Weaving (or Unweaving) the Web of Schizophrenia

 

by Tom Blaise Shepherd

 

Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd

 

Joplin, Missouri Native Son  ~ American Born Leader

 

Veteran of Army ROTC from age 14; veteran of the United States Marine Corps Reserve from age 17; veteran of the United States Coast Guard from age 18. Honorably discharged as “paranoiac, schizophrenic, emotionally unstable and confused over his sexual identity” at age 21. The year was 1960. His medical records were ‘skewed’ by physicians and military personnel in order to suppress evidence of a service-connected cause of his disability.

 

During his first year of service with the Coast Guard, the author was assaulted and battered by a drunk and hostile black shipmate who threw him out of the hammock he was sleeping in onto the deck, then pounced on him, banging the back of his head against the deck and attempting to strangle him. His assailant was drunk as a direct result of the fact that the captain of the ship to which they were assigned had hosted a beer party at the end of a workday while the ship was anchored offshore in the South Pacific. Tom also became a victim of ongoing sexual harassment, to include actual sexual assault and battery by male shipmates – officers and enlisted men  -- both aboard ship and while ashore – resulting in his being hospitalized on several occasions.

 

He was also a victim of repeated sexual harassment – as well as aggravated battery by female hustlers – hustlers that preyed on youthful servicemen at off-based clubs. In fact, he was bludgeoned over the head with a beer bottle by a total stranger – an intoxicated female – merely because he had repeatedly asked to stay away from him after she had attempted to solicit him for drinks and for a lewd act with her male civilian companion.  The head wound required surgical repair at a Washington, D. C. Navy infirmary during the spring of 1959. The female assailant was not apprehended by the police.

 

Prior to active duty with the Coast Guard, Tom Shepherd was appointed citizenship chairman and president of a southwest Missouri inter-racial, interdenominational protestant youth organization, for which he received statewide recognition as a result of his ‘outstanding’ leadership skills. Shepherd was also chosen by his high school teachers and by the Rotary Club to be a delegate to Missouri Boys State during the summer of 1955, whence (at the age of 16) he passed the Missouri Boys State Bar exam.

 

During his sophomore year in high school, Tom Shepherd was a victim of ongoing psychological terror by classmates primarily because he honestly reported to an inspecting ROTC officer that the reason he was “out of uniform” was that a senior cadet and varsity athlete had demanded Shepherd hand him his uniform cap for his own use only minutes prior to a weekly inspection during the fall of 1953. The senior ROTC cadet (Don Smith) thence psychologically terrorized Shepherd in ranks by (with his fists clenched in a fight position) repeatedly screaming vulgar expletives in reference to Shepherd’s mother, and then calling Shepherd “yellow” for refusing to swing back at Smith. Don Smith thence persuaded other cadets to verbally taunt and assault and batter Shepherd in the school hallways and after school, when he became the victim of a premeditated abduction, assault and battery to the head as he opened the front door of his own home in early 1954.

 

Previous to the ROTC incident and the subsequent abduction and battery of him at the doorway of his home, Tom had been subjected to a variety of forms of treachery, to include sexual battery by his abductors. Meanwhile, his mom and stepdad were on the verge of a marital breakup, when his stepdad committed suicide at the end of his junior year in high school.

 

One of Tom Shepherd’s teen assailants is today a retired Navy pilot, Captain Joseph Robert Thornhill. Another one of Tom Shepherd’s his teen assailants was Jimmy Dailey, all-star St. Louis University basketball champ, who spent his own adult years as an account rep for Arthur Andersen Company. Another was Buck Jeans, a/k/a Virgil E. Jeans Jr., son of a World War II Army Surgeon. Buck Jeans spent his own adult years teaching school in Ventura, California.

 

None of the above-named assailants was arrested or prosecuted, nor did any of them ever express remorse, nor did they or their parents offer any form of restitution for the physical and mental battery they inflicted on Tom Shepherd and on other members of Shepherd’s family. However, Jeans and Thornhill were arrested by local police two years later (in 1956) for stealing hubcaps from other citizens, following their graduation from a military academy.

 

Following graduation from Joplin High School and prior to entering the Coast Guard, Tom Shepherd attended the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, when he met his natural father, a Mexico City engineer, who had abandoned his mom, his older brother and him at the time of his own birth in 1938, a meeting that was not particularly pleasant for Tom. He then continued his education a community college in Missouri. He was an honor student at both institutions. However, as a result of ongoing conflict with “rejecting, yet manipulative” parents, Tom enlisted in the Coast Guard at the age of 18. “Both of my parents kept me in a checkmate position. The only way I could mentally cope was to get far away from both of them and to thereby attempt to bury the haunting, unpleasant memories of my childhood and adolescence,” says Tom.

 

Following military service Tom drifted about the country, working at a variety of low-paid jobs in Miami, Florida – to include that of a copy boy for the Miami Herald – where he was terminated for reacting to incessant harassment by a jealous supervisor – as a result of rumors circulating about his psychiatric history – and as a $1.25 per hour truck driver for Shaw’s Landscape Nursery. Meanwhile, Tom studied acting with Ruth Foreman at her Studio M Playhouse Actor’s Workshop in Coral Gables.

 

Following a brief marriage and divorce to an actress who along with her parents repeatedly humiliated him as a result of his inability to sustain ongoing employment, Tom migrated to New York City, where he worked for the Associated Press for about a year and became affiliated with several acting and playwriting groups, to include the Berghoff Studio and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He left his job at the Associated Press as a result of unbearable, ongoing sexual harassment in the office by a homosexual co-worker. He then went on the road with a theatrical group, a group he left as a result of conflict with the actors, directors and producers.

 

In 1966 he enter the College of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma with the intention of pursuing a degree in playwriting and directing. However, he very quickly became embittered with the hostile political climate that existed in the drama department. He thus pursued liberal arts studies in the College of Arts and Science & in the Graduate College University of Oklahoma (city planning), becoming increasingly alienated and embittered with the volatile political climate that existed on campus. He married a classmate, Sue Ann, five years older than he, who was at the time a graduate student in library science. Following their graduation, they moved to Del Mar, California, where he established a mail-order home furnishings business, Thomas of LaJolla, and authored The Investor’s Handbook on Mexico, while his wife worked as head catalog librarian for the Biomedical Library at UCSD in LaJolla.

 

After three years of marriage, Tom’s wife divorced him. He was then briefly retained as an urban planning consultant and assistant planning director for Ozark Gateway Regional Planning Commission & Law Enforcement Assistance Council in Missouri. He was wrongfully terminated merely for repeatedly complaining about ongoing humiliating sexual harassment of him by “insanely jealous” co-employees, including by the female office bookkeeper, the female office secretary, by his female supervisor (Dr. Mary Megee) and by executive director Jack L. Williams, who initiated and encouraged the harassment from the onset.

 

The author was repeatedly humiliated and discredited by subordinates and by other administrative personnel as a result of twisted rumors being circulated by the same people regarding his medical history. The harassment and humiliation were used to intimidate or blackmail the author for merely appropriately carrying out assigned duties as a planning consultant and planner. He was NEVER compensated for his unfair termination.

