Happy to be sane during the Coronavirus Pandemic
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
While digesting all of the public announcements and warnings, saturated info streams on social media, countless press conferences, and regular updates on rate of infection for Coronavirus Pandemic, it occurs to me that I need to take a moment and be thankful that I’m sane. The last significant social upheaval that ushered in an enormous amount of stress and inconvenience in my life and community was the 2015 Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore. Capturing the attention of our country and covered by national news, the unrest was incited by outrage over the death of a 25-year-old black man at the ..read more
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Caring for Yourself During Coronavirus Pandemic
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
The Coronavirus pandemic can not only cause anxiety over contracting the virus or concern for the well being of our elderly loved ones. Not only can it induce dread that our healthcare system will become overwhelmed or resources will become depleted and scarce. The barrage of information can affect your mental health and your mental illness treatment regimen. Those managing an existing mental health condition can experience intensified complications because of an overabundance of negative or alarming information.  According to the CDC, some actions you can take to support yourself during ..read more
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Testifying in the Maryland House and Senate
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
You would have only assumed me to be confident, prepared, and poised to impress if you happened to encounter me in the halls of the Maryland State House. But what you probably wouldn’t have noticed is that I was deliberately shifting my weight on to my left side. This posturing was to counter the unsettling, embarrassing, and uncontrollable shaking of my leg. The formal and official environment of the government legislative branch, coupled with my inexperience as a mental health advocate, had boosted my adrenaline. The result was a pesky case of the shakes.   I was there along with NA ..read more
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"At Least She'd be Safe in Jail"
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
Another tragic story about a mentally ill inmate committing suicide in a Michigan jail. Unlike many reports on jailhouse suicides, this report includes information on the population of mentally ill inmates and their inability to care for them. As many as 80 percent of inmates in Michigan jails have some form of mental illness, according to a January report published by the governor’s Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration. The report also found that 1 in 4 jail inmates is severely mentally ill. Along with comprehensive, mandated CIT for all police officers and correctiona ..read more
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Messages from mr. rogers
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
My latest relapse into psychosis happened only in August of 2019. For five weeks, I was tortured by messages buried as barbs, directives, and insults into every Facebook post, Twitter tweet, and Instagram entry. The assault on my mind and sanity was relentless, and I knew I had to escape it somehow, someway. I found that respite on youtube. I found myself on youtube searching for vintage Mr. Rogers episodes. The shows were pure, kind, inspiring . . and most of all, I was unable to detect any subliminal messages or directives from the government. For five weeks, during August 2019, all I allowe ..read more
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My experience in an ACT
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
Once the nightmarish grip of psychosis had been broken with the use of antipsychotic medication, it was time to engage in the recovery process.  As described in an earlier post, the recovery from psychosis can be just as traumatic as living through the psychosis itself.  “. . .the reality is that breaking from psychosis is an equally disruptive event — all of a sudden, everything you trusted and believed in crumbles into disturbing remnants of delusion. Your universe is flipped upside down and nearly destroyed. It is a cataclysmic experience. I had to attend almost six months of intensi ..read more
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Protecting the food supply
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
They are poisoning my food. I know because I am constipated . . . and I am NEVER constipated. I never have stomach problems. It just doesn’t happen. But now all of a sudden, my system is out of whack. Did they think I wouldn’t notice? And what is the reason for this? Is this some spiteful show of strength? . . .that the government can control everything?. . even my food supply. What assholes. I’ll show them.  As I nervously meander up and down the grocery store isles, I pick up everything I usually wouldn’t eat. I know they know all my habits and my preferences. And I know they have t ..read more
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Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis – review
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
Bedlam: An Intimate Journey Into America’s Mental Health Crisis, named as a nod to the notorious English lunatic asylum of the 1400s, is an unflinching look at the cataclysmic state of today’s American Mental Health crisis and the series of cultural notions and governing decisions that caused its unfortunate arrival. Dr. Kenneth Paul Rosenburg distills the unacceptable state of how America currently treats mental illness by weaving his own family’s story with those of others observed at the psychiatric emergency department of LAC+USC Medical Center. Alongside these personal anecdotes ..read more
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Be thankful
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
So it’s the season to pause and reflect on all of the beautiful people, places, and things that have graced in your life that allow you to retracted to that special place in your life when you can count your blessings. In the past, yes, it was true. I had so much to give thanks l I had an ivy league educated husband who was well admired and respected in the hotel community. I had a job that I loved supporting a local art gallery with its education programs and social media campaigns. I had a beautiful home in the suburbs of Washington, DC surrounded by beautiful trail in forests that wer ..read more
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Suicide at Iverness Prison
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by NooseGirl
4y ago
Police found Zach Banner crouched in a corner, doused with petrol, and concealing a pack of matches in his pocket. Immediately transported to the station, psychiatric nurses assessed his mental state. They reported he told them that “life was not worth living.” Is it just me? . . or does it take a trained psychiatric nurse to determine that this person is suffering from severe mental illness? And rather than taken to jail, wouldn’t a more reasonable choice be to deliver him to a hospital emergency room. Well, I guess it must be just me because the formally trained psychiatric nurse saw ..read more
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