Tag: abuse of APA

Laura Delango Children under the influence of psychiatry

I cried this morning as I thought about the depth of the violations we face as mental patients, especially those of us who were psychiatrized as children and teens. To have psychoactive chemicals coursing through our veins every minute of every day through our most formative years… The years when we’re meant to be figuring out who we are, what our bodies mean and how they work, what we believe in, who and what we’re drawn to, what drives us, what matters… There are no words to describe what this means, what this really means, for not just us in our own individual lives, but for American society. For the entire world. No words.

But let me now say this: though the despair swept over me this morning and I cried for a while, it wasn’t long for the deep faith that churns at the very core of my being to reemerge. For while they may have taken our bodies, our minds, our sexuality, our creativity, our passion and our sense of connection to self and world through our years of psychiatrization– our entire identities, enslaved to them– they never, no matter how hard they may have tried, came close to touching the fire of human spirit that burns in each and every one of us, and it is this– this fire of second chances, of awakening, of perseverance and determination– that fuels the process of healing and reclamation that we are all going through as ex-mental patients, together.

We have many grave doctor-induced physiological injuries to heal from: our guts are shot, our cognition sputtering, our muscles aching and our bodies stuck in fight or flight; the overwhelm and fatigue and terror and angst and panic and despair and numbness and paranoia; all those terrifying moments of feeling possessed or occupied by thoughts and sensations that are strangers to us… There’s no doubt about it: our central nervous systems, these intricate beautiful biologies that forge the seats of our souls, have been gravely harmed by the pharmaceutical bomb of so-called “care”. But we. Will. Heal. We are, already, healing. We will keep healing, until we feel fully settled into the potential for life that they took from us for all those years, but were far too weak to forever hold onto.

I have healed so much, already, nearly six years off. Every day I am blown away by this fact– by the continuous unfoldings of awakening that make themselves known to me day in, day out. I am transformed, and transforming, continuously. I feel powerful, and awake. Sensitized so acutely to life that it sears me with pain as it fills me with joy. And the more I wake up, the more it hurts. I despair, every day, at the fact of what happened to me and to so many of you. What’s happening, as I write these words, to so many millions of our fellows out there.

There’s more healing for my body to do — plenty more, I know, though this is now an exciting instead of daunting fact to think about — and though the dark cloud of pain and despair often moves through me, I always find myself afterwards, on the other side, sitting once again in the bright beautiful awareness that I am coming alive– that we, together, are coming alive, more and more every day. Our bodies are regenerating themselves, right down to every last cell.

To my comrades out there– today, I think especially of those of you who lost your childhood and adolescence to the Mental Health Industry– hang on. Let those clouds of despair and fear sweep over you and move through. Know that that bright beautiful awareness of aliveness is waiting patiently within you, and will emerge in due course, whether five minutes from now or further down the road of time. Together, we are reclaiming our bodies, our minds, and our lives. And together, we are building a future in which growing up and being alive in this world is no longer something to modify or “treat”. A future in which we no longer turn to professionals and pill bottles to navigate our pain, but instead, to each other. We’ve started, already.

Craig Childress PsyD Ready

Here I come. It’s time.

I didn’t do a Coffee talk yesterday because the universe grabbed me and sat me down for the day – I slept all day.

I had work to do, I had a report to finish, and I slept all day because the universe said… sleep.

My dreams are odd these days. I don’t visually dream anymore, I think in a different way. I thought in dream-thoughts yesterday. It’s helpful to understanding things.

I’ll be doing my Coffee talk in a moment. It will be Point 0 on an emerging Line that’s been emerging the entire time.

I’m going to enter the Line and give it life.

I tried to bring our two realities as close as I could in Phase 1 before we entered Phase 2. We’re entering Phase 2 now, so this is as close as the realities get before… it’s just a jump.

Jumps are disruptive. Jumps cause splashes of turbulence. It’s best if we only make small jumps, or even steps (little jumps) in understanding to action.

It remains a pretty big jump from one reality to the coming reality. There will be a significant splash when the rock hits the water. The time for educating you is over. It’s now time to educate them… but that’s not in the plan.

If I have to educate them… they are not competent (violation to 2.01) by demonstrated need to be educated by me.

It’s a double-bind. They can’t remain ignorant (lack of knowledge or information), and they can’t become educated without admitting their prior ignorance that needs to now become educated.

And I’ll be educating them, which means I know and they don’t – acknowledged by their need to be educated by me.

Or they can remain ignorant and I will go after their license for their negligent ignorance and incompetence – violations to Standards 2.04 and 2.01.

They can’t remain where they are – ignorant. They can’t change to become educated without admitting their ignorance.

They can’t change to a clinical diagnostic assessment (the application of the DSM-5) without admitting that their quasi-judicial role for doctors was a complete failure.