 

Tom later attended Crowder College, Neosho, Missouri (architecture & building construction technology), after which he designed and built his own country home, which he was soon forced to sell after becoming a victim of assault and battery – his foot was crushed by a Pakistani gourmet restaurant manager over a squabble about an unfair billing – an incident that left him with a foot injury that disabled him for months. As a result of the incident, the Tulsa police department closed down the restaurant.

 

After drifting around the country in to a semi-nomadic existence, working at a variety of construction sites and being intermittently hospitalized at a number of psychiatric institutions in Oklahoma and California, to include the Veterans Hospital in West Los Angeles, Tom was awarded Supplemental Security income, a monthly subsistence allowance.

 

Tom then returned to college to get certified as a mental health counselor and was subsequently appointed an advisory board member for a couple of mental health agencies in Los Angeles County. He left the college as a result of incessant harassment of him by a hostile, Jewish female faculty member and psychology department chair.

 

The author, Tom Shepherd, was later unfairly terminated as a Los Angeles Department of Mental Health agency rehabilitation counselor and case manager merely for complaining about agency fraud and ongoing humiliating verbal harassment by offensive supervisors and a black male office secretary.

 

He has since founded The Tom Blaise Shepherd Existential Society of America and the American Gentile Anti-Defamation League. He works on a daily basis as a writer.

 

 

Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010

 

 

 

 

To declare that an individual is suffering from a delusion is a mere hypothesis, which in all probably has no basis in fact.  Such is the view of R.D. Laing, J. P. Sartre, Thomas Szasz, M. D. and others.

 

Far from being a disease, schizophrenia is actually a very purposive and meaningful attempt by an individual to cope with a catastrophic loss of self-esteem. Such is the view of John Modrow, author of How to Become a Schizophrenic, and of others.

 

Hell is other people – Jean Paul Sartre

 

   

 Teenage & Adult Views of Author          1964 View of Author

 

     1969 View of  Author Tom & Wife Sue Ann (Librarian)

 

 Introduction by Senator Richard M. Webster

 

 

last updated 03-08-2010

 

 

   The Crime of Psychiatry: Millions of Americans, diagnosed as mentally ill, are drugged and confined by doctors and are supported by the state, not because they have a disease, but because they are impoverished and understandably mentally confused, primarily as a result of double-bind communication by parents, teachers, employers and military leaders and because they are unwanted by their own relatives and by corrupt government and corporate employers.

 

   We claim (via the framers of the Constitution) to be one nation under God. Furthermore, the God-fearing religions of America (primarily Christianity and Judaism) have always declared it is wrong to kill: Thou shalt not kill is one of the Ten Commandments.

 

   Yet teenage males are required to register for the draft when they turn 18. If they are conscripted or enlist, they are then desensitized and taught that is not only OK to kill, in the name of God and Country, but exactly how to kill. They are furthermore taught that if they think otherwise they are wimps, cowards, or pansies. Since no man in his right mind desires to be called a wimp, a coward or a pansy, males thus proceed to maim and kill others in order to justify their right to American citizenship, as well as their right to exist as men – as so-called real men.

 

   If you think I am joking, I am not!

 

   Although modern-day Jewish Americans typically claim they abhor the institution of slavery, the fact is that the Jewish holy book, The Torah (a/k/a The Old Testament of the Bible) justifies slavery (Leviticus 25:40-45) – more precisely Jewish law justifies the right of Jews to own non-Jews (Gentiles) as permanent slaves and to pass on their slaves to their Jewish children. Acting under the leadership of Queen Isabella of the Spanish Crown, it was the Hispanics that actually imported the African slaves into the Western Hemisphere (to include North America, Middle America, the Caribbean Islands and South America) over 500 years ago. Aaron Lopez (a Portuguese Jew) was one of the leading slave traders in the Americas.

 

   We still have slavery in America. We Americans simply substitute a different word to justify human exploitation of the poor by the wealthy: capitalism. It is, of course, an unpardonable sin – unpardonable by society – to denounce capitalism – even though capitalism is indeed a form of legalized slavery.

 

   Although presumably all people experience romantic and erotic feelings for certain individuals of the same sex, we dudes are taught rule number one: not to talk about it – not to be honest about the fact that there is a homoerotic side – or dimension – to every individual. Thus, as a disclaimer of sorts, everyone is taught to point his (or her) finger at everyone else. Ironically, the victim of such fingerpointing often forgets to sound out with the old adage It takes one to know one.

 

   If you tell the truth, you’re committing an unpardonable sin – unpardonable by society – by two-faced society – two-faced God-fearing society. It is, of course, the Jewish holy book, The Torah, that justifies murdering any two men that would sleep together: Leviticus 25:20. If a man lies with another man as he would with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

 

   As far as I can see, there ain’t no straight dudes, unless you wish to define straight as one who tells lies. Of course, we all tell lies and cheat. That’s what bein’ a man is all about. When anyone receives a degree in business, whether it’s from Harvard, Yale or Podunk University, he (or she) has been trained in the art of deception – how to steal and get by with it  -- how to exploit your neighbor.

 

   America’s Supreme Court justices, commanders-in-chief and legislators indeed always have been and still are highly mentally conflicted –unable to differentiate between right and wrong – and they have been since the framing of the Constitution.

 

   An individual diagnosed as having any form of schizophrenia is one who understandably is confused – severely confused, as well as despondent – because he was reared in an environment in which his (or her) mentally conflicted teachers, coaches and his mentally conflicted governmental leaders quite apparently confused right from wrong.  Right was, in fact, wrong and wrong was, in fact, right.

 

   We are all products of the formal and informal educational process. As my Beverly Hills psychiatrist, Dr. David A. Thiele, philosophically explained to me back in 1991, There is no right or wrong. However, few psychiatrists or judges or prosecutors are as forthright as was/is Dr. Thiele when he made the statement. However, I am not putting Dr. Thiele on a pedestal, as I believe that his statement was perhaps more intended as a disclaimer for his own actions or behavior. Every two weeks, at the beginning of each of my talk sessions, I compliantly dropped my pants and bent over in front of Dr. Thiele, while he injected my butt with a powerful so-called ‘anti-psychotic’ drug known as Prolixin. I was unaware at the time of the fact that the Prolixin, as well as the other anti-psychotic drugs I was being primed with were merely exacerbating my disability by keeping me mentally confused and overly compliant – as a borderline zombie. Psychiatry – as it is commonly practiced – is indeed a fraud.

 

   All I ever desired to do was to get back to work – in the capacity for which my government educated me – as a creative individual – as a leader – and to be rewarded for my leadership qualities, not punished!

 

   There is no justification for incarcerating any American citizen, especially an Armed Forces veteran, whether the incarceration is in a jail or in a mental institution, as our laws reinforce economic inequality. They also reinforce violence.

 

   The criminal justice system in America, as in virtually every nation, is a mockery of justice. A democratic criminal justice system places education above incarceration. The military code of justice is ALSO a mockery of justice, as the enlisted man – those serving in the ranks – have virtually no rights – they are required to salute and kiss the asses of the male and female brass in charge – on a daily basis – if they complain they are more than likely to be incarcerated – either in a brig or in a psychiatric hospital – then discharged as being either insubordinate or as mentally unsound or even more ludicrously as being confused over one’s sexual identity.

