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Woman accused of murder denied bail
liz | 4:08 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
This is sad. A woman denied treatment because of her parents’ beliefs, not hers. Parents who love their daughter so much they allow her to take drugs they believe to be harmful. Drugs that release her inhibitions in a dangerous way causing her to act on her feelings of anger towards her family, feelings she probably could have safely resolved in talk therapy except that as scientologists, I don’t think her family would have approved of that either. Oh the webs we weave!
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