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thanks for posting the above, martin: it crosses with the major experience of those around me who have struggled with depression. bipolar disoder, etc. and who are also artists: the problem becomes, for each of them, the dulling effects (at the least) of the psychotropics---they find themselves "better" because they feel nothing beyond a kind of sustained dialtone. THAT takes care of production. hell, that took care of most other aspects of their functional lives as well.
the cause of this seems to be an unintended consequence of the present hmo-dominated mental health care system: for all of the folk i know who found themselves in this type of place, psychotropics were handed out as if they were pez--it is like there is a de facto assumption that the drugs themselves are a kind of magic bullet--even as any of the providers of these drugs wold say the opposite were you to ask them. (it is not that different from academic institutions assuming that graduate students all have trust funds--it is absurd, they would deny it, but at the system level, it operates as a kind of enabling assumption)
they could get the psychotropic pez, but not anything even close to an adequate therapeutic function..and nothing even close to micromanagement of dosage.
this has flattened the production of everyone i know who has struggled with depression or other disorders that these days are treated with psychotropics---the psychotropics themselves, administered in this manner, as a function of this particular system of mental health care
in some cases, it has taken folk years to work out from under this.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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