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Does the "Truth Seeker" live up to its name?
Dr. Drew: Los Angeles Faces Imminent Outbreak of Bubonic Plague
By wmw_admin on July 21, 2019
Joel B. Pollack – Breibart July 19, 2019

Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague :ph34r: because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.

Dr. Drew made his comments during a Periscope broadcast by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who has become a popular political pundit with a daily live audience of thousands of people.

Talking with Dr. Drew about the Los Angeles apocalypse, then on to Trump’s tweet, Iran, and coffee https://t.co/2sx040Ldj6
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 19, 2019

Dr. Drew told Adams that he had predicted the recent typhus outbreak in Los Angeles, which was carried by rats, transferred by fleas to pets, and from pets to humans.

Bubonic plague, Dr. Drew said, like typhus, is endemic to the region, and can spread to humans from rodents in a similar fashion.

Though commonly recognized as the medieval disease responsible for the Black Death in the fourteenth century, which killed one-third of the population of Europe, the last outbreak of bubonic plague in the U.S. was nearly a century ago, from 1924 to 1925 — also in Los Angeles. Only a “heroic effort” by doctors stopped it, Dr. Drew recalled, [Recalled?! Does he have a flux-capacitor equipped DeLorean?] warning that conditions were perfect for another outbreak of the plague in the near future.

Los Angeles is one of the only cities in the country, Dr. Drew said, that has no rodent control plan. “And if you look at the pictures of Los Angeles, you will see that the homeless encampments are surrounded by dumps. People defecate there, they throw their trash there, and the rats just proliferate there.”

Moreover, he said, homeless people were defecating directly into city drains, which flowed to the Pacific Ocean. “We have the sewage of 60,000 people hitting the ocean every day,” he said.

Though there were adequate financial resources, Dr. Drew said, homelessness would not be solved by building more housing, because the fundamental problems were mental illness and drug addictions, which created an “attachment to this lifestyle” on the streets.

The city had been successful at absorbing hundreds of thousands of “undocumented immigrants,” Dr. Drew observed, which showed that the focus on housing was a “hoax.” [Just WOW!]

But changes in mental health policy — partly as a result of public reactions to films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which was harshly critical of mental health institutions — had made it much more difficult to commit people to institutional care.

Dr. also said that prison reform initiatives, such as Proposition 47 of 2014– which reduced sentences, but without improvements to rehabilitation — had also played a role by letting more criminals out on the street, some of whom joined the homeless population.

And efforts at relocating the homeless — either to treatment or to prison — ran into lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whom Dr. Drew described as “do-gooders” :lol: without any idea about how to solve the underlying problem.

“How many people must die before you change your philosophy?” Dr. Drew asked, rhetorically.
:puke:

Some, Dr. Drew said, said that the situation in Los Angeles was approaching a national emergency that would require the intervention of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Red Cross, and the National Guard. He said that he himself had not reached that conclusion yet, but that he was “ready to pull that trigger :blink: if we start to see the diseases that I think we are going to.”

Recently, President Donald Trump threatened to intervene in California’s growing homelessness crisis, prompting L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Governor Gavin Newsom to push back — without offering any solutions.

I have a government that is ignoring the basic needs of human civilization,” Dr. Drew said, exasperated. :rolleyes:

A recent count of the homeless population revealed that it had risen 12% over the last year, to nearly 60,000 people. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who promised to end homelessness when he first ran for office in 2013, has failed to deal with the problem despite local tax hikes to provide additional revenues. He now faces a recall effort over his failure.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=191908

I’d take all of the above with a pound of salt!

I remember, as a teen, listening to Pinsky’s (board-certified psychiatrist) radio show “Love Lines” on KROQ in LA. This shill had no problem diagnosing kids with the latest DSM mental disorder and recommending psychotropic poisons in addition to telling everyone to get tested for HIV, pushing Planned Parenthood and spewing perverted Freudian psychobabble. Now this ass-clown is doing his best Peter Hotez impersonation with his "prescient" predictions of a medical apocalypse. This is the same scumbag that had no problem exploiting down & out celebrities on a TV rehab show for a few extra shekels which resulted in FIVE DEATHS in two short years.


