I had an aunt who suffered from bipolar disorder who struggled to find the right medication and finally did, when she would quit taking medication her mind would start racing and she’d threaten to commit suicide.
I also know a teen who came from a troubled family. His dad committed suicide and his mom died of complications of COVID-19 and Type I diabetes. Fortunately he was taken in by his grandparents and gotten a lot of help from a youth group affiliated with his church, the school system, etc. Still it has taken expert psychiatric help to find meds that stabilize his condition and stop him from harming himself.
People generally don’t like antipsychotic drugs. It may take quite a few visits to the psychiatrist to find something that really works and has minimal side effects, but my first take is a depot injection of a typical antipsychotic is the right thing for many people in a mental health crisis.
Robert Whitaker has covered research that finds the psychotics who do the best are those who are never exposed to antipsychotics. Those who do the second-best are those who are taken off antipsychotics as soon as possible. Those who do the worst, long-term, are those who are maintained on antipsychotics in perpetuity.
Psychiatric medications reduce patients' expected lifespan by 20 years. My aunt's friend had a psychotic break (emotional stress, iirc), was maintained on antipsychotics for life, and died of liver failure - I think she was in her early 60's.
SSRIs and ECT work by increasing the brain's production of allopregnanolone, just like in any other kind of brain damage.
And that is supposed to make you sound credible?
All I want is a public response from the Arizona Attorney General regarding Arizona's system of #MedicalAssault for those who have substance abuse problems. I haven't gotten any engagement from anyone on the twitter, so I figured the check (& advertising) might be helpful.
There are a lot of things the Supreme Court could be saying when they deny your petition. Your interpretation is about the least likely.
Did you have an actual lawyer write it, or at least advise you on legal strategy? Had you gone through the appellate courts? If not, then the Supreme Court is almost certainly not going to hear it, no matter how right you are or how urgent you think it is.
The justices denied my first petition by denying its motion to file under seal. That was #18M57: https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docket/do...
Some time after sending this petition I called to ask what was up. The clerk said he'd do something for me.
I didn't figure out the motion was denied until I called again, months later. They transferred me to the person I'd talked to before (who I'd later figure out was relatively high up the ladder at the clerks' office). He sounded very uncomfortable, and promised to send me another copy of the denial letter.
Later the Clerk of the Supreme Court refused to docket a paid petition for writ of habeas corpus, because it was 100% next-friend, and was not signed by my friend. I think the rules are clear that that type of petition was acceptable, but the clerk wouldn't docket it. I think that cost me $1400.
The Supreme Court Clerk "screwed up" & delayed my application for injunctive relief for a few weeks, by "mistakenly" sending it back to me. From https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22A181/237218/2022... -
Additionally, I’ve realized your return letter to me for Application 22A181,
dated August 17 2022, was “sloppy”: your deputy clerk used the dates of
denials of my petition #21-6444, but the title of #21-1493. I assume this was
an honest mistake. Even if you have secret orders to be extraordinarily strict
with my submissions to your office, [...] Ignore the snide and superior comments here (some of which are just plain wrong) from
members of the Guild of Wizards. Like all guild members, they're very touchy when a layman
practices magic without having undergone the prescribed rituals of consecration.
In February of 2020 I emailed Robert Whitaker, founder of the Mad in America foundation, to clarify what was important about the Soviet Psycho Prisons’ use of Haloperidol. His answer was simple: “American psychiatry and others in U.S. called it torture.”
Mad in America has published two of my blog posts about the harms of forced ‘treatment’ that I’ve observed in my friend’s scientific deterioration by Arizona’s mental health industry:
Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry - https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/02/malignant-gooderism/
Cargo Cult Psychiatry - https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-psychiatry/
I populated the key documents from my U.S. District Court filings into the Free Law Project:
Fraud on the Court: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18212672/8/mihaylo-v-ru... My filing to point out that this ‘motion to dismiss’ was obviously fraudulent: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18212672/9/mihaylo-v-ru... Handwritten Notice to the District Court of Fraud: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18212672/14/mihaylo-v-r...
