Saturday, September 13, 2014

It's coming up to the Elections
And I Promised I will Vote Blue
But in We are to go Forward
Positively
In Regard
To Mental Health Care
We must Groom
Clients for Work
Medication
Only Dulls the Patient
And makes Them
Quite Incapable of Work
We cannot Acknowledge
That People are Reduced
To the Capacity
Of a Three Year Old
And then Go on Condemning Them
Until They Leap to their Graves
It is a Grave Subject
But I think Psychiatry
Of the Future
Must make a Shift
And must Admit
that the Present System
Is not Working
We as a Society
Must Shield the Vulnerable
Not Condemn Them
Because to do so
Is to CONDEMN
The Victim
Is that What we WANT?
Is that What We need?

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Good Luck Johnny & Co


Saturday, August 2, 2014

How to Control the Impact of Stigma

The terror of being
Mentally Ill
Runs through Our Blood
As a little Girl
I was terrified
As an Adult Woman
I am terrified
We say that We Care
At times We offer Empathy
Sympathy
Pity
But Without
A Place in the Community
Without a Sense of Worth
Without Employment
Life becomes One Long Passage
Of Grief
When the Drugs
That they
Give You
Give You Cancer
And because of Your Concern
You are labelled
A Drama Queen
I say I have 
Every Right
And for Those that
Come After Me
I make a Plea
That in future
We have Work Houses
Instead of merely
Punishing the Victim
With Medication
It is hard to See
That it is Anything But
I am Grateful
That I have Lived
But the terror
And Isolation
Has Overwhelmed me
And I'm not the Only One
These Days
I just Sit
And Contemplate
My Navel
Medication
Has Introduced
A Paralysis
Of the Mind
I am Overwhelmed
By Inertia
And Anxiety
Because of the Hostility I have Experienced

Thursday, July 31, 2014

If I am Example

If I am an Example
Of Why We Should not
Rely on Medication Regimes
To Help Psychiatric Patients
Through Life
The Consequences of
Punishing Victims
Either of Mental Illness
Or Crime
Is that the Result
Is that We Terrify
Alienate
Condemn
and Dull
And We Expect
Them to Suffer
With Little
Or no Rights
I didn't even Fight
For my Own Son
Because I was Instinctively
Aware of How Far Reaching
The Prejudice Was
Even at a Young Age
I've been Overwhelmed
By the HOSTILITY
That Still exists
Towards the Mentally Ill
Even in the Psychiatric System
If We are going to Improve the Care
Of Psychiatric Sufferers
We must set up a Tribunal
For Psychiatric Survivors
That sees to it that these
Survivors are treated
FAIRLY
In Society
The Way it stands
At the Moment
Psychiatric Survivors
Are being Kicked into Touch
Or Preyed upon
They need to Know
That there are People
That Actually Bat for them
And Back them
All I wanted
from Life
Because of Mental Illness
Was a Child to Love and Hold Dear
In the end
Even that was Robbed from me
Universally if We are not
Going to Give these People
Hope and Occupation
As We do the I.H.C.
We are still providing
A Barbaric System
I practically have Premature
Alzheimers
From the Stress of Mental Illness
And Medication
The Place to Intervene
Is When People
Are Young
Show them
That there is 
No Need for TERROR
And they will Respond
Positively 
Cooperatively
And with Enthusiasm
Drugging them
Confining them
And Shunning them
Is Not the Answer
For Change I Beg
For Change I Beg
For Change I Beg

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Thesis

If I were a Doctor many would write a Thesis on Psychiatry
Instead I am a Psychiatric Patient
I'm as Crazy as a Rattle Snake
But at my Core I'm Deeply
Concerned
As the System Presently Stands
We often Condemn Victims
More than Perpetrators
The only way that We can approach
Our Fellow Humanity Humanely
Is to let the Light into their Lives
Set them on Railway Tracks
Careers
Like the Rest of Humanity
Lack of Self-Esteem 
Destroys the very Soul of the Sufferer
We Know that there is Stigma
But if We count the Human Toll
The Mentally Ill
Should not have to
Live their entire Lives
As Condemned People
And When these People
Start to Unravel
We Condemn them 
All the More
It is WRONG
To Medicate
With No Consequence
For Neglect
I am not a Pill Bottle
I am a Human Being
Morally We must
Channel People
Into Lives of Dignity
And not Degrade those
That Choose the Sex Industry
They are often
Victims
As a Psychiatric Patient
I'm appalled that
Even those that Care
For the Mentally Ill
Are Prone to Stigmatize them
We must Catch Them
In their YOUTH
Embrace them
And Offer them Occupation
In Work Houses
Or eventually
Back in the Community
Psychiatric Medicine
Must only be used as an Aside
And not as it Presently is……
Effectively as a Punishment to the Victim
Build Trust and You will Save these Peoples
Psyches
Condemning Them is often a Recipe for Mass Murder

Thursday, July 24, 2014

I know not How to Murder
And I Wish to never Learn
But that I was even Brought to think of it
Makes me ask Questions
I've tried to put a finger on Why
I've done so Poorly
In the Psychiatric System
And I believe
I did this morning
The Unfortunate Truth
Is that We still pay Lip Service
When We tend to Bully
When it comes to Equality and Justice
For those that have a Psychiatric Illness
When in fact the Reality is
That even in the Psychiatric Services
We still tend to treat the Mentally Ill
As Human Footballs
There is still a tendency
To Degrade
And Humiliate
Condemn
I believe that
Psychiatry
Needs to Question
It's Humility
I see Work Houses
For the Unemployed
And the Mentally Ill
As the only way
To give Hope
To these Souls
If We accept that
These People are
Compromised
Then We should
Protect
Rather than Shun
Create a Dignified
Portfolio
And You will
Have Happy and Well adjusted
Citizen's
To not do this
Is Inviting Peril