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Schizophrenia in the News, V 2, March 21-27, 2022.
21 March, Law Times, "Ontario court affirms decision finding schizophrenic patient incapable of giving informed consent ," Katrina Eñano.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice affirmed a board decision to find a patient incapable of giving informed consent due to his SZ.
"In T.S. v. Moise, 2022 ONSC 1553, the respondent, a psychiatrist, diagnosed the appellant with schizophrenia in 2003. He has been treating the appellant for 15 years. In 2019, the police brought the appellant to the Ottawa Hospital and admitted him under the respondent’s care because his wife had already become fearful of his behaviour.
The appellant’s wife reported that the appellant talked to himself, ignored his personal hygiene, strangely swore at her, displayed anger, and planned to cancel an appointment with a specialist regarding his Crohn’s disease. After assessing the appellant, the respondent certified him as an involuntary patient and found him incapable of consenting to treatment with antipsychotic medication.
The appellant requested that the Consent and Capacity Board review the respondent’s finding. The board sided with the respondent. The appellant then appealed from the board decision before the Superior Court, alleging that the board committed an error in upholding the respondent’s finding of incapacity.
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“Since the appellant discontinued treatment, he had not showered in months, had trouble sleeping, had decreased energy, and was unable to feel pleasure when using his computer,” the court said."
https://www.lawtimesnews.com/practice-areas/medical-malpractice/ontario-court-affirms-decision-finding-schizophrenic-patient-incapable-of-giving-informed-consent/365095
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CBS 19, 21 March 2022, "Sister of East Texas man convicted of killing DPS trooper discusses veterans' mental health issues," Mariah Conduff.
"LaNell Brown, older sister to Dabrett Black, advocates for veterans' mental health. Brown said Black told her he was a truck driver in the military and didn't find out he was a gunmen until his trial. Black was recently sentenced to life in prison for the shooting and killing of Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Damon Allen."
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"But after serving three tours in Iraq, things began to change in her younger brother -- like a switch. Brown said her and her family noticed the changes after Black's second deployment.
"He was very hyper vigilant. He would get angry real quick. And he started distancing himself from family" said Brown.
She said his hygiene changed as well and he stopped cutting his hair.
Mentally, Brown says her brother "suffers from schizophrenia and delusional disorders". She said he didn't have these issues prior to his service."
Military personnel and SZ?
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My RGV News, 22 March 2022, "Psychiatrist says H-E-B shooting suspect suffers from schizophrenia," Mark Reagan.
Tomas A. Gonzalez makes the unconvincing argument that Raul Lopez, a schizophrenic Latino man who worked for HEB, was unable to distinguish between right and wrong, due to having auditory hallucinations. This is, quite frankly, bullshit.
It is claimed that Lopez has had schizophrenia, since he was a teenager. Oddly, and ominiously for any prospective SZ HEB applicant, the defense also argues that schizophrenia gets worse over time; this is not true, however.
Lopez has a history of using marijuana, but wasn't using the drug at the time of the murders.
Symptoms: "The forensic psychiatrist said Lopez experienced audio hallucinations and paranoia, with Lopez being scared and armed because he believed “they” or “them” were following him.
During the first interview, Lopez told Gonzalez how “they” or “them” were the CIA or the government or “the forces” or the “cyber police” or aliens, who spied on him through phones and televisions.
He also thought drug traffickers were following and spying on him.
Lopez also believed there was “a worker” projecting the voices behind his co-workers, Gonzalez said."
Important to note: "He said the people that Lopez believed were following him were not his co-workers.
“He had no reason to hurt his co-workers,” Gonzalez said."
https://myrgv.com/featured/2022/03/22/psychiatrist-says-h-e-b-shooting-suspect-suffers-from-schizophrenia/
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Christian Century, 22 March 2022, "Guantánamo and the wages of imperialism,"
Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi SZ man who was arrested in December 2001 and taken to Guantánamo, where he was repeatedly tortured during a 50-day interrogation period from November 2002 to January 2003, has finally been repatriated to Saudi Arabia. Although the psychological damage that al-Qahtani suffered had Susan Crawford declare him ineligible for prosecution in 2009, his release took over thirteen years.
Out of the 780 people that have been detained at Guantánamo, 38 remain, now.
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/editors/guant-namo-and-wages-imperialism
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Newsday, 22 March 2022, "Mentally ill arsonist deemed no threat to society," Jada Loutoo.
A SZ man in Trinidad and Tobago, Kerry Gour, was deemed to no longer be a threat to society, after spending seven years in prison, before spending the rest of his sentence at St. Ann's, a psychiatric institution, for setting fire to his mother's house in 2005.
Gour expressed the desire to use marijuana, upon release.
https://newsday.co.tt/2022/03/22/mentally-ill-arsonist-deemed-no-threat-to-society/
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Daily Mail, 22 March 2022, "Paranoid schizophrenic, 20, who strangled his girlfriend with a skipping rope as their four-month-old daughter slept in her cot beside them is jailed for life," Jamie Phillips.
"Nigel Diakite, 20, launched a brutal attack on young mother N’Taya Elliott-Cleverley after she planned to leave him.
The then 19-year-old claimed he could not remember the incident at their home in Wavertree, Liverpool, despite confessing to the killing afterwards.
Diakite, who was 19 at the time, blamed his mental health problems for the attack and accused his partner of assaulting him in the early hours of January 29, 2021.
Mr Justice Stephen Morris subsequently sentenced Diakite to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 19 years."
Comments: Obviously, this attack had nothing to do with his mental illness.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10637095/amp/Paranoid-schizophrenic-20-strangled-girlfriend-skipping-rope-jailed-life.html
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NY Post, 22 March 2022, "Man accused of fatally shoving Michelle Go unfit to stand trial, court official says," Tamar Lapin and David Meyer.
Martial Simon, a 61 y/o black man that has had SZ for over twenty years, and who killed Michelle Go, randomly, by pushing her in front of a subway train, was found unfit to stand trial.
Simon is probably one of the SZs that lack insight, and I have wondered, if this is because he may be unable to tell the difference between his own thought and insertions, which are inserted by another person. I believe that SZs, like this, are more likely to commit violent crimes of this sort, egged on by an occultist of some sort to commit them.
It seems likely to me that someone wanted Go dead, and used Simon to achieve their goal, while remaining unknown themselves.
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The Tyee, 22 March 2022, "Police Shot Kyaw Din to Death. He Didn’t Need to Die," Listen Chen.
A well-written analysis of the murder of a SZ Burmese-Canadian named Kyaw Din by BC police, the all white jury's prejudice preventing them from delivering justice to Din and his family, and issues that the mentally ill (or people perceived as such) are forced to contend with in Canada, due to the Mental Health Act giving sweeping powers to medical professionals and police.
Wagner, Ouellette, Losiak and Shea, the officers involved in the killing, did not wait for someone that could translate for Din, and were unreasonably quick in resorting to lethal force with Din.
Some disturbing information about the situation for people with mental illnesses in BC: most mental health hospital admissions are involuntary there. Over 14 years, the number of people involuntarily admitted has doubled.
Most Canadian victims of police brutality were experiencing a mental health crisis, or were on drugs, when they were killed.
The Mental Health Act was passed in 1964, and was last amended in 1998.
