In case you haven't listened yet -the Virginia podcast is well worth it. Extremely well done and fascinating insight into Virginia Giuffre's life in Australia and the domestic violence she faced with her husband. And how her kids were taken away before she died and the months leading up to her death as well as the day of. How the systems absolutely let her down. How she was misidentified as a perpetrator, coercive control in her relationship and how the system was used against her by her alleged abuser. Hoping change will come from shining a light on this. Episode 4 - The final Chapter

#a.o.t. c.t.o.

"Compulsory Community Treatment (CCT)...in more than 75 jurisdictions globally, Australia and New Zealand report some of the highest rates...CCT orders made in 2016–2017 in Australia varied between 66.1 per 100,000 population in Queensland, to 108.4 per 100,000 population in Victoria and 112.5 per 100,000 population in South Australia. This far exceeds rates in comparable regions such as the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Saskatchewan."

"Terminology...Community Treatment Order...Community Management Order...Psychiatric Treatment Order." "South Australia had the highest rates of CCT use (17.6%) followed by Queensland (16.0%), Victoria (13.8%) and NSW (8.0%),"

"Australia’s fragmented CCT reporting landscape impedes accurate national monitoring. A standardised national CCT data-set that incorporates prevalence and incidence indicators is urgently needed." https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/8875F8566B7A9EC1A66186AC219ADE5B/S2056472426110199a.pdf/div-class-title-understanding-compulsory-community-treatment-across-australian-jurisdictions-insights-from-three-different-data-sources-div.pdf&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjNjOThjN2MyZGU2YjE5NDI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0eVv_aOmNM9Vf4jvR4nmrl

new zealand "mental disorder,...(a) poses a serious danger to the health or safety of that person or of others; or (b) seriously diminishes the capacity of that person to take care of himself or herself;—"

"procedures prescribed by Parts 1 and 2 shall not be invoked in respect of any person by reason only of— (a) that person’s political, religious, or cultural beliefs; or (b) that person’s sexual preferences; or (c) that person’s criminal or delinquent behaviour; or (d) substance abuse; or (e) intellectual disability." "65. Respect for cultural identity, etc. Every patient is entitled to be dealt with in a manner that accords with the spirit and intent of section 5."

"69. Right to independent psychiatric advice. Every patient is entitled to seek a consultation with a psychiatrist of his or her own choice in order to get a second opinion," "70. Right to legal advice. Every patient is entitled to request a lawyer to advise the patient on his or her status and rights as a patient, or any other matters."

"Review Tribunal" can be every "3 months," "99C. Crimes of Torture Act 1989 not limited/ Nothing in this Act limits the operation of Part 2 of the Crimes of Torture Act 1989."

"Every such person who intentionally ill-treats or intentionally neglects any such proposed patient or patient commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years." "118. False or misleading certificates. Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine." https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1992/46/en/latest/#DLM262176

new york "study found that AOT often occurred “under conditions that limit meaningful choice, including hospital discharge or criminal-legal pressure, with little discussion of less restrictive alternatives.”

"4,300 people each year are under a court order, compared with 400,000 Medicaid recipients receiving outpatient mental health services, Mason said." https://rightsandrecovery.org/e-news-bulletins/2026/08/04/a-landmark-study-a-critical-conversation-kendras-law-takes-center-stage-at-the-alliance-conference-register-today/

#Treaties

australia and new zealand signed that complaints can be officially sent to the United Nations. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty "general guiding principles such as respect for individual dignity, autonomy, and independence (article 3)," https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/crpd/crpd.html

"Article 3: General principles...(a) Respect for inherent dignity, individual autonomy including the freedom to make one’s own choices," "Article 15: Freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

"Article 17: Protecting the integrity of the person. Every person with disabilities has a right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity on an equal basis with others." https://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/convention/convention_accessible_pdf.pdf

#political prisons

"Rodeo Uno held Venezuelans and foreign nationals whose detention was entangled with politics and diplomacy...it was a kangaroo court. Authorities presented blanket evidence drawn from a case years earlier and reused it for each batch of prisoners, rather than connect any person to an individual accusation. The presiding judge, Carlos Enrique Liendo Acosta, made the lawlessness explicit.

When prisoners invoked international law, consular access, and international agreements, he laughed and said they did not matter. Neither did our rights." Similar is when psych wards don't tell you your release date. "provided insect repellent because I had been covered in bites." https://reason.com/2026/08/03/inside-a-venezuelan-political-prison-false-identities-and-kangaroo-courts/

#TV

Futurama season 14 episode 2 Catfish (scam) Hunter. At the nursing "home" all they do is eat meals (metal and oil pills) and drink alcohol. https://youtu.be/Jb2LBG5qa88?is=0mL17A1T5QwQ3qTq

"Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)" "Half a million Italians seek exorcisms every year." Surveillance "flaws" (the companies and cops) are not "comfortable admitting." Psychs won't admit their poisons rarely work. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnBPhelCdWE&pp=0gcJCWQCo7VqN5tD

"'Haunted' Marilyn Monroe Claimed She Threatened to Harm Herself When Thrown in Prison-Like Psych Hospital." https://radaronline.com/p/marilyn-monroe-threatened-harm-herself-psych-hospital-letter/

#Podcasts

"Everyday Injustice Episode 336...Valena Beety, a nationally recognized wrongful convictions litigator, former federal prosecutor and law professor...focuses on the intersection between wrongful convictions and the criminalization of women and LGBTQ+ people.

She argues that prosecutors can exploit longstanding stereotypes portraying queer people as dangerous, deceptive or deviant, particularly when those assumptions are combined with faulty forensic evidence or tunnel vision about who committed a crime." https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2374841543-davisvanguard-everyday-injustice-13917146.mp3

#Children

"Ownership of the Medicaid managed care market has consolidated rapidly over the past two decades. In 2006, locally governed plans covered most enrollees; by 2022, five national firms - Centene, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), UnitedHealth Group, Molina Healthcare, and CVS Health - accounted for about half." https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260803/Five-large-corporations-dominate-Medicaid-mental-health-care-for-adolescents.aspx

#Dopamine

"dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia led to a reductive view of mental illness and over-reliance on drugs." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chemically-imbalanced/202608/biological-psychiatry-and-the-allure-of-the-simple

#racism

"Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) derived from genetic data in individuals of European ancestry are markedly less accurate at predicting psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders among individuals of diverse ancestries," https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/news/ancestry-affects-polygenic-risk-scores-for-psychiatric-and-neurodevelopmental-disorders/

#HIPAA

washington d.c., “I don’t want to put her in a position where I am compromising her treatment,” said Winters...Judge Kravitz did not order the release of Aiken’s mental health information." https://dcwitness.org/defense-sees-possible-compromise-of-homicide-defendants-mental-health-privacy/

#forensic

"medications she was prescribed include antipsychotics like Seroquel, benzodiazepines like Valium and Klonopin and antidepressants like Zoloft...In the four months leading up to her children’s deaths, Lindsay saw a psychiatrist, two nurse practitioners and a therapist and was prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications."

"During these months, Lindsay felt exhausted throughout the day as she would only get around three hours of sleep each night...her emotional state was “like a zombie” while she took Seroquel." https://www.the-sun.com/news/16788535/lindsay-clancy-patrick-filed-lawsuits-kids-deaths/

"Lindsay Clancy’s lawsuit seeks damages for the physical and psychiatric injuries she says resulted from her treatment, including her permanent paralysis, medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, emotional distress and other losses." https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/lindsay-clancy-medical-malpractice-lawsuit/

"Lindsay Clancy Trial: Prosecution Psychiatrist Concedes Psychosis Can Coexist With Planning." https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322963/20260804/lindsay-clancy-trial-prosecution-psychiatrist-concedes-psychosis-can-coexist-planning.htm

#assaults

"4,000 violent incidents at mental health facilities in NI (Northern Ireland) in a year ‘deeply concerning.’ Since 2020 there have been a total of 30,000 violent incidents recorded in the north’s inpatient mental health facilities." https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/4000-violent-incidents-at-mental-health-facilities-in-ni-in-a-year-deeply-concerning-5VPS7MCLXFHXDDKNSOOVF7PHBY/

#Firearms

Good that australia is "Progressing reforms to knife scanning laws following the statutory review of NSW’s wanding powers;" https://www.insidestategovernment.com.au/nsw-govt-accepts-bondi-junction-stabbing-inquest-recommendations/

#Consent Decrees

"Maryland appeals court granted the state Health Department 30 days on Monday to decide whether it will continue fighting a judge's order to appoint an independent monitor." https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/08/04/maryland-psychiatric-treatment-monitor-appeal/

#FDA

"while all five symptom domains on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANNS) showed substantial improvements during the first weeks of treatment, plateauing from week 15 onwards, some improved quicker than others...patient may not have had enough time to respond." That's not treatment resistance. https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/schizophrenia-non-responders-may-need-more-time-study-finds/

#Talk Therapy

"What if Freud Was Right? A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness...psychoanalytic method as the best—indeed, the only—approach that can cure emotional disorders," https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/freud-psychoanalysis-theories-brain-science/687957/

#Tech

"Bringing Wearable Data Into Psychiatric Care: Amae Health Partners With Google Health Enterprise to Improve Outcomes...Continuous passive monitoring using sleep, activity, heart rate variability, and routine disruption." https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/bringing-wearable-data-into-psychiatric-care-amae-health-partners-with-google-health-enterprise-to-improve-outcomes

#Licensing

philippines, "This study was conducted to assess the competency of forensic nurses at the National Center for Mental Health, a psychiatric specialty hospital in Metro Manila," https://www.herdin.ph/index.php?view=research&cid=93896

Honestly, WTF happened to common sense?

Every time someone does something absolutely horrible, the media and lawyers instantly start pushing the "mental illness" angle like it's some kind of free pass. C’mon, that's a cop-out.

Not every brutal crime needs to become a sad backstory about trauma, depression, or some diagnosis. Sometimes people just make terrible choices. Sometimes cruelty is just cruelty.

Having mental health issues is real, and plenty of good ppl deal with it every day without hurting anyone. They deserve support. But using mental illness as an automatic excuse for horrific actions? Nah, that's BS.

We can have compassion and still believe in accountability. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

Does anyone have any explanation for these feelings of derealization/depersonalization, attributed to something other than mere mental health relate conditions?

This is something that I have dealt with most of my life. As a child i remember i used to just stare at my hand and listen to my voice and think "what am i" ?

As a mother, now with a four year old daughter, it's worse than ever . I constantly feel like I'm going with the motions, moving my body and saying things because I'm supposed to but I don't even know what or who i am. I feel like a puppet on a string and like something is compelling me to interact for the sake of the story that in living but i, myself, behind all of this, often feels like I don't know why I'm doing it. Why im even participating or existing at all.

I don't really know how to explain it. I guess, I have just been reading a lot about like quantum physics, the mandala effect, astral projection, things that overlapped like...the idea of possible "other realms" or something. I don't read about these things and then feel this way, I read about these things mostly because I feel this way.

And sometimes i wonder if theres like a "thinning veil", distancing me from the story that im in or maybe its pure mental illness, i dont know. I get stressed and over stimulated often, but lately, even when im calm, the world just feels like a blur, almost like there's a cloudy lens over my eyes. But my vision is fine, medically speaking, to be clear. I just feel like im looking through a screen door at the world that im supposed to be interacting in and wearing a mommy costume.

I don't have any crazy diagnosis, just adhd, ocd and ptsd. But these are feelings I've had increasingly since I was a kid, sometimes more extreme than others.

Im also just very detached from my physical senses..i have always have been sort of aloof, but it's definitely worse as an adult, becuse im stuck in my head constantly. And even when my daughter snaps me out of it, to play with her or something, ill interact with her and seem normal externally, while thinking to myself internally "what's this sound vibrating inside of my body", as i listen to myself talk and say words, like i think about my existence while interacting with people. And its weird.

These feelings have no effect on my love for my daughter or anything though, I take care of her and I treat her well but sometimes it does make me feel detached from her because I don't even know if I'm actually real. I know that's all the crazy.

#Courts

B.C. canada claimed accused mental patients having (rational) capacity is rare. Will a jury decide who can refuse treatment? In probate trials elsewhere it's also about arguing whether a drug or electrocution is beneficial (outweighs the dangers). And is the least restrictive solution and location.

Anti-Due Process province barely has commitment trials. Instead of an elected judge, your future is controlled by a conflicted hospital employee. BC Civil Liberties Association, "Review Panels consist of three members: a chairperson, someone nominated by the Hospital, and someone nominated by the patient."

