Evelyn Pringle Tracks the American Epidemic of Mental Illness

Investigative journalist Evelyn Pringle recently wrote a series of articles tracking the American epidemic of mental illness.

Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part I - The American epidemic of mental illness.

Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part II - Shows how tax dollars are being used to fuel the epidemic of mental illness in America by promoting the preemptive drugging of persons supposedly at risk of developing mental disorders.

Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part III - The psychopharmaceutical industrial complex as the driving force behind the epidemic of mental illness.

Tracking the American Epidemic of Mental Illness - Part IV - Non-profit "patient advocacy" organizations and their role in the American epidemic of mental illness.

06/25/2010 - Link

An Ongoing Situation Here

I still have an ongoing situation here in Syracuse. There might be people slandering me as violent or violence prone or something like that. I'd like to assure everyone that I have no intention or desire to harm myself or anyone else. It's just vicious slander coming from lying cowards. I do think psychiatrists are ridiculous frauds and quacks. Even though I think what I think about psychiatrists I have absolutely no intention or desire to physically harm one. I would resist any form of psychiatric oppression in a completely non-violent way. I will never threaten anyone. Of course I'm completely responsible for everything I do and say.

There's absolutely no consent to any form of surveillance. I'm someone who wants to be left alone. I'm not myself broadcasting over the web or by any other means any audio or video of myself. I've never done so in the past. There's no consent involved in any intrusion into my life. There has to be some kind of personality problem with someone who'd say I consented. It's most likely the same problem behind the malign false accusations.

I'm going to do everything I can to resolve my situation in a peaceful, completely non-violent way. No matter what I'm not going to physically harm or threaten to harm anyone else. I'd be fully responsible for it if I did.

06/11/2010 - Link

Read Between the Lies

I'm being attacked for having a dissident opinion. Most people are way too brainwashed and naive to understand that. Having the opinion that your mental health doesn't revolve around worthless, toxic, brain damaging, brain disabling drugs and the psudoscience behind their use is a dissident opinion. There's no insight connected to psychiatric treatments. There's no insight connected to taking a drug that causes brain dysfunction. There's no insight connected to having your head electrocuted by a quack. There no insight connected to an ice pick dripping with blood except for the insight into the workings of psychiatry itself.

There's almost constant sexual harassment in one form or another. At times it just so immature and outrageous. It's completely uncalled for, I didn't do anything to bring it on myself. Some of it might be connected to false accusations made by someone. I have never done or said anything sexually inappropriate in public, ever. I've never said anything about cunninglingus specifically, either in public or in my apartment. I've made absolutely no comments at all related to cunninglingus specifically. Any associated harassment is immature, inappropriate and completely uncalled for. I'm completely heterosexual, I have no sexual interest at all in other men. Any related harassment is immature and inappropriate and most likely based on fantasies others are having and nothing to do with me.

I have no religious or superstitious beliefs. I have no beliefs connected to ritual magic or any Wiccan or pagan anything. A lot of it sounds like it was concocted and made part of some nutjobs sick malign fantasy world. It's total bullshit, whoever is making accusations like that is stupid and more psychotic than anyone I've ever met before. There's nothing to base those false accusations on. I've never told anyone that I had any beliefs like that. Any accusations like that are coming from some sick paranoid nutjob. I linked to a book called the Golden Bough on this weblog before, the original post isn't online anymore. I linked to that book hoping that readers who were interested would gain a better understanding of scapegoating. That book is also linked to by The Scapegoat Society. I don't have any pagan beliefs connected to it.

They're dehumanizing me, slandering me, making up lies to justify something there's no justification for. They have no right to break the law, they have no right to do anything but leave me alone. I'm a private person minding his own business. I have absolutely no intention or desire to harm myself or anyone else. Anyone saying that I threatened them or that I said something crazy is most likely completely making it up, it was most likely made up out of nowhere. There's continued wrong doing and they're lying about the person they're doing wrong to. There's not much for me to be out of touch with reality about. Reality is that nobody has the right to break the law or do anything but leave me alone.

06/3/2010 - Link

An Interview with Robert Whitaker

Readers who haven't already read Street Spirit's interview with Robert Whitaker should check it out.

