Self Help 4 Mental 'Illness'
Submitted by sweetmadness on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 12:54pmThis is my Self-Help Outline:
I am just not sure that medication and talk therapy should have been everything to my treatment. And nothing has been done about anything that happened in the course of these six years since I was diagnose to help me deal with the stress or trauma.
I am slowly reducing medications in an effort to combat sleepiness etc. etc.
Sleep Paralysis: occurs during winter most often, disruptions in sleep are caused by cold and weather as well as irregular sleep patterns, stress, and depression.
Sleep Paralysis Treatment: Nightly Supplements of a small dose of Melatonin. The Melatonin that I use is in doses less than a mg. Sleep regularly and exercise more.
The Hallucinations:
Descriptions of them include mostly just hearing whispers and having difficulty filtering out noise. Identifying the difference between reality and the created reality within my own mind. The difference between true reality and the reality of the Mind.
Me Over Fear. Need to define what 'makes sense' logically, no longer dependent on fear and do not give into petty undefinable fears that result from lack of thinking things out properly. THINK more. THINKING is healthy. Develop healthy thinking habits.
Behavioral Health:
Stop conditiong myself to Believe that the medications are helping SO MUCH when the effects are more or less the same as a Placebo. Reduce 30mgs to 10mgs. Use more effective Self Talk.
Stop the negative associations with 'schizophrenia' or 'illness' and 'disorder' or focusing primarily on individual health in regards to unproven standards...for this basic "Single Mind" model of well being vs. mental illness.
Depression: Don't go into negative or overwhelming thinking patterns. Just enjoy life, nature, and consider life to be lived at its fullest.
Other: Listen to less negative music such as NIN, TOOL, MM, or any other heavy metal bands that make you feel like shit after listening to them.
Anger: Try to control and deal with anger. Find healthy outlets for feelings to express them without resorting to yelling or getting upset.
A Good Website on Alt. Treatment:
ART: Don't be so self-critical of everything you do. This makes it impossible to be artistic. Just go with the flow, emotions, life, let it pour forth from you like a waterfall.