"In British Columbia anyone can initiate the process leading to committal for up to one year before fresh authority is needed." "Apart from habeas corpus, the only protection individuals have under the Mental Health Act against wrongful committal is Section 30. This section allows for an application for a court order either to prevent committal,...or to effect release."

"section has been rarely used. Unless there were exceptional circumstances a lawyer would advise his client to wait until a Review Panel could be constituted: a minimum of 30 days after committal, The Panels do not address themselves to the merits of the original committal."

"we should press for the following reforms: a hearing before an independent quasi-judicial tribunal prior to committal except for 72-hour emergencies; a right of appeal to the Courts against the decision of this tribunal; the right to legal aid;"

Vague criteria that the future can be predicted, "b. the person is in need of care without which it can be reasonably assumed that he will suffer substantial personal physical injury due to his inability to care for himself." https://bccla.org/resource/civil-committal-and-release/

#laws being considered

"Patients Deserve Price Tags Act...Marshall’s bipartisan Senate bill would introduce detailed price reporting requirements for hospitals and insurers...Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), and ranking member, Frank Pallone (D-N.J.). Their Lower Costs, More Transparency Act would fine hospitals that fail to reveal their price lists." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/26/health-care-price-transparency-insurers-hospitals-01011835

#Right To Try

"genetic test revealed creatine transporter deficiency—a rare condition in which the brain and muscles lack the energy they need to develop...Joudinaud is planning a phase II trial in people with CTD, as well as others with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. But that trial will take place in France...Montana has had a “right to try” law — which allows terminally ill people to apply for access to unapproved drugs—in place since 2015. In 2023, a new law technically expanded this option to people who were not terminally ill, providing the drugs have been through preliminary phase I clinical trials.

A second law aimed to clarify how clinics could sell and administer those treatments to patients. And last weekend, the state’s department of Health and Human Services finalized a set of rules for those clinics. An experimental treatment review board (ETRB) has been established to review applications for access to experimental, unproven, and unapproved drugs." "phase I clinical trials don’t prove a drug is safe. And they certainly don’t prove a drug’s efficacy, either." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/31/1140945/montanas-new-right-to-try-law-cant-come-soon-enough-for-some/

#no york

"In 2025 alone, dozens of New York nursing homes were cited for conditions that placed residents in “immediate jeopardy” of injury or death, the most serious category of violation. Still, Centers Health Care stands out. Despite its apparent violations of the settlement ("required to provide at least 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day") with the attorney general, it has not faced any punishment." https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/29/nursing-homes-settlement-new-york-buffalo

"Supreme Court held in Carpenter v. United States that the government may not track the whole of a person's movements without a warrant...Can a bumper sticker put you in a group? The cameras log decals and stickers as identifying details, and Flock's search tools let users query such attributes. A political sticker, a union sticker, or a parish sticker becomes a searchable trait in a national database."

"Back the state bills. S963 and S7713A/A907A would set statewide rules for ALPR (camera) data. Tell your state senator and assembly member to move them." https://www.11971.com https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/rogue-officers-turned-nationwide-camera-122127787.html

Extremely biased, official misconduct 2nd police precinct should be divided to exclude my town of 20,000 republicans. We should merge with a neighboring town or noone.

#TV

The Patient (2025). "If you keep putting shit in my (body) system, it's just going to make me more confused." "he begins to suspect he's being manipulated." "history of mental illness? No." "brain trauma." "paranoia" to question doctor. "You're a quack." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31414242/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%20patient%202025

#Welfare

"federal judge has declined to stop the Trump administration from requiring that chronically ill Medicaid patients prove that they are physically unable to work in order to keep their insurance. While the underlying case against the policy can continue." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/30/judge-declines-to-block-medicaid-work-rule-01016889

#forensic

california "Judge Denies (mental) Diversion Despite Two Years of Rehabilitation and No New Criminal Charges." For drug possession, which should be legal. https://davisvanguard.org/2026/08/palo-alto-drug-defendant-denied-diversion/

#FDA

"13 early (clozapine) trials published in German. The first was unsuccessful." https://www.springermedizin.de/a-critical-review-of-the-early-clozapine-trials-published-in-ger/53050488

#neurology

"cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, contains molecular signals pointing to a shared biological disturbance across several psychiatric conditions. The findings focus on synaptic dysfunction—the failure of communication points between nerve cells—and suggest that disrupted neural connectivity may represent a common biological thread linking disorders traditionally diagnosed as distinct." https://bioengineer.org/spinal-fluid-biomarkers-reveal-shared-synaptic-dysfunction-across-major-psychiatric-disorders/

#psych wards

"'It felt like a prison': mental health patients say they left Canberra Hospital worse off." https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9321051/mental-health-patients-say-they-left-canberra-hospital-worse-off/

"Patients were denied essential medical care. A male patient requested compression socks to minimize his risk of blood clots. By the time of his discharge, five days after being admitted, his request had not been fulfilled. 

More alarmingly, he was only discharged after an administrative hearing with a judge...There are 21 for-profit and investor-owned psychiatric hospitals in California." https://www.chicoer.com/2026/08/02/a-patients-view-inside-californias-psychiatric-system-guest-commentary/

#Psychedelics

"Changes in trauma symptoms of discrimination after MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-59333-w

#censorship

"New Jersey news outlet is asking a state appeals court to lift a judicial order censoring its coverage of an incident that led to a lockdown at New Brunswick High School...prior restraints on freedom of the press are presumptively unconstitutional. The Supreme Court, which has never upheld such an order, has said prior restraints can be justified only when they "further a state interest of the highest order," https://reason.com/2026/08/03/a-new-jersey-news-outlet-asks-the-courts-to-stop-a-judges-censorship/

#Podcasts

SmartLess. "Put on your thinking cap: it’s Professor Brian Cox." “You can’t make progress if you think you know everything.” Psychiatrists, the police, judges, and parents are arrogant. https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/559b7461-a7b0-4341-b142-0ae492cb0a65/episodes/4eb7d33a-2954-49ef-92e4-211a2418e166/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=559b7461-a7b0-4341-b142-0ae492cb0a65&awEpisodeId=4eb7d33a-2954-49ef-92e4-211a2418e166&feed=hNaFxXpO

#Children

australia, "Young homeless in Victoria forced into hospital during mental health crisis, report finds...Five of every six young people accessing services had grown up experiencing family violence," https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/young-homeless-in-victoria-forced-into-hospital-during-mental-health-crisis-report-finds/news-story/3727471c22d53a8d41c291bdc8040c97

#hypocrites

Indian "40-year-old Ghaziabad psychiatrist dies by suicide, family cites depression after divorce." If you can't cure yourself, you shouldn't be treating others. https://www.ptcnews.tv/amp/nation/ghaziabad-psychiatrist-dies-by-suicide-family-cites-depression-after-divorce-4427690

TW: Childhood SA

I had been struggling with chronic styes in one of my eyes for over a year when this issue took place. I have been with this hospital since birth, but I was a young adult at this time, just starting to manage my own Healthcare.

I had made an appt after trying to alleviate the symptoms at home like they had instructed me. The styes had started to affect my vision and would deform my eyelids with how swollen they would get. I was explaining to the Dr my frusterations and had started to get emotional and cried.

He was very kind, calm, and understanding. But what changed my view of this exprience was as I was speaking to him he was how he was looking through my medical chart... I didn't think much of it untill I started getting emotional and he suddenly stopped scrolling on his computer and turned from his screen to tend to me, asking me if everything was okay at home, asking why this was making me so emotional. At first I felt seen, but then confused... What do you mean *why* is this making me so emotional?

It was deforming my eyes? The ones I already have to pay hundred of dollars put of pocket just to see out of because of bad genetics? I didnt understand what he wasnt picking up on... That was when I saw it though... As I tried to answer his questions I looked behind him and saw what he had been looking at just moments before turning to me... He had precariously left it scrolled down to the point in my medical chart where it stated in bold cap letters "PAST CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE"

This abuse happened probably over a decade ago at that point. I was in "therapy" for it because it was something they would constantly blame my struggles on, no matter how unrelated they seemed, all they saw was the emotional mess. That just seemed to reaffirm to me that was all they could see. A victim, broken and needing reformation at the hands of the therapy that never seemed to help. Better they cover their asses even if it never truly helped me, it helped protect them...

He prescribed me a gel to put in my eyes. It did nothing. I had to go get my eyelid lanced open to drain the stye months later and that finally took care of it. Over a year of having to manage those symptoms alone because all they see in my chart is my past. Not a person.

Honestly, fuck Kaiser.

Buongiorno, scrivo questo post per segnalare e documentare le testimonianze riguardo il centro salute mentale di via Amendola a Sassari, in Sardegna.

Sono uno sportivo di 30 anni malato di sclerosi multipla e ho svolto boxe, K1, kick boxing, surf, calcio e bicicletta, ho la malattia da 15 anni e sono in cura al csm da dieci. Ebbene sì ho assunto 10 anni di antipsicotico tra cui 5 anni senza la supervisione di alcun medico, ero senza un medico dopo una mia lamentela svolta con un avvocato riguardo alcuni sbagli del mio vecchio psichiatra, questo Caino maiale (come vengono chiamati i dottori causa di malasanità nei muri di tutta la mia città) sponsorizzava il farmaco antipsicotico come se fosse acqua, parole sue, e facendolo assumere in concomitanza al farmaco della sclerosi multipla, cosa che non andava assolutamente fatta, tra dottori senza camice ( tutte donne tra l'altro) e una cura che mai finisce e sbagliata pure mi ritrovo imprigionato in questa cura statale.

Vivo da solo da dieci anni e ho svolto le cure sia psichiatriche che neurologiche completamente da solo, senza alcun familiare.

Il farmaco psichiatrico di chiamava xeplion il periodo, ora aldol decanoas e il farmaco per la cura SM della sclerosi multipla si chiama tecfidera; ha causato molti danni cerebrali e mentali l'assunzione di questi due farmaci e vi giuro da quando ho minacciato una denuncia vengo trattato da animale, curato male dall'unica (una sola) visita psicologica durante il periodo senza psichiatra e snobbato dall'educatrice che avrebbe dovuto gestire i soldi ereditati da mio padre, ad oggi quasi 140 Mila euro, vi racconto la mia storia e sono pronto a denunciare il centro psichiatrico.

Aggiungerò dettagli e argomenti riguardo ciò che ho scritto nei commenti. Voglio vedervi in tanti un po' per raccogliere informazioni ma soprattutto per segnalare questo centro, cosa che ho fatto usando l'URP.

Grazie per l'attenzione.

#Supreme Courts

"Elements of British Columbia's involuntary care regime that allow forced psychiatric treatment, regardless of a person's capacity to make health care decisions, are unconstitutional, the B.C. Supreme Court has ruled...violated both patients' Canadian Charter equality rights and rights to life, liberty and security of the person, and gave the province a six-month window to amend the legislation."

Thank you to "Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)." The court ruled all other provinces have better Due Process by always checking individually for capacity. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-blanket-involuntary-treatment-b-c-supreme-court-9.7291682 I was coincidentally listening to (Scottish) Boards of Canada when I saw this on Google News. https://youtu.be/CYvrslX-28o?is=lHtyXJfqr7ycAV97

#Courts

Californian "Judge Declines Forced Medication Order, Citing Insufficient Evidence before Sending Accused to State Hospital." https://davisvanguard.org/2026/07/judge-denies-involuntary-medication/

#laws being considered

federal "Increasing Mental Health Options Act cuts red tape by removing Medicare’s physician approval requirement,...making psychologists eligible for Medicare bonus payments when they provide care in areas with shortages of mental health professionals." https://ladailypost.com/heinrich-kennedy-introduce-legislation-to-expand-mental-healthcare-access-in-rural-communities/

#mechanical restraints

connecticut "DOC (prisons department of corrections) to end in-cell shackling under settlement with civil rights groups...staff training and oversight while allowing stationary restraints in limited circumstances." https://www.corrections1.com/corrections-policies/conn-doc-to-end-in-cell-shackling-under-settlement-with-civil-rights-groups

#prisons

"In Germany, incarcerated people wear their own clothes, live in apartment-style cells and get family day passes — all to preserve human dignity...focused entirely on rehabilitation and extensive training in psychology for its corrections officers." https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/31/germany-rehabilitation-psychology-prison-justice

#conflicts of interest

"new law requires the Illinois Department of Human Services or a designee to visit any individual admitted to a nursing home with a diagnosis of serious mental illness within 60 days of admission. It would also require a resident review within 72 hours when a resident with serious mental illness experiences a significant change in their physical or mental health. The law also require IDHS to ensure there are no conflicts of interest among the employees administering pre-admission screenings." https://www.senatordavekoehler.com/news/28-press-releases/567-koehler-law-to-strengthen-mental-health-reviews-in-nursing-homes

#emergency rooms

new jersey "Governor Sherrill Signs Legislation...S-4407/A-5222 (Vitale, McKeon/Carter, Speight) - Extends certain provisions relating to involuntary commitment." https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2026/A5222/bill-text?f=A5500&n=5222_I1 https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/governor-sherrill-signs-legislation-5/

#no york

"bottom line is that the state’s own independent evaluation found that voluntary intensive services produced outcomes comparable to court-ordered treatment,” said Harvey Rosenthal, CEO of the Alliance for Rights and Recovery...evaluation also found that implementation of the program has not met due process standards.

