Day 59: Education Fraud Part 20 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 8 - Self-Forgiveness on 'Professionals involved in the medicalizing process' Part 1.

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If you have a moment I suggest read the following article:

http://www.academia.edu/1531137/Medicalization_Ambivalence_and_Social_Control_Mothers_Descriptions_of_Educators_and_ADD_ADHD


This blog's self-forgiveness is focussed on the content of the article, specifically the summary provided in

Day 58: Education Fraud Part 19 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 7 - Professionals involved in the medicalizing process.

- ADD/ADHD is medicalized through educators, medical practitioners and members of the
 psy sector, the complex of social work, psychological,psychiatric and helping professionals that handle mental health and psycho-logical issues within a given culture (Donzelot, 1997).

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the medicalization of childhood/adult behavior through and by the 'educators, medical practitioners and members of the
psy sector', who apparently after decades of research and discussions, have still no clear understanding of how the human behaves, how the mind works and how generational designing and construction of characters/personalities/traits within consciousness functions.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to accept that there is a inability for these sectors to agree on how to work with the human and how a human's mind develops due to environmental, societal and genetic factors.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to give credit to these sectors that claim to understand how the human functions and what solutions are best - while admitting also that they do not have the answers, and instead of then sticking to self honest research, to see and understand how a human child develops, they instead allowed capital/profit, to dictate the future of research where it is now, where it is clear to see that everyone is protecting their profession and their research, which does not have the end result of 'best for all' - but results directly in 'best for profit/gain.'

I commit myself to stop any and all desires, needs, wants to have what I do in life be about money or about my self worth.

I commit myself to develop who I am according to developing myself into a fully functional being and to develop what is here to support the physical reality to be the best that we can be, therefore

I commit myself to develop what I do and how I live, according to what is required for all who inhabit this planet to live dignified lives within oneness and equality to what is here as this physical reality - which supports life, whereas the human destroys life.

I commit myself to stick to the basic of common sense and my principle of 'doing what is best for all' - while performing any task, research or development, as it is life that I honor equally for all and not personal gain and the value given to Life to serve the needs of energy for the satisfaction of the human.

- Medicalization is not always complete, but occurs in varying degrees, depending on whether competing definitions of the problem exist (as is the case withADD/ADHD), and on the relationship between professionals who are involved in the medicalizing process (Conrad, 1992). With ADD/ADHD,there are gaps in the medicalization process at both the conceptual level and the institutional level.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as researcher and professional to only be concerned with establishing my profession and its opinions, so that I may become a 'somebody' in the professional community due to my ability to compete with other professionals and repeat knowledge and information from a book, as if this makes me Life and where I give myself permission to abuse life for knowledge and information mostly generated separate from how the physical really functions - but instead plays a role in the functioning of what is heer to serve Capitalism.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the separation of professions to exist, due to the starting point of ego and power, where the human has sacrificed doing what is best and serving life, for the opportunity to use other's lives to advance ones own.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as professional to lie about why i became an educator, researcher, psychologist, therapist or medical professional - where if I was to trace back in time to the moment where I decided to study within this particular profession, I will be able to see - that a fear or desire for self gratification and desire for power over others existed within me, which through the participation in thinking, resulted in me weighing up the best way for me to outshine other humans by following a well respected profession in the eyes of other humans, so that I may experience myself through my ego, or where I made the decision to get away from/avoid a particular fear and thus sought a particular profession which would allow me financial/emotional security, or respect through the eyes of others, so that I do not have to face the fear of who I will be if I dont become 'special'.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to feel empowered by being able to recite knowledge from books and to be able to play the power game with other professionals in my/similar fields, and for not realizing that by seeking a career that leaves me feeling empowered without actually empowering humanity, illustrates that my starting point was never about what is best, but to chase/appease some inner experience of energy - at the cost of the lives of society who will look towards me to do what is best.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing professionals to not do what is best and for accepting this failure of these sectors to understand and direct child development effectively, due to my own acceptance of the lie, which is that of the 'broken/fragile/frail/sick' human, which all of humanity have come to accept.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the entire deceptive con around 'not quite knowing what is wrong/what the solutions are' - because in that way children/families and humanity will always be dependent on drugs/chemicals/therapies/the medical, psychological and educational professions for guidance/support/solutions/quick-fixes - under the illusion that the human is somehow faulty/corrupt and is always without self responsibility/self-honesty, and will always require a religion/spirituality/god or government to guide us - and this is how the dependency cycles that have been developed and maintained to support the existence and survival of capitalism continues.