 

   Senator John McCain’s father-in-law, Jim Hensley, so flouted the alcoholic beverage control laws of America while operating an alcoholic beverage concern in Texas that he was arrested and convicted of a felony. Although he was never pardoned, he merely moved to Arizona and re-established Hensley & Company, which ultimately became one of the largest alcoholic beverage distributors in America, a concern inherited by his daughter (now reported to be worth over $100 million, as well as CEO of Hensley & Co.). Arizona officials and the Feds looked the other way, while other Americans (convicted of any felony, whether pardoned or not) are permanently denied the opportunity to engage in any alcoholic beverage enterprise or to become licensed in many other business enterprises or professions, to include that of law and medicine!  Most are living in virtual poverty – the result of inequality under the laws of America.

 

   It should never be forgotten that the Kennedy Dynasty came about through illegal alcoholic beverage trafficking by family patriarch Joe Kennedy during the Prohibition Era. The wealth of the highly esteemed Kennedy family is thus derived from organized underworld crime, as is the wealth of the highly esteemed Bronfman family (Seagram Canadian Whiskey), who was also engaged in underworld trafficking in alcoholic beverages across the Canadian and U. S. border during the Prohibition Era. Senator Joseph Lieberman’s dad’s wealth largely came from his legal operation of an alcoholic beverage dealership.  Legal or not, alcoholic beverages are dangerous, mind-disabling drugs!

 

   Our primary and secondary schools are in virtual shambles. Our colleges and universities, to include our Ivy League colleges, are largely staffed by incompetent, unscrupulous professors – many of them drunkards – yet they are paid salaries that enable them to live as virtual millionaires, while down-grading (or even expelling) those students that are brave enough to speak out in the classroom about the situation that exists – and to file complaints with administrators – who are as corrupt as the teachers or professors.

 

   There is also no justification in a U. S. Senator or Representative receiving an average annual salary of upwards of $130,000, plus an ultra-fat retirement pension, when a diagnosed schizophrenic veteran commonly receives NOTHING and is thus checkmated to a virtual homeless existence. If a diagnosed schizophrenic or paranoiac is awarded Supplemental Security income, his average monthly check is likely to be far beneath that necessary to be able to afford any home other than a room without bath in a third rate hotel.

 

   If a U. S. Senator or Representative can legislate his (or her) own paycheck, then why can’t a U. S. veteran legislate his (or her) own paycheck? Rhetorical question. Think about it. Think about all of the above.

 

Hon. Thomas Mitchell Shepherd,

Mental Health & Criminal Justice Consultant,

U. S. Veteran & Urban Planner & Designer

 

   To learn more about the bureaucracy that perpetuates this fraud, read Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society’s Unwanted by Thomas Szasz, M.D., which can be purchased from Amazon.com.

 

   Also read The Crime of Psychiatry by Yours Truly.

 

   Psychiatrists, egocentric psychiatrists, typically claim they know more about another individual than the individual knows about himself!

 

   We live in a sick society and it is the society and its barbaric religious institutions (that institutionalize economic inequality, human exploitation and state-sanctioned murder it its various forms) that needs to be treated in lieu of the psychiatric patient, society’s scapegoat. In short, it is the individual at the bottom of the dehumanizing pecking order that is most likely to be branded as “mentally ill” or as “schizophrenic,” even though he may indeed be the sanest member of society, and quite possibly the most ethical.

 

   ‘The Church provides God-fearing people with a justification for mistreating others, while taking refuge in the Church’s barbaric teachings.’  -- Tom Miguel Blaise Shepherd

 

   It is my opinion that most psychiatrists, virtual prescription clerks, get through medical school because they have the ability to memorize classified data, not because they have any extraordinary analytical ability!

  

   I am now 70+ years old. By the way, while I was an outpatient at the West Los Angeles VA Hospital in Brentwood several years ago (May 1996) when I was 55 years old, I attempted to explain to the panel of psychiatrists, social workers and psychologists who were evaluating me the exact manner in which I was abused by a Coast Guard training instructor while I was on active duty.

 

   The Coast Guard instructor, a First Class Petty Officer, humiliated and punished me by making me get down on the ground on my hands and knees and pick up my classmates’ cigarette butts during a full hour, while my classmates were receiving instruction in a nearby classroom. I myself did not smoke. In fact, I was about the only member of my class that did not smoke.

 

   I was subjected to such humiliation/punishment merely because I was wrongfully cited as being “out of uniform” as a direct result of the fact that my Coast Guard classmates had taken my uniform cap off my head and were playing catch with it while the instructor looked on. Instead of punishing the classmates who took my hat, he punished me!

 

   As I was relating the story to a team of VA psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, Dr. Thomas Grieder interrupted me by shouting, “Shut up or I’ll call the police!” There was also a handful of other veteran patients on hand to witness Grieder’s conduct, rather misconduct.

 

   Grieder then wrote me a prescription for Trazadone, an antidepressant, which I soon learned, can cause extremely unpredictable behavior, i.e., mood swings. That is state-of-the art psychiatry at the Veteran’s Hospital or at any other psychiatric institution.

 

Shut up or I’ll call the police

 

 -- Dr. Thomas A. Grieder, VA psychiatrist (May 1996)

 

Shut up! Take the drugs!   Shut up! Take the drugs!

 

   The fact is, I had weaned myself off psych meds three years previously, with the help of the VA, and was doing relatively fine, other than that I had several months before (May 1994) become the victim of a false imprisonment as a result of a false complaint a Los Angeles City College female psychology professor made as retaliation because I had several days before filed an appropriate formal complaint with the dean, regarding her psychological harassment of me and other students. I had also recently (October 1994) lost a job with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, merely for making a justified formal complaint about fraud and about incessant racial-sexual harassment of me by my supervisors and co-workers. I had discontinued the use of alcoholic beverages for relaxation purposes three years before, although psychiatrists had repeatedly encouraged me to resume drinking.

 

   It is alarming to me, and should be to others, that none of my psychiatric records (which I have since obtained) mention the fact that my primary complaints to other psychiatrists at the VA and elsewhere were (1) that I was a victim of repeated assaults (and batteries) by my instructors, by officers, by petty officers and by seaman shipmates, including sexual assault and ongoing psychological humiliation, which was the primary reason I was confused and depressed during my active duty with the Coast Guard – that my disability was indeed service-connected; (2) that I had been a victim of a false arrest and false imprisonment by a licensed California clinical psychologist and psychological professor in May 1994 and (3) that I had also been a victim of an inappropriate AND unlawful termination as a mental health counselor merely for complaining about fraud and racial/sexual harassment of me while I was working for the mental health agency in October 1994. (3) that I was being harassed by strangers in restaurants and other public places and even by people connected with the mental health system merely because I had developed very noticeable involuntary nervous tics as a result of the psychiatric medications I had been administered by the VA and by other government-operated psychiatric clinics.

