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Love a bi-polar day. That could be my son (diagnosed), or my mother (would fit today’s criteria)…
I love and HATE the idea.
Labels make me crazy. I have spoken about this, on my radio show:
http://ia600507.us.archive.org/8/items/ChannelingTheMuse_108/CTM062510sanity.mp3.
l I counsel about this, and help people create healing ceremonies for themselves:
and I am campaigning HARD to wake folks up to the problems with long term use of psych meds:
http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/drug-induced-dementia/
and provide SAFE suggestions for tapering and monitoring while adjusting or eliminating such meds:
http://willhall.net/harmreductionguidecomingoffpsychdrugs/
So, what do I think about Love a Bipolar Day?
I am remembering getting excited about the Wayseer Manifesto, and having a cynical friend remark that 80% of the 9 minute video could be a diagnostic study of mania:
Things that make you go “HMMMMMM”.
What I know–
#1 Labels suck the life out of people.
#2 Mental diversity is simply not tolerated, in the United States of America.
#3 Americans are consumers, not citizens, and consuming drugs (legal and illegal) is a multi billion dollar business. One in three Americans are on psychiatric meds; THAT is sick.
#4 the closer a person is to nature, the less likely they are to fall into unpleasant relationships with EXTREME STATES (that would be develop neuroses, become depressed or anxious, have a nervous breakdown, or become psychotic)
#5 the difference between a shaman and a schizophrenic is the voice in the shaman’s head STOP when asked to stop.
#6 the difference between a mystic and a madman (or woman) is a mystic knows when to keep their mouth shut.
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