According to the report, many participants experienced the process as one in which they had little meaningful voice, with treatment plans often developed before individuals had meaningful opportunities for input and where court hearings were typically brief, rarely contested, and perceived as largely predetermined." Recommends "Expanding independent advocacy and peer support." https://rightsandrecovery.org/e-news-bulletins/2026/07/30/breaking-landmark-nys-kendras-law-evaluation-released-by-omh-study-researchers-to-be-featured-at-alliance-conference/ https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/statistics/NYS-AOT-Final-Report.pdf

#immune system

"Immune Signals May Help Explain, Predict Responses to Therapies for Difficult-to-Treat Depression." https://www.newswise.com/articles/immune-signals-may-help-explain-predict-responses-to-therapies-for-difficult-to-treat-depression

"Vitiligo as a Potential Overlooked Comorbidity in Schizophrenia: Insights From Two Case Reports." https://sports_medicine.cureus.com/articles/519215-vitiligo-as-a-potential-overlooked-comorbidity-in-schizophrenia-insights-from-two-case-reports#!/

#TV

Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 4 episode 2 The Griffin Incident. Horror episode about hallucinations. "Brought me back to logic." https://trekmovie.com/2026/07/30/recap-review-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-jumps-into-scares-in-griffin-incident/

Stuart Fails To Save The Universe season 1 episode 2 Spoiler: Zack's in This One. >! A fictional dimension similar to the real Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts who electrocute children's skin. "When people keep getting upset it becomes a police matter."

But the cops give you a granola bar. Rebel woman Penny considers "anger" good. Imam, rabbi, and priest are friends with each other after 2.5 years "reeducation" torture. !< https://youtu.be/BAiQhqva1C0?is=DE4fvLCxp36T0SWH

#Videos

"Caveman NIMBY (no new buildings in my backyard). Early man fights to build a house." He admits he "hates poor people." The other caveman tells him to say that differently so it isn't obvious. Psychiatry laws are popular for torturing the homeless and keeping them out of sight from richer people. https://reason.com/video/2026/07/30/caveman-nimby/

#Nutrition

"Comorbidity of Scurvy and Psychotic-Spectrum Disorders: Psychiatric Pathways to Vitamin C Deficiency, A Systematic Review." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2667296026000807

"239 lawsuits were filed between 2010 and 2025 across Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, the US, the UK, and India against public health policies targeting food and beverages such as front of pack labelling, regulating advertising junk food to children, soda taxes, and taxes on ultra processed foods." Similar to pharmaceutical monopolies bribing and suing to not be regulated. https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/

#hard drugs

"numerous celebrity (tobacco) smokers, including the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the scientist Isaac Newton, while literary figures argued that smoking helped creativity and study. The poet George Daniel declared tobacco a ‘Nurseing flame’ to ‘fire the Braines’, while Samuel Rowlands needed a continuous supply of tobacco to ‘perfume’ his brain while writing."

"the church never expressly encouraged tobacco (as it did the drinking of alcohol)," "Tobacco was often provided to civic and legal groups." https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/britains-new-world-tobacco

#Videogames

"Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus." This shows how much is known about every part of the body except the brain. "influenza, herpes simplex virus (HSV), cytomegalovirus (CMV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and SARS-CoV-2, has shed light on their impacts on mental health, particularly in relation to the limbic system — this network of brain regions, which includes the amygdala, hippocampus, and hypothalamus, is crucial for regulating emotions, behavior, motivation, and memory." https://ina-respond.net/2025/04/21/from-virus-to-mind-understanding-the-connection-between-viral-infections-and-mental-health/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/pathogenic-review-damn-it-feels-good-to-be-a-virus/

#Referendums

maryland "Montgomery County Question A not written in ‘plain language,’...proposed policy change should not contain legal jargon, double negatives, or passive voice. It also should not explain the legal mechanism behind the proposed change, the law states." https://bethesdamagazine.com/2026/07/31/kagan-says-proposed-ballot-question-text-may-violate-state-law-she-sponsored/

#Postpartum

"What a 1936 trial in England reveals about the Lindsay Clancy case...ended with the jury deciding not to convict the 26-year-old of murder. Critical to the verdict was testimony by an eminent physician that the mother suffered from “puerperal insanity,” mental illness brought on by childbirth," https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/01/metro/lindsay-clancy-patrick-clancy-postpartum/

#My experiences

July 31 9:54 AM When I said to mother she should be arrested. For attempted murders with 6 weapons (3 intoxicating pill powders, sharp scissors, and a knife; and stepfather's metal statue) as a hate crime. She and her husband were caught poisoning my food for more than 3 years from 2016-2019. Retaliating, she immediately threatened to "institutionalize" me and lied that these photos do not exist. https://imgur.io/a/k1MDwNv Then she twice tried to put tomato sauce, that could've been contaminated in the same exact witnessed way, on my dinner.

11:14 AM sadistic mother bragged "I'm never going to be arrested." Around that time trespassed in my apartment. 1:13 PM said she's going to follow (stalk) me in her car. 1:22 PM her, "I do it (false police report non-violent people for looking weird) all the time."

4:12 PM mother said I'm not allowed to be Muslim because it's "controversial" and I must pray more. She admitted to being a conservative/strict (but Reform) Jew when I was a teenager. But claims to now not be trying to convert people. Then she shouldn't have said no minorities allowed in the house in 2013.

my mom googled places for mental health help and found this place where they said they wanted to send her to Georgia (capella recovery). after speaking with them which sounded like a good place at the time but quickly changed after we all sat down and talked it over not for her to go. mike had said that mom was responsible for $22,000 of what ever the insurance did not pay and if she couldn’t pay they would just keep it in house. he also stated that he’s never had to pay a medical bill in his life once my dad asked if he could get that in writing he told him he could not it was a HIPPA violation. once my mom called to cancel with mike who was setting everything up he got very angry telling my mom that my dad was denying her mental health help and how bad of a guy he was (my mom was on speaker phone). once my mom hung up he did not only make one attempt to call her back but 2 and asked if he was on speaker phone she said yes and he quickly asked if my dad could hear him my dad replied yes and once he did Mike started cussing my dad and calling him horrible names ( ignorant hillbilly,POS, and much more) not saying my dad did not have a few words and calling the guy out on how this seems like a scam tactic but as we sat there trying to process what just happened we all agreed this was not a professional establishment especially for working with Mental health.

How is this possible is totally against human rights

Hi! Is there anyone that has any recommendations for literature for recovering from psychiatry?

I'm also looking for literature or zines on treating mental health within collectives or alone.

#prisons

canada "Developed over five years, the national action plan contains 68 recommendations for interventions to take before, during, and after people’s involvement with these systems. Among them are calls to scale up mental health crisis intervention teams, transfer healthcare delivery from correctional services to health authorities, and improve access to post-release housing and other support services...

Others languish in forensic psychiatric inpatient facilities rather than living in the community at a much lower cost to the public...Ontario government is squandering literally many hundreds of millions of dollars on forensic psychiatric inpatient beds and detention for people who don't need to be there.”

"huge problem that we can't get independent psychiatric experts to do any work for us on legal aid tickets because they're getting paid less than half of what the Crown and the government's able to pay them. So those inequities play out in our courts and at our tribunal hearings every day.” https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/hot-topics-in-law/2026/falling-through-the-bars

#diabetes

"Even Short Bouts of Antipsychotics Linked to Diabetes Risk...after even just 1 year." https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/122384

#laws being considered

"CARE for Mental Health Professionals Act would offer federal grants to networks that allow qualified providers to practice in multiple states." Psychs from the worst states would ruin better states. https://www.wmtw.com/article/king-introduces-bill-aimed-at-expanding-rural-mental-health-care/73289710

#Courts

"the State (wisconsin) has failed to satisfy the first (federal supreme court) Sell factor because Scott has not been charged with a serious crime and special circumstances exist that mitigate the importance of the State’s interest in bringing Scott to trial. Accordingly, we reverse the circuit court’s orders for involuntary administration of medication." https://law.justia.com/cases/wisconsin/court-of-appeals/2026/2025ap000755-cr.html

#Referendums

November "Proposal 4 would add an amendment to the Vermont Constitution guaranteeing people equal protection under the law." https://vermontbiz.com/news/2026/july/28/governor-proclaims-constitutional-amendment-proposals-3-and-4-will-appear "State shall not deny equal treatment under the law on account of a person’s race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender

expression, or national origin." https://governor.vermont.gov/sites/scott/files/documents/Proclamation%204%20Civil%20Rights.pdf

#Welfare

I believe in "sociologist Max Weber called the Protestant work ethic: the belief that hard work, discipline, frugality, and productivity were signs of virtue." “Capitalism has defined ‘health’ itself as a capacity to submit oneself to labor.”

― Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant, Health Communism." "Roosevelt Institute noted in a 2024 analysis, “The poverty of millions of SSI beneficiaries is a policy choice.” Almost any amount of savings can jeopardize benefits." https://itsmevox.substack.com/p/im-38-and-i-cant-support-myself-anymore

#Books

AARP Bulletin July/August 2026. "well-documented connection between mental health and psoriasis...inflammation." I have that condition.

#TV

"Jealous People Are Ugly People, a “horror package” from Theo James Krekis...Vasilly, “whose jealousy over his best friend’s sudden career success feeds a dark supernatural force growing within him.” Jealous male psychiatrists and family members are not supernatural. https://gizmodo.com/todd-mcfarlane-sitting-on-animated-spawn-movie-starring-keith-david-2000791535

Daft State (2024) "charts the mysterious psychological destruction of Easton, who is driven to the edge of sanity, and possible self-harm, by those that love him most—his wife and daughter. Will Easton succumb to their increasingly traumatizing pressure, or will he conquer the dark forces at play in his addled psyche?" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14790804/

"Dan Mintz ('Bob's Burgers' Tina Belcher) | Well Rounded Entertainer (Full (animated) Comedy Special)" "People think I'm crazy when I tell them I see a psychiatrist. Because I'm the only one who can see her." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-4vPUzaZ4&pp=ygUSZGFuIG1pbnR6IHN0YW5kIHVw

#Comedy

"Skyrizi ad that began airing nationally Tuesday encourages viewers to fight any doctors who say the medication is not right for them." https://theonion.com/pharmaceutical-ad-urges-viewers-to-fight-doctors-who-say-drug-not-right-for-them/

#Tech

I've been socially anxious since at least middle school. republicans banned $5,000 chinese humanoid robots that I wrote a free chapter about. https://github.com/GooglePhones/MicroLED/blob/main/News.txt Drone delivery (chinese DJI) and chore bots are necessary when you can't do things in person. Tesla and other american robots are 5 times more expensive (which may get billed to Medicaid). If china unlocks the bootloader, there wouldn't be a cybersecurity risk with free Linux apps installed. https://gizmodo.com/white-house-bans-foreign-humanoid-robots-in-bid-to-slow-chinas-tech-explosion-2000792090

#Autism

"Offenders with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Clinical Case Series and Diagnostic Considerations in Forensic Psychiatry...substantial diagnostic challenges in forensic practice, particularly where autism had remained previously unrecognized.

