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Old Aug 09, 2024, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow View Post
I really liked Kay Redfield Jamison's autobiography (Touched by Fire????). Another one helped me a lot even though it's about schizophrenia. I can't get the name to come to me. The author is Laurie something. (Good luck finding it on those directions!). It dealt with clozapine very helpfully when I knew for some time that I was probably going to have to go on it. She's a huge success story on it.

What is the most important quality in a pdoc or therapist?
Kay's main autobiography is An Unquiet Mind (a general overview) but she has another called Touched by Fire (more relating creativity to mental illness) fyi

I don't know if this counts as a "quality in them" but most people I absolutely cannot feel or think for myself around because everything I feel/think/do is "wrong" but every now and then I land on someone I can be myself around, and it's cool whether it's a pdoc/t or not.

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