The Need to Take Responsibility for Their Behavior

I'm being slandered. Things people are hearing about me are not true. I have never said anything threatening or sexually inappropriate in public, ever. It's never happened. I'm someone who wants to be left alone. I don't want my privacy invaded in any way. I'm someone who wants to keep his private business and personal life as private as possible. Invasions of my privacy are completely non consensual, there's no consent or communication between me and the persons involved, none. No consent was given to anyone ever. Eavesdropping and wiretapping would be criminal, it would make the perpetrator a felon. Video surveillance in any of the apartments I've lived in is criminal, making the perpetrator a felon and a sex offender. They're lying about someone who wants no contact with them at all, neither direct or indirect. They have absolutely no legal right to do anything but leave me alone.

I talked about immature and inappropriate comments that were being made about oral sex back in January. I have have nothing to do with these comments. I don't want anything to do with the individuals making them. They have to take responsibility for their immature sexual behavior and comments. Their sexual interest in me is disturbing, immature and completely inappropriate. False accusations are likely the result of psychological projection, it's just another example of scapegoating. I'm a completely innocent person who wants to be left alone. They need to be criminally prosecuted and they need to take responsibility for the outrageous sexual harassment of someone who wants nothing to do with them. I'm a private individual who is in no way to blame for any of it.

03/9/2010 - Link

Profiting at the Expense of Others

Psychiatry and the drug industry do not profit from people recovering from their mental health problems. They don't make money on alternatives to psychiatry and it's bio-reductionest approach to the treatment of mental health. They simply don't make money and it's all about money for the drug industry and the psychiatric quacks they have in their pockets. They don't profit from a healthy diet rich in omega 3 fatty acids from fish, they don't make money on regular exercise, runners aren't big cash cows for the drug industry. They don't make money on real insight into your mental health problems, it's something they don't want you to have. They want you to reduce your problems to a genetic chemical imbalance that they claim is corrected by their drugs. They make money on psudoscientific nonsense, like in the drug commercials. They don't make money on insight or science. The drug industry makes money selling drugs, psychiatric quacks make money prescribing them.

Take a look at the drug industry. I'll use the criminal corporate entity Eli Lilly as an example. It's such a good example of greed and wrongdoing. I know for a fact that the people at Lilly knew quite a bit about their blockbuster drug Zyprexa, take a look at internal company documents. Apparently what they knew didn't stop Lilly CEO John Lechleiteir from encouraging drug reps to discuss prescribing Zyprexa to children and teenagers, something that would have lead to predictable problems for those kids. It's not only that, serious weight gain with that class of drugs is really only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to problems created by those drugs. Lilly makes money at the expense of those kids, it makes money on disability, cognitive dysfunction, obesity, drugs those kids might end up taking for diabetes. Right now that's how they're making money. Another example is how the company marketed the drug to treat dementia in the elderly knowing it didn't work. There's a good chance that they were aware that the drugs would be used by psychiatric quacks to chemically lobotomize those folks, making things easier and more profitable for the nursing homes they reside in. Something done at their expense. What you have is an industry making money at the expense of their patients, not from what's good for them. They profit from what's bad for them, knowingly.

The drug industry profits from knowingly replacing the science your doctor or even a psychiatric quack relies on with the shameless marketing of their products. There's a few smoking gun examples from the paper linked to in the article above here. It's marketing based medicine at the expense of patients. That's what's going on in the mental health field today.

02/27/2010 - Link

Ongoing Slander

I'm just the subject of a lot of really vicious dehumanizing slander. I think they're just lying criminals who want to tell just their side of the story while justifying their wrongdoing. I would never threaten anyone or even behave a little odd in public. Anyone who says I am is lying. I have no desire to harm myself or anyone else. I'm fully responsible for everything I say and do, without exception. Any mental health problems I might have aren't causing me any problems and I don't think they'll ever cause anyone else any problems ever. If anything my lack of mental health related problems are the problem for people slandering me for pretty obvious reasons.

Any intrusion into my personal life if completely unwanted. I have no control over the outrageous sexual comments being made. If they're questioning people about me sexually I have nothing to do with it. They are off on their own talking about things like that and I have no control over any of it. I don't want any invasion of my privacy at all. I don't like people looking at what I bought at the supermarket checkout. What flavor jelly I bought is to personal for me to divulge voluntarily.

