Posted by: Jane | April 26, 2011

Indefinite Leave From Blogging

Hello everyone,

I’ve been writing and blogging and vlogging about alternative healing/treatment/cures for mental health problems since 2006.

I am done. At least for now.

For twenty years I suffered from the symptoms of severe manic depression, mild schizophrenia and intense PTSD.

I have been free of all of those problems for closing in on FIFTEEN YEARS.

I wrote a book about how I cured myself, using meditation. See my sidebar column and my dotcom for more info.

Uncomfortable Reality CHECK:

Most of you people who think you are doing meditation? You are not. You don’t know what you are doing. You just think you do and talk like you do, but you do not. I know this, because meditation has been my life’s work and I happen to know a few things about doing meditation right, and doing it wrong. I’ve made many mistakes, gone down many false paths, and I have called myself an experienced and serious meditator, even when it was clear I still had depression, self-hate, confusion, etc.

I was a hypocrite and a newb (beginner) and I can admit this.

Consequently, I can smell New Age cluelessness when some people talk about meditation. You don’t know what you are doing. Just admit it. Okay?

Have fun with your faux-meditation practices, because, when years and years go by and you are still not healed/recovered/cured of your depression, mania, anxiety, tumultuous and deceptive inner voices, self-loathing and self-confidence issues, you will maybe realize that you never had any clue what meditation is really all about.

Instead you are investing in some personal stake on what you think meditation should be, to you.

Also. I can’t stand this climate of Big Pharma.

It borders on self-harm, self-psychological torture for me to read about mental illness, mental health suffering, ECT sessions, Lithium treatment-induced kidney failure, Tardive Dyskenisa, etc. I can’t stand it anymore. I don’t want to know about this stuff anymore.

IT IS DEPRESSING. And I am DONE with being depressed.

It is no longer healthy or beneficial to me to keep stressing myself by reading about all the incredible horrors of modern, biological reductionist mental health treatment.

The way I see it is, you pop pills, talk therapy all you want, get your colon hosed out, take vitamins you don’t need, take up gluten free diets, whatever.

None of this stuff compares EVEN REMOTELY to the power of real meditation when done correctly for even ten minutes.

You can waste your time with New Age psychobabble and nutritional pseudoscience and scams.

Or.

You can buckle down and learn how to do real meditation and then really go practice it, for real.

Then, watch your mental and physical and emotional and spiritual health come back.

And.

Gain a life-long skill that you can tap into to destress and continually heal and recover from the struggle, strife and trauma of today’s existence.

You can either, listen to me. Or. Not. Your choice.

I apologize to all the MH bloggers I pissed-off with my high-handed crap, but, you know what? I wrote a book about how to DIY-heal yourself without psych drugs and psychotherapy.

That is my contribution to alternative and organic mental health recovery.

This is my attempt to get really RADICAL and anti-patriachal establishment.

And Big Pharma is patriarchy, with a capital “P”. You had better believe it, if you don’t already know this.

I feel DEEPLY for all women who have had their minds and bodies enslaved to worthless psych ‘treatments’.

I want you to be free, like me.

That is why I wrote my book.

I will bet you all, any amount of money that:

John Hopkins, Harvard, Biederman, Jamison, et al, will never find a “gene” for ANY mental illness.

The reason I know this? Because I healed myself of mental illness, which IS IMPOSSIBLE IF YOU REALLY DO HAVE A REAL GENETIC DISORDER.

That would mean my self-healing is either a calculated deception, or it was freaking MAGIC.

You decide which. I don’t really care anymore.

But I am willing to take a brain scan, MRI, CAT, PET, whatever, anytime, anywhere to prove it.

If you are from a Uni and you have enough research grant money so you can fly me out to your lab and put me up in a hotel for awhile, while you test me, then email me, and we will make it happen.

In closing.

This world is sick. And no where is it any sicker than in trying to treat and “heal” those with mental, emotional and spiritual health issues.

I am just tired of it all.

I don’t want to be famous. I don’t want to be another Byron Katie or Eckhart Tolle. I am going to fade away into intentional obscurity.

Let only the most intelligent minds see the wisdom of MY TRUTH and decide, now or later, if you want to be free, or if you want to be a slave.

Best wishes to you all in reclaiming your bodies, minds and souls from the horrible, terrible mistake of biological psychiatry and bio-genetic reductionism.

Thank you for reading this.

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Responses

  1. “I can’t stand this climate of Big Pharma” you wrote. I can’t stand it either. I hope you enjoy your time away.
    Count me in on the brain scan to detect mental illness, but I don’t think it is going to happen as there is no money to be made.
    The Government should fund the research, as they have to foot the bill for the serious mentally ill, but all their doctor-psychiatrist advisor’s have circular logic faults.
    “You are not mentally ill now because you were misdiagnosed.” They say.
    You claw your way out of a hole they put you in, then the bastards say they never put you in the hole.
    Where have you been writing online? I haven’t seen you.


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