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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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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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Exercise or Insulin?
Sorry. A doctor poisoned me with unmonitored lithium. There is no literature about the effect of lithium poisoning on the immune system, however, I clearly have immune dysfunction, type unknown. It causes, among other things, chronic fatigue syndrome and hypersensitivity … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, drugs, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged antidepressants, central nervouse system, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, drugs, exercise, helplessness, hypersensitivity to medication, immune system, insulin, lithium, power, Psychiatry
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DRUGS R US
The good Lord, in his infinite, inscrutable wisdom, has seen fit to make me intolerant of all medication. Well, actually, we don’t know if the Lord did it, or Dr. Jenifer Rich. She prescribed lithium for seven years and never … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, Depression, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged drugs, medications, pharmaceuticals
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Deaths Linked to Prescription Drugs
Heartburn pills that cause heart attacks, antidepressants that lead to suicide by Anne Kingston on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:10am On Oct. 17, 2012, Terence Young’s tireless 12-year crusade took him before a Senate committee looking into the safety and … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Death, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged drugs, medications, prescriptions
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Resources re Understanding Psych Meds
Ethical Issues Related to Treatment Induced Harm (Part II) By Ron Unger on September 8, 2012 The Triumph of Bad Science is a blog post by Robert Whitaker that explains the history of the false claim that black box warnings about … Continue reading
Ethical Issues Related to Treatment Induced Harm (Part I)
Or: Every resource available to get off psych meds By Ron Unger on September 8, 2012 Many people come into the mental health system often after being betrayed and traumatized in a number of ways: too often, the mental health system … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Depression, drugs, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals
Tagged antidepressants, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrist
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It’s About the Iced Tea
I do hope, dear reader, that you understand that I’m not writing these blogs to draw attention to myself. The goal is to inform you about end-of-life issues: how do you decide when your life is over? What do you … Continue reading
Posted in Death, disability, Medical care, physician, Poverty, Values
Tagged Amelia, Conditions and Diseases, death, disability, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, family, God, Hospice, iced tea, Medicine, Onondaga County New York, patients, Physician, poverty, quality of life, values
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Buying the Farm
I was dreaming that I was back on the farm but it wasn’t farming anymore, it was more an assisted living or skilled nursing home, and my parents—who are deceased—were coming to visit. Everything was so clean and fresh, and … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Health Care, Medical care, Nature, Values
Tagged Chester County, death, doctors, drugs, end-of-life, family, Farm, health care, Hope, Physician, relationships, values, William Penn
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