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Welcome World

a self-help spiritual/cognitive healing alternative to
self-destructive, brutalizing psychiatry

Dear People,

The following letter to the editor was printed in the Durango Herald this morning. Beside it is the editorial by Daniel Pearl, Journalists die safe guarding freedoms. My letter was given the headline of Freedom from terror of psychiatry

Dear Editor:

The report in the Durango Herald, February 12 concluded that more mental-health service was needed while at the same time admitting that the more likely to commit suicide is those already in the mental-health system. I can testify to the latter. I was 20 years old when, grief-stricken that I was not loved, I was committed to psychiatry. They labeled me a non-person, worthless thing without a human brain, physically dehumanized me with electricity and drugs, and exacerbated naiveté and grief into a hopeless and helpless, stunted - and - stoned apathy periodically alternating with terror and despair, homicidal and suicidal, shock - and - drug rages  Some people being killed by psychiatry do kill others; more kill themselves to escape psychiatry's relentless, pathogenic physical, mental, and emotional agony; most die from the drugs.

Hating others for hating me and wanting me dead, I hated myself most of all for being the worthless non-person thing that others hated and wanted dead. Over and over, real doctors in real hospitals saved my life from both my suicide attempts and the life threatening drug damage. The American tax-payer paid about a million dollars to psychiatry to subjugate me unto death.


After 31 years of psychiatric persecution, I was physically, emotionally, and mentally devastated, incredibly still alive. A male nurse in an emergency room said, "Go to Alcoholics Anonymous; they teach people how to get well there."  

I was no longer homicidal and suicidal after my first meeting for they gave me hope and would help me. They taught me self-examination, self-knowledge, self - healing, and self-discipline. In 6 months I had grown from a sense-directed, terror-controlled, automatic-reaction psychological child into a spirit - directed, free-will psychological adult choosing to serve God by loving and serving others as myself. I wrote my autobiography, ESCAPE FROM PSYCHIATRY, and founded WELCOME WORLD, a self-help spiritual/cognitive healing alternative to self-destructive, brutalizing psychiatry. We are now beginning our funding drive for a local residential psychiatric-drug detox and rehabilitation center. 

Contact Clover at (970) 563-4433 or write Welcome World, P.O. Box 116, Ignacio, CO 81137. Please, get involved in ending our home-grown, growing violence.

Clover Smith,
Ignacio

Our idea is to open a psychiatric-drug detox and recovery from terror, cognitive-healing facility. and expand our Indoor/outdoor flea market from volunteers to that people coming to the facility and learning the tools of self healing, also when able can be made a part of their life training and be paid to help work in the flea market if they wish. The local humane society takes in a million dollars a year with their thrift store.

Psychiatry is all your life, a drug treatment facility is 45 days at the most so most people cannot and do not recover in this length of time and go over and over. And of  course some are run by pro-psychiatry and are for forcing onto other drugs instead of teaching how to be happy and functioning well without drugs, which of course injures rather than helping at all.. Beside going to drop-in AA meetings I went to 5 residential drug treatment facilities myself. Pro-psychiatry people and enemies of people learning their self choices and getting well, cite this need for multiple times or the ones that force drugs as self-help program failure.  Ours would be as long as the person needs. For me to go from homicidal and suicidal to well being and the ability to choosing my thoughts and actions of love, took me 6 months. It is at the person's own abilities to recover from past damage, and pace.  do believe 6 months is about the minimum of time needed to safely detox, let brain heal some, and learn mental tools and well being, depending on how drugged the person is when comes.

We also want and need the help and involvement of anyone who wants to get involved in this to do whatever they want to get involved. Visit our website: www.welcomeworld.org 

  1. Joining our board. E-mail us your suggested Title and sphere of involvement and input in finalizing our residential treatment plans, and ongoing programs..  
  2. Website, needs lots of work.
    Seeking webmaster. 
  3. Writing, writing, writing ! Sending out information
    about Welcome World, asking for donations of money and involvement.

Volunteer whatever help you can. Please get involved in helping to end our home-grown, grown psychiatric violence.

We can have our place of healing and later expand to many sites of people getting well being run by people who have themselves recovered from psychiatry. "You can get well, we will help you!" are the most beautiful words a dying person can ever hear. They are the words people of love and truth and unity spoke to me and I was not longer homicidal or suicidal for I had hope and faith. Become a part of "You can get well; we will help you!

