To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/03/11 12:39
Subject: [K-list] Unprofessional psychiatry?
From: KJ
On 1999/03/11 12:39, KJ posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Jasper,
You wrote: It is too bad that when these moments occur, so-called professionals try to frame you in a belief, a limiting concept, a hospital, a prescription..
After what you went through in the hands of psychiatry I know you must be angry and cynical about mental health professionals. I agree there is a lot of ignorance in psychiatry about kundalini but most people working in mental health (at least the one's I've met) genuinely want to care and help.
A few years back a man was admitted to a psychiatric hospital who appeared to be suffering from hypomania." . He had appeared paranoid at home and was considered a danger to himself and admitted.
I met him a few days after admission and by then he appeared quiet and
remorseful.
He said he had been a disciple of a guru in the east for several years and
recently
had had symptoms of kundalini awakening such as huge energy release, shaking
and
spontaneous posturing. Unfortunately excited by his progress he began
meditating for very long periods 20 hrs plus daily and lost touch
temporarily with reality probably due
to exhaustion!
Because of him talking to his psychiatrist about his experiences through
meditation
he was considering diagnoses of psychosis or worse. I spoke on his behalf
to the
psychiatrist and the medical team in ward round and was able to tell them
that his
beliefs were part of a legitimate and quite common (at least in the east)
belief
system.
The clinical team trusted my judgement and whilst they said that his beliefs
(basic vedanta really) were unusual to them they could accept that they
weren't
signs of delusion and mental illness. The patient was allowed to leave.
He wrote to me sometime after and was progressing along his spiritual
path in good mental health and gave me a book I still treasure greatly on
living the
Gita in daily life.
I guess the point of the story is that medical staff are fallible and
sometimes
mistake signs of spiritual awakening for illness but does that mean that
we are 'unprofessional' or just uniformed and sometimes maybe closed minded?
yours in love and light
KJ
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