02/26/2010 - Link

Nothing But Criminals

It's like people around me don't understand that what's being done to me is illegal. They have absolutely no legal right to do what they're doing. Eavesdropping and video surveillance anywhere a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy is criminal in New York State. Not leaving me alone, not letting me live alone is called stalking and harassment. When someone with no legal right does what they're doing it's a crime, that makes them criminals. I don't want my privacy invaded in any way. I don't want to be followed in public. I don't people I come in contact with questioned. It's as nonconsensual as nonconsensual can possibly be and it's causing me quite a bit of distress and material harm.

Any decisions I've made regarding my mental health care didn't cause me to lose any of my rights. People have the right to make those decisions regarding their care. In New York State people involuntary committed to psychiatric hospitals have the right to refuse psychiatric treatment. This is from Rivers v. Katz, 67 NY 2d 485:

In our system of a free government, where notions of individual autonomy and free choice are cherished, it is the individual who must have the final say in respect to decisions regarding his medical treatment in order to insure that the greatest possible protection is accorded his autonomy and freedom from unwanted interference with the furtherance of his own desires (see, Matter of Erickson v Dilgard, 44 Misc 2d 27, 28, supra; see generally, Olmstead v United States, 277 US 438, 478 [Brandeis, J., dissenting]; Union Pac. Ry. Co. v Botsford, 141 US 250, 251; Davis v Hubbard, 506 F Supp 915, 930-933; Pratt v Davis, 118 Ill App 161, 166, affd 224 Ill 300, 79 NE 562). This right extends equally to mentally ill persons who are not to be treated as persons of lesser status or dignity because of their illness (Superintendent of Belchertown State School v Saikewicz, 373 Mass 728, 370 NE2d 417). As noted by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, "[i]f the law recognizes the right of an individual to make decisions about * * * life out of respect for the dignity and autonomy of the individual, that interest is no less significant when the individual is mentally or physically ill" (Matter of K. K. B., 609 P2d 747, 752).

They have no legal right to do what they're doing. Some nutjob just can't stalk you and break the law all he wants because he heard you had some kind of invalid psychiatric label. What they're doing is illegal and they have no legal right at all. Discrimination in law enforcement and housing based on disability is also prohibited by statute, namely the ADA. They're just slandering their innocent victim as being violent or prone to violence because they're monstrous heinous fucking criminals.

02/4/2010 - Link

Lying About Their Victim

I'm being slandered and lied about by people involved in a crime and their supporters. Any eavesdropping, wiretapping or any invasion of my privacy whatsoever is either criminal or tortious. What they're doing is a crime. They would have absolutely no right either morally or legally. They're simply criminals. Criminals lying about their victim. Use Common sense there's a motive for them to lie about me.

Sexual comments being made about be are outrageous an completely inappropriate. I'm not doing anything to encourage any of it. Any sexual comments, comments about oral sex or anything like that aren't coming from me, they don't have anything to do with me. The only thing like that would be me making remarks about psychiatrists being quack cocksuckers. Those remarks were made in my home, in private. Anything sexual about me is nobody's business. Again any intrusion into my privacy is completely unwanted so the talk is inappropriate and harassing.

I would never believe that I was Jesus Christ, that there are demons or that I have magical powers. It's just schizophrenic sounding bullshit. Again, I've said it on this weblog before, I'm an atheist. I have no religious beliefs at all. I would never say anything other than saying I'm an atheist if someone asked or if someone starts a conversation with me about the subject.

A lot of what's being said is simply defamatory. People should really look into the motives and the personality types of the persons making the comments. I think there's a type of malign thought association involved with some of the false accusations. What I mean is the accuser is associating his own thoughts and impulses, some which are sexual, in a slanderous way. The accusations don't have anything to with me or anything I think now or anything I ever thought in the past. The accusations are false and I think there's something seriously wrong with the person making them.

01/23/2010 - Link

Psychiatric Slavery

Thomas Szasz makes the comparison between coercive psychiatry and slavery in his books Psychiatric Slavery and Liberation by Oppression. I think the comparison is a very relevant and enlightening one. Readers should check out this review of Liberty by Oppression here.