‘Celebrity Rehab’ Deaths: Mindy McCready Becomes Fifth Cast Member To Die

02/19/2013 11:56 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017

Mindy McCready is the fifth person who has appeared on “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” to die in the past two years.

The 37-year-old, who died of what’s believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, is the third person from her season alone to die after appearing on the VH1 reality series.

Prior to McCready’s death, Joey Kovar, a member of MTV’s “Real World: Hollywood” died last August at the age of 29 of “opiate intoxication.” Kovar appeared alongside McCready on the show’s third season in 2010.

Kovar’s death was preceded by “Celebrity Rehab” Season 2 member Rodney King, who passed away in June 2012 at the age of 47. King’s cause of death was ruled an accidental drowning, although alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and PCP found in his system were contributing factors, according to authorities.

Before King’s passing, actor Jeff Conaway, best known for his role on “Taxi” died in May 2011, after being found unresponsive 17 days earlier, and was brought to the hospital with opiates and other drugs in his system. Though pneumonia was initially ruled the cause of death, those who treated him say it was his addiction to painkillers that cost him his life. Conaway died at the age of 60, and appeared on the show’s first and second seasons.

Prior to Conaway’s death, Alice In Chains bassist Mike Starr, who also appeared on the show’s third season, was the first reality show member to pass away. Starr, who died at the age of 44 in March 2011, was addicted to heroin and other drugs and died of a drug overdose according to Dr. Drew.

As the death toll among former “Celebrity Rehab” cast members grows, we will no doubt return to the same conversation that’s been sparked after each previous member’s death — the question of whether the show does more harm than good, and if these addicts are truly getting the treatment they need.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=191908
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Dear Dr. Drew,

If you really want to help the homeless in Los Angeles then be friendly with, meet and problem solve with the mayor and city council. Their help ensures the longevity of a project by making laws and resolutions for funding and other needs.

If you really want to help the homeless in Los Angeles then start a gofundme page to open dwellings, restrooms and to provide other resources. Perhaps you can ask all those celebrity friends of yours to contribute.

If you want people to think someone is caring about and doing something for the homeless and so by default they don’t have to care or do anything and yet nothing ever gets done, then keep doing what your doing.

Sincerely,

Kham
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NOT KOSHER

Religious and Spiritual Delusions in Schizophrenia

For many people religion is one way that we understand the world and give meaning to our lives and certainly religion and spirituality play an important part in many people’s experiences of schizophrenia. For some sufferers religious delusions or intense religiously-based irrational thinking may be a component of their symptoms, for instance they may believe that they have been sent by God to become a great prophet. However for other people religion and spirituality play an important role in their recovery process. They may find that their spiritual beliefs and practices help them to make sense of the world in a way that they could not when they were suffering from psychotic delusions and that membership of a supportive faith community provides vital fellowship when faced by the everyday problems of living with a serious mental health condition.

In this series of information sheets we look at spirituality from a number of different perspectives both when it becomes a problem as in religious delusions and when it becomes a supportive component of a recovery process.

What are religious Delusions?

In this page we look at how religious delusions manifest themselves in many people suffering from the effects of psychotic thinking. In our related information sheets such as Spirituality in Schizophrenia: A Christian Perspective, other writers give their own accounts of how their spiritual and religious beliefs have helped them.

It is often said that a person experiencing the first stages of serious schizophrenia is more likely to go to see a priest than a psychiatrist1. This is because the delusions suffered by people with schizophrenia often have a religious content. Sufferers may believe that they are a saint, a prophet or God himself, (which is more common in men), or (in women) that they are a saint or are pregnant with the Messiah.

Sometimes the person may believe that they are being punished for some unforgivable sin that they have committed earlier in their life or that they are damned to everlasting hell.2 This can lead to feelings of intense despondency. In other cases the sufferer may believe that others around them are devils or witches and may attack them or that they themselves are possessed by devils.

There is an amusing story from the 1980s of two patients meeting for the first time on a psychiatric ward who, after telling each other their story immediately fell into an altercation with one patient accusing the other of being an imposter: “how can you be Jesus Christ?” he said, I am Christ.2.

