Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Give me a Straight Jacket or Shock Treatment PLEASE
To give an example of why I think that the present Psychiatric System IS STILL BARBARIC is that one of my lovely Psychiatrists told me, that, without Medication, the Average High of a Bi-Polar Patient would be TWO WEEKS. I used to go LUCID to the HOSPITAL requesting help because I could feel a High coming on. Unfortunately LARGATOL seemed only to intensify the High and they loaded me with "Enough to kill an Elephant" for 8 weeks in an average stay. And then I'd be put out into the Community with the intellectual dexterity of a four year old. I see how handicapped I was by the childishness of the drawings directly after leaving the Psychiatric Hospital. If I had my time over again I would DEMAND SHOCK TREATMENT because SHOCK TREATMENT is so effective at CALMING one down from a HIGH. Otherwise a STRAIGHT JACKET would still be PREFERABLE! Even my Psychiatric Nurse testified to the counter productivity of POURING LARGACTOL into people when it ISN'T CALMING THEM. Thankfully LARGACTOL is not quite as popular as it used to be but that is just one example of a hundred that I could give.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Dear John
I won my Golf. Only second Division but today I'm on a Natural High. Hope you had a good day too. I think you have at least one hundred silk ties - more than I have Palette and Jolly Cute!
I don't think your Cabinet should consider Mining Places such as the Kapnaga Block when people have gone to the trouble of planting Kauri. If you were to some how broker a deal with the Mining Companies that Our Country should get 50% instead of one dollar in the hundred you could afford to cut the area to be Mined by about 80-90% and still get the same dosh! How backward thinking are we that in the 21st Century we contemplate allowing such Daylight Robbery and not expect OUR FAIR SHARE? Broker a good deal, choose sites wisely and don't GIVE AWAY all the SILVER, or GOLD as it were PLEASE! I may be misinformed by Newspapers but I WAS ASTOUNDED!
I don't think your Cabinet should consider Mining Places such as the Kapnaga Block when people have gone to the trouble of planting Kauri. If you were to some how broker a deal with the Mining Companies that Our Country should get 50% instead of one dollar in the hundred you could afford to cut the area to be Mined by about 80-90% and still get the same dosh! How backward thinking are we that in the 21st Century we contemplate allowing such Daylight Robbery and not expect OUR FAIR SHARE? Broker a good deal, choose sites wisely and don't GIVE AWAY all the SILVER, or GOLD as it were PLEASE! I may be misinformed by Newspapers but I WAS ASTOUNDED!
Ideas on a Comparatively Sleepless Night
Paula is one of the strong and she fights for "Political Brownie Points". It all sounds very plausible but speaking from her high chair and her comfortable salary, to me, it seems nothing but a two faced argument.
The people who I feel sorry for are the Police. Caught in the middle of the angst between Rich and Poor, more and more they have to live life on the knife edge. They are the real Heroes. We follow other Societies like dumb sheep into a Humanitarian Abyss! God help us the day we follow the Americans and turn to Guns to stop the Anarchy!
Anyway - in the middle of a relatively sleepless night when I was contemplating the Humanity which we show the I.H.C. I think I found the Solution for Psychiatric Patients, Drugs Addicts and the Unemployed alike to give them a sense of Dignity and let them feel Part of the Community. I think Every Community should have Work Shops, or "Sweat Shops" as Paula would rather have it! Actually I don't think that at all. As it is we have developed to the stage of drop in centres which Society generally looks upon as a bunch of loosers and tossers but it would be not a huge step to offering these people payment for occupying their time. That way the Unemployed, for what ever reason, would have opportunity to acquire a sense of self-esteem and Dignity. Unlike Paula I think they should be paid the minimum hourly rate, just as we now pay the I.H.C, and I THINK it would be Humanitarian NOT to put a God Forsaken Lid on rewarding effort! After all, what is the hourly rate of Our Politicians and how can we be so mean as to quibble over dimes by comparison? In my opinion there should still be a secure basic benefit but an opportunity to become a dignified contributing member of Our Society. I think that would give the Unemployed a reason to have some self-esteem, the Drug Addicts something better to do and it would halve the need for Psychiatric Services because it would take away the feeling that a lot of These Human Beings have of being Generally Ostracized and therefore Distressed. I think it would even reduce Bullying and Angst and provide a Truly Decent Humanitarian Safety net that would help to keep OUR POLICE OFFICERS ALIVE!
