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Alert — 2008-03-26
* * * ACTION * * * ACTION * * * ACTION * * * What You Can Do E-mails to the Presidential Campaigns.
The 12 Steps Worked for Clover, They Will Work for Millions of Other People Trapped in Psychiatry. Collapsing from the grief of learning when I was a child that I was not worth loving, I was committed to psychiatry when I was 20 years old. "Oh," I thought, "They are talking doctors. They will tell me all about the world so I can be a person just like everybody else." I was labeled a non-person without a human brain. Beneficial? I was stuffed into a straitjacket, my arms crossed and wrapped around my sides. Soon the pain of circulation shut off in my arms became intense. A few days later the straitjacket was removed. My arms fell dead weights to my sides. The pain of circulation restored to the arms is agonizing. The next day movement began returning to my arms. The dead skin peeled. Beneficial? Every other day I was strapped down and knocked out with searing electricity. I escaped after the fourth time, reeling from my head injury, running for my life. Just as after any horror too horrible to be real, the next day I had hysterical amnesia and maniacally laughter - touted by psychiatry as relieved mental illness. Beneficial? I vaguely remembered I had been locked up by psychiatry but none of the details. Later the flashbacks started. I exploded into suicidal and homicidal terror and was recommitted to psychiatry. Drugs were forced. At first, drugs stoning emotions can seem to help. That is why alcoholics and addicts become alcoholics and addicts and I became a psychiatric drug addict. On the surface, drugged apathy waiting to die. Underneath, the repressed terror and hopeless from the lost self-awareness and physically sickening drugs rebounding. Periodically, for 18 years, I exploded in suicidal and homicidal blackout drug rages. Psychiatry's revolving door revolving. Beneficial? Or is the cure beneficial? An emergency room nurse directed me to Alcoholics Anonymous, a 12-step, psychological development, rehabilitation program. "You can get well; we will help you." So I lied and said I was an alcoholic. In six months, I had learned the mental tools needed to live in this world and enjoy it. Psychological development classes taught in our schools, mental centers, and prisons would save $$, human agony, and focus our nation on peace and positive action. Clover Green - www.WelcomeWorld.org - www.EscapeFromPsychiatry.org WHAT YOU CAN DO: E-mail to the chairs of the disability committees of these USA presidential candidates: BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGN: Stan Klein -- stan@disabilitiesbooks.com
HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN: Catherine Brown -- cbrown@hillaryclinton.com JOHN McCAIN CAMPAIGN: Donna Jones -- djones@mccain08hq.com |