<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>CounterPsych</title><description>Dysfunctional Realities</description><ttl>720</ttl><link>http://www.counterpsych.com</link><item><title>New Posts Titles List- May 2013</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/675069</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;1. What, Exactly, Does "Psychic" Mean? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Unseen World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;2. Local Theatre of the Absurd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Talking AT My Psychiatrists&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;3. Scientology video Which MAY Seem Familiar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Talking AT My Psychiatrists&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;4. Levels of Reality&lt;br /&gt;Now on Truth to Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;5. Lose the Labels- End the Stigma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Truth to Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;6. American NRA Coming out for Forced Treatment for the Mentally Ill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Dysfunctional Realities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;7. Not Playing the "Blame Game"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Unseen World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;8. "Voices" Video&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Altered States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;9. Attention Confused Labelled People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Questioning Normality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;10. It's About Your Distinctions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Talking AT My Psychiatrists&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;11. Another "Message" Just for All of You "Normal" People&lt;br /&gt;Now on Truth to Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;12. Why All the Outright Denial?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Observing the Observers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;13. Season Finale OF "Touch"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Talking AT My Psychiatrists&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;14. Making Those "Mysterious" Connections between Cause and Effect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Hallucinating Reality&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;15. Dysfunctional Superior Splitters-Why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Unseen World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;16. Crazy Sarah in Her Crazy World- Bus Stop Performance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Psy-Fi (Psychiatric Fiction)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;17. Short Awareness Exercise for City Employees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Observing the Observers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;18. From My Old Blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Unseen World &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;(updated with an answer to the psych student in Mass. trying to get me the "help" I obviously need.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;19. Communicating with Those Who are Sure They Know More&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Psy-Fi (Psychiatric Fiction)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;20. THEMES OF LIFE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Truth to Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;21. One Plus One MUST Equal Three&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Truth to Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now on Dysfunctional Realities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.talkspot.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; "&gt;Start your own blog now! Free!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Going Around in Dysfunctional Circles</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/704300</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infinite Looping the Dysfunctional Way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;If you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; speak up about your mockers, ridiculers and abusers, you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deserve&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; what you get for failing to do so and not holding them accountable &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;AND&lt;/span&gt; if you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;DO&lt;/span&gt; speak up, you deserve what you're getting for whining, bitching, and complaining, and blaming (which means “to hold accountable”) “others.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Huh?...    Having trouble making sense of things are you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;It is very hard to make sense of the senseless. In fact, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; often it is only the senseless who can manage to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;For those of you locals who watch me every day, pass along all of the latest news and fabrications, make comments, and “interpret” me for others, while convincing &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;yourselves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that I can't see you, or hear you, from four or five feet away, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOUR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; behaviour and &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; paranoid delusions are one and the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;same&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; thing. One plus one equals &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TWO&lt;/strong&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; not &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;To those of you who announce haughtily, &lt;em&gt;“she's just teaching him a lesson&lt;/em&gt;!”&lt;a title="" href="#_ftn1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Judging by the tone of voice used, I'm sure you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mean&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that as a shot at me. Especially when you add comments like,&lt;em&gt; I would never treat “him” &lt;a title="" href="#_ftn2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[2]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;like that!&lt;/em&gt; Still, there is some &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;truth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in what you say as a “lesson” sure as hell needs to be &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;learned&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; here and those of you assessing, evaluating and interpreting me all day amongst yourselves are the ones who &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; need to learn it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Footnote"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="#_ftnref1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;  And there have been &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;MANY&lt;/span&gt; of you over the last twenty years&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Footnote"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="#_ftnref2"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;  Various “hims” of course, but in any case I get the point that &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;YOU&lt;/span&gt; are wonderful and I am a piece of crap. Understood. Or should I say I have the “under-standing?”&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Going Around in Dysfunctional Circles</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/704350</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infinite Looping the Dysfunctional Way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;If you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; speak up about your mockers, ridiculers and abusers, you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deserve&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; what you get for failing to do so and not holding them accountable &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; if you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; speak up, you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deserve&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; what you're getting for whining, bitching, and complaining, and blaming (which means “to hold accountable”) those “others.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Huh?...    Having trouble making sense of things are you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;It is very hard to make sense of the senseless. In fact, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; often it is only the senseless who can manage to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;For those of you locals who watch me every day, pass along all of the latest news and fabrications, make comments, and “interpret” me for others, while convincing &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;yourselves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that I can't see you, or hear you, from four or five feet away, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOUR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; behaviour and &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; paranoid delusions are one and the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;same&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; thing. One plus one equals &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TWO&lt;/strong&gt;;&lt;/span&gt; not &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;three&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;To those of you who announce haughtily, &lt;em&gt;“she's just teaching him a lesson&lt;/em&gt;!”&lt;a title="" href="#_ftn1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Judging by the tone of voice used, I'm sure you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mean&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that as a shot at me. Especially when you add comments like,&lt;em&gt; I would never treat “him” &lt;a title="" href="#_ftn2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;like that!&lt;/em&gt; Still, there is some &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;truth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in what you say as a “lesson” sure as hell needs to be &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;learned&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; here and those of you assessing, evaluating and interpreting me all day amongst yourselves are the ones who &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; need to learn it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Footnote"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="#_ftnref1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;  And there have been &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;MANY&lt;/span&gt; of you over the last twenty years&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Footnote"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="#_ftnref2"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;  Various “hims” of course, but in any case I get the point that &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are wonderful and I am a piece of crap. Understood. Or should I say I have the “under-standing?”&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One Plus One MUST Equal Three</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/704071</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #808000;"&gt;By Patricia Lefave, monophrenic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In all dysfunctional relating one plus one &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;MUST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; equal three. Do you understand &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;WHY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is because if it equals &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TWO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;, it would be seen and understood as two sides of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; experience; not two &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;different&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; experiences separated by a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;third&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; factor, often “disease process”, because that is a really good &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;explain-away&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; which makes it all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;appear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; to be the fault of absolutely &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;NO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; ONE. The third factor keeps the two sides separated into superior/inferior, normal/abnormal and is a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;necessary factor &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;to those who abuse/mock/ridicule/bully others and then &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;justify&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; it by telling &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEMSELVES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“it is OK because the person to whom I am &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;doing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; this does not really &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; or understand &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; I am doing&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and that makes it all right to do it since s/he is my inferior.” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;appearance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; of things that we all value so highly and we don’t like to let any reality get in the way of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;, now do we?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;You see, the genetic defective &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; remain the inferior one so that all the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;participants&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; in the event can deny “responsibility.” This is, in my own fascinating “case,” exactly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; my antagonist’s so called training is all about and that is but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; of the punch lines of this multi-faceted “joke.” So the highly “amusing” part is that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; event is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;full&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; of denial, but like all the other aspects of It, It is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;projected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; onto the walking, talking disease process (aka ME) so the dysfunctional group in denial &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;together&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; can also close ranks and then deny the denial of the denial. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;These are not their &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; traits or character flaws…oh no…they are all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MINE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; and they are caused by a “disease” I have in my faulty brain that causes me to “think” I am surrounded by abusive assholes, smiling duplicitous often classy, liars, and smirking ass-holes, when “really” I am not. It is just that perception/reaction problem I am having caused by my faulty brain. Poor me…and lucky all of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;! Aren’t you just &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;so glad &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;that you are not “sick” like me?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;After that, the disease process is used as the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;containment field&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; for control of the defective one. If I don't deny the reality of my experience with the group, which does not really exist, it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;must&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; mean I need another intervention to make those erroneous thoughts of mine go away. We do not talk &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;, or with, a disease process. We talk &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; them, or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABOUT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; them, often in their presence, since diseases don’t have any ears to hear anyway since they aren’t actually sentient. Then what do we do with diseases? Why we “treat” them don’t we? Preferably by loading me up with enough tranquilizer to stop a charging rhino in it's tracks. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As we can see by the evidence it often takes a whole lot of tranquilizing to get the defectives to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stop talking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;about how they, in their disease induced paranoia, are being "harmed."