Posted by floatingbridge on August 14, 2011, at 11:50:01
In reply to Re: Maybe this is as good as it gets..., posted by bleauberry on August 14, 2011, at 9:43:37
Hi BB,
I don't understand the following statement:
...my first impression is that you are not a psychiatric patient. You have other stuff involved that is not going to be dealt with by psych meds, and in fact may be made worse by them.
I don't know what is meant here by a psychiatric patient.
It is quite possible to be worsened by psychiatric medication. I readily agree. I readily agree to the multi-pronged approach of herbals, therapy, exercise, spiritual practice (or avowed abstinence of depending upon personal preference), pet therapy, everything that helps.
The longer I have looked at various afflictions, the idea of a psychiatric patient seems to really disappear. Who are psychiatric patients really? Self-avowed or outwardly labeled by others or a system, but real people, I guess I don't understand.
Unless you are encouraging the practice of not seeing one's self as a psychiatric patient. That can be liberating. Being a person who is, despite having some functional issuses, able to choose to accept various treatments, herbal or pharmaceutical w/o assuming a label or identity with them.
I don't think of anyone here as a psychiatric patient. Though a few are or have been hospitalized.
Regular users of marijuana have had to get out from under the yoke of being labeled stoners or whatever the current term is. Marijuana is a powerful herb (wish it worked for me) for pain, sleep, calming. It can also create interference in some people's lives like a psychiatric med.
With so many medications and herbs being cross-purposes and repurposed, I don't know.
I know you are being supportive here, BB. And I am being a stickler. Something about the phrase stuck, and I wanted to clear the air for myself, I suppose.
Peace.
fb
I dig a pony.
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