04/18/2010 - Link

More Vicious Slander

I'm the target of an ongoing campaign of surveillance, harassment and extremely vicious slander. I have no doubt they're attacking me because I'm now a psychiatric survivor critical of psychiatry and the drug industry. However it might have started, whatever sparked their original interest isn't as relevant to what's going on now as the the mental health related attacks and the associated bullshit and propaganda. I'm someone who would no doubt have been seriously harmed, maybe extremely disabled by psychiatric quackery and fraud. I would consider myself a psychiatric survivor. I withdrew from all psychiatric medications over 4 years ago and went on to make a recovery. I'm now enjoying great physical and mental health despite my situation. That's a big problem for others who can't justify the surveillance and harassment. It's a problem for psychiatry, those quacks need to maintain their genetic brain disease, chemical corrector fraud. Recovery is a problem for quacks who cause pathological changes that they blame on a genetic chemical imbalance.

They have me under surveillance, they know things about me. They know that I drink excessively sometimes and it's not a problem for me or anyone else. They know I withdrew from medication successfully, acquaintances didn't see any change in me. They know I'm healthy, I eat well and that I get plenty of exercise. The things they found out about me are huge problem for psychiatric frauds who want to coerce others into taking their worthless brain damaging, brain disabling drugs. So what they're doing is causing a problem where there wouldn't be one. Defamatory comments about me being violent or violence prone are being made to justify psychiatric coercion. The same thing would be true about any alleged out of control behavior, it's just slander to justify coercion. It's just vicious slander so they can justify taking away my right to make the decisions that led to my recovery and even harming me with the drugs. Psychiatry and the drug industry don't make money on people recovering, they make money on chronic disability and drug dependence. The coercion helps to keep people disabled and dependent.

04/18/2010 - Link

Stupid People and Magical Powers

There are lies being spread about me. I'm completely non-religious, I really don't have an interest in the subject, it's something I rarely think about. If someone asked me I'd tell them I'm completely non-religious. I have no superstitious beliefs, there's absolutely no belief in astrology or anything like that. Anybody claiming that I believe in magical powers or anything like that is completely nuts. Any claim that I believe anything like that is made up, they're most likely stupid things that the person making the false accusations would think. Something that was either read or overheard by the person caused the person to think stupid things that are unrelated to anything I might have thought. Stupid people think stupid things because they're stupid. Someone who might have overheard me talk about a flame war on Usenet might have got the wrong idea for instance. Dum people think dum things. I think they should be kept away from me and made to mind their own business.

04/8/2010 - Link

Please Stop the Lies

I'm being viciously slandered. I have never said or done anything sexually offensive or inappropriate in public, it's never happened in the past and there's no chance it would ever happen in the future. Anyone who even suggests that I might have or that I might some time in the future is just viciously defaming me. They're vicious lies being spread behind my back. The accusations involve something called psychological projection, the fantasies and impulses of the person talking about me are usually in some way part of the story they're telling. I could probably prove the accusations are false by first proving they're the result of projection. Repeating any accusations or suggesting there's the slightest possibility of any inappropriate behavior is malicious.

The slightest suggestion that I might be in need of some kind of psychiatric treatment is vicious slander. It's slander that serves the financial interests of psychiatry and drug industry. I'm someone in excellent physical and mental health. I made informed decisions that lead to a full recovery from past mental health problems while worthless psychiatric parasites are making decisions that are disabling and even killing some of the victims of their fraud. Any suggestion that I might be violent in any way is just more vicious slander. It's slander to justify coercive psychiatry. It's slander to help justify psychiatric violence against me.

04/5/2010 - Link

Schizoid Phantasms

People talking about me are really talking about their own schizoid phantasms. It involves psychological projection and projective identification. People have gone nuts. It's like some kind of witch hunt like group psychosis. Accusations and things being said are based on others own thoughts, fantasies and impulses, there might be qualities people deny in themselves. There are things they think that have nothing to do with me or with my past mental health problems, it's the result of projection.