01/7/2010 - Link

Anosognosia

A group called the Treatment Advocacy Center is group that advocates for forced treatment arguing that people who were given psychiatric labels like bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia sometimes become dangerous and lack insight into their illness. This group makes it sound like the number one reason why someone would stop taking extremely harmful, intolerable and ineffective drugs is a lack of insight into their illness. This is a group that often over hypes violence to further it's forced treatment agenda. In a debate with Judi Chamberlin of the National Empowerment Center on forced treatment, psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey, president of the Treatment Advocacy Center states this about the part of the brain impaired when someone lacks awareness of their illness:

Scientifically, it has been shown in many recent studies that 40% to 50% of individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have an impaired awareness of their illness (also called impaired insight). Their illness has impaired the function of the prefrontal cortex, which is part of the brain that is used for self reflection and to appreciate ones own needs.

Is it an illness impairing the function of the prefrontal cortex? Are the drugs given to people in any way to blame for the impairment while on and while off the drugs? In this interview with Nancy C. Andreason she talks about a group of people labeled with schizophrenia that she's been following since 1989. She found that people with schizophrenia are losing brain tissue at a rate of 1 percent per year. The more drugs a persons been given the more brain tissue they lose. When asked why she thought this was happening she stated:

Well, what exactly do these drugs do? They block basal ganglia activity. The prefrontal cortex doesn't the input it needs and is being shut down by drugs. That reduces the psychotic symptoms. It also causes the prefrontal cortex to slowly atrophy.

The folks at TAC may be advocating for treatment that causes the very condition they then use to justify forced treatment.

I happened to see an episode of the Dr. Phil show on bipolar disorder a while back. I don't own a television and I rarely ever watch TV, it's one of the few times I've ever seen the show, probably the only time I ever sat down to watch the whole thing. In it there was a guy named fred labeled with bipolar disorder. They did fMRI of Fred's head and they found that there were a couple things abnormal about Fred's fMRI. First thing they found was that there was damage to Fred's brain that looked a lot like this pattern of brain damage. They also found that voxels representing an area occupied by Fred's amygdala lit up, something they attributed to anxiety that could have also indicated that Fred was happy or sad during the imaging or something else. I saw the show a long time ago, I could be wrong about the pattern of damage or atrophy. It's something I thought readers might find interesting.

01/4/2010 - Link

The Neuroleptic Drugs

I'm someone who really hates the use of the term antipsychotic. The neuroleptic drugs, drugs like Abilify, Seroquel, Risperdal, Invega, Geodon, and Haldol don't have a specific antipsychotic effect. These drugs instead produce generalized brain dysfunction not unlike an ice pick driven through your eye socket. These drugs are anti-anything they get prescribed for and anti-anybody they get prescribed to. In Peter Breggin's book Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry he points to research illustrative of the brain disabling effects of the drugs. This is an excerpt from his book:

Peter Liddle and his colleagues (2000) used positron emission tomography (PET) to study the effects of risperdone on the rate of metabolism on the ventral striatum, thalamus, and frontal cortex. Their subjects were eight neuroleptic-naive patients diagnosed with their first episodes of schizophrenia.

First and foremost, Liddle et al. (2000) found that "a single dose of risperdone produced decreases in metabolism in ventral striatum, thalamus and frontal cortex." The authors identified this region as the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical feedback loop. This encompasses much of the emotion-regulating centers in the limbic system and higher mental centers in the frontal lobes. Dopaminergic neurotransmission plays a significant role in this system and is profoundly blocked by risperdone. Clearly this confirms that risperdone, like all neuroleptics, causes a chemical lobotomy, with inevitable production of relative degrees of apathy and indifference.

If psychiatry came up with a label and a symptom checklist that included things like a preoccupation with sports, unusual excitement over the minutia of a sporting event, and intrusive thoughts about sports they could make being a sports announcer a psychiatric illness. They could then use the neuroleptic drugs to reduce the symptoms of that newly defined psychiatric illness. Van Putten and Marder's description of akinesia in Behavioral Toxicity of Antipsychotic Drugs could have referred to sports announcers. It could read like this:

In the treatment of sports announcers with neuroleptics, akinesia, in our experience, produces a type of improvement. The patient talks less about sports, but he talks less of everything; he is less bothered by a lay-up or a touchdown, but he is less bothered by everything else as well; he less invested in sports, but he is less invested in all else as well. Many patients with akinesia experience a peculiar absence of emotions, appear emotionally dead, and often state that everything is all right. This type of improvement, which occurs particularly with higher doses, is one we should not be proud of.

