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Recieved: 1999/03/12 04:20
Subject: Re: [K-list] Unprofessional psychiatry? (FWD)
From: Chris Hughes
On 1999/03/12 04:20, Chris Hughes posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Friends
I think that blanket condemnation or praise of any group is not a
factual statment but an emotional one and true the emotional can have
a much validity as the factual one.
As a recovered alchoholic I have been through drying out in hospital
4 times, the last time it took 7 month, during which I was regularly
interviewed by Pyschiatrists. They were concerned for me but the best
advice they could give was go to AA which I reluctantly did. ( I was
too young to have a drink problem at thirty in my view) In AA I learned that
I had a physical addiction, a mental problem, and a spiritual one.
The medical profession delt with the physical drying me out so that I
was in a fit state to take in information in a logical way, the
psyciatrists were able to help there but frankly without a change in
my attiude to higher power, God of my understanding and a real start
on the spiritual path, I would have died of the drink. This was
thirty years ago but pyschiatry still cant "cure" alcholism and a lot
of other things but at least they try their best.
I have had a tumultious life. Nearly died during the birth. At 8
hemmoraged after a routine opperation caught pheumonia nearly died.
Burst my spleen in a sledging accident at 11 nearly died. Nearly
drowned in a sailing accident
age 16. Was probably an alcholic from my first drink at 17. I felt I
was being got at by God and turned my back on Him/Her. The point I am
making is that at each medical event I could have blamed the medical
profession for screwing up but in truth they saved my life.
As a hypnotist I had a client a some time ago who was also regularly
being treated as an in patient in the local mental hospital for
suicidal tendicies. I had knowledge of him previously ( this is a
small town) and knew that he was gay which did not bother me but that
he preferred young teens which did. Anyway to cut a long story short
I started to use Reiki on him and found that he was vibrating in a
Kundalini type way. through the Reiki he started to get better more
calm peaceful but then he had a sexual order put on him I am not
clear why but he might have re offended and is now in a secure unit.
Now emotionally I can and do say what a shame he was getting better
he was experiencing pure love through Reiki. Historically every time
he got better some one else suffered, so somtimes psychiatry is
a tool used to protect the norm from the abnormal when all else fails.
I make no juddgment as to right or wrong I just state it as I see it.
For me Kundalini awakening has not, as far as I can tell, changed my
behaviour. I do have strong movment in my spine which has travelled
up to the base of my neck now and I do experience states of bliss in
meditation. Externally my life has gone through tremendous upheval,
from secure finance to possible bankruptcy, might happen yet as the
crisis is on going. I could turn round and say that this is a result
of Kundalini / Karma but would that not be avoiding my own
responsability in the matter??
On anger
One time a fellow member of AA who was A Dr asked if anger was
justifiable as Jesus had shown anger. The answer from the chairperson
was that Jesus was not an alchoholic so anger was not dangerous to
Him. The Dr killed himself a few weeks later. The mechanics of
handling anger is unique and relevant to the individual and the
situation. One of my friends is full of anger over a failed marriage.
It happened many years ago but still he carries it. I could not
afford that luxury and had to learn to forgive and forget or risk the
chance of drinking again. so my priorities changed because the
situation for me was life threatening but they did not change for the
Dr even though for him anger was life threatening.
Who knows how we would react in anothers situation as "professional"
or patient.
Chris
Sai Ram
Love Chris
Sai Ram
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