In 2013, I forced the Medicaid clinic’s Director to withdraw me from 9 years/every 24-hrs- prescribed antipsychotic, anticonvulsant, & benzo addiction…my ‘punishment’ as a lab-dog, for having $ worries/insomnia following a business closure in 2004.
As I had immediately rejoined the workforce with excellent insurance, I was an irresistible target for the psychiatrist during the ‘bipolar gold-rush’ years following the now disgraced DSM-IV. She was later listed in Propublica’s “Dollars for Docs” as reaping $65K+ annually from Pharma-her largest ‘donor’ made the gateway- drug she drenched me in…Seroquel (Astra Zeneca)…introducing me to the now familiar ‘complaint’ of suicidal ideation.
After reporting that to her-she doubled down on the dosage.
Thanks Anjali.
Following the 2.5 years of withdrawal & the attendant horrors, I stepped into a new life- ‘phase’ of ‘Re-entry’ in 2016.
I didn’t see it coming…and it was tortuous. It was in addition to the following 3 years of ‘seizure-like’ events.
The exit-doc had left me with these parting words…”Don’t dwell on this. Let it go”…as if the next morning would bring rainbows & butterflies into my world.
I was gobsmacked at his arrogance…and self-forgiveness for his participation.
Starting a new life after grand-scale betrayal & addiction, causing documented heart-failure, nervous system collapse, brain lesion, snuffing-out my identity, & now seizures…was a big job.
Who was I supposed to see about that?
A psychologist, a psychiatrist…a Life Coach (joke)? My primary wanted me to stop talking about it (my MEDICAL history!).
It was up to me to salvage, treat, and rebuild a new life, a new personality..and boy, I had changed…completely.
Being intentionally bought, sold, disabled, and passed around has formed my core into a new hybrid of being. And I had never been shy. I had simply trusted the wrong cultural authority-MEDICINE.
It began right away. I ‘observed’ my compulsion to flex righteous power, with fascination. I was re-establishing my brain-function effectiveness (complex problem-solving) AND re-establishing my power in the world. I was compelled to quietly, effectively flex over everything that interfered with my recovery, new life, and had taken advantage of me when I was weak and sick (side effects).
It was the ULTIMATE CBT workbook-with a great big smirk.
I was compelled, while healing my brain and body, to push-back and extract an appropriate -toll for interfering-inappropriately…with me.
I started immediately with small, but easy rip-offs…my cable company coughed up $2000 for past transgressions…followed by other service providers sloppy lies. I then tore a big hole in the Board of Directors at my HOA who were lying, stealing, and threatening me for saying so (with evidence). It cost them $20,000…& then I moved.
I organized and traveled 2500 miles across the country, bought a condo on the water, & continue the ‘work’ of re-building.
The biggest plumbing company in S Florida tried to change the contract-AFTER the kitchen work was done, bullying me in my living room. I literally paid them to leave for my safety-I would fight them starting the next day.
The Florida Attn’y General’s office retreived my $1200 for me.
A new neighbor flooded my bathroom and sent her ‘manly’ nephew to threaten me-“don’t complain”. I almost laughed. He is banished and she was fined AND paid for all damages.
A man ‘interfered’ with me 3 times in my new community. I had him removed-engaging the HOA and Sherrif to do the heavy lifting.
I have a PhD on engaging with bullies, bullsh#tters, & thugs, thanks to Psychiatry.
Psychiatry taught me how to use the ‘process’ to effectively push back…& extract a cold-blooded toll.
It became the foundation of my re-birth. I was back. Appropriately.
I have a profound, rock-solid understanding of ‘appropriate”-in ALL its contexts- now.
Ms. Lilly,
Under the catagory of the “broader bioethical debate”….exactly where does my addiction to prescribed antipsychotics, benzos, & anticonvulsants every 24-hrs for 12 years fall in this “temporal” & “…distinctive experience of time” ?
THIS “…. rupture in the relationship between an individual and the prevailing rhythms of society” seems to be completly ignored…as if it doesn’t exist at all….when it’s prescriber generated.
The ‘prevailing rhythms of society’ ie; “…normalized time” defined by psychiatric prescribers & the addictions they create, are ‘lifetime’, in my “temporal” experience.
