Posted by Jay_Bravest_Face on February 24, 2008, at 20:23:30
In reply to Re: I REALLY NEED YOUR INPUT with this..please.ALL » Jay-Bravest_Face, posted by Kath on February 21, 2008, at 16:28:35
****Dual-diagnosis is what my son has Jay.***
Yes, I noticed that when you first posted. I have really wished many times I could help you more, but I honestly dont have the strength to be so involved so deeply in relation to this board and website, which is also a personal outlet for my complicated problems and myself. Do you know what I mean? I dont want you to feel offended. I see you have good professional care looking out for your son with mental health workers and people in the system. Basically, I am saying, I am still a bit too fragile when outside of workheck, even 8 hour days of social work is taxing enough on my poor, poor held-together-with-gum-and-popsicle-sticks mental health..lol. If people only knew I was stepping out of meetings for a minute to pop a couple of clonazepam or risperdal..hah.
> One bit of my concern, though, is the political nature of the course content, and my personal beliefs. I recently had a chance to dive right into the program content, go through course outlines, see what kind of research they where doing, etc. One, is that they refer to mental health consumers as survivors, and seem to have an anti-psychiatry slant
> to a fair bit of their material. It seems like they believe we are still in this 60s mentality where they took mentally ill people and locked them in a padded room, constantly fed them thorazine or Haldol, and gave them constant shock treatment. But, maybe my addition will be good. Maybe it will challenge me to go in there and say my bit, present my research to the contrary, especially as a mental health consumer myself. Someone who has taken many, many medications, and found some that worked well enough to bring me able to go back to university and hold down a full-time job at 38 years old.
****Jay, I'd say you're a wonderful example. I would think that a difference of opinions & viewpoints is welcomed in 'higher learning'???
Do you think you'd have to 'buy in' to these ways of looking at things in order to 'fit in' or even to pass?******
Well, thank you kindly.as I am a wonderful example ofa walking contradiction!..hahaa..:) This particular university is one of the more rebellious, untraditional ones, and I think you may know the one I am talking of. (But please keep it our secret..;) I just hope they are as accepting of diversity as they claim they are. Many of you folks on here, and especially you too Kath, have taught me so many new things about how to look at myself and the world. Sometimes it even resulted in me being blocked, sometimes for the right reasons, sometimes I still think not, but I guess I put it up to growing pains.Anyhow, thanks kindly again for your insightful and flattering comments.
Best,
Jay:)
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