Showing posts with label psychiatrist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychiatrist. Show all posts

Monday, May 24, 2021

Social Network Map of Child Molesting Attorneys, Fraudulent Psychiatrists, and Corrupt Police Officers in Lake County, Illinois

Part 1: Social Networking Map


     The infographic below is a social networking map which shows the child-molesting attorneys and educators, parental alienation committing attorneys, fraudulent psychiatrists who drug rape accuser patients with psychiatric medications, corrupt and racist police officers, and other corrupt officials, in Lake County, Illinois.

     This image should help explain why I believe that it would be difficult for me to obtain a fair trial - or a trial at all - in my ongoing attempt to urge prosecutors to file charges against my father for molesting me in 1995 and 1996.

     This is a quick-reference guide designed to help people who are new to, or unfamiliar with, my case, to understand the connections between the various attorneys, and other prominent people in Lake County, whom my father Richard Kopsick knows, and how he knows them.







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Part 2: List of People



     The text below consists of all people mentioned on the chart above (except for attorney Matt deMartini).
     For the sake of including the maximum number of possible child predators in the Lake County legal system, I have also included the names of several people involved in parental alienation and child molestation cases whom are close to me.
     I have also included the names of people involved in several well-known criminal cases from Lake County, all of which involved Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd. I have included this information in order to help illustrate the general degree of corruption in the county, and also because Rudd was the coroner in State of Illinois v. Calusinski, a case in which my father Richard Kopsick and his friend Steve Scheller were both involved.


- Andersen, Brad

     Managing broker at GGL Realty (Griffith, Grant, & Lackie) in Lake Bluff. Friend of Richard Kopsick. Used the camgirl services of one of his friend’s daughters, who was in her early twenties at the time.
    http://www.facebook.com/justaskbrad/



- Bello, Evelyn

     Former legal advocate at Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center in Gurnee. Spoke to Lake Bluff police officer Lisa Malkov about Joe Kopsick’s claims against Richard Kopsick. Told Joe Kopsick to wait for the police to respond if and when contacted by Victor o’Block.



- Berry, Christine

     Former therapist at Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center. Provided counseling to Joe Kopsick between February and November 2020. Did not commit any acts of impropriety against Joe Kopsick.
    


- Boldt, Raymond Allen

     Mundelein-based attorney. Accused by Grayson “Kash” Jackson (born Benjamin Winderweedle) of parental alienation. Represented Kash Jackson’s ex-wife in their custody battle Defended Jeffrey B. Hannah, a youth pastor who pled guilty of sexual assault against several teenage girls. Boldt motioned for Hannah to be able to visit his niece and nephew.

     Source:



- Calusinski, Melissa (and sister)

     After what could be described as a coerced confession, Melissa Calusinski was convicted in 2012 of murdering a baby at a child care facility in 2009. Richard Kopsick represented someone in that case, possibly Calusinski’s sister or co-worker. Kopsick’s friend Steve Scheller prosecuted Calusinski along with his associate Matt deMartini.

     Source:



- Christensen, Judge Janelle

     Presided over part of Kash Jackson’s child custody case. Acted with prejudice in committing parental alienation against Jackson.



- Collins, Judge Raymond D.

     Judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois. Accused by Sam Gorg of parental alienation.



- del Re, David

     Attorney in Waukegan. Accused by parent Sam Gorg of working with Sol Rappaport to commit fraudulent litigation of Gorg’s child custody and parental alienation case.



- Dick, Jonathan, and Dick, Susan

     Proprietors of Sweet’s Ice Cream store in Lake Forest. Parents of a student Joe Kopsick knew in high school. Accused, by author and therapist Karen A. Fennell, of molesting Fennell’s children.



- Dunn, Dan

     Friend of Richard Kopsick. Former police officer in either Lake Bluff or Lake Forest. Joe Kopsick overheard Dunn telling fellow police officer Carl Schons that the Jews owned most of the factories in Germany, and therefore caused the pollution (implying that the Jews deserved what was coming to them).

