This is from a Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
“After my own (inaccurate diagnosis of bipolar disorder circa age 27) and my own treatment, I have adopted a more holistic approach.
I feel that the current mental health system fails so many; fueled by archaic dogma based upon medical western disease models.
I firmly believe that I was inaccurately diagnosed with bipolar disorder… which was really a complex trauma reaction. I was medicated by big Pharma who cash in billions and billions of dollars by well-meaning psychiatrists. Who treat symptoms… who just get free lunches and dole out medications based on rich pharmaceutical companies courting them.
I wholeheartedly believe that a couple of decades of my life were spent numbed out (on dozens of different antidepressants and mood stabilizers). I wasn’t able to experience or learn how to experience (distress) tolerance of past emotional wounds until I met Neysa Buckle who introduced me to, and taught me DBT skills.
This was a game changer–the skills that I learned/DBT–mood regulation, etc. And now without medication, I am able to embrace my creativity as my brain continues to awaken and [experience] the primal things that everyone needs, e.g., meaningful work, exercise, cleaner eating, socialization and finding my passions and dreams. I’m happier than I’ve ever been.”