The people who I feel sorry for are the Police. Caught in the middle of the angst between Rich and Poor, more and more they have to live life on the knife edge. They are the real Heroes. We follow other Societies like dumb sheep into a Humanitarian Abyss! God help us the day we follow the Americans and turn to Guns to stop the Anarchy!
Anyway - in the middle of a relatively sleepless night when I was contemplating the Humanity which we show the I.H.C. I think I found the Solution for Psychiatric Patients, Drugs Addicts and the Unemployed alike to give them a sense of Dignity and let them feel Part of the Community. I think Every Community should have Work Shops, or "Sweat Shops" as Paula would rather have it! Actually I don't think that at all. As it is we have developed to the stage of drop in centres which Society generally looks upon as a bunch of loosers and tossers but it would be not a huge step to offering these people payment for occupying their time. That way the Unemployed, for what ever reason, would have opportunity to acquire a sense of self-esteem and Dignity. Unlike Paula I think they should be paid the minimum hourly rate, just as we now pay the I.H.C, and I THINK it would be Humanitarian NOT to put a God Forsaken Lid on rewarding effort! After all, what is the hourly rate of Our Politicians and how can we be so mean as to quibble over dimes by comparison? In my opinion there should still be a secure basic benefit but an opportunity to become a dignified contributing member of Our Society. I think that would give the Unemployed a reason to have some self-esteem, the Drug Addicts something better to do and it would halve the need for Psychiatric Services because it would take away the feeling that a lot of These Human Beings have of being Generally Ostracized and therefore Distressed. I think it would even reduce Bullying and Angst and provide a Truly Decent Humanitarian Safety net that would help to keep OUR POLICE OFFICERS ALIVE!
Yesturday I went to the Op Shop
It was great to try and be helpful to one of the most diligent and dedicated ladies of the Op Shop. But half way through the day when I had almost forgotten my fears along the street strode my Psychiatrist. I'm not dumb enough to think that because nobody comments that nobody notices my ravings and I coloured up and ducked for cover. It is absolutely horrible that I feel isolated even from my own Shrink and I may be a miserable bitch that needs a pitchfork but I'm not about to stop. I was so distressed that I even contemplating suicide in my Dreams from the third floor of the Hospital but once again I was too cowardly! My Psychiatrist is one of the most decent Human Beings I have ever met in my entire life. I don't want to change my Doctor. I just want to change the Whole System. Dr Primrose said that we would likely look back and say that Psychiatric Care is Barbaric and I wholeheartedly agree with HIM!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Dear Paula Bennett
I agree that work is healthier for people than unemployment. I still think that the punitive policies of late are counter to encouraging people off the benefit. If we properly rewarded people for making an effort I'm sure people would start coming off benefits in droves. It would also reduce the crime rate ten fold. Expecting people to happily work for a dollar an hour over and above the extra 70 to 100 dollars per week is cruel, ridiculous and discriminatory. If even Treasury is against it you should revise and rediscover your own humanity.
You make out these people are criminals for being unemployed. What is criminal is to cynically keep people on benefits because it is cheaper than giving people the dignity of employment and then to come up with trite and hollow justifications! That's what they were saying on facebook anyway. "Subsistence" incomes, as Bill Birch called benefits, is not "Welfare" at all. One way or another it encourages and breeds division and crime. I know you were on the D.P.B. and I applaud your success but I'd like to see you live by your policies for more than a month and see how good it is for your mental health. And due to inflation I'm sure your D.P.B. went a lot further than it does today.