- Feld, Dr. Michael

     Psychiatrist based in Northbrook. Was recommended to treat Joe Kopsick, by Dr. Sol Rappaport, after Richard Kopsick asked Rappaport to recommend a therapist. Joe Kopsick reported Feld to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations in May 2021.




- Fennell, Karen A. (and family)

     Formerly of Lake Bluff. Therapist, and the author of Straying Towards Truth, a fictionalized account of what to expect when a child in the family comes forward with allegations of sexual abuse. Fennell claims that Jonathan and Susan Dick, the owners of Sweet’s Ice Cream store in Lake Forest, molested her daughter or daughters. Moved out of state after the alleged abuse.




- Gibson, Scott Boen

     Waukegan-based attorney who lives in Lake Forest. Long time friend of Richard Kopsick; vacationed together with their families (including Union League Club Hotel in Chicago in December 1996). Used to share office space with Kopsick. Pinched Joe Kopsick’s butt when he was a child attending Gibson’s pool parties, and bragged that he was pinching child guests’ butts by yelling “There’s a butt-biter in the pool” in front of other parents, who did nothing about it. Denied pinching any children’s butts, according to a mutual friend of Gibson and Joe Kopsick, in late June or early July 2020. Once wrote a letter to Richard Kopsick saying that he was in Europe and the heroin there was great. Recovering alcoholic. Divorced.




- Gliniewicz, Joseph

     Deceased Fox Lake police officer. Killed himself in a staged suicide on September 1st, 2015, prompting suspicion of murder and a search for the alleged killers. The non-existent suspects were described as ethnic minorities. Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd revealed that Gliniewicz committed suicide. Gliniewicz and his wife Melodie defrauded the Youth Police Explorers Group.

     Source:



- Gorg, Sam

     Lake County parent. Published a video alleging misconduct and intentional parental alienation by attorney David del Re and psychiatrist Dr. Sol R. Rappaport in Gorg’s child custody case.



- Hannah, Jeffrey B.

     Former youth pastor from Wildwood who pled guilty to sexual assaults against teenage girls. Was defended by attorney Raymond A. Boldt, who represented Kash Jackson’s wife in their child custody battle.

     Source:



- Hastert, J. Dennis

     Former U.S. Representative from Illinois and Republican Speaker of the House. Molested teenage boys while working as a basketball coach (a commonality he shares with Kenneth Hasty).



- Hasty, Kenneth

     Waukegan man and former aldermanic candidate. Defended by Richard Kopsick in 1993 for attempting to make sexual advances towards a teenage boy while in his home. Had previously been accused of child molestation and was on probation. Richard Kopsick urged continued probation.

     Sources:



- Howell, Justus

     Now deceased boy from Zion who was shot to death by police at the age of 17. Coroner Dr. Thomas Rudd said that Howell was shot in the back by the police.

     Source:




- Jackson, Grayson “Kash”

     Navy veteran, and former resident of Antioch, Illinois. Gubernatorial nominee of the Libertarian Party of Illinois in 2018. Accused Judge Joseph V. Salvi, Judge Janelle Christensen, and his ex-wife’s attorney Raymond Allen Boldt, of committing parental alienation against him in his child custody dispute.




- Jones, Kristin

     Supervisor at Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center in Gurnee. Referred Joe Kopsick to North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic after Evelyn Bello stopped working at Zacharias.



- Kopsick, Joseph W.

     Private security guard. Born in Lake Forest on February 24th, 1987. Grew up in Lake Bluff, now lives in Waukegan. Son of Richard S. Kopsick. Accused Richard S. Kopsick of criminal sexual abuse, to Lake Bluff police, in December 2019 and March 2021. Studied political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison between 2005 and 2009. Blogger and political researcher at the Aquarian Agrarian. Frequent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives.




- Kopsick, Richard S.

     Personal injury, criminal defense, and medical negligence attorney based in Waukegan. Born in Manhattan, New York City, New York State on March 10th, 1957. Grew up in Lake Bluff. Lives in Lake Bluff. Molested his oldest son Joseph W. Kopsick at 524 East Washington Avenue, Lake Bluff, in 1995 and 1996. Defended accused child molester Kenneth Hasty in 1993. Former friend of attorney Scott Gibson, who pinched Joe Kopsick’s butt at his pool parties in the 1990s. Democrat, heavily involved with Lake County Democratic Party during the 1990s.




