Tag: legacy

Bipolar RollerCoaster – Mad in America

Toxicity via the RX

A ” brother” who diagnosed based on ” martial difficulties ” and effects Xanax overdose prescribed for IBS

No test , no science just an authority- founder whose misdiagnosis was not questioned .

Describing then partner as “Supportive ” instead of abusive .

The law , then society adapted , a family destroyed , targeted for life by the abuser who of course is never responsible for anything . Considers himself the victim .

Totally correct system of no checks and no balances

The Bipolar Rollercoaster: Looking Beyond the Labels

By Rachel Townley

I am a family member of someone that has apparently been living with three “disorders” (autism, bipolar, and schizoaffective). Yet for those past three decades, they have gone through a variety of psychiatric interventions and treatment programmes but still have no more insight into their psychological distress than when they first became unwell.

Having a diagnostic label given to them by someone in a position of authority seems to have provided them with a reason for their experiences. Yet it does not explain how to deal with these experiences, nor does it help them to unpack the complex and traumatic history underpinning their suffering.

www.madinamerica.com/2022/12/the-bipolar-rollercoaster-as-seen-through-a-monopolar-lens/

The other side

“Don’t stand there crying in front of my grave,

I’m not there, I’m not sleeping…

I am the wind blowing in the trees

im the diamond sparkle in the snow

I am sunshine on the ripe grain

I am the gentle autumn rain…

When you wake up in the morning still, I am the flight of these silent birds

Who spin in the sky…

So don’t stand there in front of my grave lamenting

I’m not there, I’m not dead!

Why would I be out of your life simply

Cuz am out of your sight?

Death you know this ain’t nothing at all

I just went to the other side.

Im me and you are you

Whatever we were to each other before,

We will always remain so.

Use the first name to speak about me

With which you always called me.

Speak about me just like you always did.

Don’t change your tone, don’t look all serious and sad.

Laugh like before at jokes that together we enjoy so much.

Play, smile, think of me, live for me and with me.

Let my first name be the comforting song it’s always been.

Pronounce it simply and naturally,

Without a trace of regret

Life means everything it’s always meant.

Everything is still the same, she continues, the cord is not broken.

What is death if not a passage?

Relativize and let go of all the aggressions of life,

Always think and talk about me around you and you’ll see,

Everything will be alright.

You know, I hear you, I’m not far, I’m there, just on the other side. ”

Mary Elizabeth Fryer

Buckle Up Buttercup

21st Solstice is Major

Crash Course on Ascension and Protection:

1 Take out trash, clean up surroundings.

2 Take a shower, put on clean clothes.

3 Put on soothing angelic music.

4 If you can stay awake and safe, then light a candle, otherwise just imagine a candle burning.

5 Sit in a quiet room, no talking, just the soft music playing, imagine or look at the candle, SLOW your breathe.

6 FOCUS on the middle of your heart. Imagine a bright diamond in the center of your heart. Breathe in and out from that spot.

7 INHALE LOVE EXHALE GRATITUDE do that a zillion times over and over from your heart.

8 Imagine your feet have roots on them and those roots going down into the earth – 5 miles down and 5 miles wide. As you inhale bring up the following colors: purple, indigo blue, pale blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Each one strengthening and balancing each of your 7 chakras.

9 Now imagine you are sitting in a pillar of white light surrounded by 12 Angels dressed in white. Each of these angels are holding flashing swords and mirrored shields and facing outward in a circle around you to protect you. Any energy that comes toward you will bounce off the swords and mirrored shields. For extra protection you may put on a mirrored body suit.

10 Above your head is a Vortex to the divine and in that cone you are receiving through your crown chakra (top of head) the divine codes and protection and balancing that you need to continue your journey to help you ascend when the clarion call comes. This is a cone of sacred divine white light that imbues you with strength, courage and most of all, LOVE.

11 Sit peacefully and repeat all of these things over and over throughout the day until the symptom(s) have lifted and/or you feel safe.

12 The moment you begin to feel unsafe or symptomatic – do this exercise again and again and again.

13 Smudge your home with white sage, or if you are sensitive like I am, use liquid smudge. You can get it from amazon or most shops. If you cannot buy the smudge, then just like the candle, imagine the smudge of your space, home, building, whatever, and it will balance and protect you from portals and spying eyes and energy zappers.

14 Keep your shields up. Ask the angels to intervene on your behalf verbally out loud throughout the day. Angels, I want you to intervene on my behalf – whatever is in my best and highest good and the good of all.

15 You can also call in (ask for) Archangels to be with you. Starting with “I invoke the blue light of Archangel Michael to shield and protect me”. Also invite in Gabrielle, Uriel, Raphel, and Ariel. And the Ascended Masters of your choice (Jesus, Buddha, etc.)

16 You are ascending from 3D to 5D. This is happening. This is really happening. It is not without pain and discomfort and emotional reactions. It is for your best and highest good and the highest good of all.

