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		<title>The Medical Paper Gown</title>
		<link>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/the-medical-paper-gown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[It is not a case we are treating it is a living palpitating suffering fellow creature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently got an email from a reader that included this bit:
I just left the hospital last night after a small cut needed 7 stitches. Nothing big, just obviously a self inflicted wound. The nurse tried to force me to put on a gown in the middle of the ER while no other patients were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=266&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sodium Valproate, or &#8220;Here we go again&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started taking it a few days ago and I think I&#8217;m having a bad reaction. The physical stuff hasn&#8217;t been too bad, a little stomach trouble but that&#8217;s it. No super-drugged feeling.
But my mood has crashed. It&#8217;s now an active depression as opposed to a passive one. I woke up this morning crying with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=262&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Response to Comments on Previous Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry is the death of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manic depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, the comment discussion led to lots more writing &#8211; enough to make a post. Here are some points.
More than one person commented on the &#8220;pain&#8221; expressed in the last post. That surprises me; actually, despite being numb, at least things are stable. I wouldn&#8217;t have thought to describe things as terrible pain; if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=257&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I wept not, so to stone within I grew&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/i-wept-not-so-to-stone-within-i-grew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry is the death of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are each our own devil and we make this world our he]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and we make this world our hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[from my books surcease of sorrow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Io non piangea, si` dentro impetrai.
-Inferno, Canto 33
It is 3:40 AM, the witching hour, and my being awake cannot be a good sign.
Of course, I have been awake at this hour every day for quite some time now. Maybe wanting to get up and write is a good sign.
Things here are, well, empty. I suppose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=252&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Chronic Depression and Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 08:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail m]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry is the death of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restless]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[and we make this world our hell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[from my books surcease of sorrow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[my tender heart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that occurs a lot in the mentally ill, especially, thought not exclusively, in the mood disordered, is that a mood episode is treated with medication, and the cycling of moods is stopped, yet the person remains miserable, suicidal, even, and suffers a lingering handicap. In the world of psychiatry, this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=250&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another Shrink&#8217;s Line of the Day</title>
		<link>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/yet-another-shrinks-line-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I'm so lonesome I could cry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry is the death of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shrink's Line of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I decide that I feel bad about quitting the shrink all abruptly and in a rage. That I didn&#8217;t want to end like that, if just out of politeness. I really wanted to call and leave a message apologizing, and wishing him a happy holiday. I said that I was going to be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=247&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enough</title>
		<link>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry is the death of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shrink's Line of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are each our own devil and we make this world our he]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and we make this world our hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[from my books surcease of sorrow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[my tender heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally wrote what I thought was a reasonable letter to the shrink, since he never seemed to hear what I said&#8230;about how I can&#8217;t live in the dark about what is wrong with me or how to fix it, that I was deeply hurt and concerned about the borderline thing, etc. I hoped that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=245&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still alive, beyond comfort of man or spirit</title>
		<link>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/still-alive-beyond-comfort-of-man-or-spirit/</link>
		<comments>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/still-alive-beyond-comfort-of-man-or-spirit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry is the death of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are each our own devil and we make this world our he]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and we make this world our hell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who left me comments or emails or anything. All much appreciated. Sorry I haven&#8217;t written back.
I am, indeed, still alive. In fact, the longer days are making some things easier. But I don&#8217;t feel better, am not getting better, am just biding time, this version of bardo, laced with apathy and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=241&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for continuing to read</title>
		<link>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/thanks-for-continuing-to-read/</link>
		<comments>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/thanks-for-continuing-to-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are each our own devil and we make this world our he]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and we make this world our hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[i was a child in that kingdom by the sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manic depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[my tender heart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When a poster on a blog like this stops posting, usually one of two things has happened: either they&#8217;ve hit a significant remission and have somewhat lost interest in all things mental-health-related, or they have taken ill in a way that keeps them from writing, usually either a severe depression, hospitalization, apathy, or the black [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=239&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I was so proud of her</title>
		<link>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/i-was-so-proud-of-her/</link>
		<comments>http://mysadalterego.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/i-was-so-proud-of-her/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>my sad alter ego</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Each of us bears his own Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It is not a case we are treating it is a living palpitating suffering fellow creature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychiatry is the death of the soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We are each our own devil and we make this world our he]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bipolar medication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manic depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychiatry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a patient the other night with a ton of psych meds in the ER for something unrelated. She was neither young nor old.
(Incidentally &#8211; definition of &#8220;a ton of psych meds&#8221; = more psych meds than me.)
And she was totally normal. If I hadn&#8217;t read the list of meds, I never would have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mysadalterego.wordpress.com&blog=2075717&post=236&subd=mysadalterego&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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