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This is so amazing Nine Muses! I volunteered here years ago and it changed my life forever! So glad you are still doing life changing work!

Wow this was amazing! Not just the art but the story and description behind it! Thank you all for sharing YOU!!

just an amazing presentation. So inspiring for individuals seeking truth and meaning in their lives. Acceptance and Affirmation is the Aspiration of Love.

Wonderful presentation. Awesome work and advocacy! 👌🏻❤️

Congrats Chris!

lit af, keep it up fam

I knew this wonderful lady. She had a huge impact on my life. Not because she was perfect but because she was striving for perfection. A lady with many many challenges and the courage to meet each one. Thank you Alana.

Sounds great! :)

LOL! made me feel a bit better because it let me laugh at myself! I'm not depressed I've just got a few too meany squirrel in my attic!!!!!!!!!!! ROFL! but I do get the point you don't prejudge someone will a physically debilitating illness so why it there so much hate for people mentally debilitating illnesses!

will see it. Thank you.

@Englishteapot hi englishteapot.I have also had the same rude comments said to me. They are just too ignorant to realize the brain can get sick just like any other organ. I bet they would never say ' Stop using your cancer as a excuse'... stay far away from those types of people. They will only make it harder to cope. I kerp my ptsd and biploar hush hush because i know the stigma involved.. it shoulnt haft to be this way! God Bless You!

The mentally ill are treated like the lowest class citizen, always have and always will, why should Florida Legislators care?

Funny story, I go to decrease the font size in the original title and once again, I learned a lesson to save a project copy in layers prior to publishing. Thanks~PoetryEtc! Way cool, much appreciated

I suffer from bipolar and post traumatic and anxiety disorder and I'm so upset that someone says to me "Stop using your bipolar as an excuse! and I told this person that they are very ignorant and they turn around and call me that or they also stay "You need to stop being so negative! I don't need this person he doesn't have a clue what it's like to be in my shoes

I am a schizophrenic and without drugs I probably would be dead by doing something psychotic. Apparently the drug is interacting with the spirit or psyche to calm it for the patient.

@laserofjustice They prescribe drugs for almost everything these days. The drug industries pull in HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars a year. They drug everything, not just people 'seeing devils'. Shyness, sadness, anger, PMS, puberty. They label and drug practically everything. And yes I do believe I could cure a so called 'schizophrenic' with therapy. There are people that have done it. Unless you think giving a person a chemical lobotomy is more effective and more helpful.

@laserofjustice I do not overlook that psychiatrists have a medical degree. But do you think that means none of them will ever harm a person? Or that they can not be influenced by ghost written fabricated studies? I personally do not agree with psychiatric drugs. That you know. If I were to agree to drugging it would be a VERY minor few, and only those who were severely catatonic or violent or 'seeing devils', so you could start therapy. That's not the case now. How many millions are drugged?

@laserofjustice When I speak of my dislike for psychiatrists, I refer to biopsychiatrists who claim these are 'real diseases' caused by a 'chemical imbalance'. Both of which are false. There are some psychiatrists I have great respect for, such as Jung, Szasz and Breggin. So tell me, giving someone a chemical lobotomy is 'helping' them? That's what you call treatment? People taking antipsychotics don't lose their symptoms. They lose INTEREST in them. As for an alternative, how about therapy?

@laserofjustice There are far too many side effects for the wide variety of psychiatric drugs to list in a limited character count. Take a look at breggin dot com. Peter's been a psychiatrist longer than I've been alive (and probably you too). Look at his publications under 'scientific papers' or 'drug hazards'. Also check out Breggin's 2 books titled 'Toxic Psychiatry' and 'Medication Madness'. If you wanna help people, and I believe you do, get as many facts as you can from more than 1 source.

@laserofjustice The medications frequently produce, as side effects, the 'symptoms' used to diagnose those disorders. Drugs for depression are claimed to help prevent suicide yet the medications often INCREASE suicidal ideation. How does that help? I already do have a better argument. 'Mental illness' suggests MENTAL states, that is MIND states, NOT brain states. If it were brain states they'd be called brain disease or dysfunction. Like Alzheimer's. 'Mental illness' is MENTAL not PHYSICAL.

@laserofjustice As for schizophrenia well that's a little trickier than the others. The so called professionals don't understand it. Tell me JUST ONE study that shows schizophrenia to be a disease, or a 'chemical imbalance', or genetic, or biological. Not your top 10, JUST ONE. I've asked this question many many times and not gotten a single reference As for the drugs 'treating' the symptoms, a lobotomy will do that to you. Check the literature. High rates of TD, brain damage & chemical lobotomy

@laserofjustice Only in some cases the others can be treated with talk therapy? You do know that every single person has the capacity to feel sad, or shy, or anxious, and these are normal human emotions and feelings and behaviours. You define the exact same feeling as a 'disease' just because it stays for longer than 'normal' (please tell me what 'normal' is if you are going to label such things as 'abnormal'). How can feeling sad for a day be 'normal' but feeling sad for a week is a disease?

