E-cigs
I was at the grocery store and found this cheap disposable e-cig, j'adore. No nicotine, just flavour and steam exhaust, but pretty pleasing all the same. So I'm going to check out what the vape store has since I still think nicotine sans smoke is helpful for my anxiety, but the inhaler is so unsatisfying and feels like sucking on a tampon so I just don't like that any more than that icky gum. I'm not trying to wean myself off, but use it as daily medicine. I think it quite rude to further erode my ability to practice self care and force me further into a grinding machine of chemical erasure called "mental health system." These days not even administered via or with psychotherapy of any kind. I have seen what that system does to women, the most common victim, too often, and also witnessed how shoddily men in that system are treated. The evil reaches outright physical and sexual abuse of even minors. It's as light as criminal neglect and disregard, and as heavy as murder and mayhem.
We'd lose a lot of our current crop of "crazy gunmen" if we overhauled that system and set in place patient rights, severe penalties, and watchdogs, and reigned in the drug companies. Get a sane doctor to set limits on things like acceptable discomforts, side effects, long term damage, and concurrent prescriptions for inpatients and outpatients alike. Set massive penalties for professionals who cheat the rules.
Being mentally ill isn't a choice or a crime or contagious. Being mentally ill isn't a permanent state, just a permanent weakness. You can learn to work around your weakness and avoid all the negative results if there is only someone with the patience to teach you, but few of us get that, and it's usually intimidating when we do.
Most patients are put on suppressant therapy, chemicals that dull down the brain activity, and set up with a medicine course that addresses each additional problem that comes up, like lack of alertness, constipation, heart irregularity, etc. The whole chemical cocktail when fine tuned is expected to last a lifetime and remove all further need of care for the individual. It has never worked. The individuals merely become more docile so that those tasked with their care, be it family or shelter workers, can handle the person more easily. It's got nothing to do with who they are or how it feels to be in their skin. It completely disregards the damage it does. It incapacitates artists. It shuts down empaths. It turns off geniuses. Too many of the people who turn up there in the first place are merely the species' uncommon types who are suffering at the hands of hormonal changes from puberty on through the baby alarm clock blues, and/or abuse both past and current. The malnutrition alone would drive a level headed man crazy most of the time. Abuse is currently the only issue being addressed, the last one the patient wants to review. Many's the person who has been able to put it away without review, but not on a poverty diet of starch and grease dusted with sugar or salt. What do they feed them in the hospital? More of the same! Yes! Shepherd's pie, hamburgers, chips, fries, shakes, jello, pudding, and so forth. I thought by now the menu would have changed till I saw a cancer patient describing the unlimited supply of junk food as a plus while in hospital. How they supposed to get their heads straight with that going on?
Why in the hell hasn't our system come to recognize the deadly power of our cheap food and sugar? At least sugar you'd think we'd realize it should be a scheduled narcotic worse than marijuana?
Well, okay, rant over, gotta go shopping early because Tom is popping by to clean chandeliers and visit. I will probably hang out and help today since I won't need to get anything done. I'm actually up on my chores and due a day of leisure.
Oh, well I suppose I should turn the freshies into handy snack food. Hint: that's how I get so many cut fingers, chopping fruit, veggies, and even meat, into handy portion sizes for snacking. Dan and I are ultimately both snackers who like a solid meal a couple times a week only. I don't think he realizes it but I can see him doing it even when meals are available. He's always more pleased with a p
We'd lose a lot of our current crop of "crazy gunmen" if we overhauled that system and set in place patient rights, severe penalties, and watchdogs, and reigned in the drug companies. Get a sane doctor to set limits on things like acceptable discomforts, side effects, long term damage, and concurrent prescriptions for inpatients and outpatients alike. Set massive penalties for professionals who cheat the rules.
Being mentally ill isn't a choice or a crime or contagious. Being mentally ill isn't a permanent state, just a permanent weakness. You can learn to work around your weakness and avoid all the negative results if there is only someone with the patience to teach you, but few of us get that, and it's usually intimidating when we do.
Most patients are put on suppressant therapy, chemicals that dull down the brain activity, and set up with a medicine course that addresses each additional problem that comes up, like lack of alertness, constipation, heart irregularity, etc. The whole chemical cocktail when fine tuned is expected to last a lifetime and remove all further need of care for the individual. It has never worked. The individuals merely become more docile so that those tasked with their care, be it family or shelter workers, can handle the person more easily. It's got nothing to do with who they are or how it feels to be in their skin. It completely disregards the damage it does. It incapacitates artists. It shuts down empaths. It turns off geniuses. Too many of the people who turn up there in the first place are merely the species' uncommon types who are suffering at the hands of hormonal changes from puberty on through the baby alarm clock blues, and/or abuse both past and current. The malnutrition alone would drive a level headed man crazy most of the time. Abuse is currently the only issue being addressed, the last one the patient wants to review. Many's the person who has been able to put it away without review, but not on a poverty diet of starch and grease dusted with sugar or salt. What do they feed them in the hospital? More of the same! Yes! Shepherd's pie, hamburgers, chips, fries, shakes, jello, pudding, and so forth. I thought by now the menu would have changed till I saw a cancer patient describing the unlimited supply of junk food as a plus while in hospital. How they supposed to get their heads straight with that going on?
Why in the hell hasn't our system come to recognize the deadly power of our cheap food and sugar? At least sugar you'd think we'd realize it should be a scheduled narcotic worse than marijuana?
Well, okay, rant over, gotta go shopping early because Tom is popping by to clean chandeliers and visit. I will probably hang out and help today since I won't need to get anything done. I'm actually up on my chores and due a day of leisure.
Oh, well I suppose I should turn the freshies into handy snack food. Hint: that's how I get so many cut fingers, chopping fruit, veggies, and even meat, into handy portion sizes for snacking. Dan and I are ultimately both snackers who like a solid meal a couple times a week only. I don't think he realizes it but I can see him doing it even when meals are available. He's always more pleased with a p