I commit myself to find and establish solutions based on how things really work, not how I want them to work.

I commit myself to stop all industries of dependence, based on human greed/self interest and to develop a society/community that is self responsible human beings living equal and one to the physical reality.

I commit myself to show, that for those who became professionals in fields of human development/care, that did so to support humanity, for us it is possible to continue our work and to effectively research once and for all human development to the outcome of what is best for all, with the implementation of an equal money system - where the focus is the development and support of Life.

Day 58: Education Fraud Part 19 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 7 - Professionals involved in the medicalizing process.

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http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-53-education-fraud-part-14.html

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If you have a moment I suggest read the following article:

http://www.academia.edu/1531137/Medicalization_Ambivalence_and_Social_Control_Mothers_Descriptions_of_Educators_and_ADD_ADHD


From it I have taken the following points, from which I will be walking Self-Forgiveness:

- ADD/ADHD is medicalized through educators, medical practitioners and members of the
 psy sector, the complex of social work, psychological,psychiatric and helping professionals that handle mental health and psycho-logical issues within a given culture (Donzelot, 1997).

 - Medicalization is not always complete, but occurs in varying degrees, depending on whether competing definitions of the problem exist (as is the case withADD/ADHD), and on the relationship between professionals who are involved in the medicalizing process (Conrad, 1992). With ADD/ADHD,there are gaps in the medicalization process at both the conceptual level and the institutional level.

 - the medicalization of ADD/ADHD was, at the time of the study, far more entrenched in Canada than in the UK in both professional and lay circles.It is not surprising, then, that mothers describe a high preparedness of teachers in Canada to accept the ADD/ADHD label when compared withdescriptions of UK educators.

 - It has been argued that, in the United States, educators have come to embrace ADD/ADHD and drug therapy as a result of decreased access to the useof traditional educational social controls of physical discipline and student expulsion or suspension (Kiger, 1985)

 - As western society has become less tolerant of difference, and as medical,educational and psychiatric professions have developed, the range of behaviors identified or perceived of as pathological has grown (Porter,1987). This decreased tolerance and increased psychiatric surveillance over a broad range of behaviors and signs that once were accepted as part of the continuum of human possibility, but that now have become problems to be resolved through expert practice, has been termed the ‘psychiatriza-tion of difference’ (Castel et al., 1982)

 - the behaviors to be measured by parents and teachers on assessment instruments relate primarily to the classroom, and indeed, most parents in both sites noted that their children’s problems began or escalated once they entered the school system.

 - Researchers have tied ADD/ADHD’s legitimacy to aggressive pharmaceutical marketing strategies and middle-class parent support groups seeking a medical label for their children’s behavioral problems (Conrad and Schneider, 1980). Others relate its rise to reductions in educational funding and restricted classroom discipline policies (Kiger,1985), or as part of a general increase in the psychiatric labeling of children (Armstrong, 1993). Still others note that ADD/ADHD as a diagnostic category is connected to the rise of the relatively new fields of special education and educational psychology, through which an increasingly broad array of assessment tools have been employed in classifying and identifying differences in children (Slee, 1994).

