How to know if a guy is trying to con you??

Question

Any tips to figure out if a guy is running a game on you - if he says and does all the right things - is that fishy? Especially if he has nothing to lose and the chic has her life together?? What questions could I ask or what boobie trap could I set to see if he will trip up???

Answer 1

Thank you for asking, Hot Mama. I'm beginning to remember you wrote about this guy in one of your previous questions that you posted. What I remember most was that I was unable to detect any indication that he was a "player" but that he sounded like he could use some help in getting his life together. I'll formulate some solutions that may be of help and I'll post it shortly...

First I'll address his so-called bi-polar diagnosis. 2ndly I've posted the necessary steps for your guy to apply for Federal financial assistance (SSI BENEFITS) so he can secure a permanent lifetime monthly income and afford to get a place of his own. And 3rdly I've added information on iatrogenocide in order to make more sense out of the 1st posting of Advocacy Quotes as well as some of the things mentioned in the 2nd posting on benefits.


Cut and pasted from previous answers:

Depending upon how long you've been on psychiatric medications I suggest you slowly reduce your intake over a length of weeks or months so as to avoid causing your metabolism from going to shock because it's possible to end up with Tardive Dyskinesia Syndrome (TDS), a central nervous system disorder that's only caused by using pharmaceutical psychiatric drugs but can occur upon sudden dis-use of psychiatric medications if stopped abruptly all at once. Considering your question is under the category of Mental Health I'm inclined to presume you have been psychiatrically labelled. You may or may not perhaps find solace in investigating any of the following socio-psychological advocacy websites in lieu of the side-effects to our pharmaceutical psychiatric medications.

NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMERS SELF-HELP CLEARINGHOUSE
http://www.mhselfhelp.org
ANTIPSYCHIATRY.ORG
http://www.antipsychiatry.org
STOPSHRINKS.ORG
http://www.stopshrinks.org
PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR ACTION ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO
http://www.icomm.ca/psaao
MAD PRIDE IN UK
http://www.ctono.freeserve.co.uk
THE SOCIETY OF LAINGIAN STUDIES
http://laingsociety.org

And F.Y.I., here are some quotes from professional socio-psychological advocates which you may or may not find useful to your own casefile. Some people may pay heed to these expert advocates while most may find them outright disturbing and too repulsive to accept because it goes against the grain of our general given propaganda, as the best kept secrets are those that most people reject as true.

--- QUOTES --- [My Note: Quotes pertaining to schizophrenia can be equally applied to all the functional psychoses.]

RONALD DAVID LAING, psychiatrist, author of Sanity, Madness, and the Family:
"SANITY OR PSYCHOSIS IS TESTED BY THE DEGREE OF CONJUNCTION OR DISJUNCTION BETWEEN TWO PERSONS WHERE THE ONE IS SANE BY COMMON CONSENT."

ALLEN J. FRANCES, psychiatrist, former chairperson of Duke University Medical Center and a contributing editor of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV):
"PSYCHIATRY’S CLAIM THAT MENTAL ILLNESSES ARE BRAIN DISEASES... IS NOT TRUE. THERE ARE NO OBJECTIVE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS TO CONFIRM OR DISCONFIRM THE DIAGNOSIS OF DEPRESSION... THERE IS NO BLOOD OR OTHER BIOLOGICAL TEST TO ASCERTAIN THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF A MENTAL ILLNESS, AS THERE IS FOR MOST BODILY DISEASES. IF SUCH A TEST WERE DEVELOPED... THEN THE CONDITION WOULD CEASE TO BE A MENTAL ILLNESS AND WOULD BE CLASSIFIED, INSTEAD, AS A SYMPTOM OF A BODILY DISEASE." [My Note: Our psychiatrists' “bible” is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) but the functional psychoses are based solely on symptoms and moot or ambiguous invented labels which can periodically change at any time. Our DSM book is not hard science but a book of invented opinions which primarily functions for psychiatric iatrogenocide and therefore whatever is considered in our current DSM book as a functional psychosis today might not necessarily be regarded as an illness at all in our next edition, for example, debates continue on whether alcoholism and/or obesity should be classified as mental illnesses or not?]

NATHANIEL BRANDEN, psychologist and author:
"THERE IS NO GENERAL AGREEMENT AMONG PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS ABOUT THE NATURE OF MENTAL HEALTH OR MENTAL ILLNESS - NO GENERALLY ACCEPTED DEFINITIONS, NO BASIC STANDARD BY WHICH TO GAUGE ONE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OR OTHER. MANY WRITERS DECLARE THAT NO OBJECTIVE DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS CAN BE ESTABLISHED - THAT A BASIC UNIVERSALLY APPLICABLE CONCEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH IS IMPOSSIBLE.“
BRUCE LEVINE, psychologist and author:
"NO BIOCHEMICAL, NEUROLOGICAL, OR GENETIC MARKERS HAVE BEEN FOUND FOR ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER, OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER, DEPRESSION, SCHIZOPHRENIA, ANXIETY, COMPULSIVE ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE, OVEREATING, GAMBLING, OR ANY OTHER SO-CALLED MENTAL ILLNESS, DISEASE, OR DISORDER."

ANDREW C. SMITH, psychiatrist and author:
"THERE IS EXCELLENT RESEARCH AND WELL FOUNDED KNOWLEDGE ON FAMILIAL AND SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON THE COURSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA, and on causes of relapse, if not yet on the original vulnerability and onset of disturbance." [My Note: Our “socio-psychological model” has been continuously observed, perceived, noted and charted as an established model by psychoanalysts since the early 1800's but greatly overlooked because of the necessity of our prevailing iatrogenic “medical model”.]

RONALD DAVID LAING, psychiatrist, author of Sanity, Madness, and the Family:
"Specifically, no attempt is made to present a comprehensive theory of schizophrenia. No attempt is made to explore constitutional and organic aspects but this is clearly because the theory is one of interpersonal and familial processes, as well as wider issues of the sanity, or alienation, of society at large. THE EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIOR THAT GETS LABELLED SCHIZOPHRENIA, IS WITHOUT EXCEPTION, A SPECIAL STRATEGY THAT A PERSON INVENTS IN ORDER TO LIVE IN AN UNLIVABLE SITUATION. He/she cannot make a move, or make no move, without being beset by contradictory and paradoxical pressures and demands, pushes and pulls, both internally from him/herself and externally from those around him/her." [My Note: There's a website in Dr. Ronald David Laing's honor called the Unofficial R.D. Laing Website, now in the care of The Society of Laingian Studies. In the 1960's Dr. Ronald David Laing was responsible for having done a 5-year experimental program which proved a 100% success rate for curing the condition known as schizophrenia by providing a mentally healthy and nurturing living environment. After the 5-year-test period the funding approval to the continuance of the test project had to be denied and the project was terminated permanently due to his 100% success rate. The main criterion for entering Dr. Laing's experimental program was that every patient had to agree they would NOT use any type of pharmaceutical drugs whatsoever whether it be any psychiatric drugs or any other pharmaceutical medications, hence, in conjunction with a stress-free living environment then a 100% success rate for curing functional psychoses is, of course, to be expected. A similar study with similar results was done by beloved Dr. Loren Mosher in 1971 through 1983 called Soteria Project.]

U.S. CONGRESS OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY:
"RESEARCH HAS YET TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL CAUSES FOR ANY MENTAL DISORDER."

E. FULLER TORREY, psychiatrist and author of Surviving Schizophrenia:
"THE PERSON WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA IS NOT REALLY SICK, BUT MERELY ACTING IN A CRAZY WAY TO ENSURE HIS/HER SURVIVAL BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURES OF THE FAMILY AND/OR SOCIETY. SCHIZOPHRENIA IS NOT REALLY A DISEASE, RATHER IS IT JUST AN IDIOSYNCRATIC WAY OF THINKING AND BEHAVING. SCHIZOPHRENIA IS A REASONABLE REACTION TO AN UNREASONABLE SOCIETY AND AS A LABEL FOR SCAPEGOATING THOSE AMONG US WHO ARE DIFFERENT. SCHIZOPHRENIA IS A MYTH, A SANE RESPONSE TO AN INSANE WORLD, EVEN A GROWTH EXPERIENCE. THE MOST WIDESPREAD POPULAR THEORY ABOUT THE CAUSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IS THAT IT'S CAUSED BY STRESS. THIS HAS BEEN TRUE SINCE THE EARLY YEARS OF THE LAST [19TH] CENTURY AND CONTINUES TO BE TRUE."

JOSEPH BERKE, psychiatrist and author:
"LONG BEFORE I EVER HEARD OF MARY BARNES, I HAD BEGUN TO REALIZE THAT WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED 'MENTAL ILLNESS' IS NOT AN 'ILLNESS', OR 'SICKNESS' (ACCORDING TO THE PREVAILING MEDICAL-PSYCHIATRIC USE OF THE TERM), BUT AN EXAMPLE OF EMOTIONAL SUFFERING BROUGHT ABOUT BY A DISTURBANCE IN A WHOLE FIELD OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, IN THE FIRST PLACE, THE FAMILY. IN OTHER WORDS, MENTAL ILLNESS REFLECTS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN A DISTURBED AND DISTURBING GROUP OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN INTERNALIZED IN AND BY A SINGLE PERSON. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, A PERSON DIAGNOSED AS MENTALLY ILL IS THE EMOTIONAL SCAPEGOAT FOR THE TURMOIL IN HIS/HER FAMILY OR ASSOCIATES, AND MAY, IN FACT, BE SANEST MEMBER OF THIS GROUP."
[My Note: Mary Barnes was a patient of Dr. Laing's and later became famous described as 'an ambassador for Laing' and co-authored a book with Joseph Berke who was the resident psychiatrist. She also became a respected artist painting evocative works based on her experiences and died in 2001.]

S.R. HIRSCH and J.P. LEFF, psychiatrists and authors:
"THE PARENTS OF THE SCHIZOPHRENICS ARE MORE OFTEN PSYCHIATRICALLY DISTURBED THAN THE PARENTS OF OTHER CHILDREN, thinking allusively, and living in very unhappy marriages; and THE MOTHERS ARE MORE OFTEN OF SCHIZOID PERSONALITY THEMSELVES."

ALFRED M. FREEDMAN and HAROLD I. KAPLAN, authors of Textbook of Psychiatry:
"OTHERS HAVE DESCRIBED THE MOTHER OF THE POTENTIAL SCHIZOPHRENIC AS AGGRESSIVE, REJECTING, DOMINEERING, AND INSECURE, AND THE FATHER AS INADEQUATE, PASSIVE, AND INDIFFERENT. Elsewhere in the literature these fathers have been depicted as directly threatening, assaultive, or brutal or as overwhelming the child. IN CONTRAST TO THOSE MOTHERS WHO ARE DESCRIBED AS EITHER SUBTLY OR OVERTLY REJECTING, OTHERS ARE SAID TO BE FUSSY AND OVERPROTECTIVE, PERPETUATING THE SYMBIOTIC UNION."

THEODORE LIDZ, psychoanalyst and author:
"NONE OF THE MARRIAGES SEEMED NORMAL OR HEALTHY AND ALL WERE MARKED BY A SIGNIFICANT DEGREE OF MARITAL SCHISM (OPEN FIGHTING) OR MARITAL SKEW (COVERT FIGHTING). The parents' marriages are skewed by the domination of the mother, whose often highly unusual and odd way of communicating becomes accepted in the family, covering underlying conflict; or schismatic, with more obvious conflict between emotionally separate parents, and complex involvement of the child in the conflict. The involvement of the children is thought to be stressful and mystifying for them; boundaries between people, between sex roles and between generations are more blurred than in most families; and the children who become schizophrenic patients fall into distorted perception, thinking and behavior in response, albeit inappropriate response, to an alarmingly disturbed family situation... . . . SCHIZOPHRENIC REACTIONS ARE A TYPE OF WITHDRAWAL FROM SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND THE THOUGHT DISORDER IS A SPECIFICALLY SCHIZOPHRENIC MEANS OF WITHDRAWAL. THE SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENT ESCAPES FROM IRRECONCILABLE DILEMMAS AND UNBEARABLE HOPELESSNESS BY BREAKING THROUGH THESE CONFINES, I.E. THE MEANINGS AND LOGIC OF HIS/HER CULTURE, TO FIND SOME LIVING SPACE BY USING HIS/ HER OWN IDIOSYNCRATIC MEANINGS AND REASONING."

LYMAN WYNNE, psychoanalyst and author:
"PSEUDOMUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN FAMILIES OF SCHIZOPHRENICS IN WHICH THERE IS AN OUTWARD APPEARANCE OF GENUINENESS BUT MUCH COVERT ANIMOSITY BENEATH THE SURFACE. UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF FRAGMENTED THINKING IN COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN THESE FAMILIES. WHILE APPEARING HARMONIOUS TO THOSE OUTSIDE THE FAMILY, IN FACT HARBORS DEEP GULFS BETWEEN MEMBERS, AND IRRATIONAL DISTORTED MODES OF COMMUNICATION THAT FRAGMENT THE THINKING OF THAT MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WHO BECOMES SCHIZOPHRENIC."

THOMAS SZASZ, psychoanalyst and author:
"SCHIZOPHRENIA IS MERELY A RATIONAL RESPONSE TO AN IRRATIONAL FAMILY. SCHIZOPHRENIA IS NOT A DISEASE AT ALL BUT MERELY AN ADAPTATION. Not all psychiatrists are out to drug, rehabilitate, and to mold us into being conformists to this insane society. Psychoanalytic and family interaction theories of schizophrenia have been very important in the United States since the turn of this [20th] century, but in recent years, they have gradually lost adherents because of the lack of any supporting data. THE ONE THING ON WHICH VIRTUALLY ALL PSYCHOANALYSTS COULD AGREE WAS THAT THE SOURCE OF PSYCHIC TRAUMA THEORETICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA WAS THE INTERACTIONS OF THE CHILD AND THE PARENTS."

HARRY STACK SULLIVAN, psychoanalyst and author:
"Schizophrenia is caused by parental rejection."

GREGORY BATESON, psychoanalyst and author:
"PSYCHOANALYTIC AND FAMILY INTERACTION THEORIES ATTRIBUTE THE CAUSE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA TO THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MOTHER AND FATHER. AS SUCH THEY GENERATE GUILT AND BLAME WITHIN THE FAMILIES. THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS GUILT AND BLAME IS ENORMOUS AND HAS LED TO DEPRESSION, DIVORCE, AND EVEN SUICIDE. IT HAS BEEN IATROGENIC ANGUISH (PHYSICIAN-CAUSED), WHOLLY GENERATED BY THE PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSION. . . .SCHIZOPHRENIA RESULTS WHEN CHILDREN ARE PUT INTO IMPOSSIBLE HEADS-I-WIN-TAILS-YOU-LOSE SITUATIONS BY THEIR PARENTS. The double-bind. The parents is said to issue ambiguous instructions repeatedly, but they cannot be obeyed because at the same time they are contradicted by other instructions, in a different mode of communication, such as body language.
THE CATEGORY 'PSYCHOSIS' HAS NO UNIFORM FOUNDATION AS IN SOMATIC PATHOLOGY NOR ANY MORE OBJECTIVE ASPECT OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY TO MARK ITS DISTINCTION FROM OTHER COLLECTIONS OF PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS. IT IS THUS A TERM DIFFICULT TO USE WITH PRECISION. THE FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSES, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND MANIC-DEPRESSIVE [BI-POLAR] DISORDER, LACK A RECOGNIZABLE NEUROPATHOLOGY. FOR THE ORGANIC PSYCHOSES THE CENTRAL PROBLEM IS THE CAUSE OF THE PATHOLOGIC CHANGES. BUT FOR THE FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSES THE CENTRAL PROBLEM IS CONSISTENT DIAGNOSIS. THE CRITERIA FOR THEIR DIAGNOSIS ARE THEIR SYMPTOMS ALONE. THERE ARE NO OBJECTIVE TESTS VERIFYING A DIAGNOSIS. . . . . . SINCE THEY LACK A RECOGNIZED NEUROPATHOLOGY AND ARE BY DEFINITION INEXPLICABLE AS RESPONSES TO EXPERIENCE, THERE ARE NO COMPREHENSIVE ETIOLOGIC EXPLANATIONS FOR THESE DISORDERS. THERE IS NO NEUROPATHOLOGY OR CONSISTENT PATHOPHYSIOLOGY THAT CAN BE OBSERVED TO DEVELOP WITH THE PROGRESSION OF THE DISORDER THAT MIGHT GIVE SOME HINT OF CAUSATION. AN APPROACH TO A CONSIDERATION OF ETIOLOGY HAS TO BE MORE CIRCUITOUS AND THE OPINIONS DERIVED HELD WITH SOMEWHAT LESS ASSURANCE THAN IS TRUE OF OTHER CLINICAL ENTITIES. The genetic constitution has been decisively demonstrated to be one of the causes of schizophrenia. The risk of schizophrenia increases with the closeness of genetic relationship to a schizophrenic patient. A genetic vulnerability for schizophrenia is necessary, but not sufficient. It must be combined with certain life experiences that need not be common for genetically identical individuals. The experiences of being raised by a cold and distant mother, or of receiving insistent, simultaneous but incompatible directions from the parents, or of simply LIVING IN A DISHARMONIOUS FAMILY INCAPABLE OF PROVIDING A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR PSYCHOLOGIC GROWTH HAVE ALL BEEN CONSIDERED CAUSES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA. A crisis of identity as been proposed by exponents of existential psychiatry. THERE IS NO COMMON PATHOLOGIC FEATURE OF BRAIN DISORDERS THAT COULD BY IMPLICATION BE THE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISM FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA."

PSYCHIATRY TODAY (2001) Magazine:
"THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT UNHAPPINESS OR STRANGE BEHAVIOR (E.G. "SCHIZOPHRENIA") IS CAUSED BY BRAIN DISORDERS."

PETER BREGGIN, psychiatrist and author:
"THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT ANY PSYCHIATRIC OR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER IS CAUSED BY A BIOCHEMICAL IMBALANCE."

ANTONUCCIO et al., Psychiatric Times Magazine, 12:8 Aug 2000:
"ALTHOUGH A PHYSICIAN MAY TELL A PATIENT THAT A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE CAUSES THEIR DEPRESSION, THE PHYSICIAN WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO PROVIDE ANY EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM. THERE IS NO TEST AVAILABLE THAT WOULD DEMONSTRATE THAT ANY PATIENT HAS A BIOLOGICAL DEPRESSION, AS OPPOSED TO ANY OTHER TYPE, OR EVEN THAT SUCH BIOLOGICAL DEPRESSIONS EXIST."

DAVID KAISER, M.D., Northwestern University Hosp, Chicago, IL; author of Psychiatric Medications as Symptoms:
"PATIENTS HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CHEMICAL IMBALANCES DESPITE THE FACT THAT NO TEST EXISTS TO SUPPORT SUCH A CLAIM, AND THAT THERE IS NO REAL CONCEPTION OF WHAT A CORRECT CHEMICAL BALANCE WOULD LOOK LIKE. . . .Today’s patients, discontented, unhappy, fragmented and confused by an increasingly frantic, alienating and violent society, come to psychiatrists for help, only to have their illusions shored up by an increased dose of a technologic fix. They are told they have illnesses that are biologic and can be fixed, instead of being allowed to speak about their unhappiness, to speak about how difficult it is to be a human being, to speak about their suffering, because human beings have always suffered and always will. To believe that we can conquer depression, despair, anxiety with modern technology is the height of hubris and bad faith, a mere childish fantasy, unworthy of any thoughtful person who has their eyes open to human history and modern culture. . . .MODERN PSYCHIATRY HAS YET TO PROVE THE GENETIC/BIOLOGIC CAUSE OF ANY MENTAL ILLNESS. HOWEVER, THIS DOES NOT STOP PSYCHIATRY FROM MAKING ESSENTIALLY UNPROVEN CLAIMS THAT DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR ILLNESS, ANXIETY DISORDERS, ALCOHOLISM, AND A HOST OF OTHER DISORDERS ARE IN FACT PRIMARILY BIOLOGIC AND PROBABLY GENETIC IN ORIGIN, AND THAT IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL ALL THIS PROVEN. THIS KIND OF FAITH IN SCIENCE AND PROGRESS IS STAGGERING, NOT TO MENTION NAIVE AND PERHAPS DELUSIONAL."

