mental health and disability

“Mad women fight back”; “Bet your ass we’re paranoid” - Psychiatric survivors during a protest in 1976

in her own words, Saralinda Grimes was a “deaf Native American lesbian feminist” (Madness Network News 4, no. 3 [1977], 9). she was active with Women Against Psychiatric Assault.

no it’s NOT OK. most days i can’t do anything that i want to do or have to do for my happiness or my fulfilment or my financial stability or even just my survival and it’s NOT OK. i’ve been severely mentally ill for 9 years and it’s not ok. i have lost family relationships and friendships because people just get tired of taking care of me when i can’t even eat or drink by myself, and it’s not ok. i have been forced to give up and abandon all of my long-term dreams and projects because of mental illness and it’s not ok. my life is going to waste one day after an other and it’s not ok. i spend months and months in bed just waiting to find the strength and energy to get out of bed, and it’s not ok. it’s not a life that makes me “feel good”. it’s not me “doing what i need to do”. it’s not “okay” and how could it be “okay” that i can’t do or have any of the things that make a life enjoyable and fulfilling? sugarcoating it with stupid words and empty positivity doesn’t make it good. it still sucks just as much. 

c’est le cas avec plein d’autres médicaments mais les médecins n’en informent jamais leurs patients donc si vous prenez un traitement renseignez-vous toujours avant de manger du pamplemousse