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My involvement with the Sunrise Center

Over 40 years ago, when I was first a mental patient, I escaped from the ward, and wandered into a day room for elderly patients. I was heavily sedated, and I sat down in a semi circle of silent elders, who stared back at me for what seemed like several hours, but was...

A Journey with Psychiatric Drugs

In my 40s, isolated from friends and family, and with the encouragement of my “scientifically minded” new partner, I began taking psychiatric drugs in an attempt to deal with a cycle of depression and suicide attempts. After some years, I discovered that the...

A Success Story

When I was married and in an abusive situation, I took an overdose of pills right before going to work. My husband was beating me. They took my daughter away. I was looking for a way out. Ten minutes after I took the pills, I knew I had been stupid. I had a good...

Getting Off of Psychiatric Drugs

Using Reevaluation Counseling to cope with the feelings, and acupuncture to help with the detox and withdrawal, I succeeded in getting off of an old-school anti-depressant that I'd been taking for close to twenty years. I learned how to get off of psychiatric drugs...

Drug Free and Free

This is my story of getting off psychiatric drugs. I didn’t get to choose the ways I was hurt in my life, but I did get to decide how to move through the effects of those hurts. I have been drug free for eleven years and counting. When I faced a huge crisis in...

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