EDWARD DRUMMOND, M.D., Associate Medical Dir., Seacoast Mental Health Center, Portsmouth, NH and author:
"NO BIOLOGICAL ETIOLOGY HAS BEEN PROVEN FOR ANY PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER IN SPITE OF DECADES OF RESEARCH. . . . DON'T ACCEPT THE MYTH THAT WE CAN MAKE AN 'ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS.' . . . NEITHER SHOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT YOUR PROBLEMS ARE DUE SOLELY TO A 'CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.'"

FRED BAUGHMAN, M.D. and author:
"WHETHER OR NOT ADHD, OR ANYTHING ELSE, IS A DISEASE CAN BE ANSWERED WITH A SIMPLE 'YES' OR 'NO'. NO KNOWN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER IS A BONA FIDE DISEASE HAVING A PROVED, DEMONSTRATED PHYSICAL ABNORMALITY, NOT EVEN A 'CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.' . . . A YOUNG FATHER ASKED HIS SON’S PSYCHIATRIST WHY RITALIN WAS NECESSARY. THE PSYCHIATRIST RESPONDED: “IT’S FOR HIS ‘CHEMICAL IMBALANCE.’" THE FATHER ASKED: “SHOW ME THE LAB WORK SHOWING THE ABNORMALITY". THE PSYCHIATRIST HESITATED, KNOWING THERE WAS NO LAB WORK, THERE WAS NO ‘CHEMICAL IMBALANCE', THERE NEVER IS, THEN SAID: “YOU’LL HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT". THE FATHER, NOT SATISFIED, SAID, “I WANT THE RESULTS, NOW". THE PSYCHIATRIST, FLUSTERED, RESPONDED, “TAKE YOUR BOY AND GET OUT OF MY OFFICE"."

ELLIOT VALERSTEIN, PH.D. and author:
"CONTRARY TO WHAT IS OFTEN CLAIMED, NO BIOCHEMICAL, ANATOMICAL OR FUNCTIONAL SIGNS HAVE BEEN FOUND THAT RELIABLY DISTINGUISH THE BRAINS OF MENTAL PATIENTS."

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, 1998:
"WE DO NOT HAVE AN INDEPENDENT, VALID TEST FOR ADHD, AND THERE IS NO DATA TO INDICATE THAT ADHD IS DUE TO A BRAIN MALFUNCTION."

LOREN MOSHER, M.D., former Chief, National Institutes of Health Center for the Study of Schizophrenia and author:
"THERE ARE NO EXTERNAL VALIDATING CRITERIA FOR PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES. THERE IS NEITHER BLOOD TEST NOR SPECIFIC ANATOMIC LESIONS FOR ANY MAJOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER. IS PSYCHIATRY A HOAX AS PRACTICED TODAY? UNFORTUNATELY THE ANSWER IS MOSTLY YES."

ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN, M.D., a former chairperson of Illinois Medical Licensure Committee, former associate professor at University of Illinois Medical School, former director of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital, former national medical director of Project Head Start, formerly the author of a nationally syndicated column as "The People's Doctor," and author of CONFESSIONS OF A MEDICAL HERETIC: "MODERN MEDICINE'S TREATMENTS FOR DISEASE ARE SELDOM EFFECTIVE, AND THEY'RE OFTEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE DISEASE THEY'RE DESIGNED TO TREAT. THE DANGERS ARE COMPOUNDED BY THE WIDESPREAD USE OF DANGEROUS PROCEDURES FOR NON-DISEASES. . . . Clinic's accomplishments last year [1978]: 2,980 OPEN-HEART OPERATIONS, 1.3 MILLION LABORATORY TESTS, 73,320 ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS, 7,770 FULL-BODY X-RAY SCANS, 210,378 OTHER RADIOLOGIC STUDIES, 24,368 SURGICAL PROCEDURES. NOT ONE OF THESE PROCEDURES HAS BEEN PROVED TO HAVE THE LEAST LITTLE BIT TO DO WITH MAINTAINING OR RESTORING HEALTH. . . .YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF ALL THE DRUGS FOR WHICH THE SIDE-EFFECTS ARE THE SAME AS THE [USAGE] INDICATIONS. THIS ISN'T AS RARE AS YOU MIGHT THINK. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU READ THE LIST OF INDICATIONS FOR VALIUM, AND THEN READ THE LIST OF SIDE-EFFECTS, YOU'LL FIND THAT THE LISTS ARE MORE OR LESS INTERCHANGEABLE. UNDER THE INDICATIONS YOU'LL FIND [IT'S TO TREAT FOR]: ANXIETY; FATIGUE; DEPRESSION; ACUTE AGITATION; TREMORS; HALLUCINOSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE SPASMS. AND UNDER THE [TOXIC] SIDE-EFFECTS [YOU'LL FIND VALIUM CAN CAUSE]: ANXIETY; FATIGUE; DEPRESSION; ACUTE HYPEREXCITED STATES; TREMORS; HALLUCINATIONS; INCREASED MUSCLE SPASTICITY. . . . ONCE YOU'VE EXPOSED YOURSELF TO ALL THIS INFORMATION, YOU HAVE TO SIT DOWN AND DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO TAKE THE DRUG. Again, don't trust your doctor's decision. Even if you can get him to admit to the side-effects, he'll most likely discount them by saying they occur only in a small percentage of cases. You also might get that impression from the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) or any other book you consult. Like a game of Russian Roulette, for the person who gets the loaded chamber, the risk is 100%. But unlike the game, for the person taking a drug, no chamber is entirely empty. EVERY DRUG STRESSES AND HURTS YOUR BODY IN SOME WAY. . . . MOST OF ALL, YOU SHOULD KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU CAN REFUSE TO TAKE THE DRUG. IT'S YOUR HEALTH THAT'S AT STAKE. If you read things that make you not want to take the drug, first of all confront the doctor with the information. Through cajolery, badgering, or some process of persuasion, you should convince the doctor that you really want to avoid the drug. As in all confrontations with doctors, his reaction may tell you more than you bargained for. You may once and for all recognize that his opinion is no more valid than yours. . . . IF ON THE BASIS OF YOUR COMPLAINTS OF SIDE-EFFECTS, OR BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO TAKE A CERTAIN DRUG AT ALL, YOUR DOCTOR PRESCRIBES ANOTHER DRUG, MAKE SURE IT'S NOT THE SAME SUBSTANCE WITH A DIFFERENT BRAND NAME. THE DOCTOR MAY HIMSELF BE IGNORANT, OR HE MAY BE TRYING TO PUT ONE OVER ON YOU."

DSN-IV (DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF N-O-R-M-A-L DISORDERS):
"Psychiatry is a very dangerous disorder, and often resistant to reason. Further, the prognosis is quite poor, with the disorder usually lasting for decades, and recovery very rarely complete - often, the best recovery that can be hoped for is a remission into the retired state. Thus, in many cases, the best thing to do with psychiatrists is to simply avoid them."
--- UNQUOTES ---

MY COMMENTS:
I DO NOT ADVOCATE FOR ANYONE TO TAKE ANY VIOLENT ACTIONS TOWARDS OUR MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT EVEN IF YOU'VE BEEN PHYSICALLY INJURED BY OUR MEDICAL PROFESSION OR IF SOMEONE DEAR TO YOU HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF OUR IATROGENOCIDE. IF YOU'VE BEEN HURT IN ANY WAY FROM MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND YOU FEEL YOU MUST AT LEAST DO SOMETHING TO RETALIATE IN SOME FORM, THEN I PROPOSE YOU TAKE YOUR CHANCES THROUGH THE LEGAL SYSTEM EVEN THOUGH YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING A COURT CASE WOULD BE SLIM, BUT ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE SOME PLAINTIFFS DO WIN.

When Dr. Mendelsohn wrote in his prelude to Chapter 1, "MODERN MEDICINE'S TREATMENTS FOR DISEASE ARE SELDOM EFFECTIVE, AND THEY'RE OFTEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE DISEASE THEY'RE DESIGNED TO TREAT", and when he wrote in Chapter 2, "“YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF ALL THE DRUGS FOR WHICH THE SIDE-EFFECTS ARE THE SAME AS THE INDICATIONS [USAGE]", it was his polite way of saying that during the past several hundred years we modern humans have already well charted all the real diseases on earth there is for us to know about although most of us will refuse to believe this, and furthermore Dr. Mendelsohn is saying it's the toxic side-effects in our pharmaceutical medications that functions highly for iatrogenocide but of course it's a natural tendency for most of us to reject what he warns us about because we tend to assume that we know more about the medical profession than he did. In truth, during the past several hundred years our family species have pretty much identified the etiology of every real ailment to exist as well as its real causes when there is no etiology. In other words, anyone who is willing to take the serious time to do a thorough research will always inevitably without fail will find that practically all of our pharmaceutical medications share the same identical toxic side-effects as the symptoms of the so-called diseases of which they are used to treat when it comes to treating so-called diseases of which is it commonly "believed" to have no known etiology or causative germ, "believed" to have no known causes and "believed" to have no known cures for. For example, the toxic side-effects of medications used to treat Parkinson's happens to be parkinsonism and this holds true whether it be of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes, breast and prostrate and lung cancers, leukemias, functional psychoses, and the list goes on and on which explains how come there is not a single death certificate in the history of Hawaii which lists the cause of death as due to cancer, nor to diabetes, nor Alzheimer's, nor AIDS, etcetera, but rather most often the cause of death is listed as due to “Secondary Infection” after a prolonged weakened immune system that was over-taxed by our pharmaceutical medications. For example, a syndrome by strict definition is merely a set of symptoms which mimics a disease in the absence of any disease, however, one of the toxic side-effects of most of our pharmaceutical medications includes the possibility of coming down with the ailment known as akathisia which is motor restlessness characterized by muscular quivering plus the inability to sit still and anxiety at the thought of sitting down, and one of the first signs at the beginning of acquiring akathisia could very easily be what's now been recently labeled as Restless Leg Syndrome of which of course is generally "believed" to have no known etiology or causative germ, "believed" to have no known causes and "believed" to have no known cures for, because a syndrome is only a set of symptoms in the absence of any disease in the first place but there's a mighty big difference between "believing" something in contrast to "knowing" something. In situations where a person is not previously on medications but may have the psychosomatic inclination to think that they may have Restless Leg Syndrome and in turn seeks medical help may stand the chance of getting diagnosed and treated for Restless Leg Syndrome but will unwittingly fail to realize that our pharmaceutical medications given to them for the treatment of a syndrome in the absence of any disease, will have the potential of producing akathisia as a potential side-effect and it will no longer be a psychosomatic situation for them afterall. And if the person willingly continues to adopt a long term usage of our pharmaceutical medications then it's only a matter of time until it can and will over-tax their immune system particularly when they might happen to switch to a more potent medication or perhaps ingest "cocktails" of combined medications which in-turn only strengthens the likelihood of ending up with any number of toxic side-effects, however, they'll more than likely "disbelieve" it's another toxic side-effect in favor of "believing" that they caught a whole 'nother disease of which is it also "believed" to have no known etiology or causative germ. Whether it be in terms of months, or years, or decades, sooner or later they're all good candidates for being another one of our iatrogenic statistics as long as they "believe" it's good for them to continue eating the toxins which produces toxic side-effects, hence, iatrogenocide is not only a necessity but is one of our most well best kept secrets ever invented by us humans because most of us tend to reject the plain truth and sometimes outright angrily so, but then to each their own because we each have the right to "believe" whatever we want to "believe-in" even if and when it can kill us. Ironically, even though most anti-psychiatry advocates are fully aware that our psychiatric pharmaceutical medications are designed to do more bodily damage rather than cure, we still have the gut tendency to reject the same notion holds equally true within the rest of our medical specialties as well, go figure? Under any other natural normal circumstances whenever someone eats something in nature to end up suffering the ill toxic effects of diarrhea, and/or blurred vision, and/or lost of taste, and/or upset stomach, and/or headaches, and/or loss of motor control, and/or bone pain, and/or hallucinations, etcetera, the person usually without fail will have the natural given common sense to stop eating the darn poisons, however, when it comes to our prevailing necessary medical propaganda, many will prefer to “believe” in our medical established propaganda even when it's obviously killing them, as many would rather die having blind faith than living a life “knowing” a harsh truth which happens to hold no room for blind faith, hence, the best kept secrets are those that most people have the tendency to automatically reject as true, just as it was designed to be out of harsh necessity.

However, I can agree with the short-term use of certain pharmaceutical medications wherever it just might happen to be applicable particularly for short term usage since all substances can have some degree of its therapeutic value, but too much of anything is not good as moderation is the key. Aside from that and in regards to Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn's statement that, "Every drug stresses and hurts your body in some way", he, of course, was referring to pharmaceutical drugs, however, I can think of at least three different natural drugs that are considered to have no toxic side-effects when they are said to be smoked or chewed in therapeutic dosages, but when ingested, natural opium is known to have some degree of unpleasant non-fatal gastric side-effects, and also has withdrawal side-effects after habitual use. If we don't count addiction or death-by-overdose as a toxic side-effect, then we're talking about natural opium and not pharmaceutical forms of opium that is considered non-fatal and to have no toxic side-effects. Opium addicts in otherwise good physical and mental health whose drug needs are met are thought to experience no debilitating physiological effects from their addiction in contrast to our synthesized (i.e., human-made) pharmaceutical medications ...but speaking of addictive drugs...

DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO ADDICTIVE DRUGS IN UNITED KINGDOM 1990 to 1995:
1,810 deaths -- BENZODIAZEPINES (Valium, Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, etcetera.)
676 deaths -- METHADONE (Methadone is a synthesized [i.e.,human-made] prescription heroin-substitute.)
291 deaths -- HEROIN (Heroin is synthesized from morphine which is the principal alkaloid derivative of opium.)

It's my guess all three figures are likely underestimated. AND THIS IS NOT TO IMPLY that heroin is safer than methadone, or that methadone is safer than benzodiazepines. What these figures do suggest is that a lot more people are using benzodiazepines than methadone or heroin even though all three of these human-made drugs are associated with toxic side-effects including “death“ which is viewed, considered, and held within our pharmaceutical perspective as nothing more than a potential “side-effect”. Likewise, it's of no coincidence that acetaminophen which currently happens be our most popular of our non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and found in over 200 over-the-counter products is considered to be our most common fatal cause of drug-induced liver failure but if & when a different NSAID medication becomes more popular in treatment for mild pain and inflammation then we can expect it to becoming the newest most common cause of drug-induced liver failure instead of acetaminophen. In regards of how to safely get off benzodiazepine psychiatric medication addiction such as Valium and Xanax so as to avoid the neuro-motor disorder of TARDIVE DYSKINESIA SYNDROME, or perhaps to avoid the possibility of eventual kidney or liver failure leading to “death” as a side-effect, a website Benzo.org.uk offers further suggestions on discontinuation therapy of benzodiazepines which is to reduce intake a little at a time in order to avoid crippling withdrawal reactions.

Another drug usage considered to have no toxic side-effects when smoked in therapeutic dosages is cannabis, that's marijuana. But as with anything else, too much of anything is not good and an overdose of cannabis is known to cause temporary mild cases of dizziness, vertigo, and even nausea and/or vomiting, and sometimes potentially inhaling improperly can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure commonly referred to as having a euphoric 'rush' which may or may not lead to temporary loss of consciousness, and furthermore, overdosage may also slow down reaction times, therefore, as with alcohol, smoking cannabis while driving a vehicle may not be the safest thing to do. Depression after chronic usage of cannabis or even serious depression may or may not result as a withdrawal symptom following discontinuation, however, chronic abuse can weaken the immune system just like how chronic abuse of any other potent substance taxes the immune system over time, but otherwise no deaths that I know of has yet to be attributed to cannabis usage, nor to cannabis abusage, nor to cannabis overdosage, but I do suspect some fatal car crashes were likely the result of cannabis over-intoxication. Most cannabis users agree that moderate usage can work well at alleviating symptoms of depression without toxic side-effects very much unlike our pharmaceutical anti-depressants. I further believe chewing unprocessed coca leaves directly off the cocaine plant is also said to have no toxic side-effects either. Interesting to note nature makes it so simple for us to germinate seeds in the ground to grow three kinds of different medicinal herbs which have no toxic side-effects and yet all 3 naturally occurring plants are considered illegal in most but not all places around the world, but it does make a lot of sense in iatrogenic terms. Having said that, in all practicality most of our pharmaceutical medications tend to share the same possibility of afflicting over 170 different toxic side-effects although in most of our medical literature a person is not likely to presented with all 170+ different potential side-effects.

And lastly, I have to partially disagree with Dr. Gregory Bateson on his statement where he writes: “The genetic constitution has been decisively demonstrated to be one of the causes of schizophrenia. The risk of schizophrenia increases with the closeness of genetic relationship to a schizophrenic patient.“ Although I agree humans come from humans, I conclude genetics have nothing else to do with the adaptation-reaction condition labelled as schizophrenia. I think he mistakenly linked genetics with the condition only because the risk of the condition may have appeared to him to increased with the closeness of genetic relationship to a schizophrenic patient. I concur his error had do with the fact that most people get raised by their genetic parents, but otherwise the condition referred to as schizophrenia has nothing to do with the genetic constitution itself which is how come he was so quick to slightly cover himself by also adding, "...a genetic vulnerability for schizophrenia is necessary but not sufficient and must be combined with certain life experiences that need not be common for genetically identical individuals." His statement erroneously implies that the adaptation reaction-condition called schizophrenia supposedly cannot occur if the child happens to be adopted and if not genetically related which I think is absurd, hence, the notion of genetics being linked to so-called mental illness was illogical back then, is still irrational today, and will continue to always be equally far-fetched as space alien abductions, ghosts, gods, goblins, or any other forms of illogical superstition which many of us readily buy into. I'm not sure if Bateson himself actually believed what he wrote regarding the genetic constitution because I wonder if maybe he only wrote it just to appease mainstream, or in other words most of his quotes substantiates our “socio-psychological model” except for that fraction where he's promoting our prevailing “medical model” with that genetic nonsense? That is, I keep wondering if maybe the reason Bateson tried to bring up the absurd notion of genetics was if maybe he wanted to try and alleviate some of the stress he might've been receiving from mainstream for having promoted our “socio-psychological model” over our mainstream “medical [iatrogenic] model” and so maybe he caved-in a little otherwise it seems to me it's way out of his character for him to have played the genetic card?

May I recommend Doctor Robert S. Mendelsohn's book "Confessions of a Medical Heretic". He tells it like it is that modern medical practice is not what most people think it is but he neglected to mention that there's a good sane reason for culling our family species through the use of prescribed medications. In short, it's the lesser of two evils, so-to-speak, since we have the potential to out-breed our own global food supply.