You make out these people are criminals for being unemployed. What is criminal is to cynically keep people on benefits because it is cheaper than giving people the dignity of employment and then to come up with trite and hollow justifications! That's what they were saying on facebook anyway. "Subsistence" incomes, as Bill Birch called benefits, is not "Welfare" at all. One way or another it encourages and breeds division and crime. I know you were on the D.P.B. and I applaud your success but I'd like to see you live by your policies for more than a month and see how good it is for your mental health. And due to inflation I'm sure your D.P.B. went a lot further than it does today.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Dear John
I had an awful day at Flax Weaving. If Olanzepine does shrink the brain matter, as I suspect it does and has, the the brain is hardly likely to recover. Tegretol also gave me brain damage. I'm sorry for being so treacherous but I think it is high time that we faced up to the fact that we should offer the dignity of Euthanasia to those that have suffered quite enough.
One of my friends from last years class said that she can perfectly understand that, whether down to the dementing process of Mental Illness or down to the drugs that they give you, that if you can no longer LEARN what is there left in life to hold on to?
I'm only fifty and inspite of Tegretol giving me the cancer, physically I'm as strong as an Ox and could survive another thirty years. Well I say no thank you and enough is enough and, much as I adore you, I aim to make you so ANGRY with me that you DO put a BILL through.
We treat people with mental illness as if they are BUMS and SCUM and I'm not thanking you or anyone for the token compassion that leaves vulnerable people kicking around on this Planet only to become a business to whoever and I want out. But until I work up the courage to kill myself I'm going to remind you every day that Society needs to improve it's track record towards the Mentally Ill. By the way I was treated I was too scared to have a daughter and since Bi-Polar is genetic I will at least put forward as succinct an argument as I can that we owe these people a decent chance rather than let them rattle around like skeletons in their self imposed prisons until the day they die!
It is too late to offer me Dignity in Life so offer me the Dignity of Death by Euthanasia PLEASE!
I'm hardly an Ambassador for Mental Illness but I've watched the torturous poses of my fellows enough to know that the problems are not just the Mental Illness but pretending not to notice the hostility toward them by Society in general and more must be done, much more!
One of my friends from last years class said that she can perfectly understand that, whether down to the dementing process of Mental Illness or down to the drugs that they give you, that if you can no longer LEARN what is there left in life to hold on to?
I'm only fifty and inspite of Tegretol giving me the cancer, physically I'm as strong as an Ox and could survive another thirty years. Well I say no thank you and enough is enough and, much as I adore you, I aim to make you so ANGRY with me that you DO put a BILL through.
We treat people with mental illness as if they are BUMS and SCUM and I'm not thanking you or anyone for the token compassion that leaves vulnerable people kicking around on this Planet only to become a business to whoever and I want out. But until I work up the courage to kill myself I'm going to remind you every day that Society needs to improve it's track record towards the Mentally Ill. By the way I was treated I was too scared to have a daughter and since Bi-Polar is genetic I will at least put forward as succinct an argument as I can that we owe these people a decent chance rather than let them rattle around like skeletons in their self imposed prisons until the day they die!
It is too late to offer me Dignity in Life so offer me the Dignity of Death by Euthanasia PLEASE!
I'm hardly an Ambassador for Mental Illness but I've watched the torturous poses of my fellows enough to know that the problems are not just the Mental Illness but pretending not to notice the hostility toward them by Society in general and more must be done, much more!
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Dear John Letters
I've decided to write a letter to Our Dear Prime Minister every day until he either gives me a job or gives me Euthanasia. I'm sure John would probably prefer that he could give me the later by the time I've finished but there we have it.
Actually the job I want is to play the Harp and I want $1,000 a week to do so. As I have said you are worth ten of me but NOT 40. And what's more I'd like you to buy me the Harp so that I can remember you every time I touch it! I'll have to practise for a while but if I worked at it for a while I'm sure I would be able to provide background music for Parliament!
I've had a good day today so I don't need Euthanasia today but the time will come when I DO NEED it and I appeal to YOUR HUMANITY to set up such an enablement. PLEASE!
Actually the job I want is to play the Harp and I want $1,000 a week to do so. As I have said you are worth ten of me but NOT 40. And what's more I'd like you to buy me the Harp so that I can remember you every time I touch it! I'll have to practise for a while but if I worked at it for a while I'm sure I would be able to provide background music for Parliament!
I've had a good day today so I don't need Euthanasia today but the time will come when I DO NEED it and I appeal to YOUR HUMANITY to set up such an enablement. PLEASE!
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