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I filed a criminal complaint with the Arizona Attorney General's office on April 14th. After 2 months I emailed a supplement. They emailed me back with a 'copy' of a letter, dated April 14th, responding to my complaint. I have most of my USPS informed delivery emails from that period, indicating they never mailed this letter. (There's a gap ~10 days after April 14 - maybe I didn't get any mail that day, maybe I deleted it.)

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.

> Your interpretation is about the least likely.

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, [...]

Drugs like haloperidol have been studied and found to increase stimulant users' use of meth amphetamine & cocaine. When psychosis is caused by substance abuse, the only reasonable treatment is helping the person get their substance abuse under control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance-induced_psychosis

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.

I think there’s a 2000-character limit for the poll text. Submitting this comment for additional context. This is posted to HN because this is the main area where I’ve organized some of my thoughts on my efforts to assert our rights to make medical decisions for ourselves. Some of the responses to my /r/legaladvice submission were very helpful, but their moderators deleted the most helpful comments so they could make fun of me. For example, this was part of a lawyer’s deleted comment:

  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.

First… This is no longer me trying to protect a girlfriend, but about principle. In America we supposedly have rights and freedoms, privileges and immunities. But in the real world, rights are subordinate to the medical industry: if the doctors says they can help you, whether it be by palliative psychiatric medications or… some other medical experiment, you can’t refuse their help.

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

"Making too much noise can get you in trouble."

Someone explained this to me once, in another way: "missionaries get eaten by cannibals." Thanks for the reminder.

The tragedy of modern psychiatry is that it's so close to knowing enough to be helpful to people whose symptoms are behavioral, but the psychiatric standard of care is a straight jacket that prevents progress.

I've commented here about my efforts to extract my friend from her psychiatric misdiagnosis. tl/dr: she has the genetic condition where she can't turn the food fortification folic acid into a methylated form of Vitamin B-9 (MTHFR), which results in her being harmed by fortified food. Folate-deficiency is known to be behind problematic alcohol consumption.

She told me about how adding L-Methyl-Folate to her routine was like flipping a switch from 'depressed' to 'not-depressed'. But the doctors had already decided her substance-associated psychosis required tranquilizers ('antipsychotics') in perpetuity, and only added the vitamin to their forced prescriptions. The latest news is that she escaped from her court-ordered guardian and involuntary mental health treatments, sometime in February 2023. The antipsychotics have worn off, and she's been able to stay sober. She sounds like she's doing well.

Mad in America has published two of my blog posts. The second one was called Cargo Cult Psychiatry: https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-psychiatry/

SCOTUS dismissed my latest petition without comment, as if to say it's perfectly fine for the mental health industry to perpetrate fraud on the United States Court. Still thinking about how to proceed.

A book - Brain Energy by Chris Palmer - was published in 2022. All the old approaches to forced psychiatric drugging have been obsolete for decades, now they're indefensible. There's nothing new in the book, Dr. Palmer just compiled 50+ years of research into his book.

> Women's mortality starts to match men's as they progress on menopause.

Doctors used to prescribe women horse-derived estrogen (PREMARIN - made from PREgnant MARes' urIN) on the mistaken belief that women were deficient in estrogen after their cycles stopped. "Prescription horse piss" doesn't sell very well to people who don't necessarily trust their doctors, so the medical industry mostly switched to selling a synthetic bio-identical estrogen to treat women's supposed "estrogen deficiency".

But really it's the loss of a monthly Progesterone surge, from the post-ovulation luteal phase of the cycle, that's behind women's health advantages over men. When ovulation stops, women's death rates rapidly increases to match men's rates.

Supplemental progesterone can be taken transdermally or via injections. Most of the progesterone in a pill is lost to the first-pass metabolism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_pass_effect

Steroidogenesis starts with cholesterol. The body increases its cholesterol production in the hopes of getting more steroids.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/St...

Medicine’s misunderstanding of cholesterol is one of those mistakes which became very profitable for the pharmaceutical industry.

