Paranoia on the rise (NYT)

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Subject: Paranoia on the rise (NYT)

Date: Nov 13, 2008 1:08 PM

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Yes, I would say that is true. Paranoia is on the rise.
And the standard bearers are psychiatrists, themselves.


Look at Yale's James Phillips and Kenneth Marcus, for example
who stated under oath that I was "very intelligent, DANGEROUSLY
INTELLIGENT!!" and James Phillips said I was a "like Ted Kascynski"
"chemist."

Then of course I was falsely criminally charged with being
a "dangerously intelligent Unabomber chemist."

!!! Oh My!! Call out the AFT Mega-Swat Team to blow me away
with fire bombs, like the Branch Davidians!!!

http://www.actionlyme.org/PENISBITERDOCS.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/PHILLIPS_JE_PERVERT.htm
^^^ THE TRUTH ^^


Phillips did not want to be sued for malpractice. That is
the source of his paranoia. Psychiatrists are very, very
afraid of the truth about how all psychotropics are brain
damaging - which the published science proves:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
and the fact that psychiatry-at-large is under the gun for all
the non-disclosures about their conflicts of interest that
are in the news every week...

Kings College in particular, is the home of Simon Wessely
who, of course, could not be a stupider person:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=simon+wessely+king%27s+college&aq=2&oq=simon+wessely
http://www.actionlyme.org/PSYCHIATRIC_BS_UPDATE_13_AUG_06.htm
http://www.actionlyme.org/ROCKET_SCIENCE.htm


Lisa Masterson, about whom I speak in the last interview
(confirmed by Karen Forschner of the Lyme Disease Foundation):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9-B7G3Ha8
was indeed stalked and harassed by McSweegan/Fish and
the incredibly stupid psychiatrists who managed her bag
job told us there was "no such person as Edward McSweegan"

http://www.actionlyme.org/LISA_MASTERSON_UK_BAGGED_STALKED_HARASSED.htm
...without bothering to even type his name into Google...

DUUuuuuuuhhh.

...because psychiatrists are fairy-ass (cowardly) morons who do not
know how to think. This is also the problem with ILADS.org
Consider how many of them are psychiatrists. How can ILADS.org
argue that psychiatry is an invalid medical "science" if that's
how many of them make their living?



Since psychiatry has been so discredited, their paranoia
is on the rise. We expected this. They have nowhere to turn.
They lost everything, even more recently, yesterday in the
NYTimes re brain differences between schizophrenics and autistic
people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/health/research/11brain.html?em

Psychiatry lost bipolar, they lost autism, they lost their
Fibromyalgia
and CFIDS bullshit,
http://www.actionlyme.org/081030.htm
they were in the news are regards more deaths from Rx (pain killers
and psychotropic work in the exact same way and do the exact same
brain
and nerve damage) than street drugs, the Veterans have been
vindicated,
and A&E recently ran a show about a little boy who was actually
stalked
by a demon instead of being "schizophrenic:"
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
http://www.aetv.com/paranormal-state/video/index.jsp?bcpid=1426748867&bclid=1811167321&bctid=1814248032

The demon or a "familiar" was discussed by the Exorcist, Father
Malachi Martin:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican27j.htm#Uncle%20Ponto%20and%20the%20Mushroom-Souper

"...It was during this period of Jamsie’s life that his colleagues at
the radio
station began to notice that he talked to himself; even more oddly, he
occasionally
flew into solitary rages. Of course, the moment Jamsie realized other
people were
watching, he became a very amiable and smiling man, to compensate for
any unpleasant
impression he might have given. Yet, time and time again, he could be
seen walking
alone on the streets or in the corridors of the radio station, or
standing in the
washroom, his eyes wide and staring, his nostrils flaring, and his
lips drawn back
over his teeth as if in some deep, internal, all-absorbing effort. ...


There's nothing left of psychiatrists crazy little domain that
was meant to be a replacement for religion:
"But as useful as hypocrisy can be, it’s apparently not quite as basic
as the
human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Your mind can
justify double standards, it seems, but in your heart you know you’re
wrong."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01tier.html

LOL.


Psychiatrists are as embarrassed as hell, so they're hitting back.

The world's focus is on *their* incompetence, so now they come
out with this "paranoia" gig? It won't work any more, like
Republican scaremongering is worn out. Their credibility
is gone forever. Munchausen's? Simon Wessely's abuse of the
Veterans? Unabomber Chemist? Bipolar By BigPharma?

