One of the Things About Mental Illnesses

papa tiger said:
Does this pretty much cut to the Chase about Stuff? Modern mental health medicine is probably proving to be B.S. ? ? .....
maybe High-quality Mentoring is a good approach?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...&cvid=7f1bd0251edd447f8e7256163078401d&ei=140
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In glancing through that article I noticed that it focused only on Schizophrenia.
Based upon the little of that article that I glanced through it sounds as though the medication for that specific illness needs to be reviewed.


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Maybe many quit taking their meds. Believe they don’t need them. Their ok?
 

papa tiger said:
Maybe many quit taking their meds. Believe they don’t need them. Their ok?
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They take their meds for a while. They start feeling better. Hey, I'm fine! Don't need those meds! They stop taking them. Downhill slide begins. They start the meds again. Rinse and repeat.

I had a coworker who was on-and-off constantly with her meds. You never knew whether you'd be working with Dr. Jekyll or Mrs. Hyde....
 
We are all prisoners of our own mind, and what controls your mind controls your life.
We are all trapped in our perceptions which are the only ways we interact with the world. We are also trapped by circumstances - our body, parents, birth date, geography, technology, economy, politics, conditioning, education, etc.

The mind is a powerful thing. Our thoughts control our entire lives even when we try so hard not to let them. Some of us live in prisons of the past, some in prisons of insecurity, some in prisons of poverty, while for others it may be one of poor self image, or fear, or guilt. It is an invisible prison without bars. Whatever has your mind, has you.

How do you flip the script and put your disturbing thoughts in captivity, and you get to enjoy freedom.

I read a book some years back with the title: "Don't Believe Everything You think". At first, I thought I had read the title wrong. I mean, why would our brain tell us things that aren't true? Why would it lie to us? Naturally if something comes from within us, it must be true. That concept sounds like the very definition of mental illness. Are we all mentally ill?

The answer has to be that the thoughts we are in possession of, we just don't know them to be false. It's like buying a work of art, and you live with this work of art on your wall, and all your life, you believe it to be genuine .... the real deal. But what if it isn't? What if it is a clever forgery and you never discover that?

I have the highest regard for those who have dedicated their lives to helping the ones imprisoned by mental illness, in whatever form and whatever degree it is manifested.
 
I wanted to Pink Floyd and the dark side of the moon however the madness kept taking encores and the band played on. I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon.
 
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My early interest in hallucinogenic and madness was in conjunction with my choice of reading material; Carlos Canstaneda, Alice in Wonderland and Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on a bus named Further.

i conditioned myself for the lifestyle I chose. Yes & no, I wanted to explore what my mind was capable of and how far could I go until it was necessary I return? I have lived and I have been all I have seen and all that I could feel. Everyone everywhere can claim the same, for me however, my experiences were tailored made for one person, me.
 
jujube said:
They take their meds for a while. They start feeling better. Hey, I'm fine! Don't need those meds! They stop taking them. Downhill slide begins. They start the meds again. Rinse and repeat.

I had a coworker who was on-and-off constantly with her meds. You never knew whether you'd be working with Dr. Jekyll or Mrs. Hyde....
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This is true. Those medications are hard to take. People stop taking them, feel better a few days, then they start to decompensate. A co-workers boyfriend did this. They took him to the ER, the ER sent him to a psych facility 2 hours away. He was so freaked out by then, the cops were called. He died while they had him on the ground. In his 30's.
 
Many psychiatric medications have horrible side effects which is one of the reasons people quit taking them. They also convince themselves that they no longer need them because they feel better. I would see clients functioning really well and then things would go downhill because of stopping.
 
jujube said:
They take their meds for a while. They start feeling better. Hey, I'm fine! Don't need those meds! They stop taking them. Downhill slide begins. They start the meds again. Rinse and repeat.

I had a coworker who was on-and-off constantly with her meds. You never knew whether you'd be working with Dr. Jekyll or Mrs. Hyde....
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I know lots of people who don't quit taking medicine too and have for decades. There are also those who may be weaned off of medication because they prefer to try other things like meditation, etc. Also some may no longer need it.

Not everyone who has or has had mental issues has to be on medicine 💊. That's another myth-we are not all the same.