&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote2sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Eventually though just the right “treatment,” often combined with behaviour “mod” tactics, and the threat of a nice relaxing taser session or two, is usually found. Financial pressure often works &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quite&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; well too. So does telling the defective's employer that s/he is insane &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; without prospect of recovery. After all...who can &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: #e1f27d;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ever&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; trust an employee who has an awful disease like this? Now, if that doesn't encourage the walking, talking disease process to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;admit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;being&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; one, so s/he can get a nice pension for food and shelter, what will?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We also know that anything that comes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;out&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; of a disease is a symptom &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;of &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that disease &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;so we can relate to IT as if it was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not a real person&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; like those of us doing the ‘treating.’ I am sure that had those of you who abused me psychologically, not that any of you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;did&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; that of course, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;known&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; when you were doing it, that I was a walking, talking disease process who “thought” she was being psychologically abused by a group, then you would not have done that, even though you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;didn’t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; do it and I only ‘think” that you did. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So, after reading this, who is the “confused” one or ones? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;How will you treat that confusion then? Does it depend upon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; “has it?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;Which is often a &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRUE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; statement as we most often &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;don't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; know that the abuser is engaged in splitting part of the self justification. We stupid inferiors look for “reason' aka logic, where there is none.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote2anc"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;Roll eyes here...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Themes of Life</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/701009</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In the Flesh&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;This is a new show delivering “messages” to an audience. “1984” has &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;already&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; been mentioned. There is a new “disease” which has been identified as&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt; PDS. (Partially Deceased Syndrome,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; formerly known by the old unscientific term of “zombies.”) The PDS sufferers are given treatment and medication to fix the “chemical imbalance in their brains” which has been proclaimed to be the cause of this “illness.” Once they have been treated and given therapy for the problems associated with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;returning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from the grave as the Undead, they are released and sent home to their loved ones, who are given instructions on how to watch for signs and symbols of regression to the previous state and, just as part of the release protocol, the relatives are issued tasers, which can be used with deadly force if necessary, just in case things go, ya know, “badly.” In episode one, a group of the “human guard” (aka “us”) discovered the location of a suspected PDS sufferer, an old woman, and dressed up in their military garb, armed with unregistered automatic weapons, as it is the constitutional right of the sane to bear arms, they dragged the PDS sufferer out into the street in the middle of the night and blew her defective head off.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Problems with Authority&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;If you believe that “having problems with authority” indicates that the one having the problems must &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; have a flawed character,  I have a list of dictators and psychopaths, past and present, who would definitely want &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on their “team.” You are &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;their&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; kind of people. Do you know why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;It is because if you accept “problems with authority”, which is a thought which is an abstract idea, at the nexus of meaning, they can use that to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;either&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; control you, or get you to help &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; control those "others" who are &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; part of their “group.” They can do that because the statement itself can be used to justify a form of control and/or for hypnotic induction. People who don't &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;question&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; “authority,” as a &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;generalized&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; entity, or trait, turn their discernment of right and wrong over &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; such authorities and let &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; do their thinking &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; them.  If the “authority” &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;happens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to be an egalitarian, with good intentions and filled with ethics and integrity, this will not be a problem. But &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;when&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; it is one who operates with a hidden agenda, &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;then the same abstract ideas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;used with a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;hidden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; agenda of domination &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mean&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; something quite different.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Likewise, &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SMILING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; isn't &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;necessarily&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; an indicator of good social skills. Sometimes it is an indicator of a smug self-satisfaction or outright manipulation, being “interpreted” by others who see what they &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;want&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to see rather than seeing what is really &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;there&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; which is wearing a mask.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tautologies Prevent Change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;The primary goal of dysfunctional groups is to put a stop to all the talking &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the existence of the dysfunctional group, &lt;strong&gt;as&lt;/strong&gt; a dysfunctional group and the “rules” that make it, and &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KEEP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; it, &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;intact&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as a dysfunctional group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Tautologies are &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;designed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;PREVENT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; change. – but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;BEFORE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; you repeat &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that AS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; a tautology, assigning it a value as positive or negative, you need to know &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;SPECIFICALLY,&lt;/span&gt; in &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;EACH&lt;/span&gt; case, exactly &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; “the Change” &lt;span style="font-size: 26px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;IS,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; which is &lt;span style="color: #ffcc99;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;being&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; prevented from occurring.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pisatchio Press- May 2013</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/679612</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;More phrases of the week- like, "he Knew she was in Ontario........but he didn't know where..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Apparently, or so it is said, &lt;em&gt;“ it will be interesting to see where she goes from here with this.&lt;/em&gt;..”&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;” What? Only “interesting” and not “fascinating”? Are you becoming afraid of the 'Mr. Spock” association and worried that &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; psychiatrists will hear a “symptom” in you and decide that you must “think” you are in an episode of Star Trek ?&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Also there is stated once again, &lt;em&gt;No way she could have heard all of this from the public. It is just impossible...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote2sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; there is just no &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;WAY&lt;/span&gt; this is even possible...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;As the pony-tail diddler, support worker, who has been keeping other support workers and bus drivers informed put it quite some time ago, &lt;em&gt;the only reason he was even here was to see if he could find her...&lt;/em&gt; recently added,to that version of reality&lt;em&gt;...“I've found her!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;(lots of laughter) Of course, I remain irrelevant, mostly a bystander in the story of my &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; life which is treated like it is really &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;none&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;my&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;This is not unusual as an experience for me. It is also not at all unusual for a whole lot of &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; psychiatrized people &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;either&lt;/strong&gt;...and&lt;/span&gt; that is &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I continue on, in what seems to be a near hopeless battle to be &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEARD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as a person. I am not at all alone in that either.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;I &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; a person. As amusing as it might seem to psych students here, I am not a walking, talking, disease process, a case, a subject , or the whack job. &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am A PERSON&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will learn to respect that, and to respect my boundaries, if I have to spend the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rest of my days&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on this dysfunctional planet, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;trying&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to make you face reality and &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEAL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; with it. There is however, no obligation whatsoever to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;LIKE&lt;/span&gt; me, and I &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;promise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; not to pine away as a result of the rejection or beg anyone to change their mind and give me their stamp of approval so I won't spend all day telling bus drivers about how &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;THAT&lt;/span&gt; one doesn't like me, and how &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;THIS&lt;/span&gt; one isn't &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;smiling&lt;/span&gt; enough to suit me etc..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That's her.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;Scene on a bus:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Two psychiatrized women trapped in the system got off the bus on Delhi St.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Everybody knows all about it including her. Yet they still won't admit this is real. It's just the same old story isn't it? It doesn't matter &lt;strong&gt;what&lt;/strong&gt; you say or what you do because nothing makes &lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt; difference at all. So I mean what can you do? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nothing really....(little laugh) except like her and write about it. At least we can get to talk about it &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; way and that's something at least but otherwise we just have to give up and accept our lives as other people decide &lt;strong&gt;for&lt;/strong&gt; us what they should be. People don't understand how totally frustrating this is. They really don't. Your life is never the same after that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One Other Point&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;For those of you in various places, including the apartment complex where I now live and who are currently engaged in the group discussion and ongoing group assessment of my personality and character: &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;Some&lt;/span&gt; of you have expressed the opinion, over and over again, often from four feet away, that &lt;em&gt;“nobody” is going to want to talk to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;her&lt;/span&gt; as they don't like her...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Just to reassure you; I am &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;just fine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; with that. In fact, with &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;SOME&lt;/span&gt; of you I am delighted to hear it. As amazing as it may seem to you, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of the people who don't want to talk to me are not liked &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BY&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;me in return either and I have no particular desire to talk &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;to them.&lt;/span&gt; I am sure that must shock you as you Imagine me just dying to “save” everyone from the error of their ways but in fact, I don't. That is because I relate as &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;equals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; or not at all. I don't see myself as &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;needing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to save those who aren't interested in what I have to say, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; am I interested in talking you either into, or out of, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;anything&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; If you don't want to talk to me; I'm &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;good&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;with that. No need to beat it to death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;I don't think like bio psych. I don't see everyone as walking talking disease processes who either can't help it or who have no &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;real&lt;/span&gt; experience and only “think” they do. I dont believe in hopelessness, helplessness nor excusing abusers by blaming their brains and overlooking their shit and acting out either. So &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;relax,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as anyone who never, ever wants to talk to me about &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;anything&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will see &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; pressure from me to do so either. Choose your &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; way just as I choose mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;I have nothing to debate with you so we are in &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;agreement&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; aren't we?