Back in the day, doctors diagnosed hypothyroidism via temperature and ... co2 (I think). The prescription to treat hypothyroidism was grains of Armour Thyroid (Dessicated Thyroid).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiccated_thyroid_extract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_and_Company

Broda Barnes' book, Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness, tells of the experience of these old-school doctors. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hypothyroidism/TJXf2Zqo...

Every batch of Armour Thyroid was tested and standardized. Then the synthetic Synthroid came out, and the sales reps said "this is way better than animal thyroid", never mind that the batches of the synthetic bio-identical T4 were not consistent.

Eventually the Armour Thyroid brand was sold a couple times. The new owners reformulated it, and didn't care so much about potency. Armour thyroid is still sold, but it's not like it was when Dr. Barnes was using it.

A mix of synthetic T3/T4 is sorta-similar to the old Armour thyroid, and better than the Synthroid.

There's nothing worse than having to deal with people who think they know what they're doing.

> Maybe you all should stop eating so much folate so you do not get cancer in the first place: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000653

Your link is about folic acid supplements, NOT folate.

Folic acid is shelf-stable pro-vitamin that about 60-70% of the population is able to turn into Vitamin B9. The other 30-40% of the population are "poor methylators" who struggle with folic acid, or are harmed by folic acid.

Poor methylators are on a spectrum, from 'not very good methylators' to 'very poor methylators'. I don't really grok biochemistry, but I think more people should avoid folic acid, and aim to get their nutrients from food.

https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1595562181692907520

Edit: My understanding is that folic acid feeds the growth of inflammatory bacteria much more so than natural folate sources.

> What will happen is they they will pump us full of drugs to sedate us

The agony induced by haloperidol was used by the Soviets to help their dissidents realize the gulags were much better places than the psycho prisons.

I appreciate the predicament of the front line therapists in the mental health system.

> “Many people have suffered because of inept psychiatry”

Psychiatry has suffered from the transition to becoming prescribers of psychotropic drugs. It’s all most of them get trained in, but it wasn’t always this way.

I have a book by some good psychiatrists, circa 1947/1952. They helped patients with industrial gasses.

Milton Erickson was a good psychiatrist, who developed his own approach to hypnosis.

Some doctors help patients with thyroid and other gentle prescriptions.

“But Lin makes the case that there are chemical and industrial by-products that could account for the decades-long uptick in ASD, and that by uncritically embracing neurodivergence, we occlude the possibility of asking corporations and regulators to be responsible for what he believes is effectively poisoning people.”

One of the poisons behind autism is now the standard of care. Warned a 60yo friend about her daily use. Eventually she linked a dizzy spell to the poison, cut it out completely and it’s doing much better with Her overall achiness. Inflammation is a large part of the autism problem.

The full first tweet is “(THREAD) Evidence that enriched refined grains promotes obesity. A major overlooked factor in the 1980s obesity epidemic.” At the bottom of the thread are links to the author’s website, presumably with more information.

There are certainly other factors in the obesity epidemic — endocrine disruptors, fake foods, PUFA, etc — but maybe the fortification of flour is a major factor?

I posted the other day about my friend’s tragic experience with Arizona’s involuntary mental health industry [0]. Tl/dr: My friend is diagnosed as chronically disabled. The doctors think she must take anti-psychotics for the rest of her life. I have videos proving she was actually fine 2 weeks before she ran out of alcohol. After maybe ~3 years of forced tranquilizers (“anti-psychotics”), she figured out for herself that she’s a poor methylator who can’t turn the provitamin folic acid into something usable. She said using a methylated form of Vitamin B-9 (L-Methyfolate) was like flipping a switch from “depressed” to “not-depressed”. (This has been forgotten. Now they just keep her on the tranquilizers without the vitamin.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33310757 (some good responses in this thread) (edit: this comment referenced this tweet, but I couldn't find it at the time.)

