One of my heroes, activist Linda Andre, is in Philadelphia this weekend in support of her excellent new book Doctors of Deception: What They Don’t Want You to Know About Shock Treatment. She’ll be appearing tomorrow. Info:
A New Life Peer Resource Center
3119 Spring Garden St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
March 28th at 2:00 p.m.
I’ll be there too.
liz | 5:29 PM | electroshock (ECT)
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.
Personally I’d rather utilize any of our disposable income by donating to NARSAD. Fortunately Joyce’s attending physicians have always been forthright with us about her treatments including ECT so the sensationalist title of her book already put me off.
I guess I’ll just wait for a worn out copy or one to show up in the library to read the same old, same old.
I still observe that with the various treatment options available so many still suffer in pain and agony.
Maybe her next book will have a better title, in my opinion, and can tell us she found the answer and treatment to these horrific mood disorders.
Warmly,
Herb
VNSdepression.
You’ll be there too? Well, W.C. Fields was right, after all: I’d rather be in Philadelphia. {;>)
How’s the moving adjustment going, Liz? Better, I hope.
Sherry
I forgot to thank you for the tip on Linda.
Herb,
Don’t be put off by the title…it’s just the sorry truth.
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