Facts help to dispel fear

Please watch the latest brilliant analysis by Ivor Cummins about covid19/SARS CoV-2. He presents the facts, which the Irish government, NPHET and the HSE are not doing. They are deliberately inducing fear and panic and keeping us in the dark. That sounds my radar. When people want you afraid, and want you to stay afraid, they are up to no good.

Lockdown and draconian fascist laws are not about a virus and they are certainly not about health. 

Ireland is currently under lockdown at level 5. The government have deemed clothes and shoes "non-essential" items, so clothes and shoe shops are shut. But these items can be bought in some supermarkets. There are police guarding these "non essential items" to intimidate, scare and fine people for breaching laws that are supposedly protecting the vulnerable. The vulnerable that the government and the health service never gave a shit about before covid19, nor after. How is being able to buy a winter coat for your child spreading covid19 or not protecting the vulnerable? It is now a crime to buy a non essential item, but child trafficking, abuse, murder, corruption are not serious enough for police to be on hand for.

We cannot go further than 5 kilometres from our homes or we risk being fined (€500 - €2500, imprisoned, or both). There is no advice about having adequate vitamin D levels (see the many studies showing the link between covid19 and low vitamin D levels), strengthening our immune systems and the simple act of being able to breathe fresh air without a useless mask. Look at this Danish study that journals refuse to publish, I wonder why?

I will continue to speak out about the horror I see happening right in front of our eyes. What's more worrying to me are the people who justify lockdowns, mask wearing etc., or see no wrong in what is being done in the name of "health" and public "protection". But more of us need to wake up to what's going on, that's for sure. Our rights are being eroded and some are being brainwashed into thinking that looking to maintain your human rights is selfish. The old divide and conquer routine, it works every time if we let it.

I don't think any person of 80 or 90 years of age wants children traumatised, conditioned, brainwashed, or wanting to take their life. Not being able to sleep because of high anxiety and feeling too depressed to leave the house, even though they can only go 5km from their house. As Ivor Cummins says in the video "For people who think, still, that lockdown maybe helped this be better than it was [initial peak in deaths back in April], we now have many many papers published with the analysis where lockdown is shown again and again and again to have very limited impact on mortality. The best thing lockdown does is kind of ruin your society but it gives no bang for the buck.

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Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it ~ Noam Chomsky

Afraid, helpless and entrapped

If you wanted to induce trauma, create fear, helplessness and entrap people. Give them no chance of escape so they feel/are defeated.

This is what many governments are doing in the name of "protecting" the vulnerable. The vulnerable that were essentially ignored and underfunded before, and after, covid19.

Governments and the mainstream media are deliberately traumatising people. They are trying to bring us to our knees, not with social distancing, but with social isolation. A totally different animal. 

This is not about a virus. And it certainly isn't about health. 

Ireland has some of the most draconian lockdown laws in place right now under level 5. It is like living in a dystopian science fiction nightmare.

As a mental health professional, I am absolutely horrified at what is going on and what continues to go on under the guise of a "pandemic", which it no longer is.

What is happening to our children is particularly heinous. Our lovely, innocent and vulnerable children are being conditioned, manipulated and emotionally blackmailed into believing that they are vectors for a "deadly" virus, which Professor John Lee says has an infection mortality rate of 0.05% in the under 70s, which means 99.95% survive covid19 under 70 years of age. There are many thousands of scientists and doctors who say the same thing but they are ignored and censored.

Look for the facts instead of being taken in by all the constant scare and guilt mongering, facts help to dispel fear. 

The mainstream are brainwashing people into believing that wanting to maintain our human rights is selfish and people are falling for it.

Let's look after our vulnerable properly, instead of empty, manipulative lies to make people feel guilty for something they are not doing. 

I want a better normal, not a so-called "new normal". This slogan is yet another example of the outrageous conditioning/brainwashing we are being subjected to 24/7.

What is happening is characteristic of what happens in a cult. To read more on cults see: https://www.cultrecover.com/cultdef

Conspiracy theorists, personality disorders and the mentally ill

There is a really worrying trend right now in the mental health field and that is to call anyone who is a "conspiracy theorist" mentally ill. I've also noticed some mental health "professionals" deriding and shaming people who question authority and/or authority figures. This has come to the fore because of covid19. If you dare question the one acceptable narrative, you're mentally ill, a conspiracy theorist and any other insults they can hurl at you.

Carl Jung is famous for popularising the phenomenon of individuation and if you have ever had the privilege of raising a child or seeing a child being raised, you'll know that at around 18 months to 2 years old, their most commonly used word is No. This is the natural start of the healthy individuation process from the parent and it is crucial that parents not only respect a child's No, but encourage it. All too often parents squash a child's No, making the child doubt and not trust themselves. So it really appalls me, and worries me, that some in the mental health field see questioning authority as a bad thing, or even as something linked to "mental illness".