 - Canada, influenced by its proximity to the United States, is strongly immersed in the legacy of developmental and behavioral psychology, where tests, measures and classification systems have emerged to organize and regulate populations (Armstrong, 1983; Rose, 1985, 1990; Burman, 1994). Thus, in Canada, mothers with children who are ‘different’ will typically encounter an educational or developmental psychologist and undergo behavioral and pencil-and-paper testing with an aim to categorizing and 'labeling' the child.

 - The difference in diagnostic tools and psy sector cultures has material effects, resulting in different degrees of medicalization, as evidenced by rates of diagnosis and treatment in the UK and Canada. British Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology figures indicate that in 1995 only 6000 (or 0.03%) UK schoolchildren were being treated with any psycho-stimulant (Kewley, 1998). In 1995 in Alberta, approximately 2.5 percent of school-aged children were prescribed Ritalin alone, representing a four-fold increase since 1987 when record keeping began (Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1999). Thus, we can expect that British mothers’stories reflect a context where ADD/ADHD remains a partially or perhaps even non-medicalized phenomenon, while Canadian mothers’ stories reflect a context where ADD is highly legitimated as a medical diagnosis.

 - There are two stages in the ADD/ADHD labeling process: identification and assessment. In Canada, teachers were the prime identifiers of children who ultimately became labeled as having ADD. Of 17 Canadian children in the study, only two children had already been identified and tentatively diagnosed prior to attending primary school. Mothers of the remaining 15 reported that, although their child had always been in many ways ‘different’during infancy and early childhood, it was really only once the child went to school that these differences came to be identified as problematic enough that the child was identified for formal intervention. Canadian teachers who identified these children as problematic were often quite directive in their suggestions, in many cases going so far as to tell mothers that they should consider ADD as a diagnosis and Ritalin as a treatment.

 - even when evidence of classroom abuse was not present, the constant pressure of phone calls, meetings and questions about medication left the parents feeling they should at least give medication a trial. Thus, although Canadian teachers were not qualified to perform a diagnosis or prescribe treatment legitimately, they were able to exercise considerable influence in having mothers push physicians and psychologists for a label and medicalization.

 - Additionally, the reported demands teachers made of Canadian mothers to consider drug therapy for their children may reflect the relative lack of alternative forms of social control that Canadian educators have availableto them in managing disruptive classroom behavior.

 - Again and again, mothers described working through oneavenue of treatment after another, never having a name for what they andtheir children were struggling with, because the name itself was problem-atic to educators and helping professions.

 - In 2000, the British government estimated the average initial assessment for any child in Britain would cost the school approximately £480 (NICE, 2000: 10) and often, once a child is assessed,schools risk losing any transfer moneys into their budgets because the Statemented child (to be diagnosed) is often moved to a specialized setting. Thus, the initiating school bears the cost, while the receiving school enjoys the benefits.

 - Canadian mothers rarely described teachers who seemed willing or able to implement appropriate educational strategies for the ADD identified children in their classroom. Again and again, mothers described providing medical and psy sector information to teachers about their child specifically, and about ADD children in general, only to be ignored.


 Self-Forgiveness to follow...





 Source:

 Malacrida C, "Medicalization, Ambivalence and Social Control: Mothers’ Descriptions of Educators and ADD/ADHD." Academia.edu. Publication Date: Jan 1, 2004. Accessed on 8 Oct 2012.

Day 56: Education Fraud Part 17 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 5 - The child on Ritalin