@laserofjustice I don't have experience with so called schizophrenics. But I have plenty with so called depression, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders. Almost all types of each. Can you be honest and say the same? Do you know what schizophrenia really is? Cause I assure you, the so called professionals don't have a clue. And treating schizophrenia with drugs helps?? So irreversible neurological damage, tardive dyskinesia, and a chemical lobotomy is helping them? Yep, sure sounds like help.

@MrHobiecat Get an institutionalized mental patient eh? You mean someone that is forcibly restrained and imprisoned against their will? That gets labeled and locked up? That gets forced psychiatric drugs? The drugs mind you frequently CAUSE those symptoms of the diagnosis label. And as for the antipsychotics for 'psychophrenia' (I think you mean schizophrenia btw) they can cause irreversible brain damage, tardive dyskenisia, and a chemical lobotomy. These people aren't insane. The system is.

@MrHobiecat See, once again you change the subject. You can not give evidence to support these are 'real diseases' or a 'chemical imbalance', because there is no evidence. Yet you still blindly claim these are 'real diseases' and that only drugs can fix them. You are wrong on so many levels. And once again there you go with misdiagnosing and labeling. I don't go to 'Melbourn community college'. I don't even live in 'Melbourn', I live on the other side of the country.

@MrHobiecat I do agree, little point talking to people like me. Because we ask questions you cannot answer. There is genetic or biological link. No 'chemical imbalance' (except AFTER drugs). These aren't 'real diseases'. I've asked twice now and you've changed the subject. Please show JUST ONE reference for a study to prove the following: That these are 'real diseases'. That a 'chemical imbalance' is real. That there is genetic or biological evidence (for say depression or schizophrenia).

@MrHobiecat Yeah, what we need is more forced restraint and more forced drug use. They are mentally ill after all, and we must help them. Helping them within psychiatry means labeling them (with a 'disease' that doesn't exist). Drugging them with toxic drugs that frequently produce side effects that are symptoms of that very 'disorder'. Saying they are 'chemically imbalanced' when no such thing exists. Electroshock torturing them. Forced restraint. Chemical lobotomies. Psychiatry doesn't save.

@MrHobiecat rofl. See that's what psychiatrists do. They label people and drug people. Those who don't accept the labels you call mentally ill for not accepting them. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad and pathetic. I thought psychiatry was supposed to be a science. There is no science behind it, just a whole heap of scared little boys that are too afraid of anyone looking into their pseudoscience because then their whole world of labeling, drugging, and torturing will be exposed.

@MrHobiecat If you'll note what I previously said, the experiences are real but these are not real illnesses or diseases. I'm not a scientologist. But great misdiagnosis and labeling there. You say I've provided no evidence? I asked you for just one study to prove the biological psychiatry views. Where's your evidence these are 'real diseases', genetic, or biological, or a 'chemical imbalance'? You have no evidence, which you should if that's the viewpoint currently accepted and being pushed.

@MrHobiecat hah. Okay then, tell me just one study that shows things like depression or schizophrenia or ADHD to be physical defects in the brain. Tell me just one medical test to check for any 'chemical imbalance'. The experiences are real yes but these aren't biological or real diseases or illness. You're acting out with a fair bit of anger. If I know what I'm talking about it means you don't. And nobody within psychiatry wants to admit their whole biological perspective is based off lies.

@laserofjustice You're right, I don't have any experience with anyone labeled schizophrenic. But I can assure you, it's not what psychiatry claims it to be, and it's not a disease. As for the treatment of so called schizophrenia, you mention chronic cases only. While I've not dealt with a 'chronic schizophrenic' I would still suggest non drugs, and especially for a 'mild or moderate' case I would suggest non-drug treatments. The anti-psychotics produce a chemical lobotomy. Is that 'better'?

@laserofjustice Do any psychiatrists truly understand the psyche? No. I do. Psychiatrists, or at least biological psychiatrists, call these genetic, biological, or brain defects or abnormalities. This is a lie. They say these are caused by a 'chemical imbalance'. This is a lie. They say these are 'real diseases'. This is a lie. The only psychiatrists I'd trust are those that do not advocate the use of drugs. There are a few of those, and they are extremely knowledgeable, but there's not many.

@laserofjustice rofl. I understand what mental illness is far greater than you or the psychiatrists do. They call it a disease and a chemical imbalance, both of which are lies. I'm not the arrogant and ignorant one, psychiatry is. So you call me a scientologist, which I'm not. Why is that? Because I disagree with psychiatry? Because I think non-drugs are the best way to go? In almost all cases therapy is more effective than drugs, and drugs come with a whole list of side-effects, withdrawal etc

@laserofjustice Did I call everyone schizophrenic? Is that what I said? No. Learn to read. I said according to the DSM everyone can be classified schizophrenic. And seriously, you're telling me I have no knowledge about mental illness? You say I have a simple-minded viewpoint? lol. Now that's a laugh. Keep that notion in mind over the next couple weeks. I assure you I understand what mental illness far better than the current system.

