Schizophrenia Commission – survey
28 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Research Tags: Schizophrenia Commission review
Here is the Schizophrenia Commission’s on-line survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/szcomm
If just ticking the boxes it takes 10 minutes. I found the questions fascinating and spend longer on it answering in the optional text boxes. I think you will find completing this survey well worthwhile – it makes you think.
www.schizophreniacommission.org.uk
Medication and why less is usually better
23 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Medication Tags: Olanzapine weight gain, psychiatric drugs side effects, psychiatric drugs videos, psychiatric medication side effects, psychiatric medication videos, Zyprexa weight gain
I wanted to write about all the things I do and others do to stay well on this Blog.
The thing is that I can’t stop thinking about medication.
I took psychiatric drugs from 1997 to 2011. The way the drugs were supposed to work was not explained and the side effects were not explained. Gradually the drugs made me ill. The haloperidol may me very ill. The next drug made me agitated, then Prozac got me the manic depression diagnosis. The Olanzapine/Zyprexa caused weight gain and a lot of other things. The lithium damaged my kidneys and a lot more.
Rather than waiting until I stop thinking about medication before writing anything on this Blog I am going to post a few things about medication and see if I can get it out of my system. It is stuff you need to know whether you are taking it, thinking of taking it or know people involved with psychiatric medication.
I found a lot of short videos about psychiatric medication here…
Do you choose your mood?
12 Dec 2011 2 Comments
in Thinking / Knowledge Tags: choose our mood, recover from mood disorders
For more than a year I have asked training course participants if this statement is ‘true’, ‘false’ or ‘maybe’…
“I choose my mood and am in the mood I want to be in most of the time”
I have been surprised that many nurses, social workers and similar participants are definite in saying this is not true for them.
Most participants also feel it is not true for the people they are paid to help.
Surely we should be able to choose our mood most of the time. If we find that our moods are almost entirely depend on our circumstances there is a huge risk that we could become increasingly unhappy and dissatisfied.
If we are going to help others recover from mood disorders and help others with choosing their moods we first need to practice choosing our own moods.
We can help clients, friends and family better when we are able to choose our own moods.
Roger Smith
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