't want them or need them or shouldn't be on them. But as for myself - I'm grateful for them.
But hooray for you - that what you're doing is working best for you. It takes a lot of courage to stand up for yourself against the prevailing attitudes of drugs=health.
i want to seroquel i take it at night when i have tried to stop i have experienced withdrwal symptoms. i stagger in the middle of the night when i get up. i am drogey in the am.
i am in recovery. this drug is not good for my liver either | |
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