@laserofjustice Also, did you know that according to the DSM criteria, every single person alive can be diagnosed as schizophrenic? You only need 2 out of the following 5 to be diagnosed schizophrenic: Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech, Grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour, Negative symptoms. Using 2 of those 5, EVERY SINGLE PERSON can be diagnosed schizophrenic. So you wanna change your mind about calling it a disease? Because you too are 'diseased'.

@laserofjustice They are not 'illnesses' and not 'diseases'. The problems people experience are real yes, but they are not diseases. Schizophrenia is a tricky one to explain with a limited word count, but even the so called 'experts' don't know what it is. You need to look into quantum physics to understand it. As for those brain scans for schizophrenia, they fail to mention that the people they scan have often been on longterm neuroleptics or getting ECT. The brain changes are due to the drugs.

@laserofjustice Mental 'illness' doesn't exist. And by that I mean it is not an 'illness' and not a 'disease'. The experiences and problems and emotional issues people experience are real yes, but they are NOT a disease. I'm a psychology student, and NOT a scientologist, and I can tell you even without the information from CCHR that these are NOT illnesses or diseases. Problems in living yes. Problems resulting from exposure to a toxic environment yes. Illness or disease no.

@DaedalEVE The only people who I've ever talked to/meet you think about it that way are Americans. O_o I mean not many people in our society are thinking about revolutions or such aggressive defense. Corruption can be found everywhere but I dont see how owing guns will help keep politicians and other officials from turning on the people so to speak.Again I know that the differences in perspectives here is likely influenced by culture and geography. Thanks for explaining your point of view!

@DaedalEVE I can see where trust becomes a factor in situations like those, but not everyone has negative experiences with psychiatrists. seeking help and treatment saves peoples lives. of course no system is perfect.

@DaedalEVE you were handcuffed? the way its suppose to work is they take you in an ambulance(not handcuffed) and you get taken to the hospital to be evaluated by a psychiatrist. having a mental illness is not a crime and shouldn't be treated as if it were.

@DaedalEVE I agree that the rights of people with mental illness or people "suspected" of having a mental illness are being violated all over. its a huge problem and I think its something that needs to be addressed because in many cases its a violation of that persons human and civil rights.

@DaedalEVE is that for all kinds of doctors or just psychiatrists?

@DaedalEVE I think the same can be said about a lot of things. The justice system for example does a huge service for the general public. and on the other hand it makes mistakes and can mess up lives. same with some laws. and same goes for other medical fields. human error is a factor in pretty much everything. unfortunately it has negative effects for some people.

@DaedalEVE I imagine it would be expensive to go to court over that. especially when you're up against an authority figure.

@DaedalEVE I have never been able to understand why some people are so defensive of their right to own guns... I completely understand about wanting to fight for your rights to freedoms that your entitled to but guns are so different. Maybe its just the culture/society that we live in is different and most people here see the whole firearms things differently. Why would you need a gun unless you were going to shoot someone/something? I'm not trying to be rude by the way I'm genuinely curious.

@DaedalEVE well there are people who are in severe denial when actually they do have a problem thats affecting their life but they just can't see it. or they aren't aware of reality enough to be able to see it. but those are some cases and people shouldn't judge others based on a bunch of what ifs.

@DaedalEVE the feelings of depression and anxiety are normal. it is impossible to get rid of anxiety because it is a biochemical response that every human being has. abnormal anxiety or anxiety that causes severe distress in a persons life is different. thats where anxiety disorders occur. but the majority of people dont have those kinds of disorders. It does happen way more often than it should. Depression the illness is not just about being unhappy...its much more complicated then that.

@DaedalEVE Fear can be both a useful thing and a dangerous one. I live in a more accepting multicultural society where many people are different and thats the norm. though fear of other people still exists. Everyone should take responsibility for themselves. i mean there are things that happen that are out of our control and isn't our fault but there are also things that we chose and can chose to change.

@DaedalEVE I'm more of a stay mad the the individual but dont judge the group of people as a whole. That doctor may not have been a good one or a compassionate one but not all doctors are like that. my experiences with doctors have been mostly positive, I've had some bad ones though. and I guess that can be true with anything, I had a few teachers that didn't listen to me at all and just made their own assumptions and ran with them.

@DaedalEVE Every situation in different, and sometimes seeking a second opinion would help. Well thinking "I wish I was dead" and actually being suicidal and serious about it are two very different things. its never considered normal to be suicidal. but thoughts about dying that can come and go when someone is going through a rough patch in their life is not at all uncommon. A good doctor would have asked you several follow up questions.