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Military Suicides -Sexual trauma – Survivors reality

Newly published research in the journal Psychology of Violence highlights how stigma against reporting sexual assault in the military leads to heightened suicidal ideation amongst military sexual trauma (MST) women survivors.

The results of this cross-sectional, convenient-sampled study suggest that both self-stigma and anticipated enacted stigma from unit leaders for seeking help for MST were associated with suicidal ideation.

Military sexual trauma can be “instances of unwanted sexual attention and pressure, as well as threatened or actual sexual assault, during military service.” Statistics suggest an alarming prevalence of MST, with one out of every three veterans (33%) and one out of every twelve (8.4%) actively serving military personnel reporting MST.

The study authors, led by psychologist Rebecca Blais, draw attention to the severity of this issue:

“Those who experience MST are at elevated risk for a broad range of mental health, physical health, and adverse psychosocial outcomes, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, alcohol misuse, and sexual dysfunction…Additionally, women MST survivors are more likely to experience suicidal ideation … suicide attempts … and suicide mortality.”

Stigma and Expected Retaliation Drive Suicide Among Military Sexual Trauma Survivors

www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/stigma-and-expected-retaliation-drive-suicide-among-military-sexual-trauma-survivors/

ECT does not prevent Suicide- Mad in America

A new study challenges the notion that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can prevent suicide. The researchers found that after receiving ECT, patients were still almost 45 times more likely to die by suicide than people in the general population.

“The 2-year suicide risk of patients having received treatment with ECT is highly elevated compared with sex- and age-matched individuals from the general population,” the researchers write.

However, they add, this extremely high rate of suicide after a treatment that is supposedly very effective for suicide prevention is “to be expected considering the severity of the mental disorders treated with ECT.” Despite this conclusion, the researchers did not actually obtain any data about the severity of the mental health symptoms of the patients in the current study.

Another important finding was that the risk of dying by suicide was especially elevated for people who were already suicidal—the target demographic for ECT. The researchers note that people who had a history of suicide attempts or self-harm were more than four times as likely to die by suicide than those who received ECT without that history. This indicates that ECT does not have a special suicide prevention effect for the people most at risk, either.

ECT is a controversial procedure that involves electrocuting the brain to induce seizures deliberately. There is no consensus on how this might reduce mental health problems. The procedure results in adverse cognitive effects that can last for months or even years, including persistent memory loss in over a third of patients.

ECT Does Not Seem to Prevent Suicide

www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/ect-does-not-seem-to-prevent-suicide/

Think About it -Mad in America

We’re Obsessed with Labelling Suffering, But Our Power to Think about it Matters More

By Charlotte Beale

A psychiatrist once told me my depression was partly due to low blood sugar. In retrospect, I needed Kierkegaard and Freud; she prescribed cereal bars. My despair, to her, was an imbalance to be corrected, rather than a relationship with the world—a relationship explored in a rich and serious literature, from philosophy to novels, and a relationship which meant I was alive, excruciatingly so.www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/obsessed-labelling-suffering/

Human Magnet

The Earth’s Magnetic Field and Consciousness

The magnetic field of earth is involved in a perturbation or morphing. This is taking place interdimensionally, and the net effect is incremental surges in amplitude or strength of the magnetic field. This morphing of earth’s magnetic field is like a wave that rises and falls very quickly, and the oscillations are minute, but distinct. This is having a very strange effect upon human consciousness, specifically your biological experience. Many people are experiencing an increase of exhaustion and weariness. (these symptoms are also caused by movements of energies from deep space as they pass through your galaxy and your solar system.)

But this (perturbation) is of a different category. This is caused by the magnetic field itself, which is responding to the deep energies from space. It is a response of the molten core of your earth itself; and the magnetic field is having a conversation with the cosmos, if you wish to think of it in this metaphorical way. Now, your science does not view things in this manner, but from our perspective the magnetic field is having a conversation with these cosmic visitors, the energies from deep space, which are, by nature, catalysts for spiritual evolution.