My retweet [1] said, “I've made an effort to avoid fortified flour for 11+ years, to avoid excess iron. Didn't appreciate how problematic fortification is until I ran across this thread. White flour: sub-optimal Fortified white flour: tragic (poor methylators are harmed by folic acid) #ScienceMistake”

[1] https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1584795534182977537

Ask HN: Is fortified flour a #ScienceMistake ? If so, how can this be brought to Science’s attention?

My goal was to point out that neither ECT nor Ketamine will help if a person is a poor methylator who is malnourished on account of their consumption of folic acid.

> From this comment it sounds like there's a lot you're leaving out of this story

There's more than can be covered in a little comment.

I have the psychiatrists' September 2015 affidavits, filed in support of their petition for involuntary treatment. They say, essentially, "patient expects us to believe she was psychotic because she was drinking 2 bottles of liquor a day, and using cocaine. We know this is not the case because we previously got her 'stabilized' in 2008 and 2010 on haloperidol. She obviously does not appreciate that she is broken and requires anti-psychotics for the rest of her life."

My videos from August 2015 prove that she was actually fine before she ran out of alcohol, and that whatever deterioration the doctors think they're treating is entirely caused by palliative psychiatric drugs.

My friend says she's 'allergic' to olanzapine (Zyprexa). I think it turned her into a zombie?

I think aripiprazole (Abilify) is the least-bad of the antipsychotics. None of them work when the psychosis is actually caused by malnutrition, cocaine, meth amphetamine, or alcohol.

Injection of these drugs is a form of violence.

She'd made a deal with the devil: they agreed to release her from their September 2015 pursuit of an order for involuntary treatment if she agreed to take haloperidol voluntarily. We picked up the prescription, but she resumed drinking the day she was released. Her alcohol consumption got progressively worse, but I had no authority to intervene. After a week+ I took her liquor bottle away anyways, even though I did not have legal authority to do this. 10 hours later I witnessed full-on alcohol withdrawal psychosis.

When she got captured again, their thinking was "she's obviously back here because she didn't take her haloperidol". They never asked me about her alcohol consumption.

Whitaker's book points out that the Quakers' asylums fed people 4 meals a day and provided activities. iirc around 80% of the patients recovered to the point where they could leave the asylum. Think that was covered in Mad In America.

The psychotic patients who do the best, long term, are those who are never treated with antipsychotics. Those who do second best are those who are tapered off antipsychotics promptly. Those who do the worst are those who are maintained on antipsychotics in perpetuity.

Omega-6 oils are the foundation of the body's inflammatory response: more Omega-6 -> more inflammation (prostaglandins are made from Omega 6 [0]). My friend was eating an Omega-6 heavy diet. Omega 6 can't be diluted with Omega-3, the only way to fix the problem is to reduce all polyunsaturated oil consumption.

My breakthrough 'intervention' was frying whole wheat donuts in coconut oil. Coconut oil is brain food for alcoholics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostaglandin#Biosynthesis

Most states have provisions for involuntary mental health treatment. Arizona's laws for forced mental health treatment are in ARS Title 36, Chapter 5: https://www.azleg.gov/arsDetail/?title=36

As soon as the doctors got their order for involuntary treatment in November 2015, they cornered my friend and injected her with a time-release version of haloperidol, then released her to her mother's house.

A day and a half later her mom called the psychiatrists, who said to take my friend to a real ER. My friend told the real doctors at the real ER that she was NOT suicidal. She told me how the haloperidol had 'hit her like a truck', and she tried everything she could think of to counteract the agony: alcohol, cocaine, heroin, dextromethorphan (aka cough syrup), etc.

All the anti-dopamine drugs are terrible. Some of the second-generation drugs that are forced on people are much worse than plain old haloperidol. The poor doctors are just implementing their training. Tragic.

My observation is that agony-inducing drugs are not actually helpful for substance abuse.

My friend figured out for herself, when she was in her 30's, that she's a poor methylator who can't turn the food fortification folic acid into a usable form of Vitamin B-9. She once told me that adding L-Methylfolate to her routine was like flipping a switch from "depressed" to "not-depressed". But the doctors had already decided she was being "stabilized" by the anti-psychotic prescriptions they forced on her, so they just added this vitamin to their cocktail of prescriptions.