There are many routes to optimal mental health. No one shoe fits all.

Also anyone can need mental help.
 
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Teacher Terry said:
Many psychiatric medications have horrible side effects which is one of the reasons people quit taking them. They also convince themselves that they no longer need them because they feel better. I would see clients functioning really well and then things would go downhill because of stopping.
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It's true. I have briefly tried antidepressants but given up because of immediate side effects.
 
How illusionary is our minds our world our planet - can anyone explain our beginnings where we all came from - was it from the sea and we crawled onto land - was it from apes - was it from dinosaurs? ? - in many ways this still is a very illusionary world with no real explanation of where we all reallly are from or who we really are?
 
The illusion is free will. That is the problem. If everyone was programed to the frequency imagination would cease to exist because ideas disrupt the natural balance of a programed individual. On the bright side war and violence may exist however, predictable as it may be.
 
We may ALL be mentally ill in some way? - those busy bees making lots and lots of money from others and not sharing [stealing] aren't they mentally ill ; many illegal govts stealing democracy - a variety of preachers all preaching different ideologies across religions and within similar religions ?? - capitalism - v - communism who is mentally ill in this dance?? - the islolated indian tribes in the amazon jungles ?? - mentally ill ?? - our former leaders like Donald Trump ?? - don't crush me in the rush to answer that one!! -

if you basically conform to the norms of your society be it the amazon jungle or New York State then you are not classified as mentally ill untill you step over that invisble line - are the homeless of this world mentally ill because they wanna stay homeless - prefer to be homeless and not be like the rest of us with homes??

its a MAD MAD MAD MAD world we live in heh??
 
There are people who have mental health problems and
cannot see it.
So they heap invectives on others quite oblivious of the fact, they are the ones who need help.
The sad thing is... those "friends" who chime in are the enablers who, instead of helping them, encourage the behaviour.
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One of the Things About Mental Illnesses, I am certain there are more things about mental illness, however not to fantasize about crazy, let us limit our observations to irregularities of the brain and of course Alice in Wonderland for whom we owe so much.​

 
Pepper said:
Everyone has some sort of mental illness. It's just a matter of degree and ability to function in society. Everyone is nuts. Everyone.
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Of course, you are just kidding. Many people experience a phobia or maybe have a traumatic experience of some sort, but not everyone of us experience a mental illness.

My sister would qualify as a person with a mental illness. She has hypochondria really bad. She can read about a disease and 20 minutes later she is calling me and telling me she had whatever the disease is. She has at least 8 phobias that her therapist had told her she has and that’s not to mention her phases of bipolar, panic attacks, depression and other illnesses.

Her medicine cabinet looks like walking into CVS.
 
bobcat said:
We are all prisoners of our own mind, and what controls your mind controls your life.
We are all trapped in our perceptions which are the only ways we interact with the world. We are also trapped by circumstances - our body, parents, birth date, geography, technology, economy, politics, conditioning, education, etc.

The mind is a powerful thing. Our thoughts control our entire lives even when we try so hard not to let them. Some of us live in prisons of the past, some in prisons of insecurity, some in prisons of poverty, while for others it may be one of poor self image, or fear, or guilt. It is an invisible prison without bars. Whatever has your mind, has you.

How do you flip the script and put your disturbing thoughts in captivity, and you get to enjoy freedom.

I read a book some years back with the title: "Don't Believe Everything You think". At first, I thought I had read the title wrong. I mean, why would our brain tell us things that aren't true? Why would it lie to us? Naturally if something comes from within us, it must be true. That concept sounds like the very definition of mental illness. Are we all mentally ill?

The answer has to be that the thoughts we are in possession of, we just don't know them to be false. It's like buying a work of art, and you live with this work of art on your wall, and all your life, you believe it to be genuine .... the real deal. But what if it isn't? What if it is a clever forgery and you never discover that?

I have the highest regard for those who have dedicated their lives to helping the ones imprisoned by mental illness, in whatever form and whatever degree it is manifested.
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Wellness #69 Escape from Self
Freedom from identity, ego, self can be achieved through meditation
Symbol: The Grateful Condor
IP (Inspirational Personality) A distant observer
 

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