How common are religious delusions in schizophrenia?

Various studies have found that the prevalence of religious delusions in schizophrenia is very high. Torrey in the US, for instance, has suggested that around half of sufferers there experience religious delusions.1 Other studies in other parts of the world have found differently. Mohr and Huguelet in Switzerland found the prevalence to be around 21% (this was probably representative of the overall prevalence in Western Europe)4 and Rudaleviciene and his colleagues in Lithuania found it to be as high as 64% there.5

Whatever the figures may be for an individual country it is clearly a trait that is very common in schizophrenia and psychiatrists encounter it so frequently that they have come up with a name for it: religiosity or religious preoccupation. Religiosity is definitely not new. The early psychiatrists in the 19th century observed the phenomenon although it was not thought to be quite as common then as now.6

Religiosity and psychiatry: How is religiosity diagnosed?

Psychiatry and religion have traditionally been ill at ease with each other and in today’s increasingly secular society which the UK has undoubtedly become many mental health professionals feel uncomfortable when dealing with the issue of religiosity and have difficulty in understanding it in the context of the whole person.

These factors have made it difficult for doctors to properly diagnose religiosity.
There is an example of a ward nurse in a West country hospital listing a woman’s crucifix on her list of belongings as a “lucky charm”. This may be a good example of how incomplete an understanding medical professionals often have today on religious issues or it may be an example of an individual member of staff allowing her own personal secular agenda to overcome the necessity for professionalism in the practice of her vocation. Whichever, it is I believe a good example of the difficulty that many health professionals have in the UK of understanding religious practice and without such an understanding, diagnosing religiosity properly becomes very difficult.

Coverage, or to be more precise lack of it, in the medical literature has not really helped this problem. Despite religiosity being such a common experience for people with schizophrenia it is not particularly well covered by the medical literature. A review of four major psychiatric journals carried out in the US in 1982 found that only 2.5% of the articles even mentioned religiosity and that in most cases the mention was just cursory.4

Religious delusions may be difficult to distinguish and diagnosis often depends on a complete knowledge of the person’s previous religious history. For instance if the sufferer has never had a religious background but has suddenly started visiting churches three times a day this would be significant whereas if a life long Jehovahs Witness expressed beliefs about the imminent end of the world this would not be, as all Jehovahs have this belief.

This is a good example of how the cultural context of religiosity is vital to understanding it. In days of old and many societies in the developing world today, mental health and spirituality are seen to be closely related. Indeed the Greek word “psyche” from which we derive our terms psychologist and psychotherapy originally meant the soul or spirit.7

Excessive religious observance is often the first sign that relatives see that something is amiss. Visiting churches too frequently, praying continuously and fasting (sufferers may often loose excessive amounts of weight) when there has been no previous interest in religious activities are often a sign that something is seriously wrong.3 It is vital that doctors listen to relatives and take into account any recent changes in the person’s behaviour or lifestyle.

However the major part of the evidence of religious delusions will come from the diagnostic interview with the patient and any further contact that the doctor has with them. As we have seen above holding extreme religious views does not of itself indicate mental illness however doctors should look for any signs of anomalous religious behaviours or beliefs that appear to have started without any prompting and may occur in conjunction with other symptoms such as paranoia or hallucinations. Today’s guidance to psychiatrists in both the UK and US is sound and very explicit in that they must familiarise themselves with the patient’s cultural background before interpreting religious practice as delusional.

Why do people with schizophrenia experience religious delusions?

First of all it is important to remember that schizophrenia is predominantly (but not exclusively) a condition of young people, with three quarters of all diagnoses being made between ages 16 and 25. This is a time when spiritual and philosophical beliefs are usually in a great state of flux and when the person is extremely vulnerable to deluded thinking on this issue.

It is also important to realise that all of the person’s previous ideas, beliefs and experiences form the framework for their psychotic thinking and because religion still plays an important part in our society it is not surprising that there will be a religious component within psychotic beliefs.3

But psychotic thinking is not restricted to religion; it reflects all aspects of a person’s experiences. For instance the belief widely held by many people with schizophrenia that they are being spied on by MI5 would not have existed in the 19th Century before MI5 was created. Although acknowledging that people’s previous experiences can form the framework for psychotic thinking, it is not the same as saying that it causes it. Schizophrenia is no more the result of a religious upbringing than it is the result of watching too many spy movies.

