Mental health disorders – “We laughed ourselves better”

Marian Moore

 

“Being over medicated does not make people better”. These were the words spoken by Marian Moore today whom has schizo-affective disorder.

She believes that the system works against curing people with mental health problems, and that having more psychological therapy is the way forward.

It was revealed how for twelve years she suffered silently, experiencing hallucinations and hearing voices – with her brain “trying to explain the inexplicable”. When the pinochle point came that she was no longer able to cope and she had to reveal what was occurring, medication was immediately prescribed with little thought of actual psychological counselling.

“Drugs can make you worse” she said, and once diagnosed and labelled with the illness her personality changed even more. A real fear was felt.

‘Mind over matter’

Marian had dropped down to five and a half stone in weight, reaching the point where her  internal organs were beginning to fail. Something miraculous then happened, and Marian realised that ‘love’ had much do to with making herself better. Mind over matter seemed to be the ultimate key.

“I decided to help me for half an hour a day”-This positive psychology proved to be a success and Marian began to stabilise mentally. She explained how to be able to love anything else, you first need to love yourself and that much of what she believes occurs in the mind is down to the way you think about life.

“If I had studied philosophy I would never have got ill in the first place”