{"id":1968,"date":"2020-10-26T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:38:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:38:57","slug":"are-you-certain-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/26\/are-you-certain-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Certain About That?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Definitions<\/strong><br \/>Certainty: Quality or state of being fixed, settled, specific but unspecified character, dependable, reliable, indisputable, inevitable, assured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Originally from Latin <em>certus<\/em>, past participle of <em>cernere<\/em> &#8220;to sift, discern, decide, determine&#8221;.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An even better definition is &#8220;<em>A gradient scale of clarity of observation.<\/em>&#8221; By gradient scale we mean a gradually increasing (or decreasing) degree of something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scale of Certainty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, one might say that certainty is a relative scale from &#8220;sure thing&#8221; at the top, through &#8220;maybe&#8221; somewhere in the middle, down to &#8220;totally uncertain&#8221; at the bottom. Dead, by the way, is not the bottom, exemplified by the phrase &#8220;dead sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An uncertainty, or maybe, is the product of two certainties, one a positive conviction and the other a negative conviction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/19\/high-anxiety\/\">Anxiety<\/a>, indecision, uncertainty, in other words a state of &#8220;maybe&#8221;, can exist only in the presence of poor observation or the inability to observe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who are at low levels of awareness, in other words relatively uncertain, do not observe; they substitute for observation beliefs, preconceptions, evaluations, suppositions, and even physical pain by which to obtain their certainties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The certainty of an impact, or pain, is a relatively false certainty. A certainty carried home in terms of physical impact is not self-determined, it is other-determined. The rehabilitation of self-determinism, or the ability to direct oneself, should be the aim of all effective therapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psychiatric &#8220;Certainty&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mistaken use of shock by psychiatry upon the insane seeks to deliver sufficient certainty to cause them to be less insane. However, it only produces stimulus-response behavior, not self-determined behavior. Certainty delivered by force, pain, blows and shock eventually brings about only unconsciousness and the certainty of unawareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus we see that psychiatry as currently practiced does not and never can cause an improvement in mental health, since it relies solely upon shock as its treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchr.org\/cchr-reports\/brutal-therapies\/introduction.html\">Psychiatry&#8217;s brutal therapies<\/a> can now be seen for what they really are: attempts to overwhelm an individual, eventually rendering them unaware of their mental traumas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Harmful Psychiatric &#8220;Treatments&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All psychiatric treatments are based upon shock of one form or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Electroshock, also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/ect.shtml\">electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)<\/a>, creates trauma to the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychosurgery, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchr.org\/cchr-reports\/brutal-therapies\/introduction.html\">prefrontal lobotomy<\/a>, creates trauma to the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/restraints.shtml\">Deadly restraints<\/a>, create trauma to the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/truth.shtml\">Harmful and addictive psychotropic drugs<\/a>, often called chemical restraints, create trauma to the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/invcommit.shtml\">Involuntary commitment<\/a>, creates trauma to the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/rape.shtml\">Therapist sexual abuse<\/a>, creates trauma to the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talk therapy, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/09\/trauma-informed-therapy-is-the-newest-psych-buzzword\/\">Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)<\/a>, is basically telling the patient what is wrong with them (evaluating for them), and is thus just another form of shock therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being threatened with involuntary commitment or punishment for refusal of treatment, or<br \/>Being coerced into hospitalization or treatment, create trauma to the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Real Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real problem is that psychiatrists fraudulently diagnose life&#8217;s problems as an &#8220;illness&#8221; and stigmatize unwanted behavior or study problems as &#8220;diseases,&#8221; using the psychiatric billing bible <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/dsm.shtml\">Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/a><\/em> (DSM) as their justification. The bottom line is that all psychiatric &#8220;treatments&#8221; are harmful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact your local, state and federal officials, let them know what you think about this and urge them to defund psychiatric research and treatments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ArrestWarrant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ArrestWarrant.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ArrestWarrant-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ArrestWarrant-768x585.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychiatry as currently practiced does not and never can cause an improvement in mental health. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/26\/are-you-certain-about-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Are You Certain About That? -- Psychiatry as currently practiced does not and never can cause an improvement in mental health.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[154,19,93,64,46,7],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","tag-coercive-psychiatry","tag-dsm","tag-ect","tag-involuntary-commitment","tag-mental-health","tag-rape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-vK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}