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Rosa Parks Protesting From the Tower of Babel On The West Coast – We Have...
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care Tip #201 – Make a choice that takes care of your inner self and your quality of life. Dear Sarah McGaugh alerted me yesterday to the #2 emailed article from the New York...
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Be Willing to Stick Your Toe In The Water of Self-Care – Just Start.
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care Tip #204 – Be willing to stick your toe in the water of self-care – just start. I’m not interested in medications. I used to really wonder why anyone would come to me and...
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Number One Reason For Relapse In Mental Illness
Image via Wikipedia Self-Care Tip #230 – Remember why you feel the way you do. Olive was doing well. How are you doing Olive? Oh fine. Just fine, Olive would say. And she was. A sense of rightness...
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Mental Illness Relapses When Medications Are Stopped
Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr Self-Care Tip #246 – Collaborate with your physician to change your medications. It keeps happening. People are stopping their medications and then...
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Stop! Don’t Stop! – Affecting Our Practice Of Medicine and Other Agendas
Self-Care Tip #281 – Be aware of how your “Stop! Don’t stop!” behavior is interfacing with your agenda. One of the challenges in practicing medicine is the inevitable “Stop! Don’t stop!” petitions....
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Fears of Addiction To Medications for Brain Illness
I don’t want to get addicted! We agree. Who does set out to get addicted? Is that really a starting motive for anyone? “Ok. I’m going to take this pill crossing my fingers that I get addicted.”...
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Other Fears of Medication For Brain Illness
Yesterday we talked about fears of addiction to medication therapy. There are other fears that influence our choice to use or not use medication therapy for brain illness. In clinic, we hear about...
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Our Embrace With Our Powerlessness Stabilizes More Than Our Power
In our growing familiarity with our fears about medication therapies, we are getting to know about control and identity. Separate those in hopes that will help us bring them together later....
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Demanding Freedom and Other Oxymorons That Empower Our Self-Care
Désirée Nick at "Oxymoron" in Berlin, 1999 I read today on bipoblogger’s blog, I am trying so hard to keep my head wrapped around keeping a hold on this broken heart/life balance/bipolar thing. It’s...
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Say Yes to Medication And No To Drugs
Please don’t call them drugs. Image via Wikipedia Today I spent eight hours in the company of many neuroscientists. Smart folk. People I look up to, want to emulate and learn from. It was an honor....
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