Working at the dual diagnosis center

Someone I met in addiction recovery got me a job at an unlocked dual diagnosis inpatient place.

I am basically volunteering.

It's that same crap with the "meds" and its just tough to watch people in what seems like the middle of the psychiatric nightmare I lived. And believing the same BS I did.

The place is really cool but as I said its that same sh^t with the "doctors" and the "meds". And the clients talking about "chemistry" and the search for the "right" medications.

I am questioning if this is healthy for me to be around, and like me when I was still sick no one really wants to hear that it could be the drugs themselves keeping them sick.

I have told everyone my story and pointed out that I got better, its my story and if includes a hell ride through psychiatry and getting better after learning the truth and quitting it to bad.

I can't give any more detail out of respect for everyone but I will say its a good place that really does care but this whole label and drug thing called psychiatry is just effed up.

No way I am saying everyone should be drug free and never take anything but WTF all these doctors in these places have never taken any of these "meds" and are clueless compared to us that have.

And the medical model just pisses me off already.

I think it would be great to have the experience you have. I know if I worked in the mental-health field I would be extremely compassionate and helphul since I know what theyre going through.
It also sounds like a conundrum. Because their goals are to find the right medications. And without the meds they think theyre basically screwed.
I think if it makes you happy you should do it. But, if it might be triggering it might be a bad idea.

Christopher2045 wrote:I think it would be great to have the experience you have. I know if I worked in the mental-health field I would be extremely compassionate and helphul since I know what theyre going through.
It also sounds like a conundrum. Because their goals are to find the right medications. And without the meds they think theyre basically screwed.
I think if it makes you happy you should do it. But, if it might be triggering it might be a bad idea.

Yesterday is was triggering the heck out of me, they started someone on Zyprexa and I wanted to put a stop to it and couldn't but I did share my experience and warn about it. If someone had did that for me even if I had still taken it it would not have taken me as long to figure out it was insidiously sucking the life out of me all day even though it was only at night for sleep.

I HATE that drug, likely it harms 99 people for every one it helps but part of the way that diabolical drug works is that outside observers look at the person on it and they actually do appear better. Maybe calmer is "better" but not if that calmness is caused by what I can only describe as a near death of the soul. The clinical word is anhedoinia that special kind of hell.

Then today I heard another guy was getting started on Paxil. It's so effed up no one told him about the wicked withdrawal reactions written about all over the online . So far I have just left it alone and I think the best I can do is tell him to ask about them.

Today in front of staff I am going to suggest that if when get someone new in with an alcohol or drug problem we should give them lots and lots of psychiatric drugs so that way when they relapse like we statistically know that 90% + will do they will then be drinking on top of all the psychiatric drugs ! and get even sicker.

I am all done working there , I sent the director a copy of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic- ... 1491513217


I think she will read it. She is young and in the beginning of her career in heath care so why not a book explaining how psychiatry really works ?!

Copy_Cat wrote:I am all done working there , I sent the director a copy of Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic- ... 1491513217


I think she will read it. She is young and in the beginning of her career in heath care so why not a book explaining how psychiatry really works ?!

I think it was worthwhile. While what you saw was awful, its more first hand experience for you without actually being on the front line so to speak.

Your experience reminds of many resident psychiatrists. The senior psychiatrists tell them how to view each patient, why that is and how to treat them. To me its ignorance being passed down to another generation of psychiatrists without any question.


I think that is a really book, I like. Here is one other health workers should read IMO:

https://books.google.com/books?id=M9jz6 ... ss&f=false


Hopefully she will seriously consider what the book is trying to say changing her views for the better. That can make a of people happier.

Riccola wrote:

Copy_Cat wrote:Here is one other health workers should read IMO:

https://books.google.com/books?id=M9jz6 ... ss&f=false

I've started reading it, it's brilliant