Source(s):
Confessions of a Medical Heretic.
Physician's Desk Reference.
RxList.com.
Truthful News Of Iatrogenocide, Mental Illness, & Drug Side Effects.

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Question posed:
"Should i stop taking prilosec?
I've been taking prilosec for just 5 days. My acid reflux got somewhat better but i am getting major headaches. It's the headache that's disturbing me more than the acid reflux. Should i stop taking prilosec? It's clearly a side effect from the medication. Also, are there any supplements i can take instead of medication for acid reflux? Let me know asap!"

Thank you for asking. You are correct that it is a toxic side effect of the medication. The key word here is "toxic" side effect which our medical establishment generally don't like to use but sometimes do. Under any other natural circumstances when a person eats something in nature which produces toxic effects such as headaches, and/or vomiting, and/or nausea, and/or diarrhea, and/or parkinsonism, and/or muscular weakness, and/or liver failure, and/or respiratory distress, and/or blurred vision, and/or dry mouth usually simultaneously with urinary retention, etcetera, the person usually has the common sense to stop eating the poison. (In the case of urinary retention the body is unable to rid the body of toxins which builds up to have a detrimental affect upon the central nervous system which then results in any variety of so-called toxic side effects.) However, under somewhat unnatural circumstances, a person may continue eating the toxins when prescribed and ordered to do so by their physician. The choice is yours but the most I can readily suggest is to do an exhaustive search on the web for natural remedies for treating acid reflux as well as perhaps read a book by Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn called "Confessions of a Medical Heretic". He used to be the Chairperson of Illinois Medical License Board, taught medical school, and ran a hospital among other things. You may or may not find it worth while what he has to say about medications but keep in mind he was one of the top experts who taught other experts. Fair warning though, at first he's nearly impossible to believe but he does tell the honest truth. Again, the final decision is yours, I can only say what I would do if I were in your situation and I would opt to stop eating the toxins and seek out some other treatment that doesn't produce poisonous side effects. I wish you well and thanks again for asking. Tsark out. (Certified Nurse's Aide)

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I just took a look-see at your profile page and read your other posting. It's only of my personal opinion that the medication was likely unnecessary as practically everyone experiences acid reflux occasionally which is generally nothing to be concerned about. Plus, you stated that the stuck feeling in your throat immediately went away when you ate something to wash it down. Furthermore, common sense dictates it was the so-called "slightly" larger than usual lunch/dinner that you ate 2-3 hours before the stuck-in-the-throat feeling occurred which caused the symptoms and I'm presuming it only happened once following that larger than usual meal. Therefore, I'm ruling out the notion of acid reflux altogether unless you can tell me it's been continuously happening a lot more than just that one time after that larger than usual meal?

For the sake of convenience and reference, here's what you've stated in your other post: “I just recently started college so I decided to cut down fatty foods and eating at night. I exercise 4-5 times a week now. I always had issues with bowel movement. So this particular week I decided to add more fiber in to my diet. This is kind of gross I guess but I had bowel movement every day of this week. I even had three yesterday and two so far today. I would usually have 2-3 bowel movements a WEEK. Yesterday I came home for the weekend and a slightly larger than usual lunch/dinner. About 2-3 hours after the meal I started to feel like there was something stuck in my throat. I decided to eat something to get it down. The stuck feeling in my throat is gone but now I feel like my breathing is restricted. I feel pressure on my chest. It's not painful...just really uncomfortable. I think it's mild case. Does my diet, bowel movement, and drinking water with lemon everyday have to do with the discomfort? Should I go see a doctor? I'm a bit scared even though it does seem mild.“

Based solely on the little amount of information given, I'm under the impression that your body's usual routine underwent a number of slightly drastic changes in a relatively short time of period, namely the cutting down of fatty foods, along with addition of more fiber to your diet, along with the cutting down of eating at night, and along with exercising 4-5 times a week. These changes in routine wouldn't normally be a problem when done individually or done gradually and done in moderation but too much of too many changes all combined together and done in too soon of a condensed time period could've had an affect on your body's metabolism until the body naturally adjust itself to the abrupt changes. I doubt the cutting down of fatty foods affected your changes in the bowel movement but the addition of fiber is of course greatly suspect. It sounds like you had over-dosed on fiber which caused the increase in number of bowel movements per day, or in other words your body naturally sensed the over-dose and so your body naturally took care of the problem by getting rid of the excess fiber. And having daily bowel movements every day is normal for a lot of people and there's nothing abnormal about it especially when most people eat on a daily basis. The cutting down of eating at night should likely prove to be healthier for you than otherwise. However, the exercising of 4-5 times a week may or may not have put too much of a slight stress upon your body if that's what you started off with instead of say 2-3 times a week to gradually build up stamina before increasing to 4-5 times a week. Or in other words, “moderation” is the key. As for the time when the stuck feeling in the throat went away but was immediately followed by a feeling of pressure upon your chest along with a feeling as though your breathing was restricted was more than likely due to the larger than usual lunch/dinner you ate that day and especially because it was only just a mild case. Sounds rather normal to me, that is, it's of my personal opinion that your change in reduced diet had of course reduced the size of your stomach and therefore when you had that so-called "slightly" larger than usual lunch/dinner your shrunken stomach had actually interpreted the meal as EXTRA-larger than usual lunch/dinner which caused the uncomfortable symptoms, which of course, were more pronounced than usual. As for drinking the water with lemon every day, there's nothing unhealthy about that, per se, but there is one concern depending upon the strength of the mixture because the citric acid in the lemon when consumed on a daily basis for any lengthy period of time tends to eat away and wears out teeth enamel, but again, depending upon the strength of the solution. A strong solution on a daily basis for a lengthy time period has the potential to drastically eat away at the enamel to the point where the teeth becomes overly sensitive due to lack of enamel. In summary, the cause of the changes in the number of bowel movements points directly to the addition of the amount of fiber added to your diet. The cause of the stuck in the throat feeling and pressure in chest and the sense of restricted breathing points directly to having eaten an (extra)-larger than usual lunch/dinner particularly because your stomach had shrunk due to the reduction of consumption within the changes of your diet routine.

Unless you can specify that you've still been having complications of any of these ills symptoms that were already mentioned, then for the life of me, I'm not convince at all that there's anything wrong with you. Unless you can tell me that enough complications have been consistently re-occurring to you during this past week-and-a-half to have made you consider the notion of going to an emergency room for a visit then I have to say that based on what little information that's given within your two posts I'm incline to think that the only medical condition that you have that warrants any true concern is a condition that a lot of medical students too often tend to share. They tend to over-diagnose themselves even though there's really not much of anything to diagnose but in the end they convince themselves of having all sorts of medical problems even though in physical reality they're physiologically just fine and healthy. Aside from what you've said so far, is there anything more by way of physical ailments that you can share with this forum that has also been giving you pain or problems?

Please feel free to email me via Yahoo via my profile page should you wish to do so if this post closes and if you still have later concerns which you might want to share. Again, thank you for asking. Tsark out.

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Generally speaking, you're safest bet is to wait until you know for 100% certainty that you have a medical condition which warrants a visit to an emergency room, or else otherwise the odds in the percentage in the risk of being over-diagnosed by a visit to the general practitioner's office sky rockets. Common sense dictates that you would be the very first to know if there's anything seriously wrong with your body long before anybody else would know about it. As for the Prilosec to reduce the acid content of the stomach, you could've safely achieved essentially the same purpose by lowering the PH level in the stomach through taking baking soda but without the toxic side effects. (By the way, me thinks that the "pressure on the chest area" and feelings of "restricted breathing" likely occurred because perhaps you swallowed a little too much in order to wash down the "stuck in the throat" feeling, which was a little too much to swallow on an already still-full stomach, hence the reactionary ill symptoms from an already still-full stomach?) For a number of decades prior to the days of "modern medicine" pretty much nearly all household medical cabinets held two items to treat most common ailments, baking soda and apple cider vinegar. One is a base and the other is an acid. The base raises the PH level and the acid lowers the PH level. In stark comparison here's a list of the toxic effects associated with the ingestion of Prilosec:

(The list of all the toxic effects listed below associated with Prilosec is only a partial list and not a complete list)

Headache
Diarrhea
Acid Regurgitation (acid reflux)
Abdominal Pain
Nausea URI
Dizziness
Vomiting
Rash
Constipation
Flatulence
Cough
Back Pain
Asthenia (abnormal loss of strength)

Body As a Whole: Allergic reactions, including, rarely, anaphylaxis (see also Skin below), fever, pain, fatigue, malaise, abdominal swelling

Cardiovascular: Chest pain or angina, tachycardia, bradycardia, palpitation, elevated blood pressure, peripheral edema

Gastrointestinal: Pancreatitis (some fatal), anorexia, irritable colon, flatulence, fecal discoloration, esophageal candidiasis, mucosal atrophy of the tongue, dry mouth, stomatitis. During treatment with omeprazole, gastric fundic gland polyps have been noted rarely. These polyps are benign and appear to be reversible when treatment is discontinued.

Gastro-duodenal carcinoids have been reported in patients with ZE syndrome on long-term treatment with PRILOSEC. This finding is believed to be a manifestation of the underlying condition, which is known to be associated with such tumors.

Hepatic: Mild and, rarely, marked elevations of liver function tests [ALT (SGPT), AST (SGOT), glutamyl transpeptidase, alkaline phosphatase, and bilirubin (jaundice)]. In rare instances, overt liver disease has occurred, including hepatocellular, cholestatic, or mixed hepatitis, liver necrosis (some fatal), hepatic failure (some fatal), and hepatic encephalopathy.

Metabolic/Nutritional: Hyponatremia, hypoglycemia, weight gain

Musculoskeletal: Muscle cramps, myalgia, muscle weakness, joint pain, leg pain

Nervous System/Psychiatric: Psychic disturbances including depression, agitation, aggression, hallucinations, confusion, insomnia, nervousness, tremors, apathy, somnolence, anxiety, dream abnormalities; vertigo; paresthesia; hemifacial dysesthesia

Respiratory: Epistaxis, pharyngeal pain

Skin: Rash and, rarely, cases of severe generalized skin reactions including toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN; some fatal), Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and erythema multiforme (some severe); purpura and/or petechiae (some with rechallenge); skin inflammation, urticaria, angioedema, pruritus, photosensitivity, alopecia, dry skin, hyperhidrosis

Special Senses: Tinnitus, taste perversion

Ocular: blurred vision, ocular irritation, dry eye syndrome, optic atrophy, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, optic neuritis, double vision

Urogenital: Interstitial nephritis (some with positive rechallenge), urinary tract infection, microscopic pyuria, urinary frequency, elevated serum creatinine, proteinuria, hematuria, glycosuria, testicular pain, gynecomastia

Hematologic: Rare instances of pancytopenia, agranulocytosis (some fatal), thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, leukopenia, anemia, leucocytosis, and hemolytic anemia have been reported.

I'll share with you a little known secret about modern medications that our doctors tend to know about but of course mainstream society doesn't. Practically all or nearly all of our prescription medications can produce the toxic side effects identical to the ailments there are used to treat. For example, if you do the research you'll find that the medications most often used to treat for Parkinson's disorder also includes parkinsonism as one of its toxic side effects. Likewise, the list of toxic side effects associated with the use of our prescribed medications that are used to treat for Alzheimer's include Alzheimer's itself. If you look back at the top of the list for Prilosec you'll notice that one of the toxic side effects of Prilosec includes acid regurgitation which is another way of saying acid reflux, that's what I'm talking about. If you name it and you dig deep enough you'll find this is true for at least nearly all of our modern medical drugs. Furthermore, if you dig deep enough you'll eventually discover and reach the same conclusion that nearly all of our prescribed medications happen to share approximately 170+ of the same toxic side effects. That's how come you'll notice many of our prescription drugs advertise in our mass media that's used to treat for different types of ailments tend to share the same toxic side effects such as loss of taste, dry mouth, diarrhea, etcetera. We just can't squeeze in all of the 170+ potential toxic side effects into each and every commercial because that's just not practical. This knowledge I speak of is not hidden and is out there in the open for anyone to look at but of course most people won't bother to look. As for the double-blind test studies it's also a little known secret that the tests also include a cross-over of the test subjects, that is, some of the test subjects who were given the medication will later get switch over to the group who takes the placebos. If not for the cross-over, then practically nearly 100% of the Prilosec group would be the only ones listed as having some degree of headaches, dry mouth, blurred vision, muscular atrophy, diarrhea, constipation, etcetera. If not for the cross-over then only the group that's said to take the medications would show symptoms of having all of the toxic effects whereas the placebo group would show to have zero toxic effects because sugar pills absolutely do not cause headaches, dry mouth, blurred vision, diarrhea, liver failure, respiratory distress, etcetera. But if you look at any comparison tables you'll notice that it always appears as though sugar pills can also produce these toxic effects. There's a good sane practical good reason to explain these discrepancies within our medical establishment but then we get into the topics of human evolution and global population constraints along with sexual genetic evolution and what-not.

Anyhows, just let me know if you left something out and if there's more information you need to share, for instance, you mentioned that you've "always had issues with bowel movement" but then you neglected to elaborate exactly what do you mean by "always" and what specific issues are you talking about? Therefore, I don't know if you've only "thought" that you've always had issues with bowel movement without actually having any or if you've truly been suffering from real problems with bowel movement? I'm inclined to think that you've only "thought so" or else I would have expected you to have immediately clarified what the issues are from the get-go and yet you chose not to elaborate any further than to give a brief vague mention of it? See what I mean?

Lastly, you were sane on deciding that the headaches were more of a problem than the acid reflux itself and therefore not worth taking the Prilosec anymore. Some people would have blindly opted to put up with the severe headaches in order to getting rid of the milder symptoms of acid reflux.

I wish you well. Tsark out.

psss.
It's not a big deal but I thought I'd mention something before this post closes because I keep thinking just maybe you'd like to know? When you wrote the sentence: "Also, are there any supplements I can take instead of medication for acid reflux?" I believe you meant to use the word "substitute" instead of the word "supplement". A "supplement" is something added to a treatment to replace a deficiency caused by the initial treatment, for example, when people take prescribed "water pills" to treat for fluid retention (edema, swelling, bloating) the prescription "water pills" have the reputation of depleting crucial potassium levels in the body, therefore, potassium pills are also taken as a "supplement" to make up for the deficiency of potassium caused by the "water pills". And another thing, although Prilosec reduces the production of stomach acid whereas baking soda with water merely changes the PH level, the baking soda neutralizes the acidity of the acid so even if there's some regurgitation the contents of the regurgitation is no longer caustic or corrosive and therefore it doesn't burn the wall lining of the food pipe and does not give that stuck-in-the-throat feeling. In other words, that stuck-in-the-throat feeling was the corrosive burning effect that the stomach acid had on the wall lining of the esophagus (food pipe). But one needs to regulate just the right amount of baking soda to use. Common sense says start off with a small amount first and then slowly increase amount if needed in order to avoid over-dosing on the baking soda.

Tsark out.

Source(s):
Confessions of a Medical Heretic.
Physician's Desk Reference.
RxList.com

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Question posed:
Too much Lithium...?
My doctor just uped my dosage of lithium for my depression. She put me on it because it seemed like every antidepressant I took made me suicidal or hallucinate or both. But ever since she changed the dosage I keep thinking I'm seeing things out of the corner of my eyes that aren't there. Which is what happened with the antidepressants until the hallucinations got more frequent and realistic. Could it be the Lithium? I'm on Lamcital and Clonzepam as well. I've also noticed that I'm a lot more on edge. Not all the time but when I do get like that it seems worse to the point where my family doesn't want to be around, which is understandable I wouldn't either. Any ideas?

Thank you for asking. I've cut and pasted some previous answers which are suitable to answering your question. A lot of what's presented below is based on people who are already on prescribed medications. First, I'll list some of the things that can go wrong on lithium treatment, and the 2ndly please allow me to share with you my answer to a previous question because the relevant information also applies to all of our prescribed medications. Further below I've also listed advocacy support groups who also found prescribed medications to be of no therapeutic value to them and you may find it interesting to hear what they have to say.

LITHIUM (anti-psychotic) TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS:
(The list of toxic effects is not a complete list.)

AUTONOMIC TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Cycloplegia (blurred vision); xerostomia (abnormal dryness of mouth).

CARDIOVASCULAR TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Lithium may cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Data from Lithium birth registries suggest an increase in cardiac and other anomalies, especially Ebstein's anomaly. Lithium is excreted in human milk; breast-feeding should not be undertaken during lithium treatment due to possible hazards to child. Other toxic effects include: Cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heartbeat); hypotension; peripheral circulatory collapse.

NERVOUS SYSTEM TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Confusion; stupor; coma; slurred speech; epileptiform seizures; blackout spells; vertigo (reeling sensation as if about to fall); incontinence of urine or feces (lacking normal voluntary control of excretory functions); dizziness; sleepiness; psychomotor retardation; acute dystonia (jerking of body or body parts including protrusion of the tongue, discoloration, aching and rounding of the tongue); downbeat nystagmus (rapid involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs).

DERMATOLOGIC TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Drying and thinning of hair; alopecia (hair loss or baldness); anesthesia of skin; exacerbation of psoriasis (chronic inflammatory skin disorder characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales); xerosis cutis (abnormal dryness of skin, eyes, or mucous membranes); chronic folliculitis (inflammation of a hair follicles).

GASTROINTESTINAL TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Anorexia; nausea; vomiting; diarrhea.

NEUROMUSCULAR TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Ataxia (incoordination); tremor; twitching; muscular weakness; hyperactive deep tendon reflexes; muscle hyperirritability (fasciculation (twitching) & abnormal contraction-relaxation movements of whole limbs); choreo-athetotic (between slow and jerky) movements.

THYROID TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Euthyroid goiter and/or hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid gland) including myxedema (dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration) accompanied by lower T3 and T4. Iodine 131 uptake may be elevated, & paradoxical hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) have been reported.

URITOLOGIC TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Albuminuria (excessive albumin protein in urine); glycosuria (abnormal high level of glucose sugar in urine); oliguria (abnormal small amount of urine production); polyuria (excessive passage of urine). Chronic lithium therapy may be associated with diminution of renal concentrating ability, occasionally presenting as nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, with polyuria (excessive passage of urine) and polydipsia. Morphologic changes with glomerular and interstitial fibrosis and nephron-atrophy also associated with lithium tranquilizers.

EARLY SIGN OF KIDNEY DAMAGE IS WHEN KIDNEYS LEAK SMALL AMOUNTS OF A PROTEIN CALLED ALBUMIN INTO THE URINE & WITH MORE DAMAGE THE KIDNEYS LEAK MORE PROTEIN. THIS PROBLEM IS CALLED PROTEINURIA OR ALBUMINURIA. MORE AND MORE WASTES BUILD UP IN BLOOD AND DAMAGE GETS WORSE UNTIL KIDNEYS FAIL LEADING TO EVENTUAL DEATH.

ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CHANGES TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Reversible flattening; isoelectricity; inversion of t-waves.

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM CHANGES TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Diffuse slowly, widening of frequency spectrum; potentiation; disruption of background rhythm.

OTHER LITHIUM TOXIC SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE:
Diarrhea; vomiting; fatigue; lethargy; weight loss; tendency to sleep; headache; cutaneous ulcers; leucocytosis (abnormal increase of white blood cells); edematous swelling of ankles or wrists; metallic taste; transient hyperglycemia (abnormal high amount of glucose sugar in blood); thirst; transient scotoma (a blind or dark spot in the visual field); excessive weight gain; transient electrocardiographic & electroencephalographic changes; diffuse nontoxic goiter with or without hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid gland) including myxedema (dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration); generalized pruritis (severe itching) with or without rash; polyuria (excessive passage of urine) resembling diabetes insipidus; dehydration; giddiness; tinnitus (ringing in the ears); worsening of Organic Brain Syndrome (any of various disorders of cognition caused by permanent or temporary brain dysfunction and characterized especially by dementia). A report has been received of development of painful discoloration of fingers and toes and coldness of the extremities within one day of starting treatment of lithium. Mechanism through which symptoms (resembling Raynaud's Syndrome) developed is not known.