The last pariahs of the 20th century need only one more
good stiff breeze...


Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org

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Paranoia on the rise, experts say

BY MARIA CHENG

AP Medical Writer

10:27 AM EST, November 12, 2008

LONDON
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If you think they're out to get you, you're not alone.

Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot
more common
than previously thought.

According to British psychologist Daniel Freeman, nearly one in four
Londoners regularly
have paranoid thoughts. Freeman is a paranoia expert at the Institute
of Psychiatry
at King's College and the author of a book on the subject.

Experts say there is a wide spectrum of paranoia, from the dangerous
delusions that
drive schizophrenics to violence to the irrational fears many people
have daily.

"We are now starting to discover that madness is human and that we
need to
look at normal people to understand it," said Dr. Jim van Os, a
professor of
psychiatry at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Van Os was not
connected
to Freeman's studies.

Paranoia is defined as the exaggerated or unfounded fear that others
are trying
to hurt you. That includes thoughts that other people are trying to
upset or annoy
you, for example, by staring, laughing, or making unfriendly gestures.

Surveys of several thousands of people in Britain, the United States
and elsewhere
have found that rates of paranoia are slowly rising, although
researchers' estimates
of how many of us have paranoid thoughts varies widely, from 5 percent
to 50 percent.

A British survey of more than 8,500 adults found that 21 percent of
people thought
there had been times when others were acting against them. Another
survey of about
1,0000 adults in New York found that nearly 11 percent thought other
people were
following or spying on them.

Dennis Combs, an assistant professor of psychology at the University
of Texas at
Tyler, has been studying paranoia for about a decade. When he first
started conducting
paranoia studies, mostly in college students, he found that about 5
percent of them
had paranoid thoughts. In recent years, that has tripled to about 15
percent, he
said.

In a small experiment in London, Freeman concluded that a quarter of
people riding
the subway in the capital probably have regular thoughts that qualify
as paranoia.
In the study, 200 randomly selected people (those with a history of
mental problems
were excluded) took a virtual reality train ride. They recorded their
reactions
to computerized passengers programmed to be neutral.

More than 40 percent of study participants had at least some paranoid
thoughts.
Some felt intimidated by the computer passengers, claiming they were
aggressive,
had made obscene gestures, or tried to start a fight.

Freeman said that in big cities, many ambiguous events can lead to
paranoid thoughts.
Because we constantly make snap judgments based on limited
information, like which
street to take or whether or not strangers are dangerous, the decision-
making process
is prone to error.

Van Os said Freeman's virtual reality experiment was solid and
confirmed previous
research.

Experts say not everyone with paranoid thoughts needs professional
help. It all
depends on how disturbing the thoughts are and if they disrupt your
life.

"People walk around with odd thoughts all the time," said David Penn,
a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina. "The
question
is if that translates into real behavior."

Van Os recalled a delusional patient who was convinced that the French
singer Charles
Aznavour was in love with her, and had been whispering to her before
she went to
sleep every night for more than two decades.

"You could call it a psychotic experience, but she was very happy
about it,"
van Os said. "There isn't always a need for care when there's an
instance
of psychosis."

He hoped that being able to identify milder delusional symptoms in
people could
help doctors intervene earlier to prevent more serious cases.

The post-Sept. 11 atmosphere and the war on terror have also increased
levels of
paranoia in the West, some experts said.

"We are bombarded with information about our alert status and we're
told
to report suspicious-looking characters," Penn said. "That primes
people
to be more paranoid."

Traumatic events can make people more vulnerable to having paranoid
thoughts. Since
the attacks, Penn said Americans have been conditioned to be more
vigilant of anything
out of the ordinary.

While heightened awareness may be good thing, Penn said it can also
lead to false
accusations and an atmosphere where strangers are negatively viewed.

That can result in more social isolation, hostility, and possibly even
crime. And
it can take a toll on physical health. More paranoia means more
stress, a known
risk factor for heart disease and strokes.

Still, some experts said that a little bit of paranoia could be
helpful.

"In a world full of threat, it may be kind of beneficial for people to
be on
guard. It's good to be looking around and see who's following you and
what's
happening," Combs said. "Not everybody is trying to get you, but some
people may be."

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