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Sooner Or Later EVERY Bully Meets Their Match

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

 Sooner or later every bully meets their match

Carbamazepine 300 mg: Oh god… Please don’t hurt me!  We didn’t mean to make fun of your 10 milligrams dosage.Depakote 500 mg: >>> K.O’ed!!Caption: Sooner or later every bully meets their match

While reading the post about “Bullies More Likely to Have Mental Disorder” I could not help to think about my own experience with being bullied.  For me, my world changed when my Bipolar father had a fist fight with my mother’s father.  That lead to a police eviction from my grand parents home and the only home I knew.  After a few months bouncing from motel to motel, we ended up in the projects.  It wasn’t long before I was getting beat up.

It was my father that had no mercy for my acting up and in time I would look towards the fighting with the local kids over getting the belt from my father.  While I never really fit into the group I was not one to back down either.  I lost a lot of fights a number of them to girls too (project chicks are tough, too) for a while and I learned to “take a punch”.    When I did finally stand my ground and fought back against my bully, I acted recklessly and in fear throwing a rusty 3′ bent piece of rebar at him… It was like throwing a tire iron at some 5 feet away from you.

The bullying stopped and my new nic-name became Psycho-Stew.  I do not think violence should be the way children deal with bullies.  Yet, for some bullies, that is what it might take for them to wake up.  Others will never learn.  So in this way, I have to agree with bullies having a mental disorder of some kind.

 

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Can Being a Re-reader Lead to Mental Health Instability?

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

 Re-Reading Between the Lines of MedicationsRe-readers

Okay if you’re thinking to yourself that there is no manual for mental health then you’re both right and wrong. There is actually a REAL manual for diagnosis mental disorders called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV or DSM4). This book basically has every mental disorder for both children and adults and lists the “known” causes and how to diagnose. It offers professional tools to give a prognosis as well as offering “some research concerning the optimal treatment approaches.”

If you’re a “re-reader” then having this book will do more harm then good. You’ll begin to question your health over and over again. At first, it will look like you’re doing something good, researching your mental illness. But just like putting together the Ikea BESTÅ TV storage combo entertainment center with sliding doors, you start out fine, but when you get stuck you “RE-READ” every set over and over again trying to figure out what went wrong. You’ll start over and over, never really making any progress. It’s a vicious cycle and instead of using your mental powers, you become a slave to indecision and self-doubt. Before long, you’ll quit the project. When the “project” is your mental health recovery, that could lead to relapse or worse suicide, all because you need to “RE-READ” what you did not understand.

Re-Reading Between the Lines of Medications

Wellbutrin: what’s that
Depakote: legally, I have to disclose all my negative side effects.
Wellbutrin: is packing your head and rubbing your belly in the book?
Depakote: YEP!
Caption: Re-Reading Between the Lines of Medications

3 Dangers Of Labeling

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

 Dangers of Labeling Labels hurt. We are surrounded by them and we even use them ourselves sometimes without thinking about it. They can be self-defeating thoughts.

For example, when I stepped on the scale the other day and saw that I gained weight after a 45-day bout with a depressive episode…My first thought was I was a “fat, disgusting pig” and that “I was worthless for even thinking I could lose any wight.”
Dangers Of Labeling: You’re STEW-PID
I’m not worthless! At least not all the time, anyway. Throughout my childhood my father called me many different names…the one that hurt the most was being called stupid when he compared me to other children. “What’s wrong with you, are you stupid or something?” or, “You have to be the dumbest S.O.B.”  My favorite was when he would call me names in front of my friends – good times, good family memories!

The end result was I believed him. All I ever wanted was his approval, his commendation, his love… all I ever got was his abuse, his belt and his rage.

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