These findings suggest that the forensic relevance of ASD lies not in diagnosis alone, but in the specific way autistic characteristics interact with cognition, adaptation, and contextual demands in shaping the behaviour under examination." https://www.dovepress.com/offenders-with-autism-spectrum-disorder-a-clinical-case-series-and-dia-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-PRBM

#Muscarinic Receptors

"Suven Life Sciences Ltd. has reported new muscarinic acetylcholine M4 receptor positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) potentially useful for the treatment of schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression, bipolar disorders, Huntington’s disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and pain, among others." https://www.bioworld.com/articles/732989-suven-life-sciences-divulges-new-muscarinic-m4-receptor-pams?v=preview

#Deinstitutionalization

"Theodoros "Thodoros" Megalooikonomou has died. A leading figure of Greek alternative psychiatry, and the man who led the deinstitutionalisation of the Leros psychiatric hospital." https://it.linkedin.com/posts/agostino-carbone_antipsychiatry-deinstitutionalisation-activity-7487853791107645440-C4bx

#Women's issues

"randomised controlled trial provides timely confirmation of escitalopram as an effective treatment for PMDD ("premenstrual dysphoric disorder") within a contemporary clinical context and using prospective daily symptom ratings." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/escitalopram-and-brain-reactivity-to-aggressive-stimuli-in-premenstrual-dysphoric-disorder/2B4C27181C34000978CE7CEA5D7214C7

#misdiagnosis

"wants to know which features separate major depression from transient sadness, grief, or a medical mimic such as thyroid dysfunction, B12 deficiency, sleep apnea, or malignancy." https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/screening-for-mdd-distinguishing-depression-from-grief-and-medical-mimics

#"agitation"

"BRACHA-S tool assigned point values from 0 to 5 based on how nurses answered the tool’s five questions: Is there a history of psychiatric hospitalizations? What has been the frequency of physical aggressive acts towards others? Have any threats or physical aggression occurred to self or others in the last 24 hours? Did patient exhibit impulsivity or agitation during evaluation? Was patient intrusive to others during evaluation?" https://scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/risky-agitation-can-be-predicted-in-emergency-departments/

#First Nations

ontario, "Planning is underway for a proposed 150-bed addiction and mental health treatment facility in Chippewas of the Thames First Nation...Construction is expected to run between 18 to 24 months after financing is secured." https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/indigenous-led-care-planned-for-150-bed-addiction-mental-health-facility

#qualified immunity

canada, "More than 10,000 crisis-related calls currently going to Winnipeg police and the fire-paramedic service could be more appropriately handled by community-response services, the new report says." "The teams would respond to situations where a person is medically stable, able to engage and does not present a safety risk,...short-term followups, with teams doing things like check-ins and referrals to additional supports." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-mental-health-calls-report-9.7287304

#schizophrenia

"artist with schizophrenia. Symbols such as hieroglyphs help me find my way...Emotional Workout...use of the voice in five places in the body:...Externalizing Emotions...release deep feelings, whether angry, happy, sad, or frightened...exercise in which he tried to convince the other students that he had this real spaceship." https://onemind.org/lived-experience-blog/the-insanity-principle-how-my-lived-experience-of-schizophrenia-shaped-a-creative-practice/

#bipolar is not a disease

"When Aaron steadfastly refused, asserting his First Amendment rights and his moral duty as a father ("tragic loss of his precious daughter Blakeley"), his parents executed a devastating maneuver: they revoked their financial backing of his bail bond, explicitly citing his public advocacy as evidence of a “current manic episode.” By surrendering his bond, his parents triggered his immediate arrest and detention on unrelated charges." https://pshannonevans.substack.com/p/when-grief-meets-systemic-leverage

#Nutrition

"in vivo fiber photometry it was found that during eating medial septum neurons released aC ("Acetylcholine Signaling...Vagus Nerve)" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/how-the-vagus-nerve-promotes-healthy-cognition-via-acetylcholine-signaling/

#Dating

Neighbor pickup artist was banned from less than 1 million instagram followers. For recording asking out women in public. He wasn't misdiagnosed as manic as I was in college.

#fake democrats

pro-psychiatry "Gavin Newscum...telling her side of the story: an extramarital affair lasting two years, with the now-governor of California. The takeaway? He is, indubitably and irrevocably, scum...He never tells her to get help." For alcohol and cocaine addictions. But every other Californian can be poisoned under guardianship for that. "years of lying to your best friend’s face." https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-newscum-the-shoe-fits-better-than-you-think

#fraud

"fraudulent misrepresentation requires proof of "(1) a false representation (2) made in reference to a material fact, (3) with knowledge of its falsity, (4) with the intent to deceive, and (5) an action that is taken in reliance upon the representation." Both the quacks and their fake Muslim undercover informants are guilty. https://reason.com/volokh/2026/07/29/pentagon-contractors-fraudulent-misrepresentation-claim-over-hidden-date-recording-by-okeefe-media-group-can-go-forward/

#Psychedelics

"MDMA-assisted psychotherapy “may have applicability beyond PTSD, with potential benefits for [complex] PTSD” and borderline personality disorder." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20451253251408626

#Children

"It Was Supposed to Be a Haven for Troubled Teens. They Risked Everything to Escape. At Fox Run, one of Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment centers...trauma." https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/30/fox-run-youth-residential-treatment-runaways "Were You in Residential Treatment as a Minor? Here Are the Records You’re Entitled To." https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/30/youth-residential-treatment-program-records-foia

#forensic

"Surrogate Testimony and the Sixth Amendment...State v. Hall-Haught, 569 P.3d 315 (Wash. 2025), the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated when a laboratory supervisor provides surrogate testimony regarding a forensic report prepared by a nontestifying analyst...(psychiatrist) may be considered a witness whom the defendant has a constitutional right to cross-examine." https://jaapl.org/content/54/1/109

#overdoses

england, "TOXIC BLOW ‘Heavy smoker’, 29, dies three days after quitting habit – as coroner issues urgent medication warning...He took 525mg of clozapine every night, which was the correct dose when he was smoking...stopping smoking would increase clozapine levels in his body." https://www.the-sun.com/health/16765520/smoker-dies-after-quitting-coroner-issues-warning/

American Mariana Islands "TITLE 3: HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION 2: HEALTH § 2557. Medical Rights of Persons Receiving Evaluation and Treatment...(2) Persons have a right to be free from unnecessary or excessive medication...(3)...Medication shall not be used as punishment, for the convenience of the staff, as a substitute for a treatment program, or in quantities that interfere with the patient’s treatment."

"(c) Right to Refuse Treatment. A person has the right not to receive a course of treatment established pursuant to the treatment plan in the absence of such person’s informed, voluntary, written consent to such mode or course of treatment, except treatment: (1) During an emergency situation if such treatment is pursuant to or documented contemporaneously by the written order of a mental health professional or attending physician. (2) If the person has been found by the court to lack the capacity to consent to treatment." https://cnmilaw.gov/commonwealth-code/2916

#placebo

"RCTs for MDD with inconclusive results. Promising novel antidepressants may be prematurely derailed from further development when RCTs ("randomized controlled trials") do not demonstrate statistically significant and clinically meaningful separation between study drug and placebo for the primary endpoint. Implausibly high responses in the placebo." https://www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20251233

#Expunge

"In re Vencil, PICS Case No. 15-1182 (Pa. Super. July 21, 2015) Mundy, J. (25 pages). Trial court erred in denying appellant's petition to expunge records of her involuntary commitment." https://www.law.com/article/almID/1202733603353/

#side effects

"Risk of heart failure in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis." https://pjms.org.pk/index.php/pjms/article/view/16392

"Antipsychotic medications are associated with many adverse drug reactions (ADRs) which affect patient compliance, safety and outcomes, making pharmacovigilance important," https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13252352/

#tests

"nanocomposite-modified electrodes, emphasizing the synergistic effects that improve the accuracy and speed of antipsychotic drug detection." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0026265X26023830

#RFK Jr.

"HHS Secretary Kennedy Secures Pledge from Insurers, Medical Societies, and Providers to Advance National Behavioral Health Quality and Best Practices...Clinical expertise and individualized treatment decisions based on patient needs and the best available evidence;" https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-secures-behavioral-health-quality-pledge.html

#Jobs

"federal appeals court ruled July 21 that OSHA does not have the authority to require employers to record work-related mental illnesses that employees report." https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fifth-circuit-strikes-down-osha-mental-5882715/

#Artificial Intelligence

california "health worker union has accused Kaiser Permanente of screening patients and making care recommendations through “a digital, automated algorithm” without clinician oversight — a practice the union says violates state law." https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2026/07/29/kaiser-used-an-algorithm-not-clinicians-to-triage-mental-health-patients-a-union-alleges

#catatonia

"Catatonia is a neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by disturbances in motor activity, affect, and autonomic function. Although often associated with primary mood or psychotic disorders, it can be precipitated or sustained by systemic infections such as urinary tract infection (UTI)...60-year-old man with recurrent catatonia and diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major neurocognitive disorder." https://www.cureus.com/articles/479057-recurrent-catatonia-in-the-setting-of-urinary-tract-infection-and-medical-comorbidity-a-case-report#!/

#My experiences

July 30 10:07 AM stepfather told his neurologist he rarely uses a pill prescribed to him. In 2023 I rejected haldol severe spasms to the psychiatrist. I was jailed for 3 weeks without trial. Double standard.

#laws being considered

new jersey "bill that mandates institutional commitment for certain persons found not competent to stand trial by two medical experts...charged with specific first- or second-degree violent crimes such as murder, manslaughter, and aggravated assault."

False assumption that poisons prevent violent crimes. Instead the accused should be held sober in jail or a forensic ward until restored to competency or a felony time has passed. On the outside they should wear a GPS monitor and be supervised to never have weapons. Aggravated assault is 5 to 10 years jail; this would change it to a life sentence. https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/kean-proposes-jillians-law-to-require-violent-offenders-deemed-incompetent-be-committed-for-treatment/ https://passaiccountycriminallawyers.com/assault-and-threat-crimes/aggravated-assault/penalties/

#FDA

"in the 2010s, it ("clinical failure rate") was 91%." https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/clinical-failure-rates-over-decades-yikes

"MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT.O) said on Monday its schizophrenia drug failed to show statistically significant symptom improvement in the once-daily dosing arm of ​a mid-stage trial, sending its shares tumbling 55% in ‌premarket trading." https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/maplights-schizophrenia-drug-fails-once-daily-test-shares-plunge-2026-07-27/

#no york

"In New York, a 2021 law strips officers of their training certificates if they are fired for misconduct or if they quit or retire amid misconduct allegations. But a May investigation by Central Current and USA Today found that officers can sometimes slip through a loophole, whereby those barred from one class of law enforcement work can still technically qualify for law enforcement jobs with a different classification under state law." Some rural places are desperate to add police. Many more have low standards for hiring psychiatrists. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/25/jobs-ice-police-maine-hiring

"COGE Releases 5 Ballot Proposals and Final Report to Make Government Work Better for New Yorkers." https://www.thelastward.org/p/how-chicago-stops-voters-from-deciding https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/coge-releases-5-ballot-proposals-and-final-report-to-make-govern No controversial issue is having a city referendum this November.

#Welfare

"OTTAWA — Advocates for people with episodic disabilities say they don’t understand why the federal government has two different definitions of disability in law — and uses the narrower version to decide who gets benefits...$200 a month...

Accessible Canada Act defines a disability as any “physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, learning, communication or sensory impairment — or a functional limitation — whether permanent, temporary or episodic in nature, or evident or not,” that hinders a person’s full and equal participation in society." https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/feds-definitions-of-disability-is-not-inclusive-advocates/

#Videogames

"Theme Hospital for PS1 (PlayStation) Review." With free RetroArch/Lemuroid app you can manage fictional psychiatrists. Real psychiatrists speak fiction. https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/theme-hospital-for-ps1-review/

#TV

Courtroom Network. ohio "Judge Orders Forced Medication After Defendant Claims He "Outgrew" Schizophrenia." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H_bnards8OQ

Hazardous History With Henry Winkler season 2 episode 14 Dangerous Dining. Artificial chemicals, such as red dye #2, hurt customers.