Most people don't know that the brain disabling effects of these drugs are the primary effects of these drugs, it's not a side effect. It's interesting to look at peoples subjective experience of taking the drugs, it gives you some idea just how the drugs might be working.

The neuroleptic drugs are now being used to treat depression. They've just begun marketing a neuroleptic drug named Seroquel direct to consumers. The television ads for another neuroleptic drug called Abilify have been running for a while now. If these drugs perform any better than a sugar pill it makes you wonder how they work to treat the thoughts and feelings that may make one depressed.

12/27/2009 - Link

Vicious Slander

The things being said about me are nothing but vicious slander. It's just defamatory. To suggest that I'm "aggressive" is just vicious dehumanizing slander. It's just bullshit. I'm fully responsible for everything I do and say. When I'm drinking I'm fully and completely responsible for everything I do and say. It doesn't matter how much I drank because I'm fully responsible for every single drop I drink. To suggest that I'm inhuman and out of control and somehow "aggressive" is just complete bullshit. If I'm falsely accused of something I expect to be held fully responsible for anything I'm alleged to have done or said, if the allegation is criminal I demand the right to face my accuser in a court of law. I'm aware of the law and the duties I have towards others. I'm fully responsible for every action I take and every utterance I make.

12/21/2009 - Link

Controlling What People Think

Psychiatry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. The drugs they use to treat people who get labeled with schizophrenia are extremely profitable and their use is growing. The market for these drugs has expanded to include the treatment of elderly patients with dementia and children mislabeled as bipolar. Neuroleptic drugs like Seroquel and Abilify are now being marketed to consumers as a treatment for depression and bipolar disorder. There's a huge financial interest in literally controlling what people think about these worthless brain damaging drugs, mental illness and the mentally ill. The lies being told about me are part of that effort to control what people think. It's an effort to control what people think because the industry profits from harming people with these drugs. If your someone who hasn't figured it out already the lies your being told will help them sell harmful drugs to you and even get you to coerce others into taking them.

The fact that I appear to be fully recovered and people who have known me for a long time can't see anything wrong with me is a problem for someone who's trying to control what you think about neuroleptic drugs. So is the fact that I'm in really good health, the fact that I have a normal BMI, the fact that I'm sexually healthy, that fact that I have a good diet and get regular exercise. It's a real problem that I can run 10 miles. You might ask yourself, well why would that be? It's because psychiatrists, the worthless quacks who prescribe the drugs and apply psychiatric labels are a bunch of brain damaging frauds chronicly disabling people with their treatments. Quacks causing iatrogenic brain damage and physical illness with their worthless brain damaging treatments go on to blame the chronic disability they cause on a nonexistent chronic brain disease. People who recover contradict their brain disease fraud. They'd have to admit that people like me who recover through self-determination and informed decision making know better than they do with their quack bio-medical babbling about correcting something with drugs that cause brain dysfunction. The drug industry doesn't profit from informed decision making, they profit from decisions made by a psychiatric quack corrupted by industry influence.

When a small fraction of the chronically psychiatrized do something violent there's no mention of the brain damage and dysfunction caused by the drugs or the withdrawal psychosis that results from abruptly withdrawing from drugs that are intolerable. The psychiatric quack is the expert, he can just point the finger at his patient. It wasn't his or her fucking wonder drug it was an underlying illness that he or she will find some fucking kind of evidence of someday. There's a need to blame an underlying mental illness.

Lies being told about me are being told for a reason. Lies about "schizophrenic" sounding religious or magical beliefs are most likely part of an effort to decontextualize my mental health problems. Place the blame on a genetic brain disease I've always had, something that was in my genes. They're lies being told to perpetuate a fraud.

Psychiatry and the drug industry don't make money on me being a intelligent, reasonable person living peacefully in my home. They make money on the chemical equivalent of an ice pick driven through my eye socket. They're not profiting from my programming skills here at joysoup.net. They profit from dehumanizing and demonizing me and attempting to link me to violence no matter how false and absurd the accusations are. They profit from any stigmatization including sexual stigmatization. It's all so a psychiatric quack can continue his horror and abuse and have nobody care.

12/16/2009 - Link

Just Admit It

Way too much is being made out of gangstalking. It's just being done to connect me to beliefs that are held by others that might be or might be considered delusional. Accusing me of having beliefs I don't have is like attacking a delusional strawman. It's just part of a campaign of vicious slander by people involved in activities that are either criminal or actionable in civil court. Nobody should let accusations like that detract from the facts. It's a fact that any surveillance is being conducted without my consent. It's a fact that it's being conducted by persons with no right to do what they're doing. It's a fact that those persons have no justification for what they're doing. It's a fact that they are persons I want nothing to do with. As far as I know they're private individuals with as much right to what they're doing as I would have to do the same thing to them.

