TEDxColumbus - Suzanne Beachy - What's Next For The Truth
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Suzanne Beachy/ What's Next for the truth
Any diagnosis of mental illness results in a complicated and uncertain fate for those it strikes. When you lose a son as a result of such a diagnosis, it ignites a search for answers. Suzanne Beachy has gained a perspective on life as a result of her loss but is still asking, what is the truth?
About Suzanne:
A mom since 1980, Suzanne Beachy began packing school lunches for her son Jake in 1986. Twenty-four years later, she is still packing school lunches for her young kids, Natalie and Collin. In addition to the usual mommish duties of cleaning up messes and attending to the needs of young digestive systems, Suzanne has worked for pay as a music librarian, bass player, stage hand, professional letter writer and copy editor, and as a partner in her husband Tim's building business. Every other Friday, she works for free as a lunch lady at her kids' school.
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Hello, I'm 38 now and just began to heal myself from a terrible 20 years or more of 100 per cent having the symptoms of schizophrenia. Many medications in the first years. Many hospitals with crisis. Last week I had the last dellusion. Just few days ago I started reading about it. It was like relieving my body from something grabbing it suffocated. I still feel it but each day now I am gaining confidence. There are so many articles about recovery.
Yes, so many stories of recovery from even the most dismal of diagnoses! Since giving this TEDx talk, I have learned of many, many former "schizophrenia" (and "bipolar") patientswho have ditched their diagnoses and "treatment" in favor of full and meaningful lives - people like Jacqui Dillon, Will Hall, Ron Coleman, Eleanor Longden and Rachel Waddingham just to name a few. Are you familiar with them? Their stories are so encouraging!
Thank you. You are very kind. My daughter and I both shared the link on our Facebook pages.
Awesome job.
Thanks for the encouraging comment!
This was very enlightening.Thank you
This was such a great talk, although not exhaustive in the treatments available for mental illness, HOPE is at the top of my list too. Please find therapists, counselors, and professional organizations that foster an environment of hope and IF medication is offered, make sure that it is done with every precaution and potential risk evaluated.
anyone who has heard of John Nash knows people can recover from schizophrenia without meds. I used to see him around campus all the time in college.
Lets stop this horrifying blindly pursued trend. Please treat each other as people not a diagnosis..
She is not interested in searching for truth, she has already decides she knows the truth and actively seeks out any research that supports who beliefs, while ignoring any research that doesn't support it. Oh and she is also a huge hyprocrite. she so kindly wrote a public comment to me telling me my pre-frontal cortex and executive functioning was damaged from the seroquel I have voluntarily taken for many years. (This was right around the time I was offered a full scholarship to do my PhD at Cambridge University). So yeah if you want to talk about killing hope, how do you think it feels to be told that the medication you find to be the one thing that helps quell your terrifying thoughts (and prior to starting it had nearly died from a suicide attempt after ten years of tying to cope with the thoughts without meds), is giving you severe brain damage? Especially when your entire identity and career relies on your intellectual abilities? And then there's her cold-hearted response to the news that the daughter of some director at the treatment advocacy centre committed suicide, ''Already, Doris is saying she lost her daughter to "terminal mental illness." ugh. No Doris, your daughter was FATALLY STRUCK BY A TRAIN. Doris also says, " Last November, she [Natalie] announced that if she was going to have psychotic symptoms whether she took meds or not, why take them?" Gosh, Doris, looks like "treatment" doesn't work so well after all, does it?! Yet Doris will probably continue to cram this message down everyone's thoats anyway.''. What kind of bereaved mother writes that about another bereaved mother whose son was himself killed by a train, writes that to another mother???
According to longtime Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry and National Medal of Science winner Nancy Andreasen MD, PhD, neuroleptic drugs (like Seroquel, Zyprexa, Resperdal, etc.) cause the prefrontal cortex to atrophy. Dr. Andreasen stated in a New York Times interview that neuroleptic drugs “block basal ganglia activity. The prefrontal cortex doesn’t get the input it needs and is being shut down by drugs. That reduces the psychotic symptoms. It also causes the prefrontal cortex to slowly atrophy.” She went on to state that psychiatric patients may lose up to 1 percent of brain volume per year. If Dr. Andreasen’s findings offend you, maybe you could take it up with her.
Who is the "she" in the first line of this comment please?