High Roller or Bipolar

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Escaping the Vulture's Shadow

Escaping the Vulture's Shadow

My Battle with Psychiatry

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Spencer Stern
Oct 14, 2022
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"My unknown future from a young age was terrifying enough to orchestrate my escape from reality while unbeknownst to me at the time the Mental Health system was circling like vultures waiting to drug my outlandish temporary behaviour for life as a punishment. That's Psychiatry in a nutshell."

During the course of my formative years my somewhat overprotective mother had kept me rather ‘shielded’ in my parental home (for example, doing most domestic duties and chores that I simply didn’t care about and/or wasn’t allowed to do) and as a result I made a few choices in my early adult life such as remaining at home for my undergraduate university studies rather than living out independently from age 18+ and getting too settled in at her home before I would eventually move out fairly late at age 35 to live on my own with my wife and subsequent offspring. It’s little to no surprise that my eventual outlandish behaviour(s) at the onset of ‘mental illness’ at age 21+ would primari…

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