We’re not going back to the made-up pathology of PAS. Nor are we remaining with forensic custody evaluations that are a demonstrated failure.

We are returning to established knowledge and established professional practices – diagnosis guides treatment – the diagnostic systems are the DSM-5/ICD-11 of the American Psychiatric Association and World Health Organization.

I’m coming out now. They will – for a fact – have to deal with Dr. Childress. Ignoring Dr. Childress is not going to be an option. I still have plenty of things left to do to turn up the heat on them.

The change back to the DSM-5 is coming – fact. Compliance with the APA ethics code is coming – fact.

I’m here – I’m visible – and I’m both.

If nothing else, they will need to testify in support of their reports and I’ll have them for cross-examination. I’ll also have them in my line-by-line reviews of their reports. No escape, I’m in the courts.

They will be unable to ignore Dr. Childress.

But they can’t engage with the information because the information will destroy them. It’s a double-bind.

What’s going to happen? They will be destroyed.

That’s linear-logical reasoning – if they can’t avoid me and I’m their destruction – then they will be destroyed in their careers.

I’m coming for them. It’s time. I am released.

You parents don’t understand yet because you’re as crazy as they are. Watch.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857

Involuntary Commitment for Substance Use Leads to Relapse

Yep, it’s like jail, with nothing corrected , one returns to what one knows .

The system is broken, no checks , no balances .

Lots of mentally ill in jails and prisons , homeless , dumped due to lack of psychiatric hospitals , poverty , and incorrect treatments , toxic meds that adversely affect mind, body and socially…

So until we treat mind, body , spirit , nutritionally balance them, and give them as much support and faith as possible , we have failed

” mental health ” as we treat “behavioral” health .

A dehydrated individual , can present as ” crazy ” ..alcohol dehydrates , and one can appear drunk , when dehydrated . Thyroid can really throw out vibes of mental illness , and the very medications prescribed can induce what looks like mental illness .

Trauma can be the root cause of what’s labeled mental illness . And labeling can arise when a psychiatrist ignores these facts and laughs off side effects because his book of stats tells him it’s 4 out of a hundred that are adversely affected horrifically , leading to more professionals , more time, more money for treatments .. A pyramid…

It must end ..

It’s co joined twins , Big Pharma $$$$, AMA$$$$,and APA $$$$, and lots in between , termed The Industry of Death , destroying and erasing families, distorting realities , creating customers ..

It is ending ..

A new study found that patients involuntarily committed for substance use disorder relapsed within the first year after release.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/involuntary-commitment-for-substance-use-disorder-leads-to-poor-outcomes/

If you’re the targeted parent – Craig Childress PsyD

What do you do if you’re the targeted parent?

1. Don’t destabilize

You are the healthier parent. You are the protective parent. Don’t rely on the mental health system to see the nature of the problem. You have no support.

You will need to generate the support you need. You are the leader of this family. The child has chosen you for that leadership position by giving you the problem to solve – because the child knows you can solve it.

The family is transitioning from its prior intact family structure to a new separated family structure. The intact family was united by the marriage. The separated family is united by the child’s bonds to both parents.

Divorce ends the marriage, not the family. There will always be a family as long as there is a child.

You will need to take leadership for the family’s transition into a healthy and normal-range separated family following divorce. You are the healthier parent. You are the protective parent.

This is child abuse, we must protect the child. We need you for leadership in that. We then need to generate the professional support you need to protect your child.

2. Don’t Trust Professional Psychology

You must become an informed consumer of mental health services. This is too important for you to be ignorant, lazy, or overwhelmed in your anxieties.

You must understand what is happening at a professional level of understanding. You should NEVER have to explain pathology to a doctor, they should be explaining it to you… but that’s not the case in the family courts with “forensic” psychologists.

That’s an indication of the extraordinarily low quality of the professional services in the family courts when patients are explaining the pathology to the doctors – but that’s what needs to happen because that’s the state of the current situation.

You must work in the broken systems, fixing them, making them work properly. You have everything you need – they are simply not motivated. Holding them accountable to Standards 2.04, 2.01, and 9.01, of the APA ethics code and for their failure in their duty to protect obligations will potentially help them find their motivation.

All mental health professionals have duty to protect obligations. This is child abuse – Child Psychological Abuse DSM-5 V995.51. This is spousal psychological abuse using the child as the weapon – Spouse or Partner Abuse, Psychological DSM-5 V995.82.

Don’t destabilize. Become an informed consumer of mental health services.

3. You want a treatment plan to fix things

This is the WORST possible attachment pathology. The attachment system is the love-and-bonding system of the brain. It is a primary motivational system of the brain developing its patterns for love and bonding during childhood.