- Lichter, Sally

     G.A.L. (Guardian Ad Litem) who charged Kash Jackson thousands of dollars to speak to his son over the phone.



- Malkov, Lisa

     Police officer at the Lake Bluff Police Department. Spoke to Joe Kopsick, and several people Kopsick suggested the police interview, after each of Kopsick’s two visits to the Lake Bluff police (in December 2019 and March 2021). Would contact Victor o’Block’s Special Victims Unit office in the Lake County State’s Attorney if she determined that there was enough evidence to charge Richard Kopsick with a crime.



- Miller, David “Dave”

     Former theater director at Lake Forest High School. Lives in Lake Bluff. Reports that Miller had had inappropriate sexual relationships and text messages with teenage students, surfaced in 2009, and then again in 2020 because the 2009 accusers wished to retain their privacy.

     Sources:



- Nerheim, Michael

     Lake County State’s Attorney from November 2012 to January 2021. Republican. Defeated by Democrat Eric Rinehart. Served above prosecutor Victor o’Block when o’Block decided not to file charges against Richard Kopsick in early 2020.




- o’Block, Victor

     Prosecutor at the Special Victims Unit of the Lake County State’s Attorney’s office. In the position to file charges against Richard Kopsick when and if police determine that there is enough evidence to do so. Decided not to file charges against Richard Kopsick in March 2020 (but failed to notify Joe Kopsick, resulting in his not finding out until two months later). Told Joe Kopsick, the first time they spoke (in May 2020), that he would not file charges, and that if Kopsick wants legal action, he should file a civil suit, or else go out of Lake County’s jurisdiction to bring attention to the case.



- o’Hara, Kathleen

     Former teacher and principal at Lake Bluff Middle School. President and mayor of the Village of Lake Bluff since 2007. Attended school board meetings with Richard Kopsick in the 1990s. Yelled at Joe Kopsick in her principal’s office for using the word “pot” while trying to draw attention to a very young boy who was using marijuana. Accused by Joe Kopsick, in 2020, of not doing enough to alert parents and the community about Diane M. Ross's 2000 arrest for soliciting child pornography.

     Source:



- Rappaport, Dr. Sol R.

     Libertyville-based psychiatrist. One of the owners of Counseling Connections Therapeutic Day Schools. Co-founder of four other therapeutic day schools. Youth counselor. Has presented on family counseling and other topics for bar associations. Recommended Dr. Michael Feld to Richard Kopsick, for the purposes of providing psychiatric counseling to Joe Kopsick, in March 2015. Knew that Richard Kopsick wanted his son and victim Joe Kopsick medicated, when he recommended Feld.




- Rinehart, Eric

     Lake County State’s Attorney since January 2021 (defeated incumbent Republican Michael Nerheim). Democrat. Praised the work done by Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center while on David Rych’s Reality Radio show on WRLR 98.3 FM Lake County in late 2020. Works in the same office as prosecutor Victor o’Block, whom is in a position to file charges against Richard Kopsick but has not done so.




- Ross, Diane M.

     Former English professor at Lake Forest College. Lived in Lake Bluff. Mother of two students who attended Lake Bluff schools with Joe Kopsick. Arrested in 2000 for posing as a 13-year-old girl in order to send child pornography over the internet.

     Sources:



- Rossetti, Judge Victoria “Vicky”

     Judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois. Married to attorney Doug Zeit, who shares office space with Richard Kopsick. Friend of Richard Kopsick.



- Rudd, Dr. Thomas

     Former Lake County Coroner. Involved in the cases of Joseph Gliniewicz (police officer suicide), Melissa Calusinski (infant homicide), and Justus Howell (shot by police).




- Salvi, Judge Joseph V.

     Presided over part of Kash Jackson’s child custody case. Acted with prejudice in committing parental alienation against Jackson.