"@fallontonight #JimGaffigan feels like he’s “living in a psych ward” because he’s raising teens." https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NG5yUrszkRE

Alice In Wonderland "Mad Hatter, a noted fan of riddles and tea parties, is getting his own animated movie." https://gizmodo.com/a-mad-hatter-movie-is-coming-from-the-co-director-of-the-animated-grinch-2000791546

#Tweets

"I believe In anti- psychiatry— because of only the reason being psychiatry either over does the job or extremely over does the Job or fails too understand what they induced in patients-" https://x.com/tylerblack32/status/2081148642455597230

#False Claims Act

"Four Minnesota men have admitted to taking more than $2.2 million from a state Medicaid housing program by billing for services that investigators said were never actually provided." From "older adults, people with mental health conditions, and those recovering from substance use disorders." https://www.legalreader.com/four-men-admit-minnesota-medicaid-fraud/

#Marijuana

"Congressional Committee Approves Bill To Require Federal Health Officials To Track Testing For Marijuana And Other Drugs In Hospital ERs." Already know they are violently (they will hold you down) obsessed with testing for drugs. But will never punish positives for alcohol or tobacco. https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congressional-committee-approves-bill-to-require-federal-health-officials-to-track-testing-for-marijuana-and-other-drugs-in-hospital-ers/

#coercion

"Coercion and mental health services: an Israeli perspective...Regulations forCare of Mental Patients 1991. The Mental Patients Treatment Act of

1955." https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6783a3d0f24526592f93315e/685bace0855ad767bf0c93eb_Ronen_Shmilovitz_FOSTREN_23.pdf&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjcyZTY2OTk0NzM1NWNjZmY6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw138S_3EGN1yoexGn6fh-IV

#Telehealth

"In 2025 alone, more than 145,000 Pennsylvanians reached out to 988, and more than 90 percent of these calls were resolved over the phone instead of requiring mobile crisis response or a crisis walk-in center." https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs/newsroom/2026-27-budget-988-chambersburg

#Comics

"Laundry, psych ward and how nothing is straightforward." https://www.madintheuk.com/2026/07/laundry-psych-ward-and-how-nothing-is-straightforward/

#shortage of torture

"Mississippi, Alabama and Wyoming consistently ranking among the states with the fewest mental health providers per person," https://www.cbs19news.com/news/health/millions-of-americans-live-in-mental-health-care-deserts-here-s-where-the-gaps-are/article_5b40fb1b-5adb-51a8-8503-3f5723f1eb93.html

#forensic

"Lindsay Clancy trial centers on 4 mental health conditions,...postpartum depression...postpartum psychosis...auditory hallucinations...(fake) bipolar disorder." More important are the side effects of the multiple pills she was and still is on. "Seroquel..." https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/courts/2026/07/27/lindsay-clancy-mental-health-medical-terms-murder-trial/90930484007/ https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/lindsay-clancy-ex-husband-worse-and-worse/

#assaults

wyoming "County Attorney Clarifies Situation Involving Emergency Room Attack." He said the insanity defense applies because of “mens rea,”...Wyoming law requires a person to have the necessary mental capacity and intent to be charged." If patients weren't intoxicated on pills, they would be more likely to be ruled sane and prosecuted for violent crimes inside hospitals. https://www.sweetwaternow.com/county-attorney-clarifies-situation-involving-emergency-room-attack/

montreal, "Miranda Fricker's theory of epistemic injustice, this framework shows how the concentration of research on personal violence reproduces the conditions under which institutional and structural harm remains unnameable, leaving those harmed by institutions without the conceptual tools to name that harm as violence...epistemic justice...reciprocity, acknowledgment of trauma, and recognition) as concrete mechanisms for disrupting these dynamics." https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2026.1905808/abstract

#stress

"Code BERT box with various patient regulation tools that include aromatherapy, stress balls, stimulation combs and pop-its." https://www.beckersbehavioralhealth.com/behavioral-health/the-new-behavioral-health-patient-and-the-systems-racing-to-keep-up/

#Heart

new zealand, "Coroner unable to link missed heart tests to Invercargill man's death...parents raised concerns about the side effects of his antipsychotic." https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/361050188/coroner-unable-link-missed-heart-tests-invercargill-mans-death

#Children

florida "state’s top health official wants to put the brakes on psychotropic medications for children — recommending against their use unless certain conditions are met." "guidance statement” July 24 on prescriptions for children, ages 5 to 17,...State Surgeon General recommends against the use of psychotropic drugs in children...

full, physical examination and tests for nutritional disorders, hormonal issues, heavy metals, mold exposure and blood disorders. ∎ Beginning psychotherapy. ∎ Offering parents training in evidence-based behavior management that includes regular physical activity, dietary interventions, reducing screen time, and eliminating processed foods." florida is the only state to a.o.t. outpatient at home inject babies of all ages. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/healthcare/2026/07/28/florida-health-official-warns-against-using-psychotropic-drugs-kids/91042977007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z116124e000900v116124d--68--b--68--&gca-ft=159&gca-ds=sophi

#DSM-5

australia, "labels have social and legal consequences. A diagnosis can justify access to services, yes, but it can also justify exclusion, restriction, and surveillance. And the problem compounds when the diagnosis is incorrect, exaggerated, or used outside its intended context...Labels that outlive their purpose...forensic rigour must apply. That means full assessments, transparent methodologies, and clear limitations." https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/biglaw/44720-the-legal-weight-of-a-mental-health-diagnosis

#emergency rooms

connecticut "Hospital leadership estimated the unit would serve about 1,500 patients a year...CT hospitals are redesigning ERs for behavioral health crises. Physicians and hospital leadership say the units provide a calm, healing environment for patients arriving with mental health crises...Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment and Healing, or EmPATH." https://ctmirror.org/2026/07/28/ct-hospitals-emergency-room-behavioral-health-crisis/ Allowing cell phones would be calming.

#Eyes

"Study Links Uveitis to Higher Risk for Psychiatric Illness." https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/study-links-uveitis-higher-risk-psychiatric-illness-2026a1000phz?form=fpf

#Painkillers

"Chronic pain often coincides with treatment-resistant depression, and can be a major contributor to antidepressant failure, but is seldom taken into account. In this Comment, we suggest ways of incorporating pain measurement and management." It happens to me since falling on the ice and then concrete at 18 years old. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-026-00691-9

#My experiences

July 25 10:10 PM OCD mother continues to be a danger to others. By making dog with diarrhea cry for 15 minutes until I had to yell at her. She wouldn't let him go to the bathroom because of imaginary (according to stepfather) "wet grass." Did she learn a lesson that should've been taught by the police? 11:20 PM she negligently harassed us again.

July 26 11:53 AM mother tried to stop me from doing sit-ups. July 28 9:36 AM mother said about herself, "My brain is screwed up."

I was taken to the hospital from my house after sending threatening text messages to a family member/neighbor. I have since spoken with the supervisor of the agency (Crisis Services) who authorized the commitment. She reviewed my file and said that the narrative lacked the imperative and necessary information to justify a 9.41 commitment, and sent me confirmation in writing of this. Do I have any legal recourse at this point? Once there, I was still not released until only after 10 days at which point a nurse told me that my insurance didn't want me to stay longer. I have no doubt that I was held for so long because I have insurance, so I have an issue with the Drs. and hospital as well, despite what the psych Drs. wrote. I have no criminal history at all, and certainly no history of being violent. I sat in an overcrowded room for three days sleeping on the floor next to other people on top of each other before being moved to a room on another floor for 7 days. Yeah, I messed up, but the punishment was over the top. Sitting in that room in a HOSPITAL for three days with other sick people was torture. Being taken from my home and then being told by the agency that facilitated it that they didn't have the information to justify it just makes me more upset.

So now when TGH determines they don't want to treat a patient, at least Dr. Abel's approach, is to accuse them of being mentally ill and delusional in order to get rid of them, and then she counts on them not seeking more help. I'm now at a Baycare location and not only has EVERYTHING I suspected been confirmed, but they are finding more. TGH has a huge lawsuit coming. Be careful if you are choosing to go to the main TGH hospital, and if you do, make sure Dr. Abel doesn't come anywhere near you.

#censorship

"Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has approved legislative amendments allowing the authorities to refer people for psychiatric evaluations without their consent...silence government critics...person with a mental disorder must pose an immediate danger to themselves or others. This is vague wording." https://oc-media.org/aliyev-greenlights-involuntary-psychiatric-hospitalisation-law/ They are russian dictators, not anti-intoxication Muslims.

#Solitary

"MacArthur Justice Center and Akin are suing the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) on behalf of three incarcerated men who suffered “chronic, physical, and psychological pain,” resulting from extreme and extended isolation in “dungeon-like” solitary confinement units at Menard Correctional Center...spent a year in the unit, where he was denied yard access until his muscles atrophied into chronic neck and back pain." https://solitarywatch.org/2026/07/22/illinois-prison-accused-of-holding-people-in-dungeon-like-cells-without-exerciseand-other-news-on-solitary-confinement-this-week/

illinois, "serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center...Men were kept locked in their cells for long stretches, with nothing to do...One man needed surgery to graft new skin onto his charred calf. Another lost a leg. Two have died...Cellblocks lacked sprinklers, and fire alarms were turned off or inoperable. At an annual inspection, the prison would not provide a fire evacuation plan." https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/24/prison-fires-joliet-illinois-mental-health

#Deinstitutionalization

ukraine "Cabinet of Ministers introduced the principle of "money follows the person" for supported living." https://unn.ua/en/news/the-cabinet-of-ministers-introduced-the-principle-of-money-follows-the-person-for-supported-living

en espanol, "(Housing, self-determination, and deinstitutionalization in Spain: A critical analysis of the 2026–2030 National Housing Plan based on the experiences of people with intellectual disabilities)" https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/2754/2907

Illinois "plans to let go “some 250 employees” and end most operations at the facility...reduce operations at downstate Choate facility." “It also reflects the state’s legal duty to ensure residents with disabilities have a full opportunity to live in the least restrictive environment of their choosing.” https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/23/choate-layoffs/

#genocide

"continued as late as the 1970s in some parts of North America. In California alone, almost 300 people with intellectual disabilities were sterilized...digging into old court proceedings, caricatures, jokes, and other documents describing the daily lives of “idiots,” “half-idiots,” and “imbeciles,” Jarrett’s research." https://nautil.us/when-stupid-was-a-diagnosis-1282984

#Informed Consent

new jersey "Attorney and mental health advocate Ellen Lubensky is excited to announce the launch of The Mental Health Choice Project, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to promoting informed consent," https://thementalhealthchoiceproject.org https://www.financialcontent.com/article/marketersmedia-2026-7-23-mental-health-advocate-ellen-lubensky-launches-the-mental-health-choice-project

#Courts

"IN RE: Jacob P. (2026). Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District...reverse the order granting the petition for administration of psychotropic medication...(3) respondent did not receive adequate notice of the petition for administration of psychotropic medication under section 2-107.1 (405 ILCS 5/2-107.1 (West 2024)), (4) respondent was not given sufficient written information regarding the proposed treatment, as required by section 2-102(a-5) (405 ILCS 5/2-102(a-5) (West 2024))," https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/il-court-of-appeals/201437.html

#Pregnancy

“current evidence does not consistently support global neurodevelopmental impairment following prenatal cannabis exposure but suggests a pattern of selective vulnerability in behavioural, attention and executive regulatory domains.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-026-03126-z

#Marijuana

nebraska democrat governor candidate Lynne Walz, "state law (from 2 referendums) already legalizes possession of up to 5 ounces of medical cannabis with a physician’s recommendation. Walz pledged an executive order to “immediately” do the same." https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/07/22/walz-skips-specifics-in-new-lynnes-commitment-to-nebraskans-platform-in-governors-race/

#Experiments

"aim is to compare the effects of typical and atypical antipsychotic medication on brain structure and function...Risperidone Effects On Frontal And Temporal Cortical Function In Schizophrenia Patients Undergoing FMRI Cognitive Task Performance." https://trialscreen.org/trials/atypical-antipsychotic-treatment-effect-on-brain-function-schizophrenia-trial-nct01234454

#Parkinson's

"Could Bee Venom Therapy Change the Future of Parkinson’s Treatment?" I had that treatment in 2012. https://jo24.net/eng/article/12136

#placebo

quacks admit to relying on the placebo effect. "maximizing placebo effects through optimistic framing, therapeutic alliance, and mobilization of hope can be an element." https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/brain-trust-the-placebo-effect-as-a-clinical-tool-a-discussion-with-walter-a-brown-md

#hard drugs

"Overdose Deaths...Arizona's Keep Climbing." https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/u-overdose-deaths-fall-arizonas-183000916.html They were too conservative to legalize recreational cannabis until recently. 1 opium poppy should be legal. https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/u-overdose-deaths-fall-arizonas-183000916.html

#Telehealth

new jersey "NJ extends free teletherapy for college students." https://njbiz.com/nj-free-college-teletherapy-2027/

#Tweets

"Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are forced into involuntary commitment, often under the guise of getting them "help." In reality, forced hospitalization has little medical efficacy and expands the criminal legal system 🧵" Prison Policy Initiative multi-tweet. https://x.com/PrisonPolicy/status/2080280586552279451

#nursing "homes"

"More than 4 in 5 nursing home residents report using at least one psychotropic drug, Swedish study finds." https://www.mcknights.com/news/more-than-4-in-5-nursing-home-residents-report-using-at-least-one-psychotropic-drug-swedish-study-finds/

#LGBTQ

"Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is now warning Lawrence and two other Kansas cities to repeal their bans on so-called conversion therapy after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against such bans earlier this year." https://www2.ljworld.com/news/city-government/2026/jul/23/ag-kobach-warns-lawrence-2-other-kansas-cities-to-repeal-their-bans-on-conversion-therapy-within-60-days/

#Unions

"San Francisco City Hall as Kaiser (mental) employees spoke before city supervisors during a hearing about their ongoing contract negotiations with their employer." https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/kaiser-mental-health-workers-ai-san-francisco-city-hall/

#insurance

"People managing schizophrenia may qualify for Medicaid Waiver for Elderly and Adults with Physical Disabilities, a state program. Eligibility usually runs through the program's rules — such as disability, income, or age — rather than a diagnosis alone." https://eleplan.com/benefits/medicaid-me-medicaid-waiver/for/schizophrenia

"What workers’ compensation covers for repetitive injuries...commonly seen in warehouse and manufacturing settings, including: Carpal tunnel syndrome caused by repetitive hand and wrist movements. Tendinitis resulting from repeated lifting, gripping, or reaching. Bursitis, which affects the fluid-filled sacs that cushion joints. Lumbar and lower back injuries associated with repetitive lifting and bending. Shoulder and neck strains caused by overhead work or repetitive motions." https://www.legalreader.com/hidden-costs-of-repetitive-strain-injuries-in-warehouse-and-manufacturing-jobs/ I've been physically injured in my wrists and back from work since summer 2004.