The false narrative about mental illness being genetic, actually increases the stigma that people with mental illnesses have to deal with, and this false narrative is the most commonly accepted narrative about mental illness in Canada.
Chen notes that the positive link between SZ and migration undermines this false narrative about it being genetic.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/03/22/Kyaw-Din-Didnt-Need-To-Die/
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HuffPost, 22 March 2022, "Post-COVID Psychosis Is Real. Here's What To Know About It," Catherine Pearson.
My thoughts: COVID and psychosis have no connection, at all. Developing psychosis, after a COVID diagnosis, is very rare, as psychosis is quite rare, generally.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post-covid-psychosis_l_6238b81ae4b046c938def5a0/amp
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The Lens, 23 March 2022, "Two bills before legislature aim to improve prison medical care," Nick Crastil.
The Louisiana Legislature considered House Bill 175, which "would eliminate co-pays for incarcerated people, and another, House Bill 517, would create an medical advisory council that would approve health care policies for the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the hiring of a prison medical director, among other things."
Twenty percent of inmates in Louisiana have a serious mental illness, like SZ.
Inmates can be paid as little as $0.02/hr for the work they do in prison, but it costs $3 for a sick call, $6 for an emergency visit, and $2 for prescription.
(!!!) "Due to a provision in the The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, doctors who have been barred from practicing in many hospital settings can still work at institutional settings — such as prisons."
https://thelensnola.org/2022/03/23/two-bills-before-legislature-aim-to-improve-prison-medical-care/
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Forbes, 23 March 2022, "4 Reasons Why Psychedelics May Play A Big Role In The Future Of Mental Health Treatment," Mark Travers.
I dislike this trend in psychiatry, as I suspect that the intentions behind it are bad, and the outcome of this treatment will be similarly bad.
I suspect that drug use might help people to astral project into others, and that it might also make drug users more vulnerable to being astral projected into themselves.
Supposedly, psychedelic use can result in "postitive" personality changes, and more empathy for other people. Given my suspicions about this, I very much doubt the latter.
The article, also, claims that "a small percentage of people reported negative side effects after an ayahuasca induced psychedelic experience including difficulty relating to people, hypersensitivity, flashbacks/recollections of adverse subjective experiences during the ceremony, distressing dreams, hallucinations, speech impairment, brain fog, and difficulty concentrating."
This outcome seems more likely to me than drug users developing more empathy for others.
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Purdue, 23 March 2022, "Connection between tobacco use, mental health important to understand."
Smoking is more common among people with mental health issues, like depression and SZ. It is not entirely clear why this is the case, although some people do attempt to manage symptoms with drugs, of which tobacco is one, and I suspect that the occultists try to encourage bad habits in SZs, generally.
Sometimes, emphasis has been placed on cigarettes and alcohol by some thought inserters, although I have never been tempted to use either, as I dislike both. Since developing SZ, however, I have developed a bit of a sweet tooth for sugary beverages and have drank more caffeine than I did previously, as pre-SZ, I spent most of my time in Texas pretty caffeine-free. There is, perhaps, something similar at work in this.
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Forbes, 23 March 2022, "Long-Term Antibiotic Use Impacts Gut Microbiome, Linked With Cognitive Decline In Older Adults," Anuradha Varanasi.
Researchers are now trying to link the overuse of antibiotics to cognitive decline, but this seems unlikely to me. Why this one?
Interesting: "In a 2016 study published in the American Academy of Neurology, researchers observed that antibiotics may be linked to a severe disruption in brain function called delirium. This state of mental confusion could also result in hallucinations and agitation."
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Live Mint, 24 March 2022, "This Swiss millionaire who grew up in foster care is now helping Ukrainians flee war. Know who he is."
Guidi Flori, a Swiss millionaire who made his money in real estate, and who had an underaged birth mom who later developed SZ, helped bring Ukrainian refugees to Switzerland. With 'his foundation, he is socially and politically involved in the areas of brain tumours, violence against children and living with schizophrenia.'
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NY Daily News, 24 March 2022, "Florida boy sentenced for shooting at deputies after busting out of group home," Jessica Schladebeck.
A Floridian teen that has a SZ and an ADHD diagnosis, fled a group home with another teen, broke into a neighbor's house, and shot a police officer. 'He will be placed in an undisclosed maximum risk commitment program, where he will likely remain until he turns 21.'
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The Fiji Times, 24 March 2022, "Murder accused not guilty; be confined in a mental hospital," Ian Chute.
"Fabiano Dakai will spend the foreseeable future in a mental hospital after being found not guilty by reason of mental impairment of the murder of 34-year-old Navua security guard Timoci Dogai in 2019."
Dakai claimed that Dogai practiced witchcraft, and that he had used it to control Dakai.
Since I know that witchcraft exists, now, as my SZ makes it impossible for me not to be aware of this, I must say that I do not know if Dogai practiced witchcraft or not, but I am aware that this is possible. It is not clear if Dakai was able to correctly identify the person(s) targeting him, and this means that Dogai could have been an innocent person.
https://www.fijitimes.com/murder-accused-not-guilty-be-confined-in-a-mental-hospital/
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Fox 2 KTVU, 24 March 2022, "Santa Rosa psychiatrist loses license after drugging, sex assault allegations," Katy St. Clair.
"Cuyler Burns Goodwin, who most recently worked for Sequoia Mind Health in Santa Rosa, is set to lose his license effective April 7."
Goodwin is a psychiatrist who raped a patient who was drugged, sexually assaulted another, and carried on an affair with a patient's sister, instead of giving his attention to the treatment of the patient, while charging $900/hr. The affair resulted in a pregnancy, which he prescribed her an abortion drug to terminate. He deserves to lose his license.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/santa-rosa-psychiatrist-loses-license-after-drugging-sex-assault-allegations.amp
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Loudoun Now, 24 March 2022, "Leesburg Murder Case Sent to Grand Jury," Staff.
Melvin H. Wasike, a SZ man, broke into an apparent stranger's house and killed the man that lived there, Michael Faraday, and wounded his fiancée, Laura Munoz.
Wasike's delusions seem to be, partly, the religious sort.
"Wasike told investigators that he heard voices and believed that Farely and Munoz were the devil and a witch who had shape-shifted to human form. Wasike said he believed he was God and needed to kill the devil to save the planet."
How would killing these two save the planet? Why would God need to do this? Wasike should be interrogated about this delusion.
https://loudounnow.com/2022/03/24/leesburg-murder-case-sent-to-grand-jury/
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Psychiatric Times, 24 March 2022, "Too Risky? Mental Illness and Risky Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Leah Kuntz.
"Results showed that participants were more concerned about economic, psychological, and interpersonal consequences of COVID-19 than about physical health."
This has generally been the case for me, also.
It is assumed that we are more likely to get COVID, due to a lack of self-reservation.
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/too-risky-mental-illness-and-risky-behaviors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
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The Tribune, 24 March 2022, "Man Accused Of String Of Andros Robberies," Pavel Bailey.
Deon Green, a man with SZ, is charged with the assault of Raquel Barr, as well as stealing and shop breaking. His partner in crime for the latter charges was a Jamal Neely.
(There was a triangle near the address bar, although why this was so is unclear. The only thing that stood out in the article was that one man has the same name as Glynis.)