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;You see to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THIS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; whack job, this is what “”getting along" really means. It is not about being smiling patronizing, sweet sounding "friends " with everyone you see around you. It is about tolerating their right &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to be me as long as they stay in their &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; space with it as I do in mine, and about them &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt; trying to make me  be like them. It is &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about the boundaries. It is not about being the same, or changing to suit others, nor having others change to suit me... &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;PROVIDED&lt;/span&gt; mutual respect for personal boundaries is present.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scene in a Retail Store – May 2013&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two Women&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One in her thirties&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;That’s Pat right there. Apparently she was the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;victim&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; not the aggressor. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other one in her twenties&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;em&gt;I don’t care.  I &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STILL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; don’t like her.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;So who &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;are&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; these two acting out from seven feet away? I don't know. I don't know &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;either&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of them. That means &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; don't actually know &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; either, which &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; means that to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;either&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; like me, or to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; like me, is not &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about me, or who I &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;actually&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; am, but more about their &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; story telling and rumour spreading while maintaining their "righteousness.". In other words, what I am saying is that total “strangers to me” are “talking about me, in the third person right in front of me, like I am not really there.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Oh dear. Looks like I still &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; those “symptoms” of that intractable mental illness that causes me to “think” people I do not even know are talking about me and that this group behavior is harmful to me....should I expect a police cruiser soon to come to “help” me with this “imaginary” life experience of mine?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Phrase of the day, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“she is very defiant…”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Oh dear…yet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;another&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt; of my endless list of character flaws. Thank God all of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt; are not as awful as me and  people will like you for overlooking all these things as we all should.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Currently locally, May 19th 2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;A variety of long time labelled people and others are still (and again) talking about how “they” are still using what happened here and in Homewood with the staff, to continue to have them some “fun.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;“They” generally refers to either hospital staff or the local addicted population of “funsters” most of the time, some of whom have expressed the desire to see what they can do to “mess her up.” now these labelled people and many others as well, like to talk about what the hospital staff did to me all those years ago,&lt;a title="" href="#_ftn1"&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;  and how they &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STILL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; have not even apologized to her for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Of course, this which I am telling you about right now, has been assessed as a reality which exists only within my defective little brain- so no worries...after all who would believe &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;ME&lt;/span&gt; anyway?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&#x2;   &lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Let's get some more opinions from Maurice the bank parking lot attendant on that shall we? Shall I get my “meds” all packed up and ready to go on this one too? Har har.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote2anc"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&#x2;   &lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;At least that is the news the public is acting out &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;right now&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as it is being discussed by all the expert covert operators....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="" href="#_ftnref1"&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;       (one thought it must be at &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;least&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ten years now- actually it is twenty, and perhaps even twenty one, but twenty is when the “'fun” first entered my own awareness back when I thought it was a “joke” that included me as I was directed to think)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Communicating with Those Who are Sure They Know More</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/700829</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by Sarah Robertson (I've been “helped')&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;What's it like?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Well, I'm glad you made sure you didn't ask me that. I will tell you anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;It's like:&lt;em&gt; “They don't know what words mean.”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;" src="http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/TMCEH.ashx?idesc=751%7Cuploads%7C23542%7Cmonkeyplugging%20ears.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Concrete example&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Psychiatric nurse:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; what would you like as a snack?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;Patient&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/strong&gt;A banana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;PN:&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;/strong&gt;Brings you a potato and hands it to you.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patient:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt; Why did you bring me this? Is this a joke?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;P. Nurse:&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;/strong&gt;rolling eyes contemptuously,  ignores patient and says to co-worker three feet away, “&lt;em&gt;they've always got to be giving somebody a hard time don't they?” &lt;/em&gt; (the pair laugh conspiratorially certain the patient won't understand any of it anyway and &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you DON'T.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;Patient&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/strong&gt;What are you talking about? Where is the banana I asked for. Don't you have any?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;P.N&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt; It is right there on your table. Now just eat it and stop whining or you may be looking at losing more of your privileges.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Are you confused by this exchange? What's going on here?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Let me help you with this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The nurse has been trained to recognize the potato as a banana. She has been taught that when an identified patient &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;asks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for a banana, what that patient &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REALLY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; wants and really &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MEANS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is a potato.  That is because people with that label all &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mean&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; potato when they &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;say&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; banana. That has been written in the big book of insanity because once, in 1953, a patient in a sanitarium&lt;a title="" href="#_ftn1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; used to ask for a banana when &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;he&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; meant potato. So the definers of reality in 1953 decided together that the belief that a potato was a banana was a universal “symptom” of that particular illness, as so labelled. The writers of the Big Book of Insanity, you see, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;never&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; admit they are wrong about anything they have dreamed up as a one-size-fits-all abstraction until at &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;least&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 50 – 75 years later, so that whoever came up with the definition, at the time, will be long dead and won't have to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;feel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; bad about anything they may have done that “may”  harmed others; especially those “others” who “thought” they had been harmed &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; others, which is just another symptom of those who don't understand reality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Of course, the patient who asks for a banana and really &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;means&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; potato does not have enough insight into their own condition to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KNOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that, so that is why they sometimes give the staff a hard time about their snacks. Of course being annoying to hospital staff is &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;also&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; a symptom so sometimes it is hard to tell &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;which&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of the endless list of symptoms is at play. But we do know that it is &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;one&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of them because the patients are all defective human beings and the staff is all above reproach, at all times, and never wrong, and &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CERTAINLY&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;could never be suffering from any kind of mental problems themselves. That would just be impossible. &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everybody&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; knows that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;So, the nurse knows that arguing with the patient just won't help. S/he has been taught to just ignore anything the patient says that does not fit in with the system's beliefs and use behaviour mod to get the patient to just eat the damned potato/banana and to stop all that whining and complaining about it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;You see the nurse &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GENUINELY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; believes that when a patient says 'banana” s/he means potato. The nurse knows this because an expert who is a highly trained authority on human mental illness &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;taught&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the nurse that this is so, and s/he knows that s/he is not to question, or otherwise argue, with “authority.” The nurses, being in the lesser position could lose their &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;jobs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; if they did that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Reality is often a “trickle down” construct, similar to economics. As with an economy, it is often wiser to go along with it for the sake of one's &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;personal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; economic outlook.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;So you may ask yourself, should the patient in this situation try&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;ASKING FOR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; a potato as the roundabout means of &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;getting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the banana s/he really wants?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;No. That won't work. Why? Because the nurse will &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;then&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;believe that the behaviour mod is &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;working&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; very well and finally the patient is “admitting” that what s/he &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REALLY&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;wants is a potato, just as the psychiatric nurse &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;knew&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; all along and which has now been proved correct.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Though there is no real cure for the patient, the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;treatment&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;can be seen as a success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The system is “making a difference', and no one can argue with &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; on &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;either&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; side of the experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Pssst. Readers......Look down.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9900;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have a message for anyone going to visit at the health centre&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;em&gt;could someone put a few bananas inside your coat, out of sight and maybe &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;offer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; them to the well trained “clients” on the locked ward? Several of us here, who have lost our privileges, would be &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ever&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; so grateful to you if you would. Oh. Don't ....let any of the staff here &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;see&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the bananas OK? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eat this note once read and understood. And Thanks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Footnote"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="#_ftnref1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt; As “health centres” were all called then&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gail Hornstein-Video-Beyond the Medical Model</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/698278</link><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="360" data="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/N4clx6f8fiQ?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/N4clx6f8fiQ?