DRUG INTERACTIONS TOXIC EFFECTS COMBINED WITH LITHIUM INCLUDE:
The combined use of lithium and Haloperidol (Haldol) may produce Encephalopathic Syndrome (characterized by weakness, lethargy, fever, extrapyramidal symptoms, tremulousness and confusion); leucocytosis (abnormal increase of white blood cells); elevated serum enzymes; followed by irreversible brain damage.

EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME TOXIC SYMPTOMS OF LITHIUM INCLUDE:
Tremor; dysarthria (slurred speech); parkinsonism; shuffling gait; drooling; muscular rigidity; Tardive Dyskinesia Syndrome as involuntary and irregular muscle movements usually in the face; agitation; tonic spasm of the masticatory (chewing) muscles; retrocollis (posterior neck spasms); torticollis (neck muscle spasms, twisting of the neck and unnatural position of the head, wryneck); akathisia (motor restlessness characterized by muscular quivering, inability to sit still, and intense anxiety at the thought of sitting down); aching and numbness of the limbs; tight feeling in throat; oculogyric crisis (spasmodic turning of the eyeballs in the sockets into a fixed position usually upward that persists for several minutes or hours); akinesia (loss of normal motor function); hyperreflexia (twitching); trismus (lockjaw, prolonged spasm of jaw muscles, gnashing of teeth); dystonia (jerking of body or body parts including tongue protrusion, discoloration, aching and rounding of the tongue); opisthotonus (abnormal bridging or arching of spinal cord);
motor restlessness. Extrapyramidal toxic effects may persist after discontinuation of treatment .

LITHIUM OVERDOSE:
THE TOXIC LEVELS FOR LITHIUM TRANQUILIZERS ARE CLOSE TO THE THERAPEUTIC LEVELS. NO SPECIFIC ANTIDOTE FOR LITHIUM POISONING IS KNOWN.

Source(s):
Truthful News of Iatrogenocide, Mental Illness, and Drug Side Effects.

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Truthful News of Iatrogenocide, Mental Illness, and Drug Side Effects - Chapter 6 of 6
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This chapter includes:

HOW TO AVOID TAKING PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICATIONS . . .

HOW TO LEAVE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL "AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE“ . . .

HOW TO SAFELY STOP USING PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS AFTER PROLONGED USAGE . . .

HOW TO SECURE A PERMANENT LIFETIME MONTHLY INCOME BY APPLYING FOR SSI (Supplemental Security Income) & WELFARE BENEFITS.

If your monthly income has been less than $150 a month for the last two years then you are most likely eligible for receiving State Welfare financial assistance plus Foodstamps from Federal Department of Agriculture.

If your monthly income has been less than $500-a-month for the last two years then you are mostly likely eligible for receiving Federal SSI financial assistance with 5-year-mail-renewal.

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HOW TO AVOID TAKING PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS:
FOR THOSE OF WHO MIGHT HAPPEN TO BE IN A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL SITUATION OF YOUR OWN AND DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO TO STOP THOSE AROUND YOU FROM CONSTANTLY PRESSURING YOU INTO TAKING PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS EVEN THOUGH YOU DO NOT WANT TO TAKE IT, THE BEST SUGGESTION I CAN OFFER YOU THAT WORKS IS FOR YOU TO PRETEND TAKING THE MEDICATIONS AND KEEP IT A SECRET TO YOURSELF. WHEN THE DOCTOR HANDS YOU THE MEDICATIONS, BE POLITE AND ACCEPT IT FROM THE DOCTOR THEN PRETEND TO TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS EVERY DAY AND ANYTIME ANYONE ASKS YOU HOW ARE YOU DOING ON YOUR MEDICATIONS SIMPLY SMILE AND SAY YOU'RE DOING QUITE WELL WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS AND POLITELY THANK'EM FOR ASKING. YOUR SITUATION WILL QUICKLY IMPROVE A LOT BETTER INSTEAD OF TRYING TO INSIST TO OTHERS THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE THE PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS BECAUSE OF THE PAINFUL TOXIC-SIDE-EFFECTS. YOU'LL FIND WHEN IN THE WILDS AND UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, CHEATING OR PRETENDING CAN BE OF THE BEST STRATEGY. HERE ON JUNGLE-EARTH IF THEY BELIEVE YOU ARE TAKING YOUR PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS THEN THEY WILL BE SO HAPPY ABOUT IT AND THEY WILL STOP STRESSING YOU OVER THE PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS AND STOP BUGGING YOU ABOUT IT. EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE TELLING A LIE, I KNOW IT MAY SOUND RIDICULOUS BUT UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES PRETENDING HAS SHOWN TO BE THE BEST OVERALL POLICY FOR EVERYONE'S PEACE OF MIND. Even if you find yourself in the confines of a psychiatric institution because your family put you in there, the vast majority of the time it's nearly always done on a voluntary basis as opposed to being court-committed, that is, at some point in time during the intake procedure an applicant is needed to sign a document which states the applicant is entering the facility on a voluntary basis and therefore has the privilege to leave voluntarily. If you HAVE NOT been court-committed but were signed in by another family member then it means you are there on a voluntary basis but sometimes family members and staff may or may not try to pretend as if they have same legal power as court authority in order to trick a patient but it's still based on a voluntary entry. In actual practice most patients in psychiatric hospitals entered voluntarily and can therefore leave voluntarily but very few patients knows of this Federal, State, & hospital policy. If you find yourself in a psych ward because of family pressure to put you in there, you'll also find it better to fake taking the prescribed medications and everybody will leave you alone about it as long as you keep pretending that you're taking the prescribed medications, particularly if it's in pill form, just hide it between the upper gums and upper lip but act like you swallowed the pill with a gulp from the water or juice they handed you then say thank you to them because if you speak and say thank you it'll look all that more convincing to other patients as if you swallowed the prescribed medications. The staff will secretly know whether or not you're taking the prescribed medications because they'll be able to see it from your behavior. When patients do not show any signs of toxic-side-effects and not complaining about burred vision, dizziness, etc., it means these people aren't ingesting the toxic substances but as long as you pretend to take the pill things will go a lot smoother for you, however, the moment you blab the truth to anyone including to other patients that you're faking then it'll be all your fault when people start stressing you out all over again for not taking your prescribed medications, and then the next time they might start giving it you in liquid form or by injection but it'll be your fault for not keeping it a secret to yourself. At that point, you may exert your legal right to leave the institution.
HOW VOLUNTARY PATIENTS CAN LEAVE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL "AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE" :
THE VAST MAJORITY OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS ENTER THE FACILITY ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS AS OPPOSED TO BEING COURT-COMMITTED. THAT MEANS YOU CAN LEAVE IF YOU WANT TO BUT MOST PATIENTS DON'T KNOW THIS SECRET. THE VAST MAJORITY OF VOLUNTARY PATIENTS BELIEVE THEY NEED THE DOCTOR'S PERMISSION AND/OR PERHAPS THEIR FAMILY'S CONSENT IN ORDER TO LEGALLY LEAVE A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL BUT BY LAW THE DECISION FOR VOLUNTARY PATIENTS TO LEAVE EARLY IS UP TO THE VOLUNTARY PATIENT THEMSELVES. MANY PATIENTS WHO WANT TO LEAVE DO NOT KNOW THEY HAVE AN EASY LEGAL WAY OUT BECAUSE THE STAFF AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS WILL OFTEN DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO CONVINCE THE PATIENT THAT THE PATIENT HAS NO CHOICE EXCEPT TO REMAIN IN THE HOSPITAL AND CANNOT LEAVE UNTIL THE DOCTOR DECIDES WHEN THE PATIENT CAN LEAVE BUT THAT'S ONLY PURE SCARE TACTICS TO TRICK THE PATIENT INTO TAKING MEDICATIONS. THE KEY TO GETTING OUT OF A SECURED OR LOCKED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL IS TO COMPLAIN NON-VIOLENTLY OUT LOUD AND BE OBNOXIOUS AS YOU WANT AND GRUMBLE UP A STORM THAT YOU “WANT TO LEAVE A.M.A., NOW.” WHICH STANDS FOR “AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE”. SOMETIMES IT MAY TAKE UP TO 4 FULL HOURS OF NON-STOP YAKKING YOUR HEAD OFF THAT YOU “WANT OUT A.M.A. RIGHT NOW!” BEFORE STAFF FINALLY GIVES IN AND CALLS THE DOCTOR TO COME IN SO THAT HE CAN SIGN THE DISCHARGE PAPERS FOR YOU. UNTIL THEN STAFF WILL LIE EVERY WHICH WAY FOR HOURS JUST TO TRY AND CONVINCE YOU THAT YOU CANNOT LEAVE AND THAT YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO STAY AND HAVE TO TAKE THE MEDICATIONS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, BUT ALL VOLUNTARY PATIENTS WHO ENTERS THE FACILITY ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS CAN LEAVE VOLUNTARILY IF THEY WANT TO AND THE STAFF SECRETLY KNOWS THIS. THE TRICK TO GETTING OUT IS TO GRUMBLE, GRUMBLE, GRUMBLE NON-STOP AND NON-VIOLENTLY OUT LOUD YOU “WANT TO LEAVE AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE RIGHT NOW!” AND DON'T STOP GRUMBLING NON-VIOLENTLY OUT LOUD UNTIL THE DOCTOR COMES TO SIGN YOUR DISCHARGE PAPERS. IT'S THAT SIMPLE TO GET OUT UNLESS YOU EXHIBIT VIOLENT TENDENCIES WHICH WOULD GIVE THEM THE EXCUSE THEY NEED TO KEEP YOU THERE AGAINST YOUR FREE WILL AND KEEP YOU DRUGGED ON PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS. EVERY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL HAS A PATIENT HANDBOOK AND IN EVERY PATIENT HANDBOOK IT SPECIFIES THAT THE HOSPITAL CANNOT FORCE PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS UPON PATIENTS WHO ARE NON-VIOLENT AND WHO ARE OF NO DANGER TO ANYONE, HOWEVER, SOME PLACES WILL ROUTINELY BREAK FEDERAL LAW AND FORCE-INJECT MEDICATIONS UPON PATIENTS AGAINST THE PATIENT'S FREE WILL IN DELIBERATE VIOLATION OF HOSPITAL POLICY GUIDELINES. IF STAFF TRIES TO BREAK THE LAW BY FORCE-INJECTING MEDICATIONS UPON YOU THEN KEEP DEMANDING TO SEE A COPY OF THE PATIENT HANDBOOK UNTIL THEY GIVE YOU A COPY AND THEN POINT IT OUT TO THEM IN THE PATIENT HANDBOOK WHERE IT SAYS THE HOSPITAL IS NOT ALLOWED TO FORCE MEDICATIONS UPON PATIENTS WHEN THE PATIENT IS NOT A DANGER TO THEMSELVES NOR A DANGER TO OTHERS AND LOUDLY REMIND THE STAFF SO EVERYONE AROUND CAN CLEARLY HEAR YOU THAT THE RULE IS ALSO FEDERAL LAW AS WELL AS A HOSPITAL RULE AND REGULATION POLICY.

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HOW TO SAFELY GET OFF PROLONGED USAGE OF PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS:
TARDIVE DYSKINESIA SYNDROME AND ALL OTHER SIMILAR MALADIES MAY OCCUR AFTER PROLONGED USAGE OF PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICATIONS OR MAY ALSO OCCUR UPON SUDDEN STOPPAGE OF USING THE MEDICATION AFTER PROLONGED USAGE BY SHOCKING THE BODY'S METABOLISM INTO ABRUPT METABOLIC CHANGES THAT CAN RESULT IN THE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF TARDIVE DYSKINESIA SYNDROME, SEVERE IMPAIRMENT OF MOTOR CONTROL. IF YOU'VE BEEN TAKING PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS THEN PLEASE USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN GETTING OFF THE MEDICATIONS BY SLOWLY REDUCING YOUR DOSAGE SLOWLY BY A TINY, LITTLE LESS DOSAGE EVERY WEEK OR TWO WEEKS AT A TIME SO AS TO AVOID SENDING THE BODY INTO A SUDDEN WITHDRAWAL REACTION FROM A SUDDEN CHANGE IN METABOLISM. IN INSTANCES WHERE YOUR BODY HAS SLOWLY GOTTEN USED TO THE DRUG OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, YOUR BODY THEREFORE ALSO NEEDS TO SLOWLY DETOXIFY ITSELF OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME SUCH AS OVER 3 TO 4 MONTHS TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, SO AS TO AVOID SUDDEN WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS AND TO AVOID ABRUPT AND/OR SUDDEN CHANGES IN YOUR METABOLISM WHICH COULD CAUSE TARDIVE DYSKINESIA SYNDROME IF NOT DETOXIFIED SLOWLY OVER A LONG SLOW PERIOD OF A FEW MONTHS. IF YOU REDUCE DOSAGE EITHER BY TOO MUCH AND/OR TOO SOON YOU MAY FEEL SOME UNCOMFORTABLE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS. IF YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS THEN DO NOT REDUCE AMOUNT OF DOSAGE SO SOON AND/OR BY TOO MUCH UNTIL YOUR BODY GETS USED TO THE REDUCED AMOUNT THAT ITS BEEN RECENTLY TAKING, THEN AFTER ANOTHER WEEK OR SO YOU MAY TRY AGAIN TO REDUCE YOUR INTAKE BY JUST A LITTLE AMOUNT, AND TRY TO REDUCE YOUR DOSAGE INTAKE SLOWLY OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME WITHOUT FEELING ANY WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS.
A COUPLE OF NICE THINGS ABOUT PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICATIONS IS THAT IT USUALLY TAKES PROLONGED USAGE BEFORE TARDIVE DYSKINESIA SYNDROME "MAY" OR "MAY NOT" BECOME "REVERSIBLE", AND SECONDLY, ABRUPT STOPPAGE CAN BE AVOIDED WHEN SLOWLY DETOXIFIED A LITTLE AT A TIME OVER A MATTER OF A FEW MONTHS WITHOUT HAVING CRITICAL WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS. THE PDR (PHYSICIANS' DESK REFERENCE BOOK) MENTIONS:
1) TARDIVE DYSKINESIA SYNDROME SYMPTOMS "APPEAR" TO BE IRREVERSIBLE IN "SOME" PATIENTS. (THAT'S A HINT IT'S USUALLY REVERSIBLE.)
2) TARDIVE DYSTONIA MAY PRESENT AS ACUTE "REVERSIBLE" TORTICOLLIS OR TWISTING OF THE NECK AND UNNATURAL POSITION OF THE HEAD. (SAME AS SAYING ACUTE ONSET OF SYMPTOMS "CAN BE" REVERSIBLE.)
FOR A SECOND OPINION PERTAINING SPECIFICALLY TO BENZODIAZEPINE ADDICTION WITH SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO SLOWLY STOP TAKING BENZODIAZEPINE, THERE'S A LINK AT ANTIPSYCHIATRY.ORG LEADING TO ANOTHER WEBSITE CALLED BENZO.ORG.UK AT URL: HTTP://WWW.BENZO.ORG.UK.

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HOW TO APPLY FOR SSI AND WELFARE BENEFITS:
WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE LIVING AT HOME WITH FAMILY WHO USES YOU AS THEIR EMOTIONAL SCAPEGOAT, IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM A PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY OR A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISABILITY THEN I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO APPLY FOR FEDERAL SSI, (SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME) BENEFITS AT YOUR LOCAL SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION OFFICE IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE OF THE UNITED STATES, OR WITH OTHER SUCH SIMILAR ENTITY ORGANIZATION(S) IF YOU ARE OF ANOTHER NATION WHERE APPLICABLE SO YOU CAN AFFORD TO GET A SAFE AND QUIET PLACE OF YOUR OWN TO REDUCE STRESS FACTORS. IN UNITED STATES THE FIRST STEP IN APPLYING FOR SSI INVOLVES RECEIVING AN APPLICATION AND THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER TO CALL TO HAVE AN APPLICATION MAILED TO YOU IS 1-800-772-1213. BEWARE THAT THE INITIAL APPLICATION PROCESS FOR SSINCOME STARTS OF AS IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR SSDISABILITY BUT JUST CONTINUE THE PROCESS AND EVENTUALLY IT WILL INCLUDE AND LEAD TO THE SSINCOME APPLICATION PROCESS. NEXT IS THE INTERVIEW WITH AN SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION SOCIAL WORKER EITHER AT THE SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE OR BY PHONE. LATER COMES THE PSYCH EVALUATION PROCESS WITH AN SSI DOCTOR AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE . WHEN YOU FILL OUT THE APPLICATION YOU MUST BE SURE TO MENTION THAT YOU ARE APPLYING FOR EITHER A PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITY EVALUATION OR A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISABILITY EVALUATION. AT THE SAME TIME YOU APPLY FOR SSI BENEFITS IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU CONCURRENTLY APPLY FOR ANY OTHER BENEFITS THAT YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR AND THAT INCLUDES WELFARE ASSISTANCE. DURING THE TIME OF THE 6-MONTH SSI WAITING PERIOD YOU COULD BE COLLECTING BOTH STATE WELFARE FOODSTAMPS AND STATE WELFARE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE UNTIL FEDERAL SSI BENEFITS GOES INTO EFFECT. SSI APPLICANTS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO ALSO APPLY FOR STATE BENEFITS, HOWEVER, STATE WELFARE DO TELL APPLICANTS THAT THEY ARE REQUIRED TO ALSO APPLY FOR FEDERAL SSI BENEFITS BUT IN THE MAJORITY OF CASEFILES I KNOW OF WEFARE APPLICANTS USUALLY NEGLECT TO ALSO APPLY FOR SSI BENEFITS.

VETERAN BENEFITS:
IF YOU ARE A MILITARY VETERAN WITH A PSYCHIATRIC OR A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISABILITY WITH AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE OR A GENERAL DISCHARGE UNDER HONORABLE CONDITIONS AND SERVED LESS THAN SIX MONTHS OF ACTIVE DUTY THEN YOU MAY STILL FIND YOURSELF ELIGIBLE FOR V.A. NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY BENEFITS WHICH IS USUALLY A GREATER MONTHLY AMOUNT THAN SSI BENEFITS. THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF V.A. NON-SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY BENEFITS IN MOST CASES IS CURRENTLY $846 IN 2005, AND YOU MAY WANT TO AT LEAST APPLY FOR BOTH VETERANS ADMINISTRATION BENEFITS AND WELFARE ASSISTANCE BECAUSE V.A. BENEFITS TAKES UP TO SIX MONTHS BEFORE V.A. BENEFITS ARRIVE, AND MEANWHILE WELFARE SERVICES WILL SUPPORT YOU TO SOME DEGREE DURING THE SIX-MONTH WAITING PERIOD UNTIL V.A. BENEFITS ARRIVE. THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION WILL SEND YOUR BENEFITS TO MOST ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD YOU LIVE EXCEPT TO CURRENT COMMUNISTIC GOVERNMENT NATIONS.




