With the convention entries wrapped up, I'd like to re-visit the topic of setting goals, in a two-part blog series. First, I'll talk about recovery and in the second blog entry I'll detail the specifics of my three-year treatment plan.
I found in my file cabinet an Elle article by L...
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In response to your article
Marya Pyrek
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 02:01 PMre: In response to your article
Christina Bruni
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 05:28 PMHello Marya,
Thank you for responding to my blog entries.
You posted four similar comments, and I'll respond to all of them now. I am glad you were inspired. There is out now by subscription and on the Internet, the Summer 2008 Schizophrenia Digest magazine whose cover article is "The Power of Higher Powers," and it talks about how faith instills recovery and aids in one's recovery. Log on to www.magpiemags.com, and click on Schizophrenia Digest, I believe you can read this article online.
Feel free to write in any time.
Regards,
Chris
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In response to your article
Marya Pyrek
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 02:05 PM
WOW! What great work!! How insightful! I liked the concept that you brought up and especially the viewpoints of the other author. It really made me think. And it is so very true that the media is the main culprit behind stigma, but like you said we, as a society have made SOME COMING progress. The existence of stigma really bothers me and I want to fight it. One place where I am going to say something is at church. I have been to many churches of various faiths and none of them, when reciting the Prayers of the People, mention anything about the mentally ill. I also hope and plan on writing a letter to the bishop. After I do that, I plan to write to CPTV about the need for informative presentations regarding mental health. I am not sure if you read my blog, but I hope to tell them about it. It would be a dream come true if they could use it!
replyre: In response to your article
Marya Pyrek
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 02:15 PMnd stigmatization. Society, though, is making progress, be it very slow. I really want to fight stigma as it relates to mental illness. I wish I could change behavior and thinking, but I can't. Let me take the last part out. I can change thinking even if it just one person. I do not kno if you read my blog but, as you may have read in the abstract, it is geared towrds sudents and doctors and I did that mainly because I felt the society was not ready to read such material. But like you said in the article,'The Five Stages of Change', one stage involve the committment to educate others and I would like to do that but I fear negative reverberations. By the way, thanks so much for all your help and advice. I will really take it seriously.
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In response to your article
Marya Pyrek
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 02:17 PMWOW! What great work!! How insightful! I liked the concept that you brought up and especially the viewpoints of the other author. It really made me think. And it is so very true that the media is the main culprit behind stigma, but like you said we, as a society have made SOME COMING progress. The existence of stigma really bothers me and I want to fight it. One place where I am going to say something is at church. I have been to many churches of various faiths and none of them, when reciting the Prayers of the People, mention anything about the mentally ill. I also hope and plan on writing a letter to the bishop. After I do that, I plan to write to CPTV about the need for informative presentations regarding mental health. I am not sure if you read my blog, but I hope to tell them about it. It would be a dream come true if they could use it!
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The stages towards change/ achievements of goals
Chris
Friday, September 05, 2008 at 04:10 AMHi Christina,
Just reading some of your earlier posts.
Found the stages of precontemplation/ contemplation you mention particularly resonating with a process that I believe myself and my sister have both come separately to recognise ,and value in ourselves, the first stage in particular cannot be forced, more 'incubated' and nurtured, given space to develop.
Both my sister and myself have scientific and medical training, but this is something it would be impossible to explain scientifically, so why try...just enjoy and wonder at it I say!
My sister in particular recognises these early stages which may be quite lengthy in later producing something creative (painting/ design glasswork) : in my case it is part of my 'problem solving'.. I feel I am incubating something, at the beginning not quite sure what will hatch, but don't usually feel disappointed, and a new path forward emerges with a sense of release and clearer thinking!
Your goal setting is similarly a creative process isn't it!
Good luck with it,
Chris
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WOW! What great work!! How insightful! I liked the concept that you brought up and especially the viewpoints of the other author. It really made me think. And it is so very true that the media is the main culprit behind stigma, but like you said we, as a society have made SOME COMING progress. The existence of stigma really bothers me and I want to fight it. One place where I am going to say something is at church. I have been to many churches of various faiths and none of them, when reciting the Prayers of the People, mention anything about the mentally ill. I also hope and plan on writing a letter to the bishop. After I do that, I plan to write to CPTV about the need for informative presentations regarding mental health. I am not sure if you read my blog, but I hope to tell them about it. It would be a dream come true if they could use it!
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