Too often I have rued, lamented, the fact that I am so demented. I wonder what the reasons are that cause me to be so bizarre. While other people act quite sane I do strange things that are inane. Against my plight I’ve raged and railed; I’ve grieved, protested, shrieked and wailed. I’ve searched for…
Info New release about protest co-sponsored by MindFreedom International of American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. MindFreedom International News Release Updates: For more info about protest click here. Download flyer here. For photos & bio’s of some of the protest speakers, click here. More about participating, wherever you live. Press Release – For immediate release Protesters, Rejecting…
Info Paula Caplan, PhD: Psychologist, author, playwright and activist who is challenging the harm caused by psychiatric labeling. Paula is a long-time member of MindFreedom International. Author of 12 nonfiction books. Her latest book, “When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans,” uncovers the way too many people traumatized…
A poem by Tom Greening. DRUG EFFECTS I will ignore your righteous shrugs and keep on gulping lots of drugs. I know they are not good for me but they fend off reality. Some drugs are pink and others blue, but all I care is what they do. They cheer me up, they calm…
Why do I have these wild relapses? I blame them on my sick synapses. My brain lacks neural density resulting in sub par plasticity. With neurons frayed, flawed, and deficient my coping skills are insufficient. That’s why I want to kiss and hug the doc who gives me some new drug each month and blithely…
Although I think that I’m just fine my friends claim that I’m borderline. Each time I rant and rave a bit they say that I have had a fit. They diagnose me as a nut and then they try to drug me but I know that God is on my side and that I’ll soon…
by Tom Greening QUACK I could lose my license for offering this experimental treatment unproven by clinical trials and double-blind studies. No glossy brochures or stylish advertising with testimonials tout its benefits and safety. Still I go on peddling my home brew to those who suffer, and hope someday scientists will find a way…
Tom Greening has been writing serious and comical poetry for over 50 years and has had poems published in such diverse places as The American Scholar and Ski Magazine. A set of his poems about his trips to Russia has been translated into Russian. Tom says, “Writing poems about psychology, some of them satirical, has…