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I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to exist within a pre-programmed mind-physical design of ADHD, wherein I have become and manifested a learning and attention deficit disorder, according to the Mind's programming not able to fully process information and an overloading of the Mind-Physical relationship.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to define myself according to energy systems, which direct me into and as attention deficit disorders, wherein the mind becomes overloaded with energy and shuts down, while diverting energy into physical systems into hyperactive expression/irritability.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to become hyperactive in the presence of suger/certain food brands or environments/stimulus, wherein the generations that have gone before me have already designed and manifested chemical-physical reactions and responses to food/environments, which are now hardwired into my physical design, triggered by certain foods, environments and stimulus.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to be defined by the energy patterns existent within the mind-physical system design of ADHD, wherein I have become dependent on energy reactions to my environment, other people and any task that requires processing of information as the Mind.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to continue supporting this mind-physical reactions/response pattern as seen in the behavior of ADHD children.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to exist within the energetic bubble associated with ADHD, wherein I become aroused energetically or have difficulty focussing on one task at a time, as I manifest so early in my life, varying mind dimensions, into which my mind escapes instead of being here physically, present.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to exist as the generation whom are conflicted within energy-mind patterns, instead of fully aligning myself into and as my physical body, which does not require moods or energy to function.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to fear judgment from my parents and teachers, due to me being conditioned into and according to this label that has been given to my behavior/experience.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to judge myself as ADHD, and to grow up existing according to the parameters and pre-set rules of the labeled 'condition' ADHD, instead of taking responsibility for myself in understanding how I have participated in manifesting this physical-mind energy pattern from childhood, and directing myself through the design, into oneness and equality with my physical body, where I determine who i am and not simply live according to pre-determined conditions and labels, enforced and engineered by scientists/researchers for profit.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to accept such conditions as 'part of being human' or 'beyond our control' - instead of realizing that the relationship we have formed in our mind to these conditions is already dysfunctional, as children become energy addictive/reactive and manipulative in relation to authority figures/parents while parents and adults impulse children through developing a dysfunctional mind-energy relationship within the child.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to take self responsibility for any such 'condition', to understand the mind as myself and how I manifest me as a condition, which is labeled by scientists for profit.

Self-Commitment statements to follow...

Day 54: Education Fraud Part 15 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 3 - Parents abusing Ritalin.

This blog is a continuation from: http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-53-education-fraud-part-14.html

This blog's self-forgiveness will focus on the following content:

Parents give children Ritalin at exam time

Think Ritalin Is Safe? - Read What Novartis Says About Its Own Product!

How Ritalin Saved My Child

Parents abusing Ritalin:

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the belief to exist within me as parent that I have a duty to God to establish a presence on earth, as the human race, equal to and one with a functional component of society, one that submits to the rules of how to be human and one that becomes a fully functional man or woman, with certain intelectual and behavioral abilities which allows the young adult to get a career, get married, contribute to the economy and behave according to how other humans behave.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to prescribe a drug to a child, when the child acts according to behaviors and patterns, that are seen negatively within society, opposite to the positive behaviors that contribute to one becoming the person referred to in the statement above.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as parent to look towards drug addiction as a solution, rather than have a child be educated and supported in an effective way, taking into consideration the child's home environment, parental influence, diet and mental capacity/ability to process information. The reason why parents will rush and push ahead - using drugs as a quick fix means, instead of establishing effective training and education establishments to support the child and the child's parents through the behavioral difficulties - is always about money, where the parents have to comply with how fast a child has to develop, so that it may go through its schooling process fairly effectively, so that it may obtain higher education or go get a job requiring specific skills and abilities - so that the young adult can go and survive in the system, contributing to the economy - which basically means - make money for those with money as a worker and slave.

therefore:

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as adult to give permission to this rat race described above and for labeling this together with everybody else as 'Life' and together agreeing to this race - where we race towards money and either spends our lives fighting for more money or just enough to survive - either way anything a parent does -any decision made is always to get the child to be able to function in an effective manner to be able to provide for itself within the system.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that if my child does not develop the way other children do, that he/she will get left behind and will not be able to take care of themselves within the system, and will thus be left to starve or become and outcasts of society, which have the following ramifications:

