People who have been harmed by psychiatric medication blame the doctors who started them on it for their suffering. After years of struggling to free and heal ourselves without any help from the medical community we start to vilify those doctors. But as a doctor, you want to see yourself as a helpful healer. If …
“Make an appointment for your annual checkup” says the friendly celebrity on the TV. “And share with him everything you’re feeling physically and emotionally.” The world has been turned on it’s head. The economy is in the crapper. Unemployment is at levels not seen since the Great Depression. People are dying in droves from an …
Google the term antipsychiatry, and you get the following definition from Wikipedia: Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is more often damaging than helpful to patients. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient and …
Living in the great state of New Hampshire, home of the first in the nation presidential primary, those of us who are registered voters either with the party opposing the current incumbent or as undecided are bombarded, almost daily, with representatives of current candidates asking us about our “top priorities”. Since my husband relies on …
The term “mental Illness” has been a part of my life from day one. My birth was a very traumatic process for my mother. She was in labor for over 36 excruciating hours during which my heart and breathing stopped resulting in what was later called cerebral palsy. Even before this my mother struggled with …