WELFARE “EMERGENCY” FOODSTAMPS:
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION WILL SEND SSI BENEFITS TO ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND INCLUDING THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS, IF YOU SO DESIRE. CURRENT SSI BENEFITS AMOUNT IS $564 A MONTH AND IT IS GREATLY RECOMMENDED BY SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION THAT YOU HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO RECEIVE YOUR BENEFITS BY DIRECT DEPOSIT WHICH IS THE SAFEST AND CONVENIENT METHOD FOR RECEIVING MONTHLY BENEFITS. SAME LOGIC APPLIES FOR V.A. BENEFITS. SSI BENEFITS TAKES 6 MONTHS TO ARRIVE BUT WHEN YOU APPLY CONCURRENTLY FOR WELFARE “EMERGENCY” ASSISTANCE YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO HAVE FOODSTAMPS AND/OR MONEY IN YOUR POCKET ON THE DAY YOU APPLY, OR WITHIN A MATTER OF A FEW TO SEVERAL DAYS, BUT MANY TIMES IT WOULD BE JUST FOODSTAMPS RIGHT AWAY WITHIN DAYS. THE DAY YOUR APPLICATION IS RECEIVED BY V.A., SSI, AND/OR WELFARE SERVICES IS THE DATE FROM WHICH YOUR ELIGIBILITY FOR BENEFITS WILL BE DETERMINED, OR IN OTHER WORDS, BENEFITS WILL START TO COVER FROM THE TIME PERIOD STARTING FROM THE FILING DATE WHICH IS THE DAY THEY FIRST RECEIVE YOUR APPLICATION. V.A. OR SSI BENEFITS BECOMES RETROACTIVE UPON RECEIVING FIRST PAYMENT WHICH ARRIVES AT THE END OF THE 6-MONTH PROCESSING PERIOD AS A LUMP SUM, HOWEVER, A CERTAIN AMOUNT NEEDS TO BE DEDUCTED FROM LUMP SUM SSI PAYMENT TO REIMBURSE WELFARE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE THAT WERE PAID DURING THE 6-MONTH PERIOD. IT IS USUALLY UP TO THE RECIPIENT TO DO THE HONEST THING AND REIMBURSE STATE WELFARE OF WHAT'S DUE BUT WHEN RECIPIENTS FAIL TO DO THE HONEST THING THEN A PENALTY IS PLACED UPON THEIR FUTURE WELFARE APPLICATION. AFTER THE 6-MONTH SSI APPLICATION PROCESS THE RETROACTIVE LUMP SUM FROM SSI (OR V.A.) PAYMENT PROVIDES FOR FURNISHING A PRIVATE PLACE OF RESIDENCE IF NEED BE, AND/OR FIRST MONTH'S RENT, AND/OR RENTAL SECURITY DEPOSIT EQUAL TO ONE MONTH'S RENT WHEN APPLICABLE. If you're residing in a public institution such as a psychiatric hospital, you can still turn in the application but the official filing date will be considered to start from the day you are released or discharged from the facility. In other words, the System is designed to help those who need help in finding residence and food to eat, but if a person is residing some place where there's food to eat then they don't readily need the benefits until that person leaves the institution.
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FOR ANY REASON, YOU MUST AT LEAST FILL OUT YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND SIGN YOUR SIGNATURE(S) AND TURN THE APPLICATION IN AND THEY WILL HELP YOU FILL OUT THE REST OF THE APPLICATION ON THE DAY YOU GO IN FOR THE INTERVIEW. Generally speaking, if you do not bring in a monthly income of around $500 a month then you may be eligible for SSI benefits, and if your income is less than around $150 a month then you may be considered eligible for Welfare "Emergency" assistance and in some places might have foodstamps on the day you apply, or within several days and sometimes financial assistance in your pocket within days but most times it'll be just for foodstamps within several days while the Welfare financial assistance won't usually kick in until the early part of the following month. Some Welfare offices may only schedule emergency assistance on certain days of the week, and/or only during certain hours of the morning, and/or only on a stand-by basis. If that happens, be persistent, for example, if there's many clients trying to apply for emergency assistance on a stand-by basis every day, then get there early, at best one full hour before the door opens in the morning so that you'll be the first or second in line. If they still can't take your case on the first morning because maybe the 3rd or 10th person in line is a mother with kids who needs help right away then they might take her casefile and tell everybody else to come back tomorrow to try again. If that happens make sure to return the very next day instead of waiting to return days later. They'll take the cases deemed the most critical, and if a person's case is critical then they expect that person to show up as a stand-by every day without fail no matter how many days it takes. Aside from mothers with children, the person who shows up for emergency stand-by assistance every day without fail is considered the one who need the assistance the most or else that person wouldn't be showing up every day without fail. If they see you first in line at the front door 2 or 3 days-in-a-row then chances are very likely Welfare services will take your case without making you wait in line for a third or fourth time.

A HOUSEHOLD MEMBER OF 1:
The only tricky part in the whole process for benefits happens to be in the Welfare office because Welfare Social Workers are required to ask clients how does the client get their meals? OUR WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER NEEDS TO CLASSIFY YOU AS A “HOUSEHOLD MEMBER OF 1”. If there's a homeless shelter in your city then you may give the Welfare Social Worker the name of the homeless shelter and/or also may tell them that you eat from handouts and above all YOU NEED TO SPECIFY THAT YOU EAT YOUR OWN FOOD BUT -- DO NOT -- DO NOT -- DO NOT -- TELL THE WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER THAT YOU SHARE YOUR MEALS WITH YOUR FAMILY OR SHARE YOUR FOOD WITH ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE THEN THE WELFARE WORKER WON'T BE ABLE TO CLASSIFY YOU AS A “HOUSEHOLD MEMBER OF 1” IF YOU HAPPEN TO TELL THEM THAT YOU SHARE YOUR MEALS WITH OTHERS INSTEAD OF EATING YOUR OWN FOOD BY YOURSELF, BECAUSE THE WELFARE WORKER NEEDS TO CLASSIFY YOU AS A “HOUSEHOLD MEMBER OF 1” IN ORDER TO MAKE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR WELFARE BENEFITS. I MUST REPEAT, YOU NEED TO TELL THE WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER THAT YOU EAT YOUR OWN FOOD AND THAT YOU DO NOT SHARE YOUR FOOD WITH ANYONE ELSE or else you're going to jeopardize your case file and they don't want you to jeopardize your own case file if you volunteer certain information which they secretly don't want to hear. If you do make the mistake and volunteer more than what's necessary to say or happen to mistakenly say the wrong thing then our Welfare Social Worker is automatically required to get all names of all members to find out everyone in the household who has an income and how much is the total combined income of the household, and if the combined total income exceeds $150 a month then you won't be considered eligible for emergency assistance. Or if the combined total monthly income of all household members exceeds a few to several hundred dollars then you may not be considered eligible for Welfare assistance altogether, and then the worse that would happen is that you might have to wait six months until SSI benefits goes into effect. In most cases the vast majority of our Welfare Social Workers wants to help you out all they possibly can but they can't help you if you sabotage your own case file by volunteering information that they secretly don't want to hear or else it could jeopardize a case file. Lots of times they'll only ask you the simplest question as to where and/or how do you get your meals, just tell them you eat your own food from handouts and don't mention that you share your family's food or you won't be considered a "household member of 1" and you'll ruin your case file. In order for them to consider your case file eligible for further processing, the Welfare Social Worker needs to write down that you're a "household member of 1" without an income or make less than $150 month. If you mention that you do odd jobs for cash then you may be required to submit written confirmation from the person or persons who pays you cash for doing odd jobs, and your monthly Welfare benefits may be slightly reduced by that amount if you continue to do monthly odd jobs for cash. IT'S OKAY TO TELL THE WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER THAT YOU LIVE ON THE SAME PREMISES WITH YOUR FAMILY AS LONG AS YOU TELL THE WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER THAT YOU EAT YOUR OWN MEALS EITHER OUTSIDE IN THE BACK YARD, OR IN THE GARAGE, OR UNDER THE PORCH, OR IN THE BUSHES OF THE VACANT LOT NEXT DOOR. IN ONE PARTICULAR CASE FILE A CLIENT TOLD HIS WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER THAT HE LIVES UNDER THE PORCH AND ATE HIS OWN MEALS ALONE UNDER THE PORCH BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE HE USE TO GO WHENEVER HIS DAD WOULD STRESS HIM OUT, HE WOULD GO HIDE UNDER THE PORCH TO AVOID HIS FATHER, AND THAT MADE HIM ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS BECAUSE THEN HE WAS CONSIDERED A “HOUSEHOLD MEMBER OF 1” WHO ATE HIS OWN FOOD WITHOUT SHARING HIS FOOD WITH OTHERS, THAT'S THE KIND OF THING A WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER NEEDS TO HEAR AND SECRETLY WANTS TO HEAR SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE ON WITH THE INTAKE PROCESSING, THAT YOU EAT YOUR MEALS ALONE, THAT YOU DO NOT SHARE YOUR MEALS WITH ANYONE, AND IS A “HOUSEHOLD MEMBER OF 1”. On rare occasions you may run into the wrong Welfare Social Worker at the wrong Welfare office who likes to play bad god, bad judge, bad jury, bad executioner, bad psychiatrist, and/or bad psychologist all-in-one and they might do everything they can to try and stop you from receiving benefits because in their own eyes and opinion you may not look disabled enough to receive benefits and they might not be able to comprehend your socio-psychological situation, but nevertheless, they are still required to process your case file for a psych evaluation. They may try to sabotage your case file by stalling things until you simply give up, go away, and never come back again, but in most cases that shouldn't happen to you. But if it does ever happen to you, then you can wait a couple of weeks and if you still haven't received your notice of your scheduled psych eval appointment either directly from the Welfare office or in the mail then call your Welfare Social Worker for an update on your case file. If you sense that a bad Welfare worker is giving you the run-around you may want to try and call them again the following week to ask for another update on your case file, of course they'll still give you the run-around again, but that's okay and don't worry about it and don't get angry. Normally a Welfare applicant will be told the date for their scheduled eval doctor's appointment on the day of the interview with no problem at all whatsoever as most of the time the vast majority of our Welfare Social Workers are very good Social Workers, but if a month have passed and you still have not received your letter for your scheduled eval appointment date through the mail after having contacted your Welfare Social Worker for an update then you need to contact the main top supervisor from the main office for the State Department of Human Services or State Department of Health & Human Services that oversees your State's Welfare services either by phone, by letter, or if possible even in person. In a worse-case scenario you will need to go way, way, way over the heads of a bad Welfare Social Worker and go straight to top management at the main office with the State Department of Human Services and contact the top supervisor who oversees all other supervisors of all branch offices, explain your situation to the top supervisor and the top supervisor will help straighten things out for you, pronto, and your benefits will arrive by the following month. In normal procedures you will be given foodstamps within several days when you apply for emergency assistance and have your own food to eat while waiting for your scheduled evaluation appointment with the eval doctor. As much as possible do not let yourself get angry if you should happen to encounter a bad Welfare Social Worker but instead forgive the bad Welfare Social Worker while you go see the top supervisor because a bad Welfare Social Worker may well be considered to know-not what they do or else they would not be doing what bad they do?
Beware of any Welfare Social Worker trying to talk you into looking for a job because job-seeking does not apply to your psych evaluation application. Or perhaps such a Worker may try to fool you and will try to keep talking as if your case file is the same as mainstream able-bodied applicants rather than a psychological evaluation applicant because psyche evals DO NOT HAVE any job-seeking requirements within a pyche eval application. If such a Welfare Social Worker starts telling you about job-seeking requirements you may remind that Welfare Social Worker that you are applying for a psych eval. If a bad Social Worker still wants to insist on telling you that you are required to go seek a job in order to collect benefits, then that bad Welfare Social Worker is trying to sabotage your casefile by tricking you into applying for regular Welfare instead of applying for a psychological evaluation. IF YOU LEAVE THE WELFARE INTERVIEW WITHOUT EITHER A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT OR WITHOUT A LIST FOR YOU TO CHOOSE FROM, THEN SOMETHING'S WRONG AND MOST LIKELY MEANS YOU'VE BEEN TRICKED BY A BAD SOCIAL WORKER WHO'S TRYING TO PLAY PSYCHIATRIST, JUDGE, JURY, AND EXECUTIONER WHO DOESN'T PERSONALLY THINK YOU DESERVE TO HAVE WELFARE BENEFITS AND IS TRYING TO SABOTAGE YOUR APPLICATION PROCESS.

GET LIST OF DOCTORS FROM WELFARE TO MAKE APPOINTMENT FOR MONTHLY THERAPY:
There are two types of Welfare doctors you need to contact, one is for the Welfare psyche evaluation and the other is for Welfare monthly therapy sessions. If you run into a bad Welfare Social Worker then make sure before you leave the Welfare office that you have the list of names of the doctors who work for Welfare so that you can make an appointment for the psyche evaluation and also for monthly therapy sessions with one of the doctors on the list. As for the psych evaluation doctor, the Welfare office is supposed to pick a doctor for the psych evaluation for you and let you know the name of the doctor, place, and time of your eval appointment and NORMALLY, THE WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER WILL SET UP THE APPOINTMENT FOR A PSYCH EVALUATION WITH A WELFARE EVALUATION DOCTOR FOR YOU AND GIVE YOU THE TIME, PLACE, AND DATE OF THE EVAL APPOINTMENT BEFORE THE INTERVIEW IS OVER. A bad Welfare Social Worker might try to avoid setting up an eval appointment while you're still there at the Welfare office even if you ask them to do it, they still might give flaky excuses as to why they can't do it right away and may tell you that you'll be notified through the mail of your scheduled eval appointment. If that should happen to you, don't worry about it but MAKE SURE YOU GET THE LIST OF NAMES OF THERAPY DOCTORS FROM THE WELFARE SOCIAL WORKER SO YOU CAN CHOOSE AND CALL A THERAPY DOCTOR FROM THE LIST TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO SEE A THERAPY DOCTOR FOR YOUR MONTHLY THERAPY SESSIONS. AND MAKE SURE YOU GET THE LIST OF THERAPY SESSION DOCTORS BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE WELFARE OFFICE INTERVIEW. If you don't get the list of names then chances are a bad Welfare Social Worker will not set up an eval appointment and you'll never be notified of any scheduled appointment and nothing further is going to happen with your case file. If a bad Welfare Social Worker confuses you and distracts you enough to make you forget to get the list of names when you walk out the door, then simply turn around and walk back in and tell them nicely, "I'm sorry, but it was all my fault and I forgot to get the list of doctors so that I can make my appointment for my monthly visits, may I please have the list of names, please?" Do not leave the Welfare office without the list of names of Welfare doctors. If you leave without receiving either a doctor's appointment or a list of doctors to choose from then a bad Welfare Social Worker will either bury your casefile or process your application along with mainstream applicants and ruin your chances of getting disability benefits. Even if you tell a bad Welfare Social Worker 10 times or more that you need to have a psych evaluation, they might still try to trick you into walking out the door without the list of doctors so make sure you get the list at all costs. Welfare benefits comes from State funding but SSI benefits comes from Federal funding and SSI Social Workers have stricter guidelines to follow and are generally much more accommodating when applying for SSI benefits. SSI may provide round-trip taxi transportation to and from the SSI evaluation doctor's office to make sure that you make it to your scheduled SSI psych evaluation appointment on time, however, it's up to you to choose a therapy Welfare doctor for monthly therapy sessions from the list the Welfare Social Worker gives you on the day of your initial Welfare office interview and then it is up to you to contact a therapy session doctor from the list to schedule your first monthly appointment, and it's up to your own resources to find your own transportation to both the Welfare evaluation doctor's office and to the monthly visits with the Welfare therapy doctor. The Welfare doctor who does your evaluation interview is never the same doctor who provides monthly therapy sessions. WHEN YOU ATTEND YOUR FIRST MONTHLY THERAPY SESSION BE SURE TO ASK THE DOCTOR FOR A DISABILITY BUS PASS APPLICATION TO HELP YOU MAKE IT TO YOUR FUTURE MONTHLY APPOINTMENTS AND SAVE MONEY BY HAVING A DISABILITY BUS PASS. YOU NEED TO FILL OUT THE CARD IN ORDER TO GET A DISABILITY BUS PASS AND THE DOCTOR WILL FILL IN THE REST OF THE CARD. After you have contacted a Welfare therapy doctor from the list to make an appointment for your first monthly therapy session, the doctor will contact Welfare office to let them know you've set up an appointment so that the doctor can get paid his money from Welfare services. Although it's not necessary for you to notify the Welfare office that you've made an appointment with a monthly therapy doctor, you may still wish to also notify the Welfare office yourself that you've set up an appointment just to be on the safe side, especially if you suspect a bad Welfare Social Worker has neglected to make a scheduled appointment for your psych eval. If a bad Welfare Social Worker has neglected to make you an appointment with a psych eval doctor but then hears from the therapy doctor and/or hears from you that you've made an appointment for your first monthly therapy session then there's always that possibility that the bad Welfare Social Worker may stop stalling and might go ahead and set up a scheduled appointed for the psych evaluation if they realize that you are on top of your own case file.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO BE IN CHARGE OF AND ON TOP OF YOUR OWN CASE FILE:
Remember, it's your case file, you are in charge of your own case file, not somebody else, it all starts with you, without you there is no case file. If you leave it all up to somebody else to be in charge of your own case file then there's always that possibility things can go wrong and things might not get done, but then it would be your own fault for not being in charge of and on top of your own case file and you'll have no one else to blame except for yourself because it's your case file, not the doctor's case file and not the Social Worker's case file, they only process your case file but it is not their case file, and it is your responsibility to make sure you stay on top of your own case file at all times to make sure things go the way it should. Sometimes innocent accidents can happen, for example, your notification letter for the scheduled psych evaluation appointment could get lost in the mail when it accidentally falls behind one of the machines at the post office where no one can readily see it? In such a case scenario, if you missed going to your psych eval appointment then you cannot be made eligible for benefits and it would be your own fault, not the doctor's fault, not the Welfare office's fault, not the Post Office's fault, because it's up to the person who owns the case file to make sure things go smoothly like it should and to fix things if and when something might go wrong with the casefile.