There is no worse attachment pathology than a complete breach in the parent-child attachment bond, that is as bad as attachment pathology gets. We need to fix it.

We need a treatment plan to fix it.

Google mental health treatment plans and read the top two returns. Read WikiHow Mental Health Treatment Plans. Become an informed consumer of mental health services.

Know what you should be receiving so you know what you aren’t receiving. You want a treatment plan to fix things.

For that you’ll need an accurate diagnosis for what the problem (pathology) is. The treatment for cancer is different than the treatment for diabetes.

You may need to point that out to the ignorant, incompetent, and unethical forensic psychologists – that the treatment for cancer is different than the treatment for diabetes when they tell you that they “don’t diagnose” pathology.

Then how do you know what to do if you don’t even know what the problem is?

These two sentences mean exactly the same thing, you can use the language interchangeably.

We must first diagnose what the pathology is before we know how to treat it. We must first identify what the problem is before we know how to fix it.

Diagnosis = identify

Pathology = problem

Treatment = fix it

You have a problem. You need to fix it. You want a treatment plan from the mental health professionals to fix the problem. They will first need to identify what that problem is before they can understand how to fix the problem… is it cancer or diabetes?

There are two possibilities. You may need to explain that to the doctor. Either you are causing the problem – OR – the other parent is causing the problem.

Patients educating the doctor about the pathology should NEVER happen… but it needs to happen here because you need to protect your child and the mental health system in the family courts is entirely dysfunctional.

See 2 – don’t trust the mental health system.

4. Find your allies

There are excellent mental health professionals. I’ve worked with them my entire life. They are in clinical psychology working with every other pathology except here in the family courts.

Here in the family courts, you’re the fiefdom of “forensic” psychology and they are the worst imaginable. They are simply here for your money, they solve nothing.

You do not want a forensic custody evaluation. You want a clinical diagnostic assessment.

You will need to go to clinical psychology on the outside of the family court mental health system to obtain the competence you need, and then recruit them back to work with your situation in the family courts.

They will refuse. It’s too dangerous to their license. They have the right to not put their career and livelihood at risk for your situation. We need to make it safe for clinical psychology to return.

We do that by making everything here very organized and structured. We start by bringing Dialectic Behavior Therapy to the family courts (DBT; Linehan). DBT will bring the structure.

DBT will need to be adapted to the family situation in the courts, but the structure of DBT – CBT – Mindfulness – skills instruction – will provide the needed structure for safety to the professionals.

The other group of clinical psychologists who may come to the courts right away are the trauma psychologists working in spousal abuse pathology – Intimate Partner Violence (IPV; “domestic violence”).

The pathology in the family courts is fundamentally a spousal abuse pathology – the emotional and psychological abuse of the ex-spouse using the child as the weapon.

In weaponizing the child for spousal abuse, the pathological parent creates such significant psychopathology in the child that it rises to the level of Child Psychological Abuse (V995.51). But fundamentally, at its core, this is a spousal abuse pathology using the child as the weapon (DSM-5 V995.82 Spouse or Partner Abuse, Psychological).

The IPV therapists may come to the family courts once they see and have a path to solution.

I recommend that everyone look to the DBT therapists. I recommend that targeted dads frame the issue for the DBT therapists from the personality pathology of the ex-spouse (borderline spectrum, expand to the darks). DBT therapists will easily recognize borderline pathology.

I recommend that targeted moms also look to the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) group of therapists, commonly called “domestic violence”.

Professionals use professional constructs for a variety of professional reasons. There are what I call DV-monkeys, mental health professionals caught on a “side” in parallel process. You don’t want these, and they are not looking to help you either. You want the real spousal abuse professionals, they will understand and use IPV as their organizing construct.

IPV has research support. Professionals remain grounded in research not in their passions (counter-transference).

1) Don’t destabilize. You are the protective parent.

2) Don’t trust professional psychology, you must become an informed consumer of mental health services.

3) You want a treatment plan to fix things. Successful treatment depends on an accurate diagnosis. If we treat cancer with insulin, the patient dies from the misdiagnosed cancer.

4) Find your allies in professional competence and recruit back. Look to Dialectic Behavior Therapy. Look to IPV therapists. You have my Mental Health Consultation page on my Consulting Website as a resource link you can provide to mental health professionals.

Doctors should explain pathology to doctors, but they’re not (yet) motivated to learn what they’re doing. So you will need to explain things to them.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857

Psychiatric Diagnosis are not reliable

Duh. My diagnosis was based on Xanax overdoses and trauma

The screening test for depression recommended by the WHO is so poor that for every 100 screened, 36 will get a false diagnosis of depression.

www.madinamerica.com/2023/03/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-5-psychiatric-diagnoses-are-not-reliable-part-two/