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2022/mar/24/man-accused-string-andros-robberies/?news
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Mad in America, 24 March 2022, "Thomas Jobe: The Legacy of Research He Leaves Behind," Robert Whitaker.
Whitaker reviews the legacy of the late Thomas Jobe.
Things that stood out for me in the article:
(1) "In 2007, they published an article on the 15-year outcomes of the 145 patients in their longitudinal study, and they reported that among the 64 diagnosed with schizophrenia, the recovery rate was eight times higher for those off antipsychotic medication than for those on such medication."
(2) "The fourth study of schizophrenia patients was led by William Carpenter. It was conducted at the NIMH’s clinical research facility in Bethesda, Maryland. Those treated without drugs were discharged sooner, they had a lower relapse rate at the end of one year, and they also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions and retarded movements. The findings led Carpenter to raise a haunting question: Was the use of neuroleptics making patients “more vulnerable to future relapse than would be the case in the natural course of the illness?”"
(3) [!!!] "In the 1890s, German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin had systematically tracked the outcomes of patients at an asylum in Estonia, and it led him to conclude that psychotic patients who presented with a lack of emotion regularly deteriorated into dementia, an illness he described as dementia praecox, while those who presented with affect (mania, depression, or both) had fairly good long-term outcomes. Usually, “all morbid manifestations completely disappear” he wrote, with this group said to suffer from “manic-depressive” illness."
(4) "What Harrow and Jobe discovered was that those who got off medication—and this was true even for those who stopped taking medication while actively psychotic—were much more likely than those who stayed on the drugs to recover, which included remaining stable and returning to work. [...] At the 15-year assessment, 40% of those off medication were in recovery, more than half were working, and only 28% suffered from psychotic symptoms. As for those on antipsychotic medication, only 5% were in recovery, and 64% were actively psychotic. [...] While their papers did get published and stirred further discussions in the research literature, their findings were mostly dismissed, and kept out of public view and out of psychiatric textbooks."
(5) "MRI studies of brain volumes determined that antipsychotics shrink brain volumes, and this shrinkage is associated with functional impairments and an increase in negative symptoms."
[While reading the latter portion of this article, I experienced a brief and sudden drowsiness.]
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/03/thomas-jobe-the-legacy-he-leaves-behind/
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19 News, 25 March 2022, "Garfield Heights Police: Man with schizophrenia reported missing," Alec Sapolin.
"Jerome Stanford, 56, from Garfield Heights, walked away from his home March 19 and has not been seen since, the department said. Stanford suffers from schizophrenia and has not been taking his medication since that time, the report said." // BM.
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Khaleej Times, 25 March 2022, "Dubai: School students invent tech to read brain activity in schizophrenics," Sherouk Zakaria.
Does this actually pick up on all the hallucinations that a schizophrenic has? (Auditory, somatic, olefactory, visual, ect.) Or does it just pick up some of these?: "The winning all-girls team developed the headband, equipped with electrodes and sensors, to detect unusual electrical signals coming from the sensory cortex. The headband then alerts the user and their doctor of a hallucination episode via an app."
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/dubai-school-students-invent-tech-to-read-brain-activity-in-schizophrenics?amp=1
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My RGV News, 25 March 2022, "Psychiatrist: H-E-B shooting suspect sane, knew right from wrong," Mark Reagan.
The fourth psychiatric expert to testify, Michael R. Arambula, doesn't believe that Lopez has SZ. Arambula says that Lopez knew what did was wrong, that the symptoms Lopez described did not match his experience of treating people with SZ (which included voices and paranoia), and that Arambula was suspicious of Lopez being unable to provide details about his hallucinations or delusions as most SZs are able to.
(Online, people that claim to have SZ, but who are unable or unwilling to describe delusions they say they have or have had, raise red flags for me. This is how I have identified several fakes.)
Oddly, Arambula seems to think that delusions should interefere with the ability of SZs to give an interview, but I have never encountered difficulty in this.
Apparently, Lopez was on the verge of losing his job with HEB, when the shooting occurred. He claimed that his hallucinations told him to do what he did, and that it was the only way to save his family. How would it save his family?
https://myrgv.com/local-news/2022/03/25/psychiatrist-h-e-b-shooting-suspect-sane-knew-right-from-wrong/
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The Indian Express, 25 March 2022, "Ire against Chandigarh Admin’s move: People with disabilities need dignified community living, not enclosed flats, say mental health experts," Staff.
There is a desire for more community housing among disability advocates in Chandigarh.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/ire-against-ut-admins-move-people-with-disabilities-need-dignified-community-living-not-enclosed-flats-say-mental-health-experts-7835102/
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Daily Sabah, 25 March 2022, "Man faces life after killing woman with samurai sword in Istanbul," Staff.
A Turkish man that claims to have SZ killed a random passerby, Başak Cengiz, with a samurai sword in Istanbul. His killing of Cengiz provoked outrage, particularly as femicides in Turkey claim the lives of dozens each year.
What he claimed: "The defendant, who told the court he did not plan the murder and went on killing "the first person he saw on the street after leaving his home," was quiet in the second hearing and expressed his "regret" only. In the first hearing, he told the court that "the devil told him to slay someone." In the new hearing, he said "the devil" was with him "as long as he is awake" and "kept telling him to kill someone."
There is some doubt as to whether this man truly suffers from SZ.
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/investigations/man-faces-life-after-killing-woman-with-samurai-sword-in-istanbul/amp
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The News Tribune, 25 March 2022, "Charges dismissed against Puyallup woman who allegedly killed, mutilated her husband," Craig Sailor.
Janae Bunten, a woman suffering from SZ, killed her husband, Nicholas Andrew Bunten, and has been involuntarily committed to Western State Hospital. She seems to have developed SZ in May 2020, when she began to receive messages from someone who she wrongly thought was God, and became more religious. Bunten seems to completely lack insight.
"Janae Bunten said she’d been receiving signs from God and wasn’t concerned about being charged in her husband’s murder because it was part of God’s plan. She believed Nicholas Bunten would be resurrected and they would “embark on a worldwide ministry,” records say."
https://amp.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article259624544.html
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The Bulletin, 25 March 2022, "Schizophrenic Brooklyn CT rapist committed for 90 years. His victim spoke Thursday," John Penney.
Andrew Racine, a white male SZ who broke into a neighbor's home and raped her, and expressed a desire to "rape all women" to her, was sentenced to 90 years in a state psychiatric hospital. He lacks insight, and is urged to harm himself and others (sexually) by the other.
Quotes about Racine's SZ: "Kapoor said Racine has suffered for years from auditory “command” hallucinations that urge him to harm himself or to commit sexually violent actions. She said Racine has been hospitalized several times over the years, but routinely refused to stay on prescribed anti-psychotic medications.
Racine had been off his prescribed medications for months before the June 2017 attack on his neighbor.
Since being admitted to Whiting and being put on a new regime of medicine, Kapoor said Racine has shown some improvement, though his symptoms – including the voices in his head – persist and will likely continue for the rest of his life.
Slitt said the seriousness of the crimes, coupled with Racine’s /lack of insight/ into his illness and history of non-compliance with medications, called for his lengthy confinement in a highly structured environment like Whiting."
https://amp.norwichbulletin.com/amp/7141607001
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Psychology Today, 26 March 2022, "Schizophrenia: An Insider’s View", Bethany Yeiser.