Vitamin B-9 has to do with DNA synthesis... My source for physiology told me that even the mutants get enough Vitamin B-9 from an adequate diet, it's just poor methylators who rely on fortified food who are screwed. Deplin is the prescription form of Vitamin B-9. It's approved as an add-on therapy, for when patients don't respond well to the prescriptions that never work.

Usually 'mental health' diagnoses are manifestations of stress: emotional stress is the big one, but malnourishment is often a factor too. Stressed brains use more energy thinking about the stress all the time.

ECT should be retired from use. I heard once that brain damage causes the brain to increase production of the steroid allopregnanolone. The beneficial effect of the SSRI's seem to also be related to increased allopregnanolone, NOT to boosting serotonin levels.

I wonder if my friend's guardian [0] could consent to her getting electrocuted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33307982

Edit: She remembers being depressed for as far back as her memories go. Someone on twitter says food fortification didn't really take off until the 1980's. Before then you had to explicitly buy "wonder bread" to get fortified flour, now you can basically assume white flour is fortified white flour.

My friend, then one I comment about here, now has a guardian. She'd incapacitated herself with alcohol in September 2019. Her father called me in October, 'do you know where she is'? I said she was back in a mental hospital. She was released to the street, so her father and I went to file a missing person report with the police. The police officer looked her up & said she wasn't missing because she'd been taken back to the mental hospital that morning. The case worker at the mental hospital told us that hundreds of petitions for involuntary treatment get dropped every month because they don't have the capacity to forcibly treat everyone they think needs to be forcibly treated. Because they now had context for the random crazy person who'd gotten dropped off by the cops, they had the ability to make sure my friend would not be released to the street again.

Her father spent $40,000 on a guardianship proceedings. She challenged the guardianship and was assigned a private guardian/fiduciary company as her guardian. They dropped her off at a care home in December 2019: "this is your life now."

Sometimes guardianship is fine. Sometimes it's abusive.

Sobriety helped my friend recover from her September/October 2019 drinking binge by February 2020, even though the drugs she was forcibly injected with are contraindicated for helping with substance abuse. My friend tried to make the best of her time at the care home: she got a phone job, was a counselor to other residents at that 'mental health' care home, talked to her attorney and public advocate about getting moved out of the care home. They just ignored her and collected their fees from her estate.

Eventually she gave up, arranged for a ride from a friend she'd met online, and jumped the care home's fence. She called me the next day, as she felt I was her best option for a place to stay. She did her own hostage negotiations with her one court-assigned attorneys. The guardian eventually found a care home where she could leave by herself during the day, which she thought was acceptable. This was basically a hospice home (worse than the mental health care home), but she had a little bit of freedom.

We separately filed with the court to ask for a replacement guardian. Her guardian filed a counter-petition for protective order, against me. The basis was "our ward escaped from our custody, and tcj_phx did not tell us where she was at." This was granted. The court dismissed my petition for a replacement guardian. The court ignored my friend's own petition for a replacement guardian.

The guardian took away her ability to leave the second care home on account of her use of drugs, shared by some friendly people at the local park. After 2 months of being locked up at the hospice home she called 911 for herself, was taken to a psych hospital, taken off all the psych drugs, then returned to the hospice home. Escaped, captured, escaped, captured. She doesn't do well on the run.

This past summer has been terrible for my friend. I ran out of money for motels, and I couldn't keep her off alcohol. I called the public fiduciary in August 2022. She said I could file a complaint with Adult Protective services [APS], but said it's very difficult to get APS to open a case. I filed online, got a call within a day and a half. The APS worker came out to visit us. She asked my friend, "are you safe?" She confirmed she was. They dispatched six police officers and a team to pick up my friend the following morning. When I called her phone that morning, a male voice said I was in violation of a court order, and would've been arrested if I'd been there. It's been almost 2 months, and I haven't been arrested yet, so I think I'm safe.

