Tag Archives: personal

Too Many Anniversaries and Too Many Memories

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

One of the anniversaries is my little Eemie’s death last year, at age 17. She was only about 14 in this picture, maybe a bit younger. But she never looked much different from this. Even the day she was “put … Continue reading →

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Schizophrenia Video: UVA and DIVIDED MINDS

Posted on March 30, 2013 by

This video was made during our “book tour” of 2005-6 after DIVIDED MINDS: Twin Sisters and Their Journey through Schizophrenia was published. I had not seen it for several years when my good friend, the poet Mizzy Hanley, located it … Continue reading →

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Schizophrenia Medication: Should I or Shouldn’t I?

Posted on March 24, 2013 by

This is from a 2011 entry on my About Schizophrenia blog. However I have changed it and updated and added to it, so I thought I would post it here. Dunno how many of my wordpress readers might not have … Continue reading →

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Art Trading Cards at Yale Psychiatric Hospital…plus

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

These are the trading cards I made at YNHPH…each is only 2.5 by 3.5 inches. I think most need little explanation. I originally offered them for sale, though I usually just give them away, until i read about the new … Continue reading →

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My Psychiatric Advanced Directive — IGNORED at the Institute of Living at my Expense

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

These are the first two pages, including a note from the cover page, of my very very detailed Psychiatric Advanced Directive, and I think you will see why what happened at the Institute of Living, the psychiatric section of Connecticut’s … Continue reading →

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Art created at the Torture Chamber called the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

  I was a prisoner at Hartford Hospital’s Institute of Living’s Donnelly 2 South from January 10th until February 7th, 2013, the day before the east coast blizzard, and I only “escaped” because the torturing doctor went on a four … Continue reading →

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I am Asexual, I am not an Amoeba

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

Let me state this plainly so there is no misunderstanding: I am tired of people thinking there is something wrong with me just because I do not have a husband or boyfriend/lover or even a girlfriend/lover or a love-interest of … Continue reading →

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Where Have All the Multiples Gone?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

One of the terrible consequences of the APA’s DSM is the Multiple Personality Mayhem that resulted from that fad diagnosis of the late 80s and 90s. I was hospitalized many times in those years, and I was appalled even then … Continue reading →

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Doing Art to Save My Sanity

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

            As I have been having a hard time dealing with things,  I do art and do art and do art…It is as good a way to cope as any other I suppose. Anyhow, I … Continue reading →

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Am I Crazy? Hallucinations, Delusions or Consensual Reality

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

What is real? Is anything true and factual? Or are we all just deluded and mad as hatters? This is a serious question. What I recall and what was written down in my chart about a certain four days in … Continue reading →

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Miracles: Four Life Changing Events

Posted on October 26, 2012 by

Okay, so as a friend suggested, maybe there have been five not just four miracles, with the most recent miracle having occurred, and ongoing, about three weeks ago. But more on that later. First, a definition of miracle, so we … Continue reading →

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Poem about Forgiveness,Translated into Chinese

Posted on October 14, 2012 by

TO FORGIVE IS To begin  要寬恕的實是太多 and there is so much to forgive:  頭一樁要算 for one, your parents, one and two,  你父母那麼偶然的一或二次 out of whose dim haphazard coupling  於幽暗中的契合 you sprang forth roaring, indignantly alive. 你呱呱來臨,憤然降世 For this, whatever else … Continue reading →

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To Kill or Not to Kill: Physician-Assisted Suicide?

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

  My brother visited me recently and for some reason we got into a discussion about whether or not we supported physician-assisted suicide. We differed on the fundamentals: Phil, aka Chip, supports assisted suicide in every sense of the word. … Continue reading →

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A Mental Health Meeting of the Minds: Natchaug Hospital Administrators Get Gold Stars

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

After I wrote my early September post “Open Letter to Deborah Weidner MD”http://wagblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/open-letter-to…chaug-hospital/  ‎about my stay at Natchaug Hospital in August, I received a phone message  one Saturday afternoon not long afterwards from none other than Dr Weidner herself. She left … Continue reading →

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Artist Trading Cards: Egg, Goose, Frog and more…

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

Flying Goose, Eye in Eggshell, Blue-spotted Frog, and Face/Eye Abstract   All of these “trading cards”, 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Many were done at Natchaug Hospital and  are original one of a kind art. They are for sale. Tell … Continue reading →

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Natchaug Hospital and Trauma-related artwork (plus…)

Posted on September 4, 2012 by

     

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Open Letter to Deborah Weidner, MD, Chief Medical Officer, of Natchaug Hospital

Posted on September 2, 2012 by

It has been a week since my discharge from the Adult Unit at Natchaug Hospital. After a week of recuperation and stabilization at home I feel compelled to write you via the open forum of a letter on this blog. It may … Continue reading →

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More Psychiatric Abuse in Mental Hospital and Emergency Room

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

I admit I was angry. I admit I was loud and irritable. I admit that I may have been perceived as “difficult.” But never once did I make a verbal or gestural threat or even so much as stand on … Continue reading →

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“The Scream” plus an update…

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

   In the midst of re-experiencing trauma, sometimes all you can do is scream, even if it is silently and only in paint…I hope this speaks to some of you who may feel as I do, often or even just … Continue reading →

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Different kind of artwork for me: Car Picture for Tim

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Okay, this is for the boys! _____________________________________________________ Some sad news that I only feel able to share now, is that  I had to put my beloved cat of 17 years to sleep on Friday last…and it was truly awful. I … Continue reading →

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