Advocating Healing for All,

Clover Smith, Psychiatric Survivor;
Author, ESCAPE FROM PSYCHIATRY, See reviews, www.amazon.com;
Director, WELCOME WORLD, INC.,
a Self-Empowering, Cognitive-Healing
Alternative to Self-Destructive, Co-Dependency Psychiatry.

270 Browning Avenue
P.O. Box 116
Ignacio, CO 81137  USA

phone: (970) 563-4433
e-mail: clovers@gobrainstorm.net
www.welcomeworld.org

 

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Dear Utah Psychiatric Task Force.

Fulfilling the Human Potential

I am a psychiatric survivor. I was a ³schizophrenic² exacerbated into³paranoid schizophrenic² by psychiatry¹s life-threatening verbal and physical abuse, its agonizing bottomless pit of brain targeting, disabling
electricity and drugs. I survived because psychiatry let me go whenever they ran out of taxpayer money‹‹they still collected about a million dollars.

Every human is a spiritual being with a physical body, a child of man and a child of God‹‹born into the physical nature with potential of spiritual rebirth. Every human is born dependent on others for all vital needs: giving love when given love, giving fear when given fear. High susceptibility or a high fear environment triggers the flight or fight survival syndromes: the extreme hierarchy delusions and co-dependency of the flight/ inferior valuing oneself as valued by others, blaming and injuring oneself when devalued by others, or the fight/superior feeding on the power of control, coercion, and holding others lives in their hands, blaming and injuring others elevating their value. The flight reaction is called mental illness; the fight reaction is usually not; human ³gods² are above examination and above the law.

²Love, truth, and unity have the divine power to transcend human nature: freeing the will from the physical nature of the child of man, the psychological child, to the spiritual nature of the child of God, the psychological adult. The child of God, the psychological adult, claiming spiritual growth rather than spiritual perfection, seeking to improve conscious contact and awareness of the presence of God, reflecting God¹s love, truth, and unity, chooses to love and serve God by loving and serving others as oneself.

Collapsing from the grief of not being loved, I was 20 years old when committed to my first psychiatric institution. The Œgods² labeled me a non-person without a human brain, treating me with cruel verbal and physical abuse, brain-targeting electricity and drugs. Disabling and injuring my brain to cure a defective brain? I had graduated valediction from high school; my college entrance exams gave me an IQ of 149, my body was agile and my face attractive. Examine psychiatry! Is it believable that I had a non-human defective brain? Isn¹t it more believable that I was having the very same human reaction to an intense and extended encounter of rejection that you have experienced to the much lesser degree as self doubt? Isn¹t it evident that my being put down so cruelly by others to build themselves up highly is the same natural human nature that you have, also, experienced to a much lesser degree? Can anyone really believe that treating others in such a devastating fashion could be conceived to be beneficial to anyone? Examine psychiatry! Everyone gets progressively worse and worse off!

I was no longer collapsing from the grief of not being loved; I was, now, a non-person without a human brain, a vile and worthless thing; my grief had been exacerbated by psychiatry into highly suicidal, even homicidal terror, rage, and despair. This is the natural human reaction to being treated so horribly; this is the way anyone reacts! Examine psychiatry! Examine yourself! Some people being killed by psychiatry do kill others. More kill themselves to escape the agony of psychiatry. Most are killed by the drugs. Being above examination and above the law, psychiatry arrogantly admits the common effect of Ritalin withdrawal (a form of ³speed, ² the drug most commonly forced on children) is suicide. Even American school children are killed by the ³gods² who are above examination and above the law so nobody cares.

A few escape psychiatry alive. I am one of these. After 50 some commitments in 31 years, physically, emotionally, and mentally devastated, I was incredible still alive. A male nurse in an emergency room said to me, ³Go to Alcoholics Anonymous; they teach people how to get well.² I went. In 6 months, I became an emotionally autonomous, psychological adult. I wrote my autobiography, ESCAPE FROM PSYCHIATRY, see reviews www.amazon.com. I am now director of Welcome World, a self-help, cognitive-healing drop-in located at 270 Browning Avenue, P.O. Box 116, Ignacio, CO, 81137;(970) 563-4433. Our INSIDE/OUTSIDE FLEA MARKET is now raising money for a residential psychiatric-drugs detox and 12 Step Recovery Center. Please help save lives.

Examine psychiatry,

Clover Smith

270 Browning Avenue,
P, O, Box 116
Ignacio, CO 81137

(970) 563-4433
clovers@gobrainstorm.net

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