Sticky post: I may be well

Hi, I haven’t been keeping up the blog partly because things are going so well for me. If you have been diagnosed with a mental illness and/or are taking psychiatric medication and stumbled across this blog take heart, you can recover. Your life can be fun, productive, calm…whatever consider as good. You can also wean off psychiatric drugs.

I started this blog to share my experience with others. I am at a good place in my life. I still am not ready to go public and I have other projects where I need to spend time. So I will not be posting as regularly.

Caffeine

I had weaned myself down to one cup of coffee a few months ago. Well, I slowly kept drinking a second cup or making it stronger. Now I get a roaring headache if I don’t drink some coffee right away in the morning AND if I only drink one cup.

Here are some posts that I wrote about this previously.

Naturgal and caffeine

 

Hello, it’s November

Hi Fellow Bloggers,

Wow, it is November already!. I have been doing pretty well. I feel integrated into society and some parts of my life are good.  I would say I feel that I am 95 % better or self-confident. I have applied for a couple competitive jobs and came in a close second. I still have my moments and I am still on disability, but I am working my darndest (is that they way you spell that?) to be confident that I can do it by myself.  It is just the health insurance thing that really scared me. I don’t want to lose Medicare without another insurance in place first.

I haven’t gone to yoga in months and I haven’t been taking my high blood pressure medicine. I am at goal with Weight Watchers.

 

Over diagnoses of bipolar disorder discussed on radio

Midmorning is discussing over diagnoses of bipolar disorder.

You can listen here.

Midmorning MPR

Feeling normal on a Sunday morning

Hi,

It’s Sunday morning. I am debating what to do with my blog. I have gotten very busy and there is a lot to blog about, but I am also feeling very much normal.  I think that I am cured of my “mental illness.” Haha…my life-long, debilitating, persistent and severe mental illness.

I am not off of disability because I am still scared. Scared I might have an episode. But I am getting closer and closer.

I feel so normal.

The people I started blogging with, have stopped blogging. It’s not like the “ole days.”  I really felt I had a community of support.

I am very environmentally minded and I am wondering if I should just have a blog on the environment under a different name. I am not ready to reveal my journey to hell and back with psych drugs to the general public. But maybe some day I could.

A disconnect? Organic healthy food and proponal drip to sleep?

So I have been watching the reports on Michael Jackson and his use of propofol. How sad that he thought he needed drugs to be normal. He used proponal (a drug that is used for surgery) to sleep.

Too bad a doctor did insist he try some natural atletrantives. Like going swimming and relaxation techniques.

The media also interviewed his cook who was gushing about how he was into organic, healthy food. Too bad he didn’t follow the whole philosphy of treating your body naturally. There seems to be a disconnect in eating organic and using anesthetic propofol to fall a sleep. Read more here.

Interview with the chef here.

http://www.cchrint.org/

Visit  Psychiatric Drug Adverse Reaction Search Engine

Will counseling do any good?

I have a counseling session today. Three weeks ago I was supposed to write down what I have for self-esteem and happiness.

I think the whole reason I got into this depression and mental health fiasco is because I have low self-esteem. I was anxious and nervous and depressed. I went for help and the next thing you know I am on a roller coaster of prescription drugs…and ….read the beginning of my blog.

I really don’t want a second divorce, but I don’t want to live without sex. My sex life is pathetic. My husband has a low drive and he has hurt my feelings so much that I just can’t relax. I used to have a very high sex drive. He has rejected my sexual advances so many times…and now when he says he wants it…which is so far a few between, but when he says he does….I feel kind sick. He refuses to go for counseling for this issue. He has a counselor, but I don’t think he has brought up this issue

Well, this is supposed to be about me, what do I have to have.

1. Someone who respects me
2. food
3. shelter
4. health care
5. alternative health care
6. friends
7. “social standing” or a place within the little group I respect….not the “blue bloods” or the “high class”.
8. Enough money to cover my bills. Right now I don’t have that much. My biggest expensive are for a little efficiency apartment, my health insurance….yes, even if you are on Medicare you still have to purchase it, a supplemental policy and some prescription or supplements. This counseling session is $90.00 because Medicare doesn’t cover it.
9. I was going to say sex…but heck, I lived with a low or nonexistent sex life for so long now, maybe I don’t. It’s more than just sex. I think the phsyscial touch is healing. I am not getting that special healing…sexual healing…like the song

So, what kinds of things do you need to be happy? If you are in a mental health system, have they helped you?

I went to a lady who studies energy. She said the chakra around my throat felt low or tight or whatever. She said that was the truth chakra…yes, I don’t let people know about my mental health history. And I don’t have the nerve to tell my husband that I am unhappy…well, heck..he knows I don’t live with him. But I don’t tell my friends and family that I am separated…..I do feel like I hide the real me. But you see, used to run around blabbing about myself to everyone.

I had to search far and wide to find this woman who will agree with my rejected of psych drugs.

Mindfreedom thanks Obama who signed a UN treaty to protect people with disabilities

I received the following information from Mindfreedom yesterday. And I did hear this on National    Public  Radio.  You may listen to that story here:  U.S. Seeks Senate Help On U.N. Disability Rules All Things Considered, July 24, 2009 ·

The US media top story tonight?

A war of words between the Cambridge police, a Harvard professor and

President Obama.

Distracted by the frenzy, much of the media missed how President Obama

ended his day:

Signing a global UN treaty to protect the human rights of people with

disabilities. Along with many others, MindFreedom played a role in

crafting the treaty inside the United Nations.

Using Melatonin and GABA to aid sleep.

Today is another day.

I had trouble sleeping last night. Currently I am not keeping this blog like I would like to. I want to be adding scientific information about alternative treatments.

Last night I was still awake at 1 a.m. so I took some supplements. I have not been taking my supplements like I should. So when I was still awake I took: Melatonin and GABA. Some people called GABA “nature’s Valium”.

I used to take those supplements every night. Sometimes in the form of Sleep Essentials which is sold by Swanson’s Vitamins.

My supplement routine was prescribed to me by an M.D. who is pretty much anti-psychiatry.

I am so glad I met him. I am doing so much better now. If you are taking psych meds and want to quit. DO NOT go of COLD TURKEY. You can get very, very sick.