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Category Archives: Depression
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“I have spent the past twelve days in St. Joseph’s Hospital on inpatient psychiatry (Unit 3-6) with Dr. Roger Levine attending. I am now going to file complaints with the New York State Dept. of Health, NYS Office of Mental Health, … Continue reading
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Tagged antidepressants, Conditions and Diseases, death, depression, disability rights, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, God, health care, Medicaid, Medicare, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Onondaga County New York, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, poverty, power, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist, roger levine, St. Joseph's Hospital, values
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MY DAY or It’s About the Immune System, Stupid
So I dragged myself out of bed after a disrupted night’s sleep and—tired all to pieces—I got a glass of orange juice, which sent me into a sneezing fit, which—along with the extreme fatigue, not to mention the shortness of … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Health Care, Holistic, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged Call-a-Bus, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, health care, Medicine, mental disorder, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, Psychiatrist
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Congress, God and Antidepressants
I write about how to be an effective citizen in the United States. Where’s God in all of that? Congress has passed some Godly acts, including Social Security, Medicare and the Americans with Disabilities Act. These are things that say “I … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, drugs, God, Government Services, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Power, Powerlessness, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, citizen, Congress, Dr. Peter Breggin, God, Holy Bible, humility, love, medication spellbinding, neurotheology, psychiatric patient, religion, Rev. Craig Schaub
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Power: The Cure for Depression
I was a formerly depressed person. Sometime after I stopped taking antidepressants—but was still frequently depressed—Mary Lou Rubenstein, a friend, told me that the trigger for depression is the perception of powerlessness. Everybody in her family was depressed—parents, siblings and children—but she … Continue reading
The Perception of Powerlessness
So the days and nights went on, indistinguishable from one another, and I went to a neuropsychologist who told me that depression is triggered by the perception of powerlessness. Then he told me to take more pills. Antidepressants pills were what had … Continue reading
Posted in activism, Depression, disability, drugs, God, Government Services, Health Care, Medicaid, Medical care, Onondaga County, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged antidepressants, depression, Dept. of Social Services, God, Kathy Hart, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Onondaga County, PNIE, power, powerlessness, psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology
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Discovering Power
Kathy yelled “You’ve got to do something about this! If she’s treating you this way then she’s treating everybody this way! You are smart enough and strong enough to do something about it and you have to!” All I knew … Continue reading
Resume of an Activist
Anne C Woodlen Syracuse NY 13210 ribs2007@yahoo.com “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?’” ―Thomas S. Monson In 2001 I began the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, Depression, disability, Government Services, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, antidepressants, Call-a-Bus, Centro, citizen, Citizens Review Board, citizenship, City of Syracuse, Crouse Hospital, David Sutkowy, depression, Dept. of Social Services, disability, DSS, Federal Transit Administration, FTA, God, HUD, MAS, Medicaid, Medicaid transportation, Medical Answering Services, NYS Dept. of Health, NYS DOH, NYS OMIG, OCR, Office of Civil Rights, Office of Medicaid Inspector General, Onondaga County Legislature, Onondaga County New York, Post-Standard, poverty, power, problem solving, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Police Dept., values, Visiting Nurses Association, VNA, Welfare
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The Call
In church, they preached from the lectionary. (“A lectionary is a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Judaic worship on a given day or occasion.” Wikipedia) The lectionary presents the same scripture readings … Continue reading
Posted in activism, Depression, disability, God, Medicaid, Mental Illness & Health, Onondaga County, Poverty, Power, Powerlessness, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Dept. of Social Services, God, hell, Holy Bible, inpatient psychiatry, Jesus, Keith Haverkamp, Matthew 25, Medicaid transportation, Methodist ministers, ministry, old, Onondaga County, poor, poverty, sick, Social Security Disability, The Call
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Death of a Citizen; Birth of a Christian
In the homeless shelter, I was required to apply for Social Security Disability (SSD). In July 1991 I was declared totally disabled and awarded SSD; with that came Medicare and Medicaid. Transitional Living Services got me out of the shelter and … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, disability, drugs, God, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Medicare, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, Poverty, Spirituality, Values
Tagged antidepressants, Christian, citizen, depression, disability, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, Food Stamps, God, health care, HEAP, Holy Bible, HUD, Medicaid, Medicare, mental disorder, mental illness, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, physicians, poverty, power, Social Security, values
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Thereafter
The essential defense of the political corruption between the Onondaga County government and the Republican Party was twofold: (1) everybody does it and (2) we’ve always done it. There was a conspiracy among county department heads to sell political fundraising … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, Onondaga County, political corruption, Power, Powerlessness, Republican Party, Values
Tagged conspiracy, Corruption, depression, Newhouse News, Onondaga County, political corruption, Republican Party, special prosecutor, The Syracuse Newspapers
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