Meds, no meds -- it's the endless debate
A dispatch from the other side, from Scotland's Sunday Herald:
Ron Coleman, diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1982 and treated with electro-shock therapy and drugs, has cited his own nightmare experience in the psychiatric system to call for the term to be dropped altogether.The 49-year-old from Fife said: "I lived the schizophrenia label instead of living as a person. People treat you as if you're a piece of crap, talk to you like a non-person. I got people battering on the door, shouting psycho' and throwing things at the window. I spent 10 years in a drug-induced, zombied haze.."
advertisement"I still hear voices, but I've found a way of living with them. It was only when I turned away from psychiatric medication that my life totally turned around. Since then I've got married, had kids, got a house and love going to work every day."
Comments
The authorities could change the name/label, but the people who use it, will continue to use it and pass it(the thinking) on to their children. Much like all other forms of racism.
Posted by: mark p.s. | November 5, 2007 11:28 AM