I have been traumatized by conventional medicine and psychiatry, and I have a few things I would like to address. Well, about 42,542,912 things is more like it. I'm not blogging here to spread any sort of message of disdain; I'm just giving the facts about my seven-year psychiatric journey, which concluded in a Drug-Induced Brain Damage with a Medical Emergency Status diagnosis in April 2015. Please do not attack me as somebody offering false medical advice; that is not my intent. I am not a medical expert with a framed Doctor of Medicine degree hanging on my wall. I'm actually a poet who is currently enrolled in a university that selected me as 1 of 3 poets to attend its esteemed MFA program, which pays my tuition in full, pays me a stipend to live on in exchange for working as a research assistant, and awarded me an additional scholarship. My past doctors purchased their higher education degrees; I was offered one by three out of seven universities based on the merit of my work. Again, I am not a medical doctor. I just an incompetent imbecile (ask my past docs) who knows what a library is and knows what to do with what a library can provide. Nothing I have to say here is coming from WebMD or Wikipedia. I sort of prefer going to the actual medical research literature that has been published over the past couple of centuries, and I find it curious how progress halted in this past century alone. 100 years ago, 85% of deaths were due to acute illness and 15% were chronic disease. Today that is reversed. 85% of us, if we continue living the modern American lifestyle and believe in the blatant lies taught in academia, will die of chronic disease today. Oh, but the latest and radical medical advances will make our last years of suffering as comfortable as possible, so if that gives you any encouragement, then there you go. As for this guy? I think I'll strive to go back 100 years and pass away how we used to: by going to bed and not waking up. Have you heard of anybody dying of "natural causes" these days? It's a shame that's a dated phrase. It really is.