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Thanks for your trigger warning. I did not read your message. I am replying notwithstanding. I actually had to write this in a different application because

Thanks for your trigger warning. I did not read your message. I am replying notwithstanding. I actually had to write this in a different application because when I tried replying to your comment, I couldn't actually hide it from view, and I saw the words 'special interests' and others, couldn't resize the window right, so opened another app to write. Dude so in Chile, most of the world, a guardian can pay a shrink (a malpracticing psychiatrist, that's what that means) $400.000 (like $500) and he or she will 100% accuse him of any condition desired. Will. In United States the price is higher, depends on the state, basically on the chance of getting caught, and good psychs will just refuse. But they won't turn the guardian in, the good psychs are not in charge, the shrinks are in charge (like the Sacklers, being a shrink can make you a billionaire[1]). But a shrink can diagnose bipolar, schizophrenia, cannot take care of himself, retardation[2], what are the others...autism...paranoia...early-onset dementia...um...I read so many books about these things, why am I having a hard time rattling them all off...but at any rate, these are not diagnoses. They are also accusations. If false and public, they are slander. They justify harm, you can justify brain surgery, like a lobotomy but with better marketing. Same as an accusation can justify harm, putting someone in prison. And turns out, they all make the pretense of being scientific, but none of them are falsifiable (you have no way of proving them false), so why bother calling psychs who use them doctors if they're not even scientists? (Psychs is a more neutral term than shrink, psychiatrist is too big a word, takes too long to say, and means 'attendant of the soul' which is innacurate.) And there are some great psychs. Just a minority by design. [1] If you actually do the math, the three Sackler brothers are each a trillionaire debtor because that's the poverty value of the suffering they inflicted. Thousands of 13th amendment violations, making people addicts means making them slaves, they made hundreds of thousands of Americans slaves. Just through psychiatric malpractice, by definition being a shrink. [2] This one is dangerous because if you diagnose retardation and the retard gets the best score in the country on the SAT, you might not look so smart yourself.

psyc 5y ago
So my mother did this to me once. She didn't pay him - he was a friend from her church. He committed me as a favor to her. I was actually in a pretty good place at that time mood-wise. 100% not a danger to self / others. But she thought it a clever way to get me gone without the guilt of putting me on the street. Neither said a word beforehand. Surprise! The feeling of betrayal was indescribable. They held me for a miserable month. The justification given by the hospital doc was I "Didn't have a plan." That last bit can be good or bad depending on their assessment of your plans. yes, I'm fortunate to have a very good doc now. I've had a few decent ones. Most could be replaced by a kiosk - take a quiz, dispense Big Pharma pills.
- robocat 5y ago
  > The justification given by the hospital doc was I "Didn't have a plan." Can you give more context? Generally if someone is suicidal, “having a plan” is not a good thing, because it is beyond a vague intent, and it is a very strong signal of danger. Depressed people are queried about plans to help judge the possibility of suicide: you imply that was the risk that your mother was worried about.
  - psyc 5y ago
    A plan for where I would go after and how I would support myself. I wasn’t suicidal. My mother was annoyed that I was living at home without a job.
    - psyc 5y ago
      As for why she didn’t want me around, I’ll let Alanis Morrissette explain: “You reminded her so much of your father, so you were banished. And you wonder why you’re so hypersensitive and why you can’t trust anyone but us.”
  - daniel-cussen 5y ago
    That's the chink in the armor right there, you're being super assumptive about his mother saying she was worried when obviously "you" have never met her. He's known her his whole life you get your impression of her from him and you think you know more about her than he does? Most charitable interpretation of what you said: her soul can be compressed down to a hundred bytes. That says everything.
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
  Yeah good docs aren't as incredibly rare as they seem from the wards, which they're not allowed into under "fuck the law" terms. Weird that they exist, I've had so many. Of course a good psych is like finding a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk, whereas a shrink is getting mugged. They don't have the same absolute value.
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
77pt77 5y ago
> and good psychs will just refuse. But they won't turn the guardian in This. And then they'll just try another one. Eventually one accepts the bribe and then it's set in stone because EVERY other professional will demand to read the previous "diagnosis" and they'll almost never deviate. Just imagine if when you went for a second opinion on your radiology exams the new doctor demanded to know the previous diagnosis before making his own. You'd laugh out loud because of the bias. In psych fields it's considered the default and not doing it might actually be considered malpractice.
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
  Yeah so the shrinks, like Ximena Rojas Núñez, who verbally apologized for malpractice when caught (I just can't protect the guilty if it's easier to name them than not, some are actually worth some respect, not her, she was just embarrassingly stupid), so her, from the very beginning was informing about me looking for a second opinion, like fucking Daniel Cussen twitter. Had to show a different, superior doctor like ten pages of confessions for him to consider I was in the right. And that's why I talk about this all publicly, I care a lot about my privacy and THEREFORE I share this, so that it isn't known exclusively by the people I hate the most, by traitors of patients. Privacy isn't nobody knowing your secrets, well obviously it is but at this point that's a fantasy. Says right on the box cryptography is about forcing the government [or anybody else] to torture you. Beyond that point? Cryptography is useless. In fact I used 1Password diligently before, during and after getting tortured, back in 2009. Really liked the app, good placebo. Didn't add up to shit, and it's not their fault. I voided the warranty. So you divulge. If the worst people know your secrets, share your secrets. That actually increases your privacy. And it's the perviest thing, they think slandering me will ensure my silence, well it did for a long time, but come on. What is the solution? Literal Daniel Cussen twitter.
  - 77pt77 5y ago
    Do you have any posts describing your ordeals in 2009?
    - 5y ago

