Posted by paulk on November 24, 2003, at 19:47:50
In reply to Anyone have any experience with Menninger (clinic), posted by Stavros on November 20, 2003, at 18:28:24
Yes, but long ago - 1976-80 . I don't know that they have changed except that they keep getting smaller - at that time they were Freudian based stuff - It just fails to work - understanding your problems philosophically will not make them go away. (I understand that I have diabetes and why – now I will will it to go away<grin>).
I was in patient for 9 mo and knew many people there – and unfortunately I knew many that did not survive – not that it was their fault – it is just that they didn't get better in spite of that brand of treatment.
They were extremely against using medication except as a last resort and I saw them push a friend off a low dose of Valium that I think caused him the lose of his marriage. Their resistance to using medications is sited as the reason that they are so small now.
I think the people there meant well, but I sure wished they had put me on Nardil instead of talking me to death.
One of the most important things of my Medicine experience is to realize that I really couldn't have changed without meds (and todays meds are really quite crude) and I felt a relief of guilt for being who I am, yet sadness for having missed most of life.
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