crazed and infused: Blogathon 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Blogathon 2009

Welcome to Blogathon 2009!
This is my first _____-athon since my grade 8 choir did an 'Awake-athon' where we all stayed awake for 24 hours (and watched movies in our PJs) to raise money for our choir trip (pretty sweet eh?) All I really remember of the whole experience was realising - to my horror - that I had put my pj shorts on inside out and backward! All I could think was: 'all those popular, beautiful choir girls saw me and now they think I am an idiot! I might as well curl up and die!'
Oh, junior high!

If you are interested in supporting me, or just want to check out the other fabulous blogs participating this year, go to Blogathon.org and look me up!

Here's hoping for a great Blogathon!

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ReneeJuly 25, 2009 at 6:12 AM
Rock it out today!

Renee Rigdon
www.reneerigdon.com
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About my writing style

While I can be described as generally quite pessimistic and passionate (others would say angry) person, most of what I write here is never really 'angry', but rather the result of having had to bottle up frustrations. As an active feminist activist I am often frustrated with the wall one often faces because of ingrained sexism and other forms of discrimination that penetrates all levels of our society; but as an activist I have an outlet to release this frustration and 'do something about it'. With my experience of mental illness I have had to bottle these feelings because, it seems, my friends and family feel uncomfortable if I talk about it, my doctors sure do not want to hear about it, and often I have enough self doubt that even I will disregard its importance.
But here, I get to release these experiences and frustrations. I get to get them off my chest and work through them in my own way.
So if I sounds angry, its probably just frustration with a healthy dose of sarcasm. ; )

A note on "experts"

It becomes apparent quickly that I am a bit skeptical of the knowledge we have of psychology/psychiatry. My extensive experience with doctors of all sorts has only convinced me that at times psychology/psychiatry are pseudo sciences. What I mean by this is that the people who study and practice these fields - those we call "experts" - often do not know how the mind works, boundaries of diagnoses often blur and there is little awareness of why some treatments work when others do not. Psychiatric drugs are litterally a shot in the dark because often scientists do not know how or why they work, research just tells them that sometimes they do. Diagnoses are at times laughable in how vague and inadequate they are. (How many of us has heard, "you have (bipolar) tendencies" or "characteristics of (obessive compulsive disorder)".)
BUT, to make myself clear, I am not angry toward or dismiss the role of these "experts", they are doing the best they can with limited knowledge. But thats just it... how can anyone be a true expert when so little is known of a subject?

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