SSI $564 AND FOODSTAMPS CAN AFFORD YOU A PRIVATE ROOM OR STUDIO OF YOUR OWN:
SSI offers enough financial assistance, currently $564 a month in 2006 , where you can afford to get a place of your own even if it's just a small private room or private studio with a private bathroom, at least you'll be able to afford more peace of mind in your own 'castle' where you make the rules because it would be your name and signature on the rental agreement. If an undesirable type personality who is not invited tries to invite themselves into your space to stress you out and/or mooch off of you, at least you'll have the police and judges on your side if you want others out of your 'castle'. If you get a place of your own, then I suggest that you do not invite anyone to your place but instead leave it up to all others to see who has the nerve to show up at your place uninvited, but do not invite anyone or else undesirable type personalities may hear you've been inviting people. Some people who are undesirable to you may try to show up at your place uninvited in order to take advantage of you and mooch off of you because they know you're collecting benefits. When that happens, do not let them through your front door at all costs. At the beginning try to keep your front door locked at all times or else they may simply walk in uninvited and then it'll be so much more difficult to get rid of them if they ever succeed in getting themselves to step into your 'castle' uninvited just once. If they ever succeed to step into your home just one time without being invited in the first place, then it will only encourage them to try and step into your home uninvited a second time, third time, fourth time, and fifth time because they already successful once before? It would only encourage them to manipulate you further once they can get themselves through your front door so talk to them through the window if you have to but keep them outside. When they try to tell you to unlock your door so that they can come in, tell them you're sorry and that YOU NEED YOUR SPACE TO YOURSELF RIGHT NOW and that it has nothing to do with them, tell them that you can't afford to socialize right now because YOU NEED YOUR SPACE TO YOURSELF RIGHT NOW because you have important personal matters on your mind that you need to think about right now, and that YOU NEED YOUR SPACE TO YOURSELF RIGHT NOW. If they ask you what sort of things do you need to think about that's so important, you can say, "I need to focus on getting my life's act together and to figure out how to improve my life's future, plus, I still need to work on solving personal family problems and that sort of things, I have a lot on my mind right now and that's how come I need to have my space to myself right now so I can think". They may try to say they'll come back later to visit again but you should not respond to that, instead pretend as if they never mentioned anything about coming back or else it will only encourage them to come back uninvited again and try again to invade your home. If you don't say anything in response about them coming back then they'll likely get the hint and not bother wasting their time to ever come back again, but if you respond at all about them coming back then it means they've succeeded at influencing you into a conversational topic which they wanted to manipulate upon you and it would only increase their self-confidence into believing sooner or later they can come back and be successful at influencing you into opening your front door for them. If and when they do come back, do not let them through the front door. Talk to them if you have to but keep them outside and they'll eventually get the idea and leave you alone rather than waste their time trying to get through your front door as long as you never let them get through your front door in the first place, not even once. Other than that, you may choose to ignore their presence if you know it's an undesirable who's knocking at the front door. Just ignore them no matter what they say or how loud they knock, if you ignore them long enough they'll eventually get the idea and go away. You do not owe it to anybody to give up your privacy, you're entitled to have privacy in your own 'castle' whenever you want it. Your SSI benefits is for you, it's not for somebody else, they can go apply for their own SSI benefits if they want to spend SSI benefits. You do not owe anybody anything in real life and that includes sharing your SSI benefits. The concept of owing anybody anything is nothing more than a moral illusion that doesn't physically exist in physical nature. Life is about giving or receiving but it has nothing to do with physically owing anybody anything. Someone can give but not receive, and another person can receive without giving. It's a moral decision of how much a person is willing to choose to give which is separate from how much the same person might willingly choose to receive, and neither action is physically dependant upon the other. If "owing" were to physically exist in physical reality then it would always be a physical impossibility for any parent to abandon their new born infant on a stranger's door step. You don't owe it to anybody to share your SSI benefits, aside from that, you owe it to yourself to have peace of mind in your own private home whenever you want it. Until you manage to secure a permanent monthly income of your own then life is going to be rough because you'll likely have to rely on others to survive and that usually means family.

And if your family situation happens to fit the profile of the socio-psychological model, then I doubt things will improve until you secure a permanent monthly income of your own. Most people in a developed nation secure their permanent monthly income by getting a job and sticking with it, but if you're psychiatrically disabled or psychologically disabled, then go apply for SSI benefits to secure your permanent monthly income and start taking care of your own needs. If you're living with family or in a homeless situation where life is stressful for you, then that's about the best I can tell you: Go apply for SSI; Secure a permanent monthly income of your own and get yourself a private room or private studio with a private bathroom of your own and avoid inviting anyone to your place; Take up hobbies to keep your mind occupied and active; Perhaps do volunteer work; Or even attend a community college compliments of our government, they'll cover all the expenses for schooling through Division of Vocational Rehabilitation services, commonly known as “DVR”. Hopefully things will improve accordingly and any schizoid symptoms will subside or lessen to a good degree as long as you take the necessary steps to avoid stress by avoiding the things and the people that causes you much of the stress in the first place.

TELL THE DOCTORS YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR DISABILITY BUT THAT YOU'RE JUST COMPLYING:
WHEN THE SSI AND WELFARE EVAL DOCTORS ASK YOU WHAT IS YOUR SPECIFIC DISABILITY THAT YOU ARE CLAIMING IN ORDER TO COLLECT DISABILITY BENEFITS, JUST KEEP REPEATING TO THEM THAT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOUR DISABILITY IS, BUT THAT YOU'RE SIMPLY COMPLYING WITH WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE KEEPS TELLING YOU TO DO WHICH IS THAT YOU SHOULD GO AND APPLY FOR SSI BENEFITS. IT WOULD ALSO BE OKAY TO TELL THEM THAT YOU'RE APPLYING FOR SSI BECAUSE YOU NEED HELP IN GETTING A ROOM OF YOUR OWN TO GET AWAY FROM FAMILY PROBLEMS AND THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO TURN TO FOR HELP AND THAT EVERYBODY ELSE KEEPS TELLING YOU TO GO AND APPLY FOR SSI BENEFITS. THAT'S HOW MOST PEOPLE WITH PSYCHIATRIC OR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISABILITIES END UP ON SSI BENEFITS, PEOPLE REPEATEDLY KEEP TELLING THEM TO GO APPLY FOR SSI BENEFITS. That's what the doctors want to hear and need to hear. If you do the same like the rest of the eligible SSI clients do then things should go smoothly just like clock work. Aside the 2 evaluations, that's one for SSI and one for Welfare, you will be also be required to see a Welfare doctor once a month for a few months so they can have further sufficient paperwork to help substantiate and validate your case file. Just comply until you get SSI which takes up to six months before it goes into effect and then you don't have to see a Welfare doctor anymore unless you still want to but meanwhile you should be on Welfare assistance when waiting for SSI.

JUST ONE WELFARE THERAPY SESSION PER MONTH IS REQUIRED UNTIL SSI BENEFITS ARRIVE:
BEWARE OF WELFARE MONTHLY THERAPY DOCTORS WHO MIGHT TRY TO CON YOU OR THREATEN YOU INTO SEEING THEM TWICE A MONTH OR PERHAPS INTO SEEING ONE OF THEIR DOCTOR BUDDIES TWICE A MONTH FOR THERAPY IN ORDER FOR YOU TO COLLECT BENEFITS BUT IT IS NOT REQUIRED OF YOU TO GO TWICE A MONTH. ONLY ONCE A MONTH THERAPY IS NECESSARY TO SUFFICE AT SUBSTANTIATING A CASE FILE FOR WELFARE ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES. Some Welfare doctors may try to threaten clients into going to therapy sessions twice a month because the Welfare doctors gets paid by our government per visit and sometimes they may try to threaten a client by telling the client that if the client doesn't visit twice a month then the client won't be able to collect SSI benefits, but that's all pure unethical scare tactics at the expense of the client's valuable time in order for the doctor to scam the System to make more money. Years ago Welfare doctors used to get paid around $70 a visit but now I think it's probably maybe over $100 a visit? Let me try to explain it this way, if you ever had any previous experience with street drug usage such as herbal anti-depressant cannabis medication, then treat it like a drug deal and don't ever let the doctors get the better of you or talk you into going twice a month unless you honestly want to go twice a month to talk about your family problems with someone who doesn't mind getting paid to listen to you talk about your family problems. If you're lucky and happen to find a good therapist then it may prove all the more beneficial to have someone to talk to about your family problems more than just once a month. You may also opt to continue on with a monthly therapy session even after SSI benefits arrive although continuation of a monthly therapy session won't be necessary after SSI benefits arrive. If you don't happen to like the first therapy doctor you've chosen then it's up to you to pick another doctor from the list and set up another therapy appointment with a new doctor until you find one that you like talking with. And if you don't want to go twice a month for therapy sessions but a bad doctor happens to try and threaten you by telling you that you must go twice a month in order to collect SSI benefits, then just ignore the threats and just show up once a month anyways no matter what the doctor threatens. The worse that will happen is that the doctor will be disappointed for failing to con the client into going twice a month but the doctor will still want to get paid for something monthly. Don't be surprised if and when you find out that most psych therapists and especially psychiatrists happen to have undiagnosed personality disorders of their own. Unfortunately only once in a rare while does a client get lucky and finds a sane therapist to talk with whereas most psych therapists, especially psychiatrists, too often tend to suffer from the almighty inflated false ego trip, the typical “ME-DOCTOR-and-you're-not-Syndrome”.

IF YOU "DON'T NEED" TO TAKE PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS:
If you don't need it but a psychiatrist asks you how do you feel about taking prescribed medications then simply tell them you "DON'T NEED". USE THE PHRASE “DON'T NEED”, if you say the wrong words such as "don't want" or "don't think so" instead of saying "DON'T NEED", then they may try to talk you into taking prescribed medications but they can't force it upon you to take prescribed medications as long as you're not a danger to yourself or to others. Psychiatrists are also medical physicians and are authorized to prescribe medications but psychologists do not have a medical degree and therefore psychologists do not prescribe medications. By Federal and State law a person cannot be force to take prescribed medications unless they show obvious potential for violence, otherwise by law everyone is legally allowed to have their own thoughts no matter how crazy it might seem to the next person. And another thing, when you go for the psychiatric or psychological evaluation, don't lie or fake anything, always tell the doctor the truth and just keep talking about your problems, in most cases, family problems, family problems, and more family problems, just keep talking about your family problems until the doctor has to tell you to stop talking about your family problems. If you seem like the kind of client who's got so much family problems and who wants to keep talking about their family problems, then the doctor will be more inclined to recommend you be made eligible for SSI benefits rather than trying to make you get a job where you might bother the next co-worker about your family problems and more family problems.

IF YOU PREFER HERBAL MEDICATION TO ALLEVIATE SEVERE DEPRESSION:
IF YOU PREFER HERBAL MEDICINAL CANNABIS AS YOUR CHOICE OF HERBAL MEDICATION TO HELP ALLEVIATE THE SYMPTOMS OF SEVERE DEPRESSION, THEN DON'T LIE WHEN THE DOCTORS ASK YOU IF YOU USE STREET DRUGS. THE VERY MOMENT THEY ASK YOU IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH USING STREET DRUGS, YOU NEED TO ANSWER THEM QUICKLY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE CONTROL OF THE CONVERSATION AND DON'T LET THEM HAVE CONTROL OVER THE TOPIC ABOUT STREET DRUG USAGE AND ANSWER THEM QUICKLY BY TELLING THEM THE TRUTH THAT YOU ONLY HAVE 2 BIG STREET DRUG PROBLEMS: 1) THAT CANNABIS IS VERY EXPENSIVE, AND 2) THAT IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO GET AHOLD OF. BUT DON'T SMILE, SMILING DURING DOCTOR EVALUATION INTERVIEWS IS NOT ADVISED. Then tell them that you only like to use cannabis in moderation, that you control the drug and that the drug doesn't control you, that you use it responsibly and that you only take a little at a time when you need it and that you don't always smoke it all of the time except when you need it, and that you prefer to use cannabis alone by yourself because other people smoke too much. Tell them you only like to smoke small pin joints and not big joints the way other people do. Tell them that you only take one small puff at a time and then put it down because that's all you need is just one small puff at a time. You must be sure to take immediate control of the conversation when the subject of street drug usage comes up. If you do not take immediate control of the conversation and keep control over the conversation, then they'll take control over the conversation for you and they may presume you might have a drug problem and they might not recommend you for disability benefits if they think you're only applying for drug money instead of rent money. No matter how many times or how many ways they ask you different questions about street drug usage, stick to the same topic and to the same answers and repeat the same answers no matter what the questions are. For example, IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TOLD THEM EVERYTHING I HAVE JUST SUGGESTED BUT THEY STILL TURN AROUND AND STILL TRY TO ASK YOU HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN "ADDICTED" TO STREET DRUGS, DO NOT LET THEM TRICK YOU INTO CHANGING THE SUBJECT FROM REASONABLE DRUG USAGE INTO THE TOPIC OF DRUG ADDICTION, THE TOPIC IS NOT ABOUT DRUG ADDICTION BECAUSE THE TOPIC IS ALL ABOUT CANNABIS BEING TOO EXPENSIVE AND HARD TO FIND AND THAT YOU ONLY LIKE TO SMOKE IT A LITTLE AT A TIME BECAUSE A LITTLE AT TIME IS ALL YOU NEED, AND HOW YOU PREFER TO SMOKE ALONE AND NOT WITH OTHER PEOPLE BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE SMOKE TOO MUCH, AND HOW YOU CONTROL THE CANNABIS BUT THE CANNABIS DOES NOT CONTROL YOU, ETCETERA. IF THEY THEN TELL YOU THAT PERHAPS YOU SHOULD NEED TO ATTEND A DRUG REHABILITATION PROGRAM FOR YOUR DRUG PROBLEM AND THEN THEY ASK YOU HOW DO FEEL ABOUT ATTENDING A DRUG REHABILITATION PROGRAM, AGAIN DO NOT LET THEM CHANGE THE SUBJECT FROM THE TOPIC OF REASONABLE DRUG USAGE INTO THE TOPIC OF DRUG PROBLEMS OR DRUG REHABILITATION PROGRAMS, THE TOPIC IS NOT ABOUT DRUG PROBLEMS NOR ABOUT DRUG REHABILITATION PROGRAMS, THE TOPIC IS ALL ABOUT HOW YOU LIKE TO USE CANNABIS IN MODERATION A LITTLE AT TIME ONLY WHEN YOU NEED IT, AND HOW YOU LIKE TO SMOKE IT ALONE AND NOT WITH OTHERS, AND HOW YOU CONTROL THE CANNABIS AND THAT THE CANNABIS DOES NOT CONTROL YOU, AND HOW IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE AND HARD TO FIND, ETCETERA. No matter what question they ask you about drugs, take immediate control of the conversation and keep to the same answers over and over and chances are very good they'll quickly leave it alone and move on to the next phase of the evaluation process. And there's always the possibility that they themselves secretly enjoy cannabis too and won't push the issue as long as you tell the doctor the truth and give them the same kind of intelligent answer that they would likely give if they were in your same position.

Other than that, except for prescribed medications, just keep complying with whatever else the doctor tells you do, for instance, if you don't drink or hardly drink or drink alcohol in moderation but the doctor insists that you need to attend alcohol anonymous as part of the procedure towards getting SSI, just comply and chances are at the very first A.A. meeting the person in charge of the meeting will see that you don't really belong there and they'll provide whatever paperwork you'll need to satisfy SSI requirements and release you from having to attend any further AA meetings, and meanwhile the doctor will have made himself look good on paper by having recommended someone to AA meetings in order to make it look like the doctor is doing his/her job.

TRY NOT-TO SMILE AT ALL DURING EVALUATION INTERVIEW WITH DOCTOR:
TRY NOT-TO SMILE BUT INSTEAD KEEP A STRAIGHT, SERIOUS FACE AT ALL TIMES BECAUSE IF THE DOCTOR SEES YOU SMILE IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THEY MAY MISINTERPRET YOUR SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL SITUATION AND THEY MIGHT THINK YOU MIGHT NOT REALLY NEED THE BENEFITS OR THAT YOU MIGHT ONLY BE TRYING TO SCAM THE SYSTEM, OR IF IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN COPE JUST FINE IN LIFE WITHOUT BENEFITS AND EVEN SMILE ABOUT IT THEN THEY MIGHT NOT RECOMMEND YOUR ELIGIBILITY. EVEN IF YOU'RE FEELING IN A GOOD MOOD FOR A CHANGE BECAUSE YOU'RE FINALLY TAKING STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE'S SITUATION, DO NOT SMILE OR ACT HAPPY ABOUT IT OR THE DOCTOR MAY THINK YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A DISABILITY IF HE DOESN'T SEE IT IN ALL OF YOUR FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND BODY LANGUAGE. BEFORE YOU GO TO THE INTERVIEW THINK ABOUT ALL OF YOUR FAMILY PROBLEMS SO THE DOCTOR CAN SEE IT IN YOUR BODY LANGUAGE AND IN THE SERIOUS EXPRESSIONS ON YOUR FACE IN ORDER FOR HIM TO VALIDATE A RECOMMENDATION FOR ELIGIBILITY. Doctors can only recommend eligibility or not-recommend it, but the doctors are not the ones who decide whether or not a client gets on SSI and/or Welfare, but some Welfare doctors may try to pretend that they have the authority to make the final decision so as to try and manipulate you into seeing their colleague or business associate twice a month for therapy, but they do not have the authority to make the decision for eligibility, all they can do is recommend for eligibility or not-recommend for eligibility. It's the SSI and Welfare Disability Claims Examiners who are the ones who makes the determinations, not the doctors. What the doctors will look for most in the evaluation process is to try and figure out if the client is lying just to scam benefits, or if the client is honest and serious about family problems, so always tell the doctors the truth and don't try to make up anything and don't smile, just tell the doctors the truth about your family problems, family problems, and more family problems, and how your family doesn't understand you, and how your family thinks something is wrong with you, and how your family thinks you're crazy, etcetera, and everything should go smoothly. If you've got any psychiatric papers at all sitting in a psychiatric facility somewhere even if it was from years ago for only just 72-hours Close Observation, then you already have your foot in the door on collecting SSI benefits. If there are no psychiatric papers then you need a PSYCHOLOGICAL evaluation instead of a psychiatric evaluation. You may be eligible for SSI benefits if you have little or no income, and generally speaking if the value of the things you own are less then $2,000 in assets for single individuals, or $3,000 in assets if you are married, or if your income is less than $500 or so a month then you're a good candidate for SSI purposes. They'll cross-check income tax records to see if the records shows you haven't been able to secure a permanent monthly income and chances are you'll be considered eligible for SSI purposes. If people complain that you're only taking away their tax dollars, then just ignore them and forgive them because they don't know what they're talking about. SSI monies comes from the General Funds from the United States Treasury and is similar to Grant monies that comes from sources who have the surplus and generosity to share it with others who may need it and with no strings attached. For example, many people who apply for college and ask for student loans almost always have trouble in the future to pay off their student loans. As an unwritten rule college counselors do not volunteer information about college Grants until and unless someone asks them about it first, and only then will the college counselor quickly drop the topic about student loans and bring out the list of available Grants. Grant monies come from the heart, the people who donate the Grant monies don't ask for the money back, they're satisfied with giving clients the chance to better themselves through higher education.

FILLING OUT APPLICATIONS:
THE TOLL-FREE PHONE NUMBER FOR SSI IS 1-800-772-1213, be sure to specify and they'll mail the application to you or you can go to the Social Security office to get the application. On the application papers be sure to specify you are applying for benefits because of a psychiatric or psychological disability. As long as you take your time and fill in one-box-at-a-time or one-question-at-a-time before moving on to the next box or question then it won't overload your senses. For example, box/question number one, what is your name? After you've put your name in the box or question then you can move on to box/question number 2, what is your address? None of the questions will be difficult to answer and you'll find the applications are easy to do as long as you stick to doing it one-box-at-a-time so the paperwork doesn't overload your senses if you were to think about too many questions all at once. Try not to leave any boxes or questions blank. When you come to a box or question which does not apply to your given situation, for example, such as name of spouse, or number of children, or previous employment, then write down "non-applicable" or "N / A", and then move on to the next box or question. If you leave questions or boxes blank then the Social Workers may not know whether or not if maybe you forgot to answer the box or question and then it may make things all that more complicated to go through processing.

The more you make your case file easier for everyone else to read and comprehend then the easier it is for everyone else to help you with the processing of your case file with less chance of things going wrong. And you might also want to look at it this way, for only several days of work, you'll get several thousand dollars a year for the rest of your life and a private room or studio of your own. That's one visit to SSI office, one visit to Welfare office, one visit to SSI doctor for evaluation, one visit to Welfare doctor for evaluation, plus a few monthly visits to another Welfare doctor for monthly therapy sessions until SSI benefits arrive and then you won't be required to continue monthly visits anymore unless you want to continue with the monthly visits, that option is up to you if you find it therapeutic for you. Sometimes and often the paper work process might be incomplete for one reason or another and require a second trip to the SSI and/or Welfare office, but what's an extra day worth in terms of securing several thousand dollars a year of a permanent nature, a permanent monthly income?

