To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/03/17 03:41
Subject: [K-list] k-list meds poll
From: robert hoffman
On 2004/03/17 03:41, robert hoffman posted thus to the K-list:
1. Have you ever taken medication for "Kundalini related" symptoms? Yes
> 2. What symptoms were involved?
Overwhelming energy surges; delusional thinking; classic mania.
> 3. Was the treatment "forced" on you?
No.
> 4. What medication did you take?
zyprexa and depakote. Huge doses at first. Also had at one time
buproprion and topomax in the cocktail.
> 5. How long did you take it/them?
Zyprexa for a month or so. Depakote for 26 months, but in decreasing
amounts and will be off completely soon. topomax briefly. Buproprion
also for 15 months, but gone since last fall.
> 6. How effective did you find them to be?
Medication grounded me. Psychiatry's understanding and perception of
higher consciousness confused me and put me in a difficult conflict,
until I resoved to embrace my experience as valid regrdless of
psychiatry's view of it as delusional.
> 7. Would you recommend taking medication to others.
If at all possible, try to find an enlightened teacher/community to help
you manage your energy/process without it. there are many ways to manage
K without medication, and very few Western medical practitioners who can
administer meds without condemning the K experience. If meds are
indicated, however, the Spiritual Emergency Network can put you in touch
with practitioners who embrace spirit and will treat patients
accordingly. However, I live in NYC and still could not find one who
could help, at least not in time to head off psychosis.
Rob Hoffman
robnrobertATnyc.rr.com
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