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
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How Do You Feel On Psych Meds? Really.
It might be nice for the watchers and assessors to know what it is REALLY like to be on them and not to just get all the praise for them from our 'ventriloquists.' I was on a very low dose of...
21465/12/2010 4:17:32 PM
What Have You Read or Seen Here that Connects for You with Your Own Psychiatrized Experience?
Does anything written or posted here, by either myself or others, make you feel less alone in your own experience? If so, can you tell us what that is and why?
728674/10/2010 2:15:31 PM
Is the Line Between Criminal Behaviour and "Mental Illness” Being Blurred?
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 This week in Canada a government employee was convicted of  the theft of a quarter of a million dollars which he obtained by planning a siphoning operation from the...
116514/10/2010 2:12:52 PM
Do You Believe Your Psychiatric Diagnosis is a 'REAL' Disease
If Psychiatric Diagnoses are not ‘Diseases’, What is Really Happening Here?  Note: if you believe you have a ‘real bona fide disease’ in and of itself and that your illness has nothing to do with...
2715654/10/2010 2:06:51 PM
On the Dreaded "Blaming"
I have a question for you. I would like anyone at all to answer this one and that means the psychiatrized or psychiatrists or family members and friends of the psychiatrized: This is a very...
23644/10/2010 2:00:34 PM
Talking Without Being Heard
I have spent quite a bit of time talking to people while feeling that they have not really heard a word I have said. I ‘explained myself until I felt exhausted from the effort and then finally gave...
541612/24/2009 12:12:53 PM
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...
326612/6/2009 12:01:32 PM





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