Yeiser talks about her experience with schizophrenia.
Book: Mind Estranged: My Journey from Schizophrenia and Homelessness to Recovery.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/recovery-road/202203/schizophrenia-insider-s-view?amp
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Fair Planet, 26 March 2022, "INSIDE PAKISTAN'S LYNCHING EPIDEMIC," Kaswar Klasra.
Summary: A schizophrenic Pakistani named Mushtaq Rajput was murdered by a lynch mob for "blasphemy." His murder is described in the article, and was quite gruesome.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws were created during the time of colonial British governors. Since 1947, 1,400 people in Pakistan have been falsely accused of violating them; notably, 1,200 of these false accusations have occurred within the past ten years.
"In a bid to stop such incidents in the future, Khan’s administration formed a committee comprising clerics and high-ranking government officers to make relevant recommendations.
However, human rights activists in Pakistan said such a case wouldn’t stop until the government takes steps to de-radicalise society and halt people’s abuse of the country’s blasphemy laws."
https://www.fairplanet.org/story/inside-pakistans-lynching-epidemic/
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NY Post, 26 March 2022, "Man jailed for Watergate still praises Richard Nixon: ‘He was a visionary’," Heather Robinson.
SZ is mentioned, once, in this article: "Nevertheless, Chapin was eventually convicted of making “false and misleading statements” after a jury refused to believe he didn’t remember a particular dirty trick by Segretti — a press release falsely claiming Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress, had been institutionalized for schizophrenia."
https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/dwight-chapin-who-went-to-prison-for-watergate-still-praises-richard-nixon/amp/
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Fox 5 Atlanta, 26 March 2022, "Missing man last seen leaving medical center cafeteria, police say," Staff.
A SZ male (probably white, since race is not given, and it is Georgia) named Kordale Lewis has gone missing. He slipped out of a medical center.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/missing-man-last-seen-leaving-medical-center-cafeteria-police-say.amp
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ABC 25 KXXV, 27 March 2022, "Court eyes appeal over mentally ill inmate put in solitary," AP.
A family member of Angelo Lee Clark, a late SZ inmate, is suing a Delaware prison for depriving Clark of his rights, while he was an inmate there. In 2015 and 2016, he was placed in solitary confinement simply because of his mental illness; in the latter year, he was there for seven months.
https://www.kxxv.com/news/court-eyes-appeal-over-mentally-ill-inmate-put-in-solitary?_amp=true
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Daily News Egypt, 27 March 2022, "International Prize for Arabic Fiction announces 2022 shortlist," Staff.
“Notebooks by the Bookseller” by Jordanian poet and novelist Jalal Barjas was the 2021 Winner.
"His novel tells the story of a book lover’s experience with schizophrenia and a crime spree he commits using the names of characters from fiction."
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2022/03/27/international-prize-for-arabic-fiction-announces-2022-shortlist/
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Yale Daily News, 27 March 2022, "Connecticut residents, lawmakers testify on criminal justice bills," Hannah Qu.
"According to Fair, Connecticut Department of Corrections is one of few states with no independent oversight and the only state that oversees its own health care for prisoners. Fair said that as a result, many incarcerated people end up living with chronic disease which diminishes their quality of life and reduces their life span."
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"SB 459 proposes that isolated confinement be used only as a last resort, for the shortest possible term, and never for more than 15 consecutive days (or 20 days total within any 60-day period), and all incarcerated people must have at least five hours out of cell per day unless isolated confinement is necessary to protect staff and incarcerated people.
SB 459 also proposes the creation of an Ombudsman and Advisory Commission for Correctional Oversight to evaluate the operations of prisons, jails and halfway houses throughout Connecticut. The commission will have the authority and responsibility to order unscheduled and unrestricted site visits, inspect Department of Corrections records and establish a confidential system to receive feedback from incarcerated people, family members and Department of Corrections personnel, all of whom will be protected from retaliation for cooperating with the commission. The commission will publish its findings and hold quarterly meetings.
In addition, SB 459 would seek to end the misuse of lockdowns and would ban training days and meetings as an excuse for lockdowns. It also requires that the Department of Corrections implement training and other strategies to support staff in mitigating trauma and its effects, such as burnout, substance abuse, aggression and suicide, according to SSCT.
SB 459 was widely supported by formerly and currently incarcerated people, their families, law experts, mental health experts and social workers on Friday. Meanwhile, correctional officers testified in opposition to the bill."
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(!!!) "Law experts and formerly incarcerated people also called for the repeal of Connecticut’s incarceration lien during the public hearing through HB 5390, an act that repeals the requirement that prisoners must reimburse taxpayers for their stay in a correctional facility for up to 20 years after release from incarceration. [...] (Carroll) said that lien perpetuates intergenerational debt and barriers to reentry as individuals have struggled under the weight of the lien, which at the current rate of over $81,000 per year can exceed a million dollars in accumulation."
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/27/connecticut-residents-lawmakers-testify-on-criminal-justice-bills/
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The Times of India, 27 March 2022, "Mumbai: Woman with ‘brain on fire’ for 6 months treated at KEM Hospital," Malathy Iyer.
"For six months, Kalbadevi resident Dimple Choksi wasn't herself. She would speak gibberish, laugh inappropriately, keep rotating in an anti-clockwise manner instead of walking straight and had pulled out most of the hair from her crown.
It was almost an overnight transformation, recalled husband Amit. "She woke up one morning in August 2021 complaining of a severe headache, and over the next few days, she changed," he said. The 45-year-old's memory was so impaired that she didn't remember how to brush her teeth.
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Since then [her diagnosis at KEM Hospital], her symptoms have vanished. "But I don't recollect anything from the six months," she told TOI."
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/mumbai-woman-with-brain-on-fire-for-6-months-treated-at-kem-hospital/amp_articleshow/90468128.cms
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WKRG News 5, Unknown Date, "MPD says man who allegedly killed stepfather “schizophrenic” and “heard a voice” before stabbing," Chad Petri.
Freddie Maxwell seems to claim that him murdering his stepfather, Omar Brown, was prompted by an auditory hallucination. I am deeply skeptical of him, and do not believe him, based on the information available in this article.
"Maxwell allegedly told the investigator he heard a voice that said “let’s get him” and also allegedly believed there were people inside the ceiling and floor pointing guns at him. Brown was stabbed multiple times with a knife Maxwell bought from Walmart."
https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/mpd-says-man-who-allegedly-killed-stepfather-schizophrenic-and-heard-a-voice-before-stabbing/amp/
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Going Concern, Unknown Date, "Homeless Guy Who Murdered Deloitte Consulting Senior Manager Michelle Go Won’t Be Going to Trial Anytime Soon," Jason Bramwell.
Some information on Go: "Go, who graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in economics and then earned her MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, was a senior manager, strategy and operations, M&A at Deloitte Consulting, according to her LinkedIn profile. She joined Deloitte in 2018. After leaving her apartment on the Upper West Side on the morning of Jan. 9, Go was shoved from behind by Simon onto the subway tracks in front of an incoming southbound R train."
https://www.goingconcern.com/homeless-guy-who-murdered-deloitte-consulting-senior-manager-michelle-go-wont-be-going-to-trial-anytime-soon/amp/
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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice affirmed a board decision to find a patient incapable of giving informed consent due to his SZ.