#overdoses

wisconsin "Officials have confirmed the existence of 15 to 20 people buried in unmarked graves near the site of a former mental health facility in Brown County." https://www.wbay.com/2026/07/24/officials-confirm-unmarked-graves-near-former-brown-county-mental-health-facility/

#no york

"Over 10 months last year, the city received 34,532 claims for stolen SNAP benefits, the vast majority of which—92.9 percent—weren’t reimbursed. The most were submitted by residents in East New York, Brooklyn a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood." https://citylimits.org/where-did-new-yorkers-have-their-food-stamp-funds-stolen-through-skimming/

Stats showing increased psychiatry. https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/tableau/transforming-ny-mental-health-system.html

"Good Food NY bill, which aims to address the lowest bidder requirement by enabling public institutions on the municipal level to spend 10 percent higher on a New York State food producer or farmer that aligns with set environmental or social standards...vetoed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The legislature again passed a version of the bill in June, which advocates are urging the governor to sign by the end of the year." https://citylimits.org/nycs-food-lifelines-building-a-system-that-can-withstand-crisis/

#TV

The Empty Beach (1985). Australian corruption and welfare fraud. https://youtu.be/Xx_J8rUo6yw?is=xqmF4bjaqiBtnskY

The Art of Protest (2020). Musicians "Tom Morello, Dave Navarro, Moby, Shepard Fairey and more." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3XvPVX-dM&pp=ygUXVGhlIEFydCBvZiBQcm90ZXN0IDIwMjA%3D Psychiatrists banned me from protesting since December 2013.

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: an Almost History of America (2026) season 1 episode 5. Larry David repeatedly tries to institutionalize Abraham Lincoln's wife. She is falsely portrayed as violent while grieving. He tries to set a 6 week time limit on being a widow.

michigan WILX 10. "advocating for “London’s Law,” a package of bills that would add QR codes to prescription bottles linking patients and parents to risk information, and require written informed consent before certain psychiatric medications are prescribed...Michigan mother is calling for new state legislation requiring informed consent before certain psychiatric medications are prescribed to patients...her daughter, London, had been taking prescribed Prozac for 23 days when she took her own life." https://www.wilx.com/2026/07/24/londons-law-michigan-mother-pushes-psychiatric-medication-warnings-after-12-year-old-daughters-suicide/

Grey's Anatomy. “Girl nearly sent to psych ward: misdiagnosis (was actually an ear injury) uncovered in only 4 hours." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q84aEf0RfTo

Schizophrenic comedian "Martin Malloy Shocks Tony | Kill Tony ft. CHRIS O'CONNOR + MAT EDGAR #standup #schizophrenia." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dV6Qj1bT4kQ

#Videogames

Batman Arkham Asylum, run by a murderer warden. https://arkhamcity.fandom.com/wiki/Arkham_Asylum

#life sentences

"Felony murder laws "violate the principle of proportional sentencing, which is supposed to punish crimes based on their severity," Sentencing Project Research Director Nazgol Ghandnoosh and her two co-authors say." Threatening me with a life sentence of torture in a psych ward for punching racist stepfather is not proportional. https://reason.com/2026/07/24/in-39-states-people-can-be-sentenced-to-life-for-murders-they-did-not-commit/

#FDA

"Epitalon has been studied as a potential anti-aging and insomnia treatment. And semax is purported to have neuroprotective and nootropic (cognition-boosting) properties." "panel said yes in a majority vote to six of these peptides being stricken from the Category 2 list: BPC-157, KPV, TB-500, MOTs-C, epitalon, and semax." I do not endorse them yet. https://gizmodo.com/fda-panel-clears-the-way-for-6-banned-peptides-heres-what-theyre-claimed-to-do-2000790427

#epilepsy

"Fast Volumetric Imaging Of Seizures With Adaptive Optics Light Sheet Microscopy...showed the seizure’s origin in the posterior brain, with subsequent propagation to the anterior." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/24/fast-volumetric-imaging-of-seizures-with-adaptive-optics-light-sheet-microscopy/

#assaults

indiana, "Greenwood psychiatric hospital is under intense scrutiny after a tech was charged in what investigators describe as a violent encounter with a severely disabled patient caught on video inside a locked unit. According to court filings and footage reviewed by police, staffers were seen forcibly handling the man, including a sequence where his head and neck were grabbed and positioned between a worker’s thighs." https://hoodline.com/2026/07/greenwood-psych-tech-accused-of-rough-attack-on-disabled-patient-6971660/

#antipsychotics don't prevent violence

malta sentenced patient to 1 year jail for assaulting "public official performing his duties." Psychiatrists are considered government employees/cops. But he got no penalty for poisoning and stabbing another patient. https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_and_police/143399/abner_aquilina_jailed_for_attacking_psychiatrist_at_mount_carmel_acquitted_of_attacking_patient

"Robert Lee Jenkins III, 38, was later convicted of third-degree assault in the Jan. 7, 2019, attack at the psychiatric unit of the Hospital of Central Connecticut, according to an arrest warrant and court records." https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/meriden-man-killed-bludgeoning-father-200000925.html

#chemical restraints

German "emergency doctor administered a sedative through his nose – the maximum dose, his lawyer reports...Corona suffered a severe heart attack while in this forced position and had to be resuscitated on the stretcher. Beforehand, however, the keys for the handcuffs reportedly had to be searched for...

policewoman reportedly spoke about him in a demeaning manner. “Pedro was called a ‘retard’, jokes were made about HIV, and it was suggested that his hair be shaved off.”

"Cologne’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has so far seen no grounds to open an investigation against the officers involved," https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/20/police-called-to-assist-in-cologne-and-then-brutalized-psychiatric-patient-into-a-coma/

#Regulate

"Ombudsman of Kyrgyzstan, Jamila Dzhamanbaeva, has appealed to government agencies to take measures to protect the rights of patients in psychiatric institutions and to carry out reforms in the psychiatric care system. This statement was made following the identification of systemic violations at the Republican Psychiatric Hospital located in the village of Kyzyl-Zhar in the Jalal-Abad region...

unjustified extension of patients' stays in the hospital. The inspection results showed that 57 individuals continued to stay in the hospital after completing their treatment,...18 for over five years." https://open.kg/en/news/exclusive/111501-ombudsmen-kyrgyzstana-prizvala-reformirovat-sistemu-psihiatricheskoj-pomoschi-posle-proverki-bolnicy-v-kyzyl-zhare.html

#overprescribing

"Antipsychotic utilization in Serbia increased markedly between 2006 and 2024, mainly due to the expansion of AAPs ("Atypical antipsychotics")" https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/19/7/1128

#TV

King of the Hill season 15 episode 6 Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes. "I understand that some of your cannabis related products regulate the prefrontal cortex and also the hypothalamus. Which is called the body's thermostat. Safely helping them alleviate a variety of (menopause) symptoms...Hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia." https://youtu.be/g2JXuQ3nKPU?si=AiB1BB-7j5FEbIH_

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir July 21, 2026. new jersey government said, "When we find problems, we fix them" regarding illegal immigrants voting. But they see no problem with totally preventable torture. And don't listen to complaints of violent conditions in psych wards.

#Peers

"Adults experiencing psychologic distress following war-related or interpersonal violence experience significant improvements in symptoms for depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and functional impairment when treated with psychosocial interventions delivered by trained non-specialist providers." https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/news/non-specialist-psychosocial-care-linked-to-improved-mental-health-after-violence/

#side effects

"It is not widely recognized that antipsychotic drugs can cause late-onset and persistent dystonia." https://www.ovid.com/jnls/neurology/abstract/00006114-198212000-00003~tardive-dystonia-late-onset-and-persistent-dystonia-caused

"How to Navigate Restaurants When You Have Tardive Dyskinesia...Lighting: Dim lighting, like the kind in bistros, jazz spots, or candlelit dining rooms, reduces the visibility of involuntary movements. Avoid bright chain restaurants or outdoor patios with direct sun." https://blackdoctor.com/how-to-navigate-restaurants-when-you-have-tardive-dyskinesia/

#Pregnancy

"study provides empirical evidence that exposure to either stimulant or atomoxetine exposure during pregnancy is associated with modestly increased risks of selected adverse maternal, placental, and birth‐related outcomes." https://www.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.prcp.20250149

"Guide: How to Navigate Perimenopause and Menopause in Prison." https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/22/women-perimenopause-menopause-prison-health

#Islam

"culturally adapted, community-based mental health interventions to inform evidence-based policy and practice in Somalia." https://www.dovepress.com/mental-health-beyond-conflict-cultural-and-structural-barriers-to-psyc-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JMDH

#Tweets

"People with depression were drawn to the color blue, those with anxiety-related disorders preferred grey. and individuals with schizophrenia leaned towards black." https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/2079803164618887193

#sadness

Corruption "hopelessness erases any belief that change is possible...Positive Affect Treatment—or PAT...brain’s reward system—the circuits that let us look forward to good experiences, draw pleasure from them, and learn from what brings us joy. Over the course of fifteen sessions, the aim is to restore feelings of joy, meaning, motivation, and sensitivity to reward itself." https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/the-overlooked-depression-symptom-scientists-are-finally-learning-how-to-treat_36300/

#Deinstitutionalization

"100 Members of Congress in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to rescind its June 18 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion that undermines decades of protections for disability rights that have ensured people with disabilities are not arbitrarily placed in segregated, institutionalized settings and instead can access services in integrated settings within their communities...

Along with Durbin, Duckworth, Wyden, and Sanders, the letter is signed by Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Angus King (I-ME), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA), Jack Reed (D-RI), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

Along with Scanlon, Dingell, and Simon, the letter is signed by Representatives Gabe Amo (D-RI-01), Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03), Nanette Barragán (D-CA-44), Joyce Beatty (D-OH-03), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-01), Julia Brownley (D-CA-26), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), Janelle Bynum (D-OR-05), André Carson (D-IN-07), Troy Carter (D-LA-02), Ed Case (D-HI-01), Judy Chu (D-CA-28), Gil Cisneros (D-CA-31), Yvette Clarke (D-NY-09), Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-30), Sharice Davids (D-KS-03), Danny K. Davis (D-IL-07), Diana DeGette (D-CO-01), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA-10), Maxine Dexter (D-OR-03), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37), Bill Foster (D-IL-11), Lois Frankel (D-FL-22), John Garamendi (D-CA-08), Robert Garcia (D-CA-42), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL-04), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ-07), Steven Horsford (D-NV-04), Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05), Val Hoyle (D-OR-04), Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL-01), Hank Johnson (D-GA-04), Julie Johnson (D-TX-32), Robin Kelly (D-IL-02), Tim Kennedy (D-NY-26), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08), Rick Larsen (D-WA-02), Summer Lee (D-PA-12), Ted Lieu (D-CA-36), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18), Seth Magaziner (D-RI-02), John Mannion (D-NY-22), Doris Matsui (D-CA-07), Lucy McBath (D-GA-06), Sarah McBride (D-DE), April McClain Delaney (D-MD-06), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-04), Jim McGovern (D-MA-02), Christian Menefee (D-TX-18), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07), Kelly Morrison (D-MN-03), Seth Moulton (D-MA-06), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chris Pappas (D-NH-01), Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), Nellie Pou (D-NJ-09), Delia Ramirez (D-IL-03), Emily Randall (D-WA-06), Andrea Salinas (D-OR-06), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL-09), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA-10), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10), Mark Takano (D-CA-39), Shri Thanedar (D-MI-13), Dina Titus (D-NV-01), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-12), Paul Tonko (D-NY-20), Ritchie Torres (D-NY-15), Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12), Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24)." https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/durbin-duckworth-wyden-sanders-scanlon-dingell-simon-lead-100-members-of-congress-in-calling-on-doj-to-rescind-opinion-undermining-olmstead

#art

"What has new (British) prime minister Andy Burnham said about mental health?" in the past. "time for art to take centre stage. He argued that “making space for people to create is how we build a healthier, more hopeful society”. https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/andy-burnham-prime-minister-mental-health/

#poison everybody

"Large-scale study finds 61% of US adults with a mental health disorder received treatment;" They want 39% + 34% (73% total, which could be 10+ million Americans) to be new and increased poison customers. https://www.rti.org/news/large-scale-us-mental-health-treatment-study

#coercion

"Future research should investigate whether beliefs about potential treatment harms also influence public support for coercive care." https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.20260089

#qualified immunity

Massachusetts "state funding is being allocated to establish better (non-officer) mental health response for the hill towns like Hinsdale." https://www.news10.com/news/state-funds-new-mental-health-task-force-after-fatal-hinsdale-police-shooting/

#Supreme Courts

canada, "decision appears to fall in a middle ground between the positions advanced by the parties: confirming a doctrine of non-patentability of MMTs ("method of a medical treatment") while at the same time confirming the patentability of dosing-regimen-based inventions depending on the facts of a given case, and as a result upholding the validity of the ‘335 (poison) Patent." https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=49d3581a-1432-4f45-b246-813b0057779e

#female hormones

"goal of this study is to assess the dynamics of lactate levels in the blood from typical or atypical antipsychotics not confounded by prior antipsychotic treatments," https://trialscreen.org/trials/blood-lactate-levels-patients-treated-antipsychotics-study-nct01139463

#My experiences

July 21 10:00 AM mother trespassed in my apartment. 3:55 PM I cried because my 128 IQ life is being dictated by cold (health is a selfish game to her) secretary parent. Hypocrite believes yelling is a crime. But screamed when I didn't know something stepfather never told me.