When the article states “…addiction care can move toward a more humane and inclusive model that respects patients not only as individuals but also as knowers of their own lives”, it begs…no…screams the question of prescriber-caused drug dependence….the enormous, diseased elephant in the room, known intimately by the tens of thousands of targeted victims.
But THIS is the most offensive of all when including the countless psychiatric prescribers as ‘drug dealers’….
“Even the most damaging addictions can serve as a partial compensation for dislocated individuals… belonging to a drug-using community provides much-needed relief from constant social exclusion and aimlessness.”
Ms. Grant……& Dr. Connors,
“…qualitative research work can provide.a deeper understanding…”?
What new thoughts, issues, discoveries, is this referencing, on this topic?
Because…..
2002-Time Magazine Cover story “Young and Bipolar”
2006-PLoS Med, “The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar”, David Healy, MD
2015-“Diagnosisgate: Conflict of Interest at the Top of the Psychiatric Apparatus”, Aporia, Paula J. Caplan, PhD
And yes, James Davies work is also good and relevant.
And on & on…
“Chevalier underscores the volatility of mental health terms when removed from the rigor of institutional science.”
The important discussion surrounding the U.S.(specifically) psychiatric vocabulary and “…rigor of institutional science” vs. Social Media is moot unless you first address the DSM/ Pharma-influenced, profit-focused origins of those ‘terms’.
The sales-driven definitions and capture of ‘targets’ (too often, unchallenged when described as ‘life-long’) is the story. Appealing to troubled individuals with a label/identifier and ‘fix’ (drugs) is the issue.
“More careful scientific effort may go into the DSM than the average TikTok video, but that does not make the psy disciplines immune to things like institutional corruption and other issues in the science of psychiatry.”
“More careful scientific effort may go into the DSM, but….” and “…things like institutional corruption…” is the ‘horse’ pulling the cart here.
Respectfully, you’re uninformed regarding the origins and drivers of psychiatry & DSM…or the massive sales profits and influence it generates…protected by being the #3 donor-class in Washington.
In 2013, I forced the Medicaid clinic’s Director to withdraw me from 9 years/every 24-hrs- prescribed antipsychotic, anticonvulsant, & benzo addiction…my ‘punishment’ as a lab-dog, for having $ worries/insomnia following a business closure in 2004.
As I had immediately rejoined the workforce with excellent insurance, I was an irresistible target for the psychiatrist during the ‘bipolar gold-rush’ years following the now disgraced DSM-IV. She was later listed in Propublica’s “Dollars for Docs” as reaping $65K+ annually from Pharma-her largest ‘donor’ made the gateway- drug she drenched me in…Seroquel (Astra Zeneca)…introducing me to the now familiar ‘complaint’ of suicidal ideation.
After reporting that to her-she doubled down on the dosage.
Thanks Anjali.
Following the 2.5 years of withdrawal & the attendant horrors, I stepped into a new life- ‘phase’ of ‘Re-entry’ in 2016.
I didn’t see it coming…and it was tortuous. It was in addition to the following 3 years of ‘seizure-like’ events.
The exit-doc had left me with these parting words…”Don’t dwell on this. Let it go”…as if the next morning would bring rainbows & butterflies into my world.
I was gobsmacked at his arrogance…and self-forgiveness for his participation.
Starting a new life after grand-scale betrayal & addiction, causing documented heart-failure, nervous system collapse, brain lesion, snuffing-out my identity, & now seizures…was a big job.
Who was I supposed to see about that?
A psychologist, a psychiatrist…a Life Coach (joke)? My primary wanted me to stop talking about it (my MEDICAL history!).
It was up to me to salvage, treat, and rebuild a new life, a new personality..and boy, I had changed…completely.
Being intentionally bought, sold, disabled, and passed around has formed my core into a new hybrid of being. And I had never been shy. I had simply trusted the wrong cultural authority-MEDICINE.
It began right away. I ‘observed’ my compulsion to flex righteous power, with fascination. I was re-establishing my brain-function effectiveness (complex problem-solving) AND re-establishing my power in the world. I was compelled to quietly, effectively flex over everything that interfered with my recovery, new life, and had taken advantage of me when I was weak and sick (side effects).
