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Municipal Enquirer/Stand-Up Mad
Now, though my fellow psychiatrized will not get the same thing out of this page as the local yokels do, (since a friend in Germany or Australia etc. does not know any of these people), the locals DO know them, even without names and locations. I am sure they will find it more interesting when they hear themselves being mentioned and all the acting out they do regarding me from MY point of view, which they still seem to believe is mysteriously ‘hidden’ from me.
So this is now going to be a sort of Municipal Enquirer type blog page with a stand-up comedy sort of attitude to it. This is how I am going to mock and ridicule the mocking and ridiculing “normies” in a full circle kind of way. (not that they do that of course!)
Now remember readers; if you are a local and ‘think’ I am ‘talking about you’, even though I did not actually ‘say your name’, don’t make the mistake of ‘whining and complaining’ about it like us whack jobs do, as you too may be getting some ‘help’ with your personality disorders just like we have.
There are four possible ‘symptoms’ right in the above statement so stay sharp and keep a wary eye open for the “help.” Your own diagnosis is just a symptom or two away so be very cautious about what you say in public or an A.C.T. team member may be in your home assessing the crap out of you and your life, as it is perceived by your neighbours or perhaps the sales associate at the dollar store, before you ever know what hit you.
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Howdy Neighbours!...
...and of course a big plastic smile, friendly and sincere sounding hello, to all Homewood Staff
How is the chronic gossip mongering and story telling going?....not that there is any of course, and if I think there is I am just crazy…
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| Recommended Reading |
05/05/2009 |
There are two books I would like to recommend to psychiatric survivours and anyone else who is interested in understanding the need for anti psychiatry activism or alternative mental health systems which are currently moving AWAY from psychiatry. Ironically, these two books are also written by a psychiatrist and offer validation of something which I saw myself within my own experience with dysfunctional families, cults and psychiatry itself.
The books are:
The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behaviour in American Society and
Them and Us: Cult Thinking and the Terrorist Threat, By Arthur J. Deikman, M.D. (both published 1990)
Both of these books acknowledge the existence of a pattern which I, and many others, have seen for many years. Seeing this has often earned us a psychiatric label. Mine was Delusional Disorder, Paranoid. In them you will find some of the experiences we have had as 'patients’ which are denied by psychiatry. How ironic is that?
I intend to use some quote from these books as a means of explaining my own connections to this and the new understanding that evolved from it.
Here is a sample from: Them and Us
GOING BEYOND DEPENDENCE
“Compliance with the group and dependence on a leader have served necessary functions in the survival of the human race. They are important in childhood where they provide safety, security, encouragement, and support. Groups and leaders have legitimate functions for adults as well. They can stimulate, reinforce and guide individuals’ energies in constructive ways; they provide meaning and counter isolation and loneliness with acceptance and warmth. But the fantasy of parents must be transcended by adults; for it is no longer functional. (emphasis mine PL)...
Indeed, regressive dependency makes our survival and progress more difficult because reality must be distorted in order to construct shepherds out of sheep. ...
...As a psychotherapist, I find the parent world in the fantasies of people with normal and useful adult positions—teachers, housewives, carpenters, lawyers, executives, students—people in all the occupations that comprise everyday society. The evidence is strong in that all of us show the effects of having been raised in a hierarchical world in which there were those above us and those below. From such a perspective there is always a higher authority. ...
...the quickest tip-off that something is amiss occurs when you see members of a group devalue outsiders while ignoring the faults of the leader and fellow believers. Outsiders—Them—are defined as inferior, bad or damned. Those in the cult group—Us—are perceived as superior, good or saved. We see this in the most extreme form in the mind of the terrorist.
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Splitting Formula for Sustained Dysfunction
The people who I think are talking about me, are talking about me while believing they are somehow hidden in plain sight. Since they are hiding in plain sight, they conclude they are not the people who are talking about me and the people I think are talking about me must be some other people, and not them. In fact, the people I am talking about, must be some imaginary people I only 'think' I see and hear, because I am crazy. Since I am obviously crazy then, the people I think are talking about me, in my presence, can keep right on talking about me, as I am so crazy I will not know they are talking about me anyway.
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Ontario Provincial Police
Warns Public About Website
March 2010
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in cooperation with the Ontario Corrections Intelligence Unit are warning the public about certain criminal websites possibly being used by thieves to break into your home when you are away. These websites used by criminals are linked to popular social networking websites. On these social networking websites (which are legitimate) you can update your profile to inform your friends as to when you are away from your residence and for how long. Certain criminal websites extracts this information and posts it on its pages and informs their users in any part of the world which houses are empty and at what times. When you consider how many millions of people use social networking websites around the world, the effects can be huge. The public is reminded that items posted on social networking websites are available to all on the web and not all persons on the web are “friends”. Please restrict what you put on your networking page(s) including photos of your residence/address, photos of vehicles including plate numbers and any up to the minute information as to your whereabouts, keep that for your local friends/people you know personally.
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The First Delusion
The I/thou splitting of experience.
The first delusion and it is an increasingly common one, is that one is not an equal participant in life but rather an ‘objective observer’ of ‘others.’
Of course if the psychiatrized even suggest such a thing as ‘objective observation’ of others is true for them, they get an increase in medication too reduce their grandiosity.
Psychiatrists, on the other hand, are actually trained to adopt and embrace this attitude and belief right away along with emotional detachment and reductionism. We refer to the skewed results of this as ‘the clinical gaze.’
Once this I/thou splitting is accepted and takes psychological hold of those employing it, those under it’s spell fail to see, hear or understand any longer that , “That which you are observing is also observing you.”
We have always been there. Where have YOU been ‘taken’ so that you could not see us or hear us right in front of you?
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Just Like Diabetes
So how many diabetics would you police services say you have to pick up and take to the emergency rooms every year? Do you have to cuff, or taser, a lot of these people always whining and complaining about their high blood sugar and/or insulin overdoses? You would think they would be grateful wouldn’t you, about all the help they are getting?
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Third Party Assessments
Why would people, including some we don’t know, who don’t know us, talk about us disparagingly, right in front of us like we aren’t really there?
Well the belief from the ‘normal’ others’ perspective seems to go something like this:
It is OK if we talk about her right in front of her because she is stupid and/or crazy and will not understand what we are talking about anyway. At times, oblivious to their own irrationality, they even SAY that while I am standing there looking at them.
We whack jobs often think they are doing it on purpose because we don’t believe it is possible for people to be so stupid as to be that unaware of themselves, or us.
I just got a little fridge magnet to remind me of this groupthink routine which says,
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
I will try to lower my expectations so that I will not make that mistake again.
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Self Promotion
One cannot appeal to the conscience of a sociopath as this is not what motivates him/her.
What motivates him/her is total self interest and all s/he does and says is with that end in mind. Therefore, the only way to stop one acting out for his/her own gain is to make it more personally beneficial to him/her to do so, than to continue along in his/her ‘game.’
The same sort of thing applies to witnesses. If it costs them MORE to conceal the truth than it does to tell it, they will tend to co-operate out of self interest, not guilt or ethics, but out of the same things which motivated many of them to conceal the truth in the first place. It is all about them.
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Some of us who get targeted by 'Power' in situations where it seems there is no escape possible, have no choice but to crawl through a whole pile of other people's shit to make it out the other side. Now, what do you suppose I mean by that?
Let me 'enlighten' you. by asking again...'est-hole'? Have you ever read the Shawshank Redemption?..
I AM Godot....Godot waits for no one....
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