- Scheller, Steve

     Former defense attorney. Prosecutor, along with associate Matt deMartini, in Melissa Calusinski’s trial for the alleged murder of infant Benjamin Kingan. Conspired with deMartini to depict Calusinski as an intentional murderer when the cause of the baby’s death was unintentional homicide. Scheller and/or deMartini, probably intentionally, failed to lighten X-ray evidence which showed that the baby had previous injuries. Friend of Richard Kopsick, who represented Calusinski’s sister and/or co-worker in relation to the case.

      Source:



- Schons, Carl

     Former Chief of Police of the Lake Bluff Police Department. Friend of Richard Kopsick and officer Dan Dunn. Did not push back against Dunn when Dunn whispered to Schons that the Jews in Germany ran most of the factories and therefore were responsible for most of the pollution.



- Vorderstrasse, Judge Donna-Jo

     Presided over part of Kash Jackson’s child custody case. Acted with prejudice in committing parental alienation against Jackson.



- Wright, Dr. Vernice

     Therapist at Truth Youth and Family Services, L.L.C., based in Waukegan. Provided cognitive behavior therapy to Joe Kopsick in early 2021. Did not commit any acts of impropriety against Joe Kopsick.




- Zeit, Douglas E. “Doug”

     Waukegan-based attorney. Shares office space with Richard Kopsick. Friend of Richard Kopsick. Married to Judge Victoria “Vicky” Rossetti.




- [Name unknown]

     Old man accused of molesting kids in Lake Bluff public pool showers.



- [Name unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adult male in the community who molested a male student who attended Lake Bluff schools with Joe Kopsick.



- [Name unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adult male in the community who molested a male student who attended Lake Bluff schools with Joe Kopsick.



- [Name unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adult male in the community who molested and/or raped his daughter, who attended Lake Forest High School with Joe Kopsick.



- [Names unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown adults in the community who may have conspired to keep the David Miller and/or Diane M. Ross child sex crime scandals a secret.



- [Names unknown] [not mentioned in the infographic]

     Unknown sailors at Great Lakes Naval Base (in Great Lakes, Illinois) who committed statutory rape against one or more young teen underage girls, at least as young as 12 or 13 years old. At least one of such girls may have been acting, at the time, as an underage prostitute, pimped by her father. This occurred some time between 1999 and 2002.






Created on May 21st, 24th, and 25th, 2021

Originally published on May 25th, 2021
under the title
"Social Networking Map of Child Molesting Attorneys,
Fraudulent Psychiatrists, and Racist Police Officers
in Lake County, Illinois"

Edited and Expanded on July 30th, 2021

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Abilify and Other "Atypical Antipsychotics" Are Overprescribed, Dangerous, and Increase Some Psychotic Symptoms

      The majority of the following text was originally published in my February 2021 article "Tips on Identifying and Recovering From Schizophrenia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Sleep Paralysis".
     That article can be viewed at the link below. The section regarding Abilify and other antipsychotic medications, can be found under "Step 1".
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/02/tips-on-recovering-from-schizophrenia.html





     "S.G.A." stands for "Second-Generation Antipsychotics". Abilify is in a class of drugs known as "atypical antipsychotics". Other drugs in this class include Seroquel, Risperdal, Geodon, and Zyprexa.
          Abilify (aripiprazole) is prescribed for bipolar disorder, clinical depression, autism-associated irritability, and various psychological disorders experienced by teenagers. Abilify is also used to treat schizophrenia.
     Whether it actually works the way it's supposed to - and whether it's an antipsychotic at all - has been questioned, however, and so has its use on teenagers and children.

     As of late 2018, more than two thousand lawsuits were filed against the makers of Abilify (Bristol-Myers Squibb), contending that the drugmaker convinced doctors to prescribe Abilify for conditions which the F.D.A. (Food and Drug Administration) had not approved.
     Some plaintiffs also asserted that the makers of Abilify failed to warn doctors and patients about the connection between Abilify and compulsive behaviors.


     In early 2015, I was prescribed Abilify by a psychiatrist who had not yet diagnosed me with anything. The only thing he told me was that I didn't have O.D.D. (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). He never explained to me what Abilify was supposed to treat, aside from "helping get the unwanted thoughts under control".