It was the ULTIMATE CBT workbook-with a great big smirk.
I was compelled, while healing my brain and body, to push-back and extract an appropriate -toll for interfering-inappropriately…with me.
I started immediately with small, but easy rip-offs…my cable company coughed up $2000 for past transgressions…followed by other service providers sloppy lies. I then tore a big hole in the Board of Directors at my HOA who were lying, stealing, and threatening me for saying so (with evidence). It cost them $20,000…& then I moved.
I organized and traveled 2500 miles across the country, bought a condo on the water, & continue the ‘work’ of re-building.
The biggest plumbing company in S Florida tried to change the contract-AFTER the kitchen work was done, bullying me in my living room. I literally paid them to leave for my safety-I would fight them starting the next day.
The Florida Attn’y General’s office retreived my $1200 for me.
A new neighbor flooded my bathroom and sent her ‘manly’ nephew to threaten me-“don’t complain”. I almost laughed. He is banished and she was fined AND paid for all damages.
A man ‘interfered’ with me 3 times in my new community. I had him removed-engaging the HOA and Sherrif to do the heavy lifting.
I have a PhD on engaging with bullies, bullsh#tters, & thugs, thanks to Psychiatry.
Psychiatry taught me how to use the ‘process’ to effectively push back…& extract a cold-blooded toll.
It became the foundation of my re-birth. I was back. Appropriately.
I have a profound, rock-solid understanding of ‘appropriate”-in ALL its contexts- now.
And I know who the danger is.
“Revenge is a dish best served cold”.
.
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Ms. Lilly,
Under the catagory of the “broader bioethical debate”….exactly where does my addiction to prescribed antipsychotics, benzos, & anticonvulsants every 24-hrs for 12 years fall in this “temporal” & “…distinctive experience of time” ?
THIS “…. rupture in the relationship between an individual and the prevailing rhythms of society” seems to be completly ignored…as if it doesn’t exist at all….when it’s prescriber generated.
The ‘prevailing rhythms of society’ ie; “…normalized time” defined by psychiatric prescribers & the addictions they create, are ‘lifetime’, in my “temporal” experience.
When the article states “…addiction care can move toward a more humane and inclusive model that respects patients not only as individuals but also as knowers of their own lives”, it begs…no…screams the question of prescriber-caused drug dependence….the enormous, diseased elephant in the room, known intimately by the tens of thousands of targeted victims.
But THIS is the most offensive of all when including the countless psychiatric prescribers as ‘drug dealers’….
“Even the most damaging addictions can serve as a partial compensation for dislocated individuals… belonging to a drug-using community provides much-needed relief from constant social exclusion and aimlessness.”
The authors are blinded by hubris.
Unforgivable.
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Ms. Grant……& Dr. Connors,
“…qualitative research work can provide.a deeper understanding…”?
What new thoughts, issues, discoveries, is this referencing, on this topic?
Because…..
2002-Time Magazine Cover story “Young and Bipolar”
2006-PLoS Med, “The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar”, David Healy, MD
2015-“Diagnosisgate: Conflict of Interest at the Top of the Psychiatric Apparatus”, Aporia, Paula J. Caplan, PhD
And yes, James Davies work is also good and relevant.
And on & on…
Why is this article here?
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“Chevalier underscores the volatility of mental health terms when removed from the rigor of institutional science.”
The important discussion surrounding the U.S.(specifically) psychiatric vocabulary and “…rigor of institutional science” vs. Social Media is moot unless you first address the DSM/ Pharma-influenced, profit-focused origins of those ‘terms’.
The sales-driven definitions and capture of ‘targets’ (too often, unchallenged when described as ‘life-long’) is the story. Appealing to troubled individuals with a label/identifier and ‘fix’ (drugs) is the issue.
“More careful scientific effort may go into the DSM than the average TikTok video, but that does not make the psy disciplines immune to things like institutional corruption and other issues in the science of psychiatry.”
“More careful scientific effort may go into the DSM, but….” and “…things like institutional corruption…” is the ‘horse’ pulling the cart here.
Respectfully, you’re uninformed regarding the origins and drivers of psychiatry & DSM…or the massive sales profits and influence it generates…protected by being the #3 donor-class in Washington.
The author buried the lead.
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