We also see cultural background reflected in the nature of the religious delusions themselves. For instance in predominantly Catholic countries the delusions will reflect Catholic belief whereas in predominately Hindu countries they will reflect Hindu ones. There are also some interesting twists on this though. For instance in Poland religious delusions in people with schizophrenia appeared to increase during the decades of Communism when organised religion came under pressure from the state. 8

Why is religiosity significant?

Some studies have found that sufferers who experience religious delusions tend to experience a more severe course of their illness with a poorer prognosis.8 In addition religious delusions and hallucinations can give rise to disturbed behaviour that can sometimes be dangerous to both the sufferer and to those around them.
Religious delusions may also be accompanied by hallucinations of a religious nature. The most common here is the phenomenon of hearing voices which the sufferer may interpret as messages from God or saints. The person may also experience visual hallucinations which they interpret as visions.

Religious delusions and hallucinations often link together and can be very powerful in the way they influence the person’s behaviour. After all if you believe that the voices that you are hearing in your head and which are giving you commands are coming from God or some other higher power then there is a powerful reason to listen to them and obey them. When we talk of hearing voices here we are not describing the normal self talk that every individual experiences. The voices that a person with schizophrenia hears are qualitatively different to that. They are true auditory hallucinations: hearing things that the hearer cannot distinguish from reality. For more about this please see our Information Sheets on Voices.

Religious delusions may also lead to dangerous behaviour. Both homicide and violence have been committed by people with schizophrenia at the behest of their religious delusions and some have taken statements from the bible to pluck out offending eyes or cut off offending body parts literally and have done themselves great harm.4

In 1843 at the age of 26, the noted English artist Richard Dadd killed his father believing that his father was the devil and that he (Dadd) had been called upon by God to do battle with the forces of evil. Despite being confined in asylums (first the Bethlem and then Broadmoor) for the remainder of his life, Dadd went on to do some of his best work including the famous The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke which can be seen in the Tate Gallery today.

More recent examples have included the case of a man with schizophrenia who began attending a cathedral in the Westcountry where he became infatuated with a female member of the congregation who he thought to be a saint and ended up propositioning her. 9. People suffering from religious delusions have also been encouraged to kill themselves by their delusions.

This is not to say that all people with schizophrenia who experience religiosity will display dangerous or disturbed behaviour. That is certainly not the case. However with over 1,000 people with schizophrenia dying by their own hand in the UK each year we cannot afford to dismiss or minimise the problem of dangerous behaviour in schizophrenia and it is important that doctors and police take seriously any reports reaching them from faith communities of these kinds of problems. The key to minimising dangerous behaviour is to catch it early and make an early intervention with psychiatric treatment. Taking a wait and see approach is often disastrous.

People with Schizophrenia in Church Communities

In fact it is not uncommon for people with schizophrenia to be attracted to join church communities. Usually this presents no real problems but sometimes disturbed behaviour will become a real challenge for the congregation and church leaders alike. The person may attempt to preach or chastise members of the congregation or become otherwise disruptive. This presents the community with a real problem. How do they continue to offer help and support to someone who is clearly very ill and in need of help whilst at the same time maintaining the dignity of their place and practice of worship? Members of the clergy rarely have any training in mental health and often struggle to cope with this issue.

This Information Sheet deals specifically with the phenomenon of religious delusions in schizophrenia: a phenomenon that can cause people with schizophrenia enormous suffering. But if religious delusions are a bad thing generally for people suffering with schizophrenia what about religion in general? Is it good or bad for people living with schizophrenia? In fact there is now a considerable weight of evidence that points to religious and spiritual belief as being a broadly protective and positive factor for people living with schizophrenia and we deal with that subject in our Information Sheet.

What can be done about religious delusions?

Like most of the other delusions and hallucinations that people suffering from schizophrenia experience, the mainstay for treatment in the NHS today is medication with one of the antipsychotic medicines. These are effective in relieving the symptoms in around 70% of people who take them. There are however a number of different antipsychotics available to the doctors and finding the right drug for the particular person can often take some time and considerable patience. Talking treatments such as counselling and psychotherapy will also help and there is now an increasing recognition of their efficacy within the mental health field.

