Hope and Recovery

May 25, 2015February 28, 2022 ~ Jason Schwartz ~ 1 Comment

Pat Deegan reflects on her own experience an shares about the need for hope in recovery: He said, I should retire from life and avoid stress. I have come to call my psychiatrist's pronouncement a "prognosis of doom". He was condemning me to a life of handicaptivity wherein I was expected to take high dose … Continue reading Hope and Recovery

2014’s top posts: #1

January 2, 2015February 28, 2022 ~ Jason Schwartz

A terrible loss for Dawn Farm and the field (from 3.27.14) Last night (Wednesday), Pat Gibbons, Dawn Farm's Medical Director and psychiatrist died suddenly. We're stunned. He was just at Spera on Tuesday night seeing clients. It's a terrible loss for Dawn Farm and our community. Any words I can come up with feel entirely … Continue reading 2014’s top posts: #1

In the doctor’s office

April 17, 2013February 28, 2022 ~ Jason Schwartz ~ 3 Comments

Anna David shares her personal experience with an all-too-common problem. Doctors who don't understand addiction and do more harm than good: I continued to see my pinkie-ring psychiatrist for the next year or so, because he told me I had to if he was to keep prescribing me Paxil and Ambien—drugs I was convinced I … Continue reading In the doctor’s office