Namaste. ❤ April Beam

Stella Davis – 1937

I had no idea of the content of this movie before watching it and it was so sad , I cried .

It concerns the mother – daughter relationship in which the Mom gave in to releasing her daughter to her Dad who remarried and was very secure and supportive of daughter .

The last scene is the daughter’s wedding and it moved me to tears .

I was not allowed to attend a wedding of any of the 3 sons I shared with the partner / husband whose win was vital .

I’m sure as I heard later in another family function , ex MIL was asked if it was ok if I attended an after party . The event was the Christening of granddaughter . I wasn’t allowed to attend her birthday party the day before , buying her Christening dress and a pearl bracelet was allowed . Taking chocolates to the Priest who remarked he preferred wine .

Exactly why I brought chocolates 😎

The then partner of the ex refused to attend if I were allowed .

Her Mom died ,and she had to travel out of town.

The paternal grandfather had his wallet stolen in the parking lot of the cathedral! He was not ever nice to be around , and even less so for his loss of money etc.

The ex MIL sat beside me and he on her right ; and as we sang a song of welcome, I looked her straight in the eyes allowing her to make the gesture . It was a ” draw” but she was aware of my intention as I quickly sat down .

I noted these things 2013 Neither brother nor their family attended the Christening because I was there .

I honked the horn , and maybe called for son to come out and get gifts , which he did.

I did not give up , nor am I giving up now , I’m ending the cycle of such distortion as to test the soul . I am ending being a target by a vicious , retaliatory, distorted ex partner who wishes me dead and would do anything to do me harm .

www.amazon.com/Stella-Dallas-King-Vidor/dp/B001NSNGXG/ref=nodl_

Let ‘em talk – says way more of them than you

Big Reveal / Revelations

In the drama and dysfunction communication is often indirect. There’s lots of “don’t ask don’t tell” going on.

Recent drama events will often be surrounded by deep denial.

Attempts to address these events…to try to resolve things? can be met with more dysfunctional behaviors as the parties involved cannot sit with their own discomfort.

Thus – they’ll likely not be responsive but rather become defensive, argumentative and in general turning the tables to make something wrong with you for trying to go there.

I’m other words?

More drama will ensue.

Instead of trying to convince them?

Let them have their drama.

Let them tell their stories about you.

Let them hold onto their idea that they were victimized by you, rather than abusive to you.

Once we stop trying to work things out with those who are unable to work things out?

Things sort of just start working out for us.

❤️

empoweringsolutions

Aging without children or grandchildren

It’s increasingly common for older adults to age without children or grandchildren. Here are tips to stay engaged and prepare for aging independently.

www.ajc.com/life/aging-in-atlanta/why-more-older-adults-dont-have-children/CGNE7XKFQZFYRDI5JJEEPJ24V4/

A personal account : what has psychiatry done for me ? – Mad in America

What Psychiatry Has Done for Me

Tammy

The stigma and discrimination I have had to endure due to my ‘diagnosis’ crushed my spirit and the dreams I had for my life. But the most devastating part of all is how it altered my relationship with my two sons.

In psychiatry’s wake, society continues to deny people their civil rights based solely upon its perception that ‘they’ need ‘help’. But is psychiatric help the answer? I can think of far more kindhearted and empathetic methods and less stressful ways of helping someone cope with a life crisis or distressing situation than locking them up, forcibly drugging them and stigmatizing them with a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives.

Another accounting of the damage / abuse of psychiatry :

The road to hell, they say, is paved with the best of intentions. As a boy of ten, a psychiatrist diagnosed me with a condition then known as MBD (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) which has, in the years since, become what is now known ADHD, I was put on a daily dose of 350mg of Thorazine and remained on it for roughly seven years. Now the possibility that because I was a child, along with three siblings, who had been abandoned by both of his parents before the age of six, sent to live with a psychologically (and sometimes, physically abusive,) grandfather, placed in an orphanage by the age of eight, and separated from his siblings two years later, would have anything to do with the emotional and mild behavioral issues I presented, did not seem to cross her mind. I was an intelligent (IQ of 145) and sensitive child who had experienced a considerable amount oain and disruption in his young life and was a target for bullies in school which led me to become withdrawn from and subsequently rejected by his peers, which led a psychiatrist consulted by my long term psychologist to suggest that I was borderline psychotic (a diagnosis which my therapist, thankfully, didn’t accept.) None of the psychiatrists and psychologists that dealt with my case had intent to do me harm, but their good intentions resulted in my growing into an adult who would never achieve his full potential and who would spend his entire life in social isolation. I went twenty five years without contact with my siblings after graduating highschool and my relationship with them, save the youngest of my two oldest sisters, is tenuous at best. Now, at the age of sixty, with my life winding down, I look back across the years and despair over what might have been if I had never crossed paths with that first psychiatrist.

www.madinamerica.com/2022/12/what-psychiatry-has-done-for-me/