"In T.S. v. Moise, 2022 ONSC 1553, the respondent, a psychiatrist, diagnosed the appellant with schizophrenia in 2003. He has been treating the appellant for 15 years. In 2019, the police brought the appellant to the Ottawa Hospital and admitted him under the respondent’s care because his wife had already become fearful of his behaviour.
The appellant’s wife reported that the appellant talked to himself, ignored his personal hygiene, strangely swore at her, displayed anger, and planned to cancel an appointment with a specialist regarding his Crohn’s disease. After assessing the appellant, the respondent certified him as an involuntary patient and found him incapable of consenting to treatment with antipsychotic medication.
The appellant requested that the Consent and Capacity Board review the respondent’s finding. The board sided with the respondent. The appellant then appealed from the board decision before the Superior Court, alleging that the board committed an error in upholding the respondent’s finding of incapacity.
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“Since the appellant discontinued treatment, he had not showered in months, had trouble sleeping, had decreased energy, and was unable to feel pleasure when using his computer,” the court said."
https://www.lawtimesnews.com/practice-areas/medical-malpractice/ontario-court-affirms-decision-finding-schizophrenic-patient-incapable-of-giving-informed-consent/365095
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CBS 19, 21 March 2022, "Sister of East Texas man convicted of killing DPS trooper discusses veterans' mental health issues," Mariah Conduff.
"LaNell Brown, older sister to Dabrett Black, advocates for veterans' mental health. Brown said Black told her he was a truck driver in the military and didn't find out he was a gunmen until his trial. Black was recently sentenced to life in prison for the shooting and killing of Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Damon Allen."
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"But after serving three tours in Iraq, things began to change in her younger brother -- like a switch. Brown said her and her family noticed the changes after Black's second deployment.
"He was very hyper vigilant. He would get angry real quick. And he started distancing himself from family" said Brown.
She said his hygiene changed as well and he stopped cutting his hair.
Mentally, Brown says her brother "suffers from schizophrenia and delusional disorders". She said he didn't have these issues prior to his service."
Military personnel and SZ?
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My RGV News, 22 March 2022, "Psychiatrist says H-E-B shooting suspect suffers from schizophrenia," Mark Reagan.
Tomas A. Gonzalez makes the unconvincing argument that Raul Lopez, a schizophrenic Latino man who worked for HEB, was unable to distinguish between right and wrong, due to having auditory hallucinations. This is, quite frankly, bullshit.
It is claimed that Lopez has had schizophrenia, since he was a teenager. Oddly, and ominiously for any prospective SZ HEB applicant, the defense also argues that schizophrenia gets worse over time; this is not true, however.
Lopez has a history of using marijuana, but wasn't using the drug at the time of the murders.
Symptoms: "The forensic psychiatrist said Lopez experienced audio hallucinations and paranoia, with Lopez being scared and armed because he believed “they” or “them” were following him.
During the first interview, Lopez told Gonzalez how “they” or “them” were the CIA or the government or “the forces” or the “cyber police” or aliens, who spied on him through phones and televisions.
He also thought drug traffickers were following and spying on him.
Lopez also believed there was “a worker” projecting the voices behind his co-workers, Gonzalez said."
Important to note: "He said the people that Lopez believed were following him were not his co-workers.
“He had no reason to hurt his co-workers,” Gonzalez said."
https://myrgv.com/featured/2022/03/22/psychiatrist-says-h-e-b-shooting-suspect-suffers-from-schizophrenia/
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Christian Century, 22 March 2022, "Guantánamo and the wages of imperialism,"
Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi SZ man who was arrested in December 2001 and taken to Guantánamo, where he was repeatedly tortured during a 50-day interrogation period from November 2002 to January 2003, has finally been repatriated to Saudi Arabia. Although the psychological damage that al-Qahtani suffered had Susan Crawford declare him ineligible for prosecution in 2009, his release took over thirteen years.
Out of the 780 people that have been detained at Guantánamo, 38 remain, now.
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/editors/guant-namo-and-wages-imperialism
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Newsday, 22 March 2022, "Mentally ill arsonist deemed no threat to society," Jada Loutoo.
A SZ man in Trinidad and Tobago, Kerry Gour, was deemed to no longer be a threat to society, after spending seven years in prison, before spending the rest of his sentence at St. Ann's, a psychiatric institution, for setting fire to his mother's house in 2005.
Gour expressed the desire to use marijuana, upon release.
https://newsday.co.tt/2022/03/22/mentally-ill-arsonist-deemed-no-threat-to-society/
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Daily Mail, 22 March 2022, "Paranoid schizophrenic, 20, who strangled his girlfriend with a skipping rope as their four-month-old daughter slept in her cot beside them is jailed for life," Jamie Phillips.
"Nigel Diakite, 20, launched a brutal attack on young mother N’Taya Elliott-Cleverley after she planned to leave him.
The then 19-year-old claimed he could not remember the incident at their home in Wavertree, Liverpool, despite confessing to the killing afterwards.
Diakite, who was 19 at the time, blamed his mental health problems for the attack and accused his partner of assaulting him in the early hours of January 29, 2021.
Mr Justice Stephen Morris subsequently sentenced Diakite to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 19 years."
Comments: Obviously, this attack had nothing to do with his mental illness.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10637095/amp/Paranoid-schizophrenic-20-strangled-girlfriend-skipping-rope-jailed-life.html
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NY Post, 22 March 2022, "Man accused of fatally shoving Michelle Go unfit to stand trial, court official says," Tamar Lapin and David Meyer.
Martial Simon, a 61 y/o black man that has had SZ for over twenty years, and who killed Michelle Go, randomly, by pushing her in front of a subway train, was found unfit to stand trial.
Simon is probably one of the SZs that lack insight, and I have wondered, if this is because he may be unable to tell the difference between his own thought and insertions, which are inserted by another person. I believe that SZs, like this, are more likely to commit violent crimes of this sort, egged on by an occultist of some sort to commit them.
It seems likely to me that someone wanted Go dead, and used Simon to achieve their goal, while remaining unknown themselves.
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The Tyee, 22 March 2022, "Police Shot Kyaw Din to Death. He Didn’t Need to Die," Listen Chen.
A well-written analysis of the murder of a SZ Burmese-Canadian named Kyaw Din by BC police, the all white jury's prejudice preventing them from delivering justice to Din and his family, and issues that the mentally ill (or people perceived as such) are forced to contend with in Canada, due to the Mental Health Act giving sweeping powers to medical professionals and police.
Wagner, Ouellette, Losiak and Shea, the officers involved in the killing, did not wait for someone that could translate for Din, and were unreasonably quick in resorting to lethal force with Din.
Some disturbing information about the situation for people with mental illnesses in BC: most mental health hospital admissions are involuntary there. Over 14 years, the number of people involuntarily admitted has doubled.
Most Canadian victims of police brutality were experiencing a mental health crisis, or were on drugs, when they were killed.
The Mental Health Act was passed in 1964, and was last amended in 1998.
The false narrative about mental illness being genetic, actually increases the stigma that people with mental illnesses have to deal with, and this false narrative is the most commonly accepted narrative about mental illness in Canada.
