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Arts KC Inspiration Award
Winner 2009
Charlotte Street Foundation
Exhibiting Artist 2009, 2010
Creative Capital Professional Development Alumnus |
Getting off psych meds follow up story: In my raingear. I rode 27 miles in rain to celebrate getting off psych meds and donate the last of the Geodon stockpile. At one point I felt like I’d gotten to a point where my psych meds were helpful and weren’t causing me any side effects. . . . → Read More: I donated my last Geodon yesterday What winning the Olympic Trials Taught Me about Trauma-Informed Care (part 3 of 3) by Corinna West This is part 3 of 3 of an essay posted about the day I realized that my mental health diagnoses might have just come from my trauma experiences. This is about how I realized . . . → Read More: Creating trauma-informed employment (part 3 of trauma-informed care blog) Where are all mental health demons ruining our care? Brian Gallmeyer, the most peaceful guy I know, at Bicycle Pedestrian advocacy day. He avoided all mental health demons. I met with Consensus KC yesterday. I thought I could kill some mental health demons, but they just turned out to be people, too. Consensus KC . . . → Read More: Mental health demons: It would be easier if there was sometime to hate in all this mess How to find online peer support resources that are truly recovery oriented Recently I explained the difference between the distress model and the disease model of mental illness. This is the idea that many people have emotional suffering that comes from normal life situations. I think it’s important to watch our terminology in our online . . . → Read More: Collection of Online Peer Support Resources  Leave a comment  Recovery Realizations  coming off psych meds, complete recovery, Corinna West, disease model of mental illness, disease vs. distress model, Kansas City, mental health recovery websites, online peer support resources, psychiatric medication discontinuance, recovery from schizophrenia, Wellness Wordworks Please vote for Combat Arts for Recovery to share mental health outcome statistics. I was really sick for a long time, and not I’m not. This is a story about how an encounter with mental health outcome statistics turned my life around. I am also a finalist for $12,000 from the US Olympic Committee grant to . . . → Read More: Mental Health Outcome Statistics Saved my Life 4 comments Recovery Realizations bipolar illness outcomes, Combat Arts for Recovery, complete recovery from mental health, hope, medicalization, mental health outcome statistics, mental health recovery, mental health reform, National Empowerment Center, schizophrenia outcomes, Suzanne Beachy, US Olympic Judo Team Expanded description of some of my body’s reactions to being freed from six psychiatric medications all at the same time. How I finally learned to beat insomnia. . . . → Read More: Medication Freedom and more about how great it feels 3 comments Recovery Realizations adderall, bicycling, biploar, Chicago, complete recovery, Corinna West, Depakote, Geodon, hope, insomnia, lithium, medication discontinuance, medication freedom, mental health disagnoses, mental health recovery, shizophrenia, sleeplessness, spoken word poetry, withdrawal symptoms The short version of this story is that I gave up on my dreams. That’s why my first recovery story was called, “Taking Back the Dreams.” I also had a spiritual crises around that time in my life, was using pot, and didn’t have a lot of friends and meaningful connections. What if someone had simply addressed those four issues? Maybe I would never have been sucked into the disability industrial complex. . . . → Read More: Maybe I never needed a psychiatric label at all 5 comments Recovery Realizations bipolar illness, complete recovery, Depakote, empowerment, evidence based medicine, hope, manic depression, medication discontinuance, mental health recovery, National Empowerment Center, peer support, psychiatric labeling, psychiatric medications, recovery, Robert Whitaker, schizophrenia, stigma, support groups, wellness My success story about how and why I worked myself off six different psych meds in five years after twelve psychiatric labels. Details about withdrawal effects and funny stories along the way. . . . → Read More: It feels so great to be off psych meds 12 comments Most popular, Recovery Realizations advocacy, Ambien, antipsychotics, bicycle, bicycle touring, consumer movement, Depakote, dopamine supersensitivity psychosis, evidence based medicine, Geodon, getting off medications, hope, medication discontinuance, mental health recovery, Nebraska consumer conference, over-medication, peer support, recovery, Robert Whitaker, The Chocolate Fairy, Trileptal, withdrawal effects My friend Brian and I rode our bicycles home from Memphis to Kansas City the week after Thanksgiving. I knew it was going to be a tough week because we only had six days to make the trip before I had to be at First Friday to do the rolling bicycle health fair display booth . . . → Read More: The Moment I Stopped Feeling Sorry for Myself |
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