|
Page 4 |
|
Advocacy Unlimited Newsletter - June/July 2006 |
CVH Pages
Advocates from CT Valley Hospital (CVH) now will be regular contributors to the AU Newsletter. The graduate advocates have been active in placement and working on making improvements in the facility, as well as in having their voices heard. They have written to you uncensored from their hearts on advocacy, their experience within the system, and what the movement means to them.
|
I'd like to say something about the "remission of my psychosis". If you were to look up remission in Webster's Dictionary, it reads "remission" means: "A temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease." Right now my psychosis is in total remission. I talk to my therapist weekly which is a great help. I vent a lot of things to him that I would not have done in the past. I also take medications, although I don't believe medications work "100%". I believe it's up to the individual to make the right decisions of what his or her emotions and feelings are telling them. I've seen people in the hospital for 25 years on medications but how and what they feel while taking those medications is another story. I could take medications for the rest of my life but if I'm not in touch with my feelings and my emotions and how to "ACT" on them, I'll be hospitalized a very, very long time.
~ David Blocker
~ Rick Henault
|