 

   In several instances, I was actually refused service because of my involuntary nervous tics, which I generally was not even consciously aware of until someone else pointed out what I was doing – rapidly twitching the second and third fingers of my left and right hand).

 

   In other words, all California government agencies, as well as VA officials, afterwards covered up the fact that I was a repeated victim of racial/sexual harassment, false arrest and unlawful termination BY administrative professionals working within the mental health system and that I was also a victim of psychiatric drug treatment – neuroleptics and antidepressants.

 

   The VA did, however, document on my medical records my reportage in 1985 of the fact that I had been a victim of inexcusable and inhumane abuse by psychiatrists and administrators working for the Tulsa (Oklahoma) Psychiatric Clinic a year before I voluntarily entered the West Los Angeles VA Hospital. The VA also documented that my very first psychiatric hospitalizations (in 1959 and 1960) stemmed from my depressive reaction (characterized on other records as a schizophrenic reaction) to the multiple attempts by my male Coast Guard supervisor to get me into a sexual relationship with him that I did not desire to have and the attempts by him and other shipmates to sabotage my romantic relationships with civilian females.

 

   Interestingly, the VA so-called medical experts, including social workers, failed to document (on paper) my claim that I was a victim of an onboard ship assault and battery by a Coast Guard shipmate during my first year of service with the Coast Guard (while I was still a teenager) and the fact that my assailant’s antisocial behavior was no doubt triggered as a result of alcoholic beverages he had consumed at an onboard ship beer party hosted by the captain of our ship while we were anchored offshore in the South Pacific during the summer of 1958. I was thrown out of the hammock I was sleeping in, onto the deck, then pounced on by my much heavier and older assailant, who simultaneous pounded the back of my head against the deck and attempted to strangle me. I myself was 19 years old at the time. That particular incident has been covered up by the Coast Guard, by U. S. Public Health Service physicians and by the Veterans Administration physicians and administrators for nearly 50 years.

 

   The matter also been covered up by members of U.S. Congress, to whom I have repeatedly complained – including my own cousins, Senator Barry Goldwater and his son Representative Barry Goldwater Jr. (Senator Goldwater’s wife and Representative Goldwater’s mother, Margaret Johnson Goldwater, was my mom’s second cousin).

 

   My VA medical records also document my reportage that I had voluntarily left several places of employment as a result of being asked to engage in telemarketing business practices that I believed to be unethical or unlawful. One of those former employers was Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, Inc., a democratic party professional fund-raising agency, owned and operated by California Democratic Party leaders Mike Gordon and Kris Schwenkmeyer, where I worked during the spring and summer of 1985, just before entering the West Los Angeles VA Hospital. I raised approximately $250,000+ for them during my five-month employment with them, working 7 days a week at minimum non-living wage ($4.50 per hour), although I was repeatedly intimidated and humiliated for refusing to engage in fraudulent practices that would have, so I was told, enabled the owners to make more money.

 

   One of the individuals that intimidated and humiliated me was Steve Gordon, also an employee of the agency and the brother of Mike Gordon. Mike Gordon was later was elected to serve as a State Assemblyman from Los Angeles. While working as a State Assemblyman, he and Schwenkmeyer continued to operate their fund-raising business, raising millions for other Democratic Party candidates across America. Schenkmeyer was appointed to the board of the California Fair-Employment Commission.

 

   Two licensed Beverly Hills psychiatrists I had seen in private practice between 1991 and 1995 were in the habit of encouraging their patients to supplement their medication with alcoholic beverages. One of the physicians even had a bar in his office and was in the habit of offering his patients a cocktail, as supplementation, while he conducted talk therapy with them. That same physician told me he himself was regularly taking Trilafon, an anti-psychotic prescription drug.

 

   The reason I was continuing to visit the VA Hospital is (1) I suffered from chronic sinusitis and nervous tics, conditions that had been aggravated by the psychotropic drugs prescribed for me by VA psychiatrists, and (2) I was still seeking retroactive compensation from the VA for having been hospitalized, diagnosed and stigmatized as having a “mental disorder” while serving my country during my teenage years, between 1957 and 1960, during which service I had been a victim of assault and battery and ongoing sexual harassment by my own shipmates. My documented (and unsealed) psychiatric history, had gravely affected my ability to secure employment commensurate with my ability, had affected the way others treated me and had (quite understandably) negatively affected my self-esteem. The end result: I was economically impoverished. My own government had placed me in a checkmate situation.

 

   My alleged psychiatric condition was first documented by government psychiatrists while serving my country as a teenager. I was hospitalized in three different psychiatric facilities (for observation) as a result of my reaction to continuous double-bind communication and abuse (virtually identical to the example I gave above) by the sociopathic Coast Guard officers in charge, as well as by Shore Patrol officers. The official documentation of my alleged condition on medical records, which tended to skew the actual circumstances that led up to my hospitalizations, rendered me virtually unemployable for the remainder of my adult life by virtue of the fact that in several instance I was actually denied employment, especially government employment, based on the mere existence of a psychiatric record. When I was hired, I was ultimately terminated merely for complaining about harassment, verbal abuse or fraud by my supervisors or co-workers, invariably because my employers or supervisors used their knowledge of my psychiatric history as a justification for firing me! It was a case of you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.

 

   I would not have even applied for Supplemental Security Income in 1986, were I not indeed chronically destitute as a direct result of the way my own family (virtual millionaires) treated me, the way the United States Coast Guard treated me, the way my unscrupulous former employers treated me and the way psychiatrists themselves had treated me over the years.

 

   If I was not fired, I left voluntarily left as a result of continuous harassment by supervisors or coworkers, most of whom used alcohol and marijuana, cocaine or amphetamines on the job. A couple construction workers I was working with in Biloxi were smoking marijuana quite openly, a fact that affected their own motor coordination. Workers I was working with in a Teledyne machine shop in Culver City (Los Angeles) were so stoned on marijuana that their own motor coordination was affected and resultantly creating a major problem for the factory. I was victim of a verbal threat by a Negro co-worker, who was obviously so stoned on marijuana that he could not even walk straight. Because the white supervisor was not about to rock the boat by confronting my assailant, even though he was well aware that the he was stoned on marijuana and in the habit of threatening other white workers with bodily violence, I voluntarily left my job. His oft-repeated favorite phrase of intimidation was: I’ll cut your nuts off.

 

   Others (most of them members of so-called minority groups) I was required to work with at the Miami Herald and other places were so stoned from smoking marijuana on their coffee breaks that they were disrupting the workplace, then telling me to “fuck off” when I complained about the noise they created by playing loud rock music on their portable radios, yet it was invariably I who was fired, merely for complaining about their disruptive behavior, behavior that was interfering with my own ability to work. They were also upset because I would not smoke with them.

 

   While employed as a case manager and rehabilitation counselor for a Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health agency, I was the only employee that did not smoke, drink alcoholic beverages or use other drugs, including prescribed psychiatric drugs, yet I was terminated merely for complaining about fraud by management, as well as for complaining about the offensive ethnic/racist/sexist remarks made to me (a gentile Anglo-Saxon straight white male) by so-called minority supervisors and co-workers, disruptive behavior caused by the supervisors in charge in part as a result of the fact that they were mentally incapacitated by the legal chemicals they themselves were using and in part because they knew they could hide behind their own diagnoses as being “mentally ill,” and therefore not be held responsible for their actions.

