by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Jan 14, 2019 | Commentary, Counterpoint
By Kaz DeWolfe Counterpoint Winter 2018 • Commentary • Page 20 I was getting burned out as a patient representative visiting the Brattleboro Retreat last winter. I found my conversations with patients to be mostly rewarding and mutually beneficial, but all of my...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Jan 14, 2019 | Commentary, Counterpoint
By Calvin Moen Counterpoint Winter 2018 • Commentary • Page 19 I have been representing Vermont Psychiatric Survivors on a legislative study committee looking at orders of nonhospitalization, or ONHs – Vermont’s involuntary outpatient commitment laws. In simple terms,...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Jan 14, 2019 | Commentary, Counterpoint
By Chris Dubey Counterpoint Winter 2018 • Commentary • Page 18 This is a true story of self-harm and psychiatric torture. I choose to have my story reprinted not only for its original value of sharing the truth about “electroconvulsive therapy,” especially forced ECT,...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Jan 14, 2019 | Commentary, Counterpoint
By Robert A. Oeser Counterpoint Winter 2018 • Commentary • Page 17 This commentary is from a document provided by its author to the Brattleboro selectboard at a public hearing to discuss repeal of a “begging” ordinance – Sec. 13-2. Begging prohibited. “No person shall...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Jan 14, 2019 | Commentary, Counterpoint
By Sarah Knutson Counterpoint Winter 2018 • Commentary • Page 21 My current diagnosis is “Bipolar I Disorder.” In a few years, that likely won’t exist. I might even be able to sue my clinician for not assessing – or ruling out – known biological markers of stress that...
by Vermont Psychiatric Survivors | Jan 11, 2019 | Commentary, Counterpoint
Counterpoint Winter 2018 • Commentary • Page 22 Image source: https://pamelaspirowagner.com/2018/11/08/this-art-print-is-available/ By Phoebe Sparrow Wagner In May 2014, mute and psychotic, I was taken to the emergency department of Connecticut’s New Britain General...