     I found out years later that some people who had taken Abilify had experienced symptoms resembling paralysis after only one dose. I refused to take the drug because I didn't know what it would do to me, and in retrospect it could have risked permanent damage to my nervous system.

     The articles linked below, explain that the negative side effects of Abilify include akathisia (inner restlessness) and a persistent feeling of need to walk and pace; limited mobility of the legs, muscle pain, arthritis, weight gain, and irregular movements of the mouth and head.

     http://www.levinlaw.com/abilify-lawsuit-lawyer

     http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/abilify-side-effects-can-be-scary


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     Through reading the articles above, and some of the comments on YouTube videos about Abilify, we can see that there is, in fact, a wide range of negative side effects, which are associated with either taking Abilify, and/or withdrawing from its use. These include the following.


     Negative side effects associated with taking Abilify include:


     - agitation

     - akathisia (inner restlessness), and compulsive need to walk and pace, or feeling "wound up"

     - anxiety

     - blood disorders

     - blurred vision

     - compulsive behaviors, including binge eating, hypersexuality, and compulsive gambling and shopping, even to the point of the patient's financial ruin / reduction of inhibitions / increasing feelings of mania and hyperactivity

     - constipation and digestive tract distress

     - diabetes or elevated blood sugar

     - difficulty sleeping

     - drowsiness

     - dry mouth, or drooling and excessive salivation

     - elevated cholesterol

     - fever

     - gall bladder problem

     - headaches, dizziness, and lightheadedness

     - high potassium

     - increased social anxiety

     - low blood pressure (especially with standing) or dizziness

     - low sodium

     - muscle pain and arthritis

     - nausea

     - pancreatitis

     - paranoia

     - stroke or transient ischemic attack (T.I.A.)

     - swelling of the throat

     - tardive dyskinesia, uncontrollable muscle movements, lip smacking, grimacing, neck twisting

     - tremor

     - weight gain

     - worsening depression / suicidal thoughts


     Negative side effects associated with withdrawing use of Abilify include:


     - "creeping crawling sensation"

     - agitation

     - anxiety

     - confusion

     - difficulty socializing

     - dizziness

     - feeling of having had a "chemical lobotomy"

     - migraine headaches

     - nausea and vomiting

     - poor judgment

     - poor memory

     - sweating

     - uncontrollable muscular movements


     One commenter on YouTube even mentioned that juvenile detention facilities put inmates on Abilify and other antipsychotic drugs, with little regard about the potential hazardous side effects. This phenomenon is detailed in the articles linked below.

     http://www.phillyvoice.com/report-antipsychotic-drugs-pa-juvenile-offenders/

     http://healthbeatblog.com/2011/06/atypical-antipsychotics-misused-as-chemical-restraints-for-youthful-offenders/

     http://thelensnola.org/2011/07/27/jailedjuvenilesanddrugs/


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     It is disturbing to think that anxiety and agitation are both side effects of taking and withdrawing from Abilify, while Abilify is being prescribed to fix anxiety and agitation problems in teenagers with autism.

     It should also be noted that Abilify can cause depression, while withdrawing from its use can increase ones difficulty socializing, when Abilify is prescribed to treat depression and make socializing easier.

     We should also ask ourselves the following questions: 1) "Why would drugmakers have had any reason to refrain from pressuring doctors into over-prescribing Abilify, when its side effects make the patient into a binge-eating, binge-shopping, hypersexual gambler?" 2) "Who stands to profit from marketing binge sex and gambling as the solutions to depression?", and 3) "Since when is constantly buying, shopping, gambling, and having sex a sign that everything is OK in your life?".