Now my friend has an advocate. She's been sent to a drug/alcohol rehab business, which is progress. But they've still got her on Abilify, which is FDA-approved to give people compulsive behavior. Sometimes doctors do good work, sometimes they're idiots. <sigh>.

I think this is all good material to motivate the Supreme Court to fix our make-work system of medicine and justice, but they don't want to deal with me. This week I get to send a petition for rehearing [0] to the Justices, which they're just going to ignore.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/rule_44

I've asked for congressional oversight of the supreme court, but Congressman Gosar's response told me that justice is only available to those who can afford an attorney. Senator Sinema's staff responded to my meeting request by emailng a form letter about the WHO. Next I'm going to send her a paper letter asking her to clarify her response.

I went to Blake Masters' campaign stop (for U.S. Senate, vs. incumbent Senator Mark Kelly) and asked him about Medical Freedom, within the context of "vaccine mandates". He had a good grasp of how the Biden Administration tried to use OSHA to force "vaccines" on people who don't want to participate in the trials of this particular experimental drug.

Afterwards I told Mr. Masters the tragedy of Jared Loughner [1] was that Loughner was giving clear signs he was unhinged, but he couldn't be helped because it's "a very serious deprivation of liberty to be forced into treatment." Mr. Masters had an intenseness to listening: as if he hears the same crap at every campaign stop, but he hadn't heard about The Tragedy of Jared Loughner before.

[1] Jared Lee Loughner shot up Congresswoman Giffords' "Congress On Your Corner" event in January 2011. His parents tried to intervene in his deterioration, but didn't know what to do. Giffords is Senator Kelly's wife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Laughner

I read this story about the hospital filing for guardianship of an incapacitated old woman and think, "that's reasonable". I consider my friend's predicament with guardianship and am infuriated.

I think everyone supports medical freedom, except for conservatives who've fallen for a version of "fake spirituality", and liberals who've been terrorized into thinking their survival depends on everyone getting dosed with pharmaceuticals.

Maybe I'll submit a poll.

edit: I resonate with this, at the conclusion of the submission: "“I’m still fighting for her,” Ms. Faerber said." (Faerber is "a housekeeper and caregiver from Guyana").

Sometimes alcohol overuse is indicative of metabolic problems. Their brain say 'starving, please feed me', but because of insulin resistance sugar can't get into the brain cells. Ethanol has 7 calories/gram. It gets converted into acetate, which is easily used by the brain as fuel. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085230

There was a link I found interesting, on student athletes and the '4 day hangover'... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21255738

Naloxone and naltrexone can be really helpful at reducing the amount of alcohol that you can consume. Naltrexone is FDA-approved for alcohol abuse. My friend's alcohol use was under control for about 2 weeks after her treatment with naloxone. Low dose naltrexone is probably more beneficial than full-dose...

Another friend told me of how, while on naltrexone, she could have a beer, then half of a second beer, but couldn't finish the second beer. She drank to make her emotional problems go away - it was easier to stop the naltrexone than the alcohol.

The first conference after the summer recess is known as The Long Conference. All the petitions that stack up over the summer recess (3 months) are dealt with at the first conference of the term. Terms start in the September/October and end in June of the following year. This year there were >1000 petitions for The Long Conference [0].

[0] https://certpool.com/conferences/2022-09-28

Petitions to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) only get read by 3 clerks. 7 of the 9 justices have their clerks go into the "Cert Pool" [1], while Justices Gorsuch and ... Alito have their clerks read all the petitions. The 3 clerks write summaries of each of the petitions for their justices to read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cert_pool

The problem with the cert pool is which of the 7 clerks happens to get your petition. While Justice Thomas' clerk might've loved my petition, Justice Kagan's clerk might have dismissed me without even bothering to read past the 2nd page.

‘ADHD is a coping strategy’

Dr. Mate wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, which I found quite helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Mat%C3%A9

> Similarly, a concern I have is purposefully downplaying the risks of long-term birth control via "the pill".

