The following was written last week when I heard of the suicide of Sara Penrod, a 28 year old woman living in Northampton, Massachusetts. I didn’t know her well, but she came to two of my workshops on coming off psychiatric drugs, and she was brilliant, well spoken, passionate and had well earned wisdom that Read More
Author: Chaya
A Message From Einstein
by Allister Mac Donald Last time Einstein popped into my head and “told” me something, it was that Jupiter is the source of Love and living warm cosmic energy for earth. He did it again, popped into my mind, and this time he candidly shared the secret to his genius and success (!) saying it Read More
How Psychiatric Drugs Cause Mental Illness
Psychiatric drugs have the capacity to biologically cause all of the experiences that get labeled as mental illness; we need look no further than the lists of “side effects” provided by the drug companies themselves to know this. Psychiatric drugs have been known to frequently cause depression, anxiety, suicide, violent behavior, trouble focusing, psychosis, hallucinations, Read More
Achieving “Stability” Amidst Transience
Stay in touch with friends. Reach out to friends/contacts/acquaintances wherever you currently are. Revisit old interests and affiliations in new places. Keep a journal. Drink tea. Send emails. Chat online. Throw/give things away when you no longer need them. Keep a blog and share it on social media. Find mentors. Pursue income streams that appeal Read More
Intentional Peer Support Poems
Who you think you are and who I think I am is similar to wind and trees we sing songs of sixpence we table our woes so we can find them again someday on the same table, for we never moved them, still we are surprised to see them in the same spot after all Read More
Certificate Of Compliance
The smog test took about 2 minutes but 20 to find and cost $19 for a Certificate of Compliance which enables me to pay $172 for an Oregon registration. I’ll pay anything to be compliant I’m an American, red white and blue strapped down to the tablet carried through to the reclining chair Read More
Are You Mentally Ill or Are You a Thought Leader?
There may have been a time in your life where you asked yourself if you were mentally ill. Maybe you were exploring new ideas. You didn’t know quite how to integrate them into your daily life and then got called mentally ill. Really you were a thought leader, which made others uncomfortable. You may have Read More
Routine Lab Work
05/24/2014 by Chaya GrossbergIt started out as an ordinary visit to Quest Diagnostics to get routine lab work. I was 15 minutes late. The receptionist, who was also the office manager and medical technician, told me she loves my freckles. Well, that wasn’t entirely ordinary. When she sat me down to draw my blood she Read More
This IS Medical Advice
05/08/2014 by Chaya Grossberg Don’t give up, don’t give up on your dreams.I’m tired. I spent the day clearing out my storage unit, loading boxes into and out of my car and my friends truck with the help of 3 great friends. I’d accumulated quite a bit of stuff in 2 years in Portland after moving Read More
If You Feel Crappy You Could Try…Doing Nothing
My friend Jake, in his words, experienced two decades of intense declining psychosis, terrifying and agonizing beyond comprehension. These states were triggered when he was in college and tried out a simple chakra meditation every day for one year. He describes the states of consciousness he couldn’t understand that resulted from it as possibly kundalini Read More