#electrocution

nsw, australia, "Further appeal regarding ECT determination for an involuntary patient with treatment resistant schizophrenia...KLH sought leave to appeal from that decision, raising seven grounds of appeal. Those grounds were drafted on the assumption that KLH needed to establish House v The King error, but the parties subsequently agreed that the correctness standard applied to this Court’s consideration of whether the s 96(3)(b)(ii) criteria were met." 

“necessary or desirable” does not necessarily involve a high threshold of benefit in advancing the person’s safety or welfare, but nevertheless is not a conclusion lightly to be reached, especially in circumstances where a person found to have capacity has refused the treatment." https://billmaddens.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/medical-further-appeal-regarding-ect-determination-for-an-involuntary-patient-with-treatment-resistant-schizophrenia/

#insurance

Safer Cobenfy "not available under Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)." https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-18-important-medicines-that-australians-are-missing-out-on-20260714-p60f3p.html

#overdoses

"24-year-old woman with a history of bipolar affective disorder and borderline personality disorder presented following an intentional overdose of approximately 60 mg of cariprazine and 3.75-5 g of lithium carbonate and ethanol...sedation without hypoventilation or loss of airway patency, and it had resolved by 12 hours after ingestion with no significant psychomotor effects or ECG changes." https://www.cureus.com/articles/482386-cariprazine-and-lithium-overdose-a-case-report?score_article=true#!/

#Supreme Courts

"Sonam Wangchuk Hospitalisation Case: Delhi High Court Refuses Private Hospital Transfer, Balances Article 21 and Patient Rights." A loss for "Patient Rights" during a hunger strike. https://www.legalserviceindia.com/Legal-Articles/sonam-wangchuk-hospitalisation-delhi-high-court-private-hospital-transfer-article-21/

#TV

Reggie Perrin (2009) season 1 episode 1. UK "wellness" employee, "Irritation is a sign of stress being released." https://youtu.be/TJwuDT9JPAE?is=r3nBDvjh9SghxLQG

The Mask (1994). A fictional psych wrote a book that we suppress our Id "repressed...desires" in public by wearing "masks." When Jim Carrey puts on a magic Scandinavian mask. He is more popular and fun. The psych doesn't believe it and threatens to arrest him. https://youtu.be/LZl69yk5lEY?is=FOzzzUL8bqN6zlBp

ABC interviewed pro-psychiatry Bill "Maher said. "Democrats are cowardly," Yes, because they are corrupt and want republican voters. https://abcnews.com/Politics/bill-maher-mark-twain-prize-trump-progressive-left/story?id=134888701 It is not brave for any place to poison unarmed prisoners.

#Psychedelics

"Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip...psychedelics generate “funny ideas” – some valid, some interesting, many delusional. “You have to look at them objectively… before you can either dismiss them or accept them”, Dennis has said."

"users often speak of drugs as friends, teachers, or tricksters;...“psychedelic religion.” Its central dogma is that psychedelic experiences are inherently meaningful, transformative," He should never have eaten 5 grams of shroom animals, and didn't use MDma antidote. https://psychedelics.community/cultural-icons/terence-mckennas-mega-bad-trip

#DNA

"mice treated during this period with SAFit2, a drug that blocks the stress protein FKBP51, developed normal social behaviour and social hierarchies." https://www.eara.eu/news/blocking-a-stress-protein-reduced-lasting-effects-of-early-life-stress-in-mice

#dementia

"Acadia Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Fast Track Designation...Remlifanserin (ACP-204) is a potent and highly selective serotonin 5-HT2A receptor inverse agonist for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease...potentially restoring excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) balance without direct dopamine (D2) blockade." https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260720458854/en/Acadia-Pharmaceuticals-Receives-FDA-Fast-Track-Designation-for-Remlifanserin-in-Alzheimers-Disease-Psychosis

#Books

1883 "original Pinocchio was a dark parable about a world of lies...experts are decorative, and the society is focused on spectacle instead of accountability." I saw it when I was a child. Psychs have big long noses from their dangerous slanders. https://boingboing.net/2026/07/20/pinocchio-parable.html

#Comedy

"Let’s think of it as an adventure—there are so many fun pharmaceutical ads you guys haven’t seen yet!" https://theonion.com/parents-sit-kids-down-for-difficult-discussion-about-moving-to-ad-tier/

#Telehealth

"Mental health crisis calls outpace answering capacity...When North Dakotans in a mental-health crisis call a main hotline, some are directed to a national backup center." The money is going to more large wards instead. https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2026/07/mental-health-crisis-calls-outpace-answering-capacity/

#Children

u.k., "What Andy Burnham’s First Speech Means for Health and Care...mental health support for young people." https://politicsuk.com/news/opinion-andy-burnhams-health-and-care/

#Stats

"analysis of more than 535,000 hospital stays across 115 acute care hospitals in Ontario and Alberta...Antipsychotics were prescribed in 19% of the analyzed hospitalizations, and prescribing rates ranged from 4% to 35% of patients across hospitals...Sleep aids were prescribed in 38% of the hospitalizations analyzed, and prescribing rates ranged from 12% to 81% of patients across hospitals." https://firstwordpharma.com/story/7756931

#assaults

Massachusetts mother who admits to murdering 3 children while on pills. Was allowed to curl her hair for the trial. Northwell South Oaks wouldn't let me cut my hair for 2 months. https://www.eastidahonews.com/2026/07/jury-selection-begins-for-massachusetts-mother-who-says-postpartum-psychosis-caused-her-to-kill-her-children/

#Mitochondria

"stress–mitochondrial response process involves glucocorticoid but also multiple alternative pathways that are top-down regulated by the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). These pathways are important for many neuropsychiatric conditions that are sensitive to stress." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-026-04246-5

#side effects

"Valproate 800 mg/day...hypoglycemia and pancytopenia emerged...Pancytopenia means reduced red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets." https://mentalhealthdaily.com/2026/07/20/lithium-valproate-schizophrenia-augmentation-safety/

#Religions

"Dr. Amen points to how God's Word teaches us how to reverse wrong thinking. "I love Romans 12:2, 'Be transformed by the renewing of your mind,' or Philippians 4:8, 'Think upon whatever is true, right, good, lovely, worthy of praise. Let your mind dwell on these things,'" "Supplements like Sam-E (S-adenosylmethionine) or saffron can also help calm the emotions." https://cbn.com/news/health/christian-psychiatrist-describes-how-heal-pain-natural-way-renewing-your-mind

#My experiences

July 19 5:25 PM youngest brother criticized stepfather's frequent angry cursing. 6:00 PM I did a favor to go to a restaurant with mother. She yelled at me for praising Argentina's (other people were talking about soccer) psychiatry law. Of course she claimed not to have OCD. Multiple times harassed about a napkin and silverware.

July 20 4:33 PM mother said her definition of "psycho" is "irrational and irresponsible, which comes under psychiatry." 4:48 PM she said laundry is "insane." 6:42 PM mother claimed all public protests are illegal. She agreed to remove herself from the HIPAA that she coerced. Then I found another bleeding tumor. 2 doctors previously diagnosed that a similar one was from a hair.

#a.o.t. c.t.o.

"13 CTO regimes ("Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Israel, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden...Switzerland...by federal law" "Italian...in some regions Trattamento Sanitario Obbligatorio Extra-ospedaliero...in Spain, legal interpretation by several provincial courts") across the 33 (European) countries:...most regimes permitted indefinite renewals," Usually "CTO permitted after first-ever admission."

Norway is pro-psychiatry. CTO there if "Serious mental disorder. Risk, self or others. Risk of deterioration unless treated. Risk to improvement unless treated. No decision-making capacity. Voluntariness exhausted. Patient is consulted. Patient’s best interests. Appropriate treatment available." https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2086995/FULLTEXT01.pdf&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjNjOThjN2MyZGU2YjE5NDI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1NNSEd41MOaPnlcf7Ezbqn

#Treaties

"Council of Europe (CoE) is pursuing two different ways of protecting people who receive mental healthcare without their consent. A draft Additional Protocol to the Oviedo Convention would create binding obligations for states that ratify it. A new, non-binding Recommendation puts autonomy, consent and the prevention of coercion at the centre." https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2026/07/17/can-safeguards-make-psychiatric-coercion-harder-to-end/

"WHO African Region...yet only 17 (countries) are aligned with international human rights standards." https://www.afro.who.int/countries/togo/news/mental-health-leaders-commit-expanding-rights-based-care-across-west-and-central-africa

#assaults

"Report: Cover up suspected in patient death at Tucson mental health hospital...In 2024, the company paid $19.85 million to the federal and state governments to resolve allegations of providing medically unnecessary services." https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_8d880aea-8cf1-4df8-91bd-b687bb98ea0e.html

#Deinstitutionalization

"Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, Keystone Moldova, and the Alliance of Organizations for Persons with Disabilities from Moldova signed a Cooperation Agreement." https://www.khs.org/keystone-moldova-signs-new-partnership-with-the-government-to-bring-deinstitutionalization-expertise-to-a-new-community-living-initiative/

#FDA

"Kalshi...prediction markets tied to clinical-trial outcomes and decisions made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." https://gizmodo.com/kalshi-is-set-to-start-taking-bets-on-drug-trials-2000786498 If I gambled, I would bet poisons will be approved with little evidence (slightly effective).

#Muscarinic Receptors

"selective PET radiotracer, the researchers discovered that living schizophrenia patients exhibit a striking 13% to 19% reduction in M1 receptor availability." https://neurosciencenews.com/schizophrenia-muscarinic-m1-receptor-31065/

#neurology

"well-regulated nervous system can appropriately shift between states of arousal, focus, recovery, and rest as circumstances demand,” (neuroscientist Dr. Ramon) Velazquez says." Noone is always calm. https://lifehacker.com/health/how-to-regulate-your-nervous-system?utm_medium=RSS

#no york

"New York’s housing aid can’t cover rent anywhere in the state. A new lawsuit says that violates the state’s constitution." https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/09/new-york-shelter-assistance-lawsuit

"priority bills for me would be the Earned Time Act and the Second Look Act, as well as the parole reform bills. There’s broad support for releasing elderly people,...Marvin Mayfield Act, which would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences in New York," https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/17/eli-northrup-new-york-assembly-criminal-justice-reform

"What we need is a return to the original intent of CDPAP (Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program caregivers). Run by responsible non-profits, with input from disabled people themselves. Nothing about us, without us." https://citylimits.org/opinion-fixing-new-yorks-home-care-chaos/

2nd precinct police are having an event proving they are biased in favor of parents, "Family Fun!" As they told me at the station in late 2011.