 

   The fact is that after I was hired by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health agency as a case manager, after completing an internship, I learned, through my own investigation, that the agency had been fraudulently certified by the fiduciary agent in charge, an Asian gentleman, who held a doctorate in social work from USC and who was also affiliated with the United Way, as there was no licensed psychiatrist, clinical psychologist or social worker on hand in the office to supervise case management work. The two women in charge of case management, both of them on psych meds, were neither licensed as social workers, nor did they have a required master’s degree in social work.

 

   My father abandoned my mother, brother and me at the time of my birth. My millionaire oilman/banker paternal grandfather, Eugene Frank Blaise, who was also a Thirty-Second Degree Mason, did absolutely nothing to financially assist us or to nourish us, as a responsible grandfather would be expected to do in any society. However, we did receive an annual Christmas card from him, with a check enclosed in the amount of $10, and signed Best Wishes, Grandad. An intimidating hate note, written by his wife, Marie, warning us that we would never be welcome in their home, was occasionally inserted in the envelope. Neither he, nor Marie, our step-grandmother, would permit my brother and me to visit him at his home in Tulsa, overlooking the Arkansas River, only 90 miles from where my older brother and I lived during our childhood.

 

   The reason for the neglect by our grandfather and step-grandmother had nothing to do with anything my brother and I had done. It had to do with the mere fact that the two of them resented our mother (in part for even having given birth to us) and were thus taking their resentment for our mother out on us, two innocent children. We were their scapegoats.

 

   I thus had neither a father, a grandfather, an uncle, nor any other male surrogate father during my childhood to provide protection, positive role modeling and ongoing male nurturing, nurturing any boy needs in order to be able to relate well to other males, as well as to females.

 

   My favorite picture of my mother and father, embracing each other on an Acapulco beach prior to my birth was stolen from me long ago by some anonymous thief who apparently was hoping I had money or diamonds instead of treasured romantic photographs of my mother and father in the old brief case he removed from my old car in the Vieux Carre¢.

 

   By the way, most Westerners, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists included, appear to be extremely neurotically conflicted on the subject of human sexuality. Arabs, Greeks, many South American native peoples and the Sambians of New Guinea do not view male sexuality the same way Westerners do. For the Non-Muslim Arabs, Classical Greeks and Modern-day Sambians there is a homoerotic side or dimension to every man, which is expressed and sublimated in many different ways, including through contact sports, the affectionate abrazo and ethnic dancing. The concept of the heterosexual and the homosexual (as separate individuals or identities) is a concept that originated with ancient barbaric Judaism and has been reinforced through modern-day Christianity and Islam, a concept that has served the purpose of socially reinforcing obsessive-compulsive homosexuality and obsessive-compulsive heterosexuality. In an effort to coerce people to suppress their homoerotic side, Western cultures paradoxically propagate and reinforce homosexual subcultures and widespread neurosis among so-called heterosexuals (all of whom appear to be severely neurotically disturbed by the haunting awareness of their forbidden inner homosexual feelings).

 

   It could be said (by me) that the arrogance of most psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and social workers is exceeded only by their ignorance and by their duplicity.

 

   The reason those of us diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, or any other so-called mental illness, typically deny that we are suffering from a disease and refuse to take our so-called prescribed medication (mind-disabling psychoactive drugs) is that we are NOT suffering from a disease. We are suffering as a result of having been conveniently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a diagnosis intended to place all the blame for the ongoing and unrelenting traumatizing physical and emotional violations of us by our parents, our teachers, our classmates, our spouses and our employers (including various divisions of the Armed Services) on a chemical imbalance of our brain’s neurotransmitters or on our brain structure. In effect, we are suffering from the fact that psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychiatric social workers are not being honest with us or with anyone else about the real reason for the checkmate situation we find ourselves in. It is the sigma of having been branded with a mental disorder and the resultant disenfranchisement of us by society that keeps us in a checkmate situation.

 

   Double-bind communication has been conjectured by intelligent human beings, few of whom ever become psychiatrists, as a contributing cause of what the medical profession refers to as schizophrenic behavior. A fitting example of double-bind communication would be a wife who continuously discourages the romantic/sexual gestures her husband initiates with her, then wants to know why he is no longer interested in making love to her. Another example is the mother who refuses to breast feed her male child, who continuously castigates her adolescent son with emasculating epithets, then claims she can’t understand why he prefers the adult company of other men to the company of women.

 

   Ironically, my own paternal grandparents $1.8 estate (as it was appraised by Harris County, Texas Probate Court in 1976), comprised largely of oil stocks and government bonds (that would today be valued at upwards of $10 million) was given away by my evil step-grandmother, in her will, to the First Church of Christ Scientists of Boston and the Theosophical Society in Wheaton, Illinois. My brother, a year older, who had been under outpatient psychiatric treatment since he was a college sophomore, and who was later operated for partially inoperable brain tumors, and who suffered additional brain damage as a direct result of three brain tumor surgeries, died homeless in Springfield, Missouri, after living a vagrant life for some 30 or more years. I learned of his death two years after his death. To have apprised me sooner of the circumstances of his death would have been an “invasion of his privacy,” so I was told by the manipulative, money-grubbing Christian charlatan who was in charge of the multi-million dollar mission where my brother, suffering from chronic seizures and festering brain lesions, last resided, during which time he slept on the floor during a cold night in February 2002, then was booted out the door at 6 a.m., along with all of the other indigent and ill vagrants, many of them no doubt like my brother, former altar boys, university graduates and Army veterans, suffering from quite understandable brain damage as a result of brain tumors and brain tumor surgeries and from inexcusable neglect by our own financially able father and our paternal grandparents.

 

   According to John Modrow, the so-called “symptoms” of schizophrenia are mental traits common to all human kind which have been exaggerated in schizophrenics due to environmental stress; that if any person were to be put through the same types of stress that schizophrenics have undergone, the person would become a schizophrenic; that schizophrenics as such do not exist, but rather that they are human beings who have undergone terrifying, heartbreaking, and damaging experiences, usually over a long period of time, and as a consequence are emotionally disturbed –often to the point of incapacitation. [John Modrow, How to Become a Schizophrenic, p. 9]

 

   There is no such “condition” as schizophrenia, writes R. D. Lang, author of The Politics of Experience. However, the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. What we call normal, conjectures Laing, is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one see this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical  mechanisms. Society highly values its normal men.  It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. -- The Politics of Experience (1967) by R.D. Laing.

 

   [Note: R.D. Laing is also the author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Penguin Books, 1990, a brilliant study of the so-called schizoid personality and of schizophrenia!]