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to fear that if my child does not develop effectively, into a functional adult, that he/she will starve, and be thrown to the streets, without care or a roof over his/her head,

and I forgive myself for accepting and allowing this, as I realize that I have allowed this for generation after generation to happen to other people's children as I am wel aware that the system in its fuel for money, has created class such as lower class, middle class and upper class and that anything below lower class is 'those' people we see living in trailer parks and sleeping on the side of the street - which I walk/drive by each day, not even considering that this is a 'somebody' - but instead create in that moment an unconscious fear of what might happen to me if I stop surviving in the system and what could happen to my child if they do not 'fit in' and 'function' as they should

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to imprint the picture from early in my life of homeless, hungry, scared people, whom society rejects as being lazy and 'not worth societies attention' and therefore by imprinting the value fo worthlessness to the picture of poor people - I create a fear towards not surviving and now that I am 'an adult' living and working in the system, I make automated decisions to survive as best I am able to

therefore;

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself when I realized my child has ADHD or some form of behavioral dysfunction or behavioral difference to other children - to access all the pictures and fears accumulated over the years as I accepted myself as having to survive in the system to be able to eat and have a roof over my head - and as I access the fear linked to the 'what will happen' memories -i immediately go to the solution for my child which will ensure they 'recover/overcome/adjust' as quickly and painlessly as possible - because each parent knows that medication takes over the body and the mind and will direct the 'issue' on behalf of the parent and child - so that no responsibility has to be taken by anyone for anything - and instead the chemical can 'take control' our behalf - leaving our children lives, minds and bodies up to the possessive control of a chemical.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to be brainwashed from young in religious settings, into believing the CONcept of a holy spirit which invades/enters the body and resides inside the religious, to direct the religious according to the devine beings will - this in itself imprinted into the mind of the perceiver as knowledge and information, ensures that the parent when it comes down to the control of their children, will entrust the chemical designed and patented by the scientists to 'act on behalf' of the child's mind and body
- due to our acceptance of this magical, devine force, which 'invades/enters' the body and takes over control of mind and body according to the will of the chemical, which was designed by the scientist gods with the child's best interest at heart, which is the white lie, sold to the parents to make it alright that we subject out children to drugs, instead of supporting the child to become the living directive principle of themselves.

To be continued.

Day 53: Education Fraud Part 14 – Medicalization of the Education System Part 2 - Ritalin and the Pharmaceutical Companies

This blog is a continuation from: http://crimesjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/09/day-52-international-crime-research.html


If you are not already familiar with the uses of Ritalin, please read the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritalin

Ritalin A Drug For Era That Tries To Medicalize All Difficulties

Sociology of Medicine - What is the impact of Medicalization? A Summary with Examples


This blog will focus on the Medicalization of Children Behavior, to the point where Ritalin Abuse happens, due to Ritalin being prescribed to children as a quick fix for teachers and parents, when faced with particular chid behaviors. The motivation behind the over-prescription of Ritalin and similar drugs, is Profit linked to the Medicalization of the Education system, as discussed in part 1 of 'Medicalization of the Education System.'

Ritalin Part 1: Pharmaceutical companies:

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to be driven my greed and profit before taking care of what is best for humanity, first.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the Capitalistic system to be my driving force, even though I am able to see how my actions towards life, within the secrecy and behind the lies within which I do it - are obviously to the detriment to life on this planet.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to use money and capitalism as excuse, as to why I am playing the game, making up lies and ways to sell products and not just make money but to become stinking rich, beyond my wildest dreams.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to hold onto a dream, a picture of what it will mean to me and my family to have such wealth, where regardless of the consequences and harm caused in the name of my lies, I continue to do so - as this picture I hold within my mind of the life and security that I will obtain, is apparently within who I am and how I value life - much greater than any suffering I am causing the human race.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to use my mind as reasoning machine as to why it is acceptable to profit from other people's difficulties, in such a way that I will deliberately play my hand and twist the truth, witholding any and all relevant truths from people about what I am doing.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to develop such substantial lies within myself, that in the end as the researcher, owner, manager of such a pharmaceutical company/research facility - I even believe myself, and convince the rest of humanity that money and survival makes it alright for us to push Ritalin/drugs onto children and adults at the rate that it has been done - as a capitalistic maneuver.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as researcher/scientist - to be ok with how I have justified selling a product without consideration of consequences, and to use my abilities as researcher to only advance the rich and to work at new ways of manipulating people into believing they require these products, instead of using my abilities to develop and understand how the human becomes who and what we are and to direct effective, common sense solutions from within the principle of doing what is best for the human race.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to place myself as researcher/scientist and corporation worker - above the general public whom I am deceiving, as in my mind I believe that due to the fact that I know things about people, that they dont know - and that I can change people behavior with drugs and information - that this makes me superior to the general public, and according to the lie that spirituality and religion has instilled in me since childhood to make me the perfect abuser of life - I place myself in a hierarchy, like a god-like-figure to other working class humans due to my ability to deceive through knowledge and information.