Depo-provera - the monthly injection of medroxyprogesterone - was temporally associated with my friend's first psychotic break. Medroxyprogesterone causes cortisol deficiency; psychosis is associated with an inability to produce cortisol...

"The pill" uses fake hormones to shut down ovulation. But the doctors are trained to tell women their hormonal cycles are being 'regulated' with 'hormones, so that's what women get told. Tragic.

One problem of modern medicine is the use of fake-hormones.

When Progesterone USP (bio-identical) is applied to the skin, it gets into circulation and avoids first pass metabolization by liver. When the appropriate solvent is used to dissolve the Progesterone USP powder, the progesterone is transported through the liver.

Steroidogenesis refers to the process whereby the body makes steroids for itself. The key jump - from cholesterol to pregnenolone - is facilitated with Vitamin A and thyroid (T3).

Know a couple who were trying to conceive, after suppressing her fertility with fake hormones (and an IUD) for maybe 8+ years. Lots of miscarriages. They eventually went for IVF, which didn't work either. They gave up and started getting their house ready for adoption. Then they got surprised. I don't think she used topical Progesterone, just the megadoses in Prometrium (liver can't destroy it all on the first pass).

Best wishes to you & your wife.

Justice Scalia basically agreed with you: gridlock is essential for protecting minority interests.

> And I hear Americans saying this nowadays, and there's a lot of it going around. They talk about a "dysfunctional government" because there's disagreement. And the Framers would have said, "Yes, that's exactly the way we set it up. We wanted this to be power contradicting power -- because the main ill that beset us" -- as Hamilton said in The Federalist when he talked about a separate Senate -- He said, "Yes, it seems inconvenient, but inasmuch as the main ill that besets us is an excess of legislation, it won't be so bad." This is 1787 -- he didn't know what an excess of legislation was.

> So, unless Americans can appreciate that and learn to love the separation of powers, which means learning to love the gridlock, which the Framers believed would be the main protection of minorities -- the main protection. If a bill is about to pass that really comes down hard on some minority [and] they think it's terribly unfair, it doesn't take much to throw a monkey wrench into this complex system.

> So, Americans should appreciate that and they should learn to love the gridlock. It's there for a reason -- so that the legislation that gets out will be good legislation.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/antoninscaliaameri...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz_gd--UO0

This blog post is inspired by Richard Feynman's commencement address, Cargo Cult Science: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cargo+cult+science

My efforts to extract my friend from her self-fulfilling misdiagnosis have reached the Supreme Court. The questions of my current petition are about who may perpetrate fraud on the United States Court, but I tried to make it about 'Medical Freedom' [0]. If any of you care about medical freedom, amicus curiae briefs would be very helpful.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31863786

I suppose it's not nice to call the conventional mental health system a cargo cult. But I've been trying to extract my friend from their system for 6.5 years, and have made no progress helping the medical professionals realize their forced prescriptions are the cause behind my friend's 'mental deterioration'.

Do any of you have any insights into why this particular branch of pseudo-medicine is so resistant to reform? It's been 20 years since Whitaker published Mad in America, and the mentally ill are still being pharmacologically abused. "Mental Health" problems are mostly solved [1], but the solutions are not implemented and the abuse continues.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993405

The Soviet Union sometimes sent their dissidents to their system of Gulags [2] (forced labor camps). Sometimes these dissidents would feign a 'mental disorder' to get themselves transferred from their gulag to a psycho prison. In the later Soviet period doctors at the psycho prison would treat their 'patients' with the anti-psychotic drug haloperidol. Robert Whitaker said the important thing about this historical fact was how American Psychiatrists, and others, called the Soviets' use of haloperidol 'torture' [3].

