There are plenty of alternatives for treating the range of imbalances that fall under the umbrella term of mental illness. I was reading a book in 2008 that contained very interesting cases, recovering completely, once full tests had been given on aspects of their health that are mostly overlooked in Australian mental health treatment.
And their treatment was natural too! With no side effects, no drowsyness, no weight gain, and the freedom to live in the world instead of being locked up away from the world and from their freedom of choice.
I borrowed it from a faraway interstate library and can't find it again online as it had an unusual title, but it was a large A4 sized book that was really good to read, as it had successful cases. There was a woman who had developed catatonia, she was given various tests and was diagnosed as having certain deficiencies, toxicities, etc. I can't recall exactly what as I read it once 2 years ago. But I do remember that she fully recovered and has never had a relapse, because her catatonia was sourced at the root of the problem.
If more people could be treated this way, then the people could be healed and treated, with no cure for all as such, but individual recognition, treatment and testing which is thorough and guarantees a natural health treatment that will go to the source of the problem. Instead of forced treatment. Neglecting abilities as healers to look into the problem much more effectively, instead of the one size fits all diagnosis and treatment. I do not have a hope in the world for the research that is done to find the cure for Schizophrenia. For one it is a diagnosis that is often a term used for efficiency. A label for convenience. People are told, you don't really have schizophrenia, but that is what we will say it is. Maybe it makes it easier for them to dispense medication to have a label that does not fit the health issue!
There is also a highly over reactive way that staff and others such as police are involved. It is as if a person is a criminal and that they must be forced into a place which forces everything about it's way and does not resolve the illness! A tablet isn't going to change a persons mind who is suicidal! People are not talked to enough the humanity of health is not evident in current Australian mental health treatment. A person does not want to be injected because they are feeling emotional! How can an intensely emotional person who is not harming themselves or others be injected with a needle when that is not evident of symptoms of any kind of mental illness?! It is simply evident of the way that emotions are not recognised and are feared. It seems inept that people are treated with needles for emotional outbursts, when people are really just trying to express themselves to healers. These healers may be having that effect on the people without realising it, the healing becoming an outpouring, is that not the sign that the person is feeling so it is good, thus it is to be encouraged?! Instead of jabbed and forgotten. It stops the feeling, it does not encourage healing. It does not make our lives credible with emotional states being repressed even further than they already are to hide it from the people who will jab you for emotion, who will not simply acknowledge that it is not a dangerous storm, it will not become a cyclone and damage everything if it can reach a point of soothing, of tears of emotional release, of humanity. This also gets the person beyond the point that they are stuck at. They are also being more grounded if they feel, and breathe, if they develop a breathing problem because of this stopping of feeling then it is creating more problems for the person who is vulnerable and simply trying to heal themselves.
Why so intense about that particular issue? Because it happened to me. I was in a psych ward. In fact I have been forced into a few because of lack of sleep and the way that I have talked in the past because of this lack of sleep. That has been the key issue. Insomnia. I played the Faithless song Insomnia when I was in the psych ward, once I had managed to get a few hours day release, I went to the shops wandering about in a hazy medicated culture shock. Vulnerable to the world and out of practice with it. Because of being locked up inside for a few weeks. Insomnia had been an issue since childhood. Which I admit to myself has been of abuse and neglect. That I have told many other healing professionals and friends over the years, countless times. How is this life to be original and different every day if I am asked the same questions over and over again, as if I am a criminal! I am not a criminal! I did not give my permission to be locked up, to be medicated. I was getting angry about it and tried to deal with it in a way that I was taught years before in a psychotherapy session for abuse, for feeling release. For body release. I got a pingpong bat with foam and hit the chairs in the empty room, going around the room and in a controlled way, hit the chairs, shouting "demon" each time I hit them. I had no intent to hit anyone else, and just wanted to release myself. No one else was in the room and I felt it was the right thing to do under the circumstances. I have used this way in the past with a Dragon Pole I used to train with when I studied kung fu in 2000. I hit a bed with the pole to get out my aggression and anger without hurting anyone else. Only trouble was I hit a glass light fixture above the bed, smashing a bit of it. But I stopped when that happened, and I was not out of control in doing this. The point of it is to control the body and channel it into an energy to be released. like the reverse of eating, you take the energy away with the focus of it.
I was doing this in the common room of the psych ward and then they stopped me. Then they threatened me with an injection, as if I was a rabid dog! I managed to talk them around, but it had given me a bad mark for emotional outbursts. Next time I expressed emotion vocally, I was given a forced injection in the butt cheek. Pretty unrelaxing and forceful isn't it?! Pretty rediculously over the top to force a drug into a person without their permission isn't it.
In the same psych ward, I heard a woman almost constantly wailing. I decided to go and see her to see if I could calm her down as no one else was doing anything about it! Psychiatric medication is just to stop something temporarily, and that is what was happening with the wailing woman. She was given regular doses of medication but it wasn't her time yet to have another dosage so they just ignored her! I went into her room where she lay in bed, wailing at a high pitched scream. I asked her if she would like Reiki. She nodded, and I lay my hands on her feet. She wailed less and less and soon became calm. then the staff came into the room and told me to stop doing that! She was so obviously calmed and soothed by the Reiki that she didn't want to wail anymore. The medication and treatment methods have had very little effect, compared to those brief moments of peace given by the reiki. I saw it with my own eyes, heard it with own ears, how she had stopped wailing! It is like mothers who ignore screaming babies when all they need is to be loved and touched! How can this not be understood when it was clearly demonstrated by myself!! How they have lost their sense of healing touch! Of humanity! My God! I am following somewhat in the footsteps of Patch Adams! Who I indeed aspire to, Robin Williams may indeed be inspired to do a drag role for my story!! Ha!
Reiki is an energetic treatment which, as demonstrated above can be wonderfully calming and soothing. It feels so peaceful, even when you are not that upset, and has immense power to heal. I am a Reiki Master, properly attuned in 2006 as a Reiki Master, and was attuned to Reiki I in 2002. The healing energy of even Reiki I can help in a psychiatric ward, where people lack the warmth of people. Of love. Love is the way to heal, above anything else. I have freedom now, and do not take any allopathic psychiatric medication, in fact the last allopathic medication I had was when I was in hospital with a broken arm in late October 2009. In there I was thinking how nice it would be to be in a place like a Chinese hospital, where they use acupuncture and herbal treatments too. I have read of acupuncture being used in surgery to completely anaesthetise the person. Heart surgery. Whilst the person is conscious yet entirely numbed by acupuncture. Now this is reported of the patients, they are completely calm and manage the surgery well. They are not frightened. Imagine that! Wow! Ancient wisdom of healing practices must not be diluted or repressed. It is strongly effective and has little to no side effects. People who cannot take the allopathic anaesthetics could be given acupuncture instead. It is practiced today why can it not be practiced elsewhere? I would do that for my broken arm surgery if that was an option instead!!
Here's to freedom!
May the Medicine Buddha, God, and the archangel Micheal bless and protect you all!
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