As I wrote in my last post, it is the people in the thrall of acute psychosis who most concern me and that is why I still believe that medication should be an option at least for a period of time. I'm hoping this will change this year. I talk a good game about peer support because I got so much out of going to the Al-Anon group, but the group is just not appropriate from people with psychotic disorders.Īnd I do use the word "psychotic" and "disorders" as well as the word "schizophrenia" because I do see the phenomenon of psychosis as an expression of imbalance and illness, though I know it can be a means to personal growth it can also lead to suicide. I've felt frustration about this for so long and disappointment in myself for not having the courage and stamina to start up a support group in my town. I know I need the help in my community medication and individual therapy have not been enough for me - I need to meet peers face to face.
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All I know is that people need to get organized and that's what the anti-psychiatry movement appears to be doing, working both in communities and online. Maybe individualized combinations of treatments could really address the core symptoms enough to treat acute psychosis without medication or with medication at a very small dosage. I want to believe the same for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and peer run support groups and diet, nutrition and exercise programs, but I honestly don't know yet. I want to believe that following a spiritual path of being Mindful and training the mind to study itself without judgment could help to treat acute psychosis.
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There's so much we can learn from one another, but we have to get into each other's hearts and minds and learn how to be there for each other.
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The great thing about support groups is that everyone is welcome from the acutely ill to those in partial recovery to those in full recovery. I know I was meant to be a part of a mental health support group. It seems more and more likely that community outreach programs and peer run support groups will be the wave of the future. And without exploration, there's not even the possibility of discovering a cure.
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If people don't explore, they will never find ways to develop better treatments to complex psychotic illnesses. And I am all for exploring alternatives to the medications. I certainly do accept them as such because we have been to the same hard places. In terms of spiritual orientation these anti-psychiatry people appear to by "my" people. On one of the sites that I stopped at they even were pushing books by Adyashanti! I also read an article by a woman who suffered from Bi-Polar disorder who came to embrace Tibetan Buddhism and mind training, while working in a peer-run support group and not taking the medications. I was fascinated to find that I have been going on a parallel course because some of the alternatives that are suggested are Mindfulness, Meditation, Yoga and viewing one's illness as actually a psycho-spiritual journey. I've only read a bit of it, but plan to return and continue my research. I just found one large site with lots and lots of information on it, it's called Beyond Meds: Alternatives to Psychiatry. There's a lot of outcry about the perils of being medicated, some of which I certainly sympathize with, but what I was really looking for was a list of alternatives to taking the medications.
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I've only just started reading some blogs about it. I have come upon the anti-psychiatry movement late.