However, the relief of the symptoms is usually only a part of the recovery process. For someone who has suffered from religiosity, which was so very convincing whilst they were in the middle of their psychotic haze, the process of sorting out the delusional thinking around religion from the more rational can be a long and difficult process of self-discovery. To return to a more sane structure of religious beliefs and values following a period of intense religiously-based irrational thinking is extremely difficult. It often takes many years for the person to work this through and to finally come to an arrangement with their maker that reflects more common approaches to religious belief. At this point the clergy and church leaders can play a vital role with guidance and support.

References
1. Torrey EF, 2013, Surving Schizophrenia, Harper Perennial, P327.
2. Howe G, 1991, The Reality of Schizophrenia, Faber and Faber, p32.
3. Author’s personal experiences.
4. Mohr S and Huguelet P, 2004, The relationship between schizophrenia and religions and its implications for care, published in Swiss Medical Weekly.
5. Rudaleviciene P, Stompe T, Narbekovas A, Raskauskiene N, Bunevicius R, 2008, Are religious delusions related to religiosity in schizophrenia?, published in Medicina.
6. Frith C, Johnstone E, 2003, Schizophrenia, Oxford University Press.
7. Watkins J, Living with Schizophrenia, Hill of Content.
8. Krzystanek M, Krysta K, Klasik A, krupka-Matuszczyk I, 2012, Religious content of hallucinations in paranoid schizophrenia, published in Psychiatria Danubina.
9. This is Cornwall, www.westbriton.co.uk posted 13 January 2009.
Copyright © November 2016 LWS CIC.

https://www.livingwithschizophreniauk.o ... zophrenia/


Why are Christians being singled out? Are Jews, Muslims and people of other faiths somehow immune to “religiosity”?

I’m afraid the suggested treatments will only mask the symptoms. If we’re going to have a shot at winning this “War on Religiosity,” then we must address its root cause(s).

I think a 6 month 6-step program concentrating on the following 6 myths would be far more effective.

1) He must be Jewish. (Deuteronomy. 17:15, Numbers 24:17)

2) He must be a member of the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10) and a direct male descendant of King David (I Chronicles 17:11, Psalms 89:29-38, Jeremiah 33:17, II Samuel 7:12-16) and King Solomon. (I Chronicles 22:10, II Chronicles 7:18)

3) He must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel. (Isaiah 27:12-13, Isaiah 11:12)

4) He must rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. (Micah 4:1)

5) He must bring world peace. (Isaiah 2:4, Isaiah 11:6, Micah 4:3)

6) He must influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve one G-d. (Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 40:5, Zephaniah 3:9)

http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f= ... 0#p2413068



The "urban myth" of the association between neurological disorders and vaccinations

In conclusion, we can say, with little risk of error, that the association between modern vaccinations and serious neurological disorders is a true "urban myth".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4718347/
The Insanity Virus
By Douglas Fox|Monday, November 08, 2010

Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA.

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03 ... nity-virus
http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f= ... 9#p2412407
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In related news:
‘Jew Coup’: the Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Trump’s Impeachment
Jewish leaders worry over a backlash, as anti-Semites spread notion that a cabal of Jews is trying to oust the US president
Eric Cortellessa • The Times of Israel • December 19, 2019
https://www.unz.com/forum/jew-coup-the- ... peachment/

I’m saddened to report that Ron Unz, who up to this point was thought to be immune, has apparently contracted the “antisemitic virus” from Israel Shamir.

Never forget, guys, “antisemitism” isn’t a death sentence anymore. There’s a plethora of treatments available to help manage your disease nowadays. :P
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False Profit$

Russell Brand on MSNBC Morning Joe HD

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCEVd1r-bU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZCEVd1r-bU


Blatant violations of the third, seventh, ninth and tenth commandments.

On second thought, perhaps psychiatry isn't a complete waste of a profession.

How can we best raise awareness on the dangers of "Messiah Complex," Dr. Drew?
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