…a vulture? really? Michelle Marie where is your culture?

I wonder.

In fact I feel exactly the opposite: the chemical psychiatry just puts shit in your brain. I mean that…to be on par with your level of responding. And, as for the repeated relapses…that is exactly the quality of trying to get off the addictive medication. Once they put you on – my French – shit – you just cannot discontinue it the next day. That is a big no, no, no. And of course, when you go the “no compliance route” you may not even have been made aware of the fact how extremely dangerous it is: once you are on those drugs it is a tedious and long proces of getting off, “tapering” the medication, with multiple points when you easily slip. As a matter of fact, there are drugs that CAUSE psychosis when you discontinue them (“reactive witdrawal psychosis”)as even the manufacturers were made to acknowledge after decades of ill experience paid for by the pain and blood of the mental patients.

You cannot get off without support and without addressing the conditions around your life that put you in the psychotic state in the first place. To borrow the metaphor Paris Williams uses in his book: it is as if you tried to get out of the chrysalis, not a larva any longer…and not a butterfly yet. Of course you do need to survive on some sort of “stabilizer” since you would not even “hold together” if you follow this analogy, a chrysalis forcefully woken up before the process could run its course.

Paris Williams is not the first author who suggests a person going through the existential crisis (which is what psychotic process is about) needs to be protected. If you read Lila by Robert Pirsig you find towards the end a similar idea. (Pirsig also “lost his mind” but he was without the benefit of following decades of the “recovery research”; he writes from the inside.)

You may have opted for a more blunted way of being …and not facing what it is that started you on your psychosis…fine enough as it looks like it works for you. Just don’t call Paris Williams a “vulture” I beg. They are elsewhere: preying on endless misery of people who were forced to lose their lives to powerful wested interests – they are them, the vultures. You ask who makes most profit (and you YOU pay – as you now cannot otherwise).

People with severe mental illness want to be able to function functionality should be the goal.

P.s the problem is that many psychological concepts have a basis but once they are verbalised or articulated they can become dogmatic.

An example is I’d prefer to use ‘non assumptive’ rather than non judgemental. But now that my word is out their , it follows that compulsively thinking people will be thinking in order to get better I must be non assumptive. In the real world though we all make assumptions , indeed we all make judgements , its called having an opinion.

Separating ones self from realities of social discourse, ironically, will engender , a more judgemental , stilted , irrational attitude. e.g I am behaving in such a way but persons a , b and c is doing the opposite. People who behave in such way become desensitized to personality and its quaint , uniqueness.