MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'betrayal'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159199&cid=t_101043_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F25%2Fto-heal-after-an-affair-and-rebuild-the-relationship%2F “For many people, an affair is deeply traumatizing [and] some marriages can’t recover from it,” said Jason Seidel, PsyD, founder and director of The Colorado Center for Clinical Excellence in Denver. But if you decide to work on your relationship post-affair, you must accept a hard truth: Another affair can happen. This is the paradox of healing, Seidel said. Often, partners who’ve been cheated on will demand full access to their spouse’s email, cell phone records, Facebook and other accounts (or they’ll sneak around to get the access), he said. They see this as legitimate and essential to helping reestablish trust in the relationship. A common belief is “How could I ever trust you again unless you give me full access?” While this thinking is understandable, it simply doesn... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159199 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:40:21 +0100 5159199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560565&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=39203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdawnwillis.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F08%2Fbi-polar-blues%2F     Very accurate and honest.     Filed under: News, Views, All Topics Tagged: A season lashed, a winters betrayal, on invisible illness (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy) Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560565 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:39:29 +0100 4560565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2993923&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F15%2Fif-its-any-consolation-i-dont-begin-to-understand-them%2F I understood growing up that trusted people were not inadvertently driving me crazy but were instead devoted to the systematic destruction of my sanity. It wasn’t about their behaviors, though I’d make it a point to avoid a beating by wandering the neighborhood til the lights went out, go home and step over mom on the way to the kitchen, eat a tub of Cool Whip, fall asleep on the couch and wake up with a caregiver’s dick in my mouth. Go down to the basement and burn my cum-stained nightie in the laundrytub, thinking, then head off to school in rumpled overalls and mother’s torn nylons, sleep at my desk while intuitive classmates point and ridicule, gearing up for the beatdown I was hoping to dodge by the bullies on the playground. Welp, I told myself, sucks all righ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2993923 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:09:44 +0100 2993923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1991041&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F27%2Fi-try-to-praise-the-mutilated-world%2F I often wonder what it will look like to reach the point of not just surviving my misfortunes but being simply and profoundly grateful for every single thing that has ever happened to me. And why people who want things like that are so perplexing to those who don’t. Those who wonder, in their golden ways what’s so funny about gallows humor, the sole comfort of those who’ve escaped the hangman and an affront to those who have no knowledge of his existence. Welp, there it is, in black & white, no less. Thanks by W.S. Merwin Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanki... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1991041 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:44:48 +0100 1991041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1870945&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F11%2Fballad-of-a-teenage-queen%2F She shouts for a reckoning with entire mouth and unspoilt heart. My friend Poodle (”Ursula”) from Christchurch NZ declares her joy, in love with these times. (rule for radicals: that’s why she’s a teacher and you’re not) so thats me in the corner-thats me over there–was a hard arse interview 2 do-my dyslexia gets in the way some-times-just bear with it and it will show its beauty Living With the Scars of Abuse by KIM THOMAS Source: Press, The Christchurch, New Zealand Posted on: Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 15:00 CDT New Zealand’s mental health system has a dark history, with hundreds of former patients alleging abuse in state hospitals. Kim Thomas tells the story of one woman who suffered abuse and explores what former patients are doing to try an... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1870945 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:54:34 +0100 1870945 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1723548&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F21%2Fobama-to-mccain-cbt-is-shit-fer-brains%2F Welp, I’m back from my break. Feast your eyes to the right of this blog, after 3 months over-thinking how to set it up we now have a world of VODPOD, and I think it’s going to help. I’m just building the library now but once it holds a hundred or so clips will find a way to order the narrative so we can get lost for a day or two in there. So what’s new? I took off a few weeks because I’ve been animated by a real serious project that I didn’t want to jinx by blogging about and since this project is uppermost in my mind found I couldn’t blog about anything until I feel secure it’s going to work out. I feel secure it’s going to work out and will explain everything tomorrow but as a tease will just share that due to this new and mysterious ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1723548 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:16:13 +0100 1723548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1596565&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F08%2Ftomorrows-fish-and-chip-paper%2F You remember that lady who fell down and died in front of everybody in a New York hospital? What are you, living in the past, that was 8 whole days ago! But here’s a footnote lest you were to think something relevant was about to happen — that video didn’t hit the airwaves as the result of an investigation into the deplorable conditions of our nation’s yadda yadda, it was a fluke stumbled on while investigating some other unrelated everyday civil rights violation. See that puff of smoke going up, that would be the change in the air, an allowance that what happened in Kings County Psychiatric Hospital happens all the time in those places, in your neighborhood and mine, standard and unremarkable. Putting eyes on it is what’s remarkable, which leads to necessary ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1596565 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:39:55 +0100 1596565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531450&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F20%2Fwhere-did-our-love-go%2F Heard from our first NAMI defender today in a comment too fuckwadity to dissect though it’s befitting of due ridicule in what I hope to be the first in a protracted and honorable sword-crossing with our authoritarian rightwing mental health overlords. Participatory dialogue between consumers and families is so very long overdue it was with bated breath I opened the email only to discover that I’m fat lazy ugly self-absorbed and write a shitty blog, do nothing to improve the world while the good people of NAMI, who are VOLUNTEERS, freely volunteer their time and energy to advocate for the mentally ill. O yes compared to them my own perfidy knows no bounds, even poor, helpless diabetic Angelbait is not laid low with chronic disease in the prime of her nine lives, but is an attent... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531450 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:28:45 +0100 1531450 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432638&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F09%2Fviagra-comes-to-mind%2F Shit. I haven’t been able to look at this, til talking on the phone with Poodie tonight who said the story isn’t getting proper coverage. So I went looking for the truth at Shakesville, who hits it out of the park from the git: THIS story should be reported with purpose. If it is not to [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432638 Fri, 09 May 2008 11:36:22 +0100 1432638 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1397584&cid=t_101043_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F04%2Fretracting-my-charge-that-robert-lanza.html Some time ago, I charged Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology with having "betrayed science." Recently, at his initiative, we have been in communication and have cleared some of the bad air that lay between ourselves. While we do not agree on ethical matters, I think it is fair to say that we understand each other far better than we did formerly. I appreciate his efforts to reach out and bury some hatchets and consider them permanently interred in the ground.One ax apparently still lingers: Lanza and those close to him were apparently quite hurt by my charge of scientific betrayal. That was not my intent, and I made the admittedly harsh assertion after listening to an interview on the Nature podcast in which Lanza said:What we have done, for the first time is to actually create human e... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1397584 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:33:00 +0100 1397584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1353093&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F06%2Fgood-touchbad-touch%2F Friday I learned something serious in a CPS hearing about the leading CSA (child sexual abuse) prevention program known as Good Touch/Bad Touch. I was grateful when this program came out 25 years ago, thought it would have helped me if it was around when I was growing up, I’ve used the teaching [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1353093 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:24:06 +0100 1353093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1353094&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F05%2Fcherry-picking-advocates-have-some-explaining-to-do%2F Better yet, let me explain them. Ask yourself, why do “activists” “fighting” for the “civil rights” of people with psychiatric labels denounce mental health parity legislation? What do you call the denial of care for an anorectic if not discrimination? I don’t think people who post against mental health parity should get to sidle up [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1353094 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:25:45 +0100 1353094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1266565&cid=t_101043_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F28%2Fcommunicating-with-the-one-you-love%2F All of us have our insecurities, and some of us have our secrets. Sometimes we share these with the ones we love, and sometimes we feel trapped, ashamed or simply unable to do so. Sometimes our insecurities are just the random issues of self-esteem or feeling like we’re not good enough in anything we do, often as a result of our childhood or just bad experiences as a young adult or teen. And sometimes we don’t share things because we’re ashamed of something that we feel others wouldn’t understand. Even those we love and hold close to our hearts. To the one who later learns of the insecurities or secrets, it feels like a betrayal of the love and trust and everything they hold dear in the relationship. It’s not about the actual thing not shared. It’s abou... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1266565 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:40:39 +0100 1266565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1219959&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F09%2Fan-ode-to-elliott%2F I just found this, Dr. Mark Dombeck’s fine tribute to Elliott Smith in what he calls his Gift of Vulnerability Music at Mental Health Net: …. I was seduced again by the rawness and immediacy of the pain that the man was able to capture; was talented enough to shape and record; was courageous enough to [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1219959 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:45:12 +0100 1219959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1198052&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F03%2Frise-up-little-blogger%2F I remember last year, when the A-listers de-linked all the smaller blogs from their rolls, in what double-talking Atrios christened Blogroll Amnesty Day. The small blogs responded in true opposition by filling their own blogrolls with the links of those who had been kicked off the big blogs, in a classy demonstration of support [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1198052 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:20:18 +0100 1198052 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1162868&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F19%2Fhousing-first%2F Apologies to regular readers about the light posting, I spent the week running down opportunities for real life volunteer work and I have to learn about homelessness, so am back to the Internet for the goal-direction and learning tools. I remember when getting off the streets meant you can walk into a 24 hour drop in [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1162868 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:22:04 +0100 1162868 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1104400&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F19%2Fnimh-message-to-consumers%2F So the public’s been invited to get off its sorry ass and send personal recommendations to the moon in the sky regarding the national strategic mental health plan, which will “serve as a guide to the Institute for advancing mental health science over the next 3-5 years.” The friendly solicitation of public comment [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1104400 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:53:20 +0100 1104400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1091413&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F13%2Fone-of-these-psychiatrists-is-not-like-the-other%2F These two posts caught my eye today, different starting points but seem related somehow: Philip at Furious Seasons responds to a reader who asks if bipolar is a dangerous gift, and the breadth and scope of his response deserves a standing ovation. Not only does he describe the Icarus Project clearly and with enviable economy, he [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1091413 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:57:25 +0100 1091413 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1054911&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F27%2Fnot-born-with-it-die-with-it%2F How does Post Traumatic Stress Disorder fit into the current biological model of mental illness? It doesn’t, people are not born with this malady, PTSD is the one and only severe mental illness organized around lived experience. But that is just so 1980s; unpleasant, un-profitable, incurable PTSD, let’s pretend it never happened and bedazzle [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1054911 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:10:03 +0100 1054911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1045153&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Ftry-to-praise-the-mutilated-world%2F Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, you’ve heard the [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1045153 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:11:57 +0100 1045153 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1034882&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F18%2Fnamis-agenda-still-my-ruling-nightmare%2F And you know what, I’m gonna leave off this for awhile, I can’t handle it, there’s a lot of positive stuff going on in the movement and I’m gonna spend the next couple days drinking it in. But first let me show you my pain, from an email I sent to TMA yesterday, and [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1034882 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:20:46 +0100 1034882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=965274&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F20%2Fsofter-times-will-be-had-by-all%2F I went to 2 policy meetings today, which usually leads to the cussing, not-safe-for-work diatribe you’ve come to expect following these forays into the lions den. But institutional mental health is being re-organized in Texas, on the local, state and federal levels, and some demonstrable, incremental changes have happened since just last [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965274 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:33:21 +0100 965274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=957347&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fbecause-enduring-ennobles-we-wont-be-discussing-that%2F I’m still having a hard time recovering from mental illness awareness week, migraines, can’t sleep and nightmares when I can, plus waking up crying. I woke up and hollered “Molly!” a few hours ago, and I’ve been drinking a bit to take the edge off, which is nothing to me but a clue. Molly Ivins [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957347 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:59:50 +0100 957347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=944645&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F11%2Fdear-god-your-sockpuppets-are-calling%2F That would be the self-named Chosen who speak as icons of lucidity, praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster on behalf of the crazy folk. Included in this week’s devotion to exploiting the children they deny they drove insane, NAMI held their National Day of Prayer for Those with Mental Illness on Tuesday. Though [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=944645 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:39:21 +0100 944645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=931204&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F05%2Fsensibilty-heroics-pleasure%2F And frustration, how I spent my morning, noon and looks like Friday night. Seems I had a thought to join the blogospheric tradition of using Fridays to cleanse the palate, but I don’t have an i-tunes list to share or digital camera to take the standard kitteh pics, and besides I want my cleansing Friday [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=931204 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:45:30 +0100 931204 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=923783&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F03%2Fwhat-if-collaborators-are-going-to-hell%2F I’m scheduled to attend a commission on human rights meeting in a few hours but can’t sleep, thinking. All my friends are laughing at me up in heaven; I’ve been charged with ineptitude, reformist tendencies, unpunkrock hamfisted good will. I see them laughing, and hear them singing, there’s always someone to praaaaaaay for, [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=923783 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:11:35 +0100 923783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=892886&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F22%2Fim-glad-i-fought-i-only-wish-wed-won%2F Lost my patience with the commenters at Pandagon again, getting too too old for this. Amanda’s done 2 recent posts in defense of the Insufferable Music Snob, and has gotten pushback from shaming libruls who don’t recognize the playful irony in those who brand themselves insufferable. My own concern is what you’d expect from [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=892886 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:09:03 +0100 892886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=883800&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F19%2Fhow-psychiatry-blames-the-victim%2F A man rapes a woman, her resulting PTSD is misdiagnosed as Borderline Personality Disorder. Women who have been raped are traumatized and eligible for the non-punishing dx of PTSD, which sits on AXIS I of treatable mental illness. BPD is an AXIS II diagnosis, the AXIS referring to disorders of the personality, that [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=883800 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:57:27 +0100 883800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=873795&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F15%2Fthese-are-the-secrets-that-kill%2F Patriarchy: A social system in which the father is the head of the family and men have authority over women and children. I support Brigitte Harris, the 26-year-old New York woman charged with strangling and castrating her pig of a father for what he did to her because he could. What he did to his daughter (almost every type of sexual act possible from the time she was 3 years old through her young adulthood) is not remarkable. One in five girls grows up raped by a family member, night after night year in and year out. Our society condones this, if you find that hard to believe, listen to a victim. As if. Our society likes to believe that incest is taboo. Wrong, incest is ordinary. Revealing the truth of incest is what’s taboo. Victims who do tell are not believed. None of which is... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=873795 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:28:44 +0100 873795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=843921&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F05%2Fremember-the-children-they-remember-you%2F Calling all NAMI! Yoo-hoo! Hi! ((((((HUGS!!!1!!)))))) Read the LA Times this week? Gonna pull on your coat a second, k? Thanx! Dr. Gabrielle A. Carlson, a psychiatrist at Stony Brook University, said only 1 of every 5 children referred to her with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder actually has it. Carlson, who has studied the increase in bipolar diagnoses, said some parents seemed to prefer a diagnosis of the disorder because the illness, thought to be largely genetic, absolves them of blame. “They don’t have to deal with their chaos, their psychiatric disorder, their marital troubles or abuse.” Won’t somebody please think of the children? Yes, indeed, one of these days I believe we will. via. (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=843921 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:31:49 +0100 843921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=835528&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F31%2Fchoosey-moms-choose-pepper-spray%2F At the Capitol Wednesday lawmakers held a meeting with the officials of the Texas Youth Commission, to hear how they’re coming with the sweeping reforms outlined in last session. I’m in such a pissy funk it’s taking 2 days and hard liquor to absorb the testimony. The only M.D. who spoke said what they need to do is take behavioral control of the population, and that he would diagnose “100 percent of the inmates with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.” He then praised the cutting edge research of Harvard’s bi-polar child mafia, citing Biederman by name, as mark of credibility. There was no criticism or suggestion of internal controversy, and there won’t be, ever. A specialized medical practice is by definition out of reach from general discourse, the s... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=835528 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:03:09 +0100 835528 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=828293&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F28%2Fmother-jones-takes-us-to-school%2F When I first heard about the Judge Rotenberg torture center it took a week of intensive reading to educate myself about the issue. That’s a lot of time and effort, and I’m motivated. So I guess it’s understandable when the general public remains ignorant of the horrifying little psychiatric secrets going on in the times in which they live; too much work! It’s not that the Rotenberg Center doesn’t get a lot of press, it does, it’s been featured on Dateline and other mainstream investigative programs, and was even depicted in an episode of Law and Order, still, most people are not aware of its existence. Thankfully, this month’s Mother Jones has done a compelling and readable expose in School of Shock: Food deprivation. Isolation. Electric shocks. I... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=828293 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:15:34 +0100 828293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=781452&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F05%2Fdesperate-times%2F I just read this paper by Shery Mead, describing what’s become of alternative support systems in the age of accreditation. It resonates totally with my own experience, for which I’m grateful, as I’m still trying to get my bearings in understanding how mental health took such a bad turn, and why the old models, which do exist and to put it mildly, have not been officially discredited, are, nevertheless ignored in making policy. In the past 25 years I’ve been a client, paraprofessional, support group member, paid direct care staffer and worked in all types of mental health agencies and settings. The difference in how things were 20 years ago compared to today are stupifying, more so because the blatant devolution is touted as progress. The origins of peer support is ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=781452 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:32:48 +0100 781452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=751763&cid=t_101043_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F23%2Fqueer-kicks-mentally-ill-in-face%2F As a psych rights activist it’s always seemed to me a no-brainer that we look up to the gay community for inspiration and strategy, which I’ve done for years with a savage merriment. For them I have also taken professional risks; while in alt rock radio I recognized the homosexual community as a silent constituency and welcomed the presence of drag queens in broadcasts from nightclub remotes, and more recently I’ve agitated for the inclusion of Act Up when reporting signficant activism within legislative tracking. I’ve willingly taken shit for this stand because I feel a natural fondness and affinity, I’ve marched with them, done fundraising for HRC and am not gay, for Christ’s sakes. And have always responded, without thinking when alerted to any small... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=751763 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:28:18 +0100 751763 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=472177&cid=t_101043_109_f&fid=34788&url=http%3A%2F%2Firvingpsychiatrist.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F01%2Fbetrayal-in-kerbala.html Per Omar, the deaths of Americans in the Kerbala attack yells 'inside job.'It is a duplicity that asks for mental exercise in unraveling the possibilities. One scenario: Financed by Iran. Those SUVs don't come cheap, not to mention coordination. Word is given at a high level: let the pseudoAmericans through. The real Americans are planning protection of Shiites at their most invested pilgrimage. Now or in the future Shiites are to be sacrificed to create a turn to a strong man; burn the Reichstag anyone; blow up Moscow apt. buildings; murder, the earlier referred to, 'angels' at the university in Baghdad? It reminds me of a certain C company in VN. One day it's members saw a group of soldiers with tubes for a weapon, antiaircraft apparently, in ARVN, that's our side, uniforms. Some days la... a psychiatrist who learned from veterans blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=472177 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:09:00 +0100 472177