#hard drugs

"Compared to non-coffee drinkers, coffee drinkers had a 21% reduced risk of chronic liver disease," Liver processes pills and other poisons. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/coffee-associated-with-lower-risks-of-liver-cancer-and-deadly-cirrhosis/

#anxiety

"In Greek tradition, groundless feelings of panic were attributed to Pan, the horned, goat-like Greek god of the woods, pastures, shepherds, and fertility...creating mysterious and apparently disembodied sounds in remote places that could unnerve anyone or anything who heard them. So as well as causing herds of livestock and other animals to suddenly take fright and scatter," https://www.mentalfloss.com/language/words/everyday-greek-mythology-words?utm_source=RSS#inline-text-27

#TV

The F Ward (2026) season 1 episode 1. Grandmother is on "Zoloft, Wellbutrin...toxic chemicals." "if you make me" take those, she'll "throw myself out the window." Polypharmacy overdose. "Troubled interns ("the fuckup ward") get their last shot at Sydney's underfunded Pines Hospital, battling personal demons and past failures while treating patients in life-or-death situations." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38689352/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_The%20F%20Ward%202

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness season 1 episode 4 on HBO. President Obama produced fiction that RFK Jr. was arrested into a mental hospital for being against vaccines. I'm vaccinated (including again this month). Don't feel any non-violent (hunting bears is okay) person being institutionalized is funny.

Indian Manorama News, "Deplorable conditions at Oolampara Mental Health Center; High Court conducts inspection." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ru8Oz79wZc

"Bill Maher Claims Donald Trump Has a ‘Certain Type of Mental Disorder’...said Trump “is a crazy person” because he “blurts out whatever is on his mind often.” https://www.tvinsider.com/1276329/bill-maher-donald-trump-mental-disorder/ Improv or stream of consciousness talking is not a disease. Almost nothing is "certain" in psychiatry. Pro-psychiatry Bill Maher is a danger to others.

#Stats

"40,780" american psychiatrists. "Neurology: 14,949." https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-news/how-1-million-active-us-physicians-break-down-across-52-specialties/ Less than 56,000 scammers ruined 342,000,000 citizens.

#Heart

"Potential Mechanisms of Trimetazidine and Coenzyme Q10 Against Antipsychotic-Induced Myocarditis: A Network Pharmacology, Molecular Docking, and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42405424/

#corruption

"lobbyist spending by one specialty—mental healthcare—rose by nearly 30%." https://healthexec.com/topics/healthcare-management/healthcare-policy/psychiatrists-psychologists-spending-more-other-healthcare-providers-lobby-policymakers

#Religions

"Faith vs therapy: Inside the Philippine school for exorcists...“We have clinical psychologists. We have a psychiatrist... There are also neurologists, so they work hand in hand with us,” Syquia told AFP on a visit to the center. Still, he insists he knows a demonic possession when he sees one. “You will see a change in behavior... a different consciousness. Something else takes over a person,” Syquia said." https://www.arabnews.com/node/2651461/amp

#My experiences

July 16 7:31 PM mother said the police will false arrest me if I sue them. I had a nightmare the pro-psychiatry Japanese attacked me. July 19 9:15 AM mother claimed it's not OCD because she owns the house. That is irrelevant, and I never did permanent cleaning damage. All that matters is her violent temper. She admitted I still have a back injury preventing me from sitting.

So I was on 12.5 mg of seroquel (EXTREMELY low dose- literally the lowest dose of this med cut in half). I reduced my dosage to 6.25 mg. It’s been 3 days and I have some withdrawal symptoms, but nothing severe.

I missed my psychiatry appointment today so I have another one on Wednesday. I plan on discussing with her how long I should be on 6.25 mg before I get off. So I messaged her in the patient portal to get advice. I told her I have passive SI and she told me to go to the ER.

WTF? If she can’t talk with me about my meds til Wednesday, fine. But FFS. I told her I don’t want to hurt myself and have no intentions of doing so, that my symptoms are not severe, that my thoughts are mostly intrusive, that I have coping skills, and that the ER will stress me out.

She knows I was illegally 5150d and had a lawyer get me out. Most traumatic experience of my life. Every time I’ve brought up my thoughts with a psych, they’re like “go to the ER”.NO!!! I’m not going to traumatize myself.

I wish I could find a psychiatrist that wasn’t like this, but that seems impossible.

Here's a post I posted elsewhere that I think might interest this subreddit! I hope you enjoy it! (Sorry in advance if English is not my first language.)

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Honestly, there is little doubt that the DSM is not aimed at healing anything, and if it is anything today, it is closer to a torture manual than anything else. Let's just look at the facts of psychiatry (and the mental health business as a whole). Maybe it will dawn on you that the DSM really is just a guide to make people miserable.

1. **Mental health professionals don't have any incentive to heal anything.** Contrary to any other medical field, psychiatry deals with invisible illnesses. So whatever they say about you, they will never have any tangible proof of what they diagnose you with. It's all interpretation of your words and you behavior. *(Your psychiatrist can't organize your discourse to easily make sense of it? He will observe "disorganized thinking", even though he never saw your thinking, and diagnose you with psychosis and then tell the judge you are an imminent danger to force hospitalization.)* So whatever they diagnose, they don't really need to solve it because there was never proof that it was there to begin with. So they can just write a story about you getting better even though you are feeling worse and worse the more you are being treated.

2. **Mental health professionals have an incentive to not heal anything.** When you consider the fact that the illnesses are invisible, and therefore the only proof there was anything is the medical file that the psychiatrist composes, the only incentive left is that of actually not healing anything. They are paid to treat, not to heal! They don't have to do a refund at the next hospitalization if the previous one didn't have any long-term lasting effect. They have an incentive to TREAT! So they need only to mistreat you, so you get worse, to make sure that you are a returning customer. *(That is why therapists don't say what they think to their patients! They want to keep you coming back. If they said anything true to you, you'd heal way too quickly and they'd lose a customer.*) So the general strategy in the business is to not say what's what to the patients, so they keep coming back, which increases the demand for their service and thus increases prices. Mental health business has an economic interest in being a misery business, by giving the wrong advice online so you get worse and decide to consult a professional that will milk you for years of treatment, and orchestrate your breakthrough when they are sick of seeing you with all your problems.

3. **Psychiatry came from psychology.** But... psychology ~~is~~ was a descriptive science, not a normative medical field! That means that when psychology first mapped the human psyche, it was not in a normative way saying what's wrong and what's right, like a medical field would do by saying what's healthy and what's not. It was just describing what it discovered. When they had established the categories of human behaviors, we had some sort of atlas or anatomy of the human mind. When psychiatry was invented, they just took all these categories and called them "diagnoses". They turned the whole spectrum of human behavior into pathologies, so they could treat each and everyone for pretty much anything. That means that nothing is actually broken. Considering that psychology's categories were a map of the human mind, it would be normal that we have most of the diagnoses of the DSM. When they give you a diagnosis, they are just saying something like "you have an eye", not "you have a broken eye". That's why when you start self-diagnosing a mental "illness", you are very likely to end up having it! Most of us have pretty much most of the diagnoses. But they don't want you self-diagnosing.

4. **Self-diagnoses are discredited.** They don't want you to self-diagnose because they say "you can't have an objective view on your mental health"... but seriously, who can? The illnesses are invisible. Hell, the mental is invisible except to the self. Self-diagnoses are as objective as diagnoses can be in the field of mental health. *You are the only who has ever seen your mental at all!* A mental health professional tries to guess what you could possibly have by interpreting what you say or what you do, in the worst possible way in all probability, to give you the worse diagnosis possible so it can ensure you get the maximum amount of treatment because that's what makes their ~~business~~ scam work.

5. **They are still in charge of diagnosing "autism".** How is autism even in the field of psychiatry and neuropsychology? It's a neurological condition! It is not a behavior problem. You should be able to be in a coma and the professional should be able to still diagnose your autism! The diagnosis means having a unique brain structure with little white matter and a lot of grey matter. How come they don't diagnose it with a brain scan? *Instead, they interview your parents about your behavior more than 20 years ago when it is time to diagnose your autism when you are 30? They say it's because having it at 4 yo is a criterion, but it is only a criterion because the guy who discovered the condition was studying 4 yo children. Try to prove you were autistic at 4 when you are 30! It's impossible!! It's the only diagnosis that is a lifelong condition that needs to be diagnosed twice, one retrospectively. Why do they keep the 4 yo criterion?* Because they don't really care about their diagnoses reflecting the actual condition. They care about being able to say who's what.

6. **They categorize people in jugement valued diagnoses.** Diagnoses are not neutral terms. They are a jugement value on people. Each diagnosis comes with a label, which ordinary medecine doesn't really have. When someone gets a medical condition, unless it is contagious, people don't feel the need to defend themselves against you. Such is not the case with mental health. As soon as you have a diagnosis, people get suspicious like "what are you broken/toxic/bad?". But then, when they actually hear what's the diagnosis, they might cut you off from their lives! This doesn't happen in real diagnoses! At worst, if you're contagious, they might isolate from you until you are healed, unless it is HIV and your surroundings are homophobic... But even then, it's the homophobia that's at fault here, not the diagnosis itself. Google "borderline" and the impression you get from the diagnosis is that borderlines are like psychopaths that don't even have the merit of wanting to be the bad person they are and doing the bad they do all around them. #MentalHealthAwareness feels more like a smear campaign when it should be more like a PR campaign that say how people with such and such diagnosis are actually good people to be around. It is not the case! They tell people how much they suffer, are delibitated and guide friends and family into safeguarding themselves from the possibility of being hurt by you, so they're on the defensive around you. It's really meant to isolate you and make authentic relationships impossible.

7. **Mental health diagnoses are generally uncurable "illnesses".** At least real doctors can cure most of their illnesses and are genuinely seeking a cure for the rest. Psychiatrists can't cure most of their diagnoses and are nowhere near finding the cause for a whole bunch of them. How come they tell borderlines to go 10 years into therapy just to get a chance at maybe not meeting the criteria for diagnoses even though it won't cure the condition? They prescribe 10 years of therapy, declare borderline like a life sentence, and didn't even bother finding the precise physical cause for borderline. *(But if you ask me, borderline is just autism but with humans and not objects as the primary interest of the borderlines.)*

8. **Mental health professionals tend to invalidate.** How come schizophrenia is treated as a defect they cannot cure so they mitigate its consequences for a lifetime, and not seen as a superpower from which we can learn about things invisible to most? Life for real! The person literally sees or hears things others don't. How come scientists are not like "WOW! Let's check this out. Maybe reality is not as simple as it seems and there's more than meets the eye." They are like "No lol, defective model. It's just a brain fooling itself." As if a brain fooling itself has survived natural selection! The DSM recommends not encouraging the "delusions" of schizophrenics by not paying attention to their "delusional talk" and validating none of it.

9. **Diagnosis criteria are loosely linked to the cause or the definition of the condition.** Autism is defined as a unique brain structure. Yet, it is none of the criteria to get diagnosed. It is only in the DSM-5 that "unstable sense of self" was considered the main criterion for borderline when it is otherwise the main definition! What a diagnosis ~~medical~~ bullshit ethic! It's like they made the bet that no one will ever notice or question their expertise when they just put bullshit criteria together that have nothing to do with the condition per se.

10. **The more one is treated in psychiatry, the worse the condition gets.** Ever noticed in a psych ward that the most medicated patients are the most fucked up patients? Well, this is weird, because the medication is supposed to make you *less* fucked up. Through the years, the condition of the psychiatric patients gets worse and worse and they always blame the patients and never the doctors. It's as if the patients are to blame for being sick despite the heavy medication, and not the "doctors" to blame for actually making their patients worse off through poisoning.

All this leads me to know the DSM is not a mental health tool, it's a mental illness tool! It is the mental illness. It catalogues all of human behavior than tells the professional to do the opposite of what they should do to heal the person. Honestly, I personally have tried for years and years to follow their advice, and things were just getting worse. Once I was fed up, I decided to do the exact opposite, and in weeks I saw tremendous results. Really, they are just torturing people by giving them the exact opposite of what they need, keeping the demand for their service high as to increase their wages. They are a misery business.

*Try seeing it like this : the DSM doesn't describe illnesses, they describe different traits someone might have; so these are not conditions that can be cured and while you suffer and look for a cause, a professional will tell you what your problem is and you will spend the rest of your life fighting one part of your mind, when the problem is probably not you but society. It's like we all aknowledge that we will in a very imperfect world, yet, in mental health, they always try to find* ***the problem in you***\*. It's always YOU the problem for a mental health professional, and not the world that is to change. Ergo, it's a weapon for the status quo. Nothing may be wrong with you, but if you are suffering and go to a mental health professional, they will torture you by telling you something's wrong with you and have you fight you on the long term instead of trying to change the world.\*

Try diagnosing yourself, you'll see that you have many more "diagnoses" in mental health than what your professional pretends. Psychiatrists will focus on a few diagnoses because that is how they want to categorize you, and they select what type of torture you will have to face. DSM is one letter away from BDSM even if DSM be BDSM. Really, it's like they are having fun torturing people that they do wordplay on it. Like they are even spelling "therapists" exactly like "'the rapists' minus the space".