03/30/2010 - Link

Lies

People are just hearing lies about me. They can confabulate any fantasy they want to about themselves and their innocent victim. They're lies being told behind my back. Not only am I not being given an opportunity to defend myself they're doing everything they can to silence me. They only want people to hear their lies, their confabulated stories, the justifications for their criminal wrongdoing. Eavesdropping on me would be a felony in New York. Anyone engaged in that activity would be a criminal, that's something I'd point out. It's something they should be put in prison for. Individuals involved in a crime are being allowed to confabulate any story they want. They're able to scapegoat their innocent victim who's in no way to blame for their wrongdoing.

They're very obviously lying about my mental health. Lies about my mental health are doing more than just serve the narrow interests of criminals who want to get away with committing a crime. Lies about me help perpetuate the worthless quack fraud of psychiatry. I'm someone who's currently enjoying excellent physical and mental health despite my circumstances. I made an informed decision to discontinue all psychiatric medications over 4 years ago, something that can be safely done. Psychiatry is a medical fraud, they're quacks who claim to correct genetic imbalances or brain diseases with chemical balancers. It's a fraud that psychiatry and big pharma have huge financial interest in perpetuating. Those psychiatric quacks are doing more than defrauding their patients babbling nonsense about chemical imbalances like syphilis ridden medieval charlatans. Psychiatry defrauds everyone claiming it's drugs prevent violence, crime and homelessness when the damage the drugs cause is likely a major contributer. They have to maintain the fraud that they improve the quality of peoples lives with their brain disabling drugs that cause pathological changes in brain structure and function leading to chronic disability. The story of how I safely withdrew from psychiatric drugs over 4 years ago and went on to recover contradicts the quacks fraud and lies. It's not a story the drug industry would make money on. Psychiatry and the drug industry makes money on the barbaric horror of chemical lobotomy. Before you use a drug with such horrific effects you have to stigmatize and dehumanize the victim of your horrific and barbaric fraud. A psychiatrist can then live like some kind of horrific brain damaging parasite prescribing worthless drugs.

There's no justification for what they're doing. What they're doing would still be illegal no matter what kind of wild story about me they confabulate. They are nothing but criminals. They're criminals slandering me behind my back.

03/27/2010 - Link

Civil Rights Conspiracy

It's completely unreal. People are actually openly talking about falsely reporting some kind of incident. They think they can just make up an incident and have me either arrested or harassed by the police. It's incredible. It's actually something I'm kind of prepared for legally. I did a bit a legal research while I was researching Whalen v. City of Syracuse. I will take legal action immediately. There are laws, it's not the first time that type of conspiracy was tried. There would have to be a lot of wrong doing and I'd sue everyone. There will never be any consent to psychiatric treatment ever. Mental hygiene legal services, lawyers who are like criminal defense attorneys for the mentally ill will be involved immediately. Any one falsely reporting something would get sued along with the officers making a false arrest and the City of Syracuse. I'll exhaust every legal and advocacy option avalible to me.

Even suggesting I'm out of control or violent is just vicious slander. It's complete bullshit. I'm completely in control and responsible for everything I say and do, without exception. I have absolutely no desire to harm myself or anyone else. Suggesting that I might is outrageously defamatory.

03/21/2010 - Link

Worthless Drugs

There's a story on Alternet about the prescribing of deadly psychiatric drug cocktails to treat PTSD and the death of Sgt. Eric Layne. Eric Layne died while taking Seroquel, a drug originally approved for use in treating schizophrenia with Paxil and Klonopin. What I want to point out is how psychiatry is using drugs like Seroquel, a drug approved for schizophrenia to treat PTSD. Is the same chemical imbalance being corrected in both schizophrenia and PTSD? The answer is no, that's why I hate calling neuroleptic drugs like Seroquel antipsychotics. They're anti-anything. Janette Layne, Sgt. Eric Layne's widow testified at an FDA hearing on whether or not to approve the drug as a treatment for depression, there she testified that:

"In summer of 2007, he began taking Klonopin and Seroquel. He ate excessively and would fall asleep with food in his mouth. He had tremors and was extremely lethargic. His speech was slurred to the point I couldn't tell what he was saying. Eric did not have any of these problems before he took these medications."

You might ask yourself, how was Sgt. Eric Layne helped with his PTSD? That description of him should give you some idea. His death was really tragic. What's makes it more tragic is that it likely resulted from the combined toxicity of worthless drugs.

03/20/2010 - Link

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

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