My friend got released from probation in September 2019, and drank herself into guardianship proceedings in October 2019 (alcohol was her treatment for emotional stress, and her genetic condition of being malnourished by folic acid). By February 2020 she’d mostly recovered from that alcoholic binge (antipsychotics are observed to enhance psychosis over time: she certainly would’ve recovered much more rapidly if not for the tranquilizers). She talked to her attorneys and guardians: ‘how do I get out of this care home?’ Their response was, essentially, ‘never - this is your life now.’ She escaped from that first care home on November 1 2020, with the help of someone she’d met on OK Cupid’s ‘friends’ section. After a day she decided I was her best option - she called, I picked her up.
We filed separately to replace her guardian. Her guardian filed a counter-petition for protective order. This counter-petition was granted in March 2021… My petition to replace the guardian was dismissed. Her lawful letter asking for a new guardian was ignored.
My earliest comments (and court filings) referred to this friend as my girlfriend, but after her guardian got the order of protection and locked her up in a hospice home we drifted apart. She still calls, sporadically, and still considers me her best friend. In February 2023 I had a new romantic interest come into my life.
My Supreme Court petitions are #21-6444 and #21-1493:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do... (petition for writ of mandamus) https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do... (paid petition for writ of certiorari)
The paid petition cost … ~$1300. Both of these have a petition for rehearing. The State of Arizona filed a ‘Waiver’ on #21-1493, which basically acknowledges everything I stated in my petition, and says ‘so what?’
My friend’s latest escape from her latest care home was in February 2023. I learned of this when I got a call from a private investigator in April 2023, then a call from my friend’s father. This time she’s stayed sober, and chooses to live in the ‘ghetto’ rather than in a care home. The ghetto has the advantage of only perpetrating regular violence, rather than #MedicalViolence. Her guardianship case’s public record doesn’t mention any of her escapes.
This is a tweet thread to Matt Might, my HS classmate who’s now doing precision medicine. It’s about some things I think are relevant, if only the allopathic doctors forced on my friend cared about being precise: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1595562260453548034
Chris Palmer MD’s book, Brain Energy, makes the case that mental disorders are caused by metabolic problems, and can be treated with a metabolic approach. There’s nothing new in the book, he just nicely organizes the research. Google books has a preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=FoxlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT233&dq=B...
This link is to the section of the book that discusses why alcohol is so problematic for many people. This has been known for 10+ years [0], but … the alcohol treatment industry doesn’t care?
[0] my comment from April 11, 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085230
My tweet about how alcohol is a substitute source of the substrate for cholesterol synthesis for people whose mitochondria are dysfunctional: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1667570759034888192 (cholesterol is the precursor for pregnenolone, the steroid & prohormone which is used to make all the other steroid hormones).
The problem with Brain Energy is that ketogenic diets are very problematic for some people. In the tweet thread linked above there’s a link to another tweeter who makes the case that mass-fortification of flour is a health disaster. Maybe Dr. Palmer’s observed benefits of the ketogenic diet mostly come from avoiding fortified white flour?
I have another friend who spent years starving herself of carbohydrates, trying to lose weight. Once when she came to visit, she appeared with my carton of ice cream asking, “why does my brain work when I eat Haagen Daz?” I told her the brain requires glucose, AND fructose, and it’s much more efficient to eat a little bit of sugar than to turn protein into glucose and force the brain to turn glucose into fructose. It took another 2 years of her barely functioning on a low-carb dieting before I was able to convince her to eat oranges.
I’ve given up on more filings. I need help from a legal team… I’m thinking of doing a Change.Org petition asking the new Arizona Attorney General to go back to the Supreme Court and ask that they restore me & my friend to the protection of the rule of law. I think this case would also help people who believe that women whose pregnancy fails shouldn’t have to travel to another state for medical help with their failed pregnancy.
But for now it’s easier to just submit a poll here. My new girlfriend doesn’t like that I’m still trying to help my last girlfriend not get euthanized by the State of Arizona, so… your upvotes and votes will help me make the case that this is something important that I can make a difference with.
Your comments on my situation will be much appreciated.
Thanks, James Knochel