Saturday, August 24, 2019

CommonGround Program (Pat Deegan)

https://www.commongroundprogram.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Deegan

Many of us also know what it means to be buried under an avalanche of psychiatric drugs. We know what it means to have the treatment be worse than the disorder. We know what it means to be in a chemical tomb, where we feel so drugged we are neither alive nor dead; when we are so drugged that our bodies are stiff and slow and lifeless; when our faces become expressionless masks; when our eyes stop dancing and, instead, glaze over into a petrified stare; when our passion is neutered under powerful pharmaceuticals; and when we are, quite literally, disappeared within a chemical coma. —Deegan (2004)

Gupta, Swapnil MD; Cahill, John MBBS, BMedSci; Miller, Rebecca PhD. Deprescribing in Psychiatry (p. ix). Oxford University Press. 2019, Kindle edition.