 

   Schizophrenia is not a disease. It is a diagnosis commonly made by psychiatrists, following an adolescent’s psychological reaction to the ongoing attempts of his parents, surrogate parents and society-in-general to coerce him into suppressing and repressing his very real memory of incidences in which he (or she) has been violated in one manner or another by his peers and by those role models in charge. Typically, the individual diagnosed with schizophrenia is the family’s, as well as the community’s scapegoat.

 

   As a society, we highly value the professionally trained killer, whom we call the soldier, the hero, the “real man.” At the same time we, as a society, tend to figuratively castrate the man who is unwilling to engage himself in violence. We call him a coward, a pansy, a faggot, or a homosexual in order to destroy his manhood and thus induce him to become violent, to kill. Then we lock him up and brand him a felon. Of course, the very apparent fact is that there is a homosexual side to every man, a fact that we as a society continue to repress, to deny. -- from The Schizophregenic Society by Tom Blaise de Shepherd

 

   The term schizophrenia was coined by Eugen Bleuler in about 1911 and accepted by the psychiatric industry as a descriptive label for a variety of so-called behavior abnormalities characteristic of dementia praecox or premature senility or of encephalitis lethargica*, a brain disease.    *Mad in America, 2002, p. 163-164, by Robert Whitaker

 

   Textbook descriptions of so-called schizophrenia are no more true to life than is an Edgar Allen Poe short story or a Thomas Harris novel. In fact, according to Hungarian-American psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, author of Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society’s Unwanted, and British phenomenologist R. D. Laing, schizophrenia is basically a myth, created by the The Establishment and the psychiatric profession for the purpose of exploiting and suppressing those individuals so labeled. Laing claims that society itself is indeed a poor yardsick for measuring sanity and that the psychiatric labeling process is not only stigmatizing, but also that it is barbaric, and serves the purpose of reinforcing dysfunctional behavior.

 

   “The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of normal men. And social adaptation to a dysfunctional society may be very dangerous. The perfectly adjusted bomber pilot may be a greater threat to species survival than the hospitalized schizophrenic deluded that the Bomb is inside him . . . Our society may itself have become biologically dysfunctional, and some forms of schizophrenic alienation from the alienation of society may have a socio-biological function that we have not recognized.” – R.D. Laing. The Politics of Experience, 1967.

  

   The terms schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, attention deficit disorder and PTSD are often used, seemingly interchangeably, to diagnose the same individual, depending on who is making the diagnosis, such is the existing disagreement over the nature and diagnosis of so-called mental illness. 

  

   Typically, those whose ideas or behavior fails to conform to what authority figures determine to be the norm or whose point of view is considered by authority figures (i.e., parents, teachers and military commanders) to be unpopular are conveniently disenfranchised as being schizophrenic.

 

   Most commonly, an individual who complains about the abusive behavior of his parents, teachers, or others is discredited as being “out of contact with reality” or as being “delusional” in order to absolve the abuser from blame: I didn’t do anything to him. He’s crazy! A case in point would be that of the female chair of a community college psychology department who facilitated a campus police stakeout as retaliation against a senior citizen male student merely because he filed a very proper complaint with the dean about her incessant harassment of him and other students while he was enrolled in one of her classes. The stakeout resulted in a false arrest and false imprisonment of the student, who afterwards filed a $1 million damage claim against the college. To learn more go to the following web page: http://www.surfingman10.org/lacc1994.html

 

   Alarmingly, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists are the only licensed so-called medical professionals in America who are by law permitted to authorize the incarceration of an individual based merely on their own subjective and arbitrary determination that the individual is out of contact of reality and is therefore a danger to himself or others. Psychiatry, clinical psychology and criminal profiling are based on the false and dangerous premise that behavior can be predicted. Behavior cannot be predicted! To have an individual stalked by the police or incarcerated in either a jail or psychiatric facility merely because one believes one “might” commit a crime is indeed a travesty of justice.

 

   There is no conclusive evidence to support the claim by some that violence is inborn, that one has an inherited “violent nature.” Violence, according to the best research available, is behavior that is learned as a result of aberrant psychological conditioning. Both girls and boys are taught from the time they are small children that if a boy does not engage in combative behavior, if he permits himself to be pushed around by others, that he is a “sissy” or a “pansy.”

 

   There is NO basic emotion, instinct or personality, outside of the relationship an individual has within a specific social context. That is a point of view shared by J. P. Sartre in Critique de la Raison Dialectique (1960) and by R. D. Laing in The Politics of Experience. An individual labeled schizophrenic is an individual whose experiences are viewed to be “queer” or “delusional” only from the point of view of his or her accusers: relatives, associates or a therapist. That a diagnosed individual is actually suffering from a “delusion” is merely a hypothesis, an assumption or a judgment, which in all probably has NO BASIS IN FACT.

 

   U.S. Armed Forces inductees are intentionally conditioned by the U.S. government to engage in violent behavior during boot camp through a process known as “desensitization.” This desensitization process involved in Armed Forces combat training exercises produces long-lasting brain neurochemical changes and is the most probable cause of PTSD, even in instances where an individual has not experienced actual live combat.

 

   According to Dr. Eliot Valenstein (Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health), individuals who are closely confined with their tormentors for long periods of time undergo neurological rewiring of the brain, resulting in long-term and permanent brain damage, as well as increased susceptibility to psychotic reactions in times of stress.

 

   To learn more about aberrant psychological conditioning methods employed by the Armed Forces in order to condition recruits to be more willing to engage in violent behavior, go to the following website, created by West Point professor of psychology, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman: http://www.killology.com/art_trained_methods.htm

  

   Brain imaging technology is commonly used to convince a patient that his or her brain does not appear to be normal, as a way of persuading patients to consent to treatment with medically prescribed so-called mood stabilizers. However, abnormalities detected through brain imaging technology may actually be the result of long-term psychotropic drug treatment, according to neurological experts. Valenstein and other neurological experts warn that pharmaceutical mood stabilizers are indeed NOT an effective solution to the problem of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. In many instances, they are the CAUSE of the problem. In fact, neuroleptic drugs, anti-depressants and other mood-stabilizers generally only worsen the problem.

 

   To be precise: psychiatric drugs may be the CAUSE of brain damage detected through brain imaging technology, in which case psychiatric medication is not the answer. It is the primary CAUSE of the problem.

 

   There indeed appears to be no conclusive evidence to support the medical model of so-called schizophrenia. The medical model suggests: (1) that so-called schizophrenia is a brain disease, (2) that it is the result of an inherited genetic component, (3) that the brains of those diagnosed with schizophrenia differ markedly from other people and (4) that it is incurable. It bears repeating that schizophrenia is a label used to classify a wide variety of behaviors and no two people exhibit the same so-called symptoms.