I commit myself to show how money directs all decision, currently made within society and the corporations, and that even those who are claiming to present solutions in the form of medicines and therapies, must be regarded as only following the rules of money and survival and are not placing the best interest of life first.

I commit myself to show that health care, does not mean the 'care of health', but instead means the care of someone's business and this in itself indicates that we have things back to front within ourselves, as the true evil - where we will develop and in most cases enforce health care upon people's lives, simply as a means for income, where the true care of health of the physical is daily in countless ways compromised for countless beings, all for profit - while the subdued human, who is to afraid to question out of fear of 'no health/death' - will convince ourselves daily that there is nothing we can do about that which we see and understand about how the system works currently.

I commit myself to show that there is a solution possible - where we honor life, not money and where we develop systems of management that distribute health care according to everyones needs equally.

I commit myself to show how if one stop your mind, before it starts up by saying in response to the above commitment statement 'but..why should people get things free if I work hard for it' - that one is able to see the human potential within oneself to live an share and create a future that is dignified - before one screws it up with ones dysfunctional mind as it reveals itself for all to see - and that it is only within the mind - where we have al learned to survive, where we will 'bring forth' all kinds of nasty thoughts towards other humans, where we will do them in, in order to protect what little money we have and get from the system.

Further Reading:  http://equalmoney.org/goals/1-healthcare

Day 9: International Crime research - Bi-Polar Disorder and Violent Crimes Part 2

This is a continuation from: Bipolar Disorder and Violent Crime - New Evidence FromPopulation-Based Longitudinal Studies and Systematic Review Part 1

According to the Psychology Prescribed Text Book: “Understanding Abnormal Behavior” (Sue, Sue and Sue, 2010) “Bipolar Disorder is characterized by Mania, a condition characterized by elevated mood, expansiveness or irritability, often resulting in hyperactivity. It is usually accompanies by depression. Depression and Mania, the two extremes of mood or affect, can be considered the opposite ends of a continuum that extends from deep sadness to wild elation.”

(Two forms of Bipolar Disorder have been classified: Bipolar 1 and Bipolar 2.)

The following Excerpts are taken from the article: International Crime research - Bi-Polar Disorder and Violent Crimes.

(http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?volume=67&issue=9&page=931)

Definition of terminology:

Comorbidity: “In psychiatry, psychology and mental health counseling comorbidity refers to the presence of more than one diagnosis occurring in an individual at the same time.” (Wikipedia.org. 2012)




“ Objectives of the Study: To determine the risk of violent crime in bipolar disorder and to contextualize the findings with a systematic review.


Design: Longitudinal investigations using general population and unaffected sibling control individuals.


Setting : Population-based registers of hospital discharge diagnoses, sociodemographic information, and violent crime in Sweden from January 1, 1973, through December 31, 2004.


Participants: Individuals with 2 or more discharge diagnoses of bipolar disorder (n = 3743), general population controls (n = 37 429), and unaffected full siblings of individuals with bipolar disorder (n = 4059).


Main Outcome Measure: Violent crime (actions resulting in convictions for homicide, assault, robbery, arson, any sexual offense, illegal threats, or intimidation).


