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	<title>Comments on: City affirms choice in mental health treatment, including choice of non-drug alternatives, as a human right</title>
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	<description>New understandings of the mind and of madness can open new doors to full recovery - thoughts from way outside the straightjacket of the &#34;medical model.&#34;  By Ron Unger LCSW</description>
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		<title>By: shockwave</title>
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		<dc:creator>shockwave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish i had had human rights when the doctors forced drug treatment on me.

I never had symptoms till starting meds.  Now I have migraines nausea vomiting, I never I repeat never have appetite. I also developed muscle problems like I have had a cramp in my elbow for almost a year.  The doctors did a biopsy and genetic testing they found the medication to have caused a cellular dysfunction in my muscles and most likely throughout the rest of my body and organs that is responsible for my symptoms and their is no cure.  The genetic testing ruled out all known muscle diseases caused by genetics or genetic mutations, or inheritance, the medication is probably the cause.  Basically this medicine is given to people who donâ??t have good health care it is billed as a cure.  All patients are labeled for life with this diagnosis and there is no way to prove you do not have the illness in that respect is not a very scientific diagnosis.  In science for a theory to be accepted and it still doesnâ??t mean it is 100 percent guaranteed to be true, there has to be the possibility to disprove it, this is not the case with schizophrenia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish i had had human rights when the doctors forced drug treatment on me.</p>
<p>I never had symptoms till starting meds.  Now I have migraines nausea vomiting, I never I repeat never have appetite. I also developed muscle problems like I have had a cramp in my elbow for almost a year.  The doctors did a biopsy and genetic testing they found the medication to have caused a cellular dysfunction in my muscles and most likely throughout the rest of my body and organs that is responsible for my symptoms and their is no cure.  The genetic testing ruled out all known muscle diseases caused by genetics or genetic mutations, or inheritance, the medication is probably the cause.  Basically this medicine is given to people who donâ??t have good health care it is billed as a cure.  All patients are labeled for life with this diagnosis and there is no way to prove you do not have the illness in that respect is not a very scientific diagnosis.  In science for a theory to be accepted and it still doesnâ??t mean it is 100 percent guaranteed to be true, there has to be the possibility to disprove it, this is not the case with schizophrenia.</p>
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		<title>By: Rod</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Ron,
It&#039;s great to have such a document and have it signed by a city official. But I&#039;m guessing the problem still remains as it does here in Australia. Any psychiatrists opinion still trumps all. Especially since the psychiatrist both fosters and panders to the public&#039;s sense of &quot;dangerousness&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ron,<br />
It&#8217;s great to have such a document and have it signed by a city official. But I&#8217;m guessing the problem still remains as it does here in Australia. Any psychiatrists opinion still trumps all. Especially since the psychiatrist both fosters and panders to the public&#8217;s sense of &#8220;dangerousness&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: RonUnger</title>
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		<dc:creator>RonUnger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Angela, the resolution unfortunately has no direct effects, since the City of Eugene doesn&#039;t directly provide any mental health treatment.  But it does provide moral support to everyone who is working for alternatives, and puts pressure on &quot;the system&quot; to take issues around choice and recovery and human rights more seriously.  We hope the city taking this action will help push the county to approve something like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lane-guidelines-revised.doc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;guidelines&lt;/a&gt; we have proposed, then if they do that, we will ask them for funds to help retrain mental health workers so they can actually follow the guidelines....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Angela, the resolution unfortunately has no direct effects, since the City of Eugene doesn&#8217;t directly provide any mental health treatment.  But it does provide moral support to everyone who is working for alternatives, and puts pressure on &#8220;the system&#8221; to take issues around choice and recovery and human rights more seriously.  We hope the city taking this action will help push the county to approve something like the <a href="http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lane-guidelines-revised.doc" rel="nofollow">guidelines</a> we have proposed, then if they do that, we will ask them for funds to help retrain mental health workers so they can actually follow the guidelines&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Allen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Allen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the detailed and useful information about schizophrenia. Well done.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the detailed and useful information about schizophrenia. Well done.</p>
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		<title>By: Rossa Forbes</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/10/city-affirms-choice-in-mental-health-treatment-including-choice-of-non-drug-alternatives-as-a-human-right/comment-page-1/#comment-1141</link>
		<dc:creator>Rossa Forbes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations! Hopefully, as Eugene, Oregon goes, so goes the nation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations! Hopefully, as Eugene, Oregon goes, so goes the nation.</p>
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		<title>By: Angela Harms</title>
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		<dc:creator>Angela Harms</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That is amazing news! Any idea what affect it will have on life here? Will it make a difference in treatment? Regardless, it&#039;s quite an accomplishment. Kudos. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That is amazing news! Any idea what affect it will have on life here? Will it make a difference in treatment? Regardless, it&#8217;s quite an accomplishment. Kudos. <img src='http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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