Comments on: Alternatives to Psychiatric Hospitalization

By: Framboize

Framboize — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:11:11 +0000

The worst thing that ever happened to me, which I refer to as Psychiatric Abuse, was being called suicidal when I was not. I was treated like a dangerous animal, restrained, and put on 1:1 monitoring. I complained that the 1:1 people were physically and verbally abusive to me and were denying me basic privacy rights. I was told I was psychotic. I was not. This was even worse Psychiatric Abuse. This is the worst and pretty much only abuse I ever went through and had very little to do with “drugs. They gaslighted me, held me hostage, would not let me communicate with the outside, continuously called me psychotic, told me they were sending me to an institution for life, tried to force me onto Zyprexa, and finally, let me go. After I left, I found out my church had kicked me out, most of my friends that I had left claimed I was psychotic and that it never happened. One of my good friends sided with the hospital and claimed they were doing their job. I cried every day for months alone, hugged my dog and cried and cried and thought my life was over. At the time I was 55 years old. That incident may have nearly killed me, but it made me an activist.

By: keeway

keeway — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:07:40 +0000

Hi Frank,Thanks for your thoughts. You make an interesting point about trying to fix one form of impairment (i.e. mental distress) with another (drug use). Indeed, the impairment created by antipsychotics is well documented, especially in the long-term studies. Many of the non-drug approaches for psychosis (including CBT for psychosis, Open Dialogue, and Hearing Voices Network) don"t try to medicalize psychosis, but seek to meet the experience, understand it, and find ways to work through the issues it may present.

By: Brenna

Brenna — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:19:24 +0000

oops…maybe that was a weird place to send my note! Brenna

By: Brenna

Brenna — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 02:17:54 +0000

Jon, Really beautiful website. Excited to have the herbal profiles at my fingertips. Loved hanging on the coast with you and Amanda. Thanks for my new friend. Love, Brenna