Posted by Squiggles on June 7, 2007, at 14:15:18
In reply to Re: The right to non-compliance » Squiggles, posted by Quintal on June 7, 2007, at 13:32:21
This is not necessarily the case.
You're lucky, and depending on the temperament,
illness, education and circumstances, different
things can happen with non-compliance. It is
hard to predict. I think that statistics paint a grim picture.
..... I've often wondered why such a determined, intelligent, strong-willed and spirited person such as yourself seems so tormented by the non-compliance of other psychiatric patients?Thanks for the compliment. I'll tell you why:
because when my "counterfeit, or botched or old" lithium supply made me feel wonderful for the first few months, and then drove me to a psychotic state, in which only suicide seemed an escape, i realized that at 6months it could not have been withdrawal, but bipolar relapse. I reinstated and got stable, burning a few neurons in the course. That's why.
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> A quote from Judi Chamberlin:
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> "Let us celebrate the spirit of non-compliance that is the self struggling to survivor. Let us celebrate the unbowed head, the heart that still dreams, the voice that refuses to be silent. I wish I could show you the picture that hangs on my office wall, which inspires me every day, a drawing by Tanya Temkin, a wonderful artist and psychiatric survivor activist. In a gloomy and barred room a group of women sit slumped in defeat, dresses in rags, while on the opposite wall their shadows, upright, with raised arms and wild hair and clenched fists, dance the triumphant dance of the spirit that will not die."
>As I said, most of the drugs we have suck, and the diagnosis is probably wrong 80% of the time. We are not there yet. I suppose it is possible for some people to live with mental illness, but for it is hell.
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