Being Bonkers (part 2)

[TwisterB]

I had the same sort of mental breakdown. I'm from Canada, and while we don't have a good public mental health system, I did get a psychologist through uni. I was on campus having a panic attack in the middle of the sidewalk. Totally despondant, no one stopped to help me. I looked up, and I was right outside the office for students with disabilities. Talk about coincidence. I went in and was fortunate enough to get this really calm buddhist counsellor who talked me out of the fear.

[tearecords]

@TwisterB you were very lucky indeed. If every councellor were a buddhist it would put a lot of psychiatrists out of business!

[TwisterB]

I had the same sort of mental breakdown. I'm from Canada, and while we don't have a good public mental health system, I did get a psychologist through uni. I was on campus having a panic attack in the middle of the sidewalk. Totally despondant, no one stopped to help me. I looked up, and I was right outside the office for students with disabilities. Talk about coincidence. I went in and was fortunate enough to get this really calm buddhist counsellor who talked me out of the fear.

[Isisbridge]

I think I meant brilliant expose-ay. (I can't think of my words sometimes) People who have never been involved with the psychiatric system often have a naive belief that psychiatrists are experts on the mind, and so videos like this are important to educate them as to the true state of affairs. Psychiatrists are not interested in trying to understand people's minds. They are just looking for signs and symptoms, so that they can put a label on you and drug you up.

[tearecords]

Thanks, I'm glad it connected. In fact, I also paid for my own MRI scan in 1999 when I finally got my diagnosis. I hope you are doing ok now and staying clear of psychiatrists!

[spazzium]

Wow, what a well made presentation. I just have a small BLA in Psychology, but I can agree and have seen accounts that would agree with every part of your account.

[spazzium]

It's the responsibility of psychiatrists everywhere to prescribe drugs responsibly. And the fact that nobody has any real insight into the black box chemical interactions of the brain is a serious problem, and once solved will probably be the biggest medical breakthrough of my lifetime. That said, anti-depressants do help a number of people. I have personal witness to the successful prescription treatment of bipolar.

[spazzium]

But the fact that responses to drugs still change between each individual is an indication of how complex the brain really is. Further, lots of psychological states can be modified just as effectively with changes in diet and exercise.

[Seabrook78in]

Thanks for posting this.

[KitsuneCharmed]

Great videos! Psychiatry is some scary stuff, and the hospitals are enough to drive anyone around the bend. Living well is the best revenge, they say, but making a documentary has to be at least the second best!

[tearecords]

Thanks. My thoughts, exactly.

[richardmoores]

You are quite right draziom99. Psychiatry is based on opinion and observation to diagnose "illnesses" to be "cured" by medication which causes more problems than the "disease" itself, and this practice passes itself off as "science".

[deanomcbeano]

exactly the same as me i felt suicidal

[DaithIla]

Good stuff big man!

We all have our share of shit....

[teambuzz]

Amazingly insightful documentry, do you know if they will show it again? cant wait for your wolfman documentry!

Michael

[fifeetrixibelle]

excellent vids. Wish it wasn't a true experience for you. One question, sheer curiousity. Do you have HIPPA laws? No one should have access to those records, even doctor to doctor you have to sign a release of information to my knowledge and experience.

[tearecords]

You're right, the records aren't public but there are situations where I could be asked to give permission for someone to look at them. Certainly for health insurance and some jobs will want you to pass a medical examination.

It's actually not really relevant in my case, but the commissioning editor at the broadcaster wanted that line in. Clearly, I don't care who knows!

[TrueDreams77]

thanks mate! fight on!

[jillyjo]

When i was smoking weed, i was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had the same type of thoughts, when i stopped the weed, i got better, i wonder why? idiot.

[tearecords]

However, I'm still smoking the weed but am no longer a paranoid schizophrenia - how do you explain that? By the way, I also still have the same type of thoughts too, I've just found other ways to express them. The ideas and realisations themselves have been the making of me both personally and in my career. What's so idiotic about that?

[CptnSmaz]

Thanks for this insightful video. When a big part of the medical profession cannot even have the decency to say when they have made a mistake then I find that highly disturbing. your record should be cleared.

Or as the saying goes "The 'therapist' can also be the rapist of mind, body and soul."

Good on you for standing your ground against the experts.

Being a bit nutty is an essential trait of life in this violent, uncertain, highly beautiful and conceptual world.

[Jethrol2]

Wow....amazing, tragic and afirming all at the same time. Great job on your documentary...I really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it.

[cambridgestewart]

Good story. At end of 1st video, was wondering what may have precipitated the viewpoint/behaviour started this predicament in the first place. I wondered if you'd been taking any drugs. The 2nd video answered my Q.

Could it have been that although marijuana appeared to benefit you in getting out, if you'd never taken it in the first place, then the birth/death all at once thing may not have been so, er, disorienting?

Just a thought.

[tearecords]

She has noticed the likeness too, but I think in a bad way. I then have to say, "you do look a bit like her, but in a good way". I'm as "well" as can be expected under the weight comments like yours - clearly designed to trigger delusions of grandeur. Or am I being paranoid?

[MrNiceHk]

Brilliant and quite frightening, Your ex looks like Del Trotters Misus in a good way. Excellent film mate good to see you "well" again

[PlimsoleKid]

sickening.

[lisapisa1980]

Great story. I love how you capture the true egotistical essence of psychiatrists. The part about wrapping up a lie in truth is brillance. Kudos. Keep up more documentaries like this one brother!

[abbeh]

that was a really good doccumentary :3 unfortunately I can relate to a lot of the stuff you had to deal with at the psych hospital

[vanessa4886]

wow. great story.

[johnnycrowe]

great docu. you should make one about carlish when you finish wolfman and I