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CHOICES ii-13 - Consumer Self-Stigma

  I indicated a few blogs ago that I still wanted to discuss family, provider, and consumer stigma before we moved on with our CHOICES II Series.  We have since explored stigma involving members of a larger family, such as uncles and aunts, in my SharePost CHOICES II-10 submitted on 7...
12/29/08 11:32am

Hi Robin,     a very sensitive poem.           I found myself asking the question , is the author perpetuating his own madness or is he actually giving us a glimpse into his world ?        Does he have the cure and if so, why didn't he write about it in the beginning ?         I, as the reader, am taken from hell to heaven in a few lines and really don't know where he is at the end.        Perhaps the deliberate ambiguity is there to make me think and relate to my own experience.            Fascinating.

 

 

Don F.

12/29/08 11:58am

Hi Robin :  I just wanted to add that I feel that self-stigma is  not   a part of this poem. I feel strongly that the author has a right to express himself and that any thing that comes from creativity should not be associated with stigma of any kind.

 

Don

12/29/08 3:32pm

I find that poetry is one of my best outlets for self-expression.  When all other forms of creativity left, I still could write poetry.  Some of it is pretty scary stuff, written when I was in the depths of psychosis and suicidal depression.  In fact, the worse I felt, the more I was compelled to keep writing.

 

Carolyn

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