Another set of symptoms directly related to the perturbations of your magnetic field are distinct changes in how you hold short term memory—because memory is a function of the magnetics of your own nervous system and that of earth. Your brain processes information through the minute gravitational and non-gravitational fields of it’s own structure and it is affected directly by fluctuations in the earth’s magnetic field. And so you can expect an increase in short term memory anomalies. You may find yourself speaking a sentence and suddenly the words do not come to you or you mix up the words from their normal syntax. While in some cases this is the sign of a brain disorder, you will find this happening within the general populace at an increasing rate. Escalations in collective short-term memory glitches will lead humanity to a most novel situation. This situation is an opportunity or a curse, depending on how you work with it.

The opportunity is to see through the mental matrix of your own creation. What we mean by this is when your mind is unable to continue its story line in the ways it is used to, you have an opportunity to glimpse the realities behind the curtain (of perception). You are the ones who have created the curtain, and you have done this to keep yourselves separated from things you do not wish to see or experience directly, or in some cases what others do not wish you to see or experience directly. We refer here to the unseen manipulators of your collective reality—those who hold the economic and political reins of power.

We have said before that there are forces on your planet that actively resist the impulse for spiritual evolution. They are invested in continuing their lies through the misappropriation of information in order to control you. Their job is getting more difficult.

Their job is getting more difficult because the perturbation of the magnetic field creates gaps in the creation of mental realities projected by the human mind. They – meaning those who wish to control and manipulate you – have vast resources at their command, and they are employing every one of them. But they cannot control the magnetic field of the earth! And for this, you should give thanks.

The impulse that is affecting the magnetic field of the earth comes from far beyond their locus of influence. It is our expectation, based upon our understanding of hyper-dimensional physics, that the perturbations of your magnetic field are going to increase over the next several years. Those of you who are sensitive energetically are the ones feeling this most intensely at the present moment, but we suspect that in the next two to three years most people will be affected by this in a way they are consciously aware of, even if they do not know why.

We have a couple of suggestions for dealing with the situation.

Our first suggestion is the easiest. It involves understanding your connection to the core of the earth itself. As an energetic being, in addition to your flesh and blood, you can form a conscious energetic relationship with the core of the earth.

This understanding, or orientation, is that you are immersed in and surrounded by, earth’s magnetic field. By going into mental resonance with the core of the earth (the generator of earth’s magnetic field), you become energetically stabilized. The earth, as a conscious being, can reveal herself to you in ways that are difficult to describe because your culture does not have a language for this. And you have been manipulated and controlled to insure that you do not have an awareness of this, for it could be one of your greatest strengths.

By entering into resonance with the core of the earth you become more conscious of the earth as a living conscious being. Through this link, you receive a type of energetic-solidity—even in the midst of earth’s increasing chaos.

The odd thing about it, however, is that when you bring yourself to your senses, so to speak, you are less controllable, less “manipulatable” by those forces that control the thought stream of humanity through miss-information, manipulation and mind-control.

In other words, forming a direct conscious relationship with the earth’s core bypasses many of the affects of what we call life-negative technologies.

If you wish to do something in addition to entering into mental resonance with the core of the earth, we suggest using your pranic tube, a subtle energetic channel that runs from above your head, through the center of your body, and into the earth. This tube, this channel, can be extended deep into the earth, down into the very core itself, and also above the head deep into space. In this method you are not dealing with extending the channel beyond the top of the head. Instead, you only extend the channel into the core of the earth.

But the essential thing is not so much the sending of this channel into the earth. The essential thing is to understand that you are in resonance with the core of the earth simply by knowing it. This will impart a sense of stability even in the midst of increasing chaos. It will awaken your senses. It will bring you into greater conscious relationship to earth. And we must caution you that it will also de-hypnotize you—make you less controllable. And you will see through the lies around you more clearly!

The second suggestion involves developing a conscious relationship to the core of the galaxy.

Essentially, understand that you can be in resonance with the core of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a black hole, and that in similar ways to being in resonance with the core of the earth, you can become stabilized in relationship to the galaxy.