What I'd really like to know is who gets to define what a conspiracy theory actually is? The mainstream? It seems so, because they are the only people who use the term, the so-called "normal" people. It isn't politically correct anymore to ridicule marginalised people, which of course is only right, but not if it's just for show, to signal virtue which really isn't there. The only group people are allowed, and encouraged, by the mainstream to ridicule, insult and disparage are the so-called conspiracy theorists, the anti-vaxxers, the anti-maskers, and on and on with these ludicrous terms. 

Lissa Rankin posted an article the other day which truly appalled me. It was titled "The Psychology Of Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories: A Compassionate Lens to Help You Understand Loved Ones You Lost Down The Rabbit Hole".

Some quotes from the article that I found particularly awful:

"The truth is that you’re not likely to alter someone’s point of view with facts if they’ve been seduced into cultish conspiracy thinking, especially if the facts you use (mainstream science journals, mainstream media) are part of their conspiracy paranoia". 

Another cracker:

"Where does black and white thinking come from? It tends to ride shotgun with mental illness, especially personality disorders. In short, it’s a trauma symptom and therefore deserves our understanding and our compassion. When people are hurt, especially when they’re hurt with early childhood developmental trauma and attachment wounding, there can be a tendency to polarize into immature cognitive processes like black and white thinking"

Lissa conflates conspiracy theories and cults, two totally different things. She tries to take a compassionate slant in her article but it ends up being patronising. 

The first point I'd like to make is that people who are traumatised (most of the world's population to some degree) are NOT mentally ill. Personality "disorders" are often derided and shamed within the mental health profession. How is that helpful or compassionate? I've heard many say "they" are "unhelpable". Have you ever heard anyone from the mainstream saying that Bill Gates is on the sociopathic/psychopathic end of the personality disorder spectrum? I certainly haven't. And let's be honest, seen through that lens, he most certainly would fit the bill. If we're going to have one rule for conspiracy theorists, let's apply it to everyone for fairness sake.

Using Lissa's own logic, the mainstream is a cult. Mainstream thinking believes it is right, they have a monopoly on being right, everyone else is wrong. This is completely compatible with her idea of black and white thinking. Only ONE accepted narrative on anything is tolerated in the mainstream and again this is especially true with covid19. And if you deviate from the mainstream you're a conspiracy theorist. If that's not black and white thinking I don't know what is. The hypocrisy and lack of insight is astounding.

The second point I'd like to make is that many studies in scientific journals have been sponsored by big pharma so they have gross conflicts of interest. In my opinion, it is very wise and prudent to not trust/dig deeper into these studies which have usually been "cooked". Am I a conspiracy theorist because I say this or because I trust the real scientists who take these studies apart to show just how flawed and conflicted they are?

The mainstream has brainwashed people into believing covid19 is deadly, which is why the mainstream fits her definition of what a cult is. But they don't realise they've been brainwashed (typical cult behaviour). Covid19 is deadly to some, like the flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, cancer, heart disease, starvation and dehydration is. Is it more deadly? No. Look at the facts, it affects mostly older people with underlying conditions. Is it more sad when someone dies of covid19 than starvation? No. All deaths, for whatever reason, are sad. Do we lockdown for anything else? No.

Covid19 does not justify older people dying alone, the scandals of people dying in nursing homes, lockdowns, isolation, people being punished with fines, public shaming, curfews, not being able to go beyond 5 kilometres form your home, not being able to go to funerals or weddings, mandatory masks, even for children in some countries, waiting for a vaccine (the saviour, another cult characteristic) so lockdowns can be lifted, people losing their homes, jobs, not being able to put food on the table, rising suicides, rising domestic abuse, rising child abuse, the disgraceful brainwashing of children that they are dangerous and vectors of a "deadly" virus and the world being under near total tyranny.

Oct 20th Shocking Data - Endemic Virus versus Damaging Lockdowns

This is a brilliant piece of analysis by Ivor Cummins on the current lockdown in Ireland. I'm sharing this as I believe what's happening the world over is horrendous and not enough mental health professionals are speaking out about it. 

Our social engagement system

A Harvard study, nearly 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer and be happier. Robert Waldinger*, the director of the study said: “The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health". 

I don't know why this is surprising. We all know, and feel, when we don't have connection, community or love in our lives. It is one of the greatest poverties and traumas we can endure. We only have to look around the world to see the devastating effects of traumatic ruptures in families and communities.

Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory has shown us just how important social engagement is for our health. The social engagement system is the newest evolution of nervous system. It enables us to connect, engage and feel loved in ways that have helped us evolve, live longer and stay healthy. The soft warm gaze of a mother, face to face with her baby, using soothing sounds is a perfect example of what social engagement can accomplish: secure attachment.

We cannot do without social engagement and the powers that be know this. Solitary confinement is one of the worst punishments doled out in prisons because they know it brings a person to their knees. Their mental and physical health suffers terribly which is exactly why it is used.