psyc 5y ago

So my mother did this to me once. She didn't pay him - he was a friend from her church. He committed me as a favor to her. I was actually in a pretty good place at that time mood-wise. 100% not a danger to self / others. But she thought it a clever way to get me gone without the guilt of putting me on the street. Neither said a word beforehand. Surprise! The feeling of betrayal was indescribable. They held me for a miserable month. The justification given by the hospital doc was I "Didn't have a plan." That last bit can be good or bad depending on their assessment of your plans. yes, I'm fortunate to have a very good doc now. I've had a few decent ones. Most could be replaced by a kiosk - take a quiz, dispense Big Pharma pills.

robocat 5y ago
> The justification given by the hospital doc was I "Didn't have a plan." Can you give more context? Generally if someone is suicidal, “having a plan” is not a good thing, because it is beyond a vague intent, and it is a very strong signal of danger. Depressed people are queried about plans to help judge the possibility of suicide: you imply that was the risk that your mother was worried about.
- psyc 5y ago
  A plan for where I would go after and how I would support myself. I wasn’t suicidal. My mother was annoyed that I was living at home without a job.
  - psyc 5y ago
    As for why she didn’t want me around, I’ll let Alanis Morrissette explain: “You reminded her so much of your father, so you were banished. And you wonder why you’re so hypersensitive and why you can’t trust anyone but us.”
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
  That's the chink in the armor right there, you're being super assumptive about his mother saying she was worried when obviously "you" have never met her. He's known her his whole life you get your impression of her from him and you think you know more about her than he does? Most charitable interpretation of what you said: her soul can be compressed down to a hundred bytes. That says everything.
daniel-cussen 5y ago
Yeah good docs aren't as incredibly rare as they seem from the wards, which they're not allowed into under "fuck the law" terms. Weird that they exist, I've had so many. Of course a good psych is like finding a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk, whereas a shrink is getting mugged. They don't have the same absolute value.
daniel-cussen 5y ago

77pt77 5y ago

> and good psychs will just refuse. But they won't turn the guardian in This. And then they'll just try another one. Eventually one accepts the bribe and then it's set in stone because EVERY other professional will demand to read the previous "diagnosis" and they'll almost never deviate. Just imagine if when you went for a second opinion on your radiology exams the new doctor demanded to know the previous diagnosis before making his own. You'd laugh out loud because of the bias. In psych fields it's considered the default and not doing it might actually be considered malpractice.

daniel-cussen 5y ago
Yeah so the shrinks, like Ximena Rojas Núñez, who verbally apologized for malpractice when caught (I just can't protect the guilty if it's easier to name them than not, some are actually worth some respect, not her, she was just embarrassingly stupid), so her, from the very beginning was informing about me looking for a second opinion, like fucking Daniel Cussen twitter. Had to show a different, superior doctor like ten pages of confessions for him to consider I was in the right. And that's why I talk about this all publicly, I care a lot about my privacy and THEREFORE I share this, so that it isn't known exclusively by the people I hate the most, by traitors of patients. Privacy isn't nobody knowing your secrets, well obviously it is but at this point that's a fantasy. Says right on the box cryptography is about forcing the government [or anybody else] to torture you. Beyond that point? Cryptography is useless. In fact I used 1Password diligently before, during and after getting tortured, back in 2009. Really liked the app, good placebo. Didn't add up to shit, and it's not their fault. I voided the warranty. So you divulge. If the worst people know your secrets, share your secrets. That actually increases your privacy. And it's the perviest thing, they think slandering me will ensure my silence, well it did for a long time, but come on. What is the solution? Literal Daniel Cussen twitter.
- 77pt77 5y ago
  Do you have any posts describing your ordeals in 2009?
  - 5y ago