     In 2008, The Guardian reported that U.K. National Health Service psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff believes that antipsychotics not only don't work, but also cause brain damage. Moncrieff researches "antidepressant non-effectiveness", a phenomenon in which antipsychotic drugs no longer work on a patient, usually after years of trying different medications. Moncrieff says that antipsychotics tranquilize depression and delusions, but also emotions.

     http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/mar/02/mythoftheantipsychotic?fbclid=IwAR30axxWTJqQ_CRSOpq6t4KsubsgsKNLG8hFkPV4Vam6aEV5crwgjPAw58w




     I say all of this, not as a dismissal of medication entirely. I am not anti-science, nor am I anti-medicine. I simply regard psychiatric medications as blinders which shield us from having to deal with reality. 
     I say that psychiatric medications "shield us from having to deal with reality" because some patients of Abilify have reported a "loss of joy" resulting from the medication blocking-out all emotional extremes. One YouTube commenter who had taken Abilify, reported that Abilify got rid of his depression, but also got rid of his ability to experience joy and happiness.




A screenshot of several YouTube comments regarding
negative effects of Abilify

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     People who are experiencing hallucinations or delusions or identity disorders - and victims of beatings, rape, and emotional abuse - do not need to be sedated, nor do they need to have their range of emotions narrowed and muted. They need someone to listen to them talk about their problems, and they need someone to help them do reality-checks.


     When I was prescribed Abilify in late March 2015, I was told that it would help stop “unwanted thoughts” from coming into my mind.
     To be fair, I had complained about thoughts seeming to circle around in my mind endlessly. But I never asked for the thoughts to go away. I never asked anyone to medicate the thoughts away.
     My psychiatrist said that the medication would help me get my thoughts “under control”. Well, excuse me, but is that going to negatively impact my imagination in any way? Since when is my imagination something that I have to get “under control”?
     If I don't let thoughts enter my mind, and deal with them by confronting them directly and considering them, then where are my ideas going to come from? Blind faith in what other people say?
     I think for myself, and I make my own decisions about what goes into my body. I am not afraid of “unwanted thoughts”, nor of “losing control” of my mind. Thoughts are immaterial and cannot hurt me.
     All I needed was someone to talk to, to help me do reality checks. All I needed was someone to bounce ideas off of; someone who would bear with me while I occasionally speak in metaphors and similes, or make use of poetic license to talk about the connections I was perceiving.
     I did not need medication. I was trying to reduce my total intake of artificial drugs at the time when I was prescribed Abilify.


     I believe that, if I had taken Abilify in early 2015 (when my memories of childhood sexual abuse began to resurface), then I could have suffered neurological impairments, and/or inability to move my mouth properly, which would have made it exceedingly difficult to continue to retrieve suppressed memories, and to articulate those memories verbally.
     It's possible that psychiatrists - and maybe even my former psychiatrist, Dr. Michael Feld - know about this effect. It's possible that they prescribe these neurotranquilizers - that is, nerve tranquilizers, i.e., sedatives - to diminish the speaking and fleeing ability of young people who are suffering from disruptive thought processes, because they know these young people suffered forms of trauma in the past and cannot safely divulge those traumas on these drugs.


    All of these facts and potentialities point to the possibilities that the over-prescription of neurotranquilizing and neuroleptic antipsychotic medications - and the over-diagnosis of disorders for which antipsychotic sedatives are prescribed - in order to "dope-up" the patient and render them immobile and speechless (which only serves to make them look more "catatonic" than before), is actually a systemic problem.
     This is certainly not a problem which can be medicated away.


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     The fact that depression results from a chemical imbalance in the brain, does not always mean that psychiatric drugs are necessary to restore that imbalance to equilibrium.

     There are club drugs that are being prescribed as anti-depressants now. Namely Ketamine, which was known as a date-rape drug until just ten years ago.

     http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/04/162299564/ketamine-relieves-depression-by-restoring-brain-connections?fbclid=IwAR0xv9Ni1qzZ5ZmgaGyMqLCl9z33R0-TEs8HIrC7NU8cjZgG3afeSCK0ML8

     In the 1970s, ecstasy was prescribed to couples who were having difficulty being intimate.
     http://maps.org/news/media/7645-big-think-decades-ago,-ecstasy-%E2%80%94-yes,-mdma-%E2%80%94-was-used-in-marriage-counseling

     Some people on the West Coast are micro-dosing LSD while they are at work.
     http://www.wired.co.uk/article/lsd-microdosing-drugs-silicon-valley



     Don't tell me that "psychiatric medications aren't drugs" just because they're made in a laboratory by scientists. That would be like arguing that marijuana could not possibly have any psychoactive effects simply because it was not made in a laboratory, and instead grows out of the ground.
     The fact that club drugs are moving into psychiatrists' office, means that you have every right to use the word “drugs” when referring to, or refusing to take, medications whose full effects on the nervous system have arguably not been sufficiently tested.



