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I have four things on my mind today.
I watched a movie on Netflix, Neverwas. If you would like to see how Hollywood romanticizes mental illness, I suggest watching this movie. Let me know if you decide to see it. I would love to know what you think.
A series that I watch, Longmire, had an episode with a Native American man who had schizophrenia. The character killed his sister, of course. You can’t get any more stereotypical than the violent man with schizophrenia. They did get a part of the illness right though. The character suffered from delusions of a spiritual nature. Also it seemed as if the character had a very low IQ which is an inaccurate portrayal of the majority of people with schizophrenia.
Enough of Hollywood.
I am reading a book, Women of the Asylum. It is a book that has over twenty essays, letters, or journal entries from women who lived in an asylum between the years of 1840-1945. I have finished the introduction, and two of the women’s essays. I like the book so far. If you are interested in reading about the history of feminism, psychiatry, and first person accounts of the mental health system, this is the book for you.
I have two new posts up on my Psych Central blog.
One is Treatment Can Be Harder Than You Think.
The other one is The Mentally Ill As Advocates For Each Other.
I’ve added your book to my list on Goodreads. It sounds like a good read. 🙂 (No pun intended, I just didn’t know what else to say, haha.)
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Great articles. I’m also so grateful you addressed your issues with your pharmacy. As of 2015, our insurance has dictated that we use one particular pharmacy so we had to leave a well organized and efficient pharmacy and move to one that has made mistake after mistake. If I were not here to oversee these issues with this insurance mandated pharmacy, she would most likely have fallen away from her medication regimen and would be in life-threating/serious trouble on many occasions.
Thank you for addressing this topic.
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There are times I want to cry about my medication. I take my medication so seriously and I absolutely panic if I think I won’t have it. This situation has caused me days where I was so frightened and so stressed about not having my medication. It is so easy to see why some people can’t manage it – I don’t find that surprising at all.
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That book sounds very interesting, i will have to give that a read. 🙂
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It is interesting!
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On my list of books to read too 🙂 also, I can never find anything good on Netflix. It has a knack for making the watcher not want to subscribe anymore
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I like Netflix. I have watched several series that I really loved. I watched the first season of Rectify and am waiting for the next season to come out. I like a good cop show, too, so I have watched almost all of the Blue Bloods series – it is a feel good cop show most of the time. I can’t handle too much violence. There are other shows I have really enjoyed, too.
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I think it would be very interesting to find out how women survived in mental institutions during that time period!
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Well, it is a pretty depressing book. Many women during that time did not have mental health issues they were just opinionated or spoke out about something or “difficult” and their husbands, or sons, or brothers had them locked up. It was terrible. Also, the treatment they received sounds horrifying.
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Oh yes, I can see that probably happened quite often back then. The husband putting their wives “away” because they disagreed with them or had strong opinions. Very sad!
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Yes, it did happen frequently – terrible!
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