If you are capable of this, simply hearing this described to you will activate the knowingness of how to do it. It is not a complex affair. It is quite simple but requires the understanding that a part of you is not limited by the time and space coordinates of your physical body.

It requires an understanding that consciousness can extend instantaneously, anywhere in time and space, and by extending your consciousness to the galactic core, you are stabilized in relationship to the galaxy.

The ideal is to be in relationship to earth’s core and the core of the galaxy simultaneously.

Then you will be able to ride the waves of energy from deep space with a greater degree of mastery.

But, again, we caution you that this will make you less controllable, harder to hypnotize, and then you may have the very odd experience of waking up while many around you are still asleep. What you do with this awareness is, of course, your choice and your response-ability.

By Tom Kenyon ❤️ tomkenyon.com

Surrender Control – Death to old Negatives to Live

“February Midway Point:

DNA 1-6 Strands Upgrade”

By Samantha Orthlieb

After 16 M-class solar flares in

the last 3 days, and an X – CLASS Solar flare (strongest kind), we are being completely rearranged cellularly, mentally, emotionally and physically. Here are the highlights of this DNA upgrade thus far:

If you had any doubt in your divine talents that are arising in you, know that by the time this upgrade is over, you will be more firmly in your authentic self and feel stronger in your core.

You will see more clearly and be able to channel higher awareness, have more intuitive hits and feel that you are spiritually expanding.

If you are feeling the urge to express yourself differently, hone any current earthly talents, expand your intuition, create a new adventure and take more risks, then do it!

Deep trauma and wounds that kept you from shining your inner Light are dissolving and healing at a rapid pace. So you may be intensely grieving, feeling fearful of the future, reviewing the past, feeling anxious, wondering when good things will happen or when things will change – do not give up! All is happening in Divine Timing. Your heart is healing and opening more to receive.

We are learning to surrender control and move with the flow of the universe. This allows us to access the Abundance Timeline.

Oneness is anchored in you, so you may have the urge to create your life differently, to live radically, to stand firmly in your own beliefs and value system, and to act on your inner promptings.

Your brain is shifting to a holistic view, without duality and separation.

This is the way of the Empowered Rebel Archetype that is anchoring into the collective consciousness by the 777 Gateway.

So listen to any messages you are getting to improve yourself and your life. Stretch your comfort zone!

You have a choice as to how you work with the influx of new coding – either you can choose doubt and fear or you can choose trust and faith.

You have a choice as to whether you are a victim or open up to uncertainty and be empowered to create your life.

When we trust, have faith and lean into life with an open and loving heart then we naturally pull in what we need to attract the people, the opportunities and teaching that will help us succeed on our life mission.

And so it is!💜⭐️✨🌀

Love Samantha

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Living Together – Mad in America

Living Together – With More Resilience and Less Medication

By Moyu Watari-Alvarez

Today it is incredible to me how far antipsychotics artificially made me unable to judge or act. It was as though I was robbed of my ego and thus dehumanized. And yet my psychiatrists at that time told me I was healthy and the antipsychotics were good for me. Good for me? Or did they mean good for them, because I was compliant and easy to care for?

www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/living-together-resilience-less-medication/

Knowledge immensely dangerous to ignorance – Craig Childress PsyD

I’m a clinical psychologist in forensic psychology world. That’s very dangerous for me. That’s very dangerous for them. Court-involved psychology world is entering a dangerous time.

Times of change are like that.

The pathogen thought it had gotten rid of all us clinical psychologists, and it did. I tripped. I was curious and oops, I fell down the rabbit hole. Once I saw I couldn’t leave.

I have duty to protect obligations, and I’m a trauma psychologist out of foster care. This is my pathology – child abuse. I was headed a different direction but I changed direction and I stayed here. I am treating the trauma being created by the forensic psychologists.

Weird, right? A clinical psychologist is in the family courts treating the trauma being created by another group of psychologists, the forensic psychologists. Weird world, but true.

