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Originally Posted by ScientiaOmnisEst
Thank you, i seem to have pushed the thought of dying out of my mind for the time being, but really, this post was in reference to this.
http://forums.psychcentral.com/other...ml#post4869735
Take a look at that link, particularly a chapter called Suicide: A Civil Right, or something like that.
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Oh, thank you. I hadn't seen this before. My thoughts on that are, firstly, I used to believe psychiatry is evil. But the psychiatry of today is much more compassionate in a general way than it used to be, and hopefully it will just get more so. When I was in college in the 1970s, that was my first experience of psychiatry. It was pretty bad. I spent the next 35 years avoiding psychiatry at all costs, and suffering from my conditions, but free of meds. Granted I never had anything new happen in those years. I never had hallucinations, etc. But I did still have my original illness.
When I began seeing a new psychiatrist (for meds I had been taking, prescribed by a GP), I did not trust the Atypical antipsychotics. That was too bad because a new thing did start, I did begin to have hallucinations. Fast forward about 7 years, and now I couldn't get by without an aap med. The hallucinations I had were absolute torture.
This is getting to be a lot of rambling, sorry. Can't organize my thoughts well anymore.
In conclusion, although for most of my life I believed psychiatrists and their meds were the devil, I now am very grateful for the meds because they rescued me from horrible suffering. I wouldn't be taking meds if there were nothing wrong with me. I'm not sure I faithfully addressed your question. :/