Chen notes that the positive link between SZ and migration undermines this false narrative about it being genetic.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/03/22/Kyaw-Din-Didnt-Need-To-Die/
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HuffPost, 22 March 2022, "Post-COVID Psychosis Is Real. Here's What To Know About It," Catherine Pearson.
My thoughts: COVID and psychosis have no connection, at all. Developing psychosis, after a COVID diagnosis, is very rare, as psychosis is quite rare, generally.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post-covid-psychosis_l_6238b81ae4b046c938def5a0/amp
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The Lens, 23 March 2022, "Two bills before legislature aim to improve prison medical care," Nick Crastil.
The Louisiana Legislature considered House Bill 175, which "would eliminate co-pays for incarcerated people, and another, House Bill 517, would create an medical advisory council that would approve health care policies for the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and the hiring of a prison medical director, among other things."
Twenty percent of inmates in Louisiana have a serious mental illness, like SZ.
Inmates can be paid as little as $0.02/hr for the work they do in prison, but it costs $3 for a sick call, $6 for an emergency visit, and $2 for prescription.
(!!!) "Due to a provision in the The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, doctors who have been barred from practicing in many hospital settings can still work at institutional settings — such as prisons."
https://thelensnola.org/2022/03/23/two-bills-before-legislature-aim-to-improve-prison-medical-care/
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Forbes, 23 March 2022, "4 Reasons Why Psychedelics May Play A Big Role In The Future Of Mental Health Treatment," Mark Travers.
I dislike this trend in psychiatry, as I suspect that the intentions behind it are bad, and the outcome of this treatment will be similarly bad.
I suspect that drug use might help people to astral project into others, and that it might also make drug users more vulnerable to being astral projected into themselves.
Supposedly, psychedelic use can result in "postitive" personality changes, and more empathy for other people. Given my suspicions about this, I very much doubt the latter.
The article, also, claims that "a small percentage of people reported negative side effects after an ayahuasca induced psychedelic experience including difficulty relating to people, hypersensitivity, flashbacks/recollections of adverse subjective experiences during the ceremony, distressing dreams, hallucinations, speech impairment, brain fog, and difficulty concentrating."
This outcome seems more likely to me than drug users developing more empathy for others.
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Purdue, 23 March 2022, "Connection between tobacco use, mental health important to understand."
Smoking is more common among people with mental health issues, like depression and SZ. It is not entirely clear why this is the case, although some people do attempt to manage symptoms with drugs, of which tobacco is one, and I suspect that the occultists try to encourage bad habits in SZs, generally.
Sometimes, emphasis has been placed on cigarettes and alcohol by some thought inserters, although I have never been tempted to use either, as I dislike both. Since developing SZ, however, I have developed a bit of a sweet tooth for sugary beverages and have drank more caffeine than I did previously, as pre-SZ, I spent most of my time in Texas pretty caffeine-free. There is, perhaps, something similar at work in this.
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Forbes, 23 March 2022, "Long-Term Antibiotic Use Impacts Gut Microbiome, Linked With Cognitive Decline In Older Adults," Anuradha Varanasi.
Researchers are now trying to link the overuse of antibiotics to cognitive decline, but this seems unlikely to me. Why this one?
Interesting: "In a 2016 study published in the American Academy of Neurology, researchers observed that antibiotics may be linked to a severe disruption in brain function called delirium. This state of mental confusion could also result in hallucinations and agitation."
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Live Mint, 24 March 2022, "This Swiss millionaire who grew up in foster care is now helping Ukrainians flee war. Know who he is."
Guidi Flori, a Swiss millionaire who made his money in real estate, and who had an underaged birth mom who later developed SZ, helped bring Ukrainian refugees to Switzerland. With 'his foundation, he is socially and politically involved in the areas of brain tumours, violence against children and living with schizophrenia.'
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NY Daily News, 24 March 2022, "Florida boy sentenced for shooting at deputies after busting out of group home," Jessica Schladebeck.
A Floridian teen that has a SZ and an ADHD diagnosis, fled a group home with another teen, broke into a neighbor's house, and shot a police officer. 'He will be placed in an undisclosed maximum risk commitment program, where he will likely remain until he turns 21.'
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The Fiji Times, 24 March 2022, "Murder accused not guilty; be confined in a mental hospital," Ian Chute.
"Fabiano Dakai will spend the foreseeable future in a mental hospital after being found not guilty by reason of mental impairment of the murder of 34-year-old Navua security guard Timoci Dogai in 2019."
Dakai claimed that Dogai practiced witchcraft, and that he had used it to control Dakai.
Since I know that witchcraft exists, now, as my SZ makes it impossible for me not to be aware of this, I must say that I do not know if Dogai practiced witchcraft or not, but I am aware that this is possible. It is not clear if Dakai was able to correctly identify the person(s) targeting him, and this means that Dogai could have been an innocent person.
https://www.fijitimes.com/murder-accused-not-guilty-be-confined-in-a-mental-hospital/
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Fox 2 KTVU, 24 March 2022, "Santa Rosa psychiatrist loses license after drugging, sex assault allegations," Katy St. Clair.
"Cuyler Burns Goodwin, who most recently worked for Sequoia Mind Health in Santa Rosa, is set to lose his license effective April 7."
Goodwin is a psychiatrist who raped a patient who was drugged, sexually assaulted another, and carried on an affair with a patient's sister, instead of giving his attention to the treatment of the patient, while charging $900/hr. The affair resulted in a pregnancy, which he prescribed her an abortion drug to terminate. He deserves to lose his license.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/santa-rosa-psychiatrist-loses-license-after-drugging-sex-assault-allegations.amp
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Loudoun Now, 24 March 2022, "Leesburg Murder Case Sent to Grand Jury," Staff.
Melvin H. Wasike, a SZ man, broke into an apparent stranger's house and killed the man that lived there, Michael Faraday, and wounded his fiancée, Laura Munoz.
Wasike's delusions seem to be, partly, the religious sort.
"Wasike told investigators that he heard voices and believed that Farely and Munoz were the devil and a witch who had shape-shifted to human form. Wasike said he believed he was God and needed to kill the devil to save the planet."
How would killing these two save the planet? Why would God need to do this? Wasike should be interrogated about this delusion.
https://loudounnow.com/2022/03/24/leesburg-murder-case-sent-to-grand-jury/
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Psychiatric Times, 24 March 2022, "Too Risky? Mental Illness and Risky Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Leah Kuntz.
"Results showed that participants were more concerned about economic, psychological, and interpersonal consequences of COVID-19 than about physical health."
This has generally been the case for me, also.
It is assumed that we are more likely to get COVID, due to a lack of self-reservation.
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/too-risky-mental-illness-and-risky-behaviors-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
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The Tribune, 24 March 2022, "Man Accused Of String Of Andros Robberies," Pavel Bailey.
Deon Green, a man with SZ, is charged with the assault of Raquel Barr, as well as stealing and shop breaking. His partner in crime for the latter charges was a Jamal Neely.
(There was a triangle near the address bar, although why this was so is unclear. The only thing that stood out in the article was that one man has the same name as Glynis.)
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2022/mar/24/man-accused-string-andros-robberies/?news
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Mad in America, 24 March 2022, "Thomas Jobe: The Legacy of Research He Leaves Behind," Robert Whitaker.
Whitaker reviews the legacy of the late Thomas Jobe.