You’ve been abandoned by clinical psychology. I’m sorry, that shouldn’t have happened. It did. We need to fix that. Once I saw, I remained until we could get you and your kids safe. That’s what clinical psychologists do – we go where the pain is and we remain there – helping.

You were abandoned by clinical psychology. I’m a clinical psychologist. I’m not going to abandon you, I’m here now. We need to fix things.

We’re not there yet – but we’re getting there. The pathogen was well-entrenched with many allies. We will be exposing the pathogen. We will be exposing its allies.

We are not stopping until the pathology in the family courts is solved. We never abandon a single child to child abuse – not one. We’re going to fix what’s broken, and there’s a lot broken – so we’re going to fix a lot.

It’s easy. We just need to do things differently. We need to start doing the fixing things instead of the broken things. If we just keep doing the broken things over-and-over, nothing gets fixed.

We need to do things differently. We need to do the fixing things.

Diagnosis means identify
Pathology means problem
Treatment means fix it

You want a treatment plan to fix the problem in your family. To develop a treatment plan to fix the problem, you will first need to identify what the problem is – the treatment for cancer is different than the treatment for diabetes.

What is the diagnosis for the problem in the family?

A child rejecting a parent is an attachment pathology, a problem in the love-and-bonding system of the brain. The differential diagnosis for severe attachment pathology is child abuse by one parent or the other.

1) Is the targeted parent abusing the child, thereby creating the child’s attachment pathology toward that parent?

2) Or is the allied parent psychologically abusing the child by created a shared persecutory delusion and false attachment pathology in the child?

Diagnosis guides treatment. The treatment for child abuse by the targeted parent is different than the treatment for child psychological abuse by the allied parent. What is the diagnosis?

An accurate diagnosis is crucial with child abuse.

If you believe a shared delusion, you become PART of the shared delusion, you become part of the pathology. When that pathology is psychological child abuse, you become part of the child abuse, you, the mental health person, become the child abuser.

In all cases of court-involved custody conflict involving attachment pathology displayed by the child, a proper risk assessment for possible child abuse needs to be conducted to the appropriate differential diagnosis for each parent.

All.

The assessment for a delusional thought disorder is a Mental Status Exam of thought and perception. Google negligence: failure to take proper care in doing something.

Are the opinions contained in their recommendations, reports, diagnostic and evaluative statements, including their forensic testimony, based on information and techniques sufficient to substantiate their findings?

9.01 Bases for Assessments
(a) Psychologists base the opinions contained in their recommendations, reports, and diagnostic or evaluative statements, including forensic testimony, on information and techniques sufficient to substantiate their findings. (See also Standard 2.04, Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments.)

The APA ethics code says what it says, and the APA ethics code is mandatory – required. Note the citation in Standard 9.01 to Standard 2.04.

Was the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline applied as the bases for their professional judgments?

Did they apply the knowledge? 2.04

Do they know the knowledge? 2.01

If they do not know and did not apply the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline as the bases for their professional judgments, then the opinions contained in their recommendations, reports, and diagnostic or evaluative statements, including forensic testimony, are NOT based on information and techniques sufficient to substantiate their findings.

The established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline required for application is:

• Attachment – Bowlby and others
• Family systems therapy – Bowen and others
• Personality disorders – Millon and others
• Complex trauma – van der Kolk and others
• Child development – Tronick and others
• Self psychology – Kohut and others
• DSM-5 diagnostic system – American Psychiatric Association

They are not allowed to be incompetent. But they are. That needs to end. The patient should NEVER have to educate the doctor about pathology – they should already know.

The APA ethics code says what it says. They have obligations.

Where are the licensing boards enforcing ethical standard of practice in forensic psychology? Nowhere to be seen. Why is that?

The pathogen and its allies are dangerous to me. I have made you dangerous to the pathogen and its allies in return. Knowledge is immensely dangerous to ignorance.

You need to be empowered to protect your children. Knowledge is power. You be safe. Have a plan. Be centered. Do the right thing, let outcomes take care of themselves.

What’s the right thing to do? I dunno. I just know how to find that path for me.

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