Results from Study 1: During follow-up, 314 individuals with bipolar disorder (8.4%) committed violent crime compared with 1312 general population controls (3.5%). The risk was mostly confined to patients with substance abuse comorbidity. The risk increase was minimal in patients without substance abuse comorbidity, which was further attenuated when unaffected full siblings of individuals with bipolar disorder were used as controls.


Results from Study 2: A longitudinal study of 3743 individuals with bipolar disorder has 2 main findings. First, there was an increased risk for violent crime among individuals with bipolar disorder. Most of the excess violent crime was associated with substance abuse comorbidity.


Second, there was an increased risk for violent crime among the unaffected siblings of individuals with bipolar disorder. This finding further weakens the relationship between bipolar disorder per se and violent crime and highlights the contribution of genetic or early environmental factors in families with bipolar disorder.


Bipolar disease severity (measured by the presence of psychotic symptoms) or diagnostic subgroups (manic vs depressive episode) were not associated with a violent crime risk increase in our study. Instead, the association between bipolar disorder and violent crime seemed to be largely mediated by substance abuse comorbidity.


Common familial etiology for bipolar disorder, violent criminality, and substance abuse.


Available data suggest a common familial etiology for bipolar disorder, violent criminality, and substance abuse. First, we found that the risk of violent crime in individuals with bipolar disorder was confined to those with comorbid substance use, and among those with substance abuse comorbidity, the risk was reduced from 6.4 relative to that of general population controls to 2.8 in comparison to sibling controls, indicating that familial effects are important for the association between violent crime and bipolar disorder among individuals with substance abuse. Second, comorbidity between bipolar I disorder and substance misuse is high (60% in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication), and in our data familial effects confounded the association between bipolar disorder and substance abuse (unaffected siblings had twice the rate of substance abuse [4.0%] compared with that of general population controls [1.9%]). Third, related work from Sweden demonstrated a 5-fold increased risk of violent crime in individuals with substance abuse; hence, substance abuse seems to be a likely explanation for increased violence in the unaffected siblings. The finding of shared familial etiology for bipolar disorder, violent criminality, and substance abuse is consistent with at least 2 likely explanations for the increased risk of violence among some patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder (with a predominantly genetic cause) may lead to substance abuse, which in turn increases the risk for violent crime.


Two implications follow from the role of comorbidity in mediating violence among individuals with bipolar disorder. First, detection is important, and current practice guidelines highlight the fact that comorbidity may be overlooked. Second, substance abuse treatment for individuals with bipolar disorder is likely to reduce the risk for violence and other adverse outcomes (including suicide). More trial evidence is required.


A recent expert consensus statement identified a single trial, that of psychoeducation, for the treatment of comorbidity in patients with bipolar disorder. Other recommendations include the involvement of an addiction psychiatrist and the potential value of dual-diagnosis treatment programs.


What evidence-based recommendations for assessment of risk for violent crime should be made for patients with bipolar disorder, given our findings? Since the risk estimate for bipolar disorder with substance abuse comorbidity is similar to that for substance abuse alone (reported to increase the risk of violence between 6- and 7-fold in a recent review), we suggest that detailed assessment is appropriate for all individuals with substance abuse, irrespective of bipolar diagnosis.


Rates of violent crime and their resolution are similar across western Europe, and assault rates are comparable between Sweden and the United States, suggesting the potential generalizability of our findings. In addition, alcohol sales per capita in Sweden are similar to those in the United States, although comparative information on illegal drug use is limited. Furthermore, Sweden is similar to the United States in terms of an internationally recognized proxy for psychiatric morbidity, namely, age-adjusted disability-adjusted life-years.”



To Summarize – what was found to be the common denominators within the research, was that family dynamics/influence and the use of alcohol and drugs was primarily responsible for Violent Behavior in people diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder as well as for the unaffected siblings of individuals with bipolar disorder.

