A Little More On the Psychosocial Aspects of "Groupthink"

Hello all. I am very busy in the physical world for a week or two but I wanted to post something for exploration by some of my psychiatrized friends.

I think this aspect of human behaviour is grossly neglected because of the emphasis the mental illness profession places on the supposed inherent 'defectiveness' of the perception and reactions in the psychiatrized individual.

I have thought for a long time that this problem, for which many of us are assigned sole custody, has always had much more to do with societal groups as a whole than it has the individual. While I am less active, I hope that some of you will read these links and see if these descriptions don't have an all too familiar feel to them when relating them to your own unique experience.



Social Psychology: An Introduction

Psychology 101: Social Psychology

Social Psychology and Group Dynamics

Examples of Primary Sources

Cult Dynamics

The inclusion of these web links here does not imply either unquestioned support and agreement, or disagreement, simply by the fact of their listing them here. It is intended to offer readers something to think about. WHAT you think, as a result, is up to you of course.

To All the Folks Currently Acting Out for Me that "It' Has Been Spread all Over the City...

As I walk through the city streets being pointed out by various people announcing that "It' is all over the city, I also get to hear this one now and again,

"Apparently, even with all the damage, she isn't even angry about It."

To continue to point out the obvious: The person who truly understands how I feel is me. Other people do not know how I think, what I think or how I feel. I know that. I have been saying this or something similar to it for 13 years now and STILL, those involved do not talk directly to me. MY. GOD.

Take it from "Her," "She" is angry and 'she' is using that anger by channeling it in this direction. if "she" didn't do this and hadn't found any outlet for "it" "she" may very well have taken her own life by now or perhaps, be one of the victims who end up blowing her abusers heads off. Be damned glad, you gossip mongering wonders, that I am the person targeted by that moron of a psychiatric nurse. Had he picked someone else, the outcome might not have been so 'pleasant' and may even have been deadly. Had it been, of course, I am sure that none of you involved would have connected the results to him and yourselves as the obvious cause.

After all, as is stated right within the nurse's idiotic so called 'training' "You will fail to see what is right in front of you."
That one has certainly proved to be true in this case, hasn't 'It"?

Quick Update in the Community’s Ongoing Assessment of Me

Some of the folks involved in the legal profession have decided that 'at least something good came out of all of this.'

(Really? What is the 'good' that I have received since I am still getting the silent treatment from Homewood Health Centre's Administration? )

Apparently 'they' have said (ad infinitum) ' there is really nothing that anyone can do."

SURE there is and here is a few more suggestions for you. Those of you who are yourselves involved in this all this time and who have not been psychiatrized yourselves (at least, not yet) can do this:

As the police posters say, "You have a voice. Use it."
This idea is good for the police themselves of course. They also are not 'objective bystanders' in this as some of them have played their own role in passing along the gossip just like everyone else. Everybody here needs to come out of denial.

Instead of expressing your opinions of it all to the folks at General emerg., or with lawyers or paramedics or fire fighters etc. simply contact Edgardo Perez, Bill Hamilton, or Brian Furlong ( and all the other really important people) at Homewood, and include them fully in all the community gossip about them, Dale, myself, and the multiple versions of the stories of my 'boyfriend.' (whichever one each of you may have heard about) You see, these people need to get an understanding too. In fact, these people need an understanding more than anyone because these people already think they know everything and, believe me, they don't.

One of the many things they need to know is that my 'delusions' and the whole community's attempt to cover 'it' all up, are, in fact, one and the same; "hallucinated conversations" to me and more juicy denegrating gossip to the rest of you. Same thing. They are not separate, or 'different' realities, and they never have been.

Everyone in this is both cause and effect, not 'or' neatly separated into two distinct yet imaginary groups of "superiors" or "inferiors," cause OR effect, as my protagonist's training has led him by his gullible nose to believe we are.

Dale's targeting of me and getting away with it because of the lack of concrete evidence, and the chaos and confusion created, was a planned and expected outcome. He and I have both seen this before. I've seen it in other groups including relatives and he of course, has seen it in his so called training. My ability to fully understand it and then reveal the plan itself, was NOT part of his plan. I "think" I am a victim because that is what I am, and I am the one MOST in touch with that reality. This is the role I was assigned by Dale in this little "snuff fantasy" as the Columbia Prof referred to it. It is a role a refuse to play on the terms which have been dictated to me by the aggressor(s) and his supporters and enablers. Of course, this is not the way the victim is expected to react. Tough! You people are all playing various roles yourselves; from active participants, to twisted voyeurs enjoying the 'game', to silent bystanders who know what is happening but just stand around and do nothing. That is what Dale's demonstration is really all about. It is just that the victim is expected to "let it go," and give up resolution as impossible. I know that it is NOT impossible. It is just unlikely because the guilty, the ignorant and the deceived involved never want to get caught or blamed for everything. That is why the "no one must be blamed theme song is sung so loud and long. THAT is why this imaginary 'disease' must be "incurable" too. For if it were indeed curable, and not a 'disease' at all, it would mean that those who fight so hard to avoid blame would not be able to avoid it.

