Writer - Tracey Higgins
@TraceyHiggins92
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Author of "The Girl on the Bridge: A Memoir." https://t.co/9on22Jpi90 For educational purposes only.
Vancouver Island, Canada
Joined March 2021
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It is important to me that I am here telling my story to offer hope more than anything. However, we got some really bad news. It looks like my daughter, who is in her thirties, has breast cancer, but more testing is required. I had to stop working on the article I am writing
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I am 5 pages into the article for my website, but got pulled away to tend to other things. My cat, Hunter, got into a scrap outside with another cat or maybe a raccoon, and had to take him to the vet to treat his head wound. Then, somebody had a mental crisis, so I went to help
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I am going to be away from X all week because I am writing about someone I helped who got diagnosed with schizophrenia. I have permission to tell all, except for identity markers and location. I want to take the time to get the words right. I don't even have a starting point yet.
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Andy and I have similar stories. Both of us experienced childhood sexual abuse. The difference is I don't have the experience of being forced on psychotropics. The thing is bio-psychiatry has propped up the EFFECTS of childhood sexual abuse to look like a physical disease through
@TraceyHiggins92 thank you. To make matters worse I was the only girl in a large family of boys being SA on a regular basis but nobody cared. They just pumped me full of antipsychotics to the point I was drooling. I could no longer run or fight back. It is cruel to incapacitate a CSA victim.
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I made a promise as a little girl. It wasnât to my parents, and it wasnât to myself. I made a promise to Jesus. If he saved me, I would help others one day. I have kept that promise. My faith is private, and I donât speak of it too often, but I will say this: I wouldnât have
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Bio-psychiatry is not the only organization unwilling to change its ways, from brain disease theories to person-centred care, although psychiatrists hold the reins, its MH, non-profit organizations like Nami, academia, pharma companies, and private corporations. All of them are
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There is just one thing that has changed since I was on a psych ward decades ago. Back then, nurses would huddle around the open front desk, observing patients from a distance and writing excessive notes/reports, or talking amongst each other, and then theyâd bring out the cart
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The birthday party was awesome. And I just got permission to write about a person I helped through the healing process of schizophrenia, without revealing their identity, so I will work on that most of the week in my free time and post it on my website when done. I am going to go
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Since I posted about my family matters, I thought Iâd mention the support group I run for people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Itâs Friday, and we are celebrating a group memberâs birthday. By the way, all six members are still coming. And my close friend, who is a retired nurse,
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I wasnât the only one abused as a child; my siblings were as well. My mother, who suffered from untreated psychosis, kept us all separated by turning us against each other. I have been dealing with a Will and Estate matter on the side, and all of us siblings have come together.
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I wasnât lucky enough to be born into a âfunctionalâ family, and go off to college and build a career and experience all the advantages and privileges many take for granted. I had a lot of challenges and obstacles in life to overcome before getting those things, but I got there
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âIn an era where every ache of the soul is a revenue stream, it is worth contemplating the marvel that is the mental health industry. Once a niche field devoted to the noble pursuit of understanding the human condition, it has now been transformed into a trillion-dollar behemoth
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Being a doctor doesnât give you the license to always be right. It doesnât give you the license to judge others. It doesnât give you the right to discount peopleâs feelings. It doesnât give you the right to rewrite patients' stories to support your ideology or training. Doctors
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The greatest tool I had in conquering schizophrenia was my memory. From an early age, in kindergarten, I was already memorizing things in my head with great detail and speed. I think that is because I had no bond with my caretakers, and there was nothing else to do, so I
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Someone I know who has PTSD was using a fast-acting anti-anxiety medication for triggers/flashbacks, but the doctor switched his medication to a newer one, and he had an adverse reaction, so he wanted to go back on the older one, but the doctor wouldnât switch it back. He ended
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Itâs Thanksgiving weekend. We are celebrating today. I made the pumpkin pies yesterday. The turkey is in the oven. Guests are arriving soon. Thatâs one thing I really love to do â cooking for others. It gets a little hectic and stressful in the kitchen, but I have my daughter
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A powerful and unsettling account from psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Shipko exposes a critical failure in modern psychiatry: the suppression of informed discourse. He acknowledges a complex realityâpsychiatric medications help some people and harm others. The core issue isn't this
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My complete recovery from schizophrenia wasnât because of years of intensive psychotherapy. It was more of an awakening, and it happened really fast. Too fast, really. I just awoke from my savage sleep and then swore Iâd never go back there. So, I worked really hard by piecing
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I donât need to be told that someone has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I feel psychotic energy emanating from them in their presence. Most people are afraid of it and get swept away by it. What they donât understand is that the fear they feel is their own. Through personal
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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, youâll start having positive results. ~Willie Nelson
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