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This page is for those of you who only want to see the new material and who don't want to have to go looking for it.
 
Enjoy!

 

A Favourite New Commercial 

“The number one cause of sleeplessness due to pain is body pain.” 

Confused Inferior:... that would be as opposed to pain that was outside the body and therefore NOT body pain????

I bet the person who wrote this commercial has a university education and so that is probably why I don't understand it and feel “confused.” You know how stupid us uneducated whack jobs are.....

 

 

 Attention All Testers

When you test me to see what kind of a reaction you can get from me by testing me, be sure to include in your test results the fact that I am aware I am being tested by you. (You didn't know that, did you?) 

Attention Homewood Helpers
We want psychiatrists to become Voice Hearers.
The Voices we want you all to hear are OURS



Attention All Hearers
This Just Up-A New Way to Connect 
Get Support and Community

Hearing Voices USA


Consensus Reality Maintenance

The most common response in heavy use by most dysfunctional folks in dysfunctional relating is NO RESPONSE at ALL. 

Do any of you at Homewood, or the University, want to respond to that assertion?

No?

Two Halves of a Whole 

Are YOU one of the 'sane' people who are watching, following and reporting on someone who is 'insane' because s/he 'thinks' that people s/he does not even know are watching, following and reporting on him/her?

 

 
• Calling All Psychiatric Survivours
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• Research Blog for Psychiatric Survivours-users
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Does Being Psychiatrized Make You Ill? 02/22/2012
What do You Think the Question itself MEANS? By Patricia Lefave, Monophrenic  Next Stop: Truth to Power  Am I asking you if everyone who is given a label is Ill? Or Am I asking if BEING psychiatrized can, in and of itself, MAKE someone Ill? Or Am ... More>
 
Choosing to Choose Neither of the Dysfunctional Poles 02/21/2012
Choosing the Meta Opposite Next Stop: Dysfunctional Realities  In the centre grounding of the centred person, in a space between ''choices'' offered of being active aggressor or passive victim, of being controlled or the controller, winner or loser, there exists a place ... More>
 
Gary Namie- Bullying in the Workplace 02/19/2012
 
Home from the Wars with Paula Caplan Pt 1 02/19/2012
 
Emotional CPR and Equality-A Podcast ... 02/18/2012
With Pictures! Next Stop: Talking AT My Psychiatrists
 

 

Disclaimer: estian style

I hereby state that anything I say on this site regarding est, Werner Erhard and company, Landmark,  is, as is also stated inside the est training itself, to be taken with this disclaimer attached:

“Don't believe anything I say.”
There. Now whatever YOU choose to believe, or not believe, about what I am saying, is your OWN choice. “It's about responsibility.”
(and it's about responsibility at the nexus of meaning/meaninglessness.) Or if you can't believe ANYTHING I say, then you also cannot believe the statement not to believe me, or what I say, as that would be believing SOMETHNG I say, wouldn't it?  In other words, there is no such thing as absolute truth as an abstract idea, apart from concrete details.
Now this disclaimer applies to everything I say about est and/or Landmark Education and all it's subsiduaries, anywhere and at anytime which I say it.
There we go. Now I am opened up to the possibility of denouncing est since if any of you including Werner Erhard CHOOSE to believe what I say, that is your own choice and your own responsibility. I just sidestepped responsibility for my own wrods and beliefs by handing it to you. That is what my disclaimer is for and that is also a concept of est, inside est, which is supposed to be kept secret.

So. Do you believe me? Yes or no?

Think about it.


Creating Connections Through Dialogue

 I Recommend
I recommend for psych students (and others) a few books available at our local public library. These are:
The Cure of Folly
and
Daggers of the Mind:
Psychiatry and the Myth of Mental Disease

by Gordon Warme, M.D.

I include these NOT because I agree with every word and in fact, I find much of this disturbing, but because they offer some insights into how the minds of psychiatrists have been trained to work.

Also available locally are:
Toxic Psychiatry By Peter Breggin, M.D.
Agnes's Jacket By Professor Gail Hornstein
and 
A Schizophrenia Breakthough by Al Siebert, PhD.
Who was psychiatrized while TRAINING in psychiatry.
 

I hope that these will help to get you to questioning and rethinking the psychiatric status quo.

 

 

• Talking with Voices By Dirk, Rufus and Eleanor- footnotes by me
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Our Firmly Entrenched Dysfunctional Belief System
 

...trains us all to believe that our splitting and projecting is normal, that those inherently inferior “others” upon whom we are projecting our own delusion cannot really see, hear or understand us, even if we are acting out like delusional from four feet away, and that if they “think” they can, the problem is in THEM for “thinking” they understand us and not in “us” for thinking they can't. It is in fact, those who are very often the most in touch with the perfectly obvious reality, who are the most likely to get a psychiatric label. They get  identified as the 'seriously' ill for talking about it, and are therefore perceived as a threat to the dysfunctional status quo which the majority it seems, will defend to the death.....of ALL of us, themselves included.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



A Message for the Legitimately Religious
…As Opposed to the Psychiatrized Who Suffer from “Religiosity”

Many of you get quite perturbed with the psychiatrized for comparing themselves to Jesus (etc.)  

Here is my question for the increasing of human awareness: 

Isn’t that what you are doing ALSO? Do you NOT compare yourselves to Jesus?

What is the ritual of communion actually about?  

Is it not about becoming ‘one’ with the spirit of Jesus?  

Could this be some weird form of jealousy from which you suffer?  

Why not explain it away.....?

 

 

 

 



Physical and Metaphysical
 

They actually go together...to resolve it on one level resolves it on the other as well.


Let’s Hide the Truth so we can look for it!
 

Human Beings Like to Hide the Truth from Themselves…and then spend an endless amount of time searching for the “hidden” meaning in all they say and do.

It's the Closing of Ranks and the Group Hug that Tends to Give it Away

Cornered




Thinking in Terms of Bio Psych
 

If the one in “authority” is heading heads toward a cliff and is about to fall off, I can't say anything as it might upset him to have to hear it, or it might cause him to doubt his authority. More than that though, I will have to fall off the cliff with him so he won't find me O.D.D.” We may both end up dead in the end, but at least on the way down, he won't have to suffer any self doubt or feel “awkward” and I will be highly praised by authority for my compliance. Could it get much better than that? Well, I am just 'self important' enough to think that it could... Of course that is probably because I don't understand the human mind like bio psychiatrists since I have not been highly trained like those in authority.

The Dysfunctional Family is an S.T.D.

 

I probably shouldn’t have suggested that. Knowing how bio psych thinks, they will probably try to treat it with penicillin which will, no doubt, need to be taken for the rest of your life-just like insulin.[1] Does it ever strike anyone else as ironic that when bio psychs became such converts to the disease model in looking at life problems, that they even try to cure being driven insane by groups of dysfunctional people with an overdose of insulin?



[1]        Of course they will fail to mention that doing so will have the tiny ‘side’ effect of destroying your immune system but hey...that’s better than blaming the family isn’t it?

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