There are a lot of really outrageous sexual comments being made. These comments are immature and completely inappropriate. Keep in mind I'm not someone who wants his privacy invaded in any way. Nothing about me sexually is anyone's business. It's harassing to be talked about sexually. I'd prefer that people I've had contact with not answer sexual questions about me. I value my privacy, if they're being paid they should at least ask for more money.

They should just admit to being cowards and liars that prefer to slander someone behind their back, saying that I'm violent or too stupid to talk to is completely ridiculous. I have no desire to harm anyone. Even though I think psychiatrists are the quacks and frauds they are I would never harm one even if my human rights are abused.

12/1/2009 - Link

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death and Misery

Psychiatry and the drugs psychiatric practice revolves around is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Psychiatrists, the drug industry and everyone connected profit form the prescribing of psychiatric drugs. It's something that people I come across have completely lost sight of. A huge money maker for both psychiatry and the drug industry are the neuroleptic or so called antipsychotic drugs. These expensive drugs are the top revenue producers in the United States topping cholesterol lowing drugs. These brain damaging, brain disabling drugs, the use of which often leads to chronic disability for people labeled with schizophrenia have such a detrimental effect on a persons health that users of those drugs die 25 years earlier on average. Psychiatry, the drug industry and everyone connected profit from that a lot like the tobacco industry profits from its products. Psychiatry and the use of psychiatric drugs is fueling an epidemic of mental illness, read Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic here. It's an industry that doesn't make money on recovery and hope, it makes money on the drug Zyprexa.

11/8/2009 - Link

More Lies

What people are hearing about me is just really vicious slander. It sounds like Mindfreedom International and maybe other groups I've linked to in the past are being slandered as a cult. Mindfreedom is psychiatric consumer/survivor/ex-patient group not connected to the church of Scientology or any other religious group. People might find a wide variety of alternatives like acupuncture, yoga or meditation helpful in dealing with mental health problems, it's each individuals personal choice. Mindfreedom International is a group that's made up of those individuals that advocates for the rights of people with psychiatric labels to make those choices. The same is true of the Freedom Center a really incredible peer support group, there's no link to any cult.

Personally I'm completely non-religious. I have no belief at all in any kind of supernatural being or beings. I have no superstitious or magical beliefs. I don't believe the carrying of a lucky charm, the performance of any kind of ritual or the position of a planet would have any influence at all on any future event. Anything being said to the contrary is just complete and total bullshit.

10/11/2009 - Link

Criminal Insanity

I'm still trying to resolve my situation here in Syracuse. The individuals involved are trying to make too much of gangstalking. Some of the things they might be saying are untrue. It's probably an attempt to make people believe I'm more paranoid about what they're doing than I really am. While I do think what they're doing has a lot in common with what others have described, I don't think anyone is using any kind of electronic harassment devices or anything like that. The fact that there is surveillance, community involvement and someone making accusations that I think has some kind of personality disorder, maybe a narcissistic bully, makes it a lot like what others described.

Things are really simple, any surveillance inside my home is either criminal or tortious. There was never any consent given to anyone ever. I don't want my privacy invaded in any way by anyone any where. If they're breaking the law and they don't understand that they have no right to do what they're doing they're criminally insane. It's that simple.

09/28/2009 - Link

About Any False Police Reports

Anyone saying that I'm violent or out of control or uninsightful is slandering me. If you were to walk up and talk to me you would find that I was as sane and lucid as anyone you know. Things that are being said about my mental health are just vicious slander. I'm fully in control and responsible for everything I do and say. Because of what's being said I'm afraid that someone might falsely report a threat or something else to the police in hopes of having me arrested. I would never threaten anyone, it's something I guarantee would never happen. I have no desire to harm anyone and I don't see any reason at all to be making idle threats against anyone. If there were any reports made in the past they were false ones.

09/21/2009 - Link

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ich wrote: ORLY?

Eric Whalen wrote: Exactly, instead of engaging in a debate or addressing criticisms of psychiatry they just slander you as being brainwashed and having beliefs influenced by a cult.

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