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thought for the Day</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/698277</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For Men&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Always remember there is a whole lot &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;more&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;true&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; love than showing someone your big cannon. In fact, as you approach the end of your life, your cannon may not &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; be the equipment &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; needed to help or defend your damsels in distress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For Women&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;If &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;all&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; he has to show you is how big his &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cannon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is, it may be time to take a pregnant pause before you let that impregnator get his paws on you. The power of the potential to shoot tends to lose its fascination if the owner of the cannon really has no balls at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now remember; don’t read too much &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;into&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; things, as if you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; those who read nothing at all, into anything, anywhere, may show up at your door to “help” you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speaking of Words and Meaning.&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;On Canada AM this morning, Jeff told us we were going out to the patio now to a talk with car loans...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;As I was trying to decide &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; we were moving out to the patio for &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;that,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; he introduced us to Carl Owens, who was there to talk about patio furniture. So if any of you were hoping for a really good rate on a new car loan, sorry,  no news on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; today. How words &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sound&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and what they &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mean&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; have much to do with&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; the context&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; in which they are used, don't they?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Meaning/Meaningless</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/697429</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; Abstract or concrete or some of both?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;When I was altered and flying in the abstract, in 95 &lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;in Trillium&lt;/span&gt;, with no anchor to concrete reality and no boundaries, the "Trickster" demon hunting me down like a dog-ma, I “knew” that I was “the rebirthing mother” and that my job in life and in this event, "was to turn that breech-birth around in my psychic “womb;” that spherical realm from which all life springs forth after the big bang (ha ha ) and after much long and painful "labour," I was to give birth to It, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;head&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; first &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; time, instead of ass first.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Oh and by the way all you "experts"...I said I was going to have to "absorb it", that was not to be "interpreted" as needing to understand the meaning of it. It meant I knew that I was going to have to absorb one hell of a pile of community &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;abuse&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;before anyone had any clue what was &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;really&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;going on here, despite the fact that I already &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;TOLD&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;them that long &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;before&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;I broke under pressure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now as for the psychotic imagery from 95, all you experts see if you can find any "hidden meaning" in that! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;And why would I &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; be laughing for no reason?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;By the way...some of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;SAME&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;people who were acting this out on buses and mall etc. are acting it out still. Today one of them was telling another one that "&lt;em&gt;they all treated her like she was a piece of crap&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;More of my halluicanted conversations....you wish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>From My Old Blog</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/697430</link><description>&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="JUSTIFY"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;I kept it because there &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;continued&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to be people reading it despite the fact that I had stopped posting there for a long time. I began to post a bit again as a repeat from my website because they kept reading it. I want to "share my experiences" with all of you long time voyeurs in the local “snuff fantasy.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 16px;"&gt;...Like this Comment  I Got yesterday on this older post from March 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 16px;"&gt;I get quite a &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;few&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of these but I don't post &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;most&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of them as they are all from the terribly "sane" people &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; want me to get controlled. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Still &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; one seems so typical of those who want to control the 'defectives' such as myself that I wanted to have a second look at it. In fact, I am moved to answer this one as a special post which will appear here soon... and thank you &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;Kelsey Benson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, complete &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stranger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to me who is nevertheless quite &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;certain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about what I need and what my own experience is and where I have gone "wrong" in terms of an ambiguous abstraction of course...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;and why I need to be controlled. She has taken &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;courses&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;in psychology you see and so I must be the naughty disordered child for blaming the blameless "others"....that is why I need to &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stop&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;this blogging and get saved by the psychiatric faith....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://beyondthepsychiatricbox.blogspot.ca/2010_03_01_archive.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-large; color: #ff6600;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;How Do We Define Sanity and Insanity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Now be sure to click on the comments and scroll down to the input from Kelly. I was going to ask her if her photo of choice indicated a certain exhibitionism but I didn't know if she was interested in getting a good diagnosis yet...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,geneva;"&gt;Here is my answer to my critic who wants me to stop this talking and get the help I obviously need:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 22px; color: #ff6600;"&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;Correcting the Labelled People Who Deny They are “Sick”&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Thank you Kelsey Benson, past or present psych student, for posting your comments and demonstrating for my readers what I am talking about. To perceive people like me who dare to suggest we are not sick, in the medical sense, and even go so &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FAR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; as to suggest that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wellness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; is possible despite all the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DENIAL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; of that by bio psych! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Some of the local ones like to act out on the streets where I live and express many of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;same&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: 16px;"&gt; sentiments as you since they also are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;taking courses telling them how people who say such things should be perceived. I want to especially thank you for clearly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;stating&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; that you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;don't know me &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; you are very &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sure&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; that I am “&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;IN DENIAL&lt;/span&gt;.” (psychology 101?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;It is just &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; kind of certainty and evaluation that I write &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; and I write about it because people who have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; experienced this or been labelled for it, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DENY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; that total strangers like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; would then behave &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; way toward someone they don't really know &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BECAUSE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; that person received a label invalidating their perspective in such a complete and generalized way, that total strangers “correct” us and then direct us to the nearest psychiatrist to help us accept our “condition.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I find it ever so interesting that you believe that having a blog “proves” a “personality disorder” to you and that you seem to think my sole purpose is to convince the public that I am not insane. By “the public” I am going to assume you mean people like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Actually I don't really &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;care&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; what you, or other strangers to me think; although no doubt that to will “prove” to be another of my “symptoms.” Once labelled &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;EVERYTHING&lt;/span&gt; is a “symptom” to those who feel they are in much &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; shape than those total strangers they feel entitled to advise to get “help.” This previous statement of mine is one of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;reasons&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; I &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;started&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; this blog. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;You will be pleased to learn that this blog is old and although I still post to it occasionally I have moved into even &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bigger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; and better outlets, actually have a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; and also belong to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;many&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; groups of “disordered” people “in denial” just like me, who think more like I do and many of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; are actually mental health &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; Some of them right now are teaching in universities in various parts of the world. How wild and crazy is that? Go figure huh? Perhaps I can tell you where to find &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; too so you can send them all messages about how they are all “&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;IN DENIAL&lt;/span&gt;” and should stop fighting against bio psych and &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;GET SOME HELP&lt;/span&gt; for themselves! Or perhaps you already know &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;some&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of them as I see you are in Massachusetts where many also live who are “resistant” to the medical administrations of bio psych. Hmmmm. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Do you know where I see the “denial”? In &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; You deny that you are evaluating the lives and experiences of complete &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;strangers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; and that there is anything &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wrong&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; with that. I also hear you projecting your &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; mental&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;problems and acting out on a surrogate. That would be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; being compared to your ex husband. I don't “represent” you ex husband. I am also a woman by the way. I find it interesting that you offered me a paired “choice” of either “trying to convince the public that I am not insane &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;OR&lt;/span&gt; getting help.” Thanks for the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;choices&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; but I am not very interested in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;either&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; one as I am not going to define myself the way others &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; me to. I'm sure that upsets you. Tough. Perhaps if you can't handle the emotion of it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; could go for some psychotherapy to help &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; vent safely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I got a question or two for you Kelsey: does anyone ever &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;actually&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; do anything, to someone, designed to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;deliberately&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; cause harm? &lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; If your answer is &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;”&lt;/span&gt; are you from this planet?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; If your answer is “yes” do you know who is whom, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; do you know that and especially how do you know &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;who&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;whom&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; amongst perfect strangers? Are you psychic?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;If people who are harmed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; others “deserve” what they get, is that a kind of safety delusion you have there? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; can't get harmed by “others” or get labelled as a “disorder” because you don't &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;do&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; anything to “deserve” it? &lt;/span&gt; That is also a delusional belief a lot of people have because it gives them a false sense of safety and is sometimes referred to as the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;“Just World”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;delusion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;If you actually believe that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;no&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt; one&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt; can be drugged against their will&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;and incarcerated as well, unless they have committed a “heinous act” then you are living in a fantasy world. If you try to make people fit into your “heinous acts fantasy” world as the justification for forced drugging, and incarceration, you have it backwards and you do this to justify your own point of view &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; someone you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;don't even know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; So &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is denial Kelsey. Ironic huh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;I also enjoyed your justification for the “secrets” of the DSM. Isn't it interesting that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;most&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; people can't connect patients saying they are dealing with people who act like "the CIA" and the “covert operators” &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;running&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the system are always acting like that can't &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;see&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; any &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;connection&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; or meaning in it that &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INCLUDES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; them?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Somehow I think I am going to be the “sick one” no matter what is true, or what I think, or don't think, which you have covered quite nicely in your comments. I can't help but wonder what your ex husband's version of events might be. Not that I would necessarily &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;accept&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; but then I don't necessarily accept &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;yours&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; either, psych courses or not. The point I need to make here is that I did not &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;live&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; with you and your husband so I really don't &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KNOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; what went on &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;between you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and which of you is the most disturbed. That's why I don't go to your facebook page and try to get you the “help” I decide a stranger to me really &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;NEEDS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;I found your face book page, and I must say, I found it very surreal in that you seem to be “correcting” others who try to tell their &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;own&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; story, while &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALSO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; doing the same thing &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;yourself&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; Should I suggest you get off the net, stop doing those stupid updates and trying to convince the public you are innocent, have been wronged, and to go get some therapy!! Or would that be “different” when it runs in the other direction?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Let's all visit my critic here and see how she perceives her own life shall we? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;This is Kelsey Benson generously&lt;a title="Kelsey's Opinion of Me" href="http://www.facebook.com/kelsey.benson3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; H&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;elping the World&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;by Correcting Me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;You may need to sign in from facebook to visit with Kelsey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The assumption that “families” are &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;ALL&lt;/span&gt; loving wonderful people who would never harm the labelled one, knowingly or unknowingly, is frankly bizarre. This is not the real world which anyone can see by picking up a newspaper. To suggest that either caring or not caring what other people think, without defining those thoughts and ideas &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;specifically&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; makes one even “sicker,” is more of the usual abstract concepts presented as the all inclusive, one size fits all, DSM style version of truth which is of course, a load of crap, similar to predicting life and reality for &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;others&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; by using horoscopes or going to the psychic fair. It has no real &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;SUBSTANCE.&lt;/span&gt; They are theories with limited usefulness and which, when proved &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;WRONG&lt;/span&gt; need to be abandoned. Mental illness has &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;BECOME&lt;/span&gt; a huge problem in large part because real problems of life and relationship do not get identified let alone dealt with. Instead, they get labelled as “real diseases” and treated as if they &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;were&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; a disease instead of a psycho-spiritual problem. So we suppress them with tranquilizers or feed the complainers happy pills and &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;IGNORE&lt;/span&gt; the reality which produces them and keeps them going.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;My continued blogging, website and activism, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;IS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about the solution and not the ignoring of “a disease” that doesn't exist but which someone like you tells me I &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;MUST&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; have.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Your quoting of Einstein applies just as easily to the bio psychiatrists and to all those who keep insisting we must see this as a disease process as it does to all of us who keep trying to penetrate the resistance to hearing. Einstein also said something else, &lt;em&gt;“Am I crazy or is it everyone else?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;If a psychiatrized person said that, I think that you would &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;automatically&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;assume it was the one who asked the question. Yet if it was Einstein asking, would the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;answer&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;be the same? Or would it depend more on &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;who&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;you thought the person was in terms of status than &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;what&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;he or she was actually saying?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;I agree with you that there is a truth problem here, just not with the &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;source&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;One last question for you: it is possible for those running the system to lie, cover up truth, exaggerate, understate, take care of their own interests at the expense of others, keep information out of the story to make &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;themselves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; sound better? Again I ask you, if yes, should we avert out eyes from that? If no, tell me &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;that is not possible and how you know &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;exactly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; what is what, and who is whom, in a situation that has precisely &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nothing&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to do with you and which in reality you know nothing about other than what you are yourself &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PROJECTING&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;into it? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote1sym" href="#sdfootnote1anc"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;And by “mental” I always mean psycho-spiritual and not a real “disease process like diabetes.” I maintain hope for you and do not blame your brain for your current thinking and behaviour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>An Oldie But a Goodie- Sing a Long</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/694916</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;( before we all go back to Tipperary.....)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;" src="http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/TMCEH.ashx?idesc=751%7Cuploads%7C23542%7Cindex.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"&gt;A Little Sing a Long&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"&gt;Smiling Faces&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"&gt;By the Temptations, Psychedelic Soul                                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Smiling faces sometimes &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pretend&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to be your friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;within&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;They don't tell the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;truth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; uh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Smiling faces, smiling faces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Tell &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and I got &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;proof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;The truth is in the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;eyes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Cause the eyes don't lie, amen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Remember a smile is just&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;A frown turned upside down&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;My friend let me tell you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Beware, beware of the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;handshake&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a name="_ftnref1" href="http://counterpsych.com/aspx/blob2/controls/blog/blobblogaddblog.aspx?blogid=13090&amp;blogentid=355077#_ftn1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b3b300;"&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;That hides the snake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;I'm telling you beware&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Beware of the pat on the back                                        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;It just might hold you back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Jealousy (jealousy)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Misery (misery)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Envy I tell you, you can't see &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;behind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; smiling faces&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Your enemy won't do you no harm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Cause you'll &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; where he's coming from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Don't let the handshake and the smile &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;fool&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Take my advice I'm only try'n to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;school&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="_ftn1" href="http://counterpsych.com/aspx/blob2/controls/blog/blobblogaddblog.aspx?blogid=13090&amp;blogentid=355077#_ftnref1"&gt;&lt;span class="FootnoteCharacters"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="FootnoteCharacters"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;[1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;  Just want to take this moment to say Hello to Ed Perez from  this thought disordered moment of mine..no rhyme or reason for it of course. say...do yoyu suppose the Temptations were, ya know....paranoid too?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crazy Sarah in Her Crazy World- Bus Stop Performance</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/694914</link><description>&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Sarah stood at the bus stop near her building. She was on her way to the library and then to what was now &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;left&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of her job, post labelling, which was not much. She had full time hours when she got “helped” the first time but that ended a long time ago without any direct communication from, or to, her. She thanked God that she was so old now that her pension would keep her from homelessness, something she knew might have &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;been&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the outcome had she been much younger when she was targeted for “saving.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;One of her sweetest and most charming of neighbours, as others perceived her, Molly, was there at the bus stop as well.  Engaging in her customary mocking and ridiculing routine, which she used often to raise herself “up,” she decided to make a few amusing comments about Sarah and her character flaws, as they were perceived &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; Molly, to one of the male residents of her building, who liked to hang out at one of the downtown bars all day. There, he too enjoyed mocking and ridiculing the inferior “others” with those who were very much like him. So he and Molly felt a chummy connection.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Molly thought she would inform the neighbour at the bus stop that Sarah there, suffers from &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;such&lt;/span&gt; self-delusion. She then fabricated an amusing little “story” about Sarah to give it some punch, and the pair of them shared a good laugh together. They were &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;so&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; glad that they were not self-deluded like Sarah there. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;As they saw the bus coming round the bend, they moved a few steps closer and then Molly went into her usual act, talking directly &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;then,&lt;/strong&gt; TO&lt;/span&gt; Sarah now, she smiled sweetly and employed her soft, patronizing little tone, while making friendly sounding comments about the weather. The daily drinker just looked away as always. He would wait to discuss the latest on Sarah, later on perhaps with one of the bus drivers or his drinking buddies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Thank God these two don't suffer from such self-delusion like that of Sarah, who is, of course, too stupid and/or crazy to have any idea what Molly and her amused neighbours are &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; like when they are four feet further away.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;"&gt;If only Sarah could be more like &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; she too could feel so much better about herself, just like her neighbours were doing it right then.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/blob2/controls/blog/blobblogaddblog.aspx?blogid=29533&amp;blogentid=0&amp;tempkey=e673a5b9-1e78-4f25-9684-8aa139fccd8a#_ftn1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/blob2/controls/blog/blobblogaddblog.aspx?blogid=29533&amp;blogentid=0&amp;tempkey=e673a5b9-1e78-4f25-9684-8aa139fccd8a#_ftnref1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;   “Covertly “ of course&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Short Awareness Exercise for City Employees</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/694922</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Let's see if the Workfare office staff, bus drivers, and library staffers and garbage truck drivers related to Homewood staff can locate a connection &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;between&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; people who are psychiatrically labelled &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;because&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;they “think” that library staff, workfare office staff, and bus drivers are “talking about them” and &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the library staff, workfare office staff and bus drivers &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; all the talking &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;about&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the psychiatrically labelled. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HINT&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Concentrate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on finding the hidden meaning and from whom, the meaning is &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;being&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; hidden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Now if it should suddenly dawn on you that you have &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;always&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; been visible and audible, you &lt;strong&gt;still&lt;/strong&gt; have two choices for defending &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; position.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;A. &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deny&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the whole thing.  This is the most common tactic employed. However, sometimes that will not work as there may be witnesses who would seem credible to others, have a conscience and feel compelled to speak up. This does not happen often but occasionally it does. When groups turn into mobs, it is harder to silence &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you see. So, should this be the case, most people then move to the second position. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;B. Admit it, but then blame &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/blob2/controls/blog/blobblogaddblog.aspx?blogid=30994&amp;blogentid=0&amp;tempkey=a237f03a-2997-4a85-9c73-545e852c9ecb#_ftn1"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[1]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; for it in some way. The most common ways are claiming I should have &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;told&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you, that you were visible and audible from one to ten feet away.  Or that I plotted to make &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; look bad. Or that I am &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;exaggerating&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and making a big deal out of nothing just to seek attention. &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of those should work OK for you as they are all written in the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;Big Book of Insanity&lt;/span&gt; as “symptoms” of mine  and have stood the test of time, so you can site that as proof. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Awareness Changes Reality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Testing and observing the “Subject”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;When you see yourself as an objective tester and observer, there is an assumption in that  of having a greater awareness than those whom you observe as your “subjects.” So that is the premise of your thought and therefore the starting pint of your test as you understand it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;So think about how your observations and conclusions must change regarding these two aspects of your supposedly objective position. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;You test the subject to see what kind of a reaction you will get and then you assess the reaction according to your own understanding and expectations. So think of the difference in reactions between someone you test “covertly” and the reactions you get from someone who knows they are &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;BEING&lt;/span&gt; tested by you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Take as long as you need to see a difference. When  you think it is coming to you, read on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Now think of the difference in your observations between observing someone you believe does not &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you are doing that, and observing someone you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;know&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is aware that they are being watched by a group of people who are &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pretending&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; they aren't doing anything, while watching you, watch them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;You see, we ask people like you&lt;em&gt;, “Why are you doing this to me?” &lt;/em&gt;Or sometimes, &lt;em&gt;“why are you treating me this way?” &lt;/em&gt;without spelling out specifically what “this” is in precise terms. That is because we don't think we &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;need&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;EXPLAIN&lt;/span&gt; the bloody obvious.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;You people then “transform” being watched, followed, reported on, mocked, ridiculed, having our personal boundaries violated, and assessed into “symptoms” of our “pathology” because you exclude &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;YOURSELVES&lt;/span&gt; and your perfectly obvious and frankly scary, group behaviour, from the equation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;You just don't want to know that, that (objectification) which you are observing is observing you, &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;MEANS,&lt;/span&gt; because it is a statement of equality. You aren't relating as equals. You are relating as superior minds/people to inferior minds/people, when often, those you look down on, are not only equal in awareness and understanding but more aware of their shared reality than you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;It's about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;levels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of awareness; not brain function.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="Footnote"&gt;&lt;a title="" href="http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/blob2/controls/blog/blobblogaddblog.aspx?blogid=30994&amp;blogentid=0&amp;tempkey=a237f03a-2997-4a85-9c73-545e852c9ecb#_ftnref1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;   Or any other psychiatrized people that you are talking about in the third person in their presence..no one will believe “us” anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Making Those “Mysterious” Connections between Cause and Effect</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/694690</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9651;"&gt;(Not “or”)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By Patricia Lefave, Monophrenic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Two Psych Students&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;Student A&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I am having a lot trouble talking to the patients like that.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;Student B&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Well, I do it by just thinking of them as naughty children. Then I can handle it all right.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;Naughty Identified Patient&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I'm afraid the chemical imbalance in my defective brain is causing me to speak and inappropriately confront this idea. But then...you know how very naughty we genetic defectives can get.....sigh...you see we patients  like to complain, that we “think” we are talked down to and patronized by mental health pros who treat us like “naughty children” being “corrected.” I tend to think of our pseudo “parents” as snotty little bitches or contemptuous mocking little bastards, trying really hard to feel ever so superior to those they define as their “inferiors,” most often by using the label that has been given to “them.”  When I do it &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; way I find I can handle &lt;strong&gt;their&lt;/strong&gt; nonsense much better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;In fact this labelling business seems to be connected somehow to &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;shopping&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for just the &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;right&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; outfit. What makes me say this?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Well, one male psych student pointed me out to two of his female friends on a bus one day, quite a few years ago now, then, after looking me over, they noted together that I was one of the town whack jobs and that&lt;em&gt; “none of them have &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; fashion sense at all!”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Very often, the psych students (the Holt-Renfrew People) are so &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;very&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; relieved dahling that &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;they&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are not at all like those oh-so-tacky, Value Village people. They understand that the top priority in life is their fashion label and contemporary styles which make even the poorest of people want to live to see another day, &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;whatever&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; else may, or may not, be going on in their &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;actual&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; lives.  See what I mean?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The people who really &lt;strong&gt;care&lt;/strong&gt; about labels are also the ones who like &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;APPLYING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; them to those “others,”  others whom, (thank God) they are not anything at all like themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Of course we naughty children must all remember that we can't say anything like &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; directly &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; them as it is really about who holds all the power and whose &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SIDE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is everyone on. It is not about who is right, or wrong, or even about our own reality. Besides if you were actually to &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;call&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; them the names you have for them, they would not see the &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;connection&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; between the remarks they make about &lt;strong&gt;you,&lt;/strong&gt; from four feet away and your &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;return&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; commentary as they are most often “hiding in plain sight” from an “inferior” mind when they are assessing your lack of fashion sense, while making faces at you, like you aren't really there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This is because once you have &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;been&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; officially labelled, there is nothing you can do about the perceptions of others. All escape routes, or attempts at resolution by being heard and taken seriously, have been blocked by identifying &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;everything&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you say or don't say, do or don't do, as a “symptom.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;All you can do is cope with the &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;results&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as best you can and get some real support for your negative experience of it from some other people, mostly labelled as well, who have gone through it themselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Or you could also try to get one of the designers of the new “catalogue” to choose a &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;new&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; label for you that you feel is more in keeping with your station in life and your social standing, like those who have higher levels of education, titles or bigger bank accounts tend to get, even though they supposedly have all of the same “symptoms” as you. It's not &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;why&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you’re crazy. It is &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;where&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you are crazy, or sometimes &lt;strong&gt;who&lt;/strong&gt; you are crazy “with.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;...and please, you tacky people, who are living on one hundred dollars a month after the rent is paid; could you &lt;span style="color: #ff9651;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PLEASE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; get some decent fashion sense? Ask the guy at St. Vincent de Paul or the woman at the Salvation Army store to direct you to the new skinny jeans rack and the bling department will you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dysfunctional Superior Splitters-Why?</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/694691</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The psychiatrist who labelled me in 11 cost effective minutes tried to point out my “delusion” to me by asking, &lt;em&gt;“But &lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;WHY&lt;/span&gt; would they &lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;DO&lt;/span&gt; such a thing? Do you not see? He/they would have &lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;NO REASON&lt;/span&gt; to do so.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's your reason&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;They do it for the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;emotional&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; payoff they get from doing it which is two-fold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;A.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; They get to &lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;FEEL&lt;/span&gt; better about themselves by looking &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;down&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on those they define as “less than” and who "deserve” it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;B.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; They get a form of bonding/belonging from their agreement with the dysfunctional &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of people who think and act out&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt; just like them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. This makes their thinking and behaviour “normal.” (Common, a consensus reality) Since it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;does,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; then they can thank God, the universe, evolution, their genes, etc. that they aren't a nut, defective, or an inferior human being etc., like him/her/them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;THAT'S&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the reason. And there is no reason (logic) in It.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The dysfunctional superior splitters &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;HAVE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to talk both “us” and themselves &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;out&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of knowing we can see them and hear them, acting it all out, see and hear their contemptuous mocking and ridiculing etc. from a few feet away. They &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;HAVE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to keep themselves convinced that their group behaviour isn't “really” abuse or harm, because that is &lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;HOW&lt;/span&gt; they justify it and that is how they keep &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e0b386;"&gt;themselves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; deluded that they are all “hidden” in plain sight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Season Finale of “Touch”</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/692235</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #808000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #808000;"&gt;(on Global)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00; font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Messages off the T.V. for Those Who Can't Hear.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00; font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By Patricia Lefave, Monophrenic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;The corporation which is after all the power and control over pretty much &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;EVERYTHING&lt;/span&gt; and everyone now has the two autistic children in their “research” lab. They are trying to force them to complete a numbered sequence faster than it was going to happen as they are concerned about being “found out” and stopped. The sequence completes a “circle.” The number at the starting point sounds strangely close to Pi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;As we complete this episode, Jake, the non- verbal child of 11, talks to us in the narrative overlay of the series:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Signals, signs, patterns , lie all around us. All we have to do is learn to see them. Yet change the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;language&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt; used to describe them, and we are all lost, stumbling to understand the simplest of concepts.