crazed and infused: visits visits

Saturday, July 25, 2009

visits visits

Trying to make the rounds for some of my fellow blogathoners. I have been randomly selecting blogs so i can check em out. Its interesting to see the variety!

Im trying to post on others sites to motivate them, and it ends up motivating me too!

What's Up:

Nothing has changed much since my last what's up HOURS ago. Im still chillin at the computer, browsing the internet, listening to music, watching some Zim or knitting... My partner is still playing final fantasy... haha god hes funny

posted 10:30

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LouJuly 25, 2009 at 10:32 PM
You know, that's a good point - reading and commenting to others does help keep you going as well as them!

What music are you listening to, and what are you knitting?
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JudyJuly 25, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I'm getting tired- how are you doing? Let me know if you need anything.
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CiaJuly 25, 2009 at 10:36 PM
I made a play list on youtube and right now I have some daft punk playing. before that there was some MIA, and Kate Nash. Im knitting this neck warmer with this tiny green 'yarn'... im not sure what it is but I liked the colour and so i just grabbed my smallest needles and Im just goin at 'er!
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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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