WillSpirit

Where Will meets Spirit
∞ A Blog Devoted to Balance, Peace, and Clarity ∞

A formerly depressed physician tells stories of trauma, grief and recovery, and offers suggestions for emerging from darkness, living with mood swings, and awakening to life.

Disclaimer
- Dear Visitors:
  Although I trained and practiced as a physician, my background does not include formal instruction in psychiatry beyond basic medical education. This journal presents ideas about treatment philosophy, but must not be considered therapeutic advice. Abrupt changes in one's psychiatric medications can trigger profound cognitive, emotional, and physical symptoms, including suicidal thoughts and actions. Consequently, pharmaceutical agents should not be increased or decreased without supervision by a mental health clinician.
- ON THE OTHER HAND, your brain belongs to you, and your opinion counts. If you decide that changing your medication regimen will serve your best interest, then I believe your providers have an obligation to help you try to achieve your goals. I want everyone to be educated about their options, and do what will be most helpful for themselves. No one should feel pushed around by dogmatic and/or limited viewpoints, whether those of psychiatrists, anti-psychiatry advocates, or myself.

A memoir fragment.

This time away from blogging provides opportunity for some other writing projects, one being work on an online memoir-writing class. I’ve put off most of the assignments until now, and have only a month left to complete the course. Today I finished revision on an earlier assignment. I’m posting it on the memoir section of my site. If anyone is just dying for some of my writing (lol), they can check it out. Cheers to all.

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--The trick is to choose what works in each moment.--
--Savor happy memories, even if you have to make them up.--
--Hardship is enriching, but I'd still rather avoid it.--
--When in doubt, be generous.--
--Sometimes, peace is boring. But always, war is hell.--
--If reality is emptiness, what's the point?--
--The enlightened adult must face the monsters left over from childhood. Only then can the child inside claim joy.--
--A Wordless Mind is the Garden of Eden.--
--The body is its own physician.--
--Living well means embracing life without getting entangled by it.--
--The faults I see most clearly in you are the one's that I share.--
--My joy is yours, and yours mine. Thank you for being alive.--