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;We use language in an attempt to communicate with each other, to make the connections we all need to find.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;If I was in an altered state of consciousness right &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;now,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and this came on the T.V. in Trillium, surrounded by Homewood staff who had &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;no idea&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;what I was talking about, and I was trying right &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;now&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to make sense of my overwhelming experience...looking for the information that would help me to &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that, I might very well perceive &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as a “message” from God, or the writer of the show, or Kiefer Sutherland&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or the universe &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;itself&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, depending upon my own &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;personal&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; psycho-spiritual point of view.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;img style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; display: block;" src="http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/TMCEH.ashx?idesc=751%7Cuploads%7C23542%7Ctouch%20pair.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;(Richard Dawkins, on the other hand might see it as a message from Stephen Hawking and the Perimeter Institute!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Altered states &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;aren't&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; meaningless; they are meaning Full-&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; full in fact to sort out at the time we are &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; them and overwhelmed by them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;In this episode of &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Touch&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, their current helper, and good friend Avrim, the orthodox Jew, takes his leave and goes back to his own work saying as he leaves then, “&lt;em&gt;I have been &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Through the Looking Glass&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote2sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2 &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;and I have made it back.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I feel much the same way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cashew Commentary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;So, do you psychiatrists see any signs, signals or patterns here? There is a large group of us, most often perceived &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;by&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you, and others, as “less than,” who see and hear this all in a &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that you, and many others, don't see it. Currently we are in the minority but I think in that weird way that I have, of knowing things, that this &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;too&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is about to &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CHANGE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Change your &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;own&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; minds; change the world. You already &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAVE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the “Messiah” Delusion, or Complex. Just change the &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;USE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that, so that it &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lifts&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; us &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALL&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; up &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;together&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, as a &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HUMAN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Whole, almost like in a “Rapture&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote3sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;” you might say, instead of suppressing truth to save some “others,” at “our” expense. For in reality &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I am &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;the “other” to you, just the &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as you are the “other” to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;So can you &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;blame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; me for having my point of view? Of &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;course&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you can't...because you are &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the kind of people who blame “others,” especially for what you do to yourselves...or &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Life is often like a “Comedy or Errors&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote4sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.” It is just not quite so “amusing” when you are on the &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;receiving&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; end of all the “fun.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&#x2; &lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Personally Kiefer Sutherland is &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; like God to me.....(smile)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote2anc"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&#x2; &lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Another one of “our” common metaphors for the experience. When we look in a mirror, the image reflected &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;back&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to us is “reversed.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote3anc"&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&#x2; &lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Rapture; to rise up to higher state or condition&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote4anc"&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&#x2; &lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Which is what I &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;TOLD&lt;/span&gt; my recovery therapist Rhea L. this was like in 96 and then &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AGAIN&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; when I got &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;forced&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; out of my job and &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;back&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; into the system for the &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;second&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; time in 99&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why all the Outright Denial?</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/692233</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #c5d00f;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why the Closing of Ranks and Protection of the est-ee?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;That way, &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;everyone &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;else &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;involved gets off the hook, sidesteps responsibility for it, just &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;like&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the individual who &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;started&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; it all in the first place, and the victim (who only “thinks” she is a victim remember) is kept in place as the scapegoat for the whole group, so that &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEIR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; lives will remain unaffected by any negative fallout from the incident.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: #c5000b; font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Got it?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Congratulations then...you are now all “est graduates” courtesy of the self proclaimed “est-ee,” running his “game,” as a “recreation” (do-over, or &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;repeat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; performance, &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; “fun”) “out here in the world of reality” where he has “shared his experience.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Tell me, is it as much “fun” for you as you had hoped it would be?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;You see, folks, we who try to &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EXPOSE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; this &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;group&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;behaviour really &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HAVE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to be the “defective” ones. Otherwise, the participants would be forced to actually &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;SEE&lt;/span&gt; that they have become part of a mob, would wake up to it as reality, and would then feel obliged to “do something about it.” They don't want to have to do something about “It” as it might cost &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #c5d00f;"&gt;them&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;something to “admit” to their participation in it and to admit they were wrong to behave the way they did. Further to that, they would have to look at themselves too closely and see how easily they are swayed by those with hidden agendas of domination into acting out &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;AS&lt;/span&gt; a mob on those who are socially sanctioned targets for this kind of group behaviour. So to avoid that, since it doesn't &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;FEEL GOOD,&lt;/span&gt; we come up with alternative “realities” like, “really, there was no “Holocaust” or any other mass murders performed by perfectly ordinary “normal” people as that would not make any sense. Therefore, (switch) it &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;MUST&lt;/span&gt; be those who claim they had this experience who are not making any sense and who at the very least &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;MUST&lt;/span&gt; be exaggerating it all, “just to seek attention.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;We humans like the circle because it allows us to get &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;AROUND&lt;/span&gt; any reality we don't like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;As the est-ee leader tells the trainees, regarding “it”, “Y&lt;em&gt;ou may as well. You can't change anything anyway.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Because full blown sociopaths and all &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;others&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;similar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; mind, to varying degrees, many of whom are perfectly “normal” average, people, just like your own neighbours, relatives and friends, who get caught up in something they did not fully understand, &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALWAYS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; find a way to justify &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;themselves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; at the expense of their victims. I am trying to transform that  into "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #c5d00f;"&gt;almost&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;always."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;That is &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; this kind of power and control “&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;works&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;As it might be put on &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr. Who?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;...when talking about the &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;scariest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; monster of them all;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;...and &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Silents&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;continue(s).....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Message off the T.V.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Just for all of &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;YOU&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;It is not that this &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;CAN'T&lt;/span&gt; be resolved. It is that those who participated in It don't &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;WANT&lt;/span&gt; It to be fully resolved. They want it to be &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;kept&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; “hidden in plain sight.” For they are the “others” who can &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;NEVER&lt;/span&gt; be blamed (held in any way accountable) for what they do. The best way to &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ensure&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that is to deny the existence of the &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;ENTIRE&lt;/span&gt; experience, often while claiming&lt;em&gt;, There is no reality; only perception. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;One more quote from the est experience: and Werner/Jack;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Reality is substantial, &lt;/em&gt;(which means &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONCRETE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and not just an ambiguous abstraction in absolute terms, connected to precisely nothing) &lt;em&gt;and will knock you on your ass.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;===================================&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" href="#sdfootnote1anc"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&#x2; &lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;And understanding that this is about the whole &lt;span style="color: #cccc00;"&gt;GROUP&lt;/span&gt; and the group-think and behaviour is key to this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Another Message- Just for All you “Normal” People</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/691666</link><description>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a name="_GoBack"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By Patricia Lefave, Monophrenic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c; font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the Current T.V. Series “Hannibal”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c; font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(see it on City)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;Hannibal was a surgeon&lt;/span&gt; who switched to psychiatry. He now helps the primary detective working on the serial killer case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Hannibal’s pleasure comes from his dexterity as a Splitter. He is an 'expert' at it in fact, leading his detective friend and his own psychiatrist as well, to the places he wants, or expects, them to go. He is also playing mind games with a lot of other people including someone else very close to him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Hannibal also talks at the nexus of meaning. On one occasion, when he was talking, he had been telling his detective friend about his love of gourmet cooking; mostly meat dishes, and then they continued to talk over the difficult case which they are working on “together.” (smirk) During this conversation, he says to his detective friend over a drink together, &lt;em&gt;“You must come to my place and bring your wife with you. I would really love to have both of you for dinner.” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c; font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hannibal Lechter, Humanitarian (but never Vegetarian)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Psychopaths like the “edge.” They are often “well balanced” themselves. (smirk) They enjoy driving others &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;over&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; it. It makes them feel so very powerful when they do. Sometimes they even enjoy having their &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;targets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; declared to be the psychopaths &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;instead&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. It's a real hoot for them but of course they don't laugh or smile too much if anyone can see them. This kind of thinking you see, gives them power &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OVER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; those with, &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; without, “the&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;under&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;standing.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;(&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;think&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about it as similar to a palindrome, especially in terms of &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;sound&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now if you have ever had to deal with any con artists in your life, in a more up close and personal kind of way, who all talk and act like this, to one &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;degree&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; or another, in any &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;form&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of this “game” you tend to hear it &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;faster&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and easier &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;than&lt;/span&gt; other people who have not as yet had the same kind of &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;experience&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Hannibal likes to involve others in his actions who will co-operate with him &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;unknowingly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, because &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DOING&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; so increases his sense of his own power over them. It's his 'secret” power. Having and keeping the “secret” is a big part of the rush he gets from it. He “plays” them; but they don't &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KNOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; they are being played because of their assumptions about “reality” and who is going to be the “reasonable” one. For Hannibal is, after all, a doctor and “doctors are good.”&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Hannibal will target anyone around him who starts to &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;see&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; who he &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;really&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is behind the mask. One character on the show has already &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;started&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to see him; to see that something is just not &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quite&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; right with Hannibal. He is seeing something not quite “hidden.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Someone who was in my life long ago once asked me how I knew what was &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;GOING&lt;/span&gt; to happen on a T.V. show &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;before&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; it happened. I told him,&lt;em&gt; “they said it...well, they didn't &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SAY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt; it specifically, but I am extrapolating from the information they have already provided in what they &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt; saying. It's part of the pattern of events unfolding, kind of thing. It is &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt; one hundred per cent accurate of course. It is more like a really good guess. If they change &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;any&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt; of the variables now in what is going on, the outcome will be different.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;We are creating our own &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;reality&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; now. It is a construct on a &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GROUP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; level. The premise we use, the primary goal we have, and the kind of leaders we are &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;willing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to follow will determine our collective fate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Personally, I believe that “Hell,” the &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;opposite&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of “Heaven” is a &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;dimension&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; we are creating out of our own collective arrogance, certainty about everything, the need to ''dominate” and “win” the contest most people seem to believe they are in, against others. &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THAT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is splitting. We might be wise to change our premise of thought so that we don't all end up actually &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;GETTING&lt;/span&gt; for ourselves, exactly what we “thought” we wanted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Imagine living in a dimension where &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EVERYONE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; thought and acted just &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;LIKE YOU&lt;/span&gt; and who also needed to “win” the domination contest at all costs? What better description of “Hell” could there be?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;You see, to &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; “Heaven and Hell” are quite real but they have more to do with &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;quantum effects&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; than they do with floating on clouds wearing wings or being trapped and burning in the centre of &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;this&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; earth. It is more like developing the &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;metaphorical&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; “wings” that will allow us to “fly above” all this mess we have made and get out of it finally, or choosing to &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;continue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; making a mess and getting ''trapped” in our own collective stupidity and going back into the earth out of which we came, still as dumb as when we arrived and “burning” with the desire for the resolution that was right under our own noses the whole time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Equality of being &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;cures&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the collective insanity. Equality&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote2anc" href="#sdfootnote2sym"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;boundaries&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is to humanity, as insulin is to the diabetic. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c; font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Homewood Staff&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Have you figured out what &lt;em&gt;“I am not the one who doesn't understand; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt; are,”&lt;/em&gt; means now? Or can't you &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hear&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; me yet?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hint&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: It's about a psycho-spiritual “deafness”; not problems with your eardrums or how loud I am yelling while trying to get heard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; =======================================================&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote1sym" href="#sdfootnote1anc"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&#x2;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt; Like parents, lawyers, cops, judges, teachers, nurses and priests who all belong to a subset of society known for their collective “goodness” and honesty. Only the crazy people would see “evil” in such people right? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote" style="page-break-before: always;"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote2sym" href="#sdfootnote2anc"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&#x2; &lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;Cause I &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KNOW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; how you psychiatrists just &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LOVE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to compare everything to real “diseases” &lt;span style="color: #e6e64c;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;just like diabetes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;so dopey me is trying to talk to you in your own jargon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>It's About Your Distinctions</title><link>http://www.counterpsych.com/aspx/m/569547/beid/691254</link><description>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;That is a concept from the self defined est-ee nurse's training. So here is what I want you to think about today using my own fascinating 'case' as your example.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I want you to think about the subtle difference, or &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;distinctions&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; the&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;“razor's edge”&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;distinction between thinking you understand what is “reality” in relation to an idea like:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;She thinks she has been set up by someone to look like she is crazy and then attacked by a mob until she broke under the unrelenting pressure and stress created by the experience of it..&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;She's crazy because she “thinks” she was “set up” by someone, who was (supposedly) “deceiving” a group of people he got to join him in it and who were then attacking &lt;strong&gt;her&lt;/strong&gt; for no reason.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Same overall event, but different description, emotional content and attitudes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now imagine being on the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;receiving&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; end of this with&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; no one&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; talking to you genuinely or &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;directly&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about it, although they all talk &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;to each other&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as much as they like and they talk &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABOUT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you behind your back and/or from a few feet way, while also denying it. They also tell you that you are not “allowed” to talk to any of &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about this nor are you allowed to talk about it in public as &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; cannot “allow” that. Also the one you “claimed” had “set you up” can say &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;anything&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; he likes about &lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt; to anyone he pleases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now without blaming any of those “others” who can never be blamed. Try to make some kind of sense out of your experience, bearing in mind of course that if you &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;say&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; to these&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;same people&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;that you are having trouble making sense of it, that will “prove” to them that you are mentally ill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now in order to get out of the position into which you have been forced by these group judgments, you are going to have to convince these &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;same&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; people that what you are saying is &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REAL&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; not your “delusions” knowing that these people have already been&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;trained to hear &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;everything you are saying &lt;strong&gt;AS&lt;/strong&gt; delusions and that they consider themselves to be experts in the definition of reality. This means that if you want to get the “mob” of people involved to stop assaulting you in a variety of ways, you are going to have to try to get them to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEAR&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the truth you are telling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Now in my own 'case” the locals who participated in this themselves can't hear it even when I knew the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NAME&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of the “game” my own antagonist was suing to created the chaos and confusion, which most people &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DON'T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; know when it is done to them and which they don't understand. Many people have never even &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;HEARD&lt;/span&gt; of this which includes several of my own &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TEAM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnoteanc" name="sdfootnote1anc" href="#sdfootnote1sym"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of psychiatrists. This is what happens at the nexus of &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;meaning.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; That distinction is often about nothing more than &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; someone else decides, quite arbitrarily, they will believe and that belief is often about nothing more that status or titles or expectations. Theses may be ideas like “parents” would never harm their own children” or “psychiatric nurses would never play mind games with someone.” Those are abstractions in absolute terms. They are not reality. That is why Fenwick talks about giving up the “Family Romance.” &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THAT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is the real Fantasy World that leaves so many vulnerable to abuse, hidden agendas of domination and dictatorships. It is this kind of blanket denial by the majority that makes it possible for anyone who is seen as one of the good or normal or superior people to do what they do and to get away with &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;IT.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;One woman I found online some years ago who broke under pressure described the training this way: &lt;em&gt;“they take you to the razor's edge of insanity.”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;THINK&lt;/span&gt; I have been harmed by others. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;What that &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;means&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of course depends upon your perspective, your point of view and of course, “from &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; you see the start of the action.” If you are not sure what that means, ask the est-ee psychiatric nurse to explain it to you but don't be too surprised if he can't remember since he was instructed&lt;strong&gt; &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;inside&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;training&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;not to reveal the contents of &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;IT&lt;/span&gt; but only to “share the experience out here in the world of reality.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I just want to &lt;span style="color: #ff9900;"&gt;help&lt;/span&gt; him do that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class="sdfootnote"&gt;&lt;a class="sdfootnotesym" name="sdfootnote1sym" href="#sdfootnote1anc"&gt;1  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Because some nuts are harder to crack than others&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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