Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg's daughter Jordana (Age 20, 7 years ago)
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So she would have been born 1984.
Designated as Mentally Ill at age 13, and this would have been 1997.
Now the one who gets designated as Mentally Ill is the family scapegoat, the one who cannot live the lies, the who is undeniable proof that the king has no clothes.
And so of course Darrell Steinberg wants to promote the concept of Mental Illness, because that leaves him smelling like a rose, and as a picture perfect religious family man. And of course he wants to apply this to the unhoused, because usually the people who end up unhoused are those who have been the designated as family scapegoats since before adolescence, and so unless you can somehow brand them, they are evidence that something is seriously wrong.
Margaret Attwood shows this so well in her semi-autobiographical novel "Cat's Eye" in the girl they named Cordellia. The protagonist laments that it was unfair to give her a name like that. She ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
The talk therapy and the drugging are all abusive, as is just convincing the party that they have Mental Illness, and that they are somehow different from other people and that the abusers should be exonerated.
Jordana Steinberg has been cast into having Bipolar Illness. Usually it is bipolar 2.
I say the first time she had contact with any facet of the Mental Health System that should have triggered mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse and an investigation by Child Protective Services. Jordana should not have been alone in any kind of therapy, the parents should have also been in it. And so no, she should not have been sent to any psychiatric facility in Oregon, as that could interfer with the investigation. And those drugs should not even exist. And if there were evidence, a case should have been started in the dependency court. And always, even if it were just to be financial, the parents should have been held accountable.
As I know Emil Kraepelin defined dementia praecox, as the often precursor of full blown madness, or dementia, or what we are now calling schizophrenia.
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Not having read this anywhere, it seems that what we are now calling bipolar was what Kraepelin was calling dementia praecox. And the system needs this, because the way schizophrenia has been conceived, it is stretching things to imagine a schizophrenic adolescent. And likewise the system needs autism, because it is hard to conceive of bipolar or schizophrenia before adolescence.
And then we know how the supposed illness will progress:
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And so today, after the government's social services and mental health people, the ones clamoring the loudest for Newsom's Care Courts are the families of those who have been designated as mentally ill. They need this to have an objective reality, seemingly just as Darrell Steinberg does.
And so usually the Democratic Party cannot just take over. About half of the voters will be more receptive to the ways Republicans frame issues. But in CA right now, at the state level, it is very close to a one party system. I suggest that this has been accomplished though the concept of Mental Health.
Republicans can scare people about crime and immigration. Democrats can scare people about mental illness.
I mean, we have a huge number of unhoused throughout the state. Part of this is just the weather and the high housing cost. When there are so many, the criminal laws become impractical to enforce. Our jails are already full.
So rather than set up public housing and Universal Basic Income and be subject to Republican accusations of liberalism. The Democrats have decided that internment and regulation is the way. Giving people free housing costs much less than incarceration, maybe only 25%. And then psychiatric drugging costs next to nothing, as does having people submit to Scientology like Auditing, except drug enhanced, through their cell phones via Thomas Insel's Mindstrong startup.
And of course none of this is going to end homelessness or do anything about the epidemic of spree shootings. Likely it will make both of these things worse.
SJG
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