     You have every right to refuse to take psychiatric medications, as long as you are prepared to confront painful and distressing memories head-on.

     You may also wish to look into other more natural cures which may be available. Skullcap, for example, is an herb that promotes alertness, while also creating a soothing feeling. You can buy skullcap tea.
     If you have been using hard drugs, or struggled with drug addiction, you may wish to research anti-addictive chemicals. Unfortunately, the anti-addictive substance ibogaine is hallucinogenic, and illegal in the United States. But a derivative of ibogaine, 18-MC, has no psychedelic effects, and has been shown to reduce addiction in laboratory mice.


     Your brain stores all of your memories and thoughts; everything that has ever happened to you. It stores the memories of your dreams, houses your imagination, controls your personality and emotions. Your brain is what makes you you. The last thing you want to do is alter your brain chemistry out of the need to resort to a “quick fix” that will solve all of your problems at once. No such quick fix exists.

     Doing drugs is (probably part of) what got you into this; more drugs might not get you out.


     Even if you are struggling with severe symptoms of psychosis, antipsychotic medication might not necessarily be what you need.
     Get your symptoms properly diagnosed, before jumping to any conclusions, as withdrawals from antipsychotics can be severe (and considering that antipsychotics can cause restless, manic, depressive, and sociopathic symptoms to worsen).
     Even if you are sure that you are experiencing a chemical imbalance, antipsychotics are not necessarily the cure. There is a vitamin you can take, which should help restore your neurotransmitting chemicals to good working order.

     If you have been experiencing hallucinations and delusions that are consistent with symptoms of schizophrenia, then you may be experiencing psychiatric symptoms associated with nerve degeneration. One major cause of nerve degeneration is a deficiency of niacin (also known as Vitamin B3) in your system.

     Niacin stimulates the production of dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. Those neurotransmitters affect memory, learning, recognition, and recall, and mood. That's why insufficient intake of niacin can negatively affect our cognitive function.

     If you suspect that you aren't getting enough niacin, talk to your doctor, nutritionist, and/or psychiatrist, and decide whether you should start drinking vitamin water containing B3, and/or whether you should get more of the high-in-niacin foods which are listed in the article linked below.




     If you are currently on psychiatric medications, then learn as much as you can about the side effects of that drug (or those drugs). If you are not on psychiatric meds, but someone has recommended a specific medication to you, then you should still learn as much as you can about the drug.
     It is very important to consider whether the effects of a drug might interfere with your ability to think clearly, speak clearly, and remember things easily. Your ability to recover lost repressed memories might become damaged, if you take psychiatric drugs which have what I would describe as neurotranquilizing effects; i.e., sedative effects.
     Alcohol has similar effects, because it has sedative effects (as well as some stimulating effects); it's the brain's cognitive centers that get sedated.


     Don't begin taking any medication until you have a good idea of what it will – and might – do to you. You don't want to find out the hard way, that a single dose of a medication can have effects from which it is difficult to recover.
     Use several sources for reviews of the medication; read peer-reviewed studies, read random YouTube comments, and read anything about the medication that you can get your hands on. Make a “pro-vs.-con” diagram, if you have to, to decide whether to try it.
     And finally, don't start a medication until you've made sure that your doctor has a plan about what to do if it doesn't work. You might have to either get off of it, or transition onto a different drug. Withdrawal symptoms of psychiatric medications can be serious and potentially life-threatening. If your psychiatrist doesn't have a backup plan, or a backup medication, then you should start asking more questions.




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Written between February 24th and 28th,
and March 3
rd, 5th, and 7th though 9th, 2021

Originally Published on March 11th, 2021

Edited and Expanded on March 11th, 12th, and 15th, 2021

First Image Added on March 12th, 2021
Second Image Added on March 15th, 2021

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