Posted by judy on January 3, 2000, at 11:43:31
In reply to Re: drug withdrawal from bipolar meds, posted by saint james on January 3, 2000, at 1:56:59
Dear saint james and Michele and other posters,
Thank you for your input. Michele, I looked into Dr. Jensen's site and may call him. I feel so demoralized from my treatment by psychiatrists and hospitals. Maybe I'm not being rational about my actions. One of the posters was angry at Dr. Breggin and felt since he was a doctor, "first do no harm". I had e-mailed Dr. Breggin and he was kind enough to give me a couple of names of psychologists who would help me in tapering with medical supervision. I feel the mainstream, supposedly bipolar experts that I have seen have done me harm. One, whom I trusted for 2 years, informed me that there was nothing else he could do for me (and he had been treating bipolar disorder for 30 years). That plunged me into a suicidal depression, a hospital stay where I was strapped down, a series of doctors who refused to treat me without ECT, and the final one who threatened conservatorship- which panicked me so much that I spent 2 days looking out the window for the police. I won't bore you with other details, but I feel I can no longer deal with psychiatrists, quite frankly I'm afraid of them. Perhaps I will have to be on some kind of medication in the future, but I don't know who I am under all these layers of meds, and I'm really not functioning. I hope this makes sense, and again I appreciate everyone's opinion.
poster:judy
thread:17735
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