Self-Forgiveness Part 1:



Bipolar Disorder and Elated Mood

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing a condition such as Bipolar disorder to exist.



I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the Mind to manifest into ‘conditions’, in which I have allowed myself to program and manifest the functioning of the mind into dysfunction, because of a lack of self responsibility within my actions, thoughts and words.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the mind to develop and exist as various conditions and dysfunctions because from the beginning I have not taken self responsibility for the mind and have allowed myself to copy the dysfunctions I see in others and have accepted the mind as it exist within others as my parents, siblings and fellow humans – as normal.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the mind to become dysfunctional, because I took for granted how the mind simply functions as a program which adapts to what I allow within myself and what I allow myself to become as all the dimensions of the mind – into which I have separated myself into from the physical - as a mind system.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to abuse myself and others, because I developed conditions of the mind such as Bipolar disorder in which I abdicated responsibility into the mind, based on my starting point of not being self responsible and for not honoring life as myself.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the mind to exist in dimensions and for allowing the dimension of mania to exist in which I allow myself to become a different personality.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the existence of Mania within me, through which I in moments of irresponsibility would act out in my own self interest not worrying about how my actions affect others, simply so that I may experience an elated mood, which is the addiction to the energy of elated mood, without realizing that I was not acting in awareness of all as myself but simply generating energy through the interaction with my environment, to please me as my mind.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself as a child to get caught up in moments in ‘elated mood’ where I would observe adults and other children pushing their levels of energy due to external stimulus and copying this behavior until I myself became addicted to the desire for this elated mood energy, at the expense of other people and beings on this planet.



I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to look for ways to generate this elated mood energy, regardless of who or what the cause of my elation was and regardless of the outflow and consequences in the world of me allowing others to become my slaves for energy.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to participate only in those aspects of life, where I could participate within myself in energy, completing disregarding the abuse that happens at the opposite end of the polarity of ‘elated mood’, because I was to busy trying to become elated.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the design of the polarity system – ‘elated mood’ which has the polarity opposite of ‘sadness/depression’, which is where I would end up experiencing myself if I could not get my energy fix of elated mood.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to design Bipolar – existent since the beginning of human existence, because I become addicted to elated moods and to find ways to avoid depressed moods, by looking for new ways to up my energy into and as elation and happiness.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the existence of the capitalistic system, which was designed to serve my needs to experience elated moods – and over the generations I allowed the compounding effect of the searching for elation, by finding quicker and easier ways to buy my elation by participating with more greed and self-interest in capitalistic system.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the existence of the development and compounding of capitalism to serve my needs of elation, whereby I pushed the development of products faster and cheaper for me to have my outcome as elated mood. Within this I did not see and realize, even though it was right there in front of my eyes –that for capitalism to serve my needs of wanting elation faster and for cheaper, more products had to be produced faster for less, which means that more slaves had to work for longer hours with minimal income under stressful life changing situations, to serve my consumerist needs.


I forgive myself for accepting and allowing the destruction of this planet and the beings who live here with me, as capitalism and myself eventually started disregarding and abusing all resources and beings out of the drive for greed and my drive for elation.



I forgive myself for accepting and allowing capitalism to now only exist for human mood elation and in this I gave permission to the abuse of all life, in the name of greed – not realizing that the justification used by capitalists that there exist a ‘market for products’, simply exists because from the beginning I wanted my experience of elation faster and with more intensity, with no regard for the planet and for others and using my own justification of happiness/elation to motivate myself and others so support capitalism and how it is being allowed to destroy and abuse life.


Commitment statements will be placed at the end of the section on Bipolar Disorder.



Part 2: Bipolar Disorder and Expansiveness






Sources:




1. Sue D, Sue DW, Sue S (2010). Understanding Abnormal Behavior. Boston: Wadsworth.



2. (http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?volume=67&issue=9&page=931)