ALL IN ALL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SEVERAL DAYS OF WORK FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR TO RECEIVE CHARITABLE BENEFITS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE SO YOU CAN GET A THERAPEUTIC PLACE OF YOUR OWN AND IMPROVE YOUR LIFE'S SITUATION, AND IT CAN ALL START WHENEVER YOU ARE READY TO CALL THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATIONS's TOLL-FREE NUMBER FOR SSI BENEFITS AT 1-800-772-1213 AND THEY'LL MAIL YOU THE APPLICATION. SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE CAN ALSO HELP YOU APPLY FOR FOODSTAMPS. Although foodstamps are commonly associated with State Welfare Benefits our foodstamps program originally comes from our Federal Department of Agriculture.

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For your convenience these excerpts below on iatrogenocide were copied from Truthful News of Iatrogenocide, Mental Illness, and Drug Side Effects.

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IT'S BEEN SAID THAT OUR BEST KEPT SECRETS ARE THOSE THAT MOST PEOPLE REJECT AS TRUE.
In any other given natural situation outside of our modern medical practice, whenever someone eats a poison that makes them sick they usually have the common sanity to stop eating the poison when they experience nausea, and/or vomiting, and/or dry mouth, and/or constipation, and/or diarrhea, and/or bloody stools, and/or blurred vision, and/or headaches, and/or skin rash, and/or taste loss, and/or fatigue, and/or parkinsonism, and/or loss of motor control including tremors, and/or restless leg syndrome, &/or etcetera.

The prominent Chicago-based physician DR. QUENTIN YOUNG coined the word iatrogenocide in describing one of our functions for our modern medical practice. Iatros is the Greek word for doctor whereby definition iatrogenocide is our systematic termination of large groups of people by doctors. Iatrogenocide serves to cull our family species as well as prevent over-population since we are currently top predatory species on earth. Half our world is living in relative poverty compared to our other half where electricity is ample and available and if you happen to have been born in the luckier half of our planet and managed to survive medical malpractice then I say thank goodness you're one of the lucky ones who's managed to survive and I hope you make the best of whatever you've got going for you. I DO NOT CONDONE NOR ADVISE ANY RETALIATORY VIOLENCE AGAINST OUR MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT IF YOU'VE SUFFERED FROM OUR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE BUT RATHER I DO SUGGEST YOU PURSUE SATISFACTION THROUGH OUR COURTS SYSTEM EVEN THOUGH THE ODDS MAY BE AGAINST YOU BECAUSE FORMER PATIENTS DO SOMETIMES HAPPEN TO WIN THEIR COURT CASES.

Another prominent physician, our beloved DR. ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN known to millions through his nationally syndicated column as “The People's Doctor” was the national medical director of Project Head Start, former chairpersun for Illinois Medical Licensure Committee, former associate professor at University of Illinois Medical School, former director of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital & author writes in Confessions of a Medical Heretic, copyright 1979, before his chapter one begins: QUOTE: "I no longer believe in Modern Medicine.“ ”...the greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices Modern Medicine. MODERN MEDICINE'S TREATMENTS FOR DISEASE ARE SELDOM EFFECTIVE, AND THEY'RE OFTEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE DISEASE THEY'RE DESIGNED TO TREAT. THE DANGERS ARE COMPOUNDED BY THE WIDESPREAD USE OF DANGEROUS PROCEDURES FOR NON-DISEASES. More than 90% of modern medicine could disappear from the face of the earth ---- doctors, hospitals, drugs, and equipment ---- and the effect on our health would be immediate and beneficial.“ ”...A recent article, Cleveland's Marvelous Medical Factory, boasted of the Cleveland Clinic's accomplishments last year [1978]: 2,980 OPEN-HEART OPERATIONS, 1.3 million LABORATORY TESTS, 73,320 ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS, 7,770 FULL-BODY X-RAY SCANS, 210,378 other RADIOLOGIC STUDIES, 24,368 SURGICAL PROCEDURES. NOT ONE OF THESE PROCEDURES HAS BEEN PROVED TO HAVE THE LEAST LITTLE BIT TO DO WITH MAINTAINING OR RESTORING HEALTH.“ ”...When doctors are criticized for not telling their patients about the side-effects of the drugs they prescribe, they defend themselves on the grounds that the doctor-patient relationship would suffer from such honesty. That defense implies that the doctor-patient relationship is based on something other than knowledge. It's based on faith. We don't say we know our doctors are good, we say we have faith in them. We trust them. Don't think doctors aren't aware of the difference. And don't believe for a minute they don't play it for all it's worth. Because what's at stake is the whole ball game, the whole 90% OR MORE OF MODERN MEDICINE THAT WE DON'T NEED, THAT AS A MATTER OF FACT, IS OUT TO KILL US.“ ”...You've just had your first lesson in medical heresy. Lesson number two is that if a doctor ever wants to do something to you that you're afraid of and you ask "why?" enough times until he says "Just Trust Me", what you do is turn around and put as much distance between you and him as fast as you can, as fast as your condition will allow.“ ”...Modern Medicine relies on faith to survive.“ ”...Modern Medicine is not a church you want to have faith in.“ ”...If you're ready to learn some of the shocking things your doctor knows but won't tell you; if you're ready to find out if your doctor is dangerous; if you're ready to learn how to protect yourself from your doctor; you should keep reading [Confessions of a Medical Heretic], because that's what this book is about." UNQUOTE.

HISTORICAL DEATH RATE ALWAYS DROPS WHENEVER PHYSICIANS GO ON EMPLOYMENT STRIKE:
In chapter six of Confessions of a Medical Heretic DR. ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN writes: QUOTE:
“In 1976 in Bogota, Colombia, there was a 52-day period in which doctors disappeared altogether except for emergency care. The death rate went down 35%.“ ”...An 18 % drop in the death rate occurred in Los Angeles County in 1976 when doctors there went on strike to protest soaring malpractic insurance premiums. When the strike ended and medical machines started up again, the death rate went right back up to where it had been before the strike.“ ”...The same thing happened in Israel in 1973 when the doctors reduced their daily patient contact from 65,000 to 7,000. The Israeli death rate dropped 50% during that month. There had not been such a profound decrease in mortality since the last doctors' strike 20 years before!“ UNQUOTE.

In chapter two of Confessions of a Medical Heretic DR. ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN writes: QUOTE:
“Because we're living in an era of poly-pharmacy, everybody is taking more than one drug at a time, you've got to become aware of the dangers of combinations of drugs. One drug may have side-effects harmful to one organ 3% or 4% of the time, 2% to another organ, 6% to another. A second drug may have dangers for one organ that occur 3%, dangers for another organ 10%. If you're taking enough drugs, the danger can easily add up to more than 100%. You're virtually assured of suffering some toxic-effect. Even more dangerous are the potentiating effects of drug combinations. One drug might have only a 5% chance of hurting you. But in combination with another drug, the danger can be multiplied by a factor of 2, 3, 4, 5, who knows? Not only can the risk be multiplied, but so can the strength of the toxic-effect. There are books which give lists of drugs which interact with a given drug. An excellent one which I use is Eric Martin's Hazards of Medications. Of course, you also should let your doctor know what drugs you are taking. But don't rely on his knowledge of any dangerous cross-reactions that might occur.“ “YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF ALL THE DRUGS FOR WHICH THE SIDE-EFFECTS ARE THE SAME AS THE INDICATIONS [USAGE]. This isn't as rare as you might think. For example, if you read the list of indications [usage] for Valium, and then read the list of [toxic] side-effects, you'll find that the lists are more or less interchangeable. Under the indications [usage] you'll find: Anxiety; fatigue; depression; acute agitation; tremors; hallucinosis; skeletal muscle spasms. And under the [toxic] side-effects: Anxiety; fatigue; depression; acute hyper-excited states; tremors; hallucinations; increased muscle spasticity.“ ”...Once you've exposed yourself to all this information, you have to sit down and decide whether or not you want to take the drug. Again, don't trust your doctor's decision. Even if you can get him to admit to the side-effects, he'll most likely discount them by saying they occur only in a small percentage of cases. Like a game of Russian Roulette, for the person who gets the loaded chamber, the risk is 100%. But unlike the game, for the person taking a drug, no chamber is entirely empty. EVERY DRUG STRESSES AND HURTS YOUR BODY IN SOME WAY. . . “ ”...Most of all, you should keep in mind that you can refuse to take the drug. It's your health that's at stake. If you read things that make you not want to take the drug, first of all confront the doctor with the information. Through cajolery, badgering, or some process of persuasion, you should convince the doctor that you really want to avoid the drug. As in all confrontations with doctors, his reaction may tell you more than you bargained for. You may once and for all recognize that his opinion is no more valid than yours.“ ”...If on the basis of your complaints of side-effects, or because you refuse to take a certain drug at all, your doctor prescribes another drug, make sure it's not the same substance with a different brand name. The doctor may himself be ignorant, or he may be trying to put one over on you." UNQUOTE.

DR. ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN writes in chapter 6 of Confessions of a Medical Heretic: QUOTE: “WE JUST CAN'T GET AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT A DISTURBING AMOUNT OF DOCTORS' ENERGIES ARE DEVOTED TO DEATH-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES. I tell my students that to succeed in Modern Medicine all you have to do is look for some field that encourages death or thinking about death and you've got a brilliant future ahead of you. As far as Modern Medicine is concerned, death is a growing industry.“ “...MODERN MEDICINE IS NOW BETTER GEARED FOR KILLING PEOPLE THAN IT IS FOR HEALING THEM.“ UNQUOTE.

MY COMMENTS:
When Dr. Mendelsohn wrote in his prelude to Chapter 1, "MODERN MEDICINE'S TREATMENTS FOR DISEASE ARE SELDOM EFFECTIVE, AND THEY'RE OFTEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE DISEASE THEY'RE DESIGNED TO TREAT", and when he wrote in Chapter 2, "“YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF ALL THE DRUGS FOR WHICH THE SIDE-EFFECTS ARE THE SAME AS THE INDICATIONS [USAGE]", it was his polite way of saying that during the past several hundred years we modern humins have already well charted all the real diseases on earth there is for us to know about although most of us will refuse to believe this, and furthermore Dr. Mendelsohn is saying it's the toxic side-effects in our pharmaceutical medications that functions highly for iatrogenocide but of course it's a natural tendency for most of us to reject what he warns us about because we tend to assume that we know more about the medical profession than he did. In other words, anyone who is willing to take the serious time to do a thorough research will always inevitably without fail will find that practically all of our pharmaceutical medications share the same identical toxic side-effects as the symptoms of the so-called diseases of which they are used to treat when it comes to treating so-called diseases of which is it commonly "believed" to have no known etiology or causative germ, "believed" to have no known causes and "believed" to have no known cures for. This holds true whether it be of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes, breast and prostrate and lung cancers, leukemias, functional psychoses, and the list goes on and on which explains how come there is not a single death certificate in the history of Hawaii which lists the cause of death as due to cancer, nor to diabetes, etcetera, but rather most often is listed as due to secondary infection after a prolonged weakened immune system that was over-taxed by our pharmaceutical medications. For example, a syndrome by strict definition is merely a set of symptoms which mimics a disease in the absence of any disease, however, one of the toxic side-effects of most of our pharmaceutical medications includes the possibility of coming down with the ailment known as akathisia which is motor restlessness characterized by muscular quivering plus the inability to sit still and anxiety at the thought of sitting down, and the one of the first signs at the beginning of acquiring akathisia could very easily be what's now been recently labeled as Restless Leg Syndrome of which of course is generally "believed" to have no known etiology or causative germ, "believed" to have no known causes and "believed" to have no known cures for, because a syndrome is only a set of symptoms in the absence of any disease in the first place but there's a mighty big difference between "believing" something in contrast to "knowing" something. In situations where a person is not previously on medications but may have the psychosomatic inclination to think that they may have Restless Leg Syndrome and in turn seeks medical help may stand the chance of getting diagnosed and treated for Restless Leg Syndrome but will unwittingly fail to realize that our pharmaceutical medications given to them for the treatment of a syndrome in the absence of any disease, will have the potential of producing akathisia as a potential side-effect and it will no longer be a psychosomatic situation for them afterall. And if the person willingly continues to adopt a long term usage of our pharmaceutical medications then it's only a matter of time until it can and will over-tax their immune system particularly when they might happen to switch to a more potent medication or perhaps ingest "cocktails" of combined medications which in-turn only strengthens the likelihood of ending up with any number of toxic side-effects, however, they'll more than likely "disbelieve" it's another toxic side-effect in favor of "believing" that they caught a whole 'nother disease of which is it also "believed" to have no known etiology or causative germ. Whether it be in terms of months, or years, or decades, sooner or later they're all good candidates for being another one of our iatrogenic statistics as long as they "believe" it's good for them to continue eating the toxins which produces toxic side-effects, hence, iatrogenocide is not only a necessity but is one of our most well best kept secrets ever invented by us humins because most of us tend to reject the plain truth and sometimes outright angrily so, but then to each their own because we each have the right to "believe" whatever we want to "believe-in" even if and when it can kill us. Ironically, even though most anti-psychiatry advocates are fully aware that our psychiatric pharmaceutical medications are designed to do more bodily damage rather than cure, we still have the gut tendency to reject the same notion holds equally true within the rest of our medical specialties as well, go figure?

However, I can agree with the short-term use of certain pharmaceutical medications wherever it just might happen to be applicable particularly for short term usage since all substances can have some degree of its therapeutic value, but too much of anything is not good as moderation is the key. Aside from that and in regards to Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn's statement that, "Every drug stresses and hurts your body in some way", he, of course, was referring to pharmaceutical drugs, however, I can think of at least three different natural drugs that are considered to have no toxic side-effects when they are said to be smoked or chewed in therapeutic dosages, but when ingested, natural opium is known to have some degree of unpleasant non-fatal gastric side-effects, and also has withdrawal side-effects after habitual use. If we don't count addiction or death-by-overdose as a toxic side-effect, then we're talking about natural opium and not pharmaceutical forms of opium that is considered non-fatal and to have no toxic side-effects. Opium addicts in otherwise good physical and mental health whose drug needs are met are thought to experience no debilitating physiological effects from their addiction in contrast to our synthesized (i.e., human-made) pharmaceutical medications ...but speaking of addictive drugs...

DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO ADDICTIVE DRUGS IN UNITED KINGDOM 1990 to 1995:
1,810 deaths -- BENZODIAZEPINES (Valium, Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, etcetera.)
676 deaths -- METHADONE (Methadone is a synthesized [i.e.,human-made] prescription heroin-substitute.)
291 deaths -- HEROIN (Heroin is synthesized from morphine which is the principal alkaloid derivative of opium.)

It's my guess all three figures are likely underestimated. AND THIS IS NOT TO IMPLY that heroin is safer than methadone, or that methadone is safer than benzodiazepines. What these figures do suggest is that a lot more people are using benzodiazepines than methadone or heroin even though all three of these human-made drugs are associated with toxic side-effects including “death“ which is viewed, considered, and held within our pharmaceutical perspective as nothing more than a potential “side-effect”. Likewise, it's of no coincidence that acetaminophen which currently happens be our most popular of our non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and found in over 200 over-the-counter products is considered to be our most common fatal cause of drug-induced liver failure but if & when a different NSAID medication becomes more popular in treatment for mild pain and inflammation then we can expect it to becoming the newest most common cause of drug-induced liver failure instead of acetaminophen. In regards of how to safely get off benzodiazepine psychiatric medication addiction such as Valium and Xanax so as to avoid the neuro-motor disorder of TARDIVE DYSKINESIA SYNDROME, or perhaps to avoid the possibility of eventual kidney or liver failure leading to “death” as a side-effect, a website Benzo.org.uk offers further suggestions on discontinuation therapy of benzodiazepines which is to reduce intake a little at a time in order to avoid crippling withdrawal reactions.

Another drug usage considered to have no toxic side-effects when smoked in therapeutic dosages is cannabis, that's marijuana. But as with anything else, too much of anything is not good and an overdose of cannabis is known to cause temporary mild cases of dizziness, vertigo, and even nausea and/or vomiting, and sometimes potentially inhaling improperly can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure commonly referred to as having a euphoric 'rush' which may or may not lead to temporary loss of consciousness, and furthermore, overdosage may also slow down reaction times, therefore, as with alcohol, smoking cannabis while driving a vehicle may not be the safest thing to do. Depression after chronic usage of cannabis or even serious depression may or may not result as a withdrawal symptom following discontinuation, however, chronic abuse can weaken the immune system just like how chronic abuse of any other potent substance taxes the immune system over time, but otherwise no deaths that I know of has yet to be attributed to cannabis usage, nor to cannabis abusage, nor to cannabis overdosage, but I do suspect some fatal car crashes were likely the result of cannabis over-intoxication. Most cannabis users agree that moderate usage can work well at alleviating symptoms of depression without toxic side-effects very much unlike our pharmaceutical anti-depressants. I further believe chewing unprocessed coca leaves directly off the cocaine plant is also said to have no toxic side-effects either. Interesting to note nature makes it so simple for us to germinate seeds in the ground to grow three kinds of different medicinal herbs which have no toxic side-effects and yet all 3 naturally occurring medicinal plants are considered illegal in most but not all places around the world, but it does make a lot of sense in iatrogenic terms.

IATROGENOCIDE ALSO KILLS DOCTORS:
In chapter 7 of Confessions of a Medical Heretic DR. ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN WRITES:
QUOTE: "Suicide accounts for more deaths [IN 1979] among doctors than car and plane crashes, drownings, and homicides combined. Doctors' suicide rate is twice the average for all Americans. Every year, about 100 doctors commit suicide, a number equal to the graduating class of the average medical school. Furthermore, the suicide rate among female physicians is nearly four times higher than that for other women over the age of twenty-five. Apologists for the medical profession cite several reasons for doctors' high rate of sickness. The drugs are easily available to them; they must work long hours under severe stress; their background and psychological makeup predisposes them to stretch their powers to the limits; and their patients and the community make excessive demands on them. Of course, whether or not you accept these reasons, they don't explain away the fact that doctors are a very sick group of people." UNQUOTE. [My Note: I believe his suicide statistical number of “...100 doctors commit suicide...” may likely perhaps be in reference to the State of Illinois rather than national.]

MEDICAL MERCK MANUAL, CHAPTER 148, SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR, STATES:
"Professional persons, including lawyers, military men, dentists, and physicians, have higher then average suicide rates. The physician rate is largely due to female physicians, whose annual rate of suicide is 4 times that of a matched general population. Of the medical specialties, the highest rate is among psychiatrists."

