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Suffering or Not: A Choice
I’ve been getting feedback from folks who read my blog saying that it appears that I’m suffering, so I need to set the record straight. My friend, Steve Wechsler, always signs off his emails with “Change is inevitable; suffering is optional.” In … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, Depression, Health Care, Inpatient psychiatry, Medicaid, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Spirituality
Tagged Change, Conditions and Diseases, depression, disability, Health, health care, Medicine, mental disorder, pain, patients, problem solving, soul, spirit, Steve Wechsler, suffering, values
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Erasing Painful Memories
This blog is repeatedly being searched for what psychiatric drugs will erase painful memories. There are none. What has happened to you has made you the person you are. Painful memories cannot be excised from your mind like a tumor … Continue reading
Speaking My Language, and the Good Guys
August 10 Once upon a time a therapist had a patient who was planning to kill some people and then herself. She was very intentional and very much in control, so he sent her to be admitted to inpatient psychiatry. Shortly … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Health Care, Medical care, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged anger, Bhagavad Gita, Cleveland Clinic, diagnosis, discharge planner, fear, Foley catheter, freedom of speech, frustration, fuck, Health, health care, inpatient psychiatry, language, Medicine, Nurse, nurses, Onondaga County New York, pain, Patient, patients, pharmaceuticals, Psychiatrist, speech, St. Joseph's Hospital, terror
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How to Know If Your Drugs Are Hurting You
My mother was in her eighties when she became constipated, so she started eating whole wheat bread and drinking prune juice. It didn’t help. At her next regularly scheduled physician’s appointment (after you develop chronic illness, they tell you when … Continue reading
Posted in American medical industry, drugs, Health Care, Medical care, Pharmaceuticals, physician
Tagged Abilify, arthritis, Constipation, diabetes, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, drugstore, Family Circle, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Good Houskeeping, headache, health care, kidney disease, manufacturer's insert, Medicine, menstrual bleeding, Neurontin, pain, patients, PDR, Pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceuticals, pharmacist, Pharmacy, Physician, Physicians Desk Reference, side-effects, Symbicort
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