Things that stood out for me in the article:
(1) "In 2007, they published an article on the 15-year outcomes of the 145 patients in their longitudinal study, and they reported that among the 64 diagnosed with schizophrenia, the recovery rate was eight times higher for those off antipsychotic medication than for those on such medication."
(2) "The fourth study of schizophrenia patients was led by William Carpenter. It was conducted at the NIMH’s clinical research facility in Bethesda, Maryland. Those treated without drugs were discharged sooner, they had a lower relapse rate at the end of one year, and they also suffered less from depression, blunted emotions and retarded movements. The findings led Carpenter to raise a haunting question: Was the use of neuroleptics making patients “more vulnerable to future relapse than would be the case in the natural course of the illness?”"
(3) [!!!] "In the 1890s, German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin had systematically tracked the outcomes of patients at an asylum in Estonia, and it led him to conclude that psychotic patients who presented with a lack of emotion regularly deteriorated into dementia, an illness he described as dementia praecox, while those who presented with affect (mania, depression, or both) had fairly good long-term outcomes. Usually, “all morbid manifestations completely disappear” he wrote, with this group said to suffer from “manic-depressive” illness."
(4) "What Harrow and Jobe discovered was that those who got off medication—and this was true even for those who stopped taking medication while actively psychotic—were much more likely than those who stayed on the drugs to recover, which included remaining stable and returning to work. [...] At the 15-year assessment, 40% of those off medication were in recovery, more than half were working, and only 28% suffered from psychotic symptoms. As for those on antipsychotic medication, only 5% were in recovery, and 64% were actively psychotic. [...] While their papers did get published and stirred further discussions in the research literature, their findings were mostly dismissed, and kept out of public view and out of psychiatric textbooks."
(5) "MRI studies of brain volumes determined that antipsychotics shrink brain volumes, and this shrinkage is associated with functional impairments and an increase in negative symptoms."
[While reading the latter portion of this article, I experienced a brief and sudden drowsiness.]
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/03/thomas-jobe-the-legacy-he-leaves-behind/
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19 News, 25 March 2022, "Garfield Heights Police: Man with schizophrenia reported missing," Alec Sapolin.
"Jerome Stanford, 56, from Garfield Heights, walked away from his home March 19 and has not been seen since, the department said. Stanford suffers from schizophrenia and has not been taking his medication since that time, the report said." // BM.
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Khaleej Times, 25 March 2022, "Dubai: School students invent tech to read brain activity in schizophrenics," Sherouk Zakaria.
Does this actually pick up on all the hallucinations that a schizophrenic has? (Auditory, somatic, olefactory, visual, ect.) Or does it just pick up some of these?: "The winning all-girls team developed the headband, equipped with electrodes and sensors, to detect unusual electrical signals coming from the sensory cortex. The headband then alerts the user and their doctor of a hallucination episode via an app."
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/dubai-school-students-invent-tech-to-read-brain-activity-in-schizophrenics?amp=1
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My RGV News, 25 March 2022, "Psychiatrist: H-E-B shooting suspect sane, knew right from wrong," Mark Reagan.
The fourth psychiatric expert to testify, Michael R. Arambula, doesn't believe that Lopez has SZ. Arambula says that Lopez knew what did was wrong, that the symptoms Lopez described did not match his experience of treating people with SZ (which included voices and paranoia), and that Arambula was suspicious of Lopez being unable to provide details about his hallucinations or delusions as most SZs are able to.
(Online, people that claim to have SZ, but who are unable or unwilling to describe delusions they say they have or have had, raise red flags for me. This is how I have identified several fakes.)
Oddly, Arambula seems to think that delusions should interefere with the ability of SZs to give an interview, but I have never encountered difficulty in this.
Apparently, Lopez was on the verge of losing his job with HEB, when the shooting occurred. He claimed that his hallucinations told him to do what he did, and that it was the only way to save his family. How would it save his family?
https://myrgv.com/local-news/2022/03/25/psychiatrist-h-e-b-shooting-suspect-sane-knew-right-from-wrong/
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The Indian Express, 25 March 2022, "Ire against Chandigarh Admin’s move: People with disabilities need dignified community living, not enclosed flats, say mental health experts," Staff.
There is a desire for more community housing among disability advocates in Chandigarh.
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/ire-against-ut-admins-move-people-with-disabilities-need-dignified-community-living-not-enclosed-flats-say-mental-health-experts-7835102/
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Daily Sabah, 25 March 2022, "Man faces life after killing woman with samurai sword in Istanbul," Staff.
A Turkish man that claims to have SZ killed a random passerby, Başak Cengiz, with a samurai sword in Istanbul. His killing of Cengiz provoked outrage, particularly as femicides in Turkey claim the lives of dozens each year.
What he claimed: "The defendant, who told the court he did not plan the murder and went on killing "the first person he saw on the street after leaving his home," was quiet in the second hearing and expressed his "regret" only. In the first hearing, he told the court that "the devil told him to slay someone." In the new hearing, he said "the devil" was with him "as long as he is awake" and "kept telling him to kill someone."
There is some doubt as to whether this man truly suffers from SZ.
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/investigations/man-faces-life-after-killing-woman-with-samurai-sword-in-istanbul/amp
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The News Tribune, 25 March 2022, "Charges dismissed against Puyallup woman who allegedly killed, mutilated her husband," Craig Sailor.
Janae Bunten, a woman suffering from SZ, killed her husband, Nicholas Andrew Bunten, and has been involuntarily committed to Western State Hospital. She seems to have developed SZ in May 2020, when she began to receive messages from someone who she wrongly thought was God, and became more religious. Bunten seems to completely lack insight.
"Janae Bunten said she’d been receiving signs from God and wasn’t concerned about being charged in her husband’s murder because it was part of God’s plan. She believed Nicholas Bunten would be resurrected and they would “embark on a worldwide ministry,” records say."
https://amp.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article259624544.html
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The Bulletin, 25 March 2022, "Schizophrenic Brooklyn CT rapist committed for 90 years. His victim spoke Thursday," John Penney.
Andrew Racine, a white male SZ who broke into a neighbor's home and raped her, and expressed a desire to "rape all women" to her, was sentenced to 90 years in a state psychiatric hospital. He lacks insight, and is urged to harm himself and others (sexually) by the other.
Quotes about Racine's SZ: "Kapoor said Racine has suffered for years from auditory “command” hallucinations that urge him to harm himself or to commit sexually violent actions. She said Racine has been hospitalized several times over the years, but routinely refused to stay on prescribed anti-psychotic medications.
Racine had been off his prescribed medications for months before the June 2017 attack on his neighbor.
Since being admitted to Whiting and being put on a new regime of medicine, Kapoor said Racine has shown some improvement, though his symptoms – including the voices in his head – persist and will likely continue for the rest of his life.
Slitt said the seriousness of the crimes, coupled with Racine’s /lack of insight/ into his illness and history of non-compliance with medications, called for his lengthy confinement in a highly structured environment like Whiting."
https://amp.norwichbulletin.com/amp/7141607001
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Psychology Today, 26 March 2022, "Schizophrenia: An Insider’s View", Bethany Yeiser.
Yeiser talks about her experience with schizophrenia.