American doctors use haloperidol not for its agony-inducing effects, but as a tranquilizer for geriatrics, prisoners, and psychotics. Our doctors wouldn't do this if they realized they have much better options to treat the metabolic causes of their patients' symptoms.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17758723

My previous petition told the Justices about the Tragedy of Curtis Bagley [4], who was deteriorated by Arizona's criminal justice system. I don't know if Bagley was tortured with haloperidol, but I think it likely. My friend was injected with haloperidol at her January 2022 'stabilization'.

[4] https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1509632668169748481

Some of you like your psychiatric pills. The occasional benefit of SSRIs is entirely due to the increase in allopregnanolone [5], not the artificial boosting of serotonin. Many kinds of brain damage cause the brain to boost production of allopregnanolone. It's better to not induce brain damage when all a person really needs is a supplement. The MAOIs are relatively safe anti-depressants, and are reasonably effective for short-term use [6].

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859433

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439470

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I think the real issue is that states often make horrible health decisions for individuals. People's right to make decisions for themselves needs to be acknowledged and protected.

I have a case pending in the United States Supreme Court that's fundamentally about Medical Freedom: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do... (original PDF is readable: https://teslabox.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/220503-Petit... )

tl/dr: my friend is forced by the State of Arizona to take prescription medications that do not help with her genetic condition of requiring methylated forms of Vitamin B-9 (she is harmed by foods with the shelf-stable food fortification folic acid). Her tendency to self-treat malnutrition-caused depression with substances (alcohol, mainly) is worsened by the psychiatric drugs forced on her. The FDA black box warning on one of them is for 'compulsive behavior'. Last January she was 'stabilized' with the medication that the Soviets used to re-educate their dissidents, when all she really needs is sobriety and an adequate diet.

On May 8 2022 she escaped from her guardian's custody, choosing to live on the street instead of a care home. After my petition appeared on the SCOTUS docket I agreed to help her. She got a housekeeping job at that motel. Her manager had no idea her forced treatment with anti-psychotic medications had lapsed.

While my petition is fundamentally about whether the States may perpetrate fraud on the United States Court, the core issue I presented is about medical freedom. From Page 21 [1]:

> While it may not be this court’s place to tell doctors that they don’t always know what they’re doing, it is the requirement of Constitutional governance that doctors be required to respect bodily autonomy. If a citizen of the United States does not consent to being injected with the Soviets’ preferred medication for dissident re-education, doctors should not able to use the courts to force this, or any other drug, approved or experimental, on any person.

> The principle of health freedom requires that people be allowed to make decisions for themselves, without coercion from others. If a person doesn’t want to have their brain electrocuted by their doctor, they shouldn’t be forced to endure this treatment. If a person is concerned they’ll have an adverse reaction to a medication or condition that the experts think is good for everyone, there can be no coercion against people making decisions for themselves, no matter their perceived competency

[1] https://teslabox.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/220503-Petit...

I'm now trying to whip up outrage on the internet about Arizona's use of the Soviet techniques of torture on our most vulnerable. But maybe Medicine is a sacred cow? How do I convince people that doctors and politicians should not be able to make medical decisions for anyone?

[What I wrote above] is a comment on a submission, not a thesis.

> Studies are done precisely to remove fallacious logic and isolate variables.

Studies could be done to isolate variables, but the standard of care is to 'diagnose' and 'treat'. The sealed court papers in my possession, and my friend's public guardianship court record, is a case study in 'make believe medicine'.

My experience is that allopathic psychiatry is a fallacy. I was more comprehensive in my Mad In America essay (link above)

All patients are harmed by the modern mental health industry's allopathic standard of care, yet it persists. Why is that?

[edit] just finished the article. The conclusion is reasonable:

> After nearly 50 years studying mental illness and following these trends, what hope can you offer us?

> Hope, in my opinion, is not yet in sight. Before we get there, we need to take a few steps.

> First, I think psychiatry has to be more honest about its limitations and not treat biology as the primary cause and recognize the social dimension of mental illness. It needs to stop chasing magic bullets. [...]

So close, so close... "social dimensions" have "biological" implications. IMO 'hope' is in sight, we just have to deal with the businesses that make a business of palliative mental health 'care'.