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:
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 pr...
Drugs like haloperidol don’t have a story as good as the SSRI or NSRI antidepressants but they can be life saving for many people. Some of the people who are completely out of sorts and in the streets would have an easier time getting housed if they got the right medication.
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.
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.
> In December 2022 the Supreme Court of the United States told me the mental health industry is free to perpetrate fraud on the United States Court, by denying my latest petition.
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.
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.
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, [...]
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.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] threadIn 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 pr...
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.
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... -
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.