What's the difference between that and world governments forcing lockdowns, social distancing and mask wearing for a virus with a survival rate of 99.99%? There have been more suicides, cases of anxiety, depression and trauma because of this strategy. Not to mention the effects it has on our physical health and immune systems. 

We need to ask, are lockdowns and social distancing being used in the same way that solitary confinement is used? Are they being used to bring us to our knees? We cannot say we live in democracies if we cannot have an open discussion about how such a huge, forced change has affected the way we live our lives.

As Ali Zeck said in her post today: "You cannot be in the arena of mental health today and affect change or truly help people without discussing the psychological abuse and gaslighting that humans on this planet are currently undergoing, otherwise you’re participating in the gaslighting by not talking about the elephant in the room, so large that he’s cutting off everyone’s oxygen".

“Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism" ~ Robert Waldinger

*Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

The trauma of covid19

During the lockdown, I have seen many mental health professionals question the mental health of those who question authority. I think this is appalling and anything but professional or trauma informed.

There is a big difference between being authoritative and authoritarian and all governments are being tyrannical and authoritarian, except Sweden, in their handling of the corona virus as far as I can see. 

According to mercola.com, "Based on deaths per capita, the global average death rate for COVID-19 is 0.009%. The average person’s chance of surviving this disease is 99.991%".

How on earth can lockdown, mandatory mask wearing, suicide, depression, trauma, people dying alone, people losing their jobs, houses and who don't have enough money to feed themselves be justified if 99.991% of us are surviving covid19? It cannot be justified. 

We need to protect our vulnerable, not just from covid19, but from anything that can harm them and the same goes for all 7.8 billion of us. The PR spin we are being subjected to, is just that, as the cases of disgraceful nursing home deaths all over the world shows.

We have locked down for covid19, why haven't we locked down for the flu? The flu kills more people than covid19, as revised statistics are showing. If we heard the fatality statistics for any infection or disease, day after day after day, non-stop, we would be afraid of getting it. This fear mongering for covid19 cannot be justified in any way, except to control people.

This is one of the most traumatic times that human beings have ever faced. This affects the entire world, all 7.8 billion of us. Our basic human rights to informed consent, bodily sovereignty and medical freedom are being seriously infringed and taken away, bit by bit. Death by a thousand cuts, unless we take a stand.

It is my view that to question authority is in fact a really healthy thing to do and is part of the individuation process that Carl Jung talks about. 

My heart breaks for the children having to wear masks all day in school, have their temperatures taken and to socially distance. This is no way for children to grow up. The war on viruses, like the war on terror, drugs, cancer, will not work. These 'wars' are ludicrous. Humans have evolved over millions of years with viruses, bacteria and so on. Governments (and corporations) are teaching our children to be afraid of their own and others' bodies, and I am just appalled at this. It is criminal.

As far as I'm concerned, there are no experts, only people with expertise. People who refer to themselves as experts have put themselves on a pedestal as if to say they know it all. No one knows it all. People with expertise realise they are always learning, the learning journey never ends. 

The people with expertise who I am learning from on this issue are Jack Kruse, Kelly Brogan, Zach Bush, Ben Lynch, Joseph Mercola, Joseph Yi, Dolores Cahill, Christiane Northrup, Andrew Kaufman, Robert F. Jennedy Jr and amazing politicians taking a stand for truth like Sara Cunial in Italy, to name a few. Watch her address the Italian parliament, it is inspiring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9InUJC2VOo&frags=pl%2Cwn

Legal exemptions for not wearing face masks in Ireland

Please watch this video by barrister, Tracey O'Mahony, on reasonable excuses you can legally avail of not to wear a mask in Ireland. You can download the forms she provides, under the video. You will not get this information from gov.ie, though they do give reasons why some people don't have to wear a mask. I'm sharing this because I believe that it can be very traumatic for some people to have to wear masks and also because I am an advocate for bodily sovereignty and medical freedom in all cases.

We can't hold our pain on our own

We can't hold our pain on our own. We need attunement, not just as babies, but all throughout our life. That need never goes away, nor should it.

Peter Levine says that trauma is what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness. Maybe this is what really hurts us, having no one to hold us, no one who believes us, validates us and our experiences, nowhere to rest and be our self.

Self-regulation (the ability to soothe our self) is a myth, says Bonnie Badenoch and I agree with her. We always need co-regulation, even when we're on our own, we're drawing from a well of having been supported throughout our life and the warmth of knowing we have someone now. Hopefully we all have the fortune to have people in our life that can hold our emotional experiences with us, and if not we can work towards that. 

Robert Stolorow calls this a 'relational home'. He says, "Emotional experience is inseparable from the contexts of attunement and malattunement in which it is felt. Painful emotional experiences become enduringly traumatic in the absence of a relational home or context of human understanding within which they can be held and integrated".

Don't go it alone, reach out.