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Sandy Naiman: Coming Out Crazy - Feed
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 EpilogueLast Friday, when my Anniversary post went up, I knew it would be my penultimate post, here, at Healthzone. Minutes before, I learned that The Toronto Star has decided to discontinue "Coming Out Crazy" ~ but wait. Remember. We're more...
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 Happy Anniversary, "Coming Out Crazy"...We're two years old today. I cannot believe it and what an education writing this blog has been for me. IN THE BEGINNING... On April 9, 2008, I posted my first blog, called Welcome to Coming Out Crazy - and...
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 The gifts of giving back...In my early adolescence, I remember struggling to learn to play George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" on the piano. How perfect for a budding manic-depressive, years before psychiatrists branded me that way. Back then, my diagnosis was schizophrenia, though I...
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 This & That...It seems like ages since I last posted, or responded to your comments. I've been remiss. I apologize. Please forgive me. I've missed you. Although I hate it when people talk about how busy they are - because we're all...
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 Angela to continue bilateral ECT...After meeting with her psychiatrist yesterday, Angela has decided to continue her bilateral electroconvulsive therapy treatments for intractable drug resistant depression and suicidal ideation. She told me that she had considered going back to unilateral ECT, which is gentler, but...
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 Marking Madness and Angela's memory...This is a dreadful time for college teachers. Assignments are piling up, students are anxious for their marks, final examinations must be set and as the end of term approaches, stress levels are on the rise everywhere. AN UNNERVING EXPERIENCE...
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 Angela's news and "Words on the Wall"..."I'm confused," Angela said at the outset of our conversation last evening at 7:56 p.m. "Really confused." She sounded groggy and sluggish. I hadn't heard quite this sound before. Her affect wasn't flat. She did not sound in the least...
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 My lunch with Angela...Angela and I had lunch last Friday and here's what's transpired since. When she picked me up (on Fridays I'm carless as Marty teaches and needs our trusty 1999 Honda Accord) I couldn't believe how thin she looked. Over the...
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 Angela goes bilateral...Wednesday, March 10 at 4:45 p.m. The phone rings. "What do you think of the idea of me trying bilateral?" Angela asked. Her psychiatrist in charge of her current course of Electroconvulsive Therapy had raised the issue in a telephone...
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 Angela's progress ...Hi there. I'm back! How are you? You have no idea how much I've missed you. So much has happened over the last week - my Reading Week. There were times I ached to sit down here at my trusty...
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 Activist Judi Chamberlin dies at 65...American mental health advocate/activist Judi Chamberlin was a powerhouse, a beacon in the fight for equal rights for people with mental illnesses. A psychiatric survivor, she was considered the "grandmother of the mad pride movement." She died peacefully, at 65,...
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 ECT: Up close and personal...She called me about two weeks ago. Her voice was almost inaudible. Robotic-sounding. All she said was, "What do you know about ECT?" As it happens, I know a lot. And we discussed it. Or rather, I discussed it. She...
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 ECT: Up close and personal - the first treatment ...At 7 a.m. this past Monday morning, my friend Angela (not her real name) walked into the University Health Network on University Avenue in Toronto and took the elevator up to the second floor surgical admissions desk, where she was...
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