Book: Mind Estranged: My Journey from Schizophrenia and Homelessness to Recovery.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/recovery-road/202203/schizophrenia-insider-s-view?amp
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Fair Planet, 26 March 2022, "INSIDE PAKISTAN'S LYNCHING EPIDEMIC," Kaswar Klasra.
Summary: A schizophrenic Pakistani named Mushtaq Rajput was murdered by a lynch mob for "blasphemy." His murder is described in the article, and was quite gruesome.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws were created during the time of colonial British governors. Since 1947, 1,400 people in Pakistan have been falsely accused of violating them; notably, 1,200 of these false accusations have occurred within the past ten years.
"In a bid to stop such incidents in the future, Khan’s administration formed a committee comprising clerics and high-ranking government officers to make relevant recommendations.
However, human rights activists in Pakistan said such a case wouldn’t stop until the government takes steps to de-radicalise society and halt people’s abuse of the country’s blasphemy laws."
https://www.fairplanet.org/story/inside-pakistans-lynching-epidemic/
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NY Post, 26 March 2022, "Man jailed for Watergate still praises Richard Nixon: ‘He was a visionary’," Heather Robinson.
SZ is mentioned, once, in this article: "Nevertheless, Chapin was eventually convicted of making “false and misleading statements” after a jury refused to believe he didn’t remember a particular dirty trick by Segretti — a press release falsely claiming Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress, had been institutionalized for schizophrenia."
https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/dwight-chapin-who-went-to-prison-for-watergate-still-praises-richard-nixon/amp/
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Fox 5 Atlanta, 26 March 2022, "Missing man last seen leaving medical center cafeteria, police say," Staff.
A SZ male (probably white, since race is not given, and it is Georgia) named Kordale Lewis has gone missing. He slipped out of a medical center.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/missing-man-last-seen-leaving-medical-center-cafeteria-police-say.amp
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ABC 25 KXXV, 27 March 2022, "Court eyes appeal over mentally ill inmate put in solitary," AP.
A family member of Angelo Lee Clark, a late SZ inmate, is suing a Delaware prison for depriving Clark of his rights, while he was an inmate there. In 2015 and 2016, he was placed in solitary confinement simply because of his mental illness; in the latter year, he was there for seven months.
https://www.kxxv.com/news/court-eyes-appeal-over-mentally-ill-inmate-put-in-solitary?_amp=true
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Daily News Egypt, 27 March 2022, "International Prize for Arabic Fiction announces 2022 shortlist," Staff.
“Notebooks by the Bookseller” by Jordanian poet and novelist Jalal Barjas was the 2021 Winner.
"His novel tells the story of a book lover’s experience with schizophrenia and a crime spree he commits using the names of characters from fiction."
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2022/03/27/international-prize-for-arabic-fiction-announces-2022-shortlist/
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Yale Daily News, 27 March 2022, "Connecticut residents, lawmakers testify on criminal justice bills," Hannah Qu.
"According to Fair, Connecticut Department of Corrections is one of few states with no independent oversight and the only state that oversees its own health care for prisoners. Fair said that as a result, many incarcerated people end up living with chronic disease which diminishes their quality of life and reduces their life span."
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"SB 459 proposes that isolated confinement be used only as a last resort, for the shortest possible term, and never for more than 15 consecutive days (or 20 days total within any 60-day period), and all incarcerated people must have at least five hours out of cell per day unless isolated confinement is necessary to protect staff and incarcerated people.
SB 459 also proposes the creation of an Ombudsman and Advisory Commission for Correctional Oversight to evaluate the operations of prisons, jails and halfway houses throughout Connecticut. The commission will have the authority and responsibility to order unscheduled and unrestricted site visits, inspect Department of Corrections records and establish a confidential system to receive feedback from incarcerated people, family members and Department of Corrections personnel, all of whom will be protected from retaliation for cooperating with the commission. The commission will publish its findings and hold quarterly meetings.
In addition, SB 459 would seek to end the misuse of lockdowns and would ban training days and meetings as an excuse for lockdowns. It also requires that the Department of Corrections implement training and other strategies to support staff in mitigating trauma and its effects, such as burnout, substance abuse, aggression and suicide, according to SSCT.
SB 459 was widely supported by formerly and currently incarcerated people, their families, law experts, mental health experts and social workers on Friday. Meanwhile, correctional officers testified in opposition to the bill."
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(!!!) "Law experts and formerly incarcerated people also called for the repeal of Connecticut’s incarceration lien during the public hearing through HB 5390, an act that repeals the requirement that prisoners must reimburse taxpayers for their stay in a correctional facility for up to 20 years after release from incarceration. [...] (Carroll) said that lien perpetuates intergenerational debt and barriers to reentry as individuals have struggled under the weight of the lien, which at the current rate of over $81,000 per year can exceed a million dollars in accumulation."
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/03/27/connecticut-residents-lawmakers-testify-on-criminal-justice-bills/
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The Times of India, 27 March 2022, "Mumbai: Woman with ‘brain on fire’ for 6 months treated at KEM Hospital," Malathy Iyer.
I was struck by the symptoms of this Indian woman, who was, apparently, misdiagnosed with SZ and psychosis, but actually had something called "seronegative autoimmune encephalitis":
"For six months, Kalbadevi resident Dimple Choksi wasn't herself. She would speak gibberish, laugh inappropriately, keep rotating in an anti-clockwise manner instead of walking straight and had pulled out most of the hair from her crown.
It was almost an overnight transformation, recalled husband Amit. "She woke up one morning in August 2021 complaining of a severe headache, and over the next few days, she changed," he said. The 45-year-old's memory was so impaired that she didn't remember how to brush her teeth.
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Since then [her diagnosis at KEM Hospital], her symptoms have vanished. "But I don't recollect anything from the six months," she told TOI."
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/mumbai-woman-with-brain-on-fire-for-6-months-treated-at-kem-hospital/amp_articleshow/90468128.cms
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WKRG News 5, Unknown Date, "MPD says man who allegedly killed stepfather “schizophrenic” and “heard a voice” before stabbing," Chad Petri.
Freddie Maxwell seems to claim that him murdering his stepfather, Omar Brown, was prompted by an auditory hallucination. I am deeply skeptical of him, and do not believe him, based on the information available in this article.
"Maxwell allegedly told the investigator he heard a voice that said “let’s get him” and also allegedly believed there were people inside the ceiling and floor pointing guns at him. Brown was stabbed multiple times with a knife Maxwell bought from Walmart."
https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/mpd-says-man-who-allegedly-killed-stepfather-schizophrenic-and-heard-a-voice-before-stabbing/amp/
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Going Concern, Unknown Date, "Homeless Guy Who Murdered Deloitte Consulting Senior Manager Michelle Go Won’t Be Going to Trial Anytime Soon," Jason Bramwell.
Some information on Go: "Go, who graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in economics and then earned her MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, was a senior manager, strategy and operations, M&A at Deloitte Consulting, according to her LinkedIn profile. She joined Deloitte in 2018. After leaving her apartment on the Upper West Side on the morning of Jan. 9, Go was shoved from behind by Simon onto the subway tracks in front of an incoming southbound R train."
https://www.goingconcern.com/homeless-guy-who-murdered-deloitte-consulting-senior-manager-michelle-go-wont-be-going-to-trial-anytime-soon/amp/
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