SYNOPSIS OF PSYCHIATRY/V, STATES:
“Among occupational rankings with respect to risk for suicide, professionals, particularly physicians, have traditionally been considered to stand out. Among physicians, psychiatrists are considered to be at the greatest risk, followed by opthalmologists and anesthesiologists, but the trend is toward an equalization among all specialties.“

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS/III , STATES:
“We know that the medical profession in general suffers from high rates of marital problems, alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide. Estimates of the addiction for physicians run from 30 times to 100 times the rate for males in larger population. Such statistical uncertainty suggests that we do not have very reliable means of determining the exact numbers, and it also suggests the extent to which the problem is kept underground. The common tendency for self-medication by doctors appears to begin in medical school and may be particularly marked in the house staff years. ...Most physicians confess to self-medication without having sought expert advice. Thus, in addition to the occupational hazards of fatigue and stress, and the major life changes that require adjustment, there is a built-in hazard in physicians' reluctance to admit a need for personal help. The feeling that the physician should somehow be able to "go it alone" may be a prime destructive factor during the house staff years.
. . . The suicide rate among male physicians is about 15% higher than the expected rate among the general male population, and the suicide rate among female physicians is three to four times as high as the expected rate.“

REASON FOR IATROGENOCIDE:
If not for what our iatrogenocide has accomplish then our global system may have very well relied on World Wars 3 and 4 already and possibly be initiating World War 5 by now in 2007, but since iatrogenocide is a much more efficient and humane method of curbing our global population rate compared to World Wars we've had no need to incorporate a third World War. During the World Wars and other previous major warfares the tremendous vast majority of deaths were caused by diseases due to lack of sanitary conditions rather than by bullets and bombs combined. I think that's just one of the reasons many people willingly support iatrogenocide despite all of its own repugnancy. The World Wars of 1 & 2 had needed to be financed in order to happen and it's of my understanding the funds were largely provided from the same source to all sides involved in the conflict including our Germany, our Italy, our Great Britain, our United States, our Soviet Union, our Japan, our China, etcetera, who all received significant military financing from essentially the same global powers-to-be of the time. It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it in order to avoid the ultimate worse case scenario of out-breeding our global food supply if things were to be left unchecked. I view iatrogenocide as a necessary lesser of two evils as life is not fair. I visited our Nagasaki Japan in 1975 and the devastation from the 1945 atomic bomb was so mind-boggling as far as the eye could see, it still looked like and seemed like as though the place had just been recently hit even though it had been hit 30 years prior. I don't think our family species can afford to end our iatrogenocidal practices until our descendants stabilize their global breeding rate by voluntarily having two offspring per individual which essentially does not increase nor decrease global growth but instead stabilizes it, thereby eliminating traditional constraints for avoiding the out-breeding of global food supply. Until then our System will continue to cull our own family species and the best we can seem do for now is to save our own selves from iatrogenocide and whomever rare few that might be willing to listen and learn. Other than that, we can't save most victims because many of us would rather die and will die from trusting modern medical practice rather than denouncing our beliefs. It's the powerful equivalent of our superstitious-inclined choosing death rather than denouncing a belief in an invisible ghost. Most of us choose to have blind faith in modern medicine even when it kills us and unfortunately we can't save us all. Often all we can do is feel sorry for our victims from a distance because we can't force people to give up their beliefs if they don't want to. The superstitious concept of “having faith” is the equivalent of “don't ever look before you leap” and is a very needed propaganda tool in helping to keep our population numbers in check and for culling our zoological species. In the long run those of us who do not willingly adopt the superstitious practice of having blind faith in anything including modern medicine, will stand a much greater chance of surviving iatrogenocide and be able to produce further offspring who in-turn will likely avoid superstitious mentality and have a better chance to further produce descendants, and so on. The Renaissance Movement was and is all about questioning every thing we are taught to believe in and then choosing wisely.

WHO'S TO BLAME?
If anyone is to blame for iatrogenocide it would have to be our pre-hominid and hominid ancestors who enjoyed sexual activity so much until they finally produced modern human descendants with greater sexual urges who enjoy sexual activity even more so than our pre-humin ancestors ever did and to such an extreme extent that iatrogenocide grew out of necessity. Unlike nearly all other zoological species our family species of today now have a genetic libido constitution of every day of the year and sexual urges are no longer a seasonal nor periodical event like it was for our earlier familial mammal ancestors. It's of no surprise to me the largest category content of activity over the Internet has persistently pertained to pornography except during a time after the "9-11" event of 2001 when pornography was said to have been temporarily surpassed only by superstition, specifically, by religious content. I used to wonder how come our first book to be mass produced and mass distributed was a book containing a lot of superstitious content instead of on human anatomy and physiology to allow the populace to know thyself but now it makes sense to me how come a book on superstition prevailed. It's of my understanding our original popular version of a bible was a composite of a few earlier lesser known versions spanning at least a few hundred years prior. My persunal interpretation of the popular version is that it's filled with innuendos on the necessity of population control due to the explosive potential of our breeding rate. For example, in catholicism the concept of an original sin refers to our instinctive sexual urges that our pre-humin ancestors have created through their extensive hybridizing to the point of producing descendants whose sexual urges and sexual curiosity about our own bodies become evident even years before reaching puberty. Also, the mentioning of the consumption of the humin body and the drinking of humin blood refers to cannibalism that would likely occur under massive global famine resulting from outbreeding our global food supply if necessary constraints on our breeding rate were not implemented. The physiology of humin sexual evolution can be described within a simplified explanation of the evolutionary development of the humin brain. The brain can be said to have evolved in 3 stages, the lower brain, midbrain, and upper brain. The lower brain is at and around the brain stem area that attaches to the spinal cord. The lower brain functions to govern the instincts of aggressiveness and sexuality. Aggressiveness in the sense that all species must occupy physical space to exist, such as algae competing or vying with each other to occupy space on a rock. And sexual instincts in the sense that reproduction is an automatic necessity in order to perpetuate the species. After the lower brain evolved our midbrain had something to attach on to and the midbrain area serves to help govern the development of eye sight, muscular coordination, as well as the instincts of emotions pertaining to the family as a cohesive unit. A cohesive family unit stood a better chance of surviving in nature's prehistoric environment in contrast to an individual alone. The design of the upper brain enables us to currently process a hundred billion bits of information per second which is significantly more than what other zoological species can currently process and it allows us the power-of-reasoning as well as the ability to process abstract thought. In regards to the lower brain which evolved first, the tremendous strength of sexual instincts is something that's not to be ignored. In view of sexual evolution, I was puzzled as to how come aberrations in humin sexual behavior existed in the first place? In terms of sexual reproduction I would've thought the only sane sexual desire would be in the form of sexual intercourse like it is with most other species but then such is not the case in real life when it comes to primate sexual behavior. I also used to regard homosexuality as a puzzling aberration peculiar to only humins until I learned of another primate species who also practices homosexual behavior and then I had to redefine sexual evolution based on this new observation. Located in the Congo River Basin of Africa is our closest genetic related species sharing approximately between 98.4% to 99.4% of our DNA structure. (The DNA molecule, deoxyribonucleic acid works by grabbing smaller free floating molecules and attaching them to each other to make larger molecules such as long protein chains.) Sexual behavior plays a major role in Bonobo chimpanzee society. Besides being used as a greeting it's also a means of conflict resolution, post-conflict reconciliation, and a favor traded by Bonobo females in exchange for food. And particularly in times of stressful situations, instead of resorting to aggressive behavior both Bonobo genders have a natural inclination to engage in heterosexual as well as homosexual behavior. Sexual instincts is one of the most strongest instincts built into animal DNA and is the cause for making the invention of iatrogenocide a necessity. We can't save everyone and can't stop iatrogenocide unless most or nearly all of us, or at least until most or nearly all of our descendants voluntarily strive towards having an average global reproduction rate of two offspring per individual to stabilize our population growth rate. During the time of my parents' and grandparents' adolescent years the average number of offspring per family often consisted between 10 to 13 children although sometimes more or sometimes less. According to current consensus the age of puberty for our family species may occur between the ages of 8 to 13 for girls, and 9 to 14 for boys. For the sake of convenient demonstration let's apply the age of 10 as a starting base age of puberty and 'approximate' how fast can a genetic related humin family (not counting non-genetic related in-laws) multiply under ideal breeding conditions when a couple-in-love produces one offspring per year (instead of every 9 months) until the couple-in-love reaches the age of 25, and also what will be the 'approximate' total number of members in the genetic related family when the original couple-in-love reaches the age of 36 and early 40's? Under ideal breeding conditions when an original couple-in-love reaches the age of 36 they can have a family of 193 genetic related members consisting of the original couple-in-love, their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and by the time the original couple-in-love are in their early 40's they can be a family of between 300 to 400 members including great-great-grandchildren should the breeding rate happen be left unchecked under ideal breeding conditions.

Here's how the math figures works out: Under ideal breeding conditions and applying the same breeding rate that means we can “roughly estimate” that when the couple-in-love reaches the age of 20 they'll have approximately 10 children and 1 grandchild when their oldest child at the age of 10 gives the original couple-in-love their first grandchild. At age 21 they'll have approximately 11 children and 3 grandchildren when their 2 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 2 more grandchildren making a total of 3 grandchildren.
At age 22 they'll have approximately 12 children and 6 grandchildren when their 3 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 3 more grandchildren making a total of 6 grandchildren.
At age 23 they'll have approximately 13 children and 10 grandchildren when their 4 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 4 more grandchildren making a total of 10 grandchildren.
At age 24 they'll have approximately 14 children and 15 grandchildren when their 5 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 5 more grandchildren making a total of 15 grandchildren.
At age 25 they'll have approximately 15 children and 21 grandchildren when their 6 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 6 more grandchildren making a total of 21 grandchildren.
At age 26 they'll have approximately 15 children and 28 grandchildren when their 7 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 7 more grandchildren making a total of 28 grandchildren.
At age 27 they'll have approximately 15 children and 35 grandchildren when their 8 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 8 more grandchildren making a total of 35 grandchildren.
At age 28 they'll have approximately 15 children and 43 grandchildren when their 9 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 9 more grandchildren making a total of 43 grandchildren.
At age 29 they'll have approximately 15 children and 53 grandchildren when their 10 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 10 more grandchildren making a total of 53 grandchildren.
At age 30 they'll have approximately 15 children, 64 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild when their 11 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 11 more grandchildren making a total of 64 grandchildren and their oldest grandchild gives the original couple 1 great-grandchild.
At age 31 they'll have approximately 15 children, 76 grandchildren, and 3 great-grandchildren when their 12 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 12 more grandchildren making a total of 76 grandchildren and their 2 oldest grandchildren gives the original couple 2 more great-grandchildren making a total of 3 great-grandchildren.
At age 32 they'll have approximately 15 children, 89 grandchildren, and 6 great-grandchildren when their 13 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 13 more grandchildren making a total of 89 grandchildren and their 3 oldest grandchildren gives the original couple-in-love 3 more great-grandchildren making a total of 6 great-grandchildren.
At age 33 they'll have approximately 15 children, 103 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren when their 14 oldest children gives the original couple-in-love 14 more grandchildren making a total of 103 grandchildren and their 4 oldest grandchildren gives the original couple-in-love 4 more great-grandchildren making a total of 10 great-grandchildren.
At age 34 they'll have approximately 15 children, 118 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren when all 15 children gives the original couple-in-love 15 more grandchildren making a total of 118 grandchildren and their 5 oldest grandchildren gives the original couple-in-love 5 more great-grandchildren making a total of 15 great-grandchildren.

UNDER IDEAL BREEDING CONDITIONS THEN AT AGE 35 A COUPLE-IN-LOVE CAN HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO HAVE APPROXIMATELY 15 CHILDREN, 133 GRANDCHILDREN, AND 21 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN WHEN ALL 15 CHILDREN GIVES THE ORIGINAL COUPLE-IN-LOVE 15 MORE GRANDCHILDREN MAKING A TOTAL OF 133 GRANDCHILDREN AND THEIR 6 OLDEST GRANDCHILDREN GIVES THE ORIGINAL COUPLE-IN-LOVE 6 MORE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN MAKING A TOTAL OF 21 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, AND THAT'S AN APPROXIMATE TOTAL OF 171 FAMILY MEMBERS (2+15+133+21=171) BY THE AGE 35.

AT AGE 36 THEY'LL ADD APPROXIMATELY 22 MORE NEW MEMBERS TO TOTAL 193 BLOOD RELATED MEMBERS IN THE FAMILY UNDER IDEAL BREEDING CONDITIONS.

IN JUST A FEW TO SEVERAL MORE YEARS UNDER IDEAL BREEDING CONDITIONS ALONG WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, THEIR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN WILL ALSO START REPRODUCING AND START GIVING THE ORIGINAL COUPLE-IN-LOVE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND THE NUMBER IN THE FAMILY WILL HAVE GROWN BETWEEN 300 TO 400 WHEN THE ORIGINAL COUPLE-IN-LOVE IS IN THEIR EARLY 40'S.

IF WE WERE TO USE THE LATTER AGES OF PUBERTY INSTEAD OF 10 AS THE STARTING AGE, THAT IS, USE AGE 13 FOR GIRLS AND AGE 14 FOR BOYS, AND THEN CALCULATE A MAXIMUM BREEDING RATE OF ONLY 10 CHILDREN INSTEAD OF 15 CHILDREN PER COUPLE-IN-LOVE DURING THE FIRST 10 INSTEAD OF 15 YEARS OF MATING THEN THE NUMBERS ARE STILL ASTONISHING BY THE TIME THE ORIGINAL COUPLE-IN-LOVE REACHES THEIR EARLY 40'S. IF WE WERE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THE ORIGINAL COUPLE-IN-LOVE BOTH COME FROM LARGE FAMILIES THEMSELVES AND WHOSE SIBLINGS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FAMILY ARE ALSO MULTIPLYING AT APPROXIMATELY THE SAME RATE, AND INCLUDE THE SAME NUMBERS AND BREEDING RATE FOR ALL IN-LAWS, THE NUMBERS INVOLVED ARE EVEN MORE STAGGERING WHEN CONSIDERING THE FACT OUR FAMILY SPECIES ARE CURRENTLY TOP PREDATORS IN THE GLOBAL FOOD CHAIN.

SOON AS EVERYONE IN THE WORLD MAKES THE CONSCIOUS VOLUNTARY EFFORT TO STABILIZE OUR GLOBAL BREEDING RATE BY VOLUNTARILY STRIVING TO HAVE APPROXIMATELY 2 OFFSPRING PER INDIVIDUAL, THAT'S WHEN OUR CURRENT DRASTIC MEASURES AND CONSTRAINTS TO ENSURE PLACING GLOBAL BREEDING RATE IN CHECK WILL NO LONGER BE A NECESSITY.

HOW TO AVOID OVER-POPULATION BY STABILIZING OUR OWN POPULATION GROWTH RATE:
Voluntarily striving towards two offspring per individual is the ideal to stabilizing global population growth rate and is the responsibility of both genders involved. I don't recall exactly which nursing manual I extracted the following superbly written information from but I'm providing it here for both genders who wants to know. The duration of each individual femael's menstrual cycle may vary and ranges between less-than-28 days for some individuals or more-than-28 days for other individuals but for the sake of simplifying an explanation we can say the average menstrual cycle starts a new cycle every 28 days and if we were to call the first day that menstruation begins as cycle-day-1, she'll reach the peak of her fertility phase around the middle or half-way-point of entire cycle approximately on cycle-day-14, and have the greatest chance for pregnancy when approaching near cycle-day-14, and on cycle-day-14 itself, and also during the next few to several days after cycle-day-14. This is when body temperature is higher than normal and the “rhythm technique” for conceiving or for preventing conception is likely our first & oldest form of birth control that still currently works effectively after hundreds-of-millions-of-years of evolution without having any toxic-side-effects. The next oldest known alternative methods of contraception goes back to a few thousand years within Egyption culture but today nearly all global methods dates less than 2 hundred years old.

MENSTRUAL CYCLE CAN BE DESCRIBED AS HAVING 3 PHASES :
1st Phase: Menstrual Phase when menses occur...
2nd Phase: Ovulation Phase when egg sac matures, ruptures, and the egg is released from ovary...
3rd Phase: Fertility Phase when pregnancy may occur during mid-cycle...

Normal menstrual cycle range from 22 days to 34 days although average cycle usually occurs every 28 days. Cycle is regulated by fluctuating hormone levels that respond to negative-positive feedback bio-mechanisms.

1st PHASE IS THE MENSTRUAL (PRE-OVULATORY) PHASE:
Cycle-day-1starts with menstruation which usually lasts 5 days. As cycle begins, low estrogen and progesterone levels in bloodstream stimulates hypothalamus gland to secrete gonadotropin-releasing hormone, which stimulates anterior pituitary gland located below hypothalamus to secrete follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone.

2nd PHASE IS THE PROLIFERATIVE (FOLLICULAR) AND OVULATION PHASE:
During follicular and ovulation phase which lasts from cycle-day-6 to cycle-day-14, follicular-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone act on ovarian follicle which is the mature ovarian sac that contains the egg, causing estrogen secretion which stimulates build-up of the lining of the womb. Late in follicular-ovulation phase estrogen levels peak, follicle-stimulating hormone secretion declines, and luteinizing hormone secretion increases surging at mid-cycle around cycle-day-14 then estrogen production decreases, the follicle matures, ruptures, and releases egg from ovary. Normally one follicle matures during ovulation and released from ovary during each cycle.

AND 3rd PHASE IS THE LUTEAL (SECRETORY) PHASE:
During this Fertility Phase which lasts about 14 days between cycle-day-14 to cycle-day-28, follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone levels drop. Estrogen level declines initially then increases with progesterone level as the corpus luteum which is a yellow structure that develops after the follicle ruptures, begins functioning by producing progesterone. During this phase the mucous membrane lining the walls of the uterus (womb) called the endometrium responds to progesterone stimulation by becoming thick and secretory in preparation for implantation of fertilized egg. About 10 to 12 days after ovulation the corpus luteum begins to diminish as do estrogen and progesterone levels until hormone levels are insufficient to sustain endometrium in a fully developed secretory state, then the womb lining is shed (menses). Decreasing estrogen and progesterone levels stimulate hypothalamus to produce gonadotropin-releasing hormone and the menstrual cycle begins again.

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Michael Tsark
Mental Health Advocate;
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How to know if a guy is trying to con you??
Any tips to figure out if a guy is running a game on you - if he says and does all the right things - is that fishy? Especially if he has nothing to lose and the chic has her life together?? What questions could I ask or what boobie trap could I set to see if he will trip up???

Answer 4

Their is a mind state in psychology, it is called "projection", it is where one thinks the behavior of others is the same as their own.
If you will read some of your questions, you enjoy the Con game and are projecting this on to this person. Hum that the problem with this behavior. It will if continued become psychologically damaging.

Answer 5

Acupuncture, which involves inserting thin needles into various points on your body, may reduce peripheral neuropathy symptoms.

Answer 6

what do you mean con?..you think he has another girl?he is trying to get money out of you?...if he is making you feel that insecure just lose him, if the atmosphere is that bad...its by ebye time...dont let him draw you into playing weird (and frankly scary) little games to find him out!

Answer 7

Maybe get his messenger and pretend to be another girl. I know thats messed up but thats an easy way to tell if he is playing games or not.

Answer 8

If he is taking money from you, if he leaves his cell phone off or in the vehicle, if he runs to the store by himself often, if he acts like your problems do not matter, if he never takes you out, if you are paying for everything, if he takes off sometimes and does not return in a timely manner, if he does not want to spend the whole weekend with you, if he says I love you too soon, or if he says I love you only when he has or wants sex with you.

These are all classic signs. He doesn't have to have all of them. Most players do not use them all. Hope I have helped.

Answer 9

well it depends what you mean, is he after sex only? or are you well off and he thinks you will treat him to nice things,and me a meal ticket for him.

do you know his past, not what he as told you but what you really know he is like.

men if it is sex tend to go in a mood if they can not get it, take him home let him think he is going to get it, then say you feel ill your really sorry but feel sick, see how he reacts,

arrange a date out, say you will pay, then cancel last minute say something came up and you have lent your cash to a friend or a bill popped up you forgot about, see if he offers to pay, or even overs to do something together that is free to do like watch a home movie together

regards x Kitti x

Answer 10

dont know but if you find out let me know