 

 

     The diathesis-stress model, which is a modification of the medical model, hypothesizes an as yet unspecified genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, which, in conjunction with an adverse environment produces schizophrenia. Such an individual is believed to be hypersensitive to the environment. Hypersensitivity to stress, according to research, produces biological changes in the brain, resulting in extremely variable behavior, attention difficulties (over-attention or under-attention), and highly fluctuating emotions. After some time, such an individual supposedly begins to shut out the world to protect himself against this hypersensitivity. The biological limits set by the genetic predisposition supposedly restrict the individual’s ability to develop social and work skills. The individual’s self-image, in turn, suffers as he falls short of familial and social expectations, as well as of his own expectations. [Schizophrenia: Symptoms, Causes Treatments by Kayla F. Bernheim and Richard R.J. Lewine, p. 96]

 

   John Modrow, an obviously gifted man who was taken to a psychiatrist by his mother while he was still a child and resultantly diagnosed with so-called schizophrenia, provides well-documented evidence to support his own claim that the medical model of schizophrenia is virtual hogwash. He presents his life story along with scientific evidence to support his theory in his book How to Become a Schizophrenic, a book highly acclaimed by Dr. Theodore Lidz of Yale University and other members of the psychiatric profession for its soundness.

 

John Modrow’s Theory of the Cause of Schizophrenia

 

   According to John Modrow, schizophrenia develops as a result of an individual being subjected to very severe and often cruel disparagement by people who are significant to him or her and on whose good opinion he or she is largely dependent from infancy up, until some especially hurtful incident produces and out-and-out panic state.

 

   In this panic state, according to Modrow, the individual has a terrifying vision of himself as a person of no value or worth. Painful memories once repressed rise and come flooding into awareness with a gruesome, hallucinatory vividness . . . . the individual believes that things will only continue to get worse as he is inexorably swept to his destruction.

 

   The basis of Modrow’s theory, supported by research done by Harry Stack Sullivan, is that there is nothing to be found in so-called schizophrenic thinking that is not found to some extent in the thinking of so-called normal people. Normal people, maintains Modrow, continually distort reality in order to conform and to bolster their self-esteem.

 

   Self-deception, according to Freud, is completely involuntary and is expressed through such defense mechanisms as repression, reaction-formation, projection and rationalization. When such defense measures fail altogether, Modrow explains, the individual goes into an intense state of panic, and simply becomes “unglued” so to speak.

 

   The typical egocentric parents of the schizophrenic usually maintain their own equilibrium by projecting their own inadequacies onto their child. The child thus becomes a scapegoat, and in order to feel wanted by the parents, the child must deny or repress his own feelings and needs and distort reality in accordance with his parents’ needs. Thus the child’s orientation is parent-centered more than it is self-centered. Often, the child is required to demonstrate allegiance to one parent, and therefore feeling worthy of that parent’s love, by demonstrating disallegiance to the other parent. The building frustration of this psychological dilemma is what precipitates the schizophrenic break.

 

    The adolescent or young adult either runs away from home or he/she withdraws and desperately constructs and retreats into a fantasy world of his/her own creation, one that he/she can cope with, in a desperate effort to cope with the unbearable psychological conflict.

 

   The child who is repeatedly demeaned by his own parents, stepparents, surrogate-parents and peers with severe and cruel disparagement, is stunted in his psychological development. The child thus learns to subjugate his or her own needs to the needs of his or her parents, surrogate parents and other persecutors. As a result, when the child chronologically reaches adulthood, he or she is unable to function adequately. His or her ability to make decisions is stymied by the intrusion of internal persecutors, disturbing memories (flashbacks, not auditory hallucinations) of the cruelly disparaging actions and words of the parents, surrogate-parents (teachers, ministers, coaches and military drill instructors), and tormenting peers (spouses, classmates), which dominate schizophrenic thinking. The so-called schizophrenic is thus unable to consciously free himself-herself from the controlling (and usually contradictory) wishes of what psychiatrists have termed the schizophregenic parents, often even after the actual death of the parents.

 

   NOTE: There is no objective test available to determine if an individual is experiencing auditory hallucinations. In all probability, perhaps 99% of those individuals who claim they are experiencing so-called auditory hallucinations (imaginary voices) are either pathological liars or they have been coached or prompted by unscrupulous mental health legal aids, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists or social workers to claim they are hearing voices in order to expedite their disability claims. As an example, view the actual prompting list used to describe symptoms of schizophrenia, provided by a Los Angeles County mental health agency social worker to those claimants she is assisting in expediting SSI disability claims: http://www.surfingman10.org/image091.jpg

 

   The fact is that mere disturbing memories of childhood-adolescent abuse indeed can severely interfere with one’s ability to concentrate, a fact that those who have not experienced severely traumatizing abuse, are apparently unable to comprehend. Parental rejection, usually by both the mother and the father, is probably at the root of all schizophrenic behavior. No amount of psychotherapy is going to restore such an individual to “normal” unless the environmental causes of the stress, including incarceration in a psych ward, are removed.

 

   As for the use of shock therapy and drugs, it bears repeating that NOONE should be subjected to such barbaric treatment methods, which only further destroy the neural networking of the brain. Such measures do not erase long-term memories of inhumane cruelty.

 

   As a normal reaction to severe stress, catecholamines (adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine) are produced in superabundance, causing a hyperaroused state. However, once the environmental causes of the stress are removed, the catecholamines reconfigure to normal patterns. It is the opinion of leading scientists that neuroleptic drugs, commonly prescribed by psychiatrists for the purpose of blocking the dopamine-receptors in the brain, are of no help whatsoever to the mental health patient. The only people who profit from neuroleptic drugs are the pharmaceutical corporations that manufacture them, the physicians who prescribe them and the pharmacists who fill the prescriptions.

 

Neuroleptic Drugs Cause Neurological Damage

 

   Leading scientists have provided evidence that neuroleptic drugs prescribed to treat schizophrenia indeed are a cause of severe neurological damage in patients prescribed such drugs. The symptoms of the resultant neurological damage, including severe inner anxiety, yet stupor-like complacency, tardive dyskinesia and pin rolling of the fingers, are often mistakenly purported to be symptoms of the schizophrenia itself. It’s a dangerous Catch 22 situation in which the client frequently becomes a pawn of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry.

 

   The neurological damage caused by neuroleptics (Thorazine, Haldol, Trilafon, Dyprexa, etc.) has been characterized by Robert Whitaker, medical journalist, as NIDS (neuroleptic-induced deficit syndrome). Interestingly, neuroleptic drugs are all derivatives of a common over-the-counter antihistamine known as diphenhydramine, which is also the primary ingredient in Benadryl and other allergy and cold remedies.

 

   Although antipsychotics, also known as neuroleptics, are ostensibly given “to control delusions and hallucinations,” they actually have no specific effects on either, say Peter R. Breggin, M.D. and David Cohen, Ph.D., authors of Your Drug May Be Your Problem.

Breggin’s and Cohen’s opinions are shared by others, including Modrow, Valenstein and Whitaker.

 

   Formerly referred to as major tranquilizers, of which Thorazine was the first, neuroleptics produce “apathy, indifference, emotional blandness, conformity and submissiveness, as well as a reduction in verbalizations, including complaints and protests.” They in effect produce a “chemical lobotomy,” to use the words of Dr. Breggin.  In addition to the above mentioned side effects, neuroleptics also produce dry mouth, blurred vision, drowsiness, restlessness, muscle spasms and tremors. They can also cause side effects that resemble psychotic symptoms. So-called side-effects medications that supposedly prevent or block side effects of the neuroleptics are a “bad joke,” as they do NOT prevent side-effects. They only produce additional debilitating side effects.

 

   Anti-depressants of all kinds, as well as mood stabilizers (including Lithium, Depacote and Trileptal), are more of a nemesis than an aid in stabilizing the nervous system. Evidence indicates that such drugs only serve the purpose of destabilizing the nervous system by increasing anxiety, provoking manic episodes, increasing the risk of migraine headaches and the risks of suicidal and homicidal behavior. Interestingly, Lithium was originally used to lower blood pressure. However, niacin (Vitamin B-3), which is not a drug, has been proven to be effective in not only stabilizing the nervous system, but in reversing arteriosclerosis and in lowering blood pressure.

 

   To learn alternative methods for stabilizing the nervous system, read The Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia or The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder by Stephanie Marohn. Both books are published by the Health Mind Guide Series and published by Hampton Roads Publishing Co.

 

The LSD Government Hoax

 

   The laboratory development of the chemical known as LSD is perhaps one of the greatest government hoaxes on record. Interestingly, while LSD was allegedly created to cure schizophrenia, the fact is that LSD produces virtually all of the textbook described symptoms of schizophrenia: distortions of thought, including paranoid delusions and hallucinations.

 

   It is conjectured that the overwhelming majority of individuals currently under treatment for so-called schizophrenia are individuals who either voluntarily or involuntarily ingested LSD. During the 1950s mental patients confined to government hospitals, as well as Harvard students, were given LSD by psychiatrists, in compliance with a government authorized CIA project, in order to observe the effects that LSD had on them. Others, including those adamantly opposed to the use of psychedelic drugs, have unwittingly had their food or drink spiked with LSD by mean-spirited members of the drug culture.

 

   It is the opinion of leading scientists, including Dr. Elliot Valenstein, author of Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health, Peter Breggin, M.D., author of Toxic Psychiatry, and John Whitaker, author of Mad in America, that psychotropic drugs are only a nemesis, in treating so-called schizophrenia, so-called bipolar disorder or any other diagnosed psychiatric condition. They are merely a chemical straightjacket, utilized by psychiatrists to stuporize and exploit their patients. The only people who profit from the use of psychotropic drugs are the pharmaceutical corporations that manufacture them and the individuals that make their living by writing and filling prescriptions for the drugs.

 

Balanced Nutrition and Self-Analysis is Instrumental

 

 

   Due to the economic and exploitative nature of psychiatry and pharmacology, an individual is probably better off acting as his or her own psychiatrist by practicing existential self-analysis on his own couch in lieu of undergoing any form of psychotherapy on a stranger’s couch; and by engaging one’s self in regular mental and physical exercise; and practicing habits of sound nutrition in lieu of drug therapy.

 

Existential Self-Analysis

 

   The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, written by British psychiatrist and philosopher R.D. Laing, and first published in 1959, is a humanist and existentialist approach to understanding the phenomena known in medical circles as the schizoid personality and schizophrenia. The book, which was republished in paperback form in 1990, is a classic, and should be absorbed by anyone interested in existential analysis or existential self-analysis. Laing also wrote and published other books that have had a significant impact on the field of existential psychology and existential psychoanalysis, including The Politics of Experience, any of which can be purchased in either new or used condition from Amazon.com. Laing’s work is brilliant! Those two publications are classics. R.D. Laing’s theories have been berated over the years by many so-called professionals and establishment psychiatrists. However, his theories have provided a firm foundation for the research and writings of other existential thinkers, philosophers and scientists. Read his books! R. D. Laing no doubt has a gifted mind, whereas the overwhelming majority of individuals working the field of mental health, including so-called top-drawer psychiatrists, seemingly lack the broad intellectual capacity (parallel thinking) for understanding and dealing with existential concepts.

 

   NOTE: Existential self-analysis is based on the rejection of barbaric-sexist superstitious theistic ideologies (including the ideologies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) that reinforce inauthentic behavior and resultant personality disintegration. For instance, it is an existential point-of-view that all people are by nature ambisexual in that they have a natural capacity for experiencing romantic and erotic feelings for people of the same sex, as well as for people of the opposite sex. Because of the Biblical repudiation of the mere expression of romantic-erotic feelings between two men (Leviticus 20:13) or between two women, virtually all people reared in Jewish-Christian-Islamic cultures become neurotically disturbed and paranoid as they pass through adolescence and discover the universal homoerotic side of human nature. By nature, the so-called heterosexual is every bit as homoerotic as the so-called homosexual. The difference between the so-called heterosexual man and the so-called homosexual man is that the so-called heterosexual man attempts to conform by suppressing and concealing his own homoerotic thoughts and experiences, out of quite understandable fear of being humiliated by others. The less-well adjusted individual then occasionally displaces his inner rage onto other men.

 

  

   Keep in mind that while psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and social workers typically insist on apprising themselves of every minute detail of their client-patient’s history, information that can readily be used to later discredit a client-patient whom they have harmed in one way or another, most mental health professionals are extremely evasive and guarded in revealing their own feelings and their professional history, other than the name of the college or university they allegedly attended.

 

   Indeed, psychiatry is a one-way street! Perhaps the overwhelming majority of mental health professionals are not interested in helping their clients. They are primarily interested in exploiting their clients for their own economic gain! Mental health client/patients are invariably individuals who have been mentally abused and designated outsiders by their own family members. They resultantly become society’s unwanted. Consequently they have virtually no one on their ball team as it were. Thus, they are easy targets for unscrupulous mental health professionals.

 

 

   As for so-called group therapy, it can be extremely non-therapeutic, especially if the licensed group therapist-leader is a sociopath of sorts and encourages scapegoating, the ganging-up on those clients who fail to conform to the group norm or who fail to comply with the whims of the group therapist. Herd-mentality commonly rules in so-called group therapy. [Group Therapy: Is It Really Therapeutic, Shepherd, 1998; also citing the case of Shirley Krauthamer, Ph.D., LACC, False Imprisonment of Student: http://www.surfingman10.org/lacc1994.html]

 

 

   John Modrow’s book How to Become a Schizophrenic is remarkably well researched, well written and entertaining. You can review and/or purchase a new or used copy of his book at http://www.amazon.com or at http://www.schizosavant.com/

 

   Also recommended further reading would be Elliot Valenstine’s Blaming the Brain, Peter Breggin’s Toxic Psychiatry, John Whitaker’s Mad in America and two books by Dr. Thomas Szasz: Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society’s Unwanted and The Myth of Psychotherapy, all of which may be purchased from Amazon.com.

 

 

Suggested Further Reading

 

A Tim: A Case History

http://www.surfingman10.org/acasehistory.html

 

 

 

an excellent handbook

 

Schizophrenia: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments

By Kayla f. Bernheim & Richard R. J. Lewine

Norton Company – 1979

 

“The book presents a well-balanced picture of what we know about schizophrenia today.

Book presents the medical model, the moral model, the sociological model, the antipsychiatry model.

Most importantly, the book discusses the role of  biochemistry.”   - Tom Blaise de Shepherd

 

Purchase a good used copy at : http://www.amazon.com