Tag: trauma

Toxic Responsibility: Sherrie Campbell PhD

Pathologically selfish people prey on those of us who love to help other people. They prey on us as a matter of responsibility. Toxic people despise being responsible for themselves, so they choose people who they can manipulate into being responsible for them. This way, if anything goes wrong, they have you or someone else to blame.

Protect your heart. Protect your time and energy. It is not wise to be helpful to just anyone. If you put yourself in this position to help anyone who needs your help, you often set yourself up to be used, abused, and blamed.

Most healthy people do all they can to take full responsibility for themselves before they reach out to others for help. Toxic people do not attempt any level of responsibility, they pawn it off on those who love to help.

It is unwise to make yourself responsible for others. Not only does it stunt another person’s growth, but you exhaust yourself trying to satisfy the unsatisfiable. Hold the mindset that the healthiest and most loving thing you can do to help someone is allow them to take responsibility for themselves.

Childress on persecution delusion ie parental alienation /ChildAbuse

From Bernet (2020): “A good generic definition for PA is the following: a mental condition in which…”

According to Dr. Bernet, his “parental alienation” construct is a “mental condition” that exists within a person.

It is not a relational process in the family, it is “mental condition” someone has – you have “parental alienation” like you would have Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, you have a “mental condition” of “parental alienation”.

According to Dr. Bernet, “parental alienation” is not a parent-child relationship process, it is a thing someone has – you have a mental condition of “parental alienation”, it is not a relational process between two people according to this definition.

According to Dr. Bernet, “parental alienation” exists only within one person, it is the “mental condition” of that person. Which person has the “mental condition” of “parental alienation”, the parent or the child?

Does the parent start with the mental condition of “parental alienation” and then give this “mental condition” to the child, or does the child independently develop the “mental condition” of “parental alienation”?

The parent is clearly transmitting the “mental condition” to the child, to form a shared “mental condition.”

What is that shared “mental condition”? It is a fixed and false belief in supposed “victimization”, i.e., it is a shared delusional disorder.

The “mental condition” is called a persecutory delusion. When the parent induces the persecutory delusion in the child, it becomes a shared delusional disorder.

There is no such thing as “parental alienation” – it is an encapsulated shared persecutory delusion (Childress, 2015). Dr. Bernet is simply an abysmal diagnostician.

I’m barely into my line-by-line review of his “five-factor” model and already it’s just PAS with lipstick, and he’s just identified the shared persecutory delusion – “parental alienation” is a mental condition (not a relational process).

Therefore, “parental alienation” exists in the person as a mental condition. What is that mental condition? A fixed and false belief that the child is being malevolently treated in some way by the targeted parent.

That is a persecutory delusion.

From the APS: “Persecutory Type: delusions that the person (or someone to whom the person is close) is being malevolently treated in some way.

That is the “mental condition” of a persecutory delusion. That is the “mental condition” of the parent, that is the “mental condition” of the child. The pathology is a shared persecutory delusion (Childress, 2015), as described in the journal Family Court Review by Walters and Friedlander (2016),

From Walters & Friedlander: “In some RRD families [resist-refuse dynamic], a parent’s underlying encapsulated delusion about the other parent is at the root of the intractability (cf. Johnston & Campbell, 1988, p. 53ff; Childress, 2013). An encapsulated delusion is a fixed, circumscribed belief that persists over time and is not altered by evidence of the inaccuracy of the belief.” (Walters & Friedlander, 2016, p. 426)

From Walters & Friedlander: “When alienation is the predominant factor in the RRD [resist-refuse dynamic}, the theme of the favored parent’s fixed delusion often is that the rejected parent is sexually, physically, and/or emotionally abusing the child. The child may come to share the parent’s encapsulated delusion and to regard the beliefs as his/her own (cf. Childress, 2013).” (Walters & Friedlander, 2016, p. 426)

Walters, M. G., & Friedlander, S. (2016). When a child rejects a parent: Working with the intractable resist/refuse dynamic. Family Court Review, 54(3), 424–445.

There is no such thing as “parental alienation” and the use of that construct in a professional capacity is substantially beneath professional standards of practice and is in violation of Standard 2.04 Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments of the APA ethics code.

The pathology is an encapsulated shared persecutory delusion. The assessment for delusional thought disorder pathology is a Mental Status Exam of thought and perception.

That is the mental healthcare information that Dr. Bernet should be dispensing to the public – not psychiatric misinformation based on rejected models of diagnosis and pathology.

Dr. Bernet rejects the diagnostic guidance of the American Psychiatric Association. He thinks he knows more than they do. He thinks he’s right and the American Psychiatric Association is wrong.

No… Dr. Bernet is wrong and the American Psychiatric Association is right – there is no such diagnostic pathology as “parental alienation” – the pathology in the family courts is a shared persecutory delusion (Childress, 2015; Walters & Friedlander, 2016).

Dr. Bernet rejects the ethical guidance of the American Psychological Association, he thinks standards of ethical practice don’t apply to him.

No, he’s wrong. Ethical standards of practice are not optional, and no doctors are exempt from their ethical obligations to their patients to provide the most accurate healthcare information possible to their patients.

Healthcare information from the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline. The “mental condition” is an shared persecutory delusion (Childress, 2015; Walters & Friedlander, 2016).

Line… by… line…

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

Delusional Distorted Disorder ~ Childress

I have two questions for you:

Q1: What happens when you’re a sane person surrounded by people in a shared delusional disorder?

Q2: Am I talking about the family courts or our current political surround?

It’s called parallel process. It’s because they are both from the same pathology, the collapse of narcissistic personality pathology into persecutory delusions (Millon, 2011)

A show of hands, is my first question about the family courts or about our political surround? One… two… keep your hands up… three… Okay, wait, maybe this will be easier. All of you who think Q1 is about you in the family courts, go stand in that corner, and all of you who think it’s about our political surround, go stand over there, that’ll make it easier.

It’s called parallel process – if you have the eyes to see.

Forensic psychology and Gardner’s PAS were created by the pathology – they are symptom features of the pathology.

Take a deep breath, we’re going the next level in. There is a reason I refer to it as a pathogen. It operates like a virus of the mind. It’s in our attachment networks, from unresolved childhood trauma. The attachment system is a motivational system.

This pathogen (damaged information structures) has access to our motivational networks. It has motivational control of us.

You’re unique here. You have your own “special” psychologists just for you… who specifically do NOT diagnose or treat pathology. Curious.

You’re given a diagnosis to achieve by one man, a Richard Gardner back in 1985 – PAS – that’s not really an actual diagnosis, which has no treatment, and which has to be proven to a judge at trial – the hardest thing possible to do. Curious.

It’s a shared delusional disorder. Why don’t you simply diagnose the pathology with real diagnoses? Curious.

We are returning to the established scientific and professional knowledge of the discipline. We are going to accurately diagnose the pathology in the family courts, and we are going to fix the pathology in the family with effective treatment.

This is child abuse. If you believe the shared delusion, you become part of the shared delusion, you are part of the pathology. When that pathology is child abuse, you are part of the child abuse, you are the child abuser.

This was an attempted coup, the overthrow of American democracy. If you believe the shared delusion, you become part of the shared delusion, you become part of the overthrow of American democracy, you become a traitor to America.

Q1: What happens when your a sane person surrounded by people in a shared delusional disorder?

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

Epidemic of HateCrimesAgainstWomen&Girls

thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/15/The-Ignored-Epidemic-Hate-Crimes-Against-Women-Girls/

Funded Landlords Repair Raise Rent

$650 2020.

$1000 currently

Minimum Surface renovation

I was evicted , very weakened by a high conflict 3 year rental that was very toxic .

Homelessness did not afford me catch up physically nor finically.

New laws and suspected legal representatives who take this as unworthy of being heard and further the abuses deserve factual education.

Conflicts do exist but pass in this small town. The very obvious denial by one department who failed on several levels with several request for help that was theirs to determine.

thetyee.ca/News/2022/07/15/To-Fund-Repairs-BC-Landlords-Raise-Rent/