Christ_empowered
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MIA is Mad In America. Its sort of a more intellectual expose on psychiatry. They have a website now where people write about their (overwhelmingly negative) experiences with psychiatry and some mental health pros write about the wonders of their innovative approaches (usually talk therapy, sometimes shrinks writing in about reducing antipsychotic doses, stuff like that). Psychobabble is an old forum where those of us in treatment for...whatever...write in about things, usually either talk therapy or meds.
Thing is...drugs are mostly a dead end. My own lil cocktail serves mostly to lift my mood out of the void ("psychotic depression"), and treat everything that goes with long standing, severe depression--agitation, recurrence of depression, short lived mood switches. I'm diagnosed "Bipolar I" because of 1 severe episode that was apparently either manic or mixed. I dunno...
People write in looking for things. some have severe problems and need a drug they can tolerate, or one that actually chases the voices and paranoia away. Most have had bad experiences with mental health. MIA, they're "questioning mental health," and that's great, but...they're all missing something...
...Jesus. Seriously. Christ hasn't cured my so-called "Bipolar Disorder," which I do suspect is just a long, drawn out episode of psychotic depression with some highs and lows along the way, but at least my lil cocktail works. I do Orthomolecular, a bunch of massive dose vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and herbs. Does it help? I dunno. I started doing it before I checked back into ole Reality, and now I've been doing it for 4, 5 years so...why not keep on, right?
Anyway, I checked out the MIA site. I read the book years ago and like it. They have forums now. A woman wrote in and said that The Holy Spirit had set her free of meds. I was both jealous and concerned...sometimes people jump the gun at that sort of thing. Somebody wrote back calling religion a "virus" or something like that. The problem with MIA? They think just like the shrinks in a lot of respects. They need Jesus, above all else.
Psychobabble...we've had suicides at psychobabble. A couple random, unexpected deaths, too (happens with heavy psych meds, especially the anitpsychotics). People mysteriously disappear, never to re-appear. Some come back and berate us for still taking pills. They (we, really) need Jesus, too.
So..yeah. Psychobabble is slowing down after all these years. MIA is heating up in a big way, especially since the guy who wrote the book, Mad In America, is making a career out of exposing psychiatry. I guess somebody has to. The way I see it, you can't find happiness in a (pill) bottle, and you also can't find happiness in any sort of belief system (and talk therapy is based on certain worldivews, most of them decidedly un-Christian) that excludes saving knowledge of and faith in Christ Jesus. They may change psychiatry, maybe for 10, 20 years max before a new patient's rights group has to do the same thing over again, but...they'll still be miserable, by and large, and they'll still be very much within "The System."
Another mental health post, I know.
Thing is...drugs are mostly a dead end. My own lil cocktail serves mostly to lift my mood out of the void ("psychotic depression"), and treat everything that goes with long standing, severe depression--agitation, recurrence of depression, short lived mood switches. I'm diagnosed "Bipolar I" because of 1 severe episode that was apparently either manic or mixed. I dunno...
People write in looking for things. some have severe problems and need a drug they can tolerate, or one that actually chases the voices and paranoia away. Most have had bad experiences with mental health. MIA, they're "questioning mental health," and that's great, but...they're all missing something...
...Jesus. Seriously. Christ hasn't cured my so-called "Bipolar Disorder," which I do suspect is just a long, drawn out episode of psychotic depression with some highs and lows along the way, but at least my lil cocktail works. I do Orthomolecular, a bunch of massive dose vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and herbs. Does it help? I dunno. I started doing it before I checked back into ole Reality, and now I've been doing it for 4, 5 years so...why not keep on, right?
Anyway, I checked out the MIA site. I read the book years ago and like it. They have forums now. A woman wrote in and said that The Holy Spirit had set her free of meds. I was both jealous and concerned...sometimes people jump the gun at that sort of thing. Somebody wrote back calling religion a "virus" or something like that. The problem with MIA? They think just like the shrinks in a lot of respects. They need Jesus, above all else.
Psychobabble...we've had suicides at psychobabble. A couple random, unexpected deaths, too (happens with heavy psych meds, especially the anitpsychotics). People mysteriously disappear, never to re-appear. Some come back and berate us for still taking pills. They (we, really) need Jesus, too.
So..yeah. Psychobabble is slowing down after all these years. MIA is heating up in a big way, especially since the guy who wrote the book, Mad In America, is making a career out of exposing psychiatry. I guess somebody has to. The way I see it, you can't find happiness in a (pill) bottle, and you also can't find happiness in any sort of belief system (and talk therapy is based on certain worldivews, most of them decidedly un-Christian) that excludes saving knowledge of and faith in Christ Jesus. They may change psychiatry, maybe for 10, 20 years max before a new patient's rights group has to do the same thing over again, but...they'll still be miserable, by and large, and they'll still be very much within "The System."
Another mental health post, I know.