1. You can write down what you know about what was done to me. (or even just repeat all those rumours you've been spreading one more time, only this time in writing, and send it to: Edgardo Perez, M.D. and CEO of Homewood Health Centre.
2. Dr, Brian Furlong, Homewood ex-psychiatrist of mine.
3. Dr. Wilson Lit, running the Community Division.
4. Guelph Police Service to the attention of Deputy Chief Brent Eden who has taken over for Don Porterfield in my 'fascinating' case.
5. Crimestoppers (so you can stay 'hidden' and protect your own jobs by not making any open accusations. (waves)
6. You can also send any information directly to me at the e-mail address listed in my profile on the home page of this blog. Just scroll down to the bottom of this page and click on "Home."

This is what anyone and everyone can do.
To the Homewood volunteer who is giving information to that court offices woman and to the U of Guelph couple on the Woodlawn bus. PLease stop 'interpreting' events for them and for any others. Inread contact me directly and let me know in writing what you have heard and in return, I will let you know what I have heard too. Doesn't that sound like some good gossip?


Stop ‘interpreting’ events for them and start ‘interpreting’ them directly to Guelph Police service instead. For though it is rumoured that the ‘fascinating’ case as defined by then, does not even live here any more, “She is still listening to all the stories Homewood staff and all their friends relatives and neighbours are still ‘covertly’ inventing, altering and spreading like manure as always.
Their denial that they have done what they have in fact done, is accomplishing basically two things:

1. It is making them ‘appear’ to be liars to those who have always known what they have done and continue to do.
2. It is causing me to remain under verbal attack by those who believe them and/or who have always believed them.
I, of course, I won’t be offering my personal point of view on this to most people as individuals (for example bus drivers, and passengers, cab drivers, servers at the Bookshelf, clients and their relatives, the shoe guy at the mall, library staff, Martin’s food court workers or grocery store cashiers, to name but a few of the folks always expressing their opinions on me and my experience.
I have already offered it all to those who chose to control and/or ignore me for doing so. They are the ones who need to know about it and those include; Homewood staff and Administration, Comcare Guelph and Kitchener , and the City Police service. My words have not worked on them so now THEY, in particular Homewood , can do all the talking to me. If they don’t, I will just continue talking about them, outside this community, so that the world can observe all this ‘fun’ too. After all, we want everyone to enjoy this fascinating case don’t we?
In Dales’ ‘game’ it is believed that if something isn’t written down it isn’t ‘real.’ Apparently here, even if something IS written down, even when it is written down by dale himself, it still isn’t ‘real’ if Homewood Administration says it isn’t. Maybe if we can all make it real enough for them, they will get it. So, write it all down. That is something you CAN do about It. I have heard all of the same rumours and crapola that all of you have heard and then some. The ‘difference’ between myself and you goes something like this:
When you hear all this crap (which when you are asked about most of you deny inventing and spreading) it is defined as gossip and stories.
When I hear it all, it gets defined as ‘hallucinated conversations’ and paranoid delusions.

Giving the same shared experience (from opposite perspectives) an alternative meaning is what this is all about. In reality, there is no ‘difference’ between you and I, other than the one you manufactured, which is designed to blame the victim and excuse the guilty, the ignorant and the deceived. It’s about responsibility all right; blaming the victims and excusing the aggressors. That is something Thomas Szasz has been saying for decades. I think you can understand why I am more respectful of him than I am of those of you who think of him as ‘the bad boy’ of psychiatry. Once again, good and evil got ‘switched.’

Instead of just spreading more rumours amongst yourselves for another fifteen years, try repeating all of those rumours right back to ‘the source; from whence it all came; Dale T. and all his overly involved, neurotic friends and co-workers at Homewood Health Centre. Or, if no response from them, (there is a lot of flat affect there) just write it all down and e-mail it to me.

This is not a personal psychology problem neatly contained within one person chosen as an identified (or designated) patient with perception/reaction problems. This is about a social, group-think illness, and by 'illness,' I do not mean in the medical sense like group diabetes or asthma. I mean like psycho-spiritual 'illness' that is cured by facing it, owning it and getting past this stupid and childish group behaviour. In other words, this 'mental illness' will disappear when the rest of society grows the hell up.