Sharing Circle



A Sharing of Psychiatric Experiences in the First Person


(Rather Than Our ‘Interpreters’ and Their Ventriloquist Acts)

 

Using the first person singular to share experiences, to self define, to identify in principle what helps and what does not help. 

 

 

Think of it as an online version of a circle in a support group in which each person gets to share from his or her own point of view. The style is self focused and genuine, using the dreaded  “I” word, something often forbidden or called 'selfish' in the experience of the psychiatrized.

Here we can practice healthy Self-ishness through the development and/or maintenance of self containment along with connection to others. It is what many of us have always needed the most.
 

It is about good boundaries.

 

 

 
 


Tool for Change


Although this is not exactly true for 'us', as the non psychiatrized do not cope with being told they may not speak or they will get 'treatment' if they try it, there are some hints for all in here, relating to what I am talking about with this forum regarding how to get out of the double bind so that it is not a 'choice' between yelling in the town square OR silence. Assertivemess training methods are about boundaries from within which we define, protect and control OURSELVES and get all those helpful 'others' off our backs.
You may be able to get this one or one like it very cheap. I got this one in an old tape set for one dollar as a  library  discard.

 

 

 


Voices of Psychiatric Experience in the First Person.

 

(Rather Than Our ‘Interpreters’ and Their Ventriloquist Acts)

 

Using the first person singular to share experiences, to self define, to identify in principle what helps and what does not help and learning or practising the doing of it from within our own solid, stable, strong, personal boundaries. 



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Voices Of Experience
  On Being "Third Personned"

Many psychiatric survivours know what I mean by being 'third personned.' Many of us have experienced this in a variety of ways.
Some of the more common ways include: observing hospital staff standing in small groups, arms folded, one foot forward, with heads tilted together as they assign themselves the roles of our unwanted (and usually unnecessary) 'interpreters.'
Other instances of being third personned might include family discussions about us in our presence, as if we were not there, or discussions about us when we aren't there and when we are not invited to participate in our own lives.
Also included may be discussions about us and our character or lack of awareness by those who lack the awareness to see themselves as we see them and this may include total strangers gossiping from a few feet away..
I would like us to share some of the experience of this with each other as well as any readers, especially the ones who are tilting their heads as they observe us talking like real humans.
Please feel free to share such instances here and to describe how it makes you feel to be treated like that.
Remember to stay in the first person please.

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