Psycho Psychology
I recently had to call off my daughter's birthday party due to her behavior. I had been feeling particularly anti-social anyways, and perhaps I came across as more so... a well-meaning relative asked if I've considered seeing a psychologist. I appreciate the concern, honestly, but this is an ongoing conflict between the status quo and reality. Every day more people, including kids, are diagnosed with psychological problems for their human flaws and quirks, adding them to the swelling ranks of millions of drug adjusted Americans.
"They have some promising drugs out now that can help stabilize your mood swings." It seems to me to summarize very well how the pharmaceutical industry manages to spread its power through good people's best intentions.
I've seen people doped up, and also seen how impossible it is for them to prove that there's nothing wrong with them or that it is safe to un-dope them. Many ARE different on the meds (I wasn't just paranoid!) and mere shades of who they were. Some people need it, but most do not. If I were medicated, my kids would run amok or worse, and almost certainly never reach their potential. With their mental capacities, that could be very dangerous; also, this way I can help them get over it without drugging too. They can see what I go through and we can work out how they can avoid it. As I learn to deal with it better, so do they. As I learn ways to change and better our world instead of merely my perception of it, so do they!
I have talked to a number of psych professionals, gone to counselors, and have a few learned friends, some even in the field. However, there are two things I've noticed about that field's professionals: 1. They got into it due to quietly questioning their own sanity, and have little idea of any of it outside of what they've read, and well, c'mon, let's face it, Freud wasn't sane, he was obsessed with his mother in naughty ways and desperate to rationalize that by making it "normal" for everyone... and 2. They tend to want to pigeon-hole everyone into specific categories that have not evolved with us, and will make/coin new "chimera" diseases for symptoms that they do not understand, doping those patients experimentally, which then creates the new pigeon-holes.
The entire autistic spectrum is evolution, not a genetic mistake. We are Different, not Damaged (even those that seem the most so only need their niche), but the psychoactive Russian roulette that the doctors play IS damaging. They KNOW it has been clinically proven that anti-depressants currently prescribed for adolescents are directly responsible for heightened suicidal tendencies, but does that even slow down the prescribing? NO!
I think that the main reason it is seen as a disease is because people tend to get overwhelmed and decide it's just too much, and consequently, those of us with these sensitivities often just give up. It really stinks to have these acutely sensitive awarenesses and forefront feelings of direct personal responsibility, and not be able to explain them to people who do not feel it the same way. What stinks worse, though, is what the world is becoming without utilizing those hyper-responsibilities. Look around you and see the dirty bits too! The fact is that the answer to it is more often than not a reaction of "Cheez, lighten up!" and "you need professional help" rather than listening and looking at the actual problem. I can understand why, it is very difficult to look and see how overwhelmingly much is messed up, but provided we don't dope everyone into enough of a stupor for the evil people to keep on running things however they feel, the generation after next will NOT accept ANY of it. Like me, they will prefer to lose their jobs and suffer hardships than to work for a company that does not accept responsibility for its own wastes. It is becoming imperative. Imagine if no one would work for big corporations unless they were environmentally and socially responsible! Kinda like the old "what if they threw a war and no one showed up", except that this time it cannot change into us calling people names for the same sentiments when we are older. That is, at least not unless we're doped up and "corrected" by then.
A note on a very common topic of discussion these days: The AMA.
It has become distressingly clear to me and many others that the American Medical Association is, in fact, the leading cause of death in the US. They make the perfect example of the overwhelming "too-much-to-change-it" thing, honestly, can you even really THINK about the AMA? Are you aware of what "complications" actually are? They are NOT results of the injury or illness, they are DIRECT RESULTS OF ERRONEOUS TREATMENT! They are DOCTOR ERROR, nothing more, nothing less, most commonly due to treatment of the symptom instead of its underlying cause! Yet, we are all so conditioned that we accept that phrase as "natural causes". "Oh, complications set in? That's a shame... seemed so healthy... Well, when it's your time..." To correct these problems is a huge task, requiring the re-vamping of the entire industry, so "normal" people would rather not see it at all, even from within the situation itself.
True, they do save a lot of lives too. They extend life expectancy, and lower the mortality rate of infants astronomically. Injuries that would have meant a slow, painful death if left untreated are no longer considered serious. Many people really do get into the field with the intention of spending their lives helping people. One cannot doubt the nurturing nature and dear devotion of many a nurse, and even some doctors.
However, the profession breaks promising young doctors through an insanely rigorous internship. The ludicrously long hours (18+/day for 3-4 days in a row) can be construed as intentionally designed to make them less functional and more open to suggestion (and thus slip into their place in the diseased system), as well as considerably more likely to develop something of an "FTW" attitude like hardened criminals. It seems purposefully orchestrated to break their spirits, remove their inconvenient ideals, desensitize and teach them to see people as products on an assembly line. Then they are unbelievably overworked by the "managed care organizations" (wonder what percent of the fees HMOs, PPOs and other ensconced middle men snag). Even if they wanted to, they simply cannot spend the time or effort required to actually DIAGNOSE their patients. Most we've had the displeasure of seeing clearly did not want to, either. By the time that they have the experience to be truly useful, doctors are often so jaded and frustrated that they seem unable to listen to what the patients are saying and leap to the quickest ASSumption that they can so that they can move on to the next.
Did you know that if a doctor decides not to treat certain symptoms with certain medications, the entire insurance industry refuses to pay them? My Love searched long and hard for the right doctor, who would try to solve problems instead of doping symptoms. She found a Naturapath... a doctor who goes through extra years of schooling and personally touches their patients instead of having a nurse do it all! As it turns out, other doctors (those inept, egomaniacal dope pushers!) dare to ridicule and look down upon Naturapaths for this reason, and we will have to pay everything out-of-pocket... but it is worth it to us!
Our daughter did not have asthma, although that is what the standard battery of tests would have concluded, prescribing unnecessary and potentially damaging drugs for her long term consumption without even determining and dealing with her actual diet and sleep issue. She would probably have suffered for the rest of her life over some doctor's inability to look at the whole picture. I can almost understand the doctors because if they realized that they were prescribing children steroids solely due to duress from insurers, it could conflict with their Hippocratic Oath and do negative things to their sanity.
Did you know that all injections have an informative insert that lists all of the effects and known side effects, and that doctors are required by law to give it to the patient or parent prior to injection? Care to guess how they react whenever we politely request those inserts?
Many of the immunizations are more risk than the diseases that they allegedly protect against. The last reported wild (meaning not caused by a vaccination!) case of polio was in 1979.
How about that chicken pox vaccine? To date, in written medical history, no one has ever died from chicken pox, always from "complications" resulting from the treatment causing the liver to shut down or older people developing shingles. Yet, it is ok to approve a vaccination which is expected to kill a relatively (Acceptably?!?! Who are they kidding?) low percentage of the children injected? Then to make it mandatory that every child in the country have this injection in order to enroll in a public school? If that isn't abhorrent